I believe that in writing this book, McBride is establishing the fact that he is very proud of his success and how his mother was key in helping him accomplish it, but most of all, proud of his mother for being who she was. In order to convey his theme and purpose for The Color of Water, McBride had to utilize a distinctive organization. In each chapter, there are two parts. The first is about his mother’s life
Leah experiences and travels a painful learning curve to arrive at a place of acceptance, reclaiming a friendship that matters on new terms, and claiming her life after her father’s death. Leah’s struggles are demonstrated by her journal entries which provides us a close look at her own stages of adaptation. By writing this novel as her journal entries also gives us a closer look of strategies and skills Leah develops through out the story to handle with her own grief, to support and create a better relationship with her mother, and to help take care of her father. The descriptions of the changes her father goes through, his sufferings, and visible losses are told with validity, courage, and accuracy. The theme of this story is that when you experience a lost of a love one, you will go through an emotion time in your life.
Let me count the ways.” (Line 1 Sonnet 43) The use of first person, authenticates that both poems are written for a personal response, this however cannot be seen in ‘Romeo and Juliet’ apart from when the characters speak. The use of alliteration in ‘Sonnet 43’, confirms that the poem was written for Browning’s lover. The repetition of “I love thee...” Shows it’s a personal poem for her true love. However, ‘Valentine’ could be interpreted as an open poem to allow the readers to understand the experiences Duffy has faced. The use of “...we are, for as long as we are.” (Line 16 and 17) Shows that Duffy is inviting her readers into the poem to help reflect upon how she feels.
The Pigeon House “once assumed the intimate character of a home, while she herself invested it with a charm which it reflected like a warm glow” (629). There she has has a “feeling of having descended in the social scale, with a corresponding sense of having risen in the spiritual (629). Got Edna, it gives her the feeling that “every step which she took toward relieving herself from obligations added to her strength and expansion. as an individual” (629). In the Pigeon House, for the first time Edna has the ability to experience sexual freedom and passion, with both Alcee and Robert.
In the articles we read, the authors created a fundamental value specific to their culture by using examples of the effects they had with different members of their family. In Lee’s “Mute in an English-Only World,” it shows his level of maturity due to his mother’s influence on him an her respect in the culture. In "Mother Tongue," Tan explains how her mother changed her writing by changing her way of receiving the language. Lee and Tan, both of immigrant backgrounds, use their memories of deceased mothers to build credibility in their respective articles. Both of these writers were molded by their mothers.
The Ancient Worldview Grand Canyon University Introduction to World Literature The Ancient Worldview I selected two pieces by Florentine Codex “The Mid-Wife Addresses the Newly Delivered” and “The Midwife Addresses the Woman Who Has Died in Childbirth.” I thought that each piece was moving by expressing the value placed upon life. I truly enjoyed “The Mid-Wife Address the Newly Delivered” it outlined the purpose of a new birth. I believe that each of the writing is evident in the world by the recognition of life purpose. In stanzas of the poem “The Mid-Wife Addresses the Newly Delivered” Codex has a midwife give praise to a woman for her strength in enduring a hard labor during childbirth by using descriptive words such as “toiled,
Willie Bodrey Mrs. Busse English 1102 February 2, 2009 The Use of Setting in the Yellow Wallpaper In present day writings, readers see setting used to create, and enhance many aspects of a story. This technique of writing was also seen in a short story written in 1899, called “The Yellow Wallpaper,” by Charlotte Gilman. Through close evaluation, readers see how Gilman used the setting to create and enhance character, mood, theme, and plot in “The Yellow Wallpaper.” The setting of this story told the readers how the characters should act. The narrator states that it was “A colonial mansion, a hereditary estate…” (Perkins 1). This gave the reader the insight of knowing the story was in the late 1800’s or early 1900’s.
In “The New-Married Miner” the speaker knows what will happen when he gets home to his wife; he goes into detail about bathing and uses tactile words such as ‘Squeeze’, ‘Heat’, ‘Hold and fold’. This intimate knowledge of his wife’s cleaning routine, so much so that he can describe it in length and detail, shows his love and adoration for her. The speaker in “Warming Her Pearls” also has an intimate knowledge of her mistress’ routine, both when she is working for her and when she is not. While she is working for her, the speaker envisions what her mistress is doing, ‘All day I think of her, / resting in the Yellow Room, contemplating silk / or taffeta’. She knows the mistress so well that she believes, with a tone of confidence, that she knows exactly what her love is thinking which is very personal.
She showed her great love for her husband in another well-known poem she wrote called “To My Dear and Loving Husband.†The first lines of this poem -“If ever two were one, then surely we. If ever man were lov'd by wife, then thee,â€- make it clear that Bradstreet and her husband had a very loving marriage and that she was extremely happy (www.library.utoronto.ca). She wrote a similarly themed work about her children in poem called “In Reference to My Children†(www.ask.com). Anne’s life in the colony also affected her poetry. This can be seen in her poem “Upon a Fit of Sickness,†in which she wrote about a time in which she came close to death when struck by a plague.
The wedding was beautiful, the kids loved Jack, and he loved them; everything was just what he prayed for. All seemed well with Jack and Lydia, that was until the day two of Lydia’s “friends” showed up. After six months of marital bliss, Lydia behavior becomes erratic. She becomes uncomfortable with Jack’s long hours at the hospital. Lydia expressed to Jack that she wants him home more, however Jack informed her that we was unable to cut back.