When the mentor, Miss Moore, enters the picture, Sylvia is unimpressed to say the least. “This lady moved on our block with nappy hair and proper speech and no makeup” (Bambara p. 456) the opening line continues, “and we kinda hated her...” (Bambara p. 456) Sylvia bluntly states and continues to belittle Miss Moore. Sylvia is upset that this woman with proper speech, obviously an education, has come into her home. Miss Moore plans things for these children to do, things that bore Sylvia. The assumption is that these activities are meant to teach the children to better themselves, but Sylvia already thinks she is perfect.
Daisy is described as ‘sad and lovely with bright things in it’ and Gretta is described as having the ‘light on her face’. The light that seems to follow the two characters represent their innocence and purity. However, as the characters develop throughout the novels, the innocence and purity of the characters seem to disappear as their more unattractive traits come forward. Daisy is shown as a very materialistic girl that wants financial security; this is shown by her marriage to her rich partner, Tom. Whereas Gretta on the other hand is shown as family orientated, but Gretta refuses to have sexual relations with Willie at the beginning, but eventually gives up her purity to him, as she matures sexually.
What assumptions does the narrator have about her daughters? Do you agree? Why? The mother has the assumption that Maggie is a very docile, painfully shy, and isolated from most of the town because she stays very close to home with her mother. Dee (Wangero) is the exact opposite to Maggie, she is lighter in complexion, looks down on the place where she was raised, spoiled, and well educated.
The red dress depicts a feeling of passion. The little girl is adorned in pink, a color between the red and white, because she is still innocent and pure but age causes her to be infatuated with shiny things such as the woman’s gold and shiny pieces. She is too young to develop a wisdom that has value beyond material possessions. Cornelia and her children were historical Roman figures. She was a widow who lived to train and educate her children and was thought very highly of as a wise noble matron.
The narrator first realizes she’s infatuated with a woman named Charlotte Greaves in the hallway of their dormitory. (237) She becomes very observant of Charlotte, watching her from a distance. She notices that Charlotte dresses shabbily, walks lopsided, and isn’t a traditional beauty. However, she’s at once attracted to Charlotte because of her bangs. The narrator has a very romanticized idea of beauty.
Life as Plastic Both today and yesterday's society have created a mold that young women are expected to fit in to. Tall, tan and slender girls are often looked at as the beautiful members of society. The positive and wonderful qualities of both women and men are often overlooked because of physical appearance and image. Marge Piercy accurately portrays the unreachable standards placed on women to be beautiful from adolescence into adulthood by her use of fluctuating tone and effective symbolism in her poem “Barbie Doll”. The poem follows a young girl from her childhood to her adulthood in a third person omniscent point of view.
Mean Girls is sending a message to say take responsibility for your before it gets worse. In Mean Girls Cady acts like an innocent bystander and doesn’t own up to anything she has done. When she keeps ditching her real friends Janice and Damian and then denies doing it. When Cady was at Regina’s house and writing stuff in the burn book and talking about people behind their backs and says “ I know it may seem like I’ve become a bitch, but that’s only because I was acting like a bitch” She was in denial of doing anything wrong and she was just acting. In the office after the ‘burn book’ was spread across the school Cady denied she had taken any part in it, But after all the denying and lying everyone saw her for the backstabber she is and Janice saw us way before everyone.
In her short story “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been”, Joyce Carol Oates emphasizes the theme that appearances are not everything through the development and fate of her characters Connie and Arnold Friend. Connie prides herself on her beauty; “she [knows] she [is] pretty and that [is] everything” (427). She believes that her plain, simple family is inferior to her; she views her sister Jane as “plain and chunky and steady” (427) and she does not pay any attention to her mother, who is “simple and kindly enough to believe” (429) anything Connie tells her, be it the truth or a lie— “everything about [Connie has] two sides to it, one for home and one for anywhere that [is] not home” (428). When she is away from home, Connie projects a mature, lascivious persona that is trapped inside her, waiting to be set free, but the only place Connie can satisfy her desires is when she goes to the shopping plaza with her best friend. At home, Connie’s mind is “filled with trashy daydream” (428), always “thinking, [and] dreaming, about the boys she met” (429).
These admirable traits allow the reader to sympathize with her loss of status and interpret Snow-White as the innocent in the classic dichotomy of good versus evil. To be a “good woman” is the most desirable goal in life, yet this idealized model’s attributes are unrealistic to the point of being impossible and the actual traits themselves vary from author to author. In “Little Snow-White” the highlighted traits to being a good woman are piety, charm, passivity and beauty. Beauty within a story needs to use imagery to create the right affect; the reader needs to be able to picture a splendid character to help shape the master plot. When born, Snow-White is described as being “a little daughter who was as white as snow, as red as blood, and as black as ebony wood”.
Expository Paragraphs on Long Long After School The “Archetypal and Mythological Approach” helps me to better understand Mrs.Tretheway and Wes’ special relationship and their rejection from others.To start off with, the narrator first describes Miss. Tretheway as someone without beauty unlike Wes’ vision of her. He perceives her as someone without personality or likeability. In his eyes she is a very dull person who is not approachable.In the eyes of the narrator Miss.Tretheway can be seen as the terrible mother being ugly and an ‘old hag’.The narrator states “ Her eyes have never been very blue, her skin very pink, or her hair very brown. She wasn’t very anything” “In short, even when she’d been a girl, she’d been the sort of girl whose slightest eagerness, more than if she was ugly or old, a young man automatically shies away from.” (pg.