Ellie’s decisive ability and her morals are thrown into chaos when she arrives at the family house and finds her dogs dead. She remains in a leadership position when she finds the eldest pet still alive and tells the others to help it while she runs inside to see what had happened to her parents. As Ellie wrote after the traumatic incident, “I knew that nothing sp awful could have happened to the dogs unless something more awful could have happened to my parents.” Although she says she had lost all rational thought. She still made good decision when the tragic events that had happened were unravelling before her. “They lay beside their little galvanized iron humpies, flies all over them, oblivious to the last warmth of the sun”.
Samantha Shapter ENG 101-13 Essay #3 4/4/11 I see “Buzzards” by Lee Zacharias as a memoir; she even alludes to it herself: “It’s a rare family that cheers to learn one of its members is writing a memoir” (263). Zacharias uses her knowledge of buzzards to deal with her father’s death. Although she shows she has extensive knowledge of the birds, I found it overwhelming and boring to read paragraph after paragraph about the frightening birds. Losing a parent myself, I can identify with her methods of coping, but I found myself more interested in reading about her father than the buzzards. However, though the central topic of her essay may be boring, Zacharias is an excellent writer.
| Janie experiences jealousy for the first time and tries to beat up Tea Cake. | Tea Cake is bit by a rabid dog. | Tea Cake falls ill, becoming increasingly delirious and paranoid. He is unable to swallow and water or eat at all. He is unaware of his impending death, refusing to go to the hospital | Janie kills Tea Cake in self defense.
Imagining romantic camping trips into the White Mountains … tasting the envelope flaps, knowing her tongue had been there.” (Pg. 87) For Cross, Martha is not just a girl who sends him letters signed “Love,” she represents a life after the war, a life outside of the war, a life that includes romantic trips with a lover. The war is such a large strain on the soldiers, that they need something to look forward to and hope for, to get them through the war, and that is exactly what Martha is for Cross. Lieutenant Jimmy Cross tasting the envelope flaps shows just how infatuated he truly is with the idea of Martha. He will do anything that will give him even the slightest remembrance of how she smells or tastes.
During a meeting with the Wizard, Elphaba discovers he is from another world. Not only has she discovered he is from another world, but he might be her real father. Elphaba begins to become obsessed with Dorothy shoes and slowly loses her grasp of reality. In the end, the Wizard directs Dorothy and her traveling companions to go to Elphaba's house and kill her. After a short battle, Dorothy kills Elphaba by drenching her with water.
The book follows her, after May Day, in the year after her “chaps” death and is a detailed description of her life and how she continues on in her own private hell. The way she copes with things that are happening in her life is by feeling guilty, shameful, and being completely in denial.
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.
Ray’s memoir of her childhood effectively humanizes the destruction of virgin long leaf pine forests. On page 49, Ray describes a fight involving her grandpa as “blind desire,” which alludes to the blind desires of clear cutters. Kabir brilliantly evokes emotion in his poetry. Kabir writes that “we sense that there is some sort of spirit that loves/ birds and animals and the ants/ perhaps the same one who gave a radiance to you in/ your mother’s womb/ is it logical that you be walking around…” which presents emotion as a way of knowing truth (Bly
Nan Dear & Dolly come to realise that have they had the same terrifying experiences, but Nan Dear makes a judgemental perception on the new white fella, Errol; that Dolly is getting to know based on her own personal experiences earlier in her life. She made this judgement based on what a white man did to her, after seeing dolly go through the same experience near after meeting Errol. | 4 Happy Feet is a film made in 2006 by George Miller, it tells us of the journey Mumble, a little penguin who is a different to the rest; took to finally know where he belongs. Other Emperor penguins made judgemental perceptions of him because of what he could & couldn’t do.. Errol & Mumble are both alienated for being different to everyone else around them. Errol a young white man in an Aboriginal town trying to make a living for himself when he finds himself falling for Dolly.
The mist in Gemma’s version of the fairytale stands, in the first place, for the exhaust gas used to kill the Holocaust victims at Chelmno. The sleep of the people of the castle is the sleep of death - it is forever. But the symbols often have a cluster of connotations. The mist may also stand for the imperfect knowledge of Gemma and her family has of the events of her past, which they only dimly understand. As Yolen presents the significance and power of fairy tales through multiple voices ad dynamic use of techniques.