Even the clock, still a few minutes off noon..", time is going by slow for Ellen as she awaits for Paul to return to the house. Ellen becomes angry at Paul when she asks Paul to move out of the house "there was a dark resentment in her voice now..." so they can be away from the dust storm. Also Ellen wants to move because she thinks that it hard for their baby to breathe because of the dust in the air. The feeling of isolation creeps up on Ellen when Paul is not there and she knows that the nearest neighbors are far away and her house would be very hard to reach in the dust storm that she is experiencing. Another reason that Ellen feels isolated is of lack of communication with others this causes her to break down and eventually run away with the baby to try to get away from the storm "I'm so caged- if I could only break away and run".
mother regrets leaving house because she wants to settle down but she is also getting sick moving around and has given up hope starting new life. * at start blackberries represent new hope but at end reflect mothers mood and life, as if it was wasted * depersonalisation major theme drifters. it mainly affects mother. she lacks identity in poem and continuously referred to as "she". tom, father, only person who has identity in poem.
My brother and I stayed at my Grandpa’s house most of the time she was up there mostly only going home to sleep and get ready for school the next day, it was weird and confusing but my grandpa was good at getting our minds off of things and keeping our spirits up when he needed to. While my grandmother was in the hospital, my brother and I didn’t get to go see her, we were either too young to go in or my parents didn’t think we should see her that way, I can’t remember. When she finally came home, they said the disease was gone but she was still very sick. She looked completely different and she was very weak. They had started her on chemotherapy, and from what I understand
“This grew; I gave commands; then all smiles stopped together.” This quote creates a sense of loneliness to the reader seeing as the speaker is saying that “all smiles stopped” implies that the person who smiled is no longer alive but now dead. Being alone in a household after someone has died makes you lonely. Even though the speaker doesn’t say this the reader can tell this is what he is feeling because of the fact that he is now looking for a new wife to give him company. We can see this by the quote: “Though his fair daughter’s self, as I avowed”. When lonely you look for company; searching for a new wife/partner is the same as searching for company to fill in the loneliness.
She has recently started hanging around more with hr 'black friends family and stays the night sometimes to avoid going home to her dad and brothers. Recently she started getting in touch with hr real dad who seems to have an influence over her too. There is now conflict in th house as Shanna started smoking weed and is now constantly mimicking her friends as a means to fit in which does not reflect the way she was brought up by hr step dad. She is falling behind with hr school work and sometimes truants. She is spending more time at hr real dad’s house and only goes home 2-3 a wk for a change of clothing.
After fifteen years on the road, Leroy seems like a stranger to Norma Jean, he likes to lay on the couch and smoke joints and listen to Norma Jean play the piano, this is his entertainment for being away so long. Norma Jeans doesn’t believe that Leroy or anybody for that matter understands her anymore. She started to improve her body physically and started eating healthy and enrolled in a night class. She clashes with her mother, Maybell, who still treats her like a child, and also doesn’t understand the changes going on in Norma Jean’s life. Maybell “caught” Norma Jean smoking which made Norma Jean realize that she was not a child anymore and she was a woman and she didn’t deserve to be treated like she did and realized that even before her mother caught her smoking that she was not happy.
In this era, it is expected for a woman to go straight from her father’s hand to her husband’s and the sacrifices it meant. Nora speaks of this in the end of the play, “He played with me just as I used to play with my dolls. And when I came to live with you I was simply transferred from Papa’s hand to yours.” Throughout the play, you can see that Nora looks for more control of her life, for example, when she talks to Helmer about Christine, “She is frightfully anxious to work under some
Nora behaves childishly and he enjoys treating her like a child to be instructed and indulged. Soon an old friend of Nora's, Christine Linde, arrives. She is a childless widow who is moving back to the city. Her husband left her no money, so she has tried different kinds of work, and now hopes to find some work that is not too strenuous. Nora confides to Christine that she once secretly borrowed money from a disgraced lawyer, Nils Krogstad, to save Torvald's life when he was very ill, but she has not told him in order to protect his pride.
This realization helps the story by increasing the intensity and suspense and by causing the reader to be curious of the future events that may occur. Literary Device : Foreshadowing Analysis: In addition, the usage of foreshadowing in the “Then There Was Two” becomes an important literary device that adds to the effectiveness of the story. With the usage of foreshadowing, the author is able to create suspense, intrigue, and a sense of momentum in the story. Through this quote, “Priapus felt really nervous but was grateful that Maria hadn’t noticed how agitated he was,” the readers understand that Priapus had lied to his wife about the phone call. Not knowing why he was so nervous, the
After she goes away to her room alone and stays there for an hour; while her sister Josephine and her husband’s friend Richards, who brought the news, honestly believe that it would make her very upset and could affect her health. What happened in that room? “There stood, facing the open window, a comfortable, roomy armchair” (449). The open window gives her a feeling of freshness, newness, and connection to the world. The comfortable, roomy armchair gives her a sense of security and comfort in spite of her husband's death.