Andrea Levy’s ‘Small Island’ is a novel based around four main characters and their relationships from first person shifting perspectives, consisting of two settings in London and Jamaica. The story is set against the backdrop The Windrush Generation in which Afro-Caribbean’s such as Hortense and Gilbert travel to England to rebuild Britain in a period of white supremacy after the Second World War. Chapter 5 marks the beginning of Hortense and Gilbert’s odd romance, lifting the gloom cast by Michael Robert’s earlier fall from grace and recent disappearance through the humour of the character’s unromantic meeting as a couple who will eventually marry. Levy’s use of immediate past tense, first person approach creates the sense of memory and flashback “The moment I saw him”. By opening the chapter on the flashback elements of the event, the reader is aware that the meeting of Gilbert and Hortense was a significant occurrence in the journey of both characters and this foreshadows their marriage “Yelling came in vibrations through a protective chest”.
Over the course of the novel she learns to see past color and living with the Boatwright sisters allowed her to learn more about herself, her mother, and of course, bees. The first sign of maturity was when she ran away from her abusive father and helped Rosaleen escape from the hospital. (pg. 41-65) She was determined to find out what really happened with her mother and lead herself and Rosaleen to Tiburon. This requires a great deal of courage and boldness to find your way somewhere and you have no idea where it is.
We are made up of stories. And even the ones that seem the most like lies can be our deepest hidden truths. Stories play an important role in Briar Rose for both the characters and the responder. Briar Rose is about a woman and her promise to her grandmother who claims she is Briar Rose. There are two plots in the novel, you have the present day plot which follows Becca on her search for Gemma’s past and the fairy tale plot, which follows Gemma’s telling of Briar Rose to her 3 granddaughters.
His other series characters include Emily, who appeared in three novels, and Pat, who was in two novels. Montgomery's heroines are frequently motherless, but adventurous, imaginative and determined. Anne Shirley from Anne of Green Gables has much temperament, which is connected to her red hair. After becoming tired with Anne, Montgomery created Emily Byrd Starr, who has dark hair and loves nature and to write. Anne's imagination leads her into conflict with her surroundigs, but Emily uses her imagination to compose poems and stories.
A simple example of this is the fact that her mother’s name is Helen, the name of the famously beautiful woman who began the Trojan War. More allegoric references, such as Alison equating her life to that of Homer’s Odysseus, require more in-depth analysis. She thinks of her life as a journey. She specifically compares her procrastination in completing assigned reading to Odysseus’s delays in his journey. On the page prior to the last page of the book, Alison refers to her life as an “inverted oedipal complex”.
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.
4) “Persona”, a movie by Ingmar Bergman, portrays the weakness and strengths of a person’s identity. Portrait is a poem written by Judith Wright which investigates the different aspects of identity. The poem regards the persona so excited and enthusiastic about her marriage and her new housewife duties because she was loved and needed. The persona in the second stanza then reveals that her passion for this life disappears as her heart is unsatisfied for she believes she is only loved by her family because she was needed to keep the house and keep their lives in order. The topics of identity she analyses are the effect of years and time, the transformation of identity, and that identity is an image; a portrait.
The book switches off between three characters. Gloria; who is the main character and craves the Flapper lifestyle, Clara; she is Gloria’s goody-two-shoes cousin who comes to town and reveals that she isn’t as lily-white as she appears, and Lorraine; Gloria’s jealous best friend whom is constantly trying to steal her spotlight. The themes of this book went all the ways from friendships, to Flappers (of course), to interracial relationships (which was a big deal back in those days!). Word Count: 181 Words Part Two: Literary Analysis
Annabel Lee is possibly a pseudonym for Poe’s late wife. The poem begins with an introduction of Annabel Lee and the obsession of her lover. "That a maiden there lived whom you may know by the name of Annabel Lee; and this maiden she lived with no other thought than to love and be loved by me" (line 5). She is the apple of the narrator’s eye. It seems as though the narrator is infatuated with this person because he believes she has no other
1. A brief introduction Edith Wharton wrote “Roman Fever” in 1934 and included it in the collection The World Over (1936). Alida Slade and Grace Ansley are the primary characters in Wharton's tale that incorporates love, mother daughter relationships and sexuality into a compelling piece of literary work. The women meet by chance in Rome, they knit and reminisce about their shared history and discuss their teenaged daughters, Barbara and Jenny. Femininity and fever are the core, which identifies and develops the connection among generations of American women and the danger associated with Rome.