Elisa's pride in her ability to grow such beautiful flowers reinforces the fact that the flowers are a replacement for her children. In the second part of the story, the chrysanthemums come to symbolize Elisa's femininity and sexuality. The portrait of Elisa caring for the flowers as though they are her children is clearly a feminine image, but her masculine image is also observed in her "hard-swept and hard-polished" home (240). This image is carried over into her relationship with her husband. Elisa feels that Henry doesn't recognize or appreciate her femininity, and this feeling causes her to be antagonistic towards him.
Hester’s pain at her alienation is apparent in the devotion she holds towards her daughter Pearl, her (and Pearl’s) only company. “But she named the infant ‘Pearl’, as being of great price – purchased with all she had – her mother’s only treasure!” (Hawthorne 83). Their relationship is a tenuous one, but Hester’s maternal bond to her daughter helps her cope with alienation. Through Pearl, Hester learns some measure of empathy again and finds comfort in the fact that someone will accept her for who she is. Pearl does exactly that and more; she intuits the “inner sinfulness” that Hester holds in her heart and displays on her breast, and accepts Hester.
Not only is she my mother but my best friend and trust me it wasn’t always like that. I feel like when you’re younger you don’t appreciate your parents like everyone should. So now that we have built this friendship and trust I like to take her struggles and up stickles she went through to motivate me to become a better and successful person like she knows I could be. Today I will be sharing to you a bit about my family, my mother’s personality, her past and present. Relate I believe you can benefit with this speech because you can learn a little about me being one of your peers and because my mom has gone through a lot a struggles that a lot of you probably don’t know much about.
Louise Élisabeth Vigée- le brun was a French painter Born on April 16th 1755 in the Rococo and Neoclassical styles. Her father was Louis Vigée a Famous Painter during the time, he was a member of the Académie de Sainte-luc. And he mother was a Hairdresser. She received her first art lessons from her Father with him being the famous portraitist that he was instructed his little Élisabeth in how to paint. She had inherted the gift of art that her possessed.
Clara Barton, was one of the most influential woman of the 19th century. Her hard work and dedication has led to the success of one of the greatest humanitarian efforts, of all time; The American Red Cross. Her love for nursing began while caring for sick family members, and persuassions of her Great-Aunt Martha who told her stories of her experiences as a mid-wife. In her early years, she worked as one of the first woman teachers. She later resigned, and worked in government as a recording clerk.
Hester gave her daughter the name Pearl because she got the baby with all she had, Pearl was her only treasure. Thus, Pearl’s existence gave her mother reason to live, holding her spirits when she is tempted to give up. Hester thought that God gave her the child in required of all things else, which she had lost. Pearl was her happiness. On the other hand, she was her torture, too.
Sphinx’s Princess Sphinx’s Princess by Ester Friesner (2009) is an enchanting tale of a young girl learning to stand on her own. Nefertiti is kind, loving and beautiful daughter of the queen’s brother. She has everything she could ever want or need in life, except that what she wants and needs isn’t decided by her. Nefertiti goes behind her parent’s backs and gets lessons of reading and writing from one of the scribes, which is forbidden for girls to do in ancient Egypt. She loves her lessons and being able to read and write stories is her favorite thing to do.
“Dee is lighter than Maggie, with nicer hair and a fuller Figure” (Walker 744). Mrs. Johnson is fond of Dee’s ambition for education and making a better life for herself. She always wants bigger and better things, never satisfied. Because of this, she misinterprets the meaning of her culture and heritage. Maggie is the rather unattractive and shy daughter with the scars she bears on her body that have equally scarred her soul.
From an early age, Pearl’s small figure is the radiance of her own elegance, “shining through the gorgeous which might have extinguished a paler loveliness (AL, p1400).” Pearl never lost her trait of passion. If she had grown fainter in any of her changes, she would have ceased to be herself. Pearl’s temperament appeared to obtain variety, as well as depth but lacked adaptation to the world that she was born into. She is described as determined, imaginative, and intelligent. “The flightiness of her temper” (AL, p1401) is recognizable by Hester, her mother; just like her desperate, wild, defiant mood is evident in her disposition.
In any case, Pierrette is admired by the younger girls, Linda Lauzon, Lise Paquette and Ginette Menard because they assume that she is enjoying life. However Pierrette only pretends that she is a successful lady with independence and a man who truly loves her. Pierrette Guérin is trapped in her maudite vie plate. Pierrette’s choice to follow Johnny has made her a typical slave of patriarchy with more abominable consequences in contrast to the other women. When Pierrette chose to leave home for Johnny, she was deeply in love with him.