16 November 2011 Character Analysis of Sister Sister, one of the main characters in Eudora Welty’s “Why I Live at the P.O.” is a very complex character. She goes through many emotions and has encountered many hardships concerning her family. She starts out being the brunt of lies told by her sister, Stella-Rondo. Sister’s relationship with her sister is full of jealously and resentment. It is also very destructive.
Alphonso and Mr.----- never lost an opportunity to tell her so. And so Celie became and believed she was ugly, useless, and worthless. Even Shug, when she first met her, exclaimed "You sure is ugly" (pg.48). Shug was told, first by her mother and then in the "respectable people's" opinion, that she was a whore, that she was wicked, and so she became a Temptress of sorts. "Even the preacher got his mouth on Shug Avery, now she down.
This is one reason why this is the worst thing that happened to America. Although millions of lives were lost in all the wars our country were in, there was reason why people died. People that died shouldn’t be blamed but the fact that their country decided to come into war is still in the air. The people of Salem had no business whatsoever and were blamed for having a doll in their home or because they simply had a wart. The people of the town were pressured, accused, and tested simple tests but the girls would scream with such pain whenever the accused spoke.
Like the ranch-hands, she is desperately lonely and has broken dreams of a better life. Curley’s wife: Of Mice and Menis not kind in its portrayal of women. In fact, women are treated with contempt throughout the course of the book. Steinbeck generally depicts women as troublemakers who bring ruin on men and drive them mad. Curley’s wife, who walks the ranch as a temptress, seems to be a prime example of this destructive tendency—Curley’s already bad temper has only worsened since their wedding.
She also experienced a lot of mental abuse from her mom, who seemed to cut her down more than anything. When it came to her relationship with Melchior, she just seemed to go with the flow. She kind of got sucked into doing things that she, possibly, may have not done if she would have had a closer, more open relationship with her mom. Wendla longs to feel loved and at one point, even confuses the physical abuse that one of her friends experiences at home as real love and begs Melchior to hit her. She was a very lost child that needed more attention on the home front.
When she knew that Emma had the third pregnancy, she strongly recommended Emma to abort the child. The enjoyment and love in the life was her pursuit, and she finally fell in love with Garrett. But Aurora was a great mother in the same time. Though she was nervous, unconcerned, long-winded, when Emma left home for her marriage, when Emma left town with her husband, Aurora complained the expensive phone bill. And we could see the sadness on the tough face when the car drove away.
So that’s why he comes into the country-side. Apart from this, Vera is Very talkative, selfish and liar. Vera tells a lie to Frampton and her aunt, because she is so possessive girl. Therefore she needs an attention. She wants that people talking to her and this really meant lots to her.
I really did. I can totally sympathize with the plight of women throughout the world, and I support equality. Truly, I mean that. However, she started to lose my support halfway through the second paragraph, and she had lost all of it by the first sentence of the fifth paragraph. Her regretful, almost mournful tones about this “attack on feminism” reminds me, very vividly, of Rush Limbaugh and FOX news moaning and griping about their so-called “War on Christmas”.
Zachary Holland ENGL 2328 Dr. Wilson March 18, 2014 A Rose for Miss Emily This story really threw me for a loop. I really loved it and when I read the ending it was like holy crap did that just happen? Mrs. Grierson lives in her own little world of entrapment. She has been hurt so many times before by people talking bad about her behind her back and with her father leaving her so early by dying and leaving her with knowing basically nothing about life since he trapped her from the world that she feels the need to trap the last true love of her life Mr. Barron. So the true causes of evil are her father trapping her and keeping her away from people and men so long that she literally ends up crazy.
Exercise: Discussion/Composition 1 Page: 114 The Love in “Yolanda” In the excerpt “Yolanda” from the novel “How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents” by Julia Alvarez, the love of Yolanda’s mother for her daughter is shown throughout the story. It is true that there is no mother who does not love her children. So does Yolanda’s mother. First of all, she remembered every little detail when Yolanda was “three years old”. She told the lover what exactly happened, why she took Yolanda to New York – “that one was losing all her hair”, how crowded the bus was – “It was more sardines in a can than you could shake sticks at”, and how she worried when Yolanda got lost – “we broke into a run like two crazy people!” Second, Yolanda’s mother put so much expectancy on her daughter – “of course, she became a poet” – that she was “disappointed” because “she had always meant for her Yo to be the famous [poet].” And she tried to “convince her daughter”.