Ellie Linton’s character is tested when she comes home to find the family pets dead. She must choose between right and wrong in her follow-up actions, battling through trauma and distress. Then her best friend, Corrie, witnesses her home being destroyed. It is in the group’s human spirit and empathy for each that keeps them strong. Ellie again questions herself and her actions when she blows up a lawnmower to save her friends.
How are the following incidents from the past also reflected in the present actions: (a) Dee's hatred of the old house; (b) Dee's ability "to stare down any disaster"; (c) Maggie's burns from the fire; (d) the mother's having been "hooked in the side" while milking a cow; (e) Dee's refusal to accept a quilt wwhen she went away to college? The mother worked hard to provide for Dee and Maggie. She wasn't a dainty woman. She was always protective over Maggie. The mother and Maggie were closer than either of them were to Dee.
The first thing I noticed while reading the story was how the two girls differed in appearance. with the way the mother describes Maggie she says of how Maggie is vary skinny like a small child, dark skinned and has burn scars down her arms and legs, from when her home had caught on fire and she had to be pulled out as her mother had explained, causing her to be ashamed of her looks. Her mother says “she will stand hopelessly in corners, homely and ashamed of the burn scars down her arms and legs, eyeing her sister with a mixture of envy and awe.” Maggie’s scars have really affected the way she carries herself. She walks like a dog run over by a car as her mother describes it. Maggie is not only physically but mentally scarred.
T: Title: The title describe the women with her riches house got burned down T: Tone: Anne Bradstreet poem, “Upon the Burning of Our House” is resentful and remorseful. She was being resentful that her house got burned and down and that all her possessions are turned into ashes. But throught that sorrow, she is remorseful because since she’s a Puritan and believe that none of the things did not actually belongs to her but to God’s. Therefore, material possessions are easy to get and gain but also easy to lose and destroyed. T: Theme: That you should not centered on what you have because you will eventually lose it when you die, and only God is with you.
We worked without stopping from 10 A.M. to 6 P.M.” This account appeals to ethos because she tells the reader how many chickens were butchered and how long it took to butcher them. Winckler states, “I am too far gone in my rational Western head to appropriate the ritual of cultures whom the bloody business of hunting was a matter of survival;” in this statement she effectively appeals to logos by helping readers recognize that most cultures kill animals as a way to gain nourishment- nothing more. Winckler is excellent at appealing to the logos, she states, “Butchering chickens is no fun, which is one reason I do it. It is the price I pay for being an omnivore and for eating other meat, like beef and pork, for which I have
Sarah, having dealt with the things that she has dealt with, has evolved into heck of woman. When she was young, she was abused by her mentally unstable father. Sarah had told everybody that her mom accidently spilled a bowl of boiled spaghetti on her, but in reality her father burned her face with a wood stove at the age of three. No three year old should have to go through what has happened to Sarah;
However within Bradstreet’s poem also strays away from typical Puritan literature characteristics. Bradstreet finds herself attached to her material possessions that she lost within the fire of her house burning down. Initially, Bradstreet does exhibit Puritan literature characteristics with her use of a biblical allusion. As she runs out the house and watches her house burn before her eyes she is devastated. For example she alludes in the poem to Job 1:21, “And when I could no longer look;/I blest His name that gave and took” (13-14).
Walker uses symbolism to help deliver a better understanding of the characters in the story. Take Mama for example, at the beginning of the story Walker has Mama describe herself as a “large, big boned woman with rough, man working hands” (Walker 1) and Mama also explains that she “can kill and clean a hog as mercilessly as a man.” (Walker 1) These statements symbolize the fact that Mama is the man of the house. Being the only parent shows that Mama had to be tough and do the things that men would have done during the 1970’s. Dee/Wangero is the daughter of Mama and in this story Walker uses symbolism through Dee to help explain her on a deeper level. Walker symbolizes Dee’s clothing and education to help convey who Dee is as a person.
Chapter 3 9) The author was trying to connect the two persons in the begging of the story to give a hint about both of them. 10) The pit is going to get destroyed and build something else there, The guys don’t like what’s happening cause they think that the pit is their own property. 11) Because his grandmother was the first one to give him a stone, and tell him to start collection them. 12) The sick stone is the stone that reef got from his grandmother when he felt sick. 13) This refers to Reef’s mother when he looks at Naan’s eyes every time he begin to speak about the girl that gave him a birth.
As they were on their way to find a better way of living they came across an old woman who was homeless and had lice in her hair. She then asked the first sister Camille to give her some bread, give her some water and comb her hair, then to go into her ruined home and take the rocks that were saying don’t take me. The old said to her that her reward will be like her nature. The next day the younger sister came across the old woman who then asked Paula to do the same but Paula refused to give her some bread, water and to comb her. When sent into the house she scorned the house and took the stones that were saying take me again disobeying the woman’s orders.