'Belonging begins with relationships' In the play Rainbows end by Jane Harrison, we are able to explore this idea that belonging begins with relationships very closely through the characters. In this critical analysis of the play the character in particular Dolly will be explored. Dolly is a young teenage girl who initially feels different because of her aboriginality and poverty. Living with her mother Gladys who wants to be part of the white society, and Nan dear that avoids being a part of anything that involves white Australians she is constantly confronted by conflicting of values. Throughout the play we discover the changing of her belonging in two different sequences, and it is through the relationships with other characters that enables Dolly to find her
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.
In the poem the writer is also in conflict with herself as she has left her motherland Guyana to move to England. At first the poet dreaded England but as soon as there was news of a Hurricane she began to feel much at home as hurricanes happen often in the southern equator. The writer shows her relationship with the hurricane by referring to it as her ‘sweeping a back home cousin’. At the end of the poem the writer resolves her problem which is her conflict with herself as she misses her homeland ‘Come to let me know that the earth is the earth’. The similarities of the poems are that they both involve the same situation which is conflict with another culture.
Idgie experiences a terrible heartbreak during her young developmental stage. She, along with Ruth witness Buddy’s tragic death. This will forever change Idgie, as she becomes even more rebellious and revolutionary. A example of her mischievous ways was when she can road past the church during a sermon and compared the preacher to a snake. The next stage that greatly influences Idgie’s life is when Ruth is asked to come and stay at Idgie’s home by her mother.
A Fathers Impact “It is easier for a father to have children than for children to have a real father” (John XXIII). The stories “Powder” and “Reunion” have many similarities and differences. The short story “Powder,” by Tobias Wolff is about a father who got to spend quality time skiing with his son after he fought for the privilege to see him. Though he had a limited amount of time to spend with his son, for they had to be back at his wife’s house for Christmas Eve dinner, he learned to savor every minute he got with his son. “Reunion” by John Cheever is a short story about Charlie who hasn’t seen his father since his parents’ divorce.
“It came into my head that I cannot run away. I am who I am wherever I am”. Catherine, Called Birdy by Karen Cushman is about a 14 year old girl who's father, the lord, wants to marry her off to a rich old man with lots of land. Catherine wants to just get away from the lady life and escape, but is always held in place by her pregnant mother, and her always nagging nurse/maid Morwenna. In Catherine, Called Birdy, many women gave Birdy advice but she never really listenened to them, but when she did, she made a decision that changed her life forever.
Psycho by Alfred Hitchcock was released in 1960. An important relationship in this text is the unusual relationship between Norman and ‘Mother’. This relationship is unusual because although they are two separate entities and Mother is actually dead, there is a constant struggle for control of Norman’s mind and in the end, ‘Mother’ wins. This relationship helped me understand the main idea of madness through the parlour scene, the fruit cellar scene and the police station scene. The relationship between Norman and ‘Mother’ helped me identify and understand the idea of madness through symbolism, lighting and dialogue techniques in the parlour scene.
And it’s the silence that kills us” (Breaking Clean 154). Blunt struggled through her childhood for her dad’s acceptance and love. I feel her relationship with her dad introduced her to the reality that as a woman in the west she was nothing more than a second-class citizen. For this reason she hated what she knew becoming a woman would bring, and fought puberty violently lancing her breast. In rural Montana from the time you reached puberty you were expected to do what your mother did, and what her mother did and so on.
She was in a hospital until one day four years later; Beatrix was awoken by the bite of a mosquito. She awoke no longer a normal person; she possessed internal powers of the super natural Beatrix tells that she hasn’t accomplished her goal quite yet and makes that loud and clear. She is very firm as she explains that she has gone on a “roaring rampage of revenge." Beatrix does not just tell the viewers that she has gotten satisfaction from killing so many people,
This leaves the wife feeling empty and lonely, her desire to take care of something, anything is overwhelming. Their marriage is obviously in crisis, and that crisis in my opinion is the lack of fertility, “which is symbolically foreshadowed by the public garden (fertility) dominated by the war monument (death).” [Hagopian, 221] From her window she sees a cat who “was trying to make herself so compact she would not be dripped on”; the American wife immediately says “I’m going down to get the kitty.” Her word choice in even describing the cat as “kitty” is very telling, it’s like she has already assigned affection to a foreign object. To me that says that she is so filled with love and affection but with no where to direct it. The American Wife walks downstairs, passes the innkeeper with whom she reveres in almost a fatherly way, and makes it out to the square where she had seen the cat; the cat is gone. It is interesting to note that once she realizes the cat is not there, Hemingway no longer describes her as the American Wife but as the ‘American girl’, “it is almost as if she were demoted in femininity by failing to find a creature to care for.” [Hagopian, 221] The American Wife/girl, is very vocal with her wants, she says she wants to grow her hair long and wear it in a bun, she wants to have a cat