A Northern Light ISU Theme Essay Alicia Leonard Ms. Owens June 2, 2013 In A Northern Light, by Jennifer Donnelly, a girl named Mattie shows us through her story how difficult rural life was in the 1900s and how no matter how you feel about your neighbor in times of emergency everyone pitches in to help. The author shows that a real neighbor will help you even if he or she has nothing to gain from doing so, other than knowing if the need arises you will return the favor as long as you are able. Once Mattie has gone to work at the Glenmore and left her family alone, they all get very sick and the young neighbor Tommy runs all the way to the hotel to tell her to come home. As she leaves the hotel she finds another neighbor Mr. Denio arriving and he quickly turns around to drive her home as soon as he hears that her family is sick. Just as she is arriving home she finds another neighbor arriving Royal Loomis who has heard what happened and says “Saw
Even if Joe was not there waiting for her, the change was bound to do her good” (Hurston, 32). In her second marriage to Joe, Jeannie finally begins to stand up for herself and find her voice. Her husband for years stifled and belittled her. Joe believed that his wife should not speak publicly, which he scolded her for several times during their marriage. When she couldn’t find a receipt for a shipment Joe made the comment.
The first one is the portrait of Rebecca, a typical the femme fatale. Rebecca was the dead first wife of Maxim de Winter. Although Rebecca never appeared in the film, from the conversations between the heroin and other people, it seemed that Rebecca was a perfect wife that Maxim de Winter loved deeply. However, the truth is on the contrary. Maxim de Winter hates his wife very much as she was a profligate woman.
Even though a girl has committed suicide in a horrific manner as a result of her personal prejudices, she feels no remorse, completely ignoring any sense of being part of a community. She may have been running a charity at the time but in reality, it was run as a way for the rich to reduce their guilt for ignoring the poor around them, while barely scratching the surface of poverty. Sheila Birling is completely different to both her parents. Although she played a major part in Eva Smith’s suicide in the form of jealousy, she is genuinely distraught over the whole situation. She willingly takes responsibility for her part in the suicide and even wishes to change her ways after hearing what the Inspector has to say while going against her parent’s carefree behaviour after the inspector has left.
Steinbeck presents Curley’s wife as nameless throughout the novella this presents her as Curley’s possession. By presenting us with one female character Steinbeck is indicating there is no real place for a woman on the ranch. Also, I think he reflects the history of women in the Great Depression onto Curley’s wife, how woman were considered inferior to men. Before George has met Curley’s wife Candy begins to tell George about her: “only been two weeks and she’s already got the eye.” ‘Eye’ signifies to us that she is unfaithful to her husband as she finds other men attractive, this makes the reader disapprove of her. Steinbeck makes us feel dislike by manipulating us into think she’s seeking attention inappropriately.
In turn this event began to eat at her father’s ability to stay present for his daughters, leaving only Tana to be there for Pearl. Years later, Tana has been given the Cold and Pearl is now left with no one there for her. This character is easy to sympathize with because she has gone through many hardships at a young age, and is left with no family to care for her Next, the author makes it so that the reader can easily sympathize with Tana. This is because Tana is used and attacked by her mother, who was unable to control her temptations. The Cold makes you thirsty for human blood and Tana’s mother manipulated her and appealed to her naivety by saying that she changed and was better.
Finally, she is able to ignore things like pain or injury she first shows this on the night of the accident, when she is able to hold on to the burning hot iron wire to save her life even though it burn through her hands leaving scars across her hands. She shows this trait again when her house catches on fire and her daughter is trapped in her bedroom on the top floor. Ignoring her scared hands, Anna strips down to her bra a climbs up to her daughter’s window and rescues
Lena’s mother is dead and Marie’s left the family when she was a child. Despite the fact that Marie’s friends and father don’t approve, Lena and Marie become friends. They provide each other with an outlet to discuss issues and feelings they haven’t been able to express before. Lena has a secret about her home life and Marie can’t help her no matter how much she wants to. The author, Jacqueline Woodson, does a tremendous job at flipping stereotypes and allowing others to walk in someone else’s shoes.
The book, Years of wonders, is written from a point of view of a character from within the village that lives through the plague and helps others to overcome the plague when it hits them. Throughout the book Anna comes across various ups and down but she redeems her ego in order to stay on her feet to help others find their inner self. Anna is young widow women with 2 sons living in the village of Eyam. Within the years of living in the village the people she is surrounded by are caught within the plague. Her 2 sons and Mr. Vicars are shortly affected by the plague and as an outcome of the plague they die.
In Shirley Jackson’s story, the town people are solely responsible for killing Mrs. Hutchinson by voluntarily picking up stones and stoning her to death. In Martin Gansberg’s story the people in the neighborhood are involuntarily responsible for Catherine’s death. Although they did not stab her themselves, they failed to call the police in enough time to save her life. When the police questioned her neighbors about why they did not call the police sooner, they gave unacceptable