Thus, Pearl’s existence gives her mother reason to live, bolstering her spirits when she is tempted to give up; acting as a hero who constantly saves her mother from the tortures of Puritan society. However, Pearl also acts as a constant remaindered to her mother of her inescapable sin, and therefore can also be seen as a non-heroic character. Throughout the novel Pearl constantly defends her mother when people of their community are threatening her. When Hester and Pearl are attacked by a group of children, who try to fling mud at them Pearl becomes angry. She frightens the children off and she throws rocks at them.
Here are a couple other reasons to consider. The content of many of Plath's poems plays on rich and specific raw emotions. She did this through crafting specific images and symbols with carefully chosen words and figures of speech. Generally choosing everyday experiences and items to write about, she did indeed write about some of the pain in her life including the "The Jailer" about her husband Ted Hughes who had cheated on her, and "Daddy" about her father who abused her. These topic choices come from truthful circumstances, but readers generally really sympathize with Plath because of her suicide and what led her to it.
The emotional appeal of this opening helps Patterson to get the audience’s attention. The white southerners, with children, could then feel the pain of this woman, regardless of her color. At the end of the first paragraph he places himself and anyone reading in the story when he says “we hold that shoe with her. Every one of us in the white south holds that small shoe in his hand.” The one bloody shoe, emphasized by Patterson gives the story an ironic yet devastating feeling, which also adds to the emotional appeal. This poor mother probably thought she was doing something good by sending her child to church rather than sending him or her outside to play in the violence unfolding in the streets.
Melancholia is seen as a profound presentation of depression involving a complete loss of pleasure in all or almost everything. The process of mourning is viewed as a task to rebuild one’s inner world by experiencing the intense pain of loss that reawakens the loving affect of the lost loved one. The death of a loved one can result in individuals losing their sense of identity. It is suggested that in grieving, the bereaved is letting go of multiple attachments that are involved in the formation of a
It is a way for Hester to make up for her wrong doing and a way for her to look inside herself and change something about her. It is the letter that makes Hester feel at fault and once she removes it she heaves “…a long, deep sigh, in which the burden of shame and anguish departed from her spirit”(159). The letter holds all the guilt and blame that Hester feels so that when she takes off the letter, the shame is removed with it. Hester also truly feels guilty about what she’s done because she feels sorry for her daughter, Pearl. Pearl often is looked upon as a child of a sinner and Hester sees the way other children treat her.
Many people suffer from loss of a job or traumatic experiences in their life. If Dorothea Lange were still alive, I’m sure she would use her photography to remind us of the poverty and suffering that continues around the
The governess constantly switches from doubting the children to loving them. After the governess starts seeing the ghosts of Peter Quint and Miss Jessel, she wants to protect Miles and Flora from them. She begins to think of herself as the heroine
Another instance is when she asks her mother for the quilts her grandmother had made, her mother said they were for Maggie; Dee's reply was, “Maggie wouldn't appreciate the quilts” and Maggie says, “Dee can have them” (Walker 2441). Furthermore, all of the things Dee ask for she wants to use them for decoration and not for everyday use. Dee also was not educated about her heritage. For instance, her mother called her “Dee” and in return she replied saying her new name was Wangero, followed by the statement, “Dee is dead and I can no longer bear the name of the people that oppress me” (Walker 2440). I believe there was no time during the story that she was oppressed or even mentioned
While others tend to hate themselves and inflict pain on their own bodies, until they feel as though they punished themselves enough. Sadly, there are many people that are trapped in this mind set, one of which is a friend of mine. A beautiful young woman, one who you would never think would be cutting herself. My friend Sasha and I were talking one day, and in that conversation she told me something that I found very disturbing. She told me that she had been abusing herself, and then she showed me the affects of the abuse.
In the beginning of the play, she can see that the girls are just playing about their sickness. As she sits in the room of Ruth Putnam with the other adults, she observes and says, “I think she’ll wake when she tires of it. A child’s spirit is like a child. You can never catch it by running after it; you must stand still and, for love, it will soon itself come back”. She did not believe that the devil is controlling the sickness of the girls and thinks that a prayer is the answer to solve the problem.