The World Controllers decided that they never wanted their world to go into chaos as did the world of Macbeth. Thus, they made the society so stable that it became bland and boring. Lenina discovers some of the truths of her society when she wakes up as a small child only to hear the conditioning tape that was being played, "Every one works for every one else. We can't do without any one. Even Epsilons are useful.
Within a story, animals are often portrayed as weak and helpless, unable to move beyond the control of their human masters. Other times, they serve as strong and hostile creatures. John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men, however, uses animals to represent unique concepts: dreams, innocence and loneliness. Despite their innocent natures, all of the animals are met with death, creating loneliness for those around them. Animals play an important role in much of the symbolism found within the novel.
She knew that her children will soon leave and have their time in life and spend less and less time with her and that she would just simply stay inside and be alone. She must have been terrified of that. She lost Edward and did not want her daughter Mary to find about that at the moment of her lifetime. Jane was terrified of telling Mary the truth and she might have thought that if she does than Mary will panic and be emotionally hurt for the rest of her life. At the end, Jane seems to be happy that she will soon be able to be to join Edward.
Having fled so far from Vietnam, I can no longer imagine what to say, or how I should address my prayers, or for that matter what promises I could possibly make to the long departed. My mother, on the other hand, lives in America the way she would in Vietnam. Every morning in my parents’ suburban home north of San Jose, with a pool shimmering in the backyard, my mother climbs a chair and piously lights a few joss sticks for the ancestral altar which sits on top of the living room's bookcase. Every morning she talks to ghosts. She mumbles solemn prayers to the spirits of our dead ancestors, and to the all-compassionate Buddha.
Every time her uncle and aunts go visits her she always gets sad when they have to leave because of the goodbyes. Although most of the time his flights are delayed, she decides to stay home instead of going along to drop him and leaves, her father tells her that her uncle said he will never forget them. Furthermore, she talks about the day she turned fifteen and how they did not have enough money to celebrate like most girls with a quincenera but instead they have a gathering of 6 people to celebrate. Their budget is tight but her mom still decides to buy what her daughter deserves and nothing lower. She has a fun memory despite the struggle of being poor.
The book follows the story of a young girl named Tita who longs her entire life to marry her lover, Pedro, but can never have him because of her mother's upholding of the family tradition of the youngest daughter not marrying but taking care of her mother until the day she dies. Tita is only able to express herself when she cooks. I enjoyed this book because it taught me a lot about how one’s traditions can affect your life. This book goes against some beliefs that many people have because “Like Water for Chocolate” is a fiction book, it is believed fiction books cannot teach anything useful. But the lessons I learned are applicable to life and have also provided
Elena carries out motherly duties despite the incredibly difficult circumstances of surviving in Altai labour camp. The family had been in the labour camp for months, they were all weak and hungry. It was Lina’s birthday and Lina thought that her mother had forgotten because of their horrific situation. But really Elena had organized a surprise ‘party’ in the bald man’s hut. Even though their situation seemed bleak, Elena felt that she should still carry out simple motherly duties, like celebrating her daughter’s birthday, to make Lina feel more secure.
Jessica Armstrong ENG 2D Mrs. Martin 26 September 2013 Cuba 15 Violet Paz, a 15 year old half Cuban half Polish girl is forced to celebrate a quinceanero by her grandmother. Violet is completely set on not having a quince because she is definitely not comfortable standing in front of a crowd and proclaiming her womanhood. Besides she doesn’t like wearing huge, poofy, pink dresses. Cuba is a very hushed topic in the Paz household; no one will tell Violet what it’s like. On top of all this, Violet has to deal with her two best friends; Leda, a vegetarian activist who isn’t afraid to voice her opinion; and Janell, a dancer who has no shame in saying whatever is on her mind.
Andrea Becerra American Lit. P 2 November 03, 2010 Our Town In the play “Our Town” the author tries to explain us how we spend our lives doing things that are not really important and at the end we realize that our lives had gone by and we never noticed. We are always so busy that we don’t have the time to appreciate the simple things. And an example of this in the play, is when Emily goes back to her 12th birthday after she died and she watches how her life goes so fast, and her mother is so busy doing a bunch of stuff, so that’s when Emily says, “Oh, Mama, just look at me one minute as though you really saw me” (Wilder 101). This is how we spend almost every single day of our lives; we live like we had a million years.
If I would invest the time needed to organize I would have received a better grade. English has never been my forte in high school; I failed one whole semester because I was infected with senioritis. My mentality was that I didn’t HAVE to do anything because graduation was just around the corner, but boy was I wrong. This set of mentality pushed me back in my senior year and it prohibited me from enjoying my last year as my friends were living it up at all the parties while I was home finishing up my online class as a result of my failure. Online classes required self determination and a lot time.