1. The Frog King, and Beauty and the Beast, among others, all relate to the idea of one royal marrying an initially less fortunate (in terms of appearance or economic/social stature) person. These folk tales are best described for dealing with life’s vital issues and that is where the drama can begin. Each story delves into rites of passage in some manner, for instance young women leaving their parents to marry and friendship they find with an unlikely candidates. Each story shows children grow up and learn to survive on their own to become adults and live happily ever after having survived very difficult situations, each lady making a deal for their time, love, etc.
The next major change she undergoes occurs when Laila arrives. When the beautiful, energetic, young girl agrees to a marriage with Rasheed, Mariam’s initial response is anger and jealousy. This does not settle down until they find their bond over three cups of tea and a common enemy, their husband. Mariam finds a friend and someone who cares about her, both of which were something she had never experienced before. The change in Mariam was so dramatic that she ends up giving her own life for someone she cares deeply for.
When reading the first sentence of the story there is a sense of the ability to predict the end--the girls will be best of friends for ever, get married to a handsome man and live happily ever after, however in this fairy-tale, the ending is not as happy as this and nor is the body of the story. The story begins with a train station filled with evacuees--children that parents have sent to the country so they would be away from the war. Penny and Primrose, the two little girls, befriended each other immediately “The two little girls had not met before... They were pleased to be able to define each other as ‘nice’. They would stick together, they agreed.” The children on the train do not know where they are going or how long the journey would take.
The words “thin” and “tight” to describe her smile illustrated that Lysandra actually felt constricted and angry inside, despite pretending to be happy by putting on a smile. In the quote, Elaine describes this experience as Lysandra’s “withdrawal”, which tells us that she became emotionally unavailable and cold to the outside world. It says us how she retreated into her own private thoughts of anger and embarrassment, instead of sharing it with her friend. This shows adversity Lysandra faced during childhood made her to become more susceptible to life’s challenges, as she was not taught to address her emotions in a healthy and positive manner. After losing the poetry contest, Lysandra became withdrawn and cold, as she believed that Elaine had taken her prize from her.
Personal life capabilities helps one to overcome the obstacle of loss by facing similar situations and getting used to a new environment. In fact, losing a loved one helps an individual to prepare to face similar situations in the future. For example, Addy loses so many people throughout the novel that she eventually gets used to it. To handle the death of her first baby, Addy decides to leave Detroit and find another home: "The wind shook the windowpanes and the house on Chestnut Street groaned at the loss of yet another soul. Addy was still weak from the efforts of her labour, and still sore and bleeding, but she knew she had to leave and she had to leave today" (Lansens 271).
As Mary’s brother Laurie ran way from home after the clash with their father Calvin Pye, their mother got sick. Since Calvin was very irritated with his children, life was somewhat lonely for Mary which eventually forced her to get close to Matt. An excerpt from novel as narrated by Kat can exemplify how solitude contributed in fabricating the bond between Kate and Matt: “Mrs Pye was in a really serious state that summer, and that worry about her, coming on top of everything else, was more than Marie could bear alone. So she turned for comfort to matt. If she’d had more friends, or if her mother had had family living near, or if Calvin hadn’t alienated the whole community … then maybe Marie would not have needed to turn so hard, so appealingly to Matt.
In an interview years later, Monroe commented that she play-acted all the time to run away from the dullness of her life, which did not include much education. "The world around me then was kind of grim. I had to learn to pretend in order to...I don't know...block the grimness.”[1] Most people don’t realize that her disrupted loveless childhood have had great effect on her later life and may have been the main reason for her early death. This misfortune in her personal life haunted her until her death. Marilyn had three marriages, each of which was unsuccessful.
Mary Angelique A. Auman English 10 Mr. Swenson November 9, 2014 “A Pair of Silk Stockings” by Kate Chopin The short story “A Pair of Silk Stockings” by Kate Chopin was a good example of what a single parent experiences in her daily life. Mrs. Sommers was a mother that puts her children before herself. She came across a decent amount of money but was captured by her own desires and forgot about her children. In “A Pair of Silk Stockings” the tone seems to be depressing at first then to exciting then back to depressing. The emotions were a rollercoaster.
Norma says this towards the end of the story, when Norma is essentially telling Leroy she wants to be alone. The 14 years alone she’d been alone had helped her deal with the death of her child Randy, and Leroy’s permanent return home has brought back those feelings of their lost child. We can also infer from this that, Norma may have purposely taken bodybuilding, and composition classes In order to avoid Leroy’s constant presence at home. In the story we can clearly see the
Abstract A Doll’s House is regarded as a kind of ”canon”. There are so many critics seem to try to find a way out for Nora. Her 8 years marriage with Torvald Helmer was so good until she realize that Torvald Helmer was not really love her , until she know that she has always been treated as a doll in her family even by her husband, and found out she wasn’t in the real home. Nora has become the most courageous women, who fighting for an equal place in family. However this paper focus on Nora’s feeling to her husband, her great hope to her Torvald Helmer, hope for understanding and prove of his love, which is end with disappointment.