A Lost Ghost Finds Her Stairway to Heaven She tries to remember but all that comes to mind is what was once her name. Part of her wants to know her past, but a deeper part is avoiding the memories. She knows she is dead, but does not know how and why she is still here. 157 years later and she still lingers, thinking she must have done something horrifying for God to keep her trapped in this frustrating prison. In Laura Whitcomb’s A Certain Slant of Light, Helen begins her journey as an unseen and unheard spirit, clinging to one human at a time and fearing her unknown past.
Their mother considered them to be one person because they were so much alike and called them “HannahAnna.” Hannah and Anna start to realize they are not one person, but two separate people. With all the noises and strange occurrences you start to try and figure out is someone or something trying to separate them and why. While reading The Girl Behind the Glass by Jane Kelley, readers get involved with trying to figure out who is this ghost and why is this happening. Readers also are trying to gain an understanding about what families experience when life doesn't go the way they have planned. I would suggest this book to read as it is a book that always keeps readers wondering and interested because there are surprises in every chapter.
In this quotes Dickinson is saying that everything she writes is a part of her. She writes about her life, her feeling and so many other things, there was no way pieces of printed paper could express it like her. It would not be morally right to publish such greatness. Also in the Article by Joanne Dobson called “"Emily Dickinson And The 'Prickly Art' Of Housekeeping." She says “Dickinson’s withdrawal into her home of refusal to publish were not aberrations rooted in psychological alienation from her society.
The main theme that continues throughout the story the past haunts the present; because there were many innocents where past events alter the characters and the appearances of ghosts in this novel also signifies this theme. Through the actions of Aunt Cassie, the relationship between Helen and Franklin, and the character of Rebecca, Thomas King develops the statement the future is dependent on the past events. Aunt Cassie, Tecumseh's aunt and Helen's sister, is a flat character in the novel "Truth and Bright Water". Although she is a flat character and does not undergo much development, she is a crucial character in this story. Many of her actions reflects the theme of the past haunting the present.
One might ask, why are the children not responding to her, why do they look right past her? At the conclusion of the story, finally exposed, that she is dead. The fundamental theme of “I Used to Live Here Once” is about a woman who takes a journey back to her childhood home in a divine way. A theme as defined in the dictionary is, “unifying idea that is recurrent element in literary or artistic work” (Webster’s). Although the theme is not clear at initial, start but is implied cunningly all the way through the story.
An Underling Theme: A Comparative Essay Bethany Dowdy ENG 125 Macy Dailey August 5, 2013 “A Worn Path” by Eudora Welty and “I Used to Live Here Once” by Jean Rhys, at first blush, do not seem to be related in theme. When looking at short stories it is impossible to see it all in a literal form; there is always some sort of underlying context that occurs within the body of the text that adds insight to the story. One is a short story about a woman going to town through woods; the other, a story about a woman revisiting her old home. In reviewing the journey of each piece, however, the relationship is clear. The underlying meaning or theme of a story is often depicted through symbolism, but what is symbolism?
Although she does have a considerable amount of dialogue in the novel, the language she uses and the way she speaks, is not ghost-like but more like a young country girl (you would have never have guessed she was a ghost.) She is always wearing the same clothes in the book; ‘a dress that looked like it came from an old film’ and ‘big boots with fat laces’. I think that Tansey is a very loveable character in this book, as she was just a young woman who never lived to see her children grow up and is back to be with her dying daughter who is now in her 80s. Her past and why she came back makes the reader feel sorry for her and her children and this makes it quite an emotional novel. Tansey’s plays a crucial part in the story of the novel and is very important to the plot.
It is also not written in a linear timeline and if we look at the way in which it was written it becomes clear the Kingston is in fact unclear on many facts and has a tendency to either guess or make up what may have happened. In No Name woman she has been told the story of her aunt by her mother and doesn't understand the whole story and is left with many holes she needs to fill. She imagines different scenarios for the aunt; did she want the relationship with the man or was she forced into it? It is things like these that make is question her stories and wonder just how much of it is fact and how much is fiction. Then there is also the idea of whether Kingston is actually a character or a presence in the story.
Josephine Tey is a pseudonym under which Scottish author and playwright Elizabeth Mackintosh published mystery novels. Mackintosh used a second pseudonym, Gordon Daviot, for her plays and also in her personal life, which she guarded zealously. Tey avoided the press, shunned photographers, and never granted interviews. For this reason, and the fact that she kept only a small circle of friends, Tey is a difficult subject for a biographical paper. Due to the lack of information from other sources, Tey’s novels can be examined for insights to her character and experiences.
In Theresa Weimer’s article, Believing in Ghosts, she is overall unsuccessful in convincing me that ghosts exist in spite of her attempts at using logos and pathos appeals within her article. Weimer states that believing in ghosts in based on a persons’ entire belief system, faith, religion, spirituality and feelings about certain subjects play a role in how a person views their own existence (Weimer, 2009). She goes on to state that she has found that “agnostic people rarely believe in ghosts since they tend to discount any type of alternate form of life or higher existence beyond the human realm” (Weimer, 2009, p. 1). However after writing such a strong statement she does not give any type of example for this comment or proof of where she has come up with this information. That makes it hard for me to believe that a statement like this would have any truth to it.