When analysing a poem of Plath's one may automatically associate it with depression, melancholy etc. even before reading the piece itself and fairly so. Mental illness was a major part of her adolescent and adult life and is clearly present in many of her writings. When first going over Morning Song, it is surprising to find nothing lachrymose or dark about this piece. Instead we are given a rare insight into Plath's mind of being a first time mother, something she never thought that she would be.
Joan Didion once wrote about how, at a very young age, she was forced to form a habit which she later on credit as the one thing that got her to professional writing. In her article, On Keeping a Notebook, she recalled that as a young kid, she was given a notebook so she could sit still while her mother was doing other things. Other children her age at that time would have preferred toys, but the notebook worked out perfectly for Joan. It is probably the solitude the activity requires that drove her to opine that keepers of notebooks are lonely individuals. How Joan discovered keeping a notebook is exactly the same way how I got acquainted with journaling.
Emily Dickinson’s living in Privacy Poet Emily Dickinson spent most of her years at her home in Amherst, Massachusetts where she wrote most of her poems and letters. During the last 25 years of her life she stayed in her room almost all the time only leaving the house once in a while. She also let some people come to visit but that to be very rare. The most people would hear from Dickinson was her friends that she wrote letters to and shared some of her poetry with. Emily Dickinson was a poet and person whom did not publish her work, kept her love life low, and lived her last years of life in seclusion because she wanted privacy, which gave us some of the best poetry today.
As a person experiences hardship, the stages of dealing with their reality manifest themselves in different ways. For Anne Frank, diary entries allowed her mentally to move from her naïve state to the acceptance of reality. Anne begins writing her diary in 1942 and in the beginning the reader is faced with the words of a young girl who is struggling to understand her situation. The diary entries permitted her to deal with her denial, and the diary became an emotional outlet. The image of this young girl is immediately apparent in Anne’s first diary entry.
She describes her mother as a natural story teller (Kramer 48). Her mother had a great impact on her life. As a child Tan was rebellious against her origins and was often embarrassed by her family’s customs (“Amy Tan” 1). Though The Joy Luck Club was not an autobiography, many of the stories are based on her and her mother’s own life experiences. Tan’s first book, The Joy Luck Club, had many influences including her relationship with her mother, the stories her mother told, understanding and becoming comfortable with her culture, and her own life experiences.
The second time she noticed one of her “Englishes” was when walking with her mother and husband, she said “not waste money that way” which for her is an intimate language used only by her family. Her mother’s “broken” English contradicts how much she actually understands, this reminds us that even though her mother’s English seem “broken” it does not reflect her intelligence. Even though her mother was categorized with limited ideas by the people she would to because of the way she spoke tan rejects the idea that her mother English is “limited” or “broken”. She emphasizes the fact that even her mother recognizes that her opportunities and interactions in life are limited by her English. When the author was young she used to have to call people on the phone and act as if she was her mother in order to get people to pay attention to her like when she had to yell at her mother’s stockbroker for not sending a check.
They are also known as "unteachables" and not the eager-for-college students she was expecting. At first, it is very hard for her to be close to them. They even doubt her intention to teach them. However, she has her own style of teaching in which she finally earn their trust and encourage them to receive the knowledge. She get them to read a novel The Diary of Anne Frank and write about their own life experiences in daily journal.
I choose Jing-mei to be my character to write on even though she did not develop much personally, but the effect that the Joy Luck Club had on her were significant and it also has to do with her attitude throughout the story. To begin with, Jing-mei (a.k.a June) did not really know her mother. It’s only after her mother died that she began to understand what her mother went through; courtesy of her dad and “aunties” at the Joy Luck Club. It’s not clear in the story if June heard her mom story about the swan, but her mom Suyuan Woo came to America with the hopes of having a daughter in America “whose value will not be judged based on her husband, and who will not have to ignore herself and "swallow sorrow. "” Her mom hoped to tell her the story in English and also give her the feather from her long lost swan.
It is other factors such as age and location that contribute to the relationship and determine the level of closeness. Emily’s lack of emotion towards her mother can be attributed to a number of issues in her youth. Since Emily was born, her mother had been working diligently to support the family. To make matters worse, she was only nineteen when Emily was born. Her husband left early on in Emily’s life and her mother was forced to leave her with friends or send her to day care.
Lady Elliot’s very close lived near them and help with kids by giving them guidance and support. Lady Russell was the widow of a knight and became close friends with Sir Walter but they did not marry. She was well provided for and had no reason to remarry, but Sir Walter didn’t want a new wife for his daughters’ sake. He would do anything for his eldest daughter Elizabeth who was sixteen and very much like him. His other two daughters weren’t so important to him.