I was bound for Grace, Arizona, where Hallie and I were born and raised,…” (Kingsolver 8). This explains the reason of why Codi was in a sense of becoming a “ home ignorer” (Kingsolver 79). Codi wanted to have that feeling of Hallie being with her in order for Codi to feel like “home”. On the other hand, Hallie was more of being a “homemaker”. Hallie was more open with her emotions, “Hallie would stay up all night rubbing the backs of people’s hands and holding their shell-shocked babies.
Finally, she is able to ignore things like pain or injury she first shows this on the night of the accident, when she is able to hold on to the burning hot iron wire to save her life even though it burn through her hands leaving scars across her hands. She shows this trait again when her house catches on fire and her daughter is trapped in her bedroom on the top floor. Ignoring her scared hands, Anna strips down to her bra a climbs up to her daughter’s window and rescues
A meteor struck the moon and moved it closer into orbit changing centrifugal forces and causing worldwide tidal waves, earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, and that’s just the start. Without a care in the world is how Miranda’s life was at the beginning. A normal lifestyle is what she lived. She lost her best friend when Becky passed away. That was the cause of Miranda, Sammi, and Megan to grow apart, and their strong friendship would never be the same.
Wolf’s first horrific tragedy was when he was eleven. His mother, 35 and three months pregnant, was mostly a stay at home mom, his dad was out on the bike running some errands and Wolf was at school. His mom had caught her skirt on fire by getting to close to the stove. She was frantically searching for ways to put out the flames. She could not find anything so she ran outside.
Cold Mountain People usually begin a journey to achieve a goal or arrive a destination, but more importantly, through the journey, they can find a self they have never noticed before or create a new self who adapts to the current environment. In Charles Frazier’s Cold Mountain, the Cold Mountain is the destination the Inman wants to arrive at. Although not physically starting a journey, Ada goes through a mental journey which causes physical and spiritual changes in her. Metaphorically, she reaches Cold Mountain through achieving spiritual contentment and tranquility. By depicting the progress and transformation happened in Ada, Frazier shows that people can reach the spiritual zenith by going through a journey of introspection and self-perfection,
We learned earlier that she died that night before her seventeenth birthday in a fire. In this scene we get an idea of why the fire started. Thomasina truly gives herself up to irrational behavior. Her self-control is lost and lets herself become the opposite of what she was determined in the beginning to be. This scene give an idea of why an explanation why never found on her theory.
Not only the young daughter Lin, but also everyone who tries to live and fit in different country with a strange culture always finds a big challenge of adaptation. Every country has different tradition, culture, and custom, it makes people find difficulties in changing themselves to fit in the new life. However, it also causes many positive effects on people by changing their point of view and personalities. During the story “All- American Slurp”, the Lins find the hard ways in learning American culture. They try to act professionally like the other Americans, especially the young daughter Lin.
He developed Lenina's gnawing problem to heal slowly but surely as she struggles to conform to the influences of her society, which she has known since "birth." Although these mannerisms and ideas that she has had rooted in her mind have had a significant influence on her development as a person, she was still able to convey who she was meant to be as an individual. This set a mood of rebellion and tones of satisfaction and success at the end of the novel. However, at the beginning of the novel, the set tone is dull and emotionless. To have the novel end with such a bright tone and mood enables the audience to see and feel how Huxley wanted to portray Lenina as a human being and not another robotic entity of a dreary utopian
However, as the book “Life of Pi” by Yann Martel progressed while reading it, it was evident that in situations where any choice is largely constricted or that the environment is largely unfamiliar to them, people will cross physical, social, mental, psychological, emotional and moral boundaries just to reach something they desire. Similarly, these concepts can also apply to general life. We cross physical boundaries when we travel or when people fly from country to country as an immigrant or a refuge. It could be the notions of wilderness or the further explorations of a new “world”. It is commonly seen in poems that crossing boundaries could also mean the boundary of being at home and experiencing the “wider” world.
They shared their kill, because Gale had a large family to fend for as well. In turn, Gale taught Katniss how to set snares and traps. She used these skills to provide fresh meat and nutritious plants for her mother and sister, and sold a portion to have money for other supplies. Without Katniss, the family would starve to death, because her mother was too depressed, from her husband’s death, to work and her sister was too young and delicate to participate in gathering food. 24 tributes are thrown into an arena and they are forced to kill or be killed.