If we cannot heal, we become sick, bitter and will always be stuck back at the event rather than living in the present. It is easier to not forgive and dwell on the past than it is to forgive. Mother Antonia started a tradition in 1979 and called it The Day of Forgiveness. She goes around La Mesa handing out pens and paper and asks whoever she comes into contact with and asks them to write the name of someone they cannot forgive. She lights a fire, and one by one the prisoners go up and burn their letters (Jordan & Sullivan,
In order to create a sense of authenticity, Nam Le abides by verisimilitude in his short stories “Love and Honour and Pity and Pride and Compassion and Sacrifice” and “Tehran Calling” in his collection The Boat. His short story narratives utilise compression, poetics and sentence structure which are artifices to create mood and meaning. In this sense this type of fiction is realistic, but untrue. Readers are aware of this from the outset of the novel with Le’s first short story, which overtly illustrates that the stories in the collection are works of fiction. The autobiographical nature of the first passage in “Love and Honour and Pity and Pride and Compassion and Sacrifice” introduces the reader to the apparent truth and reality of the story, signalling also what is to be expected in the rest of the collection.
In a crisis, people tend to show their emotions and run away from the situations that they are facing. In The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck , the Joad family, was forced from their home in Oklahoma because of a Dust Bowl. They head to California in search of work and accomplishment but they end up only finding misery. As a result of the crisis and the obstacles they had to overcome, Ma Joad, the wife, mother, and leader of the family, comes off as powerful and unselfish authority figure. She isn’t the traditional American house wife that watches the children, cook meals, and wash and make clothes for the family.
To fit with the heightened realism of the play, I would exaggerate the mental pain that the character is going through by associating some lines with physical pain, such as ‘But my mother, and her bed mate Aegisthus, Split open his head with a murderous axe’. I would clutch my head as if it was giving me a migraine causing huge pain. I would also emphasise Electra’s vengefulness by raising my voice and becoming incredibly angry in the lines where she is praying to the gods for help ‘ Help me Hades and Persephone, Hermes of Hell and Lady Curse […] Come, help me avenge the murder of my father’. When Electra says’ ‘ the weight of grief crushes me down’ I would show this physically, by dropping down to the floor as if I had been crushed, as I think it would help to portray how Electra is beginning to break down. I feel that this would help to emphasis the characters desperation to the audience and helps the audience to empathise with the character.
One night Pedro is drunk serenading Tita when the ghost of Mama Elena shows up being angry just from the sight of Pedro. The Mama Elena ghost threatens Tita wanting her to leave the house. Tita yells at the ghost with strong words "I know who I am! A person who has a perfect right to live her life as she pleases. Once and for all, leave me alone, I won't put up with you!
BRIAR ROSE-JANE YOLEN Yolen has created an ingenious story of great significance in Briar Rose. Aside from the novel itself being a fictional text, the book stresses the intrinsic importance of fairy tales to the responder. The resilience and power of these tales are emphasised as is the significance of true stories form the past. It is through the examination of the allegorical story told by Gemma and the characterisation used by Yolen that the concept of the hero and heroine is explored. Yolen has enabled her readers to understand the value of the past for the present and to witness both the true horrors as well as the acts of courage in her novel Briar Rose.
Mrs. Bowles is furious at Montag for reading a poem and making Mrs. Phelps cry. After Mildred’s get to together Mildred and her friends turn Montag in to the fire
Most of us have had some sort of bad luck before, like putting red in with the whites, locking yourself out of the house or waking up late, and in some cases one bad thing can lead to another… and another. In William Shakespeare’s play Romeo and Juliet it is proven to us how bad luck can lead to two deaths. The play tells the story of two lovers from feuding families who fight to stay together despite a series of bad luck. First Romeo is banished from Verona for killing Juliet’s cousin; secondly Romeo doesn’t receive the letter telling him Juliet is under a potion causing her to look dead which causes Romeo to kill himself, and lastly Juliet wakes up from her potion shortly after Romeo has poisoned himself resulting in Juliet’s suicide. Romeo and Juliet go through a series of unfortunate events which ultimately leads to their deaths.
Why, it looks as if she didn’t know what she was about!” she was disoriented about something that was going on in her head. Mrs. Hale says “if there’d been years and years of nothing, then a bird to sing to you it would be awful--still, after the bird was still” she realizes that life would practically be unbearable after the death of the bird, which can evoke irrational thought. It is only rational to see that her irrational thought lead to the murder of Mr. Wright “a hard man…like a raw wind that gets to the bone”. After years of torment and neglect is it unreasonable for Mrs. Wright to try and fight back for her life? Maybe it wasn’t her physical life but Mr. Wright killed her spirit.
Romeo and Juliet died horrible deaths. Romeo took his own life with poison. Juliet stabbed herself with Romeo's dagger. They took their lives for the love of each other. The thought of losing each other, made them individually lose the interest in their lives.