“It came into my head that I cannot run away. I am who I am wherever I am”. Catherine, Called Birdy by Karen Cushman is about a 14 year old girl who's father, the lord, wants to marry her off to a rich old man with lots of land. Catherine wants to just get away from the lady life and escape, but is always held in place by her pregnant mother, and her always nagging nurse/maid Morwenna. In Catherine, Called Birdy, many women gave Birdy advice but she never really listenened to them, but when she did, she made a decision that changed her life forever.
Her style is always a bit more indirect. How does she try to get Bailey not to go to Florida? Not by saying, "Well I want to go to Tennessee," but by trying to scare him with reports of a criminal on the loose, called The Misfit, and guilt trip him about taking his children there. Through the rest of the story we see the grandmother using the same tactics again to get her way. Such as when her son Bailey does not want her to bring her cat Pitty Sing on the trip.
Anna wins the case, and due to her sister's wishes does not donate her kidney. Kate later dies at the hospital. The family moves on with their lives, being changed by Kate's death, but every year on Kate's birthday they go to Montana, which was her favorite place in the world. “Families aren’t logical. Families are emotional.
She primps excessively, lies, uses racist language, begrudges America's goodwill contributions to postwar Europe, and foolishly blurts out that she recognizes The Misfit. Not until the story takes a tragic turn does she begin to realize that she is not who she thinks she is. Situational irony occurs when a development in a story is the opposite of what the reader expects. In "A Good Man Is Hard to Find," this type of irony occurs when an evil man, The Misfit, causes Bailey's mother to see herself for what she is, a sinner. Her enlightenment allows her to redeem herself by casting off her selfishness and reaching out to the deranged killer.
In Roosevelt’s head he is overwhelmed with this great sudden loss and thinks that he needs to escape his old political life away from what strikes him grief wise, so he can live normally again (or so he thought). During this time, Theodor contemplates whether to leave the open handed Bamie (His faithful sister) to take on board the responsibility to raise his own responsibility and only part left of his wife, his dear Alice. Theodor Roosevelt should have gone to the west when he had his baby daughter at home for three reasons. He could forget his bad past, He could receive an attitude adjustment, and he could help abandoned wildlife. The first reason Theodor Roosevelt should have gone to the west when he had his baby daughter at home is He could forget his bad past.
Antigone says that griefs are “handed down” in Oedipus’s family, implicitly comparing grief to a family heirloom. In her first speech, Antigone seems a dangerous woman, well on her way to going over the edge. She knows she has nothing to lose, telling Ismene, “Do you know one, I ask you, one grief / that Zeus will not perfect for the two of us / while we still live and breathe?” Before we even have time to imagine what the next grief might be, Antigone reveals it: Creon will not allow her brother Polynices to be buried. Ismene, on the other hand, like the audience, is one step behind. From the outset, Antigone is the only one who sees what is really going on, the only one willing to speak up and point out the truth.
This could be linked to the Marxist idea that would believe that Celie’s circumstances with her father and lack of education is a result of the class she is in, Marxists would believe that her oppression is down to the class she was born into. The oppression between the proletariat and the bourgeoisie could also be linked in with the relationships between men and women within the novel The Colour Purple was made into a film in 1985 with many famous actors and actresses playing the characters, this is an interesting adaptation of the 1982 novel though some critics felt that the director choice of Steven Spielberg was poor for such a complex drama and that the film left out important aspects of the novel, such as the theme of lesbianism. "Well, next time you come you can look at her. She ugly. Don't even look like she kin to Nettie.
Hansberry shows us that we hurt the ones we love out of desperation despite how much we love them. In this American novel, a main character, Ruth Younger, thinks about aborting her unborn child to stop the baby from burdening the family expenses even more. “You don’t know Ruth, Mama, if you think she would do that.” Walter Younger, Ruth’s husband stated this saying Ruth would never get an abortion, she in fact responds “Yes I would too, Walter. (Pause) I gave her a five-dollar down payment” Ruth at this point is on edge and ready to snap, she wants this baby, but believes that herself and the family wouldn’t be able to handle the money needed for a baby. “Mama, something is happening between Walter and me.
In short, Mrs. Warren's Profession is a reflection, through the main characters, on the era's class, gender, and economical structure that together fuel corruption and immorality in society. Mrs. Warren's profession is a play that illustrates in clarity how powerful class divisions can be to the contribution of spreading vice in society. As Bernard Shaw remarked in the "Apology" from Mrs. Warren's Profession: As long a poverty makes virtue hideous and the spare pocket money of rich bachelordom makes vice dazzling, their [moralists] daily hand-to-hand fight against prostitution . . .
According to Miss Wolf, the myth has a number of uses. It pits women against one another, thereby diluting their political influence; as she puts it, What women look like is considered important because what we say is not." It stokes the consumerist engine of our economy, where women shoppers play a pivotal role; and it enables employers to get away with paying women less than men. Indeed, Miss Wolf charges that the success of Western economies is linked to the chronic underpayment of women. The author notes the historical roots of this problem.