Inner Journey is conveyed in Shirley Valentine when Shirley is with Costas on the boat in Greece. Shirley isn’t afraid of what Costas thinks of her body and is more confident and alive when Costas kisses her stretch marks and says something along these lines “…You shouldn’t be afraid of showing these stretch marks, they show that you are a real living woman, that you aren’t afraid of being alive…”. Shirley was stunned because Costas treated her like she was special, the way her husband
Edna stays awake literally and figuratively; the awakening Robert has begun in her consumes her as she comes to some harsh realizations. When she turns up at the Grand Isle, it is undeniable that she needs rest. She decides to go out by herself and begin swimming out. She goes further and further and begins thinking about her family and her childhood. At first Robert seemed to be somebody that understood her fully and completely.
Edna Pontellier, a mother of two sons and marrired to a New Orleans businessman, takes a vacation with her family at a seaside resort in Grand Isle, Louisiana. While on vacation Ms. Pontellier meets Adele Ratignolle, another married mother, which whom Ms. Pontellier spends most of her time with. Ms. Pontelliers friendship with Adele has her open up and has Ms. Pontellier remember her youth and the whole idea of freedom. As Ms. Pontellier gets close to Adele she then meets Robert Lebrun, the son of Madame Lebrun. Robert is well known at the Grand Isle resort and is known to chooses a lady every summer which he spends time with, and this summer Robert just so happens to choose Ms. Pontellier.
The Pigeon House “once assumed the intimate character of a home, while she herself invested it with a charm which it reflected like a warm glow” (629). There she has has a “feeling of having descended in the social scale, with a corresponding sense of having risen in the spiritual (629). Got Edna, it gives her the feeling that “every step which she took toward relieving herself from obligations added to her strength and expansion. as an individual” (629). In the Pigeon House, for the first time Edna has the ability to experience sexual freedom and passion, with both Alcee and Robert.
Kate Chopin’s The Awakening took place in the late part of the 1800's during the reign of Queen Victoria. Grand Isle was a where Edna Pontellier lived in a community of Creoles. The society thrived for "mother-women," who "idolized their children, worshipped their husbands, and esteemed it to a holy privilege to efface themselves as individuals" (9). She was not Creole and acted different than the rest. Creole’s like Adele Ratignolle “the fair lady of [everyone’s] dreams” (9), who treated her husband with respect and cared for her children unconditionally.
She said to me, “Kristen, I have a question…” and I replied, “Yeah Grace, what’s up?” She then proceeded to ask me if I could help her with butterfly in the pool, (this was both of our “strokes.”) I replied, without hesitation, “Of course!” As she was excitedly got undressed and got her goggles with a huge smile on her face, I realized God was present in this moment. It showed me the important things in life, not what I’m going to be doing that night, or when my next break was, or that I didn’t get to eat my lunch. I realized that Grace took joy in the sport of swimming and that I can take things for granted. Here in front of me was a child who was terribly sick, but still found the energy to want to learn new things. She taught me that even through the busyness in my life or the suffering the world God is present, and all is
In “The New-Married Miner” the speaker knows what will happen when he gets home to his wife; he goes into detail about bathing and uses tactile words such as ‘Squeeze’, ‘Heat’, ‘Hold and fold’. This intimate knowledge of his wife’s cleaning routine, so much so that he can describe it in length and detail, shows his love and adoration for her. The speaker in “Warming Her Pearls” also has an intimate knowledge of her mistress’ routine, both when she is working for her and when she is not. While she is working for her, the speaker envisions what her mistress is doing, ‘All day I think of her, / resting in the Yellow Room, contemplating silk / or taffeta’. She knows the mistress so well that she believes, with a tone of confidence, that she knows exactly what her love is thinking which is very personal.
She believed that her tradition was important enough to pass on to the narrator, she wanted to show her first hand that the role that she played in everyone's life at the public bath house was important also. I was proud of her while reading the story that she did not give up her tradition based on how her daughter in law felt. I think these stories showed you that there are many types of women in the world: some who invite challenge for a better life, and some who are content with the security of having a good life but maybe no
Expression and how it is defined conforms to many different contexts. Expression when it is applied to animate objects, such as people, to describe or show emotions through words, lyrics, brush strokes on a painting, etc. Expression can also have a more literal meaning, as when describing inanimate objects, such as, for example, fear was his facial expression. (Davis 279) For this paper the argument is focusing around people (animate) and how one expresses their emotions through feelings and behavior to have an aesthetic experience. Now that expression has been clarified to
Graphic artists are actually masters of media and an understanding of media is very useful. But in doing so, you must understand the function of the media and the purpose of the works being designed and produced. It is your responsibility to enhance the message of the authors, be it a simple letter that you should make sure people will read or a catalog that readers will not be annoyed spending time trying to find what they want to buy. The media is the message is a very accurate description of the communications process for we need graphic artists to manipulate the media through the effective use of typography, graphics, layout and design. Graphic arts work requires creativity and your work must be visually pleasing.