Process Paper #4 The Century Quilt serves to connect the speaker’s life to her diverse background. First of all, the quilt brings her back to her youthful days. The speaker describes her dreams of “wrapping [herself] at play with [the blanket’s] folds and [play] chieftains and princesses.” This quilt connects her to her past and thus to her family. She reminisces about her first blanket, which serves as a doorway to her past experiences and emotions. She wants a blanket to “have good dreams for a hundred years.” The speaker makes a connection with Meema, who “dreams of her yellow sisters” and “about Mama.” She recalls her father coming home from his store and the family cranking up the pianola.
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Cofer’s mother wanting to stay in El Building, whilst her father yearned to live somewhere else, because she never got over the yearning for la isla “The Island”. Her mother only cooked with foods she could pronounce the names of which were some of the same brands her own mother had used. Cofer’s mother shopping outside of La Bodega going to Sears, Penney’s and Lerner’s, showed a willingness unlike the other women to shop in American stores but still held onto the small comforts that reminded her of her home land. (53-55) Cofer’s cousin is fully assimilated into American life. She claims it herself, she is and American woman and will do what she pleases.
She didn’t like it because it had no trees and in front of ever house was a little square of grass. She asked her dad if that was the house that they were going to live in because she didn’t like the place. As soon as they parked a woman with wild red hair came out to see them her name was Margaret Cadaver, or Mrs. Cadaver. She thought that there might be at least a barn or a river or at least a swimming hole, but there was nothing except for that square of grass. Later see knew that her mother’s birthday was coming up and her grandparents were coming to get her for a road trip.
Her mother holding a baby in her arms, while he father and other stays together to keep warm, and eager to count the earnings from the years harvest. “Lalu, tossing the baby triumphantly, followed by her father, mother, and brother into the kitchen.” (Pg.15) This was a home for Lalu that she always wanted. Her dream was to be with her family, and be able to help out her father. Polly's first home, China was where her dreams were possible;e and she was happy with her
I expected to go to lunch, visit a new state park or go out shopping in a new boutique, but I never guessed what I later saw as one of the most beautiful structures made by man. My sister and I piled into the car oblivious to the magnificent images we were about to experience with our own two eyes and willingly trusted our mother in her plan to astound and educate her two daughters in a way that would never be forgotten. I returned to BAPS for my site visit report for this class in order to further experience the Hindu faith after my initial visit, and to also go back to the magical place I so adored. When first entering the gates of BAPS, one can already begin to gather it is a place that is revered as holy. Gold adornes the hand-carved five million dollar marble Hindu sanctuary with flags atop every highly elevated structure.
Harjo’s beliefs are shown when she visits New York to meet her newborn granddaughter. She tries to perform a sun ritual for her granddaughter so the sun can meet its new relative; however, it is a cloudy day and the buildings block her view of the sun. Harjo carries out the ceremony anyway because nature is a part of her faith and the “sacredness of life;” she takes the sun or nature with her even when it is not visible, just as Christians believe in God even though they cannot physically see Him (114). Kamps’ view of trees relates to her life directly; the tree cares for and houses birds just as she cares for her family. As her belief in nature deepened, her respect for it grew; she began to “like digging in the dirt instead of cursing each weed” in her garden (136).
Rochester. Even though gothic elements would not stand our right away by reading this ending, I definitely want to show how I used them. One of the gothic elements I have used is the women in distress. Jane seemed to be lonely when Edward died and even terrified as of what could happen next in her life. She knew that her children will soon leave and have their time in life and spend less and less time with her and that she would just simply stay inside and be alone.
In the story by Alice Walker, “Everyday Use", the mother, Mrs. Johnson, is telling the story of the day her daughter, Dee, came home from college to visit with her and her younger daughter, Maggie. The sisters both want a family heirloom that their grandmother made, a quilt, but both have different ideas about what the heritage means. At the beginning of the story, Mrs. Johnson explains how Maggie and her prepared for the arrival of Dee, they cleaned up the yard like it was part of their living room. She describes herself as large, uneducated, and with manly-type hands. Maggie was burned in a fire when their first house burned to the ground and Mrs. Johnson begins to thinks back about that day, she can’t help but feel that Dee had something
Although the quilts at the present moment in the story were stored, they were being saved as a wedding present for the younger Maggie. When Dee showed up in the story and started requesting (demanding) to have certain pieces of Mama’s (and Maggie’s) house, it rubbed me the wrong way. This character in the story is introduced as the long lost sister/daughter who basically shunned the family homestead but is now coming back to gather the same memories, not for the tools that they are, but for decoration. Although it can be argued that her intentions may be good, and in trying to keep