Coral is an effective tool that shows the consumption of metaphors during her monologue, which gives us the insight into her inner thoughts and feelings. In scene three when coral is outside alone, she pronounces “saw that donkey at her feet I thought my heart would break” which is a metaphor for her relating it to her self being in pain and dishearten of loosing her son in the Vietnam War. The way Michael Gow has used metaphors through Corals monologue demonstrates to us her connection of psychological journey and having to deal with her emotion individually within the play. The play within the play “the stranger on the shore” reveals corals Difficulty and the captivating of confidence in life that she has found. This scene forces Coral into total isolation and to run away.
Throughout the novel, Lily Owens goes through many changes in the way she acts and how she perceives things. After accidentally killing her mother, Lily feels insecure and alone without a maternal figure. Rosaleen, her nanny, doesn’t exactly fit the role. This causes Lily to lack femininity and maturity as a woman. Over the course of the novel she learns to see past color and living with the Boatwright sisters allowed her to learn more about herself, her mother, and of course, bees.
Coral cannot escape the grief which permeates her life after the loss of her son in the Vietnam War. The storm allows her to be replenished as she transforms from someone of denial and depression to a women who lets go of her unhappy past. Gow uses the repetition of the metaphor “I am walking” in the intertextuality of a play within a play within Act 4 Scene 3. Coral repetitively says she is “walking” to reinforce to the reader that this does not only apply to her character in “The stranger on shore” but that she also is now “healed” psychologically. This idea of physical healing within the playlet indicates a psychological and emotional change for Coral within the play
Some themes in this novel are alienation and isolation, coming of age, and the great journey. From the moment his mom says the words “I’ll be right back”(Burch 4) to the moment he is left standing in the playroom, Jennings experiences true loneliness. This is why the theme alienation and isolation fits this novel. Even though physically children are all around him, Jennings still feels alone and abandoned by the people he loves dearly. He is left to deal with hateful and abusive nuns all by himself.
Sociologically, grieving within families is not an easy task. Each family member reacts to death differently and forces family members to make changes in their lives in order to adjust to life without this family member. Raney and Charles had a hard time accepting the suicide of Uncle Nate. When Charles voiced his opinion that Uncle Nate was clearly depressed, obsessive-compulsive, and crippled from his life experiences, thus needing psychological help in order to heal, Raney took it as an insult. In Raney’s mind, Charles was placing blame on her, her family, and specifically, her mother who spent most of her time taking care of Uncle Nate.
As Mary’s brother Laurie ran way from home after the clash with their father Calvin Pye, their mother got sick. Since Calvin was very irritated with his children, life was somewhat lonely for Mary which eventually forced her to get close to Matt. An excerpt from novel as narrated by Kat can exemplify how solitude contributed in fabricating the bond between Kate and Matt: “Mrs Pye was in a really serious state that summer, and that worry about her, coming on top of everything else, was more than Marie could bear alone. So she turned for comfort to matt. If she’d had more friends, or if her mother had had family living near, or if Calvin hadn’t alienated the whole community … then maybe Marie would not have needed to turn so hard, so appealingly to Matt.
Featuring a preteen in the midst of a divorce, Kristen Thomson’s “I Claudia” reveals the viewpoint of children who are in many cases neglected during separation. The play begins in a boiler room with Claudia scrutinizing her own reflection; already suggesting trouble in the protagonist’s life (4). As the story progresses, Claudia’s negligent parents are shown to be the cause of her emotional turmoil. Furthermore, various inanimate objects such as an electrical box, stolen sock, two goldfishes, and a full-length mirror stand out with a common trait of thematic and dramatic significance in regards to Claudia’s crisis. The many interactions between Claudia and various props dramatize her thoughts and anguish, thus playing a central
Witnessing my mother going through her struggles and overcome her addiction crack to gain her life and family back has helped me to see there is a future. Watching my stepdad accept my mother with all her faults in the beginning of their relationship and be there to help her heal taught me this lesson. I learned to forgive and forget and use your past as your lesson for the future. Today, my mother is a focused, stronger person because of what she went through. She has gained more than what she had before.
The way she interacts with her friends and husband shows us she is suffering from something that had already been a part of her life, revealing to us that her own emotional journey had already started. The audience gradually notices Coral’s strange behaviour by her actions with the stage direction “Coral doesn’t respond” indicating her isolation from society. What also brings Coral’s emotionally unstable journey to light is by her conversation with
Michael Rojas Eng. 4 (02) Final Draft 3/3/13 Question 4 The Fine Line Between Love and Hate The events in one’s life truly sculpt the person we become. In the novel Bastard out of Carolina, by Dorothy Allison, Ruthe Anne Boatwright, also know as Bone, undergoes a series of life changing events that taint her adolescence and leave an imprint on her life. Those misfortunes complicate Bone’s ability to understand the true meaning of love and as a result she is left broken hearted and filled with hate. It is with that same hate that she finds acceptance and seeks peace towards a new life.