In this story Panttaja says it is both mothers that are wicked. Panttaja states the real mother “plots and schemes, and she wins” (Panttaja 660) when it comes to fulfilling the wishes of Ashputtle. But actually the two mothers have the same goal in mind; to have their daughters married off and have a joyful life. To be able to do this, the real mother puts a charm on the prince to make him fall in love with Ashputtle instead of anyone else. The prince did not dance with anyone else all night and would always say “she is my partner” (Grimm 630).
Now that’s growing up without a childhood. Jane Smiley seems like a great parent who cares about her children but to allow her daughters to put on makeup even entering their teenage years just isn’t right. Her girls where prematurely growing up, where behaving beyond their age, and with their only priority being beautiful at all times it seem to help them in the long run. As they burned off the “Barbie stage” and grew into more important things down their lives. Like for example Smiley talks about her older daughter, “Now she is planning to graduate school and law school and become an expert on woman’s health issues, perhaps adolescent health issues like anorexia and bulimia” (377).
Both stories,Aschenputtel and Yeh-Shen shares the same sad background. Both stories are about two young maiden with beauty anf grace. They both lost their mother when they were young, raised by their evil stepmother and stepsisters. Just as Aschenputtel her dream of going to the prince’s ball, Yeh-Shen also had her dream; she “longed to go to the Spring Festival,” where young women met their husbands They both weren’t allowed to go to the festival but they got help and support from their Magical friends. At the end of the festival they both lose a golden slipper and later married a royalty.
A detailed physical description of Justine is never provided, but her personality is captured when Elizabeth writes how she can change Victor’s despondency into joy from a simple glance. “Justine, you may remember, was a great favorite of yours;and I recollect you once remarked that if you were in an ill humor, one glance from Justine could dissipate it.” (49) Justine was rejected by her mother and taken into the Frankenstein household by the loving Caroline. Justine is rescued from a bad family environment and brought into the home of people who love her. After five years of happiness living with the Frankensteins, Justine returns to her now repentant mother, which is the first occurrence of her role as the object of undeserved blame. “She sometimes begged Justine to forgive her unkindness but much oftener accused her of having caused the deaths of her brothers and sister.”(50) Madame Moritz alternately asks forgiveness yet still dispenses blame upon Justine, accusing her of being responsible for the deaths of her brothers and sister.
Essay: Rita Lafferty’s Lucky Summer ”The summer I was sixteen I had my first real job[...]” the text, ”Rita Laffery’s Luckys Summer” written by Elaine Ford, starts in medias rés, 1. Persona narrator, and drag us into ”Jojo’s Bakery”, where the 16-year-old girl who tells the story works. The genre is dirty realism, and the whole story is written in a very minimalistic language – we only get to know the most important stuff – the rest is up to us to find out. We never get to know the name of the girl who tells the story, but we know that she lives in Broadway and gets a summer job at the bakery. The whole story is now a flashback about the time she worked there, and about a girl named Rita Lafferty.
In Laura Esquivel’s Like Water for Chocolate, Tita is obligated to serve Mama Elena until Mama Elena dies because Tita is the youngest daughter in the De la Garza family. As a result, Mama Elena denies Tita the right to marry Pedro and treats her as if she is a slave. The only sanctuary Tita can retreat to is the kitchen, where she spends most of her time with Nacha. Nacha transcends her role as the family cook and becomes Tita’s fairy godmother by serving as Tita’s confidante, guide, and source of comfort and happiness—even after her death. Nacha serves as Tita’s confidante.
In Alter’s article, the girls all state where they buy clothes, what they wear and all have personal shoppers to help them find new trends. Michelle Serros talks in great detail about her rigid nose that ancestors passed on to her that she finds very unattractive. She pinches her nose everyday to hopefully make it look smaller or like her best friend Terri’s perfect nose. Living in California puts more tension on her to fit in and look like everyone else, the true Californian girl. “Today, when I take my graduation pictures, my nose will look just like Terri’s and then I’ll have the best picture in the year-book (Serros 33).” She sees that Terri is popular and has the perfect face and she wants that also to hopefully be popular like she is.
In the novel The Awakening by Kate Chopin, Edna Pontellier, is a handsome young mother who is married to Leonce Pontellier. To society her marriage and family are seen to be perfect, Mrs. Pontellier seems to have the ideal husband and family and is envied by many women. Edna Pontellier develops many changes throughout the novel, which ultimately lead to her awakening and death. In the first chapter of the novel Edna is first introduced by her husband, he is angered because he thinks it is “folly” that she would take a bath at “such hour in such heat” (Chapter one, pg two). Leonce describes her to be “burnt beyond recognition”; Chopin states that he looked at her like “a valuable piece of property which has suffered some damage” (Chapter
Once the witch finally gets all her items that she needed in three days time from the baker and his wife she lifts the curse and then proceeds to make the potion and she becomes young and beautiful again. Everybody congratulates themselves on being able to live happily ever after at the end of act 1. When act 2 starts everyone is still happy but they are still wishing, The Baker and his Wife have their precious baby boy, but wish for more room; Jack and his mother are rich and well-fed, but Jack misses his kingdom in the sky; and Cinderella is living with her Prince Charming in the Palace, but is getting bored, which makes it seem like everybody is not every happy with
Now the girls are making a tea party in the orchard of their summerhouse with them. Ellen is the youngest sister and Ellen’s big sister Kate is two years older than her. The two rabbits become the reason to a confrontation between the girls. Kate is the dominating sister, who is able to manipulate the little sister Ellen. According to Ellen, Kate is brave, clever, naughty, pretty, talkative, lovable and, most importantly, older.