Aggressiveness, tyranny, the insane love of power made manifest, they reply. Destroy that and you will be free.” In this quotation, she is trying to interpret the emotions of other people during that time. The use of pathos in her writing really helped the readers to established a connection between her and the reader's emotion through this essay. Rhetorical questions played a huge role in her piece. Woolf included a lot of rhetorical
My second oldest sister was never a big fan of school. She believed she was not smart enough and that school was way too hard for her. She got pregnant by the age of 19 years old; she became a young, and happy mother. Her decision of starting a family at a young age was always part of her plans; she had wanted this all along. Her choice was never based on how school made her feel but on how she felt.
Many novels in this genre tackle personal issues such as dating, relationships, weight issues, life issues and many more. Often told from a point of view that pulls the audience in as if the narrator is confiding in them, Chick Lit novels offer something to identify with, and a great percentage of the audience take comfort from this. I love the odd book to read that’s light and funny and easy going and I am one hundred per cent a sucker for a happy ending; everything that is beheld in a Chick Lit novel, but can we call it literature and is it really any good when compared to Authors such as Stephen King and
Mary Rowlandson was a woman who was held captive and lived in the wilderness for almost three months, at times with no food to nurture her or with no shelter to shield her from the outdoors. Yet, she is not allowed to take any morsel of credit for it; it all goes the Sovereign and Good God. By titling her narrative The Sovereignty and Goodness of God Mrs. Rowlandson ensured that her tale would be accepted and that she would be accepted back into the community upon her restoration, her narrative helped her obtain that goal. In her first remove Rowlandson writes that after being attacked by the Indians and taken away from Lancaster they walked for a about a mile, wounded and scared to set camp “up upon a hill” (Remove 1). A camp upon a hill which is a far cry of Winthrop’s vision of a City upon a Hill.
But even then, she never knew what was going on. Once she moved to a bigger town and attended a larger school, she did not have to show an interest in sports. Due to that, the author ignored sports completely. When the author grew older, she dated an Atlanta Falcons fan. So once again, she pretended to care about football.
Skeptical Agnostic Elizabeth Deutsch Earle was a sixteen year-old that was first introduced to the This I Believe series in the 1950s. Her essay, “An Honest Doubter”, describes her questioning belief in religion. She feels a bit like an outcast because at her age, almost every teen has already chosen a religion except for her. Because of her curiosity and inability to just accept any made religion and its doctrines, Deutsch is constantly searching for beliefs to guide her in life. By not possessing any religion, she gathers bits and pieces of morals from various religions and philosophies to make up her own life values that she still continues to form.
“The Awakening” and double consciousness Kate Chopin’s “The Awakening” is one of the most influential yet controversial literary pieces of its time. It is a staple of American Literature and its breaking down of gender roles along with its unprecedented modernist views make it an essential piece to teach in this class. The journey of self-discovery Edna goes through is one that many college students and young adults can relate to; the search for balance between what society asks of us and our personal desires and dreams. Chopin’s story represents a struggle we can all learn from in some way. The first lesson that students can take from this story is acknowledgment of societal control gender roles placed on people.
Anne Hutchinson V. Massachusetts The trial of Anne Hutchinson was a strange one to me, in that she seemed capable of winning her freedom, but chose to let her own self-image shine through. Anne Hutchinson, a 45-year-old woman, wife and mother to 13, going on 14 children, stands trial in front of the powerful John Winthrop. For some time, Anne Hutchinson had questioned the teachings, and the overall thought process of the puritan route to salvation. Puritans believed that you are either saved, or damned from birth. This means that there was nothing a person could do to save him or herself.
The person in my family who stood out the most was my mother. Her father died when she was an infant so my grandmother had to go to work, leaving my mother and her two siblings alone. She spoke only Spanish, which made it difficult for her to want to stay in school. My mother ended up with only a third grade education and she never learned how to read. She was able to function well in life, making purchases at stores.
THE USE OF IRONY IN ACHEBE’S “GIRLS AT WAR” The literary element, irony is mostly used by authors to portray the modern age experience which is complex, multidimensional and contradictory. Irony comes in various forms and it connotes a sense of double meaning as well as contradiction. The rhetorical device of irony in literature is often far more effective than a direct and literal statement. The successful use of irony however depends on the audience’s role in not just counting the ironies but realizing the implications of the ironies used and its intention by the author. In Chinua Achebe’s short story “Girls At War”, he carefully exploits the central message of the story through his exquisite usage of irony.