Winter’s Bone shows how family and unity is the key to survival. Life comes with many unexpected twists and turns and 17 year old Ree Dolly will be in the heart of it all. Living poorly without a father and with a depressed mother, young Ree Dolly finds herself raising her younger sister and brother alone. When the sheriff knocks at their door, the struggle of survival gets ten times harder especially when the sheriff tell her that her father has put the house up for bond and if he doesn’t show up for court they will lose the house and the land. Ree Dolly has a very dominant personality and nothing will keep her from saving their house and land.
Mama notes how nice and wavy the ground looks, intentionally to impress Dee. Reflecting her own thoughts as Maggie’s, she tells how Maggie will be nervous until her sister leaves. Mama says, “she will stand hopelessly in the corners and shamed…She thinks her sister has always held life in the palm of one hand, that no is a word the world would never say to her.” (Walker). Leaving the reader to not know how Maggie really feels about Dee at all. Mama daydreams of meeting on a T.V.
She is the oldest resident on Goat Island and has never been across the reach. It is a fear of change that keeps her. It is the knowledge of others’ experiences of crossing the reach that intimidates her and make her believe that her experience will be similarly unfortunate. It is the comfort and familiarity of the island that keeps her. The islanders have postulated many different reasons as to why she has never crossed; however, the only one who knows the answer is Stella Flanders.
Imagining romantic camping trips into the White Mountains … tasting the envelope flaps, knowing her tongue had been there.” (Pg. 87) For Cross, Martha is not just a girl who sends him letters signed “Love,” she represents a life after the war, a life outside of the war, a life that includes romantic trips with a lover. The war is such a large strain on the soldiers, that they need something to look forward to and hope for, to get them through the war, and that is exactly what Martha is for Cross. Lieutenant Jimmy Cross tasting the envelope flaps shows just how infatuated he truly is with the idea of Martha. He will do anything that will give him even the slightest remembrance of how she smells or tastes.
Wintergirls To be in the world, but not be fully there, only a frail skeletal body, passing day by day without actually taking in the world. Enter into the world of a wintergirl. This is what Lia is, a lost soul living in the cruel and taunting world of anorexia. Living her barely-there life frozen between living and dying, in a small town of New Hampshire with her overbearing mother Chloe, overworked father David, caring stepmother Jennifer and innocent nine-year-old stepsister Emma. Through the poetic writing and expressions of Laurie Halse Anderson, she brings the pages of her book , to life.
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Megan Sullivan Professor Feeley English 102 May 26, 2011 It is amazing what people will do for their loved ones. To have the perseverance to keep pushing on and never give up on the ones that mean the most to them is a crazy feeling. Close to death or perfectly healthy when a loved one needs help, there is no giving up. They never stop till what needs to be done is accomplished. In the short story A Worn Path there us a perfect example of this.
There were three types of characters in this story; Dee was the static character who remained unchanged throughout the story, Mama was the dynamic character who caused a change in others, while Maggie was the dynamic character who changed during the story. The fact that Mama knows the inner thoughts of her daughters makes her a limited omniscient narrator. She begins telling the readers that she and Maggie will wait in their comfortable clean yard for “Her” to come. By using the word her to describe the character before stating her name, Mama makes her larger than life; someone other worldly of a higher status. Mama then goes on to describe how nervous Maggie will be until her sister leaves, “standing hopelessly in corners”, “eyeing her sister with a mixture of envy and awe.” She then goes onto reminisce about a dream she had in which she and her daughter Dee, were reunited on a talk show.
Elizabeth is always asking her family how well they are and always telling her parents to say hi to her neighbours, friends, and acquaintances. Any immigrant coming by themselves will always be home sick until they start getting use to their new lifestyle in that new country. So for Elizabeth, she keeps God in mind and tells her parents to pray and that she’ll be praying for them as well. Elizabeth also talks about how she wishes all her family would come and join her in Canada, but she knows that that will never happen, so she tells her family, “if we never meet in this world I hope we will meet in the next”. This shows that money is a big issue and that not everyone can afford a ticket to go to Canada to be with their
Both of the protagonist’s within both texts are faced with countless obstacles within their journey. In the color purple, Celie experiences unhappiness, feels useless and unworthy, follows orders from Mr.____ which is seen through ‘you better git back onto the field’ and had no one to turn to but God. As her journey progresses, she learns how to speak and write English Standard through Shug Avery. This is an important to her journey because she is then capable of communicating to her sister, Nettie whom she has not seen for over 30 years. On page 183, she writes “I am so happy.