However, her college experience is where she first interacts solely with the predominantly American culture. In order to pay for school and get good grades, Sara must ignore everything else, including her family, to work and study. Slowly and painfully, Sara learns to talk, dress and act like her American peers. She leaves college with her teaching degree and a thousand dollars, which she won in an essay contest. Feeling successful, Sara returns home to find her mother fatally ill. After her mother's death, her father remarries only to find his new wife, Mrs. Feinstein, is a gold-digger after his late wife's lodge money.
The family having lived in America during the American Great Depression, it is clear that the family was ravaging in poverty and poor education. In fact, Nicole had to be assisted on how to write the letter to his father by the wife because he had no knowledge of how to write one (Mazer, 1993). In abundance desire to share his memories, Nicole found it valuable to invite some of his friends who could dine and share memories together with is his family (Mazer, 1993). Nicole valued his friends as his family, which helps the story buttress the importance of family (Mazer, 1993). According to the story, it is unfortunate that the dog found the goatskin and ate it up making it hard to build the ciramella (Mazer, 1993).
Great rebirth is achieved by one understanding and growing after experiencing enormous suffering in the journey of life. For instance, historic leaders such as Buddha, Ghandi and Mohammad went through phases of suffering only to achieve a higher understanding of life. The main characters in the text The lost highway by David Adams, Rain When You Want Sunshine by Don Iannone, The bite of the Mango by Mariatu Kamara and Tormenting Love by Brenda Veli, illustrate the idea of growth through suffering. In the novel, The lost highway the main character Alex Chapman, suffers from his encounters with betrayal throughout his life, which in turn, leads Alex to dwell deep into hatred towards others. At a young age, Alex’s parents abandoned him and left him with his abusive uncle, which led Alex to isolate himself from the outside world, as he felt unwanted.
Marley is also there to explain to Scrooge his bad deeds and wrong doings and warn him of the terrible fate that will come if he does not change his ways, such as when he informs Scrooge on his "ponderous chain" he has forged, he says, "The weight and length of the coil you bear yourself? It was full and heavy as this, seven Christmas Eves ago. You have labored on it since." Marley was also Scrooge's only friend and now that he died, the reader is shown Scrooge's loneliness. 3.
" " " " " " Opposing Laws: A Study of Sophocles’ Antigone " In Sophocles’ play, Antigone, we see a struggle between two brothers deaths. According to Antigone, because human beings are forced to make difficult decisions between opposing laws; divine law becomes the most valuable. Yet the issue of the play goes beyond that conflict and touches the universal conditions of suffering, religion, and loyalty to family." " " In the early stages of the Prologue (1-84), Antigone shows devotion to her family through the burial of her brother. According to Antigone’s own speech:" " " …Creon buried our brother Eteocles with military honors, gave him a " " soldier’s funeral, and it was right that should: but Polyneices,
In Sonny's Blues by James Baldwin,Sonny's brother discovers that he has been arrested for possession of drugs.He reminisces on their past as children and can only imagine how his students could probably be doing the same things Sonny was. Sonny's brother has never accepted Sonny's way of life.He believed that the right way of life was to get an education and a good career.Sonny lived his life on drugs and with the dream of being a musician.Sonny and his brother were complete opposites which was a problem for their relationship.When his daughter dies,he finally decides to get in communication with Sonny. Music is a very important theme in Sonny's blues. Sonny's brother always had a difficult time understanding why Sonny would want to grow up
The book opens up as a narration and how the character Victor came to be. Just as we see in Mary’s life victor mother to also dies. After his mother’s death he goes on to farther his studies, and is “fascinated by the mystery of the creation of life”. Hidden away from the world and so much involve in his work and so focus on the “secret of life” he begins obsessesly constructing a being of his own. After a time of hard work, on a stormy night, his creation came to life but he was frighten by its sight and fell ill.
Pryor is forced into “one of those smart professions” by his parents who undervalue the rural life to which Pryor is in fact suited. Ironically, whilst his parents slave “to free him from the stony fields” they are in fact contributing to his future isolation and sense of alienation. The visual imagery of the “stony fields” and the “meagre acreage” emphasize the hardship endured by Pryor’s parents and echoes the barren infertility of the Australian landscape that Romulus feels so alienated from. By contrast however Warren does not flourish without it. The “slender scroll” is supposed to be his metaphorical “passport from the years of brutal toil”.
Anyone who has ever been through a tragic experience in life knows that depression has different stages. In the Rouge and Peasant Slave Soliloquy Hamlet’s thoughts shift through these stages as he tries to understand his father’s death and his mother’s marriage to his uncle so soon after. Hamlet is in a fragile emotional state and begins a course of self examination. His thoughts and feelings begin to shift and by the end of the soliloquy Hamlet has decided how he will handle the situation, he has come up with a plan to “catch the conscience of the king.” (II, ii, 568). The main theme of the soliloquy is that Hamlet feels ashamed that he has taken so long in avenging his father’s death.
Toronto at Dreamer's Rock: Rusty exposes how stressful his life is during his conversation with Michael and Keesic. But they are there to support him by listening to Rusty's grief and sorrow: "'The hardest thing I ever had to deal with was my father'" (Taylor 61). Michael and Keesic try to think