As a person experiences hardship, the stages of dealing with their reality manifest themselves in different ways. For Anne Frank, diary entries allowed her mentally to move from her naïve state to the acceptance of reality. Anne begins writing her diary in 1942 and in the beginning the reader is faced with the words of a young girl who is struggling to understand her situation. The diary entries permitted her to deal with her denial, and the diary became an emotional outlet. The image of this young girl is immediately apparent in Anne’s first diary entry.
During the class on reading and the brain we discussed what reading was and the five areas of reading. The brain is not naturally able to read; we must train and practice it to be able to derived meaning from text. Based on this statement alone I can now see how reading and literacy are similar. During the class on comprehension and reading and writing the notes and videos really helped me tie both literacy and reading together. When we watch the videos the teachers were thinking out loud and discussing the little voice in her head that tells her things while she is reading, like “oh I have no idea what I just read” or “hum I wonder who this person is?” or “wow that’s neat!”.
However, because reader are learning all of the information from her, reader never truly understand why the mother is pushing her daughter so hard to be something she clearly does not want to be. Readers are given very little information about her life or culture in China before she came to the United States. Therefore, the mother comes across as harsh and cruel. When the mother says, "Only one kind of daughter can live in this house. Obedient daughter," the mother seems inflexible, stubborn and even a bit abusive.
Schwartz mentioned a good example when “ Jane was infant, who was orphaned by the death of her parents, and how Jane became the ward of a woman who always abused ,then she moved on to explain when Jane was as a little girl , who experienced her circumstances as arbitrary , which were beyond her power to change , also she explains the gap that happened in Jane’s childhood and her adultness and how she represents herself and how that ambiguity run” (549) . Schwartz on her essay went on to apply Derrida’s concepts of deconstruction on one hand like “split” and “the binary oppositions”. As she also investigates Jane’s family name and explains what her name means in Latin, also on this part of her essay on the other hand she go back to Freud big impact on the novel and used his psychological concept which is “the family romance “ that she thoroughly apply it on her essay and how Jane’s narrative embody the double wish in her novel like “original and derived, free and bound, an orphan and an heir” (553). Schwartz said that we have to over look the ambivalent representation of home and family that run throughout the novel (553). She gives a good example “how the ambivalence about home is manifested in the slippage of the family name Eyre” (554) .Also how Rochester and St. John are victimized by the trap that is family and how Jane herself escapes it.
She writes about the five categories of “difficult mothers” listed below: I. The Angry Mother II. The controlling Mother III. The Narcissistic Mother IV. The Envious Mother V. The Emotionally Unavailable Mother Many people complain about there so called “impossible mother” thinking that because their mother is not perfect the automatic alternative is that she’s difficult, but there is no such thing as a perfect mother.
This resulted in her getting involved with an older man at the tender age of twelve. Dreaming to be a mother from that young age, she finally adopted two young girls, Marie and Jeanette, in the hope of becoming a loving and nurturing mother to them. However, wounds of their past conflicted with Hogan’s dreams of the present. She soon discovered the pain and trauma her daughters went through as abused children. “With our oldest daughter, all the pain fell outward, onto others, whom she would hit or abuse, but for Jeanette, pain came to an inward point” (84).
Colors in literature can portray a character’s emotions and feelings. In Alice Walker’s novel, The Color Purple, two symbols that contribute the essence of the novel- Celie becoming a liberated woman through all of her trials and tribulations- are letters and colors. Celie goes from a bound and depressed teen, to accepting her life for what it is, to finally in the end becoming a liberated woman, who is happy and makes the most out of her life. When the novel starts out, Celie writes to God. She is fourteen and needs to tell someone about what has happened to her.
This very idea entangled my mind to explore Charlotte Bronte’s novel Jane Eyre on this ground. Jane Eyre is the true representation of society’s attitude towards women in Victorian Age. A Victorian woman was not granted with personal freedom. They were bound to marry and raise children. Women were discouraged for their struggle of independence.
Critical Essay – The Choosing “The Choosing” by Liz Lochhead is a poem that shows a vivid personal experience. It is a poem where the poet and her childhood friend – Mary – end up growing apart because of choices Mary’s parents made. The theme of the poem is that the choices that are made by our parents can affect your future. I will be discussing how Lochhead uses several different techniques to help show a vivid personal experience. At the beginning of the poem, where she tells us about the girls’ time at primary school, the poet uses repetition to emphasise how alike the girls were.
It is an adult story narrated through a child's eye, Claudia. The novel is actually the memories of this little girl, looking back at her past several years after. From the beginning, it is visible that past events are important in this work. Indeed, the Breedlove family, Pauline, Cholly and Pecola, each have numerous problems in the novel and these are justified by numerous flashbacks recounting their past. The strucure of the book is important since it shows the importance of their history.