“It came into my head that I cannot run away. I am who I am wherever I am”. Catherine, Called Birdy by Karen Cushman is about a 14 year old girl who's father, the lord, wants to marry her off to a rich old man with lots of land. Catherine wants to just get away from the lady life and escape, but is always held in place by her pregnant mother, and her always nagging nurse/maid Morwenna. In Catherine, Called Birdy, many women gave Birdy advice but she never really listenened to them, but when she did, she made a decision that changed her life forever.
A headstrong sixteen year old girl (Katie McLaughlin) wants desperately to work on her father’s (Rob McLaughlin) ranch, but her father wants her to finish school and have a good education. When Katie is back home for the summer she discovers a gorgeous wild mare (Flicka) running in the foothills of Wyoming. She plans to capture this beast and prove to her father that she can run the ranch. She starts to succeed in this plan, but an unexpected disaster occurs which will take everyone’s strength and courage to restore hope. Although this movie is incredible, the lack of realism pulls the believability out of it.
Mrs. Dempster takes a fall, after being struck by the snowball and because she is pregnant, this causes her to have her baby prematurely. When Dunstable realises that it is him who causes this early birth he begins to feel guilt. The guilt takes over Dunstable and it is even worse because no one knows that it was him who causes the early birth. As his guilt takes over him, Dunny compares what he is feeling to what dying feels like and questions whether that would be better than dealing with this overwhelming guilt: “Ah, if dying were all there was to it! Hell and torment at once, but at least you know where you stand.
God cursed the man, the woman and the serpent and sent the man and the woman out of the Garden of Eden. In the creation myth “Out of the Blue”, a maiden named Sky Woman received a message from her deceased father instructing her to go and marry a stranger. She did as she was told and traveled to the place her father had told her to go. Even though she was a strong woman, she was also very strange and was conned into jumping down a hole of her world and consequently creates the human
Waiting Between the Trees is about Ying-ying who was a wild girl when she was young. She was raised in a wealthy family and her mother always told her that she would bring shame to their family. After her first husband left her for an opera singer she went to America to start a new life. She met a man named St. Clair and knew that she would marry him but could not love him. She eventually learned that she must let go of her past and love this new man.
At that time, a woman’s life is just like passing from her father’s hand to her husband’s. And the society did not think it was a wrong thing, they still thought women should only pleased their husbands first and they should not to work as men, all their job and duty was to be a good housewife, take care of the whole family. Due to these opinions, most couples in 19th century had no love between each other. Kristina, who married with a rich man to support her mother and two brothers, she had no love to her husband, all she wants was support her poor family. But now, she becomes a widow, her husband and mother died and her brothers were grow up, she does not need to support any one more, she does not need to live for any one more.
By false starting she is not sure whether to reveal this information as this is one of her first interviews she doesn’t want to damage her image and look unnatural and false therefore she is hesitant. In the interview with “Oprah” she is very hesitant and has 2 pauses. “I am(.)yeah(.)yeah”. This could be because she is showing she is in her own thoughts and is being emotive. In “Sixty Minutes Jk is very grim with her language and she looks very old and doesn’t use much body language she doesn’t use paralinguistic features.
Curley’s wife is unnamed, in part, to show her low status. Children often name various different objects and creatures, making them more important than the unnamed things in the world. This goes for characters too; namelessness gives readers an innate illusion of insignificance. Curley’s wife is not viewed as anything relatively important in the eyes of the ranch workers. Shown in Candy’s rude remark to her, “You ain’t wanted here.
The bird brought her much more than music, but finally she had some sort of joy and happiness. But Mr. Wright couldn’t possibly see her happy and may have became jealous over this animal because of the happiness it brought his wife so he killed it. It was the thing that brought Mrs. Wright happiness but now brought her fury. All the hidden anger created throughout the years has now had an opportunity to arise. The bird in the cage represents Mrs. Wright trapped and defenseless.
As a result, Cinderella’s father remarries, but soon passes away, leaving Cinderella in the care of her step-mother along with two step-sisters. Though Cinderella appears happy, she is stricken with grief after the loss of both of her parents. Grief is described as “a natural, necessary and therapeutic reaction to loss. A powerful and personal emotion… [that] makes ordinary life impossible” (Berger 12-13). People who suffer from grief often experience several stages of emotion.