Relationship between Aunt Alexandra and Scout in ‘To kill a mockingbird’ "Aunt Alexandra fitted into the world of Maycomb like a hand in a glove, but never into the world of Jem and me." Aunt Alexandra has been brought up with strict ideals of ‘being a lady’. She would have been brought up with restrictive behaviour and dress codes. Her world was one of black slaves serving her family. It is abhorrent to her personal values that Scout should be allowed to behave in her free-spirited ways dressing in boys clothing.
I was borderline bulimic and spent a lot of money I didn’t have on potions and lotions in hopes of becoming the next Cindy Crawford.” At the age of 21, she chose to wear the hijab which she says gave her freedom. “Wearing the hijab has given me freedom from the constant attention to my physical self. Because my appearance is not subjected to public scrutiny, my beauty, or perhaps lack of it, has been removed from the realm of what can legitimately be discussed.” She feels that a woman can never live up to what the ever-changing definition of beauty is, so when no one can see what she looks like under her clothing, no one will care. “Women are not going to achieve equality with the right to bare their breasts in public, as some people would like to have you believe. That would only make us party to our own objectification.
“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.
ringing in my ears. It was the first time I ever walked away from a fight.” (9.30-31) Walking away from Cecil Jacobs was a large change in character for Scout; her fighting shows that Scout has a quick temper and lack of self-control, yet she went against her own appeal because of Atticus. Scout also states, “I could take being called a coward for him [Atticus]. I felt extremely noble for having remembered, and remained noble for three weeks.” This shows that Scout is feeling great for her self-control to make things right. Another example of morality occurs when Atticus reveals he would rather do right by him, then to keep others happy.
She also has complete control over Gwendolen at all times, ‘Gwendolen, you will accompany me’ this is a very definitive statement to which Gwendolen replies ‘certainly mamma’. This shows that Gwendolen may be afraid to say no to Lady Bracknell. In the presence of Aunt Augusta we also get the impression that Algernon is always trying to impress her and show her that he is dominant over Lane. When Lane says that there were no cucumbers on the market Algernon said to Aunt Augusta how upset he was that there were no cucumber sandwiches for Aunt Augusta to eat. Another point to add about this is how over the top they go about this which in a way symbolises upper classes back then, they did not have much worrying subjects to talk about.
This shows Scout’s prejudicial character for feeling immediate fear for the blanket because it was specifically Boo who put it on her. We can further see that Scout really indulged in what she heard about Boo and how much the rumors blinded her. Lee connects the quote she used above with another quote from page 89 where Scout says, “Jem, I ain’t ever heard of a nigger snowman.” This quote characterizes Scout’s innocence and portrays the theme of racism. Being the intelligent person she is, but due to her young age, Scout unknowingly uses the offensive word ‘nigger’ because she is too young to understand what nigger really means and how it is racist. This quote portrays the theme of racism when Jem responds to Scout by saying, “He won’t be black long,” describing the snowman to be black on the inside, but white on the outside.
However, both images trigger very different emotions from Duffy. BYWM is a very possessive poem, in which Duffy seems to have wanted to be a part of her mother’s life before she was even born, shown in the line ‘Even then I wanted the bold girl winking in Portobello’. She appears to regret the fact that she could not have been around to experience her mother’s childhood with her and be friends with the daring girl that she admires. Duffy also acknowledges that she was a very possessive child, ‘The decade ahead of my loud possessive yell’, but doesn’t see this as a problem, instead believing it to be normal for a child to be controlling of their mother. In TGT, the school photo remind Duffy of how much she hated her teachers at secondary school and why it was that she felt this towards them.
Ophelia was not a protagonist, nor was she an antagonist; she was actually more of a catalyst for change. I chose Ophelia to study for this specific purpose. She was a young girl, characterized by her innocence and naivety and one that ended up dying before her full potential was ever realized. Ophelia’s main personality trait is a tie between her innocence, or her purity, and her perfection. She did what she was told without question, even when it went against her own desires, shown when her father ordered her to stop seeing Hamlet, to which she responded with promises that she “shall obey, my lord,” (1.3.136).
She even endured some ridicule from kids at school. Being the big sister I felt compelled to fix things but she would have no part of it. She would just shrug it off and get back at them the most effective way she knew, make them laugh and befriend them. Since being a mother I have had this very
She is described so it is clearly that she is being the victim and why. The description of her appearance is long and we get a full image of her in our mind. By reading the first four lines, Celia is a little girl on the heavy side with glasses so thick nothing could break them. Even her name is so funny that the kids are laughing at her because of it. Moreover is she not only unpopular at school, she is also a diabetic child.