Markus Zusak uses her and her love for books to help portray the main idea of words and literature and the power they can have. When Liesel first arrived on Himmel Street she couldn’t read and was totally illiterate however Hans took the time to teach her to read and soon we find that Liesel has a real gift for writing and reading. Max says in his book ‘the word shaker’ “She knew how powerless a person could be without words” and it is from being illiterate till she was 10 that she gained this knowledge. Because of the events in her life, and her understanding of their power, she decides to use the words positively. We see this when she writes in her novel, the book thief, "I have hated the words and I have loved them, and I hope I have made them right."
Fuller would teach his daughter for her to be a self sufficient woman whose intellect were challenged constantly and thus could compete academically in a patriarchal world. Margaret learned how to read at the age of three and a half, and by the age of five she was translating small passages from Virgil. Her love for reading made her earned the reputation of the best-read person in New England by the age of thirty. Her devotion for the cause of women’s equality began after her father’s death when in the lack of a will, two of her uncles decided to handle the finances leaving her and her family penniless. She wrote at the time how she regretted to be “of the softer sex, and never more than now.” Her book Woman in the Nineteenth Century, initially published as an article in the magazine The Dial, has been considered the first major feminine manifesto.
It demands from us respect, attention, and comprehension. Therefore, we need to choose books correctly, accordingly to our age and taste. In the essay “I was a Teenage Illiterate”, by Cathleen Schine, the author shares with us her experiences with literature and reading. Shine tells us how, in spite of her graduate work, she felt stupid among her new New York friends when she discovered her knowledge of literature contained only medieval authors and books. She seemed illiterate.
To Vivian, losing power is like losing herself. Her whole life she was trying to figure out John Donne’s sonnets and now she is trying to figure out herself. She doesn’t know what is going since the language, vocabulary and the setting has changed. On the hierarchy, she is shifted from the very top to the bottom. From being a scholar of body of work to a research material turns Vivian into an infantile stage, she literally becomes not only an infant, also a student when she says, “Once I did the teaching, now I am being taught.” Vivian likes to believe her only defense is the acquisition of vocabulary, while she has no defense left with her actual condition making her
The protagonist, Vivian, is dying of stage four metastic ovarian cancer, and therefore the play is situated in the hospital. She is a complex character; she is intellectual, literal, flippant, arrogant, and witty. Throughout the play Vivian uses her humour, sarcasm, irony and puns to hide behind her intellect - which she learnt from Donne's sonnets - to hide her emotional side. Thus by the end of the play she realizes to regret her philosophy of 'life and text being the same'. Her use of intellect makes the play witty - a metaphysical conceit.
“For though I'm small, I know many things, and my body is an endless eye through which, unfortunately, I see everything.”- Gloria Fuertes We are born learning. Those lessons learned in one’s youth are the most difficult and the most influential. In Jesmyn Ward’s novel, Salvage the Bones, Ward illustrates that wisdom does not necessarily come with age. The mistakes that Esch makes leaves her vulnerable to disappointment and suffering at a time in her life when she should be enjoying no responsibilities and not having to make life altering decisions. Although Esch eventually achieves wisdom after the hurricane, she pays a substantial price for having lived her life blindly.
He developed Lenina's gnawing problem to heal slowly but surely as she struggles to conform to the influences of her society, which she has known since "birth." Although these mannerisms and ideas that she has had rooted in her mind have had a significant influence on her development as a person, she was still able to convey who she was meant to be as an individual. This set a mood of rebellion and tones of satisfaction and success at the end of the novel. However, at the beginning of the novel, the set tone is dull and emotionless. To have the novel end with such a bright tone and mood enables the audience to see and feel how Huxley wanted to portray Lenina as a human being and not another robotic entity of a dreary utopian
If she were a "kind" child, by the eyes of Mrs. Reed, she would never go to Lockwood school; she were able to grow up in terms of knowledge in the school, because she had the need of being liked by others and was strong enough to improve herself in many ways; she, by herself, took a chance when announcing to be a governess. Charlotte Brontë Persuasion (Jane Austen) Anne Elliot is the oldest female heroine and one of the most solid characters in Jane Austen's novels. She is level-headed in difficult situations and constant in her affections. Such qualities make her the desirable sister to marry: she is always the first choice (for Mr. Musgrove, Mr. Elliot and Mr. Wentworth). Jane Austen Comparing both novels Women Both characters are strong, vivid, self-confident and, in some way, a rupture to the normal behavior on that time.
The author doesn’t think that the above definition of love is adequate. For her, love is all-encompassing. If she loves someone, they’re always on her mind, they show up in her school work and everything she does ties back to them somehow. Much the same as Pip when he declares his love for Estella, “‘Estella, to the last hour of my life, you cannot choose but remain part of my character, part of the little good in me, part of the evil.’” (Pip, to Estella, 345) So then the author gets to thinking if the way she loves is similar to the way Pip loves and whether she loves truly, or if it’s merely infatuation. It seems that both her and Pip love like a general of war going into battle without any armour, “I should have loved her under any circumstance” (Pip, 377).
This fact shows us that the members of the family love themselves more that the Mother. We can say that she is devoted to her family, but doesn’t think about herself at all because she does all the hard work that her family could enjoy the day. As she is altruist, she refuses to buy some new clothes. . in order to show this fact the author uses oxymoron “her old grey bonnet was awfully becoming her”, which is told by the girls.