Right below the poem is the history of Natasha Trethewey, and she was a girl that was just light enough to pass for white. It’s actually really sad the way she describes lying about her skin color. She writes, “I could even keep quiet, quiet as kept, like the time a white girl said (squeezing my hand), Now we have three of us in this class.” It’s sad because she’s not lying to act cool. When she writes “squeezing my hand,” I get a sense that she only lied because she liked the way the girl was acting like her friend. The first stanza does a really good job in describing that she is really light skinned for an African American.
However because of subtexts known as unstated or hidden messages used in these advertisements we buy those things anyway because it had convinced us it will make us look cool or we’ll have fun with it.Cover girl sounds convincing that this lips gloss will not make our lips sticky and that it makes our lips shine. In this ad Eva’s lips appears to be very glossy. Do you believe that the lip gloss really does make them shine or that they edited her lips that way? Also in this ad the persuasive strategy used is pathos. Eva is very happy while wearing this lips gloss.
Violet is in awe of her older sister and hoping to be like her as she grows older. Rose was her “beautiful blonde defender, my guide to Tampax and Mother’s moods”. (Bloom) This leads the reader to think that maybe the mother is also mentally ill. As the reader steps into the corridors of the battle of the mentally ill you feel the whole dynamics of the family shift. No longer is Rose the rock, she is suddenly the anchor. Her
There are times I feel a flicker of hope as she looks like she used to, when she could still see me, full with love in her beautiful heart, and that electric spark back behind her enticing eyes. But that look I so longed for was still not for me. It was for him. Even now after all this time, to see him brush away her hair with his careful hands… to see her gaze into his dark eyes and content smile… to see her lean down and press her soft lips to his is agonizing. I definitely know she doesn’t
She believes she has truly found love in this asylum and to her it feels pretty good. Towards the end of the text Lewis kisses her out of the safety of Julie. She blushed she was surprised she loved it. She is mad of course she is, she is in an asylum but the message Nowra is trying to put across is that everyone is mad when it comes to love. Cherry seems to become more nutty when she falls for Lewis.
For instance, Oates presents Connie’s appearance as narcissistic and explicates how Connie is always “craning her neck to glance into mirrors, or checking other people's faces to make sure her own was all right” (paragraph 1) and that her looks are a way of demonstrating self-absorbency and arrogance. Connie is seen by her mother in this fashion from her mother’s words such as, “You think you’re so pretty?” (Paragraph 1) and Connie’s thoughts of herself being significantly beauty and charming through the use of the quote “she knew she was pretty and that was everything.” (Paragraph 1) Connie’s mother is after her because of her looks. She is coveted for her looks because her mother was once as stunning as Connie is now, and can’t let go of the past and accept that Connie deserves some attention, now that she is a goddess to society. Although Connie’s mother seems like the “evil stepmother” in this tense atmosphere, Connie always seems to ignore her mother’s jealousy and continue to look attractive, no matter what the situation or dilemma. Another powerful symbol Oates uses is the omnipresent music to dictate the way different characters think, feel, and act.
The strategies used in this ad can be connected to same ideas Stuart Hirschberg talks about in his essay “The Rhetoric of Advertising”. The different kinds of women viewing this ad want to be a part of what is going on in the ad; the celebration full of unmarried, happy, beautiful women waiting to catch their future. This ad is presented with a crowd of young women lunging towards a falling bouquet of flowers. There are fourteen women in the image. Each one of them is dressed up for the wedding that they are a celebrating.
Visual Arts and Poetry The Girl Powdering Her Neck by Cathy Song Portrait by Kitagawa Utamaro The poem Girl Powdering Her Neck was written by Hawaiian native Cathy Song. Cathy Song’s first piece of work The Picture Bride won her the Yale Series of Younger Poets Competition in 1983. Song’s father was Korean American and her mother Chinese American. Her interest in writing began very young, when she would journal her families’ experiences. Her first work was actually about her father and mother, her mother was a picture bride.
I believe the author’s point of this story was to make the readers value their culture and traditions of their family and to understand how meaningful it is. In the beginning of the story, we are introduced to the older sister, Dee. "Dress down to the ground, in the hot weather. A dress so loud it hurts my eyes… Earrings gold, two, and hanging down to her shoulders. Bracelets dangling and making noises when she moves her arm… The dress is loose and flows, and as she walks closure, I like it.
Mrs Smith agreed to the plan and she was happy to have her personal care, I supported her in all body wash and dressing up. Mrs Smith became breathless due to standing so that I could tidy up her clothing. I gave her some time to rest before calling for help so that we could support her getting back on her comfortable chair as earlier stated. She then said to me that she was feeling fainty and at this point I stood in front of her