After graduating with a Masters in Fine Arts O’Connor spent the next several years living and writing in New York State until she was diagnosed with Lupus, the disease that had killed her father. At that point she moved with her mother to their family farm Andalusia where she would spend the last 13 years of her life writing and raising exotic birds. It was here that Flannery would be inspired to write her longest short story “The Displaced Person” A story which, like much of her work, borrowed heavily from her own life. “The Displaced Person” was a critical commentary on the times in which she lived and she fearlessly confronted controversial issues like racism and emigration. The inspiration for “The Displaced Person” came from an emigrant family that moved to her mother’s farm Andalusia in 1953.
Therefore I will explain some important current events in Afghanistan specially about the women. Afghanistan can be a hard and cruel land for women and girls. First we have an article published on March 3, 2009, the title said about "Afghan Women Slowly Gaining Protection". That information is about Marian and other girls in Afghanistan. Marian was 11 years old and her parents forced her to marry a blind, 41 years old.
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak The Book Thief is a story narrated by Death and is about a young girl by the name of Liesel Meminger in Nazi Germany whose mother planned to drop her and her brother off with foster parents in the fictional town of Molching, Germany. She could no longer take care of them, and on the train ride there, her brother died. That’s when Liesel stole her first book, The Grave Digger’s Handbook. She went on to meet her foster parents, Hans and Rosa Hubermann and Rudy Steiner, her best friend. Hans and Rosa began to hide a Jewish man, Max Vandenburg, in their basement until Hans made a mistake that forced Max to leave before the authorities came and found him.
GOOD COUNTRY PEOPLE In the story “Good Country People” by Flannery O’Connor, the main character Joy Hopewell goes through life changing moments. Joy has a rough life in her childhood and it continues to get worse as she grows older. She changes her name to Hulga after her accident to match her ugliness. She also has trouble figuring out where she stands with her religious views. Throughout the story she changes and comes more in touch with the real world and has an epiphany about how people truly are.
(BODY) (KEY POINT) Alice Munro depicts childhood attitude of the narrator when she remembers her childhood. (SUPPORTING DETAILS) She has an eight years old friend Steve Gauley, drowned. It seemed a worse shame that there was no mother, no grandmother, aunt or even sister to received Steve Gauley and give him his due respect. He has a father who saw Steve as an accident to his life. The funeral held in their house and her mother did most of the arranging of Steve funeral.
Dawn and Day I read the books Dawn and Day by Elie Wiesel. Elie Wiesel was a brave kid. He was born in 1928 in Sighet, Transylvania and was fifteen years old when him and his family were taken from their family very much. homes. Elie lost his mother, father and younger sister.
(Brown 2) Then August 4, 1944 someone tipped off the police and the Frank’s, Van Daan’s, and Mr. Dussel were all sentenced to attend the Bergen-Belson concentration camp in Germany. (Brown 2) Anne’s sister, Margot, was the first of both the families to die. (Gale 3) She died of a typhus epidemic that broke out in the camp. (Brown 2) Anne was never informed that her sister had died, but she had a feeling something was wrong. (Brown 2) Ernst Schnabel, on the topic of Anne Frank, wrote: “She sensed it, and soon afterwards she died, peacefully, feeling that nothing bad was happening to her.” (Brown 2) The epidemic killed around 17,000 prisoners.
Instead was a devastating amount of racism and a struggle for the black community. Throughout the rest of the book Maya has many unforgettable experiences and has the life he never thought could be lived, and just makes the best of his life for his fallen brother. I chose to read this book because Maya Angelou is one of my favorite authors and it’s a great inspirational book, and also has the voice and experiences a kid would go through. What I gained from the book was to never live the life you don’t enjoy, live life to your fullest, and make the best of what you have in life. I could relate to Maya as in how he’s really nice and caring, and likes to have fun.
By that meaning, when Amy Tan was a kid, she saw how her mother had difficulties in the society because the lack of communication. Therefore, when she grew up, she learned English in the right and correct way and became a successful writer. This is similar to a time when I was in her situation, I was ashamed of my parents broken English wherever they go, I had to speak for them; their limited English reflected the quality of what they had to say. That is because they weren’t able to express their thoughts, the correct way and nobody was taking them seriously, it was because of their broken English language, they were not getting good services
Parent and Children Relationships in Madeleine L’Engle’s A Wrinkle In Time Growing up, I had a single parent household with my father as the primary caretaker. I had quite the privileged upbringing, although something was always missing, my mother. At first I was just sad about losing her, then I grew to resent her. Similar feelings of resentment were also portrayed in the novel, A Wrinkle In Time by Madeleine L’Engle. Meg at first falls back on her father for guidance and security, but soon realizes he cannot provide that.