The third card I created was Sofia’s card. Sofia is Danny’s cousin and Uno’s girlfriend. I made her play first base because the person who plays on first base has to a quick and trustworthy person. They are often involved in a lot of the action of the game. Throughout the book, Sofia is quick to stand up for what she believes in, and everyone trusts her.…
The Marquise of O- by Heinrich von Kleist is a story chock-full of secrets and unsaid ideas, such as the ambiguity of details regarding Giulietta’s possible rape. Furthermore, if every word isn’t read with the utmost attention, something major will slip notice. Specifically, when Giulietta is talking to her midwife, whom she has called in to hopefully deny her illegitimate pregnancy, she briefly states that she “conceived knowingly” (Kleist 91). This can be surprising after a second reading, as Kleist portrays her as a rape survivor with no memory of the ordeal. In fact, it is easy to make the mistake of either skipping over this wording or assuming that she was lying in case the midwife decided to spread this damaging information (as the extent…
In Caetana’s story she rebels against her master the Catholic Church and the institution of marriage, while Inacia relationship with patriarchy is harmonious. Patronage relationships are not only downward granting of favors but a reciprocal upward pledge of service, deference, obedience, and loyalty. Pg. 49 Caetana was a 17 year old slave girl when her master decided she must marry.…
In the novel “Like Water for Chocolate” by Laura Esquivel, it explores the struggle of a girl who is locked up by her family’s tradition. In the novel, Tita falls in love with a guy named Pedro. They try to go forward in life thorough marriage but are immediately rejected by Mams Elena, Tita’s mother. As a family tradition, the youngest girl of the family is not allowed to get married as long as the mother is still alive. The girl is to take care of her mother until she is dead.…
Over the course of the novel ‘Looking for Alibrandi’ by Melina Marchetta, Josie Alibrandi’s relationships with Micheal Andretti, John Barton and Nonna Katia evolve in positive and negative ways as she discovers personal stories and secrets about them individually. Josie and Micheal’s relationship improves in a constructive way because they began as strangers and slowly their Father and Daughter relationship strengthens. During the course of the novel, Josie establishes a friendship with a boy her age named John Barton from a completely different world to her and uncovers a dark secret regarding his life. At the beginning of this novel, Josie characterises her Nonna Katia as bothersome and intursive. However, as the story progresses, she begins…
“The reaction of the Italian mothers to my mother being unmarried drove me crazy at times.” (Marchetta, 1992, pg. 5) This quote demonstrates the frustration Josie experienced due to her mother’s affair. Due to this affair, she was excluded from many childhood activities such as being invited to her friend’s…
According to the FDA love is not an ingredient however, emotion still plays a large role in cooking. In the novel Like Water for Chocolate by Esquivel the main protagonist Tita faces many challenges in life. A narration by Esperanza, Tita’s granddaughter starts every chapter with a recipe. The recipes may seem like just a tradition being recorded but, they actually correlate with the emotions and challenges Tita faces in the chapter.…
The novel Like Water for Chocolate written by Laura Esquivel is a love story like no other I have read. As soon as I started reading this novel the main characters Tita and her mother, Mama Elena jumped out at me because they share similarities and differences to my Mother Engracia and my grandmother Ignacia who also went by Nacha for short. Engracia like the protagonist in the novel, Tita suffered emotional and verbal abuse from her mother. However, Engracia was different from Tita because she never ran away from her problems, but instead decided to face them even when she was suffering from her mother’s abuse. Nacha and Mama Elena are both not only strict, but cold and emotionless towards their daughters.…
Manolo is constantly gone for long periods of time. Maria Teresa, or Mate, is one of the Mirabal sisters who suspect Manolo is cheating on Minerva. This all goes sideways when Minerva announces to Mate that Manolo and she are starting a revolution against the regime. The book states, under Mate’s perspective, “Manolo and Minerva have explained everything. A national underground is forming.…
“In the Time of the Butterflies” is a historical novel by Julia Alvarez, relating an account of the Mirabal sisters during the time of the Trujillo dictatorship in the Dominican Republic. Maria Teresa is the youngest of the four Mirabal sisters. She is very superficial and materialistic in the beginning of the story, but she becomes a resilient, strong-willed revolutionary hero. Further, Maria Teresa is willing to sacrifice herself for the sake of her family’s right for a liberal nation. Maria Teresa is very artificial and bourgeois in the beginning of the story, but she becomes a robust, determined revolutionary hero.…
Risk is a situation that involves the possibility of exposure to dangers. Risks exist everywhere, even the most minute of actions can place someone in jeopardy. It is an inescapable labyrinth that plagues the lives of all ever since the dawn of humanity. Yet its double-edged sword like characteristics of also providing opportunities and gains keeps many enthralled in it. In William Shakespeare 's The Merchant of Venice, Antonio, a protagonist, gives himself over to a life-threatening contract with the villain, Shylock the Jew, in order to provide the means for one of Antonio’s friends to woo a lady.…
In My Ántonia, by Willa Cather explores the hardship life of living in the wild prairies of Nebraska as people immigrant further west from already established areas of civilization. While many themes are presented during the novel, the subject of gender roles within her female characters of the novel question the stereotypical norms of men and women. The women portrayed in the text become independent, active and strong through the situations presented to them by their surroundings. The physical geography of the novel lends a heavy hand on who the characters are in the novel and shape who they will become through the journey of life in the plains of America. The women in My Ántonia are the product of their harsh environment and it forces…
As one broke free from confinement, the other chose to live in her father’s path not knowing. In the story “My Sister’s Marriage,” Cynthia Marshall Rich writes of a small family of a father, Dr. Landis who is over controlling of his two daughters, Sarah Ann and Olive (200). Dr. Landis is a controlling and manipulative father who is always concerned towards his two daughters. Olive, who is the eldest daughter, is rebellious and courageous as she introduces change in her life away from her father’s expectations. Sarah Ann on the other hand, is an obedient girl who is over powered by her father.…
It is here that Emilia’s minor character become so undeniably necessary and because she remains loyal to Iago throughout the play, Iago relies entirely on the belief that Emilia will continue to remain obedient to him. It is here that he begs his wife to prove her loyalty to him by stealing the handkerchief that Othello gave to Desdemona. Iago gives no support to his reasoning and Emilia is left ignorant to his doings but just as well supportive in continuous hopes of affection from her husband. The scene is set up perfectly when Desdemona unknowingly releases the handkerchief onto the bed and then exits the room with Othello. Emilia is then left alone staring at the handkerchief picks it up and says, “I am glad I have found this napkin……
THE BIRTHMARK The birthmark, written by Nathaniel Hawthorne, follows the story of a scientist named Aylmer who marries the beautiful Georgina. Not long after getting married, Georgiana’s birthmark, which is in the shape of a tiny red hand on her left cheek, really begins to bother Aylmer. One day he asks her if she has ever considered having it removed. This is not something she has considered since other people in her life, especially men, have always seen it as a charm.…