In ¨The Hunger Games”by Suzanne Collins , the author uses many literary devices and linguistic elements. Detailing the book and making it understandable. She expands the environment and informs the reader with more features. ¨The Hunger Games¨ has many environments such as District 12 the Capitol and the arena.…
In the story “Pancakes” by Joan Bauer, Jill is a dynastic character that overcomes perfectionism. First, Jill thinks that even though the pancake house is shorthanded she can run the restaurant with one other person. Jill shows this when she states: “ I can do anything if I worked hard enough” (200). This shows that Jill at the beginning of the story thought that she could do everything all by herself. She didn’t think she need anyone to help her.…
This is an article which is trying to figure out the differences between the lifestyle of neat people and sloppy people. This is to explain and find out if neat or sloppy people are more successful in life. I would like you to read this article and determine for yourself who is the more successful. Suzanne Britt’s essay talks about the differences between sloppy and neat people. She goes into a lot of time in showing how misunderstood and loving sloppy people are, while as for neat people she goes into a lot of detail in showing how insensitive and wasteful that these people are.…
Here is my evaluation of my peers’ review. On the scale of 1 to 5, Hannah Vassar’s review is ranked number 5. She was very helpful with her suggestions such as she changed a few of my sentences to make them sound better. She also was very thorough and caught some mistakes that I would not have caught if she would not have reviewed it. For example, she caught a mistake I made in my header about not capitalizing a letter in my address.…
In the short story, “Parent’s Night” by Nancy Garden, Karen, the main character, has to face the wrath of individuals because of one thing; her sexuality. These horrific comments dominate her brain and make her even more anxious to come out to her parents. Even though peers and comments intimidate Karen, she has enough control in her life to make suitable decisions for herself because she believes that she knows what is moral. One of Karen’s life changing decisions is talking about her sexuality to her parents. In the environment Karen lives in, she is constantly reminded of modesty and respect.…
The Violin by Amy Chua and Two Kinds by Amy Tan are two novels about a mother-daughter relationship. The speakers utilize varying tones when speaking of recollections of their memories. Chua’s and Tan’s use of tense and hostile tones help illustrate the drama in the relationships that blankets the love between the mother and daughter. Amy Tan’s recounts of her past prove to be escalated versions of Amy Chau’s with lesser presence of love; however, love remains a driving force behind both of the mothers’ harsh encouragement. “The Violin” illustrates the mother-daughter relationship of Amy Chua and her daughter Lulu.…
In Jennifer Grossman’s essay “Food for Thought (and for Credit)” states that home economics should be reinstated as a mainstream program in our schooling system because of the rising obesity epidemic in modern society. Home economics is very important in creating a healthier and more knowledgeable a generation. In the past participating in a home-ec class is exceedingly more common than it is today, however, this was not without its drawbacks. She says this program was mainly used to teach women how to be proper housewives. As time passed, our culture has come to a position that women are less often housewives and more part of the everyday work force, making general knowledge of home-ec more crucial to our everyday lives.…
Much Ado About Blackberries One of the most influential female poets of all time, especially during the twentieth century, is Sylvia Plath. Her poetry is most well known for depicting her emotions and life story in a creative way. Plath is also widely known for committing suicide, and how her depressive feelings that led to her suicide impacted her writing. “Blackberrying,” a poem she wrote close to her death, displays these feelings well, as well as Plath’s desire to return to her childhood years when she was happier. In “Blackberrying” by Sylvia Plath, the overall theme of longing to return to childhood communicates itself through imagery, sound devices, and figurative language.…
“Trifles”, by Susan Glaspell, demonstrates how the female characters feel suffocated by the male characters carrying out their suppressive gender stereotypes. Glaspell uses latent symbolism as well as extensive character development to help the reader visualize and interpret the divide between the genders. The play is set in the early nineteen hundreds around a time when women were still not equal to men, which is why the main character, Minnie Wright, is idolized by the other women in the play even though she is never directly present. Throughout the entirety of the play the men and the women were never together, they always divide themselves by gender while looking for clues.…
The mammy figure was introduced after the Civil war. White southerners created the image to mend relations between black women and white men. The mammy was used to counter anti-slavery sentiments by masking the relationship as a friendly and familial one (Turner 44-45). Aunt Jemima originated as a minstrel show character portrayed by a white man in blackface and drag. Christopher Rutt, co-founder of the ready-to-make pancake mix, used Aunt Jemima to market his product to appeal to his local, southern consumers (Behnken and Smithers 23).…
Everybody has hardships they must come face to face with. Sometimes this is a physical disability. Sometimes it is prejudice for being part of a minority. Everyone finds their own way to deal with their predicaments, and in the readings, “Finding Her Way”, and “Kylie’s Project”, the main characters have found their own way to deal with their problem. Both of the readings show how the main characters cope with their personal problem, and demonstrate how people can cope with their own challenges in the real world.…
The Romantic Period lasted from 1785-1832. During this time, the Democratic Revolution in France launched, which was the French Revolution. This revolution caused and shaped the Romantic period to be political, social, and economic with all three drastic changes. During the Romantic Period, many authors wrote poems, with a lot of emotion of love, passion and strong messages that we can now relate with in this livelihood. The two works I selected to work with caught my attention because both poems showed a lot of suspense and were similar in various ways.…
Would you be mad at your mother for dying or for being sick? In the memoir Wild by Cheryl Strayed, Strayed at 22 years old had several issues after her mother’s death from cancer. Strayed, devastated became involved in heroin use, and sleeping with other men rather than her husband Paul. Which led her to divorce him. Her stepfather disconnected from Strayed 's family, and her brother and sister stayed distant from her.…
The following is from Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins, Winnemucca wrote her book Life Among the Piutes: Their Wrongs and Claims in 1882. Winnemucca wrote this book to help highlight stories of her people and the interactions they had with white European and American settlers. Winnemucca hoped her writings would have the desired outcome of forcing change and getting public opinion and government officials on the sides of Native American tribes. Winnemucca portrayed cross-cultural interaction as inevitable. Nevertheless early interactions with white settlers and pioneers set the tone for all the following years of Winnemucca’s life.…
Girl, Interrupted is a memoir written by Susanna Kaysen in 1993. In her memoir, Kaysen recalls her time spent at a psychiatric hospital after being diagnosed with borderline personality disorder. Her story is told through a collection of nonlinear vignettes as she chronicles her two years spent at psychiatric hospitall and her life after her time there. Kaysen recalls that in April of 1967, as an eighteen-year-old, she was admitted to McLean Hospital in Belmont, Massachusetts after attempting suicide by overdosing on fifty aspirin pills. Kaysen recounts her suicide attempt by saying:…