Sweetness

tell her who the father, leaving it a mystery for Sweetness. However, as the reader you already know who the father is. Even though there is a slim chance Sweetness will ever meet the child, she is still able to find joy in it all. “You are about to find out what it takes, how the world is, how it works and how it changes when you are a parent.” This quote is interesting because, Bride is now in Sweetness’ shoes having a child. Even though Sweetness was not the best mother, she is still talking…

too dry because there was too much dry ingredients and less wet ingredients. The second attempt, it tasted like literal white bread. The texture was still dry but lacked sweetness because the bananas weren’t ripe enough and the sugar wasn’t enough. The third attempt, it looked like the flatbread sandwich from Panera. The sweetness was just right but didn’t rise enough and was still dry because all purpose didn’t have enough rising power. It seemed easy enough, mix the eggs, flour, sugar,…

desires of human existence - sweetness, beauty, intoxication, and control - while simultaneously exploring the effects that they have on our lives today. In The Botany of Desire, Pollan utilizes his own personal experiences, witty anecdotes, informational passages of history, and surprising statistics to captivate the reader’s attention while also leaving them to flounder in a state of questioning as he unearths the motives behind human existence. First Desire - Sweetness: In this first…

poetry and allow him to reach more universal topics in his poetry. In “I Ask My Mother to Sing”, Lee describes the disconnect existing between him and his Chinese hertitage through an anecdote. The loss of Lee’s father is addressed in “The Weight of Sweetness” and Lee’s resistance to letting go of the past is examined in “For A New Citizen of These United States”. The past and his family greatly influence Lee’s poetry. Lee draws from elements of his past in his poetry, such as his family…

Edward Hirsch recently gave a presentation at Aquinas College and went over a few of his poems and talked to the audience about himself and his poetry. Having Edward for our next new candidate would be a great twist on season 20 of The Bachelor. Although he is rather different from the usual handsome and fit guys that are typically on The Bachelor, this twist is exactly what The Bachelor needs. The Bachelor usually picks men that are young, good-looking, well-known, and are seeking a woman for a…

face severely. She eventually throws Bride out, and the scene ends momentarily. This part is a pivotal scene for our protagonist, not for the painful beating, but for the backstory behind it. In a flashback further into the novel, Bride is with Sweetness talking about testifying against Sofia. All Bride can think about is making her mother proud and by doing this, she might even get to hold her hand. Bride testified falsely, and is an overall factor of Sofia sentence. Bride, however, achives her…

satisfying smell of the freshly opened chocolate, the sweetness you taste, and the extra energy it gives you. I love all of that about it. To begin with I just love the smell of chocolate. It smells like a sweet thing of joy. The smell prepares you to bite into a sweet tasting snack. Sure it has sugars but I know it’s worth it. The smell makes you want to eat it as fast but remember to savor it. I know that I always do. Secondly the sweetness and the yumminess of the chocolate. It’s so tasty…

not famous for her in her life time since, most of her work was published after her dead. In her poetry, there were poems that had some motivation as well as sadness, or even both in a transitional form. In one of her poem “Success is a counted sweetness” she makes the reader feel motivated, but at the same time disappointed because of the sacrifices that have to be done for success. “After great pain, a formal feeling comes” is a poem that has a sad tone at the beginning but eventually changes…

symbolizes the entire mystery. The pie crust is the outline of the mystery and is the general view of the mystery. The pie filling or the sweetness of the pie symbolizes the more hidden parts or clues of the mystery that need to be discovered and the deeper you dig, the more clues you find to the puzzle. In addition, the quote from Inspector Hewitt “Unless some sweetness at the bottom lie, Who cares for all the crinkling of the pie?” compares the taste of the pie to the presentation of it. The…

and in “Success is counted sweetness” hope could be considered success being that you hope to accomplish a dream during hard times. In “Hope is the thing with feathers” Emily Dickinson takes on hope as a bird that is always chirping no matter what time or where ever you are as said by Emily “And sings the tune without the words, and never stops at all,” (Line 3-4). This bird happens to be the feeling you get when you want something to occur. In “Success is counted sweetness”…