The Glass Castle The Glass Castle, written by author Jeannette Walls refllects a beautiful memoir of her childhood. The focus of the story includes Jeannette 's struggles as a child and having to grow up in a dysfunctional family. The protagonist of the novel being Jeannette Walls herself , describes the brutal yet honest truth behind growing up within the circumstances of an unstable home of her alcholic father and her mothers rather rustic lifestyle. With the use of theme, symbolism and irony, Jeannette Walls has illustrated and captured the essence of a true story through The Glass Castle.…
Sister Mercedes, Marija Mickevicius, was born in Chicago in 1915 by her Lithuanian immigrant parents. Growing up, she studied at the St. Casmir Academy for girls. The academy was administered by sisters who were a "community of religious women", founded in 1907, in Scrantum, PA by Maria Kaupas. Maria believed that she should create a congregation that could maintain and give nourishment to the Lithuanian immigrants. With that mission statement, Marija became religious and joined the Sisters.…
In the drama Naked Lunch by Michael Hollinger, Lucy and Vernon are having dinner together to reconcile after breaking up. However, their dinner is very unusual with Vernon forcing Lucy to eat steak after saying she was a vegetarian after they broke up. Vernon forcing Lucy to eat the steak and Lucy eventually losing her will to fight back with Vernon can imply that Vernon used to abuse Lucy, and will continue to abuse Lucy. Vernon is just like the alligator that he talks about in the beginning of the drama, a predator that cannot be tamed, and Lucy is the poodle that is a prey compared to the alligator and can be trained. Vernon is basically trying to train Lucy, a girl who is a pushover and is willing to go through change, to become the girl that Vernon expects her to be and he achieves this through abuse.…
Dickens novella, “A Christmas Carol”, continues to influence many aspects of Christmas that are celebrated today, such as family gatherings, seasonal food and drink, a spirit of generosity and a humanitarian focus of generosity of those less fortunate during this holiday season. It is the diverse views of the spirit of generosity and humanitarian focus that Dickens seeks to expose in this literary work. The landscapes of the novella shift between the poverty stricken, sick and imprisoned to the higher classes whose enjoyment of the season is enriched by wealth, to the embittered character of Scrooge whose view is one of a day of waste. Dickens uses both outdoor and indoor landscape to create the character of Bob Cratchit by contrasting his dominated servant attitude while in service to Scrooge versus his openly loving father/husband role within the Cratchit family.…
Symbolism is used many times throughout literature but many people are using symbolism incorrectly. They are expecting it to only hold one meaning, well they're wrong. Set in California near the Salinas River during The Great Depression, the novel begins when two grown men come looking in search of new jobs on a ranch. In Thomas C. Foster’s How to Read Literature Like a Professor and John Steinbeck’s novel, Of Mice and Men, both the authors use symbolism to show that it is related to an action or event experienced through individuals imaginations with a possible range of meanings and interpretations. In chapter 12 of Foster’s text, he uses caves and rivers as symbols of various interpretation and meanings that can only be understood using the tools, such as; questions, experiences, history, pre…
Our Youth Once And Lost: Youth is something that is considered limited, something that can no longer be regained once lost. Youth is something most of us considered sacred, our youth is like the peak of our lives, the time where we could do most of the reckless things that young people do before we become old. We all have probably felt or thought about this subject at one point.…
The contemporary postcolonial literature by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, Hanif Kureishi, M. Nourbese Philip and Zadie Smith combines the concepts of language and gender to show differences in cultural identity and, especially expose the difficulties these differences bring in the assimilation of the native culture and the colonialist culture. Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, Kureishi, Philip and Smith all have different approaches and experiences when it comes to the intersections of these concepts and cultures, and their writing shows how language and gender creates a division between the colonists’ culture and the native cultures of the authors. Ngũgĩ’s essay “The Language of the African Literature”, shows how the introduction of the English language into his…
A Long time ago in India, women were criticized and stereotyped for their femininity, in particular how they react in a crisis. In “The Dinner Party” by Mona Gardner, women are falsely accused of being weak during a crisis. “The Dinner Party” is set in India, where there is a huge dinner party going on. The colonel makes a false accusation that during a crisis, women usually scream and have less self control than men do. However, the hostess of the party proves him wrong.…
Throughout the book their have been many symbols that the author uses to describe characters and setting. Symbols like the radio, light, the sea of flames, and the model (Saint-Malo) all hold the same purpose in the novel. The common purpose that all of these symbols hold is to describe characters and setting. The beauty of those symbols is that they don’t necessarily correlate, yet they all serve one purpose, which is to mean more than what it is. For example, a radio is a simple object that can be used to listen to music or news, if it were a symbol, the radio could of been seen as an object that expresses hope and desires.…
Color plays an important role in the way we perceive society. People relate colors to certain emotions, as an example, one may say that they are “green with envy” or when they are “feeling blue” when they are sad. In the novel, The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, the author uses color symbolism throughout the story to represent different aspects of each situation. Fitzgerald uses the color green a great deal in the storyline. It represents Gatsby’s dream and hope to live happily with the love of his dreams, Daisy Buchannan.…
The elephant in the room. We have all been in that situation. No one wants to talk about it. In the short story, The Paring Knife, by Michel Oppenheimer, is about these two couples.…
First, in the Hua world, foods are used to represent their view of the life. Since, they have a concept of “Nu” which symbolizes their nurture and growth, the relations of the food and the person who eats it is important for them (Anna Meigs 1988 : 346-349). Thus they created rules related to foods, and through following them, they keep their lives. Also, for them, foods represents the person’s identity itself.(Anna Meigs 1988 : 354). In other words, this mythical rules work as a symbol, and by sharing this belief with others, Hua culture is constructed.…
Hannibal uses symbols to give the series a deeper more complex meaning. The first symbol we are introduced to is the orange line flashing across the screen as Will prepares himself to enter the mind of the murderer. The orange line represents a shift in mind for Will. He is no longer a detective, instead a killer. In addition, the orange line can represent the thin line separating good and evil, as all that separates morally good Will and a killer is that thin line.…
For instance, Burke proves that homosocial desire is a driving force throughout the play while also showing how Wycherley undermines this pervasive phenomenon and inverts it. The drinking scene depicts an amalgam of duplicity, desire, and power. Horner’s exposure to a female space in this scene presents him with a unique perspective that undermines homosocial desire and reinforces the differing gender perspectives of Pinchwife and Margery that Horner uses to his advantage. Burke describes a scene in which Alithea tells her maid that she loves Harcourt as “a scene designed to expose the duplicity that lies beneath conformity to social convention” (Burke 232). However, it is apparent that this description accurately applies to the drinking scene as well.…
Place Setting – Formal Dinner How to Arrange a Place Setting for a Formal Dinner Steps 1. Center the soup bowl on top of the dinner plate. 2. Place the forks directly to the left of the plate. The fork for the earliest course (usually salad) should be furthest from the plate, and the next fork in should be for the next course.…