Colm Tóibín

arranged that Eilis would go to America”. Within Colm Toibin’s novel Brooklyn, the protagonist Eilis Lacey, is depicted as a conservative and passive Irish girl, one who lives within the social expectations of 1950’s America and Ireland. Eilis is used as a medium by Toibin to highlight how those who reside in both Enniscorthy and Brooklyn attempt to control her. Additionally, Toibin portrays Eilis’ life to be controlled by society and the expectations enforced upon her. However, Toibin ultimately presents Eilis as someone who is not easily controlled by depicting Eilis’ inner monologue, which sways readers to believe how Eilis can be a strategic thinker. The ways in which Toibin presents Brooklyn is ultimately…

A cohesive understanding of the relationship between people and landscapes encourages the appreciation of both the protagonists and composers experience of life. An individual’s significance of a landscape may be inspired through evoking personal memories, or generated in removing restrictive boundaries. However, whilst these experiences prove diverse, there are often representations of archetypal figures that relate to all, thus shaping the relationship between people and landscape as similar…

The humanities allow us to experience and learn about culture through literature, art, and language. Colm Toibin’s novel Brooklyn allows readers to enter the world of a 1950’s young female Irish immigrant who struggles to create a life in America while trying to leave her homeland behind (Toibin). The reader is able to gain a firsthand account of the immigration experience; from the protagonist’s violent seasickness on the ship ride over to the homesickness she felt while in America (Toibin…

‘Trying’ to Smile Brooklyn, written by Colm Toibin goes through the struggles the main character, Eilis, goes through in order to ‘blend’ into the culture in the US. This is due to the tensions that built up regarding her clothing and mainly the influence of power. After Mrs Kehoe gave Eilis the largest room in the house saying that the reason why was because “she was the only one of [the other ladies] with any manners” (99). Eilis felt hesitant and worried that she would cause any issues or…

How did Different People Influence Eilis’ return to Brooklyn In the book Brooklyn By Colm Toibin Eilis, the character that this story focusses on, returned to her home of Ireland to support her mother after the death of her sister Rose. Her mother and friends expected that she would be staying in Ireland but instead she decided to go home to Brooklyn because she was influenced by the people in her life such as her husband Tony. She was also influenced to return because of her job opportunities…

Giovanni’s Room: Cause/Effect The novel “Giovanni’s Room” by James Baldwin surrounds itself in the main characters confusing. The main character named David goes through many mistakes since he does not know what he wants in life. David has hurt himself emotionally, as well as other people. According to Colm Tóibín, in an interview in 1980 the author James Baldwin has said that most of his inspiration came from his real life experience. According Baruch’s College interview with James Baldwin,…

friend told me she was very sick and needed to go to the doctor as soon as possible but because she wanted to impress her friends with her house the money was used to fix her bathroom. This how the internet become bane that Yuchin advertise to sell her organ so her sister could surrender to her by giving her the money to buy the car. Yuchin elder sister said I will lend you $10,000 remove your ad from the website. Now!”(Ha Jin 6). In China I think if the older people saw the advertisement they…

The mother of Jesus Christ, Mary, has influence on the people who read her stories. Throughout the ages she has been responsible for many different views, mannerisms, political movements, and deaths. Which is clearly odd because the Bible portrays her as such a passive woman. She has singlehandedly created the ‘rules’ for how a ‘proper’ woman should act physically, sexually, and even emotionally. Though it was only Mary’s actions as by the Church’s interpretations of the Bible that caused these…