Dressmaker

also meant that if I was persuasive enough I may get an ice cream cake from my mother. As we were about to leave, my aunt came over to our house. She and my mother started talking and before I knew it, I was no longer going with my mother to the dressmaker. My aunt suggested that she go with my mother instead. I was very upset and I refused to stay at home. So I walked behind…

Ántonia’s spirit made an impact on Jim, causing him to return to visit her as an adult. “I told Ántonia I would come back, but life intervened, and it was twenty years before I kept my promise” (My Ántonia 175). Life is personified to intervene, and given as a reason for why Jim was unable to return and visit Ántonia. Ántonia was so important to Jim because of her success, that he made a point of returning to visit her. “Not only the progenitor of a large, vigorous family, she is also the source…

daughter without being married, giving her a poor reputation, but Lena becomes very successful in her career. “I could not forgive her for becoming an object of pity, while Lena Lingard, for whom people had always foretold trouble, was now the leading dressmaker of Lincoln, much respected in Black Hawk” (My Ántonia 159). Antonia was pitied while Lena was respected, the opposite of what people expected, and the opposite of each other. However, Ántonia goes on to become a successful wife and…

August 4, 1892 the two bodies of Andrew and Abby Borden were found slain with what appeared to be an axe in their Massachusetts home located in the town of Fall River. The town was a buzz with the thought of who could possibly commit such heinous crime? Speculation focused on the youngest daughter of the two Borden girls, Elizabeth (Lizzie) Andrew Borden a Sunday school teacher and the head of the local hospital’s Fruit and Flower Mission. A seemingly unfit candidate for the axe-wielding…

Roman women lived in a society where gender roles were strictly followed. Each woman was forced to comply with specific standards of behavior. Men were predominantly placed above women as they had more independence and overall freedom whereas women were sheltered. Their main attribution to society was to be good wives, mothers and homemakers. These roles can be observed through readings such as The Aeneid and The Tale of Cupid and Psyche. Roman woman were sheltered from a young age. They did…

Evil Is in the Air We Breath In Daphne Du Maurier’s, Rebecca, the battle between good and evil is portrayed through the main characters of the novel. Generally speaking, the Narrator and Maxim are on the side of good while Rebecca and Mrs. Danvers are seen as evil. Although Rebecca is described as a beautiful and much-loved person, she is actually wicked, cruel and manipulative. Mrs. Danvers, the housekeeper at Manderley, is very devoted to Rebecca and her memory. This motivates her to plot…

working in a dying industry, with no reason to believe anything could change. He was born Stanley Martin Lieber in Manhattan’s Upper West Side on December 28, 1922, the first child of middle-class Jewish parents. Stanley’s father, Jack, had been a dressmaker but suffered from chronic unemployment during the Depression. “Seeing the demoralizing effect that his unemployment had on his spirit, making him feel that he just wasn’t needed, gave me a feeling I’ve never been able to shake,” Lee wrote…

Emily Dickinson: “I felt a Funeral in my Brain.” Have you ever felt an overwhelming sense of sadness or depression? How would you express yourself if you did? Some people use words as an expression and it can be noted as an art form. In the 1800’s, a young teenage girl named Emily Dickinson began composing, revising, and documenting a series of many poems. Between 1858-1865 was eventful time in history, the Civil War. Although this period in time was tragic, Emily Dickinson continued…

nationalist and a councilman of the city government (Spink, 1997). The death of her father left their family in hard financial circumstances when her deceased father’s business partner completely took over their business. Agnes’ mother worked as a dressmaker and weaver in order to provide for her family during these difficult times. Two qualities of Agnes’ mother that greatly influenced her was her faith and quickness to help those in need (Stevenson, 2017). Despite these difficult times, the…

During the Victorian Era from 1873-1901, the urban working class’ life was unbearable because they often had to work from an early age in mines or streets, grow up and work jobs that no one wanted like scavenging for valuables in toxic water, and live in workhouses which was government housing for the poor. From an early age, a boy or girl born into the working class had to work to survive. Then he or she would have to get a job, if not they would have to live and work in the worst place…