Rear-view mirror

Title Seeing red and blue flashing lights in your rearview mirror is one of the most alarming feelings. Especially for the first time. My first time was definitely a nerve-wracking experience. It was not because I was speeding or switched lanes without using a signal. I had been pulled over for the most brainless act. I felt quite idiotic after the policeman turned on his lights and flagged me down. It all started when my friends and I decided to do a somewhat insubordinate act. I met up with my friend and her family for her birthday dinner. Before that, I had been home for many days because I was feeling ill. Im sure that it is not just me, but when I am stuck at home for many days, it kind of gets uneventful and I get tired of being…

scaring face. In the rearview mirror is their baby’s face overlapping with the schoolboy’s face and there is the slogan on the right says “think of both sides”. The ad is arguing that drivers should avoid distracted driving and be responsible for both pedestrians and passengers in the car, especially toward those adults with children. It succeeds in perfectly compositing the picture and using the contrast between the parents’ smiling face and the schoolboy’s scary face. The ad also does well in…

The theme of Leila Hall’s short story “Girls in the Rear-view Mirror” concentrates mainly on the lives of the common truck drivers who have to spend weeks and months away from their families which not only makes them physically tired but also they become mentally and emotionally weak thus falling into circumstances that makes them engaged in immoral activities. The story even describes the tragic life of the prostitutes who need to face so many struggles throughout their lives. The struggle not…

Rumored to bring seven years of bad luck upon breaking, a mirror allows the reflection of oneself to be seen. In folklore, mirrors are believed to also show the soul of the person standing before it. Toni Morrison’s novel Song of Solomon illustrates this idea in an interesting way: feeling incohesive before a mirror represents a lack of identity. The protagonist, Milkman, gives himself an identity by taking a journey to find his past and becomes a cohesive individual. Milkman’s contemplation of…

not lift his head because he is dull. He has already lost part of himself as Mr. Minchell is losing himself. Later, he heads over to the bar, Chez When, and tries to get a drink. The name of the bar is given because it was “a gloomy place, and not very warm.” These adjectives can also be used to describe Mr. Minchell. Shortly after Mr. Minchell is about to leave when he sees a pink, curved mirror. He looked at it and became startled. He becomes started because when he looks into the mirror he…

Room of One’s Own” that the “truth is only to be had by laying together many varieties of error” to bring reader’s attention to the irrational conclusions made based on speculation (1314). Virginia Woolf’s goal in “The Lady in the Looking Glass: A Reflection” is to produce a true representation of Isabella by criticizing, correcting, and preventing any false assumptions made by the narrator. Understanding the way the stream of conscious works allows readers to see how Woolf combats the…

Sylvia Path’s poem “Mirror” is about a woman maturing with time, and the mirror is the self-reflecting proof to her into finding the truth. She is faced with life’s inconsistencies and the mirror is the only thing to her that does not hide the truth, but actually reveals it to her, even though she may not want to face it. The second stanza portrays the mirror as a lake. The woman sees herself aging, and does not like what she sees. The overall representation of the poem is that the mirror only…

Brontë uses mirrors to reveal Jane’s reflection as separate from how Jane perceives herself in order to suggest that through her maturity, Jane has suppressed certain attributes in order to function within the confines of society. During Jane’s dream, Bertha is standing in front of the mirror. Jane sees “the reflection of visage and features quite distinctly in the dark” (327). Bertha’s features contrast the dark and, therefore, are light. Thus, Brontë implies that Jane wants Bertha’s…

at mirror and touch your face and pull your skin. I have been looking at myself in this small silver mirror, so much that I think it is a part of me. I sit in front of it in the powder room every day, gazing into a blank expression. I stare and see this woman, this woman who once held beauty and eyes full of mystery and secrets. But every single day it is fading, the beauty is fading, the eyes, which were once so full of emotion, are fading. I am becoming dull and lifeless, day by day. I…

This bedroom is spacious compared to the one I remember from my childhood and light flows in and penetrates every corner of it. I could see my mother standing in front of the mirror that spanned the width of the wall in her bathroom where she washed her face. After she had rinsed and pat-dried her face with a plush towel, she took a dollop of creme from a jar she kept on a shelf above the sink and massaged it into her skin using gentle circular motions over her face, down her neck and across…