A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night

In both of the stories, “Girl” and “Story of an Hour”, woman's femininity, independence and tradition are shown in many examples. Both tales depict a story of a woman trying to discover their independence and learning the ways of how women are expected to act. They can both be seen as feminists for wanting to be independent but having oppressors such as parents and spouses stopping them from being who they want to be.

Afraid, Michael's girlfriend leaves the theater. They then walk down a foggy road as Michael teases her by singing the verses of "Thriller". They pass a nearby graveyard, in which the undead begin to rise out of their graves as Vincent Price's speech is heard.. The zombies then break into an elaborate song and dance number, followed by the main chorus of "Thriller" (during which Michael reverts to human form), frightening his date to the point where she runs for cover. Michael (who has turned back into a zombie) and his fellow corpses chase the frightened girl into the room of a nearby abandoned house. While being cornered, Michael then reaches for the girl's throat as she lets out a bloodcurdling shriek, only to awake and realize it was all a nightmare. Michael then offers to take her home, and she happily accepts. As they walk out of

However, in the same way these stories are assimilated to each other, they also have their differences. These two stories differ in the perspective from where each story is told. One side tries to enforce rules and create barriers, whereas the other side is the reaction to the results of these rules and barriers, which later lead towards expectations of certain behaviors. The mother in “Girl” speaks as if she has been accustomed to living this way all her life and, according to her, its how her daughter should live also. Each family has different rules depending on their ethnicity. Most parents raise their daughters with the rules their own parents made them believe in, which in the end just creates stereotypes for others to use. In “How to date a brown girl”, the teenage boy uses this all through the story by speaking in a self-assured and experienced way, as if he knows these girls because of the existing stereotypes. While one story encourages a specific behavior on a girl, the other story takes advantage of this repeatedly seen behavior in order to get what he wants from the

“Girl” is a short story in which the author, Jamaica Kincaid, unofficially presents the stereotypes of girls in the mid 1900s. Kincaid includes two major characters in the story “Girl”, they are the mother and the girl. Although the daughter only asks two questions in this story, she is the major character. The mother feels like her daughter is going in the wrong direction and not making the best decisions in her life. The whole story is basically the mother telling her daughter what affects her decisions will have in the future. The mother believes that because her daughter isn’t sitting, talking, cleaning, walking or singing correctly it will lead her to a path of destruction. “Girl” is a reflection of female sexuality, the power of family, and how family can help overcome future dangers.

For a reader in 2017 “Girl” by Jamaica Kincaid might seems very surreal and harsh as a story; mostly because of the very grating and mean language that is used when the mother is talking. The mother’s heartless language makes is really uncomfortable even though at the end of the day, she speaks nothing but love into her daughter’s life. She is giving her daughter social and family teachings, sharing with her the cultural and social values that will help her girl to have a peaceful and respected household and a happy life.

The novel, The Cellar, by Natasha Preston, is a mysterious, suspenseful and eerie book that keeps readers guessing throughout the entire read. The story takes place in a small town in England where hardly any crime happens. Due to the overall safe feeling of the small town, Summer, the main character, does not feel unsafe when walking alone at night. She states, “Our town was probably-actually definitely-the most boring place on earth; nothing even remotely interesting ever happened” (4). However, this is how the trouble began. The basic plot begins when Summer leaves for a gig she had gotten and gets abducted by a man named Clover. He takes her back to his house and locks her in a finished Cellar with three other girl and assigns them names

“Girl” provides a relationship between a mother and daughter. The story represents Kincaid in her youth years. A mother giving her daughter advices on becoming a “women.” Kincaid makes sure

She felt a chill run down her spine as she had a sense that someone was watching her from afar. Slowly turning to look behind her, she looked out in the distance of the woods by her house. When she felt certain that no one was there she proceeded the rest of the way to her front door.

Then she turned around and then the person whispered don't trust anybody. After that the person suddenly disappeared. Then she just ran outside and ran and ran into the forest she said “am is going to go there everyday to train” so she can protect her mom. The she came home she did not hear her mom then she went to go find her at work but they said she went home but she was not

In Checkouts, the main character becomes infatuated with a boy she sees at the supermarket. This girl, to whom no name is given, has just moved to a new town. Moving is never easy, especially when you know no one around, and this case is no exception. She is mad at her parents for making the entire family come to an unfamiliar town, and mopes for quite a while. At one point, her parents ask her to go grocery shopping for them. She grudgingly

It was a cold, rainy night on Friday the 13th of October. A girl, Veronica, and her four friends went to the movie theater in a spooky corner of Slash Plaza with people in bloody costumes, the ticket booth covered in spider webs and green goo, ordinarily lights flickering down the hallway.

No Good Girl.” In this story there are three main characters; Raheem, the narrator, and the redhead. Each of them are so different yet the same when it comes to personalities. Raheem is a handsome amateur boxer, and he gets what he wants when he wants it. For example when he wants some money but didn’t give the narrator enough time to take it out.

When Ray’s break was over he started walking back to the bank. Suddenly he heard a little girl scream and a car door slam. He turned and saw a little girl grabbed by three built men in masks. Ray didn’t have time to think so he just started running. Other people around him started calling for help, but Ray, he just ran.

A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night portrays the main character The Girl as scary and lethal, but human in both appearance and motive. She is a chador-wearing female vampire who wanders in Bad City at night to stalk. Parallelly, she is also a pretty young girl wearing a striped shirt and putting on lipstick, preying on immoral men. She created her own destiny and shaped it with her choices and actions. The life of The Girl and

There are several responsibilities a girl should learn about before going off on her own and it is usually the mother’s job to teach their daughter these life lessons. In the prose poem “Girl,” by Jamaica Kincaid, a mother writes out a “guide” her daughter must follow in order to succeed in her adult years.