A Story About The Body

August Boatwright, the fictional beekeeper in the bildungsroman, The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd, insisted that “the world was really one big bee yard” (Kidd 92). Therefore, it is fitting that beehives represent a family unit or a community, of which love, symbolized by honey, is produced. In the beginning of the novel, a “queenless hive” serves as an accurate representation of the life of Lily Owens, the fourteen-year-old protagonist of the novel, whose mother died under peculiar circumstances when Lily was four, leaving her without a queen bee, who is considered “the unifying force of the community,” and in the hands of an abusive, neglectful, and unloving father, bittered from the absence of his wife (Kidd 1). Eventually, Lily

In this essay, the female body is described as something too absent to be true with beautiful words, intending to evoke sympathy from the readers. “Over time my injured friend’s feet have become blue and smooth from disuse. Their blue is the blue of skim milk, there smoothness that of a baby’s” (Nelson, 41-42), which is the description of her injured friend’s body. This part sounds melodic and beautiful for readers because of the use of words “skim milk, smoothness and baby” and they are all nice words used to depict the beauty of the female’s body. With the use of such words, it can be seen that Nelson basically appreciates the female’s image. In the meanwhile, Nelson also considers the female to be fragile and depressed with the use of words “blue and baby”. Undeniably, on one hand, blue stands for a kind of color; on the other hand, blue can be used to describe depression, suggesting that her injured friend

The video Body Story, Episode 4: Teen Dreams describes a young a boy and girl who live next door to each other struggling with the onset of puberty. Darren undertakes the male version of puberty and has to deal with an increased sex drive due to higher levels of testosterone in his system as well as increased aggression. Natalie on the other hand has to deal with womanly issues of her own sexuality and her quickly developing body due to higher levels of estrogen causing her body to mature before the males. Darren starts to gain pimples due to lower levels of estrogen before Natalie because of her high levels of estrogen (DigitalNetHD, 2012). Natalie develops body odor and hair before Darren because of the increase of estrogen giving her growth

Now the body is ready for exposition and moved into a slumber room. The last touch can be done there; the favorite

The bees, sun, and breeze, are all beautiful creations of the earth and each contribute to part of Janie’s newly developed thought regarding love. The “alto chant of visiting bees” teaches Janie how to talk to a man she is fond of. Secondly, “the gold of the sun” foreshadows Janie’s future accomplishment of discovering a man she adores; gold representing success and the most prestigious achievement. Finally, “the panting breath of the breeze” suggests to Janie that if the breeze of nature is followed, mature thoughts of sexuality will be uncovered. Now that Janie has been exposed to nature’s thoughts of love, she attempts to imagine what sexual intercourse looks and feels like. Janie sees “a dust-bearing bee sink into the sanctum of a bloom” that creates “the ecstatic shiver of the tree from root to tiniest branch creaming in every blossom and frothing with delight”. Janie witnesses a bee pollinating a bloom and is overcome with new intimate feeling: the delight of an orgasm. This new passion confirms Janie has grown for a timid child to a grown adult undergoing a mature sexual

In the story “The Chrysanthemums” the women Elisa Allen had this deep passion for the flowers call chrysanthemums. That even her husband Henry gave her much space when she was dealing with the chrysanthemums. The story opens when Elisa hears a “squeak of wheels and a plod of hoofs”, and a man drives up in and old spring wagon and does not have a name but simply called the man. Earning a meager living, he fixes pots and sharpens scissors and knives. He travels from San Diego to Seattle and back every year. The man chats and jokes with Elisa, but she admits that she that she has no work for him to do. When he presses for a small job and she becomes annoyed and tries to send him away. Suddenly, the man’s attention turns to the flowers and gives a brief description of the chrysanthemums while Elisa is attending the flowers. The man says kind of long stemmed flower, looks like a quick puff of smoke, and Elisa becomes delighted of the description.

“Beep , Beep , Beep”, that’s all you hear, all day long in the hospital. My Papou (grandfather) has Alzheimers, more specifically it’s called Lewey-Bodies Dementia. Some symptoms of Lewy-Bodies disease is shuffling your feet while walking, trembling hands, becoming combative, as well as mood swings. This has changed our family dynamic for the time being. Things won’t be the same and that’s hard to live with. My Papou always has had a short buzz cut, a strong face with a distinguished jaw, and a look of determination in his eye. He’s still is rock solid with broad shoulders.

Why was I the one to get pulled? There were so many people at the party and I was the one to get interrogated? My luck. The officer sat me down at a table in a bland room with non-transparent glass. He sat down across from me and looked at me with a death stare. After about a minute or so, he said “ Hello Mr. Khalifa, I’m officer Marcus Hopson”. I sat apprehensively thinking about what to say. “Okay well you already know what you’re in here for, so start talking” Hopson said. All I could do was look down. Once I decided to talk, I said “What are you wanting to hear from me?”. Hopson laughed and turned around to look at me in the reflective glass. Looking at me more intensely in the glass, he said “Don’t play stupid. We know you were at that

The Secret Life of Bees, written by Sue Monk Kidd, is a story that follows our narrator, Lily Melissa Owens, who describes events that took place in the summer she turned 14. The story begins in Sylvan, South Carolina, and focuses on Lily as a lonely teenager. Right from the start, we see that she suffers from an unhappy home life, due to struggle within the family and internal struggle within herself. As a young child of 4, Lily lost her mother in an unfortunate accident; during a fight between her parents, she got her hands on a gun and mistakenly shot her mother. The result has left her with a neglectful father, T. Ray, a surrogate mother Rosaleen, and enough guilt to last a lifetime. Furthermore, the rest of the book describes her escape from her father, along with Rosaleen, and her stay at the Boatwright sisters’ house. Throughout the novel, the author displays examples of a variety of literary terms. The four main terms most present are that of foreshadowing, symbolism, theme, and tone.

That morning, (midday really, but shush) Dan Howell woke up in the arms of Phil Lester, who was none other than the love of his life.The other man had his arms wrapped tightly around him, and was breathing softly into the nape of his neck. Smiling, sleepily content, Dan snuggled down, falling back to sleep in their little bubble where everything is soft and warm and good.

Dying was never a good thing, especially when they were someone that you had kwon for such a large percentage of your life. Killed in cold blood was an expression that I knew rather well, it was an expression that I had caused, the amount of people I had shot, stabbed, struggled or whatever else was a huge amount. It was something I wasn’t proud these days, but I use to be so glad when I saw a face of someone I didn’t like lying at the bottom of my feet. The expressions frozen on their face forever. I remember when my dad died, I was eighteen I never got to say goodbye, and the body was lost. Loosing someone wasn’t as bad as seeing everyone else who was still here expression.

“The Flowers” by Alice Walker is a short story that describes a young girl’s abrupt transition from childhood to adolescence when she discovers a lynched man’s dead body as she explores the areas surrounding her family’s sharecropper home. The story’s gradual change in tone, mood, and diction creates a suspense as the young girl realizes the unfamiliarity and strangeness in the far land. The narrator uses the symbolic meaning of flowers to show the protagonist, Myop’s transition from childhood naivety and innocence to adolescent awareness. She also uses this symbolism of flowers to emphasize the fragility of life. Walker uses flowers to symbolize Myop’s innocence.

We had a fight yesterday. Your dad let me in after you went to sleep. He said that I told you too much. I was so tempted to tell you Sebastian was dead. I wanted to tell you over and over until you understood, but I knew that wouldn’t be helpful. Except, yesterday you said you read something out of the journal I left you, which means you’re reading it. I’ll keep writing. It’s been almost a year since you opened the journal.

When I was in third grade I got suspended. It was my fault, I got suspended for two things. First reason was I hit my teacher with a flying pencil top eraser. The second reason was because me and my friend was not the most appropriate people in our school. We were always doing something bad.

The informative mentor text this week was on The "Perfect" Body. A short article on the media projecting what their ideas of the perfect body are. Tall and skinny women and bulked up men. You see these kind of people in magazines, on television and even on video games. I believe the purpose of the article was to help people realize that many people have things they don't like about their own bodies and in fact, two out of every five girls and one out of every five boys are uncomfortable with their bodies. This is stated at the end of the article.