An Analysis Of 'Lunch, AndFeet In Smoke'

“Sonny’s Blues” by James Baldwin and “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman are two stories that reveal the consequences of individual suffering. These consequences include estranging relationships, bitter behavior, and even illness, addiction, or death. Throughout each of these stories, Sonny and John’s wife, known as the narrator of “The Yellow Wallpaper”, continue to suffer due to John’s and Sonny’s brother’s, known as the narrator of “Sonny’s Blues”, failure to meet obligations and familial compassion. Neither the narrator in “Sonny’s Blues” nor the husband, John, in “The Yellow Wallpaper” serve as the villains of the stories, however, I believe we are able to see how both their inabilities to effectively

John Jeremiah Sullivan's essay "Feet in Smoke" tells a personal story about an accident that caused his brother to be electrocuted during the band's rehearsal, his brother Worth was singing when an electric shock hit him making his heart stopped. Sullivan recounts his brother's recovery at the hospital and tells specific events that occurred after he regained consciousness. Worth spent a coma more than three days. The author describes the family's concern while his brother was in the intensive care unit with only 1 percent of brain activity. After less than a week in a coma his brother woke up and Sullivan witnesses his brother's strange words, recovery, and reactions.

The story I chose to analyze is “Why I Live at the P.O.” by Eudora Welty. The author, Eudora Wetly, is originally from Mississippi from a prosperous family, she was born in 1909 and passed away in 2001.During her early days she worked at small places involved with writing until she launched her literary career. ‘Why I Live at the P.O’ is about sibling rivalry and favoritism among family. My thesis states that this story shows a good example of favoritism among families and good insight from the outcast.

Lee’s essay “Magical Dinners” and Slater’s “Tripp Lake” are two stories that allows you to see different situations that involve a parent and a child. They both struggle with different things one being with dramatic life changes that come with being a foreigner moving to the united states and one being a childhood camp experience and the mothers maternal fear of the daughter.In Magical Dinners it showcases the story of the authors mother and the frustrations of living in a place with unfamiliar food,language and faces. In Tripp Lake the author is the narrator and you see the mothers feelings convey through her daughter being able to do things she wasn 't when she was younger. In these two stories we will look at the impact both mothers had on there child 's lives and trying to please them through the events , actions and motions involved.Based on reading the two stories Magical dinners and Tripp lake i found that they have similarities that produce two different results.

Sal once again shows how both of the two stories tie together in the end in the chapter “Bybanks”. She says, “My mother’s story was behind Phoebe's” (Creech, 260). This helps us to understand that both of these stories are in many ways the same. Another example is how both stories focus largely on

“Undressing Aunt Frieda,” is a poem about the narrator’s remembrance of his Aunts life while visiting her on a death bed. The narrative is in first person, and takes place as the narrator and his daughter are about to leave the relative. The first half of the poem explores Frieda and her past. The second half is about how the narrator and daughter have grown and learned from the aunt. While undressing her aunt, the narrator feels emotions and remembers his past with Frieda. The poem describes these emotions and memories in a metaphor explaining unique characteristics of how Aunt Frieda undressed, and how she impacted the relatives.

This week materials are mainly focusing on food. The readings are about how food, especially dinner, has an important role in the family, how the way we live affects the way we eat and the regional of our food. As in Michael Pollan’s book, The Omnivore’s Dilemma, he was explaining how corn is in all of our diets. How it moved from the farm to the feeding lot, to the food lab and into our food. Further analysis of food, and of the sources that describes the food we eat, suggests that it requires a lot of work in the agriculture farm before our ingredients can come together and that mealtime is a great time for a family bonding but the bonding varies with each family due to the different in every families’ culture.

No matter the era, location, or even times of the darkest personal conflict, the power of love tends to always prevail. The power behind the love of family in particular seems to be the greatest. Despite the differences in the relationships, the deep bond of brotherhood in “Sonny’s Blues” by James Baldwin shares some of the same levels of devotion that is present in “A Worn Path” by Eudora Welty which is about the arduous trek a grandmother endures for her grandson. Although the stories differ in certain areas, both “Sonny’s Blues” and “A Worn Path” emphasizes the dedication one has both emotionally and physically and the importance of family bonds when someone they love encounters challenging and life threatening times by the displays of devotion to help the ones they love.

The two stories both shared the same theme. It reveals the unconditional love and faith of a family which creates an everlasting difference in the end. Ray, from the story Shoeless Joe Jackson comes to Iowa, revealed a deep message of success as a challenge, which filled with obstacles and major sacrifices but in the end, it gives you the power and determination. The support of his family and his desire in fulfilling his long term goal in life which is to build a football field from the fraction of his small farmland gives the impression of how perseverance and the unified love from a family gives you the motivation to gain self confidence and found joy knowing that someone believes in you, in spite of what others may think. On the other

These two stories have been congested with compare and contrast essays over the past decade to a complete dullness. Yet again, here lies another that did not come from Wikipedia.

In this essay I am going to discuss the plot, the narrative technique, characterisation, the style of the text, the setting and the difference of themes. Once in a House on Fire covers the story of a mother, Lorraine, and her three daughters, Andrea, Laurie and Sarah, who lose their father and husband in a freak accident. A red-faced man steps in for tea and is introduced as there new daddy, a drunk who molested and beat up Andrea. Later Lorraine remarries again and this time her husband beats up all three girls and lorraine and even in one case sends the girl’s mother into hospital. They were once a close-knit and loving family who were forced into a life with abuse, poverty and the effect of depression.

Although the message each of them carries is different, reading them creates a strange sense of déjà vu. In fact, both short stories depict women, their emotional state and social status, as well as portray one significant event that influences greatly their life. A reader paying scrupulous attention to detail might even come across some identical phrases used by the author in her both works, like “the toaster oven, so convenient for solo dinners” (Atwood, “Weight” 212) and “a toaster oven, so perfect for solo dining” (Atwood, “The Age of Lead” 12). Nevertheless, this common feature just emphasizes Atwood’s talent and her unique ability to make stories different and similar at the same

In this essay I will be reviewing a book by Doris Buchanan Smith called A Taste of Blackberries. This is a wonderful sad story through the eyes of a child who is grieving the loss of his best friend. This is a story parents can read to their child that had experienced a loss of a friend or sibling, someone among their age group that is about age’s eight to twelve that developmentally have an understanding of the concept of death. This story could also be used in a Bibliotherapy intervention since it starts with character building and a story then quickly goes into the process of grieving.

The protagonist provokes the audience to sympathize with the announcement of his mother’s death. He quickly rallies this with the disclosure of his “somewhat strained” relationship with his parents (605). Then, the protagonist goes on to address that it took him two years to learn about the circumstances surrounding his mother’s death. In any given circumstances, including “somewhat strained” relationship, it is beyond normal for anyone to take over two years to get acquainted with his/her mother’s death. Later on, the father goes on to reveal that he and the mother were ready to welcome the protagonist back despite them being “upset by his behavior” (606). This displays the one-sided effort put into their relationship. As the whole family seated themselves for the dinner, a family dinner, after a long time, this following incident ruined the charm and mood of the reunion.

Frank McCourt’s father is an alcoholic, and is often without work. Frank has six sibling but three out of the seven of them has passed away because of a disease disturbed by malnutrition and the environment. Frank has stepped up and he starts work at the age of thirteen to earn money for his family, especially for his mother so she can provide for his younger siblings. In this memoir, Frank McCourt use of style, point of view, and use of literary devices accomplishes humor, wit, brilliant description, and deep compassion for his family.