An Analysis Of Margot In Here Comes The Sun

When reading a book, sometimes it becomes easy to see that a particular place in the book appears time after time. Because of its recurrence, the given setting begins to bear the significance of an individual character. In Annie Baker’s The Flick, the movie theater functions as an individual character for the three following reasons: it exists as the subject of conversation for the characters; it helps a character recall certain events that occurred in the theater; it acts as a mediator.

The film begins with Thelma (Geena Davis) and Louise (Susan Sarandon), living repressed lives in Arkansas. Both women have stereotypical roles in this movie. As best friends, they decide to go on an adventure that takes a dramatic turn and ends up being an adventurous police chase to the sudden death. Thelma is an unhappy housewife who despises her husband (Daryl), who is a bumbling, controlling and narcissistic. Her character is somewhat infantile, in that she relies completely on her husband for support. She is too timid to confront him about going on a weekend getaway with her best friend Louise. Her timidity is evident in every act she displays. She is unhappy with her life as a housewife but doesn't blatantly show it. She cooks

In the story “A Secret Sorrow”, a woman by the name of Faye is battling a traumatic accident. The reference of the car accident sets the reader up for the tone of the story. In the beginning of chapter 11, Faye is very fragile woman. Something is making her feel distraught. When reading the first sentence “feel the blood drain from her face” (Van Der Zee 28) and “thought she was going to faint” (28), its not clear what permanent internal injury Faye has, as stated in the preface. In the following few paragraphs the author wrote, “clutched at him for support, fighting for control” and “legs were shaking so badly”. These descriptive statements of

Do you like history? Then this is a book for you. “A Night Divided” by Jennifer A. Nielsen is a very eye catching book. The book is a story about how a family was split up by the Berlin Wall that went up in Berlin, Germany. It goes along the lines of Greta who is the youngest child in her family. Many thing happen that Greta has to deal with and try to solve, she has to do so while knowing that while she is on the East side that her father and brother are on the West side. This book is realistic fiction and has 317 pages

In literature an archetype is used as a character, image or theme that exemplifies a universal meaning or a simple human experience. For this occasion the archetype is referring to a journey. The conventional stages of the archetypal journey are departure, initiation, testing one’s ability, descending into the underworld, and then returning and reintegrating with society. One example of the archetypal journey is in the novel As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner. In the novel the Bundren family undertakes a quest from their home in Yoknapatawpha County to Jefferson in pursuance of burying their mother/ wife, Addie. Along the way this family endures numerous hurdles that they must overcome. Their journey resembles that of an archetypal journey with a departure, journey and arrival. Along with the novel As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner, the film Little Miss Sunshine shares the same archetypal pattern. The film Little Miss Sunshine is an effective contemporary interpretation of an archetypal journey because of its events, characters and symbols that are similar to those in the novel As I Lay Dying.

Mayella Ewell has caused an uproar in Maycomb, Alabama. Accusing Tom Robinson of rape and facing Atticus Finch in the courtroom, she is not a powerful force and that will be confirmed by her class, race, and gender in Harper Lee’s, To Kill a Mockingbird. Not to mention her class is unquestionably horrible and she lives behind a dump in the house of a pig farmer. Her status is only slightly better than a Negros and even though Mayella is a white woman and should be protected, she has been abused by her father and other whites and Negroes will not help her.

Irene’s queer personality lives repressed in her id and the attraction can be noticed through many too detailed descriptions of Clare body parts and personality. “Her lips, painted a brilliant geranium red, were sweet and sensitive and a little obstinate. A tempting mouth” (45). It is impressive to see how this supposedly straight woman describes Clare’s mouth as tempting, yet she does not stop there, because Irene also describes her voice, “What was it about Clare's voice that was so appealing, so very seductive?” (52). The utilization of these adjectives is questionable because even when Irene talks about her husband Brian, she never uses adjectives that could express desire or even love. Irene is aware that her marriage is an arrangement where according to Brian sex is a just grand joke (60).

Unfortunately for Raboteau, her experiences in Jamaica turn out to fall short of her expectations. During her first few days on the Island, Jamaica’s mask of peace and love is stripped off and replaced with an ugly homophobic side. Raboteau’s frustration is evident after having a conversation with a homophobic Rasta: “No Zion for gays and lesbians here then. I was profoundly disappointed, like a child who would be deceived by her teacher” (p. 86). Emily Raboteau leaves Jamaica feeling further from Zion than when she first arrived on the

In my opinion, the kids in Margot’s class didn’t believe her about the sun because they were jealous of her that she got to see colours and something bright, warm and beautiful. I think that the kids were jealous of Margot that she got to see colours, something bright, warm and beautiful because they wanted to see what she got to see other than rain and darkness, they want to see brightness, colours, warmness and something beautiful. The kids in her class want to have the same experience as she did. Also they were jealous of Margot because Margot is going back to earth to see the sun again because she hasn't seen the sun in 5 years and she really wants to see the

He shows Margot as the outcast. She is the only one from all the kids that saw the sun and she remembers it clearly because she lived on earth and all the other kids live on Venus their whole life. She is always by herself and not with the group. In the short story it shows that by showing how Margot acted and the way she looked. “Margot stood alone. She was a very frail girl who looked as if she had been lost in the rain for years … Now she stood, separate, staring at the rain and the loud wet world beyond the huge glass.” (2) Bradbury shows that she is lonely because he uses words like separate. Because she is always alone, does not talk to anyone it causes William to bully her and which need lead him to stopping her from seeing the sun. He is always pushing her around and making fun of her. "Get away!" The boy gave her another push. "What’re you waiting for?" …. They all blinked at him and then, understanding, laughed and shook their heads.” (3) All Margot wanted was to see the sun for 1 hour and the scientist say that the sun was coming out. So Margot was happy and told everyone. That gets William mad because he thought that she was lying. So what he did was convince everyone to put her in a closet and lock it. "All a joke !" said the boy, and seized her roughly. "Hey, everyone, let’s put her in a closet before the teacher comes” (3) He was a bully to Margot.

“The Short, Happy Life of Francis Macomber” also contains the theme of arduous moral situations for the characters. Margot, the wife of Francis, is challenged by the temptation to have relations with their tour guide. Eventually, she commits the crime of adultery, and her husband finds out about her crime and is deeply shaken. “‘Well, why doesn’t he keep his wife where she belongs? What does he think I am, a bloody plaster saint? Let him keep her where she belongs. It’s his own fault’” (Hemingway 13). By the tone of Wilson thoughts, it is inferred that he is not able to find fault in himself and decides to blame it on the most vulnerable person, Francis. In spite of Wilson being the only man to blame for this whole incident, Margot can also take part of the blame. She appears to be a faithful and caring wife, but her actions do not justify this statement.

Her husband has given everything to her and if she were to leave then she would not be able to support herself, by cause of Margot’s loss of awareness of where money comes for. Her sees it as coming from a man, not being earned. Hemingway uses Margot and the wife’s dependence on Francis men in theseir stories to show women’s dependence on men.

Jamaica is an island located in the Caribbean, it is west of Haiti and south of Cuba. It makes its money from; Industry - textiles, tourism, food processing. Agriculture - bananas, coffee, sugarcane, and citrus. Exports - alumina, bauxite, sugar, bananas, and rum (National Geographic, 2015). Jamaica has a strong population of nearly 3 million people – which is a lot considering it is smaller than Connecticut. The people have a life expectancy of 75 years old and a literacy rate of 88 percent (National Geographic, 2015). According to Countries and their Cultures, the population is 1 percent East Indian, 7 percent mixed, 90 percent black – some of which are descents of slaves, and a small amount of whites and Chinese. Although Patois, or Creole, is widely spoken in Jamaica the official language of the country it English. Even so, they maintain a specific rhythm and melody of the English language that is unique to only the Jamaican people. Culturally they are family and home oriented, “the Jamaican family includes a close-knit web of aunts, uncles, cousins, and grandparents” (Kwintessential, n.d.). They provided emotional and financial support for on another – family is the most important group of people in their lives and whom they spent most of their time with.

Virginia Woolf’s Orlando is a work that bends the rules in multiple ways. It plays with the idea of biographies, it questions the nature of fiction writing, it incorporates humor in bizarre ways. And on top of all that it brings into view certain controversial topics, and certain prejudices of Woolf’s time. The two prejudices this paper will be focusing on are homophobia and sexism. By looking at the character of Orlando and examining his/her relationships, romantic feelings, and place in society, we can clearly see Woolf writing back against society 's prejudices and fears of the 1920s. In a society of gender roles and sexuality closely monitored and defined, Woolf creates something unexpected, “unacceptable” (in some people’s eyes), and

High-class society, marriage, affairs, adventures, and… lesbians? Written in 1936, this novel changed gay and lesbian fiction and feminist literature in times where being different was not accepted as readily as it is now. Djuna Barnes was a 20th century writer with 21st century notions about sexuality and society. She was a great thinker for her time and through her writing, became a type of leader to the alienated and a role model for feminists everywhere. Nightwood shows the opaqueness of lesbian relationships in high-society and how reckless love, regardless of sexuality, can be detrimental to relationships and to personalities. Though gender-queer, feminism and estrangement theories cemented the various themes of the novel, there many