Analysis Of Horton Foote's The Orphans ' Home Cycle

The cubical showed every sign of having been built for a man just about my size, (p 81). Again Fletcher is assuming that the cubical was built for a man of his size. I dwelt in my cliff dwelling for twenty-four hours. And, hour by hour-conscious of my vast ignorance, yet curiously confident-I began to focus on my cave dweller more sharply, (p 82). In this sentence Fletcher reassures the reader that the man knows he s not really experiencing anything with the Indian. We know this because he tells the audience that he is aware of his own ignorance. By choosing those words, Fletcher lets the reader know that the man is imagining being with the Indian.

The Birth House by Ami McKay tells the story of a young midwife named Dora, living in rural Nova Scotia during the early 1900’s. Dora is trained in midwifery by Ms. Babineau, the midwife of Scots Bay until her death when Dora takes over. Dora is challenged by Dr. Thomas, a professional doctor who opens up a modern hospital in the community who encourages the women of Scots Bay to abandon traditional midwifery as a means of giving birth. Dr. Thomas persistently attempts to convince the residents of Scots Bay that modern medicinal technology is a safer and cleaner means of giving birth than allowing Dora and Ms. Babineau to deliver their children, despite their vast knowledge and experience of women’s reproductive health. The novel discusses

In the Young-Adult Fiction The Outsiders written by S.E. Hinton, there is a dispute about whether or not Ponyboy should be separated from his brothers to be put in the foster system. Ponyboy shouldn’t be put into the system for many reasons. One of which includes that he has been with his brothers and friends for his entire life and taking that away would be like taking a part of himself away. Also, you wouldn’t just be taking him away from his brothers, but his closest friends too, and then he’d have really lost everything.

The yellow wallpaper is the most obvious symbol found in the story. The yellow wallpaper symbolizes how women were portrayed in the nineteenth century. In the story the narrator describes the wallpaper as "One of those sprawling, flamboyant patterns, pronounced enough sin. It is dull enough to confuse the eye in following, pronounced enough constantly to irritate and provoke study, and when you follow the lame uncertain curves for a little distance they suddenly commit suicide - plunge off at outrageous angles, destroy themselves in unheard-of contraindications" (Gilman 545). The narrator basically feels that her life is dull and boring which can lead to her committing suicide. Later on in the story the wallpaper was described as “The color is hideous enough, and unreliable enough, and infuriating enough, but the pattern is torturing. You think you have mastered it, but just as you get well underway in following, it turns back somersault and there you are. It slaps you in the face, knocks you down, and tramples upon you. It is like a bad dream” (Gilman 548). The pattern in the wallpaper basically represents the narrator’s mindset. The narrator calls herself “hideous” and “unreliable.” Women during this time period were often view as “unreliable”

There are approximately 402,000 children in the foster care system on any given day of the year. In 2013, 640,000

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These thoughts that pertained to Mariam reminded me of what I hear children say when they have to switch foster homes every few months. This connection developed because I met a few foster kids two years ago, and they told me of how they felt about being in foster homes. The little kids would say how moving to a new house was like an adventure because they were always discovering new things. However, they wished they could stay in one home for a really long time because wanted to have a mommy and daddy for once. Whereas, the teens would inform me that having hope and love while being in the foster system can cause more harm than good. Hope and love would cause them to believe that they finally found some foster parents that actually cared for

Romare Bearden, a great artist that expresses many feelings throughout his photos. He expresses different types of feelings and meanings through colors, background, character demeanor, and even the posture of the characters in the picture. My favorite painting by Romare Bearden has to be "The Family"(1941) due to the fact that I had a personal connection to the picture. I never knew of Romare Bearden's other painting that related to this one which is "The Family"(1975). This is a similar picture but the family isn't as depressed as the family in the first picture. This family doesn't seem to be struggling and

Why not invite your home to a foster child. There are twenty-two percent of males in foster care and forty-eight of females. The percentage of their living areas is four percent pre-Adoptive homes, twenty-nine foster family homes (relative), forty-six percent foster family home (nonrelative), six percent group homes, eight percent institution, one percent supervised independent living, 1 percent runaway, and five percent trial home visits. In 2014 two hundred thirty-eight thousand two hundred thirty left foster care. Fiftyone reunification with parents or primary caretakers, seven percent living with other relatives, twenty one percent was adopted, nine percent was emancipated, nine percent was guardianship, two percent transferred to another

The mental struggle and impetuous behavior about her unhappiness make her stretch out her feelings onto her surroundings, especially the wallpaper, which becomes a symbolic feature of her situation. She feels sad whenever she thinks about her condition of both depression and condition in general within her oppressive marriage.

One major external conflict that arises constantly throughout this book is the hatred and abuse that adults show towards Oliver. From the very beginning he was mishandled and underfed, with his caretaker Mrs. Mann keeping the majority of the money given to her by the church for herself. Even after he escapes the malnourishment and beatings with Mann, he winds up being taken to the parochial orphanage where he still is given no food. When the kids pick him to ask for more, he winds up being punished with six months of solitary confinement, only being let out to be publicly flogged as an example for the rest of the orphans and to listen to them pray never to ever be as wretched and sinful as he was. The officials there clearly don’t care for

In the United states, history is usually looked upon as good, except the fact that we’ve practiced slavery longer than other countries. Throughout our history, slavery played a huge role and is one of the most learned topics in schools, nationwide. Although Gary Paulsen’s novel, Nightjohn is considered historical fiction, the descriptions of broken family structures, harsh restrictions, and brutal punishments can be corroborated with multiple sources such as the Narrative of Frederick Douglass, Mingo White’s Narrative, and Solomon Northup, Twelve Years a Slave.

I have written this because I have had a lot of hardships and worse than imaginable. It shows how you have the storms which are the hardships that bring you down and only when they end is it ok, though it still goes on always for me, for most people it's only for a very short period of time. It talks about a dove singing which means for me when I sing or hear someone singing it makes me feel better. The forest represents a path to a new place and though you want to go back to where you started when you get to the new place things will be different but you have to adjust and make things the way you know as well as learn to live the new way. I have used metaphors, imagery and personification in this

Additionally, themes involving love and loneliness stand out. We particularly see this when it says, “No one notices, when they walk by, that I am brimming in the doorways...To anybody else it’s

The main theme of the poem however, is the sadness and misfortune that accompanies everyone's journey through