Analysis Of Sandra Cisneros My Lucy Friend Who Smells Like Corn

In the novel, Forster builds Lucy to be described as a reserved, naive, outspoken, follow the rules and don’t ask questions type of girl. Lucy appears to have these traits to her family, but deep within she is desperate to break free from the societal expectations placed on her and lead her own life free from judgment from not only the people in her class but most importantly her family. Lucy’s role in society is to be a proper young English lady and abide by the rules that her fellow elites place on her. These rules include marrying someone her family and peers deem fit for not only her but the advancement of both families and learning the acceptable etiquette for women. Wanting to please the social class she is apart of, Lucy sacrifices her own thoughts, interests and even her own personality. Forester demonstrates this by the division in Lucy’s character between “delicate”, which is her dishonesty and being trapped within a persona of

Not only were their intentions and approaches of the novels opposing but their racial representations through female characters’ clash to. Within Last of the Mohicans the perception of race gender identity is represented through the two sisters, Alice and Cora. Cooper has established the two females in ‘a duality that can never be integrated: light/dark, feminine/unfeminine, pure/tainted’ (Wardrop, 1997, p. 63). It is binaries such as these which have led to Alice being presented as a weak and dependent character, a counteracting character to her determined and fiery sister Cora. Alice, a white female character and the child of Colonel Munro is initially portrayed as an innocent, pure and sexually naïve female who was most ‘juvenile in her appearance’ and ‘permitted glimpses of her dazzling complexion, fair golden hair, and bright blue eyes…’ (Cooper, 488). Coopers first description of Alice clearly fits the ideology of “white blooded” characters, referring to her ‘golden hair’ and ‘bright blue eyes’. This initial imagery created reflects a positive outlook on Alice, linking the gold and blue to nature and her ‘dazzling complexion’ to

It was a cold and windy day, a perfect day to uncover secrets and truths about writers I had heard of, but new little about. I entered the library to escape the weather and lose myself in books about Sandra Ciseneros and the characters she creates in her poems and stories. I began my search at a computer resource station, and then absorbed myself in the materials it provided, which were biographies, criticisms, and the works of Cisneros.

It happens in Italy, where Lucy is dismayed to discover that she has traveled hundreds of miles and several countries to observe the city, and yet her motel room does not come with a good view. Fortunately for the traveling pair of Lucy and her old-fashioned cousin Charlotte, a father-and-son duo of volunteer to donate their quarters, which possess a stunning view of the Italian cityscape. However, their attempts are stopped flat by Miss Bartlett, who has already exercised a healthy sense of social bigotry and proclaimed these people (the Emersons) to be “ill-bred... her glance passed on to his clothes. Those did not attract her.” (4) At this point, Charlotte’s opinion reigns supreme- a symbol of the level of dominance that social hierarchy has over Lucy’s life. However, in due time, the decision is entirely Lucy’s to make; due time, in this abbreviated foreshadowing, spans roughly five pages. By page 9, Lucy has declared emphatically, “Oh, Charlotte, we must have the rooms now. The old man is just as nice and kind as he can be.” (9) While Miss Bartlett remains unconvinced, she defers to Lucy’s judgement- Lucy has, on a small scale,

“She was one of the blackest of her race; and her round, shining eyes, glittering as glass beads, moved with quick and restless glances over everything in the room. Her mouth, half open with astonishment… displayed a white and brilliant set of teeth. Her woolly hair was braided in sundry little tails, which stuck out in every direction. The expression of her face

The story “Suzy and Leah” written by Jane Yolen, is about two girls. Suzy is from America, while Leah is from Germany. The girls first meet on August 5, 1944, when Suzy handed out candy bars to the refugee kids. When Suzy and Leah first meet each other, they didn’t like one or another. But as they got to know each other, they became friends. In school, Suzy helps Leah with her English. The girls got to know each other better though English. By the end of the story, Suzy’s view point on Leah changes.

First characterization in this short story is very prominent, And Alice Walker does not disappoint with the detail to each character. The mother whose name we never are given, is the life line the bread bearer for this family. It is already a difficult time to be black and live in the south. Now think she is alone and rising two children in the middle of nowhere. So as you could imagine she is a very strong and most certainly an independent woman. She is also very uneasy around white people. She says “Who can imagine me looking a white man in the eye? It seems to me I have always talked to them with one foot raised in flight” (1). During the time she was being raised racism was at its peak in the south. When she was young she probably dealt with the most spiteful racist people, now more than anything it is instinct to have an escape plan ready anytime she in confronted by a person with white skin. The younger of the two daughters in named Maggie. Maggie was burned very badly when she was a toddler when her old house had burned down. Because of this she feels that her sister is perfect and she desires to be like her. It is said “Maggie will be nervous until after her sister goes: (Dee) she will stand hopelessly in corners, homely and ashamed of the burn scars down her arms and legs, eyeing her sister with a mixture of envy and awe” (1). She clearly has very low self-confidence compared to Dee, and the main reason seems to be the trauma of the fire as well as the

Over the course of a year, the landscape changes drastically. The barren trees grow leaves in March. They turn yellow, red, and orange in the fall and brown in the winter. As humanity has expanded, it’s affected the environment. To gather materials to build homes, we’ve cut down trees. In building factories, we fill the air with smog. Literature of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries reflect these times of technological advancements at the cost of nature. In Jean Toomer’s “Fern” and Langston Hughes’s “Cora Unashamed,” the heroines and the abhorrent acts committed against them parallel the destruction of the environment by industry and artificiality.

Lucy Westenra is young, innocent, beautiful, and at most times some would say she had a child’s mind, but she was still adored by all. Lucy was sweet, she never met a stranger, and she loved everybody, three in particular are the men who cherished her so much, they all proposed to her: Arthur Holmwood, Quincey Morris, and Dr. Jack Seward. Even her best friend Mina Murray expressed continuously on how gorgeous Lucy was. The only fault Lucy had was that, she was vulnerable. Lucy was not as strong and independent as Mina, she depended on everyone to protect her because that was everyone’s natural instinct towards her. And she let them because she did not want to disappoint anyone. In the story she even said, “Why can’t a girl marry three men,

One afternoon, in Berlin, Germany, Bella Schmit was strolling home from a lonesome, wretched day at her new school. She was walking with her head down kicking up tiny pebbles when she almost stumbled over two petite, fuzzy, green caterpillars. She bent down and they squirmed into her palm where she then raised them up and called, “I shall call you Oscar and Alphonse, and I will love you forever.”

The idea of the ideals of whiteness reigns on these couple pages and shows the superiority that these citizens felt during this time, and there is no black standard of beauty. While Claudia describing Maureen as “High-yellow”, which translates into cultural background of one eighth’s black, and seven eighth’s, one may say that this is considered too dark-skinned to pass as white, and her eyes are “sloe” which means dark in colour or almond in shape, although not holding qualities of a perfect Anglo child with fair skin and round blue eyes she is still deeming to be more beautiful then a full African American, thus why she considers her to be a “dream child”. (Morrison, 62) Being of mixed race allows Maureen to be represented by both the white

Dear aunt bessie, one million dollars you gave me will be used for the greater good of this nation. Nobody is doing good besides the rich. Children are working in factories, the women have no rights, people are being sold bad food, and others are tearing down forest destroying earth. It's just terrible, and this is where I will put my one million dollars.

Childhood is often seen as a time of carefree innocence. This idea of childhood innocence is in Alice Walker’s short story, titled “The Flowers.” The story, set in the summer, follows a girl named Myop as she picks flowers, skips, and sings. Myop, though, lays down her flowers, which represents her childhood innocence, after coming across the body of a man who’d been lynched. Diction and mood has a strong presence throughout the story.

Once in High School, Claire and Stella, in the middle of a hallway had to be pulled apart from one another. This wasn’t the first or last time. The school counselor trying to find some middle ground asked both if there weren’t sisters, or Galdwins, would they be friends or even talk to the other. The room become very quiet than.

Have you ever looked back on something you did as a kid, or the past in general and regretted something you did or should have done but didn’t do it? Well The author Sandra Cisneros captures that feeling well in eleven by using stylistic techniques such as characterization, personification, and imagery to sound like a young child. The character Rachel is a personified avatar of Sandra's emotions.