Analysis Of The Book ' The Little Flower '

Fairytales subvert, challenge or reaffirm archetypal values through didactic lenses. The presence of universal themes allows for an examination of contextual shifts and by being malleable in nature, can be made relevant to different audiences. The Brothers Grimm 's "Little Red Cap", Angela Carter’s 'The Company of Wolves" and Tommy Wirkola 's film, "Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters" all promote their hegemonic ideologies and as 'cultural artefacts’ extrapolate the contextual values of their time period. Carl Jung 's theory of the 'Collective Unconscious" ensures that each of these fairytale adaptations can retain their archetypal value and thus remain significant and relevant in contemporary circumstances.

“One person's craziness is another person's reality.” – Tim Burton. We people have a tendency to live our life in suffer for the past because it’s terrifying to face the truth. Unaware that it affects our fellow human beings. Stephen King’s short story “The man who loved flowers” manages to blur the lines between normality and insanity while digging down in the fear of love.

Post-colonial theory is the study of the colonizer and the colonized. Post-colonial literature refers to the literary works of writers of the colonized countries whose work concentrates on the main theme of colonization and decolonization. Post-colonial literature is about European colonization of Asia, Africa, countries around the Pacific and many other parts of the world. It deals with the problems such as adversity, racism, exploitation of women and

After reading The Sunflower, I’ll admit I had a lot of questions. When I started reading some of the response essays, I saw some of the same questions asked that I had. One that stuck out to me the most was the essay by Alan L. Berger. Berger’s reason for writing his essay was the issues being inflexible and his students questioning them. What was very evident to me about his essay was how he questioned why was Simon silent, If Karl was sincere, If Simon was the one to answer Karl’s response, and was Simon scarred by the interaction with Karl?

Book Summary- In Fablehaven, two kids, Seth and Kendra Sorenson are dropped off at their grandparents house while their parents go on a cruise for “family reasons.” When they arrive at their grandparents house, Grandpa Sorenson acts suspicious when the kids wonder where their grandmother is. Grandpa Sorenson introduces them to Lena, the housekeeper and Dale who helps with yard work. He then leads them to a spacious attic space where there are many things to be entertained with. Grandpa only has two rules for Kendra and Seth: No going into the woods and never enter the barn. Kendra is given three keys, over a couple of days she finds that one key goes to a jewelry box and one to a dollhouse. In the dollhouse, there are two more hidden

(AGG) All around the world, there has been situations like PTSD affecting people’s daily lives, as the author uses it in a book. (BS-1) Millions of people have been affected by PTSD from what they have seen and it makes things harder to not forget about the event. (BS-2) PTSD affected Najmah, because her dealing with hard losses. (BS-3) Nusrat and Najmah struggles with themselves, showing an internal conflict of Man vs Self. (TS) Throughout the book, Under The Persimmon Tree, the author uses real life situations, like PTSD, to change and shape a character’s personality.

Kelly J. Mayes defines plot in The Norton Introduction to Literature as the way the author sequences and paces the events so as to shape our response and interpretation. Every piece of literature contains a plot pattern that follows Freytag’s pyramid. This pyramid consists of an exposition, rising action, a climax, falling action, and a conclusion. Though each story displays this pattern of organization, authors use many different literary devices to differentiate their work and to acquire the response they want to achieve from their audience. The author of “The Jewelry,” Guy De Maupassant, correctly followed Freytag’s Pyramid and used varied literary devices to create a suspenseful read for the audience.

The Seminole Indians are a tribe of Native Americans who are based in Florida but have moved across further and also settled themselves in neighboring Oklahoma. Historically, the Seminole Indians have been successful traders, which are evidenced from their vast trading networks during the periods of Spanish and British colonization of the region. This explains their adeptness at facilitating the trade of rare orchid flowers from Florida to markets in other parts of the country and in the European countries. As a result of the Seminole Wars fought during 1818-1858, large numbers of Seminole Indians were displaced from their native Florida (Cattelino 22). Those that remained behind became staunchly protective of their identity, history, heritage and customs. This aspect of the Seminole Indians is also widely explored in the book:

Racism has been in America from many years. “Caucasia” is one the best example of it. Danzy Senna writes about Birdie and about her life. In the story two sisters Birdie and Cole have different skin color, one with dark and one with white skin. Both sisters are really close to each other. They even talk in their own language that they made while growing. In a racially divided Boston area, the sisters are sent to a black community school, where birdie faces many problems in school. Their father Deck is black and mother Sandy white. Their racial color became a big problem in society. At one stage their family collapses when the FBI comes in, and their parents separate. Deck the father takes Cole and his new girlfriend to Brazil with him. Birdie goes with her mother and lives in many different cities in New England. Both sisters live without each other. Birdie always tried to find someone like her sister, who she can copy or follow. At the end Birdie leave her mother and reunites with her black father deck and sister Cole.

In the Georges And The Jewels, the author (Jane Smiley) compares how horses act, and how one may treat a human better, and another may not. In this comparison, Abby, the main character tells of how a horse had bucked her off while another had comforted her whilst she slept. So thus in this story it is written from the point of view of the human riding the horse, for instance it said in the text, “Sometimes when you fall off your horse, you just don’t want to get right back on.” From that and piece of text and others like it we can learn how she relates to bad and good horses alike.

Jalapeno bagels is about a boy named Pablo whom cannot decide what to take to school for International Day. He wants to bring something from his parents’ baker. He wants something that represent his heritage but he cannot decide what to bring. His mother who is Mexican baked pan dulce and change bars. His father who is Jewish baked bagels and challah. Both of the bake good were good but while helping his parents with the bakery on Sunday morning, Pablo made a decision on what to bring. He decided to bring jalapeno bagels because they are a mixture both of his parents and just like him too. The multicultural representations in the story line is Mexican and Jewish. The pictures that were drawn in the book, the family has the same color of skin even though the parents are different cultures and the main character is mixed. There were no different skin colors.

A famous American actor and martial arts instructor, Bruce Lee, said, “Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.” The Holocaust was a very horrible time for not only the Jewish general, but every individual and group involved. It was a very bloody time and many people were treated with violence and disrespect. Jews were sent to Extermination and Concentration camp in which they were either sent to do manual labor or be killed. In the Excerpt from “The Sunflower”, Simon encounters a dying SS soldier who asks Simon to forgive him for what he’s done to the Jewish people.

     In Kate Chopin’s short story, “Desiree’s Baby”, she demonstrates how racism played a major part in people’s lives in the 1800’s. Kate Chopin is extremely successful in getting her readers to feel disturbed by the events in the story. Through words and images, the reader feels touched by the story, either by relating to it at some points or when confronted with things we frequently decide to ignore in the world: the evil some human beings are capable of possessing.

Kate Chopin’s “Désirée 's Baby” was set in the days before the abolition of slavery, at a time when the ownership of another person was not only acceptable, but also economically impactful in the south. It was normal to see big plantations owned by whites and tendered by black slaves. We see all of this and more in “Désirée’s Baby”. One of the characters, Monsieur Valmonde finds an abandoned baby one day while out riding. His wife, Madam Valmonde, does not have a child of her own so she takes the baby in and names her Désirée. Madam Valmonde and her husband, Monsieur Valmonde raises the child, until she is old enough to become married. Her attractiveness and especially white skin attract Monsieur Armand Aubigny, a plantation owner, and they immediately become married and have a child. Désirée and Armand both originally associate themselves with the white class, but once the plot unveils their black heritage they are faced with uncertainty, and ultimately their lives become meaningless and not worth living. Throughout the story, Kate Chopin uses symbolism to convey her themes of racial biasness and social ladder in a society. The characters and the setting in this short story help provide the readers with more understanding of how racially charged our society was at that time.

After Hester is released from prison Hawthorne leaves us wondering if her choice to stay in Boston was even a choice she could make. Chapter five opens with Hester coming into the light and leaving the cell in which she had been punished in for so long. However, once she is out, she decides to stay in Massachusetts, in the same community which has shamed her for so long. Hawthorne describes the decision when he writes, “it may seem marvelous, that this woman should still call that place her home… But there is a fatality… which almost invariably compels human beings to linger … the spot where some great and marked event has given the color to their lifetime” (71). In this quote Hawthorne is not only speaking of Hester, he is speaking of