Analysis Of The Harvest By Amy Hempel

The Narrator feels suffering is something we cannot control and is ridiculous to cry over as she

The fact that the entire story happens over the course of just an hour shows the psychological aspects of it. Quick to jump in and create a whole fantasy world that she had probably already been thinking about long before hearing of the accident Mrs.Mallard experiences such inner piece in the face of what would be an enormous trauma. Though she may not be a battered woman she was obviously trapped in a life that she did not want. She did not dream of being taken care of, rather she dreamed of taking care of herself. An hour is not a long time, sometimes after a major event happens it takes a whole hour to possibly be coming to terms with an event. Mrs.Mallard’s being so set on believing her husband is dead, thinking about him at his funeral and crying for short bursts and fearing only for a small time, possibly because she feels slightly ashamed for being so happy that her husband is now dead. “When the doctors came they said she had died of heart disease-- of joy that kills” (Chopin 66) Mrs.Mallard had built up such (imaginary) hope that when her world came crashing down around her when her husband walked through the door she died. Her death can possibly be seen as her own fault, she built up this new exciting thing for her that she had no idea wouldn't happen and when it wasn't going to her mind might

In the literature, Harvest of Empire: A History of Latinos in America by Juan Gonzalez, we immediately jump into the development of how Latin America came to be about. Throughout the first part of Roots, Gonzales proceeds to discuss about colonization of Latin America. He not only mentions Latin America but also mentioned the colonization from the England to the New World which I found interesting because it seemed like he was comparing the two. I found it ironic when Gonzalez mentioned that Anglo Americans have changed the view that the Spanish left little to no impact is the history that we learn from our textbooks from the time we were able to learn anything in school. Agreeing with what he mentioned, not only I but students have come the realization that textbooks only seem to cover some aspects of history but never the entirety of what happened meaning that we have washed away with what really happened to what we want others to know.

Sometimes there is a situation that one is dragged in to, such as some type of accident. For example, Mitchell Stephens is one of the narrators in “The Sweet Hereafter” by Russell Banks. In his side of the story, he is a lawyer from New York who heard about a bus accident in Sam Dent where ten children died in a bus crash. Mitchell is also the one lawyer representing Risa Walker and her husband in a negligence suit that financially compensated them for the loss of their son Sean. Mitchell is not only just a lawyer like many others but also had more experience. He sympathizes with the parents who lost their children in the accident because like these parents who lost their children he also has a daughter Zoe, who is he can consider dead due to her drug problem. To this reason, Mitchell Stephen has the most to gain by telling his tale to the reader because he seeks to relieve himself from his grief and to help future children riding to school who do not have to come to the same fate as others in the accident.

In Laurie Halse Anderson’s Speak, the protagonist, a freshman named Melinda must learn the key to recovery after enduring extreme trauma. She struggled to find someone to speak to, due to the school shunning her for calling the police at the party. Throughout Speak, Melinda seeks to recover from the trauma she experienced, especially the cruel actions from her ex-friends. Through symbolism, Laurie Halse Anderson displays the theme in Melinda's perspective.

In Lying: A Metaphorical Memoir, Lauren Slater attempts to create a new kind of truth called metaphorical truth: emotional truth explained using metaphors instead of facts. She confuses fact and fiction even though it is a memoir and thus creates a convoluted tale of herself where she may or may not be epileptic. Initially, the readers believe that she uses metaphorical truth to make them understand the essence of her life. By the end of the book, they begin to also believe that she wants to ask them, as a last resort, to help her in her healing process by the following: giving her much need

The victim speaks about how much her life has changed since the incident. She speaks about "sleeping with the lights on", showing the fact that she is still scared a year and a half later. The "long and invasive" rape exams effected the victim not only mentally but also physically. The psychological damage inflicted on rape victims is long lasting. The victim uses words like

In Susan Farrell, the author of “Just Listen”: Witnessing Trauma in Tim O’Brien’s The Things They Carried, mentioned “...all theorists agree that the process of recovery from trauma must involve a narrativization of traumatic event--putting a sensory images into words in order to integrate trauma into a person 's life story” (186). However, without reading Cathy Caruth’s Trauma, readers will not understand that not only integrating trauma into a narrative will help them recover but it also allows the witness apprehend their flashbacks into meaning. Flashbacks, although are taunting, has the most vivid images compared to narrated memories. For one to remember a highlight or a significant moment, one must preserve it as a flashback. In The Things They Carried, Tim O’Brien convert his flashbacks into narrative memories allowing himself and readers to comprehend his experiences, but O’Brien also added flashbacks into his memories create the most graphic images for the readers.

“Since the protagonist is suffering a mental breakdown, she is also considered an unreliable narrator because the reader cannot be certain if she is accurately relating the events of the story,” (Wilson 7).

This is a journal that was published from 1852 to 1854 it had many contributors to its articles but the editor and proprietor was John F. Tompkins M.D. Called the Farmer’s Journal it contained many different kinds of articles all about farming. It covered the use of manure on cropland to how to use Indian techniques on raising potatoes. It had a section on the cost of hay, seeds, and many other items. Raised on a farm it was interesting to read the differences of how things have changed from then until now. It hit home with our class when it talked about Indian techniques that we have learned in class and how it was better or worse than what the English did. It talked about the success and failure of potato crops and referring to the Indian

In this book two bakers are competing to be selected for the Harvest Sweet baker for the upcoming Harvest Faire. The bakers are Pia, who makes pies and Bart who makes cookies. The bakers have to win over the towns people in their baking competition but they have trouble keeping track of the votes. They get an extension for 1 more day to count the votes. Pia comes up with a system where she makes tally marks in flower at the end of the day. Then Bart decides to line up dough next to the types of cookie molds he is baking to keep track of the votes. Unfortunately their plans don’t work as a dog and cat mess of their counting systems. They then come up with new ways to keep track by using molds and candies on a pie to track the results. The bakers

In the short story, “The Harvest” by Tomás Rivera, Rivera suggest that the relationship between man and nature is complex and it’s hard to understand. Rivera suggests this through the character Don Trine. Don Trine is judged or misunderstood by almost everyone around him because of the strange walks he takes through the groves alone and how he connects to nature. Rivera writes, “ And that’s how all the rumors about Don Trine walks got started. The folks couldn’t figure out why or what he got out of taking off by himself every afternoon,”(Rivera paragraph 9).

Where does our food come from? Kathy Dummer in her article called How safe is our food? says that “The worldwide increase of food availability is due to technological advances in food production, pesticides, and genetically altered seeds, with 44 percent of the grains produced in the U.S. being genetically modified (GM). “ Most and if not all the food that America eats has grain in it. Which means that some of the food that we are consuming is genetically modified. They aren’t grow naturally they are produced by a factory then goes to a farm to grow. The farmers have to spray these pesticides on the seeds so that the bugs don’t eat away at the plants. But the bugs are starting to get stronger against the pesticides so they are adding more chemicals

Sylvia Bojcvuk, born to Alexander and Albina Bojcvuk on their family farm on January 19th, 1928 in Ukraine. Little did this young baby girl know she was about to endure a tragic, yet adventurous life that would impact generations.

It is through the physical pain that the reader understands the emotional strain and turmoil of the protagonist’s plight. The juxtaposition of survival and living are never more evident here. Her children are kidnapped; killed or sold. She has a body still recovering from the birth of a child, and she is forced to take her mother’s place, as a victim of domestic violence and sexual assault. Walker cleverly crafts this sense of desperation with Celie’s soul baring letters to god, the reader realizes she is has no one else to turn to; her writing only re-enforces her father's control over her. Her persevering spirit is what makes her survival so unique in the sense that she does not become embittered through any of it. “I look at woman, tho, cause I am not scared of them.” Telling god that she has not been traumatized at all by her mother’s passing, in fact, she goes further on “Mabey cause my mamma cuss me you think I kept mad at her. But I ain’t I feel sorry for her. (Walker, 5)” This for the reader is the most heart-breaking stance that she takes, as the reader is aware of the fact that her mother hated Celie’s guts with writing agony because her husband choose to rape her when she could not have sex with him. The reader singularly carries this sense of desperation for the protagonist as she continues to power through the intensity that surrounds her.