Eveline By Joyce Essay

Another theme contributing to the story is the obvious parental neglect that takes place in the narrator’s home. The girl makes the distant relationship between her and her

“A Sorrowful Woman” features a superficially simple narration style. “Now the days were too short. She was always busy,” Stylistically clipped, with a clear passive, detached, voice the narration style seems to be a banal, unimportant feature of the text. Yet the exact mendacity that prompts this description actually serves as a prerequisite to developing an understanding for the principal character’s mindset, and consequently the theme of the text. The last passage contains numerous examples of detached narration but the clearest occurs when “She was always busy. She woke with the first bird. Worked till the sun set. No time for hair brushing. Her fingers raced the hours.” The concise, third person narration in this segment allows the reader to experience the slightly off viewpoint of ‘the mother.’ Specifically, given the lack of motivation present through the text coupled with the concluding suicide it becomes evident in the text that ‘the mother’ is suffering from depression. Given the societal stigma surrounding mental illness authors generally face an uphill

In Joyce Carol Oats’ “Where is Here?”, a strange visitor comes to a family’s home to look through and reminisce about his childhood. Throughout the story, the stranger moves from place to place about the house, stopping and telling little details from his childhood concerning some of the rooms. Oats’ chooses to have the stranger move about the house in a certain order, as to have the desired effect on readers.Throughout the events of “Where is Here?”, this effect is achieved. The stranger first starts his tour in the garage. However, the reader does not get any details about why the stranger might be interested in the garage. He then moves to the backyard, going down to an old swing set. The reader learns that these swings were more than likely there when the stranger was a child because of the posts being rotted. Without giving the readers almost any detail about the outside of the house, the story moves on to the stranger being invited inside. Once inside the house, the stranger goes into the kitchen. He notices some things have changed since he lived in the house, but some have stayed the same. He also makes a remark about a door, asking if it leads to the basement. However the couple ignores this question and moves on. The stranger then notices some flowers on a windowsill and says his mother used to have flowers there too, although they never bloomed. He then moves to the dining room, telling about who sat where at the table. Also, the reader discovers that the couple’s children are the same age as the stranger and his sister were when they lived in this house. Next came the living room, in which the stranger pointed out that there used to be a water stain on the fireplace mantel, but the couple hadn’t seen it before. He also tells about the window seat, and how it was one of his happy places in the house whenever his father wasn’t home. He says that his mother would sit there with him as they plotted together. She would also read him stories and riddles that he could never answer. When the mother asks the stranger if his mother is still alive, he answers no and says,”We’ve all been dead—they’ve all been dead—a long time.” The story then states that the stranger seemed to limp his way up the stairs,

“Is there, then an evil that is innate, that is the little piece of monster in all of us.” (Cusatis). Every person has two sides, no one is completely good or completely evil. In the East of Eden, John Steinbeck uses a biblical metaphor to illustrate the innate good and evil that humans encounter. The novel includes several characters that are purely evil or do evil deeds. The Trask family is directly correlated to the Garden of Eden and other biblical narratives. “Steinbeck puts more into his stories than Genesis 4” (Fontenrose). Steinbeck illustrates the concepts of good and evil, family, and love to describe the frailties of the human experience.

The book Night written by Ellie Wiesel is an autobiography about his experiences during the holocaust in 1944. He is a survivor and was only 12 at the time. Ellie had three sisters named Hilda, Bea and Tzipora. His parents ran a store in Transylvania where Ellie spent most of his childhood in. Ellie 's mentor who everyone referred to as Moishe the Beadle is poor men who taught and helped Ellie study the cabbala. Early in the war, Moishe was expelled from Sighet as well as all the other foreign Jews. A few months after, everything was back to normal for Ellie and everyone else. His teacher, Moishe the Beadle then returns from his near death experience and warns everyone that the Nazi will soon come after them. No one really listened to him and did not believe that stories he told or didn’t want to believe them. Soon after this, the anti-Semitic Measures had the entire Sighet Jews move into ghettos that were supervised. With everyone living in fear, the Wiesel family remained calm and did not complain once.

Throughout the first few paragraphs, Dobson builds up a setting that displays the persona’s inner turmoil of the filial and maternal responsibility that overwhelms her, using words that depict isolation, highlighting the hesitancy and hardship that she experiences. This offers a new, and confrontational understanding that is quite paradoxical to her probable original views of motherhood, and thus, has lead to a renewed insight of the maternal obligations and duties that she finds at times restrictive and confining. She feels an ephemeral sense of release when she has time alone, stating that the ‘night absolved me of my bonds,’ although she has an epiphanic discovery where which she changes her perspective on motherhood. The persona discovers a familial love that ‘grows about the bone,’ Dobson using a metaphor to show the new understanding and connection that the mother feels towards her family members. This is contrasted though to her original desire for liberation, as she wanted to be ‘separate and alone,’ showing the persona’s sense of confusion and inner struggle.

In the words of Sigmund Freud, “The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind.” The legendary psychologist saw dreams as an avenue to study one’s underlying motives for action. Similarly, in literature one finds striking significance from the illusions of protagonists that often predict the nature of one’s psyche. Two such examples present themselves in Blanche, from Tennessee Williams’ A Streetcar Named Desire, and the grandmother, from Flannery O’Connor’s A Good Man is Hard to Find. The former tale follows a lady without a home who finds herself reliant on her belligerent and bestial brother-in-law. The latter traces a family’s road trip South and their encounter with a wanted fugitive. Both Blanche and the grandmother find themselves tethered to their idealistic and often times hypocritical fantasies which signify their underlying mental instability and foreshadow their eventual ruinations. Williams and O’Connor examine their protagonists’ delusions through gender, clothing, and nostalgia.

The novel “Red Queen” by Victoria Aveyard, uses many literary devices that makes the reader feel how the book wants you to feel as well as be able to paint a picture in their head. An example of mood would be, “Mom crumples in on herself, barely making it to a chair at the kitchen table before she devolves into sobs”(156). The mood turns to being sorrowful because the quote reveals that her son, Shade, passed away. Another example of a literary devices is when the author writes, “Gisa is skilled, pretty, and sweet”(14). This quote portrays direct characterization. When direct characterization is used, it reveals the character straightforward to move into the story quicker. Literary devices make the story interesting and intrigues the reader to keep reading.

       As the tale begins we immediately can sympathize with the repressive plight of the protagonist.  Her romantic imagination is obvious as she describes the "hereditary estate" (Gilman, Wallpaper 170) or the "haunted house" (170) as she would like it to be.  She tells us of her husband, John, who "scoffs" (170) at her romantic sentiments and is "practical to the extreme" (170).  However, in a time

“I’ve got to build up, a house, a story, to fit around the indescribable “feeling” that is like the soul of the story, and which I must insist upon in a dogged, embarrassed way, as being no more definable than that.” (267). This “feeling” is the most crucial thing when she writes her stories and she tries to use “real” ingredients from the real world to make this “feeling” clearer and she emphasizes at the essay that it is herself that writes the stories and it’s her own firm ideas and opinions that she is writing.

The novel Bright Lines tells the story of a Muslim family in the heart of New York and their trials and tribulations as they face the assimilation of American culture. Throughout the story, the young characters, Maya, El, and Charu are the most affected by this assimilation because they clash with what their elders think is best. El is a particularly interesting character because he is the most affected by the division of the two cultures he was raised in. The audience often sees El confused about the way he feels about his body while at the same time he is suffering from visions that haunt him. Growing up was very tough for El because he faced many obstacles from her parents being murdered because of the war to her complete inability to connect to anyone on a truly deep level. This, along with the diverse cultural roles in his life, has left his in many predicaments where she struggles with who he is. His identity is something that he longs for but has yet to find. A major aspect of his identity of which he struggles greatly with is his sexuality.

The loss of the mother and wife results in a change of roles between the girl and her father. Now, “dinner [is her] responsibility,” instead of her father’s because it used to be her mother’s job (Lopez par. 6). The main character also believes her father does not have the correct priorities to raise a child. Instead, he is too involved in English and literature than his daughter. The tension is developed through the daughter’s unhappiness and her actions of using the book her father cares so much about as a coaster.

Holly went home and collapsed on her couch. To her antipode, the room bifurcated into her bedroom and her kitchen. Holly knew she should take a shower and climb into bed, but she was so exhausted. She turned to a picture of her parents. She stared at the picture of her smiling mother and marveled at the similarity between Holly and her mother. Holly felt a tear coming, then blinked it away. She had a filial obligation to her parents to live out her life at the LEP regardless of what Waterby thought. Regardless of what Chanterelles

The short story eveline gives a young women the chance to explore new things. A new man. A new world. A new self. This young women titled eviline has not experienced the life every little girl hopes. Her mother and protector died when she was a child. And once her mother died she was unable to save herself from the abusive alcoholic she calls dad. She has been given the choice of going to buenos ayres with a new man. After contemplating she made a split second decision of not going. The slight worry help her back.

Eveline is portrayed as a lonely girl who is longing for a deeper connection with a new life of her own. When Eveline thinks back to happy childhood memories of playing with friends, the happiness of those memories does not last long; “Her father used often to hunt them in out of the field with his blackthorn stick. Her father was not so bad then” (Joyce), Eveline says, suggesting that Eveline only remembers her father as being mean and negative. Thinking back to earlier memories he was better than he is at present day. Eveline was a child at the time. Therefore, she did not have all the responsibilities of a mother and wife. This