Analysis Of The Novel ' The Girl Who Was Saturday Night '

Middleton and Dekker collaborate to write The Roaring Girl, which concentrates on a real-life London woman named Moll Cutpurse. Moll was reputed to be a prostitute, bawd, and thief, but the playwrights present her as a lady of great spirit and virtue whose reputation is misrepresented by a small, convention-bound civilization. In the play, as in reality, Moll dresses in men’s attire, smokes a pipe and bears a sword representing a colorful and in the underworld life of Moll Cutpurse. She stood London on its head with her cross-dressing and gender-bending behavior, and illegal pursuits. Her defiance of women in this play is exceptional. Also, she is perhaps one of the only players to be scrupulously true to herself; some of the other characters display very hypocritical aspects. Such unorthodox and unconventional role, Middleton and Dekker implies, leads to her spotted standing. She is a roaring girl; An audacious and bold woman-about-town. But beneath this absence of femininity, is a courageous, high-principled woman. Moll interposes in the central plots and is associated in skirmishes with many of the characters, consistently showcasing her ability to stand up for the downtrodden and wronged. Therefore, Moll creates a 'third space ' that identifies her as importantly freed in her navigation of space and social relations.

The life of a ranch girl is unknown to many people across America. In Maile Meloy’s Ranch Girl, a female narrator brings the reader into her hard life being raised as a ranch girl. Through many different literary devices including, tone, mood, and characterization, the writer set the reader to feel everything the narrator depicts and the reader ingested with a heavier impact than the reader anticipates. The obligation to the community for the ranch girl is to break all stereotypes, thus showing her community and all ranch girls alike that she can be successful and break free of the ranch girl life.

In Jamaica Kincaid’s short story “Girl,” the narration of a mother lecturing her daughter with sharp, commanding diction and unusual syntax, both affect the evolution of a scornful tone, that her daughter’s behavior will eventually lead her to a life of promiscuity that will affect the way people perceive her and respect her within her social circle. As well as the fact that it emphasizes expectations for young women to conform to a certain feminine ideal of domesticity as a social norm during this time and the danger of female sexuality.

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Ready Player One hits some of the same situations as in the holocaust or for the book that we read “Night” like taking people spread out over a good area and combining them into a small dense area. They both also touch on the topic of how when someone is killed or something is blown up now one raises an eyebrow or if they do no one does anything about it.

For a reader in 2017 “Girl” by Jamaica Kincaid might seems very surreal and harsh as a story; mostly because of the very grating and mean language that is used when the mother is talking. The mother’s heartless language makes is really uncomfortable even though at the end of the day, she speaks nothing but love into her daughter’s life. She is giving her daughter social and family teachings, sharing with her the cultural and social values that will help her girl to have a peaceful and respected household and a happy life.

Pamela Rotner Sakamoto is the author of the book Midnight in Broad Daylight, with her first edition published on January 5, 2016. Sakamoto is an American historian and speaks fluent Japanese and while she lived in Japan in Kyoto and Tokyo for seventeen years, Sakamoto worked as a consultant for the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. focusing on Japanese-related projects. She has also taught at the University of Hawaii system. Attracted by the artistic culture of Japan, she ended up moving to Japan and meeting many people in Japan that helped with creating her book.

In both stories “Girl” and “Story of an hour” there is use of gender that describes a typically unfair direction of the role of a women, yet the use of gender is describe differently. The use of gender in the “Story of an hour” is mainly about how the wife of a husband who dies in the train crash is going to deal with life without her husband and if she will be able to handle it emotionally. While the story “Girl” deals with a mom that tells her daughter to be well mannered fit in socially with society. The role of women in both stories is to be well mannered and considerate with high standards of behavior. For instance, in the story the women tell the daughter “ on Sunday try to a walk like a lady” (123). A lady is what the mom wants her to become because she is afraid of her becoming unfit for society. Ladies are expected to be very polite and speak in good manners in order to fit the ideal women. In the “Story of an Hour” there is a specific way her family wants her to handle her husband death. The facts Mrs. Malland was told about the tragedy at a certain times makes me believe that writer wants us to believe that women have harder time dealing with her marriage life.

For centuries, women have had the role of being the perfect and typical house wife; needs to stay home and watch the children, cook for husbands, tend to the laundry and chores around the house. In her short story “Girl”, Jamaica Kincaid provides a long one sentence short story about a mother giving specific instructions to her daughter but with one question towards the end, with the daughter’s mother telling her daughter if she had done all the instructions to become a so called “perfect” woman, every man would want her. Kincaid’s structuring in “Girl,” captures a demanding and commanding tone. This short story relates to feminist perspectives. The mother expects a great deal from her daughter to have a certain potential and she does not hesitate to let her daughter understand that. As a matter of fact, the story is about two pages long, made into one long sentence - almost the whole time the mother is giving her daughter directions to follow - conveys a message to the reader that the mother demands and expects great potential in her daughter. The daughter is forced to listen and learn from what her mother is telling her to do to become the perfect housewife. Throughout the story, Kincaid uses the symbols of the house and clothing, benna and food to represent the meanings of becoming a young girl to a woman and being treated like one in society. Women are portrayed to appeal to a man to become the ideal woman in society, while men can do anything they please.

In the “Night to His Day: Social Construction of Gender” reading, Judith Lorber discusses gender and its unnatural progression through social institution on everyday society. Lorber argues in her reading that gender is a social construction rather than biological. Gender may or may not depend on biological traits, but rather how societies categorize humans as males or females. I found the quote “As a social institution, gender is one of the major ways that human beings organize their lives” (68). This quote made me question how unorganized will humans be without the categorization of gender in our societies.

Exposition - A nine-teen year old girl named Marta is on top of skyscraper that houses apartments and businesses. She sees the city as a mess and becomes dizzy over it.

In the novel, as readers we see who Nouschka really is and it seems as if she isn’t happy with her decisions and how she is living her life. She is displeased about the decision of dropping out of high school when Nicolas did. The way she feels about this decision is shown when she says, “I’d always felt lousy about dropping out with Nicolas” (O’Neill, Page 4). Nouschka and her brother are so attached to each other that they make all of their decisions together. This trait relates to the chosen theme because Nouschka’s dissatisfaction with her decision, because of her brother, is what pushes Nouschka to become more independent and isolate herself from Nicolas and enroll into school without

In the story Girl, The author Jamaica Kincaid uses point if view to show how the mother teaches her daughter how to be the proper or perfect woman for a man. She also uses” This is how”shows how the mother teaches the daughter how to be sophisticated.

A tattoo so bold that it stops all in its path, causing controversy throughout the masses, and the reflection of a shrinking man who sold his soul to the devil. Tony Kaye uses mise en scene to represent a revelation in both of the brother’s lives. Not only do they show remorse but also see self change from within both characters. In this frame we see Derek coming out of the shower, he has a towel wrapped around his waist and is looking at his reflection in the mirror. Derek 's body is angled so that his tattoo is being highlighted by the key lighting. In this frame Derek appears to be caught off guard by the sight of his tattoo, which suggests to us as the audience that he isn 't happy with his former self, unknown to him that his life would change forever. The first of its kind we see Derek in colour. Looking at his reflection in a small bathroom mirror, filled with regret for his brutal actions he has now acknowledged he needs to change. The symbolism of reflection allows the audience is able to make a deep connection. It allows us to feel the regrets that Derek has. We all stand in front of a mirror at some point and think I regret doing that. We reflect on ourselves as a person this is exactly what Derek is doing, and it seems as if his tattoo is haunting him of his past choices. His tattoo is permanent just like his decision to kill the two black men. Previous to this frame we see a close up of the water coming out of the shower onto Derek 's head, this falls into

The topic of the essay that I have selected is called “A night on the town: INSPECTOR ‘FATS’ Makaye, IVORY PARK.’’ Throughout this story, Fats Makaye has different attitudes towards his occupation of being a police officer which include being bitter, negative, disillusioned and demotivated, however Fats Makaye also shows a positive attitude throughout this story. Both of these attitudes are affected or shaped by either structure or agency. The term social structure is ‘’the complex framework of societal institutions (such as the economy, politics and religion) that makes up a society and that organises and establishes limits on people’s behaviour’’ (school of social sciences; department of sociology; SOCL 1014 & SOCL 1009; IDENTITY AND SOCIETY; PART 1: INTRODUCTION TO SOCIOLOGY COURSE WORKBOOK; Louise Hagemeier and Christine Bischoff; 2015: page 19). However the term agency is ‘’the capacity of individuals to act independently and to make their own free choices’’ (Barker, Chris. 2005. Cultural Studies: