Analysis Of The Secret Language Of Sisters

FALLING ACTION: Mimi finds out that the man she was going to marry had died on the Titanic and decides that she should take a trip to Hati and invited Jane to go with her. Thad holds Jane's hadn the whole ride

To satisfy his thirst, Tom started searching for beautiful girls in the nearby town. In the next town, he found a gorgeous young lady named Isobel who had blond curly hair, hazel eyes, and curvy figure. Isobel was flattered by Tom’s look and body. They both first met at the mall in the coffee shop and they liked each other so much that they started dating on the same day. There was only one big problem with their relationship that Isobel was married and Tom knew it, but he still continued dating because he badly wanted to have pleasure with Isobel. Tom and Isobel usually met after midnight at the Lover’s Lane and make out in Isobel’s car. One night, the lovers decided to meet little early than usual because of some family emergency. They met at the same place and did the same thing, but this time there was a couple who saw them together. Alex, Isobel’s husband, was the richest and powerful person in the whole town. He had many connections throughout the town. Tom and Isobel tried to hide their affair, but the truth always overcomes lie. After few days, Alex heard people talking in the office about Isobel’s affair and how she makes out with her lover in the car every night. Alex went crazy with anger, hatred, and jealousy. He got angry and vowed to take revenge on them.

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 the short story “From a Secret Sorrow” by Karen Van Der Zee a woman who struggles to tell her fiancé a truth that is killing her inside. The story focuses on two main characters, Faye and Kai. Faye is a woman who thought that the world was over for her after finding out she was infertile. Faye had no idea on how to communicate such horrendous news to Kai, her fiancé. She was afraid that her Kai was going to leave her and find someone else. She then started acting weird, nervous, and distanced herself from him. Her fiancé questioned her about a note he found, Faye immediately recognized that it was the note the doctor gave her and with a terrified voice asked “How

In the story, “The Red Convertible,” Louise Erdrich describes the bonding between two brothers, Lyman and Henry. The brothers share the car together and travel beyond the reservation where they grew up at young age when most of us still trying to figure out our role in society. The narrator, Lyman, portrays his bother as fun-loving, carefree individual who can socially mingle with anyone, but his personality dramatically changes after he comes back from the Vietnam War. Lyman tries to aid his brother to come to the previous state of mind by intentionally destroying his red convertible by beating it with hammer. However, Henry understands his brother’s effort, and work hard on healing himself by fixing the car. Unfortunately, Henry feels failure at his attempt, yet he reconnects with his brother for a short period of time; he ends his life by filling his boots with water and sinking to the bottom of the river. Lyman lets the car into the water as well with understanding that his brother’s wounds were too deep to bring him back to old self. Erdrich, in this story, explores the issue of post-traumatic stress disorder which has life-threatening consequences on one’s life as well as their family.

Everyone in this world struggles in life. Nobody's life it's perfect. In the novel Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson, the author weaves several important themes throughout the story. This story is about a young girl who was raped in a party called Melinda. Melinda went to a party and got raped. After that, Melinda called 911. Melinda’s friends stop talking to her because she got students arrested. No one knew that she was raped. Melinda’s influence that night was the alcohol affects. Alcohol always takes control in someone’s mind or body . In this situation, Melinda went a little too far in her first time meeting Andy. However, it was not her fault the fact that she got raped because she did not know what she was doing. Also, she did not expect anything that things were going to get down that far.

An act or mistake made one can cause great distress and hardships in the lives of those around them. The novel The Red Tent by Anita Diamant follows the life of a young girl into woman hood as well as her mother’s and aunt’s. The main character, Dinah, is affected by the acts of two of her brothers. Dinah’s brothers murder Dinah’s husband, and first love, as well as his family. The aftermath of her brothers heinous crimes are affect Dinah and her future.

She draws back stories of when “she used to have [Amy] call people on the phone to pretend [Amy] was [her].” She remembers one time when her mother called the hospital, anxious to receive her CAT Scan results and them being unable to find them. Yet when Tan spoke to them in perfect English, they were so quick to find her mother’s results. She truly felt for her mother’s anger and embarrassment for her poor treatment. And so, her mother “would not leave until her doctor called her daughter, she wouldn’t budge.” And so, Tan’s mother came to realize that the fluency of language was very important, as otherwise no one would take her seriously and so she would now have to depend on her daughter for her neglected needs. Therefore, throughout the use of pathos, readers are able to sympathize with her mother’s experience as a non-English

The narrator, a young girl named Nea, starts the story in the middle of action. She told that she stabbed a man with knife at eleven years old in order to release her older sister, Sourdi, from the man. “I charged and stabbed the man in the sleeve” (9). This situation is not only a introduction of this story to the readers, but the further explanation of the events explains each of the characters involved in this story. The main character of this story is Ma, who willing to sacrifice Sourdi’s happiness in order to please the man in the society. Next, Sourdi is another main character in this story. She has beautiful face that attracted the attention from admirers throughout this story. Then, Nea is also main character in this story. She is impulsive young girl who reacts in rash to protect her sister from the men that can threaten their relationship.

Author Louise Erdich is famous for composing short stories about Native Americans due to cultural and identity ties to the group. The story “The Red Convertible” depicts joyful and fond memories shared between two brothers, named Lyman and Henry. However, towards the end of the story, a devastating calamity befalls on one of the brothers. This story emphasizes how the two brothers went through difficulty stages and changes that challenged their coping mechanism. The red convertible had a positive influence on the two brothers. The red convertible united the two brothers since it was there means of travelling around the world together, forming a close bond and enjoying each other’s company. However, all the joyous moment came to an end with the impact of war on Henry’s mental health which caused him to commit suicide. The effect of war on Henry cut the connection between the two brothers, causing both of them to experience pain.

Romance novels are typically based in a set pattern and Karen van der Zee’s A Secret Sorrow is no exception. Meanwhile, in Gail Godwin’s “A Sorrowful Woman”, the romance aspect is not nearly as focused on. While A Secret Sorrow is a nice, easy romance novel, the short story “A Sorrowful Woman” is a much better example of literature, and portrays a much more unique message. The two stories differ greatly when compared by their theme, by the role of motherhood and children, and by how they are written.

In this novel Melinda's conflict is the trauma of being raped at an end-of-summer party. She seems unable to confess nor contain what happened to her. Melinda's distress is only made worse by being an outcast at school. As a result, she is unable to speak with ease. Melinda spirals into

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After the ordeal with the court the falling action takes place transitioning into the denouement.

The Secret language of Sisters, written by Luanne Rice, starts off when Roo (Ruth Ann) gets into a very severe car accident. This was caused by her texting with her younger sister, Tilly (Matilda), after she had finished taking pictures for her portfolio. Roo was going to enter into the photography competition for the University of Yale. But, when Roo’s car stopped moving, after it had flipped over, she was awake and alert, but had hit her head. By the time she was at the hospital she was still fine, but the moment she set eyes on Tilly, she fell unconscious and promptly had a seizure. This seizure caused a stroke, which put Roo into a coma. But really, Roo was completely awake, and paralyzed from head to toe, she had locked in syndrome. This condition is when a person is fully awake and alert, but is paralyzed, so they look as if they are in a coma. Multiple weeks after the accident, Tilly finally begins to realize that Roo is awake. This is because Roo gains back control of her left eye and is able to attract attention. Throughout this book, Tilly and Roo grow both together and apart as sisters, but truly break the boundaries when cutting edge technology is given to Roo. This computer gave Roo the ability to type with her brain waves, or thoughts. Eventually, Roo was finally able to take pictures again, with her computer. I think this symbolizes Roo and Tilly’s repaired relationships finally coming together again, with the things she loves.