Analysis Of The Story 'Clean Sweep'

This caused distance between the two of them over the years and part of it is due to her looking like her mom. In the story her father explains, “ Her face belonged to her mother, my ex, Christine, who hadn't been there for her for six years and counting” (Boyle pg 1). Katie looking like her mom is hard for her dad because he was so in love with her and she reminds him of her everyday. Due to the fact that Katie looks like her it causes distance between her and her dad because she is a constant reminder of her mom and what she looks like.

The definition of freedom, according to Dictionary.com, is the power or right to act, speak, or think as one wants without hindrance or restraint. In the declaration of independence, American citizens are given freedom of speech, freedom of religion, right to vote, right to a fair trial, and freedom of assembly to name a few. These rights that we have enable us to form communities and have our voices heard regarding issues that negatively impact us as a whole or prevent us from moving towards a brighter and hopeful future because that is what freedom is. It is about hope. It is about being your own person without hesitation, without judgement. “The Story of an Hour” written by Kate Chopin and “A&P” written by John Updike encounter two very

The coming of age phase in a young person’s life is a transitional phase which prompts the idea of individualism, decision making, acceptance, moral challenges, disappointment, and individual needs. These years are essential for the overall learning and growing-up part of someone’s life. Coming of age characteristics transpired in the novel The Catcher in the Rye and The Absolutely True Diary of a part-time Indian pertain to, but do not exclude, the acceptance of the complexities and “grayness” of the world, confrontation with the adult world, and the individual needs and desires vs. external pressures/expectations/norms. In both novels, young boys are faced with tough choices that will later help them in the overall transition from

The lost of innocence can totally change the way people view the world. A person who illustrates this can be found in J.D. Salinger’s novel, the Catcher in the Rye. The story happened during the 1950s, in a small town in Pennsylvania called Agerstown. A teenage boy named Holden, who witnesses the death of his older brother Allie when he was only 13 years old. Then consequently, he blames himself all his life for the death of Allie. As time went by he starts to search for a sense of innocence that was lost in the beginning of the novel. Throughout the course of the novel, the author conveys that Holden is continually stuck in between childhood and adulthood. The author uses Holden’s struggle to convey that in reality often times people who

The Catcher in the Rye is a novel written by J.D. Salinger that occurs around the 1950s. The story’s protagonist and narrator is Holden Caulfield, a seventeen year old white male, who journeys to various places as he mourns over the death of his little brother, Allie. As a white male in a capitalist society, he has tremendous amounts of privileges that allow him to get. However, as the novel progresses, Holden describes his society as a place where honored human qualities are suppressed and capitalist ideals are embraced. Throughout the novel, we see that capitalism, “the social system based on the recognition of individual rights, including property rights, in which all property is privately owned”, destroys the overall society for Holden and his generation (Rand).

There is more to know about a person besides the single story that most people believe is true. A single story is something we hear about another person, culture, or where they are from. This can lead to critical misunderstanding of how their lives actually are. In the book, Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe. His writing makes sure that most of his characters don't fit into the group of having one single story this is how.

In the non-fiction short story, “Clean Sweep” by Joan Bauer, Bauer presents a story about a 16-year-old girl named Katie and her life in the family business, Clean Sweep. Bauer also tells about the conflicts the people around her have. For instance, the first conflict that happens to Katie is her family versus survival after her father dies and they have to sort out all of his papers because they received no insurance from his death. The second conflict that arises in the story to Katie is Katie versus her brother when he doesn’t want to work and she has to take on his job and her job. The third conflict that was presented to Katie in the story is Katie versus Mrs.Leonardo when Mrs. Leonardo begins getting mad because Katie keeps suggesting the different things she should do with the items she has in her attic. The fourth conflict that occurs in the story is Katie versus herself when she gets reminded of her father’s death. The fifth and last affair in the story is Mrs.Leonardo versus her sister, which is when Mrs.Leonardo realizes she never gave her sister the book she asked for when her mother died.

There are many things in The Story Re that can tell us about the culture and where it came from. Firstly the narrator mentioned a waste of water called Nun, that waste of water is actually now a popular river know as the Nun River and is located in Nigeria. There were roles for specific people in this myth some were higher than others but mostly everyone had a role and job. Re was first pharaoh of Egypt, there were gods and goddesses, messengers and there were the farmers who harvested the crops. In this story there was also Isis and she had been known to be the most intelligent and she was also able to heal people. The Egyptian culture was much more different than our culture today. Everyone had a role and they had to follow it, everyone had

When Katie was a child she should have been taught by her parents how to be caring to others, but this proves that due to Katie not holding a strong relationship with her parents, she does not understand that it is in rude for a woman not to show compassion to her friends. Being caring to other is an important part of being a good friend. When a friends is put into a hurtful situation it is the responsibility as a decent person to show compassion for the given situation. Katie’s lack of compassion for Arthur’s loss is why O’Malley chose to not bring him back till the end of the book. So that Katie could feel how it felt to lose a friend because of her choices.

The short story “A&P” by John Updike is told through first person narration and is about a teenage male who works at a local supermarket in New England, “A&P”, observing young girls as he is checking out customers in line. The girls have no idea that this young man is privately making judgements of them. The judgements transpire with the lines “there was this chunky one” (438), “there was this one, with one of those chubby berry faces” (438), and “this wasn’t quite so tall” (438), all relating to the three girls he has seen from across his cashier stand. This story is made primarily of commercial fiction, to reach a bigger audience from its captivating story line, to keep one hooked and not want to stop reading. The ways in which in “A&P”

The author introduces symbols to depict the changes in the characters’ lives. The broken figurines and purple hibiscuses represent the fragmentation and transformation the family will experience. The story revolves around a dysfunctional family run by an abusive Catholic father. The father is deeply devoted to Catholicism and uses it as an excuse for his actions. As a result, the servile mother starts to lose the three things she loves: her two children (Kambili and Jaja) and her ballet dancing figurines. Every day, hours were devoted to polishing her figurines. Unfortunately, when the father’s temper flared, the figurines became the victims. When the Jaja did not attend church, the father “picked up the missal and flung it across the room

My first reason why Katie is depressed is that she is determined to find out what her mom’s last words meant. In the text it says “So I asked myself-why had she said “It’s you”? Why were they the last words she said to me?” Though, at the end of the story it says: “And suddenly I knew. Mama meant I was the box.” This evidence most likely shows that Katie was thinking of it a lot otherwise & if she wasn’t she wouldn’t have figured it out then, would she? This shows that she was determined to find out what her mom meant.

In her article Kate Chopin’s View on Death and Freedom in The Story of an Hour, Xuemei Wan proposes that Kate Chopin The Story of an Hour expresses birth and death, psychology of Mrs. Mallard, and freedom. The Story of an Hour written by the American woman writer, Kate Chopin (1851-1904) fully shows us the tremendous conflict between life and death among those women who had more self-awareness. Who had less social living space according to the established social norms 100 years ago in a dramatic way. The heroine’s strong desire for freedom and sudden death. This reminds us of the philosophical thought on life and death of Zhuangzi, ancient Chinese thinker, Martin Heidegger, which deconstruct and transcend the conflict between them, and many more. In this essay, I will be critiquing Xuemei Wen article showing the strengths, weaknesses, and notable features.

Short stories can share themes, motifs, symbols, consequences, and plot lines, even if there is never any intention to share a common element between the stories. The stories can be written close together or in different decades and still be linked to the one another. They can also be worlds apart with different meanings in the end, but that does not stop them from having similar ideas expressed within them. The following three stories, “Lagoon” by Joseph Conrad, “The Rocking Horse Winner” by DH Lawrence, and “The Lady in the Looking Glass” by Virginia Woolf, are three totally different stories that share common threads that make them the stories that they are.

“The Story of an Hour” by Kate Chopin describes an hour in the life of an oppressed woman bound by marriage in the nineteenth century. It is only when Mrs. Mallard’s husband dies in a sudden railroad accident that she realizes she is no longer tied together by the ropes of man. At first she is shocked and horrified by the tragedy, for she did say “she had loved him – sometimes” (Chopin). However, once the tears were wept, a new bountiful life of freedom was now in the eyes of Mrs. Mallard. Chopin uses imagery, third person omniscient point of view, and concepts of relief and joy in “The Story of an Hour” to convey the true feelings of Mrs. Mallard as she is freed from the strenuous and unjust oppression of women due to society’s expectation of gender roles.