Literary Canon Essay

Charlotte rejects her mother’s ideology from a young age, and has the perspective to see past the illusions of perfection her mother creates, and Miss. Hancock gives her the weapons to fight her mother. In seventh grade, Miss. Hancock teaches Charlotte about the metaphor, sparking the creativity within Charlotte her mother shunned. The metaphor becomes a symbol throughout the short story, but it also develops into something deeper. The metaphor becomes an allegory of Charlotte 's rebellion against her mother’s influence, and her future. Writing is an outlet, an opportunity for Charlotte to express and understand herself. The form of expression was a gift from Miss. Hancock, who arms her with the power of creativity. “‘My home,’ I said aloud, ‘is a box It is cool and quiet and empty and uninteresting. Nobody lives in the box,” Charlotte says in seventh grade. She has a complex understanding of herself, and is able to articulate her frustrations through metaphors. After graduating out of Miss. Hancock’s seventh grade class, the story picks up introducing the reader to Charlotte as a

non-fiction. From her wide array of published works this critical analysis will be focused on her

Language and imagery plays a dramatic role in portraying relationships and feelings/thoughts of the persona. Whilst in ‘Burning Sappho,’ the mother’s attitude towards tasks is portrayed as emotionless (“the child is fed, the dishes are washed, the clothes are ironed and aired,”), language is utilised within ‘Suburban Sonnet’ to construct the mother’s mental state and situation as dire. “Zest and Love drain out with soapy water.” The use of two personal, passionate adjectives and the depiction of them being physically overcome by soapy water directly link the mother’s loss of feelings and fiery emotion to the household chores and duties. For example, she “scours crusted milk,” as a part of her role as mother and housewife as the reader is positioned to reject this requirement as a result of the huge impact to her quality of life (“Veins ache”). The literal image of a dead mouse symbolises the mother’s situation as the ‘soft corpse’ directly represents the mother, that is, emotionally dead as a result of the entrapment by society. The reader is positioned to fully

As this book pertains to his past, the choice of wording by the author shows the youth and free spirit of a twenty-year old that fell in love. For instance, “Have you ever been in a car with a southern girl blasting through South Carolina when Lynyrd Skynyrd’s “Call Me the Breeze” comes on the radio? Sunday afternoon, sun out, windows down, nowhere to hurry back to? I never had…” shows the youthful spirit that Rob had when he was with Renee, for she truly did show him how to enjoy his youth and to have fun. However, as he reminisced through the pleasurable memories that Renee brought to him, using diction he was able to express to the reader the sadness her death bestowed upon him. "We met on September 17, 1989. We got married on July 13, 1991. We were married for five years and ten months. Renée died on May 11, 1997, very suddenly and unexpectedly, at home with me, of a pulmonary embolism. She was thirty-one…” Through syntax, he was able to show a change in mood from the serenity and peace that he felt with while being accompanied by Renee to her unexpected death in his arms. The short sentences in this excerpt from the book show that there was an abrupt interruption in his life and it caused a change in the way the author wrote. Nature took its course.

"You think because I am her mother I have a key, or that in some way you could use me as a key? She has lived for nineteen years. Over and over, we are told of the limitations on choice--"it was the only way"; "They persuaded me" and verbs of necessity recur for descriptions of both the mother's and Emily's behavior. " In such statements as "my wisdom ! came too late," the story verges on becoming an analysis of parental guilt. With the narrator, we construct an image of the mother's own development: her difficulties as a young mother alone with her daughter and barely surviving during the early years of the depression; her painful months of enforced separation from her daughter; her gradual and partial relaxation in response to a new husband and a new family as more children follow; her increasingly complex anxieties about her first child; and finally her sense of family balance which surrounds but does not quite include the early memories of herself and Emily in the grips of survival needs. In doing so she has neither trivialized nor romanticized the experience of motherhood; she has indicated the wealth of experience yet to be explored in the story’s possibilities of experiences, like motherhood, which have rarely been granted serious literary consideration. Rather she is searching for

In my AP English Literature class the class was assigned to research and create a presentation on an existential philosopher. We were given two class days and the weekend to finish the project however our group was met with a huge challenge. The first day of the project we were missing one student who had been in our group. This did not seem like a severe problem, because there were four other people, including me, in the group. My partners however did not understand the assignment as proficiently as I did and they also did not care much about it. This is why the project turned into a procrastination challenge. I’ve always been interested in philosophy so this project seemed fairly simple. I took the weekend to learn more about my assigned

“The dead are never exactly seen by the living, but many people seem acutely aware of something changed around them” (Sebold 94). In the novel, “Lovely Bones”, by Alice Sebold, the author illustrates the descriptions of the protagonist’s, Susie Salmon, a fourteen year old, after her death and her relation with the living. Susie was brutally hurt and killed from a new neighbor, Mr. Harvey, who was never discovered for his numerous crimes. Sebold presents various settings where the protagonist, Susie Salmon, initiates to adjust with her new home in heaven after her terrifying homicide and maintains a connection with life on Earth without her. An important factor of this novel is that the setting is very unusual, since, Susie describes the life on Earth from the heaven she has created, which she can’t leave until she is more than certain that her family will be happy and accept her depart. Susie portrays her own growth throughout heaven as she continues to grow mentally, combining her adolescent notion and her growing maturity acquired in her heaven. Sebold creates a setting that is an important ingredient into the theme and changes in characters, since, it shows many factors of the plot and it refers to the loss and depression that Susie 's loved ones felt after her death.

Sonja Livingston’s Ghostbread is a memoir where she talks about growing up poor, with no father, and being Catholic. She is also the fifth child of seven who was raised by her mom in a dilapidated house in the desolate neighborhood located western New York in the 1970s. Memoirs can be arranged where memories reveal the past and unfetters the future. The author of Ghostbread narrates in order to tell us the experiences she had that were unchanged about the human existence.

textual traces. Chapter Two, ÒMaking Grace MarksÓ explores GraceÕs problematic relationship to the language of self-representation. I examine the way Atwood installs the conventions of autobiography in her text, while subverting these conventions through rhetorical strategies such as performance and storytelling. Finally, in Chapter Three, ÒText and Textile,Ó the motif of the patchwork quilt will be explored as a structuring device for the novel. Atwood reconstructs the historical archive into a fragmentary, and yet unified patchwork. The quilt is also a way of reading the novelÕs central character. GraceÕs self and narrative are constructed from fragmented textual pieces, assembled and juxtaposed into a complex patchwork organization.

In Anne Bradstreet’s poem, “The Author to Her Book”, Anne is worried about what people will think about her book. Anne believes the book is her child and she must protect it from the outside. In the poem Anne describes her “child” through metaphors, imagery and tone. Anne’s tone at the beginning of the story changes toward the end as she becomes poor and has to send her “child” out into the world.

The pain brought upon by slavery is neither ignorable nor temporary; instead, it is the culmination of decades of brutal injustice, emotional isolation, and a general sense of helplessness that results in an emotionally distant shell that is perceivable in Sethe, Paul D, and an immeasurable number of denied slaves. Manifesting herself with the rage of a baby ghost, Beloved’s early disruptions are driven by the unvoiced cries of slaves as they experience the horrors of slavery. The ghost haunts and plagues 124 Bluestone road, Sethe’s Home, capturing the deadly “venom” (3) of the institution and the unexpressed “spite” (3) of all repressed slave stories. Baby Suggs, Sethe’s mother in law, recognizes the house is “lucky [that] this ghost is a baby” and not “my [Baby Suggs’] husband’s spirit” (6) who would embody a “rage” (5) much more virulent and chaotic than the curse of the child since he personally experienced the torture of slavery and its inhumane practices. Instead, as a baby ghost, Beloved harbors and articulates the anger, desperation, and howls of the innocent through “insults not to be borne or witnessed a second time”(3).

Stephen King is a creative and massively popular author of horror fiction with the ability to make his readers squirm. Rated one of the best writers since early 1970s due to his prolific work, which is immensely intriguing. Stephen King is acknowledged for producing a novel each year or more. Some of his best sellers comprise the “The Shinning” (1977), “Salem Lost” (1975), “Carrie” (1974), and “Dead Zone” (1979). Even though, Stephen King’s writing style is bizarre and bloodcurdling, his characters have become iconic, because he has acquired a technique that makes him masterful. Additionally he has written several books that have become number one sellers. His books have spawned a multimedia franchise laying a basis for TV shows, movies,

I became hyperaware of each profound statement she made. Looking through the translucent story, hurriedly scanning through names and places, I was able to find more and more incredible sentences many of which I rewrote directly beside the text. “None of us understood that the body is a connected thing.” (56) The paragraph before this has the audience believing that Grealy is a pre-teen girl limping across her hospital room yet when this statement is made, a rapid transformation occurs from innocent to wise.

The databases of EBSCOhost, Google Scholar, and Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature with full text were used to identify evidence-based research concerning the issue of nurse faculty shortage and strategies for dealing with the problem. Identifying keywords selected for the search were nurse faculty shortage, nurse faculty, nurse faculty shortage solutions, and global nurse faculty shortage. Published articles chosen for review fell between 2010 and 2015. Sixty articles matched the key terms in the initial search. From these sixty, eleven of the most relevant and appropriate articles were selected, evaluated, and are discussed within following the review of literature.

Her mother could barely stand to be in the room, so clashing were the colors of trinkets and furniture scattered haphazardly about. Multicolored muslin tapestries of zodiacs and mandalas littered the walls and ceiling, some taught, others drooping from their moorings. Underneath the recently acquired hangings was the old wall, painted, repainted, and still unfinished; a great unrestrained mish mash of colors that represented Kat’s mood. Phillipa was proud to see the many still-odorous, bright streaks of sunsets, and less oceanic, moody splotches. There had been so many of the depressed hues casting unhealthy opalescent reflections onto Kat’s pale, unhealthy skin last year. The rest of the room was a multitudinous arrangement of various furniture; chairs, modern and antique, gifts from friends and family, holding memories from years past and present, oak shelves full of creaking leather bound scientific journals from aspiring botanists who’d given up on their hobby, torn books of copious varieties, ranging from journals people had kept and sold, wanting to forget their contents, to fairytale books with crayon pictures scribbled in margins that smelt like decades old wax, all worn from exposure to mildew, giving off the aroma of dewy basement. Kat and Phillipa could be found poring over the books for hours, having sleepovers at each other 's’ houses just to finish