Ashputtle Short Story

This symbolizes that she knows that stealing is wrong but she is going to steal the money from her mother in order to help her father. "I looked out the window and saw only an ash-grey sky." Pg. 4. The author uses the describing term "ash-grey" to connect with the main character and her connection with her father. "In the coldness and stillness of the night,..." Pg. 4. This is the author showing that the cold is representing the fact that she knows stealing from her mother could tear her family apart even more she does it for the love and faith she has for her father. The dark sky symbolizes that she feels bad about taking the money but she has to choose between to very important things in her life, and she chooses to help her father by taking the

Beauty is portrayed as this innocent, helpless, young girl – the optimal example of good. This in hand leads to her ever so numerous rewards. Throughout the story, she is shown to be under the control of her evil stepmother as a means to gain a sense of sympathy. Lin Lan uses wording like “poor girl” (171) and “poor Beauty” (173) to have the reader be inclined to feel remorseful for her. In contrast, Lin Lan presents the stepsister in a foul manner, starting with her name itself: Pock Face, due to the pock marks all over her face. She is described as a “very unpleasant girl” and the “ugly daughter” (171). Everything about her contributes to the reader’s antipathy towards her and the same goes for the stepmother. They are both shown doing all these outlandish, horrible actions to Beauty, making them out to be seen as the villains – punishable by death. With that being said, it presumes the lesson that a moral standpoint is the appropriate route to take, as opposed to a malicious one.

Being faced with a win/lose situation can be a complicated task to be faced with, as someone always gets hurt in the process. In the story ‘Ashes’, Ashleigh is faced with a very complicated situation between her parents, that if executed improperly, can really mess up the connection Ashleigh has with her parents. Her mom has a teapot that is full of emergency cash, and Ashleigh’s father needs a couple hundred dollars to complete a project that he is working on. Her father brought up the fact that she could steal the money and give it to him for his project, and then he would get back the money with his project. The thing that is preventing Ashleigh from doing that is the fact that her parents are divorced, so that she would have to steal the

After telling her daughter she can go to the church, the mother gives her a bath in rose petal water, dresses her in her best clothes, and even gives her a pair of gloves to wear and little white shoes. This is the most ironic part of the intire poem because the mother believes she is sending her to a safe place, but is unaware of the fact, that she is doing the exact opposite

The tone of this poem effects the internal message as it starts off somewhat calm then takes a sadistic turn. Even though Gretel had achieved the life she essentially wanted, the remembrance of the witch makes it unbearable for her

Etta Shattuck took cover in a haystack and prayed that God was coming to save her is a final example of willpower. Etta was a very religious nineteen years old teacher who taught in Holt County. Hours before the storm hit, she went out that morning to get her orders signed so she could get her twenty-five dollars. Soon the storm came like a desease and she was lost and confused as she struggled to find her way back home. She walked for miles and miles as the chill wind slowly wore she out. Since she was a very religious woman, all she did was prayed and asked god to save her. Sooner or later, God led her into a pile of haystack. She used the last ounce of strength she had and managed to dig a shallow hole for herself. “By the time she reached

In the short story “Anishinaabemowin” by Shaelyn Johnston one realizes that humans all need other people to help one to grow and change. Initially, Mae is ignorant about her language and her culture, but with the help of her mother, she grows to become knowledgeable on her roots. With her mother’s wisdom and guidance she does not flounder and struggle and was able to communicate with her grandma, an event that helped her grow into a more worldly person. Specifically, on the plane to Ontario Mae is trying to learn her native language to surprise her grandmother she attempts to learn the language on her own, but soon realizes she needs her mother's help. Mae recounts a memory of asking her mother for help while trying to learn her native language.

Into this atmosphere of spiritual paralysis the boy bears, with blind hopes and romantic dreams, his encounter with first love. In the face of ugly, drab reality-"amid the curses of laborers," "jostled by drunken men and bargaining women"-he carries his aunt's parcels as she shops in the market place, imagining that he bears, not parcels, but a "chalice through a throng of foes." The "noises converged in a single sensation of life" and in a blending of Romantic and Christian symbols he transforms in his mind a perfectly ordinary girl into an enchanted princess: untouchable, promising, saintly. Setting in this scene depicts the harsh, dirty reality of life which the boy blindly ignores. The contrast between the real and the boy's dreams is ironically drawn and clearly foreshadows the boy's inability to keep the dream, to remain blind.

Be careful. Later on you'll have to decide the sympathy they deserve” (Kingsolver 5), this implies that incidents will happen to each of these girls, some of which will lead to their lives to be changed forever. However, these incidents that occur may be deserved based on the actions and decisions they choose, leading them on the path to either “glory” or “damnation”. “The mother’s comment –“watch how she leads them on, pale-eyed, deliberate” (Kingsolver 5), makes it sound as if Orleanna is not as innocent as she seems to say she is and that she may have played a bigger role in the downfall of their family. “I saw a family of weaver birds work together for months on a nest that became such a monstrous lump of sticks and progeny and nonsense that it brought their whole tree thundering down” (Kingsolver 8). I think this is symbolic of the Price family’s errors and mistakes in the Congo that eventually led to the collapse of their own family. The quotes, “On a more earthly plane men in locked rooms bargained for the Congo's treasure. But I was there. Right on the head of that pin” (Kingsolver 8) and “We aimed for no more than to have dominion over every creature that moved upon the earth. And so it came to pass that we stepped down there on a place we believed unformed, where only darkness moved on the face of the waters” (Kingsolver 10) allude to the disaster that happened in Africa when the Western countries tried to assert control over the continent, spiraling the local governments into chaos and civil wars. “Vines strangling their own kin in the everlasting wrestle” alludes to how Orleanna's husband, Nathan, made his own children suffer in the Congo due to his selfish ways of trying to force Baptism onto the

The friendship between the two young girls before the realization of their differences represents rich soil. Given these images, the reader can create a connection of what the authors is trying to convey.

Throughout the poem the author uses imagery to develop a sense of gentle love, a fondness of the beautiful story of her heritage. Using words such as, “beautiful sisters giggled and danced” and “a lanky girl trailing after her father through his Oklahoma field” and even stating “my sister and I were in love with Meema’s indian blanket.” the author generates imagery of the story she is trying to tell about her family.

The valley of ashes represents the poverty and hopelessness of poor people in the country. It shows how there is a difference between the rich and the poor. The valley of ashes is inhabited by the poor. George Wilson and Myrtle Wilson live in this area along with the ashes. Many of the people that live in the valley of ashes want to leave, but cannot. This shows how it can be impossible to achieve the “American Dream”. “This is a valley of ashes- a fantastic farm where ashes grow like wheat into ridges and hills and grotesque gardens; where ashes take the forms of houses and chimneys and rising smoke and, finally with transcendent effort, of men who move dimly and already crumbling through the powdery air”

The "Chronicles of Iambless," is a short functional story about a little girl named Iambless, from the ghetto of Orlando, Florida. However, she forcefully encounters mental, physically and sexually abused by her parents and various family members.

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The atmosphere of this exposition is clearly foreboding: "the dark clouds, broken chimneys, unused street, solitary cat, and dead air" all prove ominous and reflect the sordid ruling mood. Failed culture and solitary of aimless women ("a cat moved itself in and out of railing") not knowing exactly what to do about their predicaments in which