Book Analysis: I For Isobel

Unlike Ed, her “hot tempered” nature and her inability to empathise with her son, has meant that she is unable to adapt to the demands of Christopher’s social barriers. This is evident in a letter in chapter 157 where she states “ Maybe if things had been differant, maybe if you'd been differant i might have been better at it. But thats just the way things turned out”. The repetition of ‘maybe’ demonstrates the initial complexity of human communication which in Christophers case, was further complicated by his social demands. Through Mark Haddon’s incorporation of a letter in this chapter, the difficulties in human communication is shown as his mother has resorted to indirect communication in explaining her reasoning for his abandonment. Although Judy lovingly and diligently cares for Christopher she struggles with the frustration she feels as a result of not always being able to understand her son’s behaviour. This ideology is further reiterated through the comparison in the letter between Ed and Judy seen in “Your father is a much more pacient person. He just gets on with things.. But that’s not the way i am…” Haddon’s characterisation of Christopher’s parents presents to the responder the conflicting side of love, the multi-faceted and complicated nature of human interaction, and the opposing approaches of both parents in communicating and dealing with Christopher’s condition, as part of their

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

Joyce Carol Oates intrigues readers in her fictional piece “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been” by examining the life of a fifteen year old girl. She is beautiful, and her name is Connie. Oates lets the reader know that “everything about her [Connie] had two sides to it, one for home, and one for anywhere but home (27). When Connie goes out, she acts and dresses more mature than she probably should. However, when she is at home, she spends the majority of her time absorbed with daydreams “about the boys she met”(28). This daydreaming behavior is observable to the reader throughout the story. From theories about dreams, theories about

Richard Wagamese’ expertise in the realm of story telling unlocks a dream world where he has the ability to accurately portray the protagonist’s emotions directly to the reader. Wagamese is able to flip in between current events and past stories to ultimately immerse the reader into a world of imagination. Additionally, he perfects the order in which these stories are being told. By doing so, it allows the reader to take pity upon the protagonists at hand in an utmost flawless succession. Lastly, through effective and clever story telling, Wagamese is able to engage the reader by placing them in both the shoes and minds of his protagonist. It is the profound ability of story telling Wagemse possesses that allows him to create intriguing protagonists who drive the plot of the novel through the stories told.

Growing up in a conservative household, Daniel Addison was nearly disowned when he started voting for the Liberals, and was kicked out when he started working for the Liberal party. For Daniel his life was on parliament hill, a place where he happily stays writing speeches for his party leader. But when caught his girlfriend of two years, Rachel, doing the nasty with the opposite house leader, Daniel left the hill right then and there. Moving to Cumberland to work as a professor for the University of Ottawa. But dedication to his party and fellow Canadians, Daniel had to find someone who would run for the Liberals in his new ridding, one in which the conservatives had a unanimous vote for the past five elections. Searching high and low he makes a deal with his landlord Angus McLintock that if he runs he would not win, will not have to do any work, would not even have to be in the country when the vote

Victoria Roubideaux is a seventeen year old girl, who finds out that she is pregnant. She and her mother had a fight in the morning and in the evening, after work, she starts to walk home. “The evening wasn’t cold yet when the girl left the café. But the air was turning sharp with a fall feeling of loneliness coming. Something unaccountable pending in the air.” (31). In that line we see the foreshadowing of her feelings and her mother throwing her out of the house.

As a child, parents are the people who are there to protect and guide us through our path to independence. However, the lessons are experiences we have to go through in order to fully understand them. The Bloody Chamber, by Angela Carter, is tales about the main protagonists going on adventures to find their independence and a sense of self and identity. Many of the young girls in these fairytales grow up being guided and protected by a parent, but eventually, as innocent girls grow into young woman, they go on their own paths. In the beginning of the stories, they are all innocent and naive, but by the end, they come out to be independent individuals.

(Thompson 3). Thompson, in this scene used “a powerful level of realism” (Harvie para 5). Isobel seems real to viewers since she does exhibit characteristics which, traditionally, would suggest she was a real person with a real problem (5). She has a home, a family, and is terrified because she is lost. Also, Thompson’s use of the idiosyncrasies of her naturalistic broken speech aid in developing Isobel as a lost child.

Michaela Parrott Ms.Wynkoop English 12 14 October 2014 Sybil was abused by her mother and it caused her to dissociate into multiple selves. Her father Willard had ignored all of the signs that Hattie, Sybil’s mother, was abusive. All of Sybil’s life she had been exposed to inappropriate behaviour and consequently she thought it was normal. For the first nine years of Sybil’s life she had slept in her parents bed and they had intercourse when she was in bed with them.

The experiences we have in childhood do much to shape our adult identity. In her novel Cat's Eye, Margaret Atwood chronicles the life of artist Elaine Risley, and through a series of flashbacks shows the reader how she became her adult self. The retrospective showing of Elaine's artwork provides a framework for the retrospective of her journey from child to adult. Because Atwood was creating a fictional character, she was free to incorporate some very dramatic events that impacted Elaine's thoughts and feelings. Most of us do not have as much drama in our lives I certainly did not and yet the people, circumstances and occurrences in our lives affect us profoundly. We create our identity by the friends we choose, the decisions we make, and the way we respond to things that happen around us. Some things happen to us, and we also make conscious choices.

Imagination is a companion that will always be there to ease up moments of despair in life. It gives hope that one day the possessions that the heart desires will be there not too far from reach, or to believe the cruel circumstances life brings upon us are instead moments of joy. L.M Montgomery demonstrates this skilfully in her work; Anne of Green Gables. The novel is about a lonely orphaned girl whose only friend is her imagination. Due to her imagination and the support of her new loving family, she grows into a bright and intelligent young woman who realizes the potential that life has for her and her tremendously creative mind. The experiences and expectations that are placed on the

Isobel throughout her childhood has been the target of her sister and mother’s malevolent treatment, and is alluded to the idea repeatedly that showing emotion is a weakness and she will be relentlessly abused for showing it. This is depicted when Isobel must buy an item for her mother and can treat herself with that change. However, May

Then one day, we decided we didn't have to be confined to the boring lives we lived outside of that school yard. We became Alice, Maggie, and Claire. Alice, Maggie, and Claire were just three fictional girls who thrived in a wild forest with their magical friends. Soon enough, those games they played became stories. Those stories fled from their magical world and became tangible through loose pages. Every day, my two best friends and I would either stay after school or head to Tori's house and imagine, write, and illustrate our stories. Each of our characters had elaborate backgrounds, senses of styles, and personalities. We would each take turns in reading and showing our stories off to one another. Then, we’d fled to our school’s play ground, only down the street from Tori’s, and bring our stories to life.

The reader is told that Lady Braeburn is a widow as well as a mother of only one child. The reader is given the implication by Nothando and the previous caregiver, that Lady Braeburn’s son, George, does not have a close relationship with her. This is added to the mystery of her character because the reader does not know the reason behind their distant relationship. The idea of the reader not knowing as much about Lady Braeburn as would be expected, is as significant as the things that the reader is actually given because the mystery of the story is heightened, as well as creating more interest in both Lady Braeburn’s past and the continuing content of the story. “She is 96 years old, a treasure trove of stories that neither I nor anyone else will ever hear.” (Mhangami-Ruwende 145) The deterioration of Lady Braeburn’s body, could be symbolic of her straining relationship with her son. Lady Braeburn often cries for reasons which both Nothando and the reader are unaware of. The reader is uncertain of whether Lady Braeburn’s tears are simply “crocodile tears” in order to seek attention from those around her, or if she is actually portraying genuine emotion. However, the reader is made to perceive that she is crying over her past, perhaps she regrets the things she has done in her life which may in turn have affected her close relationships. Another impression that the reader is given by Nothando is that her crying

In conclusion “The Dress” shows what can happen when an unstable relationship between two siblings breaks and the parent is unable to fix it. It describes the consequences of putting your job before your family, as the mother does in this case, and of letting something destructive like jealousy evolve into something so big that there is nothing to do and it eventually