Classic Tale of Little Woman: Acting Project Paper

Sometimes we heard moans from the back room and I helped wring out cloths and Doris brought water in a glass held to her mother’s lips (17-22)” it is the first time we see the children in a serious manner as they take care of Doris’s mother. While the war may be a faraway thought, Doris’s mother having cancer directly affects the children and they have to deal with reality for a short time.

Similar to must women in this study, Anna is a wife, trying to survive the war, while her husband is off fighting in the war. The letters that survived Anna are written at the end of the war through the assassination of President Lincoln. Her letters bring in site into the life of a wife who is left behind to tend the home, family, and finical affairs while the men went off to fight. Her letters reveal the changing roles to adopt to during men's jobs. Anna handles the affair around their farm, that her husband would have handle in normal circumstances. Anna, also wrote of the grieving republic at the death of Lincoln, and the effect of the loss of life on families.

Flannery O’Connor’s “Good Country People,” describes the lives of a mother, Mrs. Hopewell and her daughter, Joy and the irony of their relationship. This passage from the short story expounds on their character development through details of their lives. The selected paragraph uses a matter-of-fact tone to give more information about Mrs. Hopewell and Joy. Flannery O’Connor has given an objective recount of the story, which makes the third person narrator a reliable source. Mrs. Hopewell’s feelings are given on her daughter to examine their relationship. It is reader who takes these facts to create an understanding of these women and their lives. This part of the story illustrates the aspects of their lives that they had little control

Feminism and Historicism play a major part in Flannery O’Connor’s short story, “Good Country People”, first published in 1955. The story focuses on the importance of identity and the parallels between truth and deception. In “Good Country People”, the Hopewell family, maintain a small farm in rural Georgia with the help of tenants the Freemans. The pious Mrs. Hopewell’s mottos ‘nothing is perfect’ and ‘it takes all kinds to make the world’ are manifested in her unmarried thirty-two year old daughter, Joy who later changes her name to Hulga, wears a prosthetic wooden leg because of a childhood accident. Hulga who has a Ph.D. in Philosophy, cannot advance her academic aspirations because of a weak heart; because of this she must live in her

The power and determination of women to go to every end of the earth for kids is put into a different perspective in this essay. Women from almost any time period would go and do anything for kids, even if the kids were disrespectful and unloving in return. A perfect example of this is Phoenix Jackson, an old woman making a journey for her grandson in the short story “A Worn Path” by Eudora Welty. She runs into many obstacles along the way, but is it enough to take care of her grandson. Another perfect example is Ms. Moore, a woman who moves back to ghetto where she grew up, to help out a gang of uneducated kids in the short story “The Lesson” by Toni Cade Bambara. These women are portrayed by their respected authors and narrators as crazy, but they are only crazy about helping others. Phoenix Jackson is the first to be shown in a different perspective.

During this summer and school became to draw closer, my mom began to start the nagging. “Have you started your summer reading yet?” The dreaded question I least wanted to hear. Nonetheless, she took me to the library to get books I would have to analyze for the upcoming school year. I decided to take out Little Women, a classic. Much to my surprise, I realized I was thoroughly enjoying myself, the perspective of Jo is so different from my own. In the nineteenth-century, women were supposed to conform to narrow

“Mother” starts her story rather ferociously telling her husband, “I ain’t goin’ into the house till you tell me what them men are doin’ over there in the field” (Freeman, 10). Unfortunately, Adoniram Penn is building a new barn on the site set aside for her new home 40 years earlier. “Father” tells her he wants her to “go into the house...an’tend to [her] own affairs” (Freeman, 10). Mary Wilkins Freeman purposefully writes Adoniram telling Sarah her place is in the house with the children and he wants her to stay there. Freeman wants her women readers to relate to this situation of male dominance. When Sarah does finally revolt the significance of that revolt will have a deeper meaning for Freeman’s readers, they want Sarah to outwit her husband. Adoniram does not quite recognize the woman he married for who she really is. Sarah Penn was more than willing to take on the role of wife and mother as long as he fulfilled his role as provider for the family and his promise of a new house was still an option. When he went back on his word of building her home Adoniram received a glimpse of the true woman he married. When the reader looks closely at her there is a strength of character Sarah Penn cannot hide forever. Freeman writes that Sarah “looked as if the meekness had been the result of her own will, never the will of another” (Freeman, 10).

Her mother, or so she imagined, was gentle with a set of blue eyes and red hair. Maddox was awfully marvelous at making a cherry pie so it became Georgiana’s favorite. She herself was a short fourth grader, just extending past the little kid stage, and exhibited her thankful nature every day. She had never heard of her father, yet longed to wonder why she did not have one. This thought occured, once she became mature. Georgiana also pondered that she had no other relatives that she had met. She was quite timid to ask Maddox, her mother, why this was so, and therefore it never happened.

Allie Maples has a sparkle in her emerald eyes that draws men the way buttermilk draws flies on a hot summer day. She is bright, self-assured, and beautiful. Even though she has not yet turned sixteen, she knows exactly what she wants out of life. Her ideal life is not, confined to a plantation as its mistress; she wants the exotic, she wants mystery, she wants travel and adventure. However, when Allie travels to Charleston, South Carolina with her mother to visit relatives at Christmas, in the year 1860, the last thing she expects is to meet and fall in love with a handsome young Yankee.

This short novel have taught me something important. This mere world of fictional characters, places, and actions have shown me that i've got a wonderful sister (don’t tell her I said that), and two outstanding parents. And that's all you need. Those connections, shared memories, and strong bonds is enough to keep a family together. Not a fancy car, a private island, or an unlimited bank accountant. So I say thank you Cadence, thank you Mirren, Johnny and Gat. Thank you for teaching me a lesson, for showing me that fiction is oh so close to

First, a strengthened relationship towards her family helps the narrator understand her role as a burgeoning African-American female. Instead of feeling disconnected from her family like in “Miss Muriel”, she now relates to her family’s emotions and to the struggles the Layens have experienced for generations. Additionally, the narrator transforms from an external to an internal ‘self’. For example, the narrator sacrifices her unfiltered behavior in “Miss Muriel” when she realizes her actions will always influence her family’s dignity. Her increased reliance on silence may seem like hiding from societal pressure, but the narrator never loses her spirit.

She stood there, a tall, thin steal gray fluffy haired figure on the top step for a second. And then looked down at the fair-haired children and smiled widely revealing a large gap between her two front teeth. She laughed cheerfully and declared, "Pay no mind to her. She's not so bad once you get to know her." Anna wondered about that. She seemed as if she were pretty good at being furious. "Come on, follow me." The lady said as she opened the door and allowed them to pass, "My name's Miss Margot. Now come along, there's no time to dawdle." She said in her sing-song voice and led them down a long, dark, narrow hallway that was lined with solid wood paneling. As we walked, she tugged at their arms to quicken their pace. Eventually she stopped and pressed on a spot in one of the boards and a door popped open. She and the children hurried into the cold, damp lopsided little basement storage area that was filled with spider webs and smelt dank. Once inside the room Anna noticed that a single light bulb on a long cord swayed from the ceiling and an old broken folding chair and a chamber pot leaned against one of the walls. And that in the back of the room there was a tiny, grimy window that permitted a sliver of evening moonlight to pass through. "That's yours." Miss Margot said and pointed her

Some critics have argued that Richard Wright’s women are “flat, one dimensional stereotypes, portrayed primarily in terms of their relationship to the male character”. (Quote, p540) However, in Uncle Tom’s Children, Wright resents three very distinct types of female characters who did not fit this description. Wright portrays women as an Avenger, a Sufferer and a Mother figure whose actions propel the stories to their final conclusion. In the story “Bright and Morning Star” Wright places the protagonist, Aunt Sue, in a domestic environment. “Her hands followed a lifelong ritual of toil” (pg222) as she cleans and cooks. Interestingly, Aunt Sue is the only heroine in the stories, who shows a different type of bravery than perhaps shown by

The first volume Little Women was an immediate commercial and critical success prompting the composition of the book’s second volume Good Wives which was successful as well. The publication of the book as a single volume first occurred in 1880 and was titled Little Women. The novel chronicles the lives of the March family; Father, Marmee, Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy and it details the struggles of the March women to find sustenance for their family and identities of their own in a masculine society. The novel is a manifestation of four sisters embodying four models of femininity, possibly even four models of

In a large flowing black gown embellished with ornaments of her accomplishments, the young girl walks up to the center of the stage. Standing in the middle of the large auditorium, she embraces the firm handshake in front of her as she is given a document that would grant her access to the next phase of her life. Turning toward the applauding crowd, she sees her friends, loved ones, and boyfriend smiling and cheering in approval. Upon exiting the spotlight, she makes her way back to her seat among her peers and examines the diploma in her hand. Glancing at the text on the page, she fantasizes about what the future holds for her. She sees herself independent from her parents, living with one of her best friends in a beautifully decorated dorm room in the college she has always dreamed of attending. Growing into a successful young woman and achieving the life she had always envisioned for herself, she would claim her spot in the nursing program and marry her boyfriend. Together they would buy their own house and begin a family. Katie Davis had always thought this was the course her life would take. However, she soon comes to realize that God has a different plan for her. Instead, she will find herself 7,750 miles away from her home in Tennessee, and separated from everyone she cares about—her family, friends, and her boyfriend. At the age of twenty-two she will find herself as a single mother of fourteen young children and in permanent residence in Uganda, a country marked by