Commentary on Lorna Sage, Bad Blood (2000) Essay

The message that the author wants the reader to get is that friendship gives you the power to overcome any obstacle as long as the bond is strong. I think this is the message because the friendship that Tamanna and Yasmine share is what gives them the power to overcome the harsh conditions of their lives. Before Tamanna met Yasmine she had the courageousness and boldness inside of her but that side only came up when used in retaliation to someone’s statements (Thunder Over Kandahar, pg 32). However, when Tamanna and Yasmine started growing a friendship, Tamanna’s personality has switched from timid and docile to bold and hardy (Thunder Over Kandahar, pg 63 pg 154). This friendship laid the ground for heartbreaking scenes, and when the two are

For this assignment, I chose a quote out of the book “Clotel, or the President’s Daughter”. The author, William Wells Brown frequently integrated outside quotes and works into his novel for a variety of reasons. The quote that I chose to do my paper on, is not originally from the novel, but a Washington Irving quote Brown decided to include in the novel because it was consistent with his writing and helped bring together a theme that his novel rotated around. The quote can be found at the very end of the novel and it reads as follows: “A celebrated writer has justly said of a woman, “A woman’s whole life is a history of the affections. The heart is her world; it is there her ambition strives for empire; it is there her avarice seeks for hidden treasures. She sends forth her sympathies on adventure; she embarks her whole soul in the traffic of affection, and, if shipwrecked, her case is hopeless, for it is a bankruptcy of the heart.”” (103) One of the main purposes of this quote is to explain the decisions and thought processes of the female characters throughout the novel.

In both sections, people have a superficial view of the protagonist’s relationship. The women insist that Mrs. Pontellier’s husband is the best; their views, however, fail to take into account any emotional connection between Mrs. and Mr. Pontellier, instead only taking into account the gifts he gives her that she shares with them. They only view the relationship from a material standpoint. The same rings true of Janie’s relationships. The townspeople envy and support her relationship with Jody, outright ignoring his abuse and treatment of her as an object. They only appear to see the material goods he gives and shares with her, the material goods that they themselves desire but yet do not have. On the other hand, they judge a relationship devoid of that material element, outright critical of her dating Tea Cake, ignoring the deep, emotional connection between the two. Through this, I feel that both authors pull on the idea of people only understanding a relationship form a superficial, materialistic standpoint. It brings out the fact that from the outside, many people fail to take into account any true emotional connection between two people. They fail to examine a relationship from a deeper stance. Such occurrences claimed to occur by these authors can be found consistently. Oftentimes, toxic and abusive relationships are idolized or envied because the people

Having blossomed from a child into a well-developed young lady, Rachel begins her new teenage ways of “paying too much attention to boy” (150). In the eyes of her grandmother, the worse aspects of her new behavior is labeled as being like her mother, but Rachel exploring her sexuality with males is a result of her loneliness and the lack of sense of self. Through grandmother's hate towards Nella; half of herself had been unconsciously rejected, and it in the novel Rachel says in regards to her sexual touching from John Bailey that he had made all of what is really me feel really good.” (150) These are cries of help from a young lady desperately trying to find someone who loves her as her in the all wrong ways, and this gets further displayed

Usually when two people’s point of views are depicted in a story, the books are separated to help the reader understand which character is thinking or saying what. In these two books, the points of view from different people is a reoccurring theme among the pages. In A Thousand Splendid Suns, points of view from two afghan women are portrayed. At first, the story of one woman is told, then the book is separated into a different part telling the story of the other woman. When the stories become associated with one another, the book is separated once again into a different part, telling their stories together, but with chapters separating their points of view on the shared story.

Usually, it is very frustrating when you read something and you cannot grasp what exactly the author is trying to put across. Some authors, like Sharon Olds, use examples of real life experiences to try and explain something that is also happening in real life. After reading the preceding ten lines of the poem, I thought to myself that I had understood clearly what Sharon was saying. However, after getting to the tenth line, I got very confused. This prompted me to sit down, read the poem again keenly while putting down some important notes to fully understand Sharon’s message in this poem, Sex without Love.

The novel begins when Ester is nineteen and “pureness was the great issue” (82). She is encumbered by an older generation – like her mother whom mails her copies of articles on topics like “Defense of Chastity,” – and her own generation of young, educated and autonomous women. As a young woman off at school, Ester would see the sexual proclivities of her dorm mates. Her views on abstinence and innocence would be contemporary; thus, while Ester recognizes the traditional views on virginity and marriage, she does not embrace them. Even though Ester is a virgin, she believes that men and women should have the same amount of everything, everything including sexual experience. Ester states that if her future spouse was experienced she would have merely “gone out and slept with somebody myself just to even things up, and then thought not more about it” (71). Esters critique of sexual experience is simply that the standards should be equal. There is no anger or betrayal behind her thoughts on sexual experience, only that if

In Collected Fictions, “The Cruel Redemer Lazarus Morell” translated by Andrew Hurley, the passage in the book it is comparing a mother-child relationship with a believed bloody relationship as a

Divorce. If you have left an abusive marriage you are either headed in this direction or are there now. The scarlet letter “D” is one many do not foresee being attached to their name. It was not a word I ever expected to find attached to mine. Ever. In fact, had you asked me in my younger years if I believed I would ever wear the title of divorcee you would have received a loud resounding no. I would never be one of “those” people. That would have honestly been my answer. Truly.

Sex and relationships are recurring themes throughout the genre and are essential elements teen narrative. Their portrayal ranges from comic interactions to serious exchanges and emotional liberation from restrictive forces. Timothy Shary explains the significance of these two thematic threads: “Romantic longing and sexual curiosity take on heightened intensity and profundity for youth in the adolescent years struggle to recognise and cope with the emotional and psychological changes”(2002). The character’s experience with sex are usually comedic and linked to sexual discovery and loss of virginity, which are continually present topics in the narrative. It is is often a determinant that shapes teen identity, as well as providing a commentary on societal questions regarding a desire of intimacy. The sexual exploits between the teen male and female investigates teen behavior and the conceptualization of feelings and emotions in their discovery of identity.

The speaker rues over a terminated "love" affair. She (although arguable, this critic finds the speaker’s notion of and adherence to gender roles distinctly "female") supplicates for a "sign" of his (again,

1a: the conflict involved to young women, I would say approximately in their early 30s, who by all accounts, you have a long-lasting friendship. It appears, judging by what was said in the conversation, but the root of the conflict revolves around some issue regarding their friendship. The two of them spoke in any particular tone that woman only do so with someone they were close to. There was definitely an intimacy in their choice of words

Human relationships are so heavily complex due to fact that there are hostile and compassionate aspects to them. Also, these complex relationships make it possible to be physically close to someone without being emotionally connected to them. This is shown in the excerpt from The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy through the characters Mayor Henchard and his daughter Elizabeth-Jane. The Mayor and his daughter have a critical and unloving relationship resulting from their previous estrangement and his judgmental personality. This relationship is also one-sided because Elizabeth constantly tries to adhere to her father’s critiques after their reconnection, but he remains cold and harsh. Their relationship is presented as toxic through the

In chapter one, also known as ‘the hurting’, the author focuses on trauma that people have dealt with such as sexual abuse from a father or relative, failed relationships with parents, and difficulty with one’s self-expression. One of the poems in chapter one states that the girl’s first kiss was by the age of five and was carried out in an aggressive manner by the young boy, she assumes that he had picked that up from his father’s interactions with the mother. In the poem it says “He had the smell of starvation on his lips which he picked up from his father feasting on his mother at 4 a.m.” It is insinuated that the father uses forceful actions towards the mother during times that should be gentle and affectionate. In that specific poem she felt as if that was when she was taught that her body is only for giving to those who wanted out of satisfaction but she should feel ‘anything less than whole’. In another poem in chapter one, there is a family setting during dinner in which the father orders the mother to hush. This represents how women are constantly oppressed in their own

If a recent reader of the novel were to be asked what was the major theme of John Green’s The Fault In Our Stars, undoubtedly the first answer to arise would be teenage love. In short, the romance between Augustus and Hazel is the captivating, happy plot which readers find themselves latching onto amidst the horror of fighting cancer. Rather than happy, perhaps a more accurate word for the relationship is genuine. In a current culture enthralled in censorship, many adults argue that, “teenage lust and kissing are explicit details which are more appropriate for a conversation between parent and adult.” While the argument is certainly valid, the growth and love experienced in the novel are the same two characteristics most popular in high schools today. Despite being