Compare And Contrast Bobbie Ann Mason And Raymond Carver

Mary Rowlandson and Sojourner Truth were both prominent women who had stories about their captivities. Mary Rowlandson was a White woman who was kidnapped by Native Americans during a raid on her village. While Sojourner Truth was born into slavery and remained property until 1826. Both ladies had differences on among their captivities and encountered oppression in unique ways.The difference between Sojourner Truth and Mary Rowlandson emphasis on individuality, time and historical moment and institutional oppression they both endure.

Lastly, the historical context used in the story wraps up the conflict between the two characters. Norma Jean and Leroy finally visit the Shiloh battleground but the trip doesn’t go as expected. Shiloh is known to be associated with the battle for women’s rights and the Civil War. While finishing lunch, Norma Jean blurts out “I want to leave you.” to Leroy as a step to gain her independence (Mason 70). Leroy doesn’t want her to leave him, but they are too much of strangers to come back

Similarly the idea of a person’s relationship with others allows them to feel a greater sense of self-worth is tackled in the novel. Tom’s ever evolving relationship with Chrissy Tulake allows Tom to move from a sad teenager to a man with a much more optimistic outlook on life. The composer uses the motif of the colour black and darkness in ‘black cloud hanging over [me]’ to convey the way Tom feels most of the time. At this time in his life , Tom ‘hates [his] life’. Tom has no strong positive relationships in his life . It is this absence of a meaningful relationship that keeps Tom in the dark place. Tom’s relationship with Chrissy and how it affects his feelings of self-worth is shown through Tom’s thoughts. Thoughts such as ‘When I was with Chrissy I was me again’ and ‘You helped me find my old self’, demonstrate the positive effects the relationship with Chrissy had for Tom. Again this demonstrates that relationships and connections to people are able to change one’s feeling of self-worth.

Throughout this lay, there is a sense of hope in the author's tone, almost good-natured and kind hearted. She also sets a series of sorrowful tones that creates an atmosphere for the troubles the lovers have gone through to be in the presence of each other. However, the majority of the story is the happiness and joy from the lovers finally being with one another. Toward the

Fairy tales tell us that once upon a time a girl met a boy; they fell in love, and lived happily ever after. Reality is not that simple. Long-term relationships force couples to become more acquainted with each other, include themselves in each others’ worlds and eventually develop further connections. However, a relationship can come to an end point and therefore one will try to come back in the other’s life. This type of relationship is remarked in Fran Kimmel’s short story “Laundry Day”. The author suggests that getting rid of unhealthy relationship leads to happiness, the author uses the protagonist’s transformation, contrasting characters and symbols.

In the beginning of “Little Things”, Carver created the scenery of outside to establish the dark side of the relationship. “Cars slushed by on the street outside, where it was getting dark but it was getting dark on the inside too”; Thus, foreshadowing the relationship on its last leg. As the man packed his belongings, the woman responded “I’m glad you’re leaving. I’m glad you’re leaving!”, Carver now expresses the relationship as being gloomy with no sign of contentment. Man, is portrayed as unhappy and leaving whereas the woman struggles to react without being attentive toward the man’s emotions. Foreshadowing is used to create the start point of this catastrophic ending with the man having empathy for the child and not the woman. Emotions emphasized the foreshadowing once the woman removed the picture of the child out the bedroom, Man now makes effort in having a conversation with the woman by the request that she “bring that back”. Emotions effected more than one point of view in “Little Things” due to the relationship involving two people and a child. Mutual affect had been brought to light with “Love and Basketball”, though Quincy was not a baby when the dispute between his parents and adultery started, his father took the time to address the personal situation with Quincy while he attended college by lying. Yet proof from both stories display the reality of emotions between parents and children in modern situation

The book titled Same Kind of Different as Me refers to the parallelism and correspondence of two completely different men who journey through life’s challenges and obstacles on two diverse paths. It’s title represents a nonfictional story of deep pain and difficult circumstances about how two men who have nothing in common, can come together regardless of their skin color or social ranking and search for their different meanings in life together as if they were family. And though they were completely different on the outside, on the inside they were the same because they had very relatable circumstances and challenges throughout their lives because they both lost the ones they loved the most, and both Ron and Denver acted like a support system

Society often fail to understand and see the mental pain that individuals carry throughout their lives. Some people bear its burden, while others suffer greatly because of it, to the point of choosing self-destruction. The narrators from “The Gargoyle” (Davidson) and “Walk to Morning” (Boyden) both experience this pain that ultimately sets them on a course to a deep pit. They survive their near-deaths and later encounter unique life-changing people. As a result, they become better individuals.

These short descriptions or stories were to build his persuasion on the reader. The anecdotes he used led

There is a little bit of darkness in everyone, but if you accept it and learn from it, you can grow, but if you repress it and never deal with it; then there will be severe consequences. By examining Robertson Davies’ novel, Fifth Business, one can see that Dunstan’s perspective of the snowball incident, Boy’s encounter in the gravel pit, and Willie’s death, demonstrate Dunstan’s struggle with the psychological truth behind literal events, resulting in Boy and Dunstan’s dark desires to reveal themselves, because they were never accepted. These three incidents cause Dunstan lifelong internal battles that he has trouble shaking off.

Life can be hard, especially with persistent lighting that is constantly striking; however, love gives the strength to wait out these storms. Jefferson’s execution date was set, and there was no way that he nor anyone else could change his fate. Sometimes, like Jefferson, the storm is not going to let up. It is important for one to acquire the strength to be able to brave out the storm instead. Love gives people this strength to brave the storms of

, the characters in the story often show emotions whether it be externally or internally. The

Their baby son died at an early age, of possible SIDS-Sudden Infant Death Syndrome. To have a child when they themselves are young, and then to have their child die suddenly and told by those who are trained and should be compassionate in situations like this, to say to a parent that it “just happens sometimes” is a very hard situation to handle even for more experienced parents. Dealing with death is difficult, and there are stages of grieving; denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and eventually acceptance, sometimes a person is caught in one stage and never reach the acceptance stage, which can cause negative effects in relationships and other aspects of the person’s life. Leroy nor Norma Jean more than likely did not receive counseling to deal with the difficulty of losing a child in such a sudden unexplained way, and it appears that they didn’t communicate about it with each other, which was not healthy for their

How do the writers of two short stories make you feel sympathy for the main characters?

The use of character, style, and point of view that Atwood uses to write this story gives you a real feeling of pity for these characters, only having horrible lows or average highs in their relationships. It appears that there is no great place to be in her story. Reading this story for the first time, the reader could assume Atwood has an obsession with bad relationships, boring average marriages, and death. The key to understanding what the author is trying to convey is realizing how the stories all link together and how they all lack the essence of excitement and desire. The author brings the idea that without focusing on the “how and why” of life and only focusing on the “what, what, what” will leave you with an average