Cyrla Strengths And Weaknesses

the reader to interpret what may have happened to the mother, and how it affects the relationship

The mother begins to rebel against tradition by taking an active role in educating and freeing herself. Through her radio, telephone and trips out with her sons she develops her own opinions about the world, the war, and the domination and seclusion of woman. She loses her innocence as a result to her new knowledge and experience.

The speaker expresses how she feels about the books and poems she produced through the metaphor of a mother and her child. For example, the speaker begins with words such as “offspring” and “after birth” to liken the two relationships (1-2). She implies many complex feelings toward her books like a mother would toward her child. The speakers feels resentment and embarrassment when the book was “snatched by friends” and “exposed to public view” prior to her revisions (3-4). Because of all the flaws she believe the book possesses, she doesn’t want others to see as “errors weren’t lessened, all may judge” like a mother might be embarrassed and ashamed because of some of her child’s actions (6). Even though the speaker thinks she is a terrible author because of the mistakes in her book, when she sees her work as an actual book, her “blushing was not small, my rambling brat (in print)” (7-8). She was somewhat proud of her book as now it is published and bound as a book, just like a mother would be proud of her child’s achievements. Then, after the moment of proudness, the

In this novel Taylor is a dynamic character, we see her transform from a young girl who didn’t want to get married or have kids to an independent single mother. In the beginning we get to know her as a self-owned, determined and a stubborn girl who is focused, ambitious and thinks outside the box; because she knows firsthand what is like to see her mother struggle as a single parent. She learned to value every day because pregnancy was like a disease. An example of her considerate outlook is “believe me in those days the girls were dropping by the wayside like seeds off a poppy seed bun and you learned to look at every day as a prize” (3). This small but

In the middle of the novel, the story presents itself with an unexpected twist, a baby. With two boys, Lev and Connor, Risa is left to be the only girl. Seeing as the boys are incompatible to handle a baby, Risa espoused the baby caringly. I can prove this because in chapter 20, page 113 the text says, “Reflexively, Risa holds the baby closer to her.” This shows that Risa, out of reflex, doesn’t want to give away the baby. I also can prove once again that Risa portrays a motherly character because on page 113, later on the page, the texts states, “ The moment the baby is out of her arms Risa feels a tremendous sense of relief, but also an indefinable sense of emptiness.” This shows that Risa cared for the baby, and felt like she was a mother to it before it was taken away. The reader knows from the start of the baby drama to the end, that Risa is a motherly

However, at the end of the story this stereotype is completely contrasted following the passing of the mother. When the boy, who is now a grown man and father, returns home to his newborn daughter it is he who displays a nurturing and affectionate relationship between a father and his daughter. This role reversal developed by Munsch effectively casts aside the stereotype that women are better suited to raise a child, and demonstrates that affection and the ability to nurture are not qualities that are able to be defined by a persons gender. Munsch instead shows how these qualities are learned by a person and are displayed as they mature with age. Munsch effectively represents this progression though maturity when showing, the love the boy has for his mother is not absent during his childhood, but simply something he does not display as well as he does when he becomes an adult.

"You think because I am her mother I have a key, or that in some way you could use me as a key? She has lived for nineteen years. Over and over, we are told of the limitations on choice--"it was the only way"; "They persuaded me" and verbs of necessity recur for descriptions of both the mother's and Emily's behavior. " In such statements as "my wisdom ! came too late," the story verges on becoming an analysis of parental guilt. With the narrator, we construct an image of the mother's own development: her difficulties as a young mother alone with her daughter and barely surviving during the early years of the depression; her painful months of enforced separation from her daughter; her gradual and partial relaxation in response to a new husband and a new family as more children follow; her increasingly complex anxieties about her first child; and finally her sense of family balance which surrounds but does not quite include the early memories of herself and Emily in the grips of survival needs. In doing so she has neither trivialized nor romanticized the experience of motherhood; she has indicated the wealth of experience yet to be explored in the story’s possibilities of experiences, like motherhood, which have rarely been granted serious literary consideration. Rather she is searching for

The babies being devoured, like Swift’s feelings of being devoured by leadership in society, stirs up emotions in both rich and poor people. This use of archetypal patterns and images (motherhood, birth, death, and rebirth) cause emotions in every reader no matter what their

The reader cannot help but feel the burden the daughter will be sharing with the mother. And while the plight of the mother is real, the reader cannot ignore how the isolation and loneliness of this type of community, or lack there of, has effected Tome's judgment in mothering.

In my opinion, this is a well structured essay by Dudley Randall which describes minutes before an innocent girl dies in one of the most unimaginable ways. I believe losing her child is a hard thing for a mother to go through. I enjoy the end rhyme and the ability for the audience to understand the poem’s composition. I do not like the way the poem’s tone

The theme of this book is no pain, no gain. The story’s beginning of separation of the mother and her child shows the pain that both side goes through. Through all the conflicts and pains as they grow up without each other shows their sadness. But when both side have firm belief to find each other, they search for clues, Gabe finding hints about location of his birth mother, while Claire, his mother goes on long voyage to find her son. With effort, the two find each other, but do not notice until the end of the book, when Gabe goes on special quest to find “youth” to give to his mother to live together once

I struggled with the author’s writing style and symbolism. From a stylistic perspective, this was a bit of a difficult read for me. The narration gave me too much information at times, and at other times, not enough. The author created a bit of a puzzling storyline that had me working very hard to try to understand what she was intending. There were very few details provided about Boy Baby’s past or the fact that he was a murderer.

Judith Wright’s poem “Mother to Child” is about a woman’s emotions during the different stages of motherhood. It tells the audience that the bond between a mother and her child is very powerful and that it changes as the child grows. Wright shows us this through her use of imagery, symbolism and the structure of her poem. The use of those three elements of literature help communicate the love the woman has for her child and how their connection grows stronger as time goes on.

Another useful tool in analyzing a poem is to identify poetic devices, meter, and a rhyme scheme. Through her deft use of extended metaphor, Bradstreet weaves an intricate web of parallels between parent and author and between child and book--both relationships of creator to creation. This use of metaphor allows the reader to relate emotionally to Bradstreet’s situation. In line seven, we see the uses of litotes, “At thy return my blushing was not small,” to express the depth of her embarrassment. She also uses metonymy in line eight to express her pain more clearly, “My rambling brat (in print) should mother call.” The simile used in line nine stresses her objection to the published work, “I cast thee by as one unfit for light.” Then in line 19, the poetic device of consonance is used which provides emphasis on her warning, “In this array ‘mongst vulgars may’st thou roam.” In this poem, through the use of personification and apostrophe Bradstreet conveys her feelings and emotions. Anne Bradstreet ensures her poem’s success by linking the triumph and tragedy of authorship with the pain and pleasure of creating and nurturing human life. The meter used is

The resentment within the young girl’s family is essential to the novel because one can understand the young girl better as she makes her decision.