Dorothy Must Die : A Short Story : Dorothy Must Die

In Dorothy Allison’s essay, “Panacea,” she effectively conveys the importance of preparing a gravy, which ensures the dominant impression of safety and comfort necessary for mothers to display to their children.

Courage is a cardinal virtue every human being needs. Courage is doing something frightening you are for the right being even if you are alone in your belief. Many regular humans have used courage also. For example Dr. Martin Luther King jr. stood up for all African Americans, even though almost everyone did not agree with him. He eventually helped end segregation by raising awareness. Sadly, Dr. Martin Luther King jr. was killed just for his beliefs. Today we celebrate a holiday for his great bravery. Bravery is a synonym of courage.

Scene: This scene in the film comes just after the house has been picked up in the twister. Dorothy's house has been lifted up into the sky and suddenly dropped back down to earth in the middle of the Land of Oz. In the scene itself, Dorothy leaves her home to see that she is "Not in Kansas anymore," and finds the new and amazing world of the munchkin city in front of her. She also meets Gwendela the good witch as her journey in Oz begins.

Death is not something to be feared, but faced with awe. Although, by nature, aging and death are merely facts of life; a loss of hope, the frustration of all aspirations, a leap into a great darkness, and the feelings of fear and anguish. Phoneix Jackson of Eudora Welty's "A Worn Path" and Granny of Katherine Anne Porter's "The Jilting of Granny Weatherall" face these inevitable signs of aging and death.

Oz is shot in bright and vibrant colours, which pertains to the idea of a magical land that appears very opposed to the dull and colourless real world of Kansas, assisting on taking the viewer on the journey ‘over the rainbow’. This goal oriented plot in The Wizard of Oz follows a pattern of development that encourages the viewer to expect Dorothy to reach her desired goal. The viewer then sees each action of Dorothy’s to be a progress of this desire to go home to Kansas.

In “The Jilting of Granny Weatherall” by Katherine Anne Porter, we learn of an elderly woman who is lying on her death bed watching her life pass before her eyes. We learn, from these flashbacks, how much she has overcome and endured, and how she's put her whole heart into being a mother and wife up until her last breath, when she blew out the candle and rode with her Father in a cart to heaven. It’s this very reason why Porter, in my opinion, chose Granny as the narrator of this story; so we could see the story through her eyes, being able to relate and appreciate it better.

The hurricane in Florida had cause Miranda and her mom to move to St.Yvette with Miranda’s aunt and the grandfather she never knew. Going to school the following day Miranda gets paired up with five other people to do a project. The group she is put into is the first people she met when she got to school. Getting upset she realize that they are so different from her group of friends back when she was in Florida. In the end she they all become best friends.

The Jilting of Granny Weatherall In Katherine Ann Porter’s "The Jilting of Granny Weatherall," there are two prevalant themes. The first is self-pity. The second theme is the acceptance of her immenent demise. Both deal with the way people perceive their deaths and mortality in general. Granny Weatherall’s behavior is Porter’s tool for making these themes visible to the reader. The theme of self-pity is obvious and throughly explored early on. As a young lady, Granny Weatherall left at the alter on her wedding day . As a result, the pathetic woman feels sorry for herself for the rest of her life. She becomes a bitter old woman who is suspicious of everyone around her. This point is shown early in the story when the

“She stretches her gentle hand out to him in agonized entreaty, crying piteously, “Oh, Louis, Louis, Louis!” He raises the axe and brings it down on her bright head with one tremendous blow and she sinks without a sound and lies in a heap.” In a variety of their literary pieces, Mark Twain, Celia Thaxter, and Dorothy Kilgallen, all explore the notion of the male murderer. Why is it specifically a male murderer and what is it that was leading all these men to choose to sacrifice the people around them? One of the murders, which is discussed by Celia Thaxter, is that of a man by the name of Louis Wagner and the only indication of him being a dangerous man is when Thaxter writes that “there were vague rumors that his past life had not been without difficulties.” In this tale, he attempted to murder three gentlewomen when they were without their husband’s protection for seemingly no reason other than to enjoy the pleasure of the kill. This is an

Dorothy L. Martin’s book, Battered Wives (1976, 1981) was chosen to help understand abuse from the perspective of the victim and perpetrator in the context of advocacy. The heart and mind of an effective advocate can feel what others believe their hiding. Martin, who was commonly known as Del; was married and the couple had one daughter, she divorce her husband and married once more; to a woman. Martin and partner Phyllis; both lesbian activist were married in San Francisco, California. The couple continued in marriage until Martin’s death in 2008; she was 87 (CNN, 2008).

In the movie: It tells the story of a girl named Dorothy, who ends up in a tornado and gets hurled away from her farm in Kansas to a land that is not like anything she has experienced before. After Dorothy’s house falls and kills the Wicked Witch in the first scene, Dorothy is welcomed by the Munchkins. The kind witch, Glinda, appears and explains to Dorothy that in order to find out about getting back home, she needs to follow the yellow brick road. This road leads her to Emerald city, where she must ask the grand Wizard to get her back to Kansas. Along her way down the yellow brick road Dorothy encounters some characters who all have something they want to ask the wizard. However, when they finally arrive at the Emerald City, they discover the wizard is just a fraud and that everything they had been searching for they can find deep within themselves (metaphorically rather than physically).

In this book by Dorothy and Thomas Hoobler there are one hundred eighty-two pages which also includes the prologue, given, and the author's notes but in reality it isn’t that long just a single page. It took me about an hour to two hours to read it. I learned some facts about Japanese culture from the 1700’s: the were geishas which entertained men not in a inappropriate way at least not in the book but entertainment in songs, stories, and such. I also learned more about the main character Seikei and how he came to be the Judge’s son which is expected when you read a book that was made after this one which is what I did when I read “The sword that cut the burning grass.” Also it taught me to look for alternate solutions to problems and that

The only way for them to get through it all was to build courage, get a heart, to grow up and to fully think. As Bussey puts it, "She seeks familiarity and security, and along the way, she grows into a more mature individual."(1) Dorothy really does want to go back to Kansas and bring back the control of her own life. The voyage that Dorothy sets on to is one that can easily be described and seen as the voyage to her coming-of-age.

In the various works provided to the class many themes are present in all of them, this paper will be focusing on the authors methods of critiquing social norms. The short story, A Telephone Call by Dorothy Parker paints a harsh reality from the perspective of a highly anxious woman forced into a lifestyle that many would relate to in the 1900s. “My Last Duchess” by Robert Browning exposes the duke and the terrible social norms he reinforces through a poetic format allowing the reader to interpret his strange behavior on their own. Their Eyes Were Watching God, a novel, by Zora Neale Hurston attempts to defy social norms and showcase the positive outcomes of such. Lastly, A Streetcar Named Desire is a play by Tennessee Williams which satirically points out the extremist behaviors that are approved and even rewarded by society. These pieces of literature from different genres still point out the same issues in social norms in regards to the power struggle between men and women and gender roles. Although the perspective changes, as the characters are different or the economy of words is different between the genres the message stays the same.

Dorothy Parker 's poem "Resume" manages the topic of suicide. In spite of the fact that it is a fairly succinct poem it talks about a dull thought in an unexpected tone. She makes the different methods for conferring suicide preferably everyday than what the real demonstration would cause along these lines making a modest representation of the truth. This poem considers the unfortunate existence of Dorothy Parker whose three relational unions fizzled and had imprudently endeavored suicide a few times.