Fate In Seventeen-Year-Old Kat Forst

The culture of Mango Street lends itself to espousing two main gender roles for women, most importantly the role of mother and caretaker, and less significantly, as sexual figure. Women on Mango Street commonly embrace or are forced to embrace at least one of these roles. Marin, a woman who takes care of her cousins by day and sits outside smoking by night, easily embodies both roles. Sally particularly exemplifies that women cannot get away from the gender roles that bind them. In her family, being a female means becoming a vulnerable person for the man to control. However, Sally prefers to ignore this gender role and advertise herself as a seductress. As she agrees to give “a kiss for each” boy (Cisneros 97) in exchange for her keys back, “beauty is linked to sexual coercion …; there are no promises of marriage here, only promises of giving back to Sally what is already hers” (Wissman). Her family rejects his role, though to some extent accepted by Mango Street. By accepting the alternate gender role, Sally tries to break away from the gender role her family expects of her. However, she is unsuccessful. To escape from her father, Sally is “married before eighth grade” (Cisneros 101) to an equally controlling man who “won’t let her talk on the telephone” or “look out the window” (Cisneros 102). The marriage is a way

uncertainty wherein the tattoo serves as both silent witness and lucky charm. Yet sailors and navel men have long applied symbols to their bodies, in an almost magical way, to guide their vessels and protect themselves, to

“That’s why they were only taking a few things at a time; they weren 't really coming for ivory and paintings. They wanted me!” Even when she wasn’t in her room she was always afraid of something. “I always dreaded that my parents would divorce. It was my third biggest fear, right next to the fear that one of them would get abducted by heartmen on the road to Sugar Beach, or my first fear, that I would get sucked into the lagoon by neegee.” Out of all three fears only one seemed to happen. Her parents relationship finally came to an end after a lot of fighting, disagreement, and cheating. “Daddy, I hold your foot, don’t leave us. Daddy, please, I beg you” she cried that day. From then on, except the servants and cook, “it was only women at Sugar Beach.” Even after dealing with something so hard in her life that wasn’t even what affected her the most.

Even though this novel showcased plenty different subjects, I found that the betrayal and dishonesty of the people around Meg were well represented throughout the story. Prior to finding the key, Meg had no idea that her parents had been obscuring their involvement in S.O.M.A. from her.

in, she gives him the symbol of her inner-self. She begins to feel hope as the

The five central characters in The Counselor, presents us with a plethora of Machiavellian characters to examine. You must be a fine liar, in this story of greed, sex, and murder with shocking and irreversible consequences to all those involved so prepare for a change in fortunes. The infamous Mexican drug cartels can strike fear in the hearts of all those who cross them, but nothing could prepare them for Cameron Diaz as Malkina in the Counselor. She is a pathological liar, who is now living the high-life after escaping her sordid past as an exotic dancer. A cheetah print tattoo down her back and torso connects her two her pet cheetahs and adds a primal edge to her whole persona. unceasingly aware of what’s going on around her, which makes her powerful. It presents an almost predatory feature that she gathers Intel on people a cold selfishness and pure instrumentality to pursue her motives (e.g. sex, 20 million dollars) in duplicitous ways. Using her connections, status she can adopt a course of action using the several Machiavellian concepts to set her plan in action. She’s on the hunt like a cheetah stalking her prey.

The women both undergo a compelling character transformation, as they come to terms with their past and their fears. The stakes for both of them are physical, psychological, and personal.

He plans to escape the wretched hospital where he has been locked up for the past two years. Since the day he was admitted, Orestes dreamed of making an escape. Finally, after months of pretending to comply with doctors and manipulating the system, he believes it is the right time to put his plans into action. Orestes knows this will not be an easy task, so he turns to the Gods and prays for guidance. The voices, or the Gods, answer his prayers and tell Orestes that a woman will be the key in his escape. After ruminating about who the mysterious woman could be, Orestes finally realizes that the only way he will be able to make an escape is from help from an employee in the psychiatric hospital. Over the next few weeks, Orestes carefully observes every female employee to see who would be the most vulnerable and easy to

She believes that this man will appear "...with gentle and penetrating eyes, who - with no exchange of words - understood; and before whose glance her foot straightened and her eyes dropped. The someone had no face, no form, no voice, no odor. He was a simple Presence, an all-embracing tenderness with strength and a promise of rest....She had only to lay her head on his chest and he will lead her away to the sea, to the city, to the woods...forever." (Morrison, p. 113)

a clever and shrewd girl of sorts, has the harrowing and busy work of nullifying curses in her father's museum, where the darkest spells abound. However, it is delicate work, and time is running out for her to set things right. A crate arrives from Theo's mother in Egypt, which contains a cursed statue of Bastet. While transferring the curse from the statue to a wax figure, she becomes distracted and redirects it into her cat, Isis. Her hands are full enough when her mother returns from the tombs of Egypt, bringing countless cursed valuables and antiquities with her. While picking her mother up at the train station, Theodosia catches a street urchin named Sticky Will trying to pick her father's pocket. He informs her that .When Theo’s mother

Few days gone but her dream has not gone yet. Few months gone, she has got marriage invitation from prince of Tulstan kingdom. She has already forgotten her dream, however, her first night with the prince she saw poor guy’s face from the prince, and yet

Shortly after marrying his bride Aylmer finds out something troubling about her appearance. After gazing at her Aylmer the scientist find a birth mark on his wife’s cheeks and he’s somewhat troubled by it. Georgina his wife has never taken anything serious of her birthmark that is like a tiny hand before he asked “’has it never occurred to you that the marks on your cheeks can be removed?’”(341) She is angered at first because of his statement, what people considered as a charm would distress the man whom fell in love with her. Furthermore her husband had a dream but forgot about it, now she became concerned with the topic of he and for the first time brought it up just as the light was dimming out, he finally recalls every scene in the dream and he states “He had fancied himself with his servant Aminadab, attempting an operation for the removal of the birthmark; but the deeper went the knife, the deeper sank the hand, until at length its tiny grasp appeared to have

After going into so much debt, he goes into a dangerous dilemma of stealing a valuable and expensive painting, but is stuck as a guinie pig, as the criminals work with the hypno-therapist to torture Simon’s mind until they can force him to remember but he is castrated from his free will and his freedom. As time passes Simon builds a romantic relationship for his therapist Elizabeth, she helps Simon reconstruct his memory but little does Simon know she is digging into his brain to take the painting for herself. She constructs Simon’s character into somewhat of a monster but a man that now has free will and can desire his original dream to “take control” as Elizabeth confronts Simon of erasing his memory of the love affair they shared before.

Quick Synopsis: The story follows the Bloody Baroness, Androma Racella, and her crew aboard the Maurader. When a routine mission goes awry, the all-girl crew’s resilience is tested as they find themselves in a most unfamiliar place: at the mercy of a sadistic bounty hunter connected to Andi’s past and a harrowing betrayal.

The RCMP officer visits Mark and informs him of Keetah’s sister death. She was never married, her fiancé rejected her and left her penniless in Vancouver, she was lost in an unknown world, she went to a beer parlour, became a prostitute, felt ashamed to come home to her tribe and village, and so turned to dope and