'Flowering Judas': Settings And Atmosphere

Station Eleven explores many viewpoints to further the plot of the novel. This method of explanation begs the question - Who is the main character?

The character of Braggioni in Katherine Anne Porter's "Flowering Judas" is defined by his contradictions. He is a radical revolutionary described by his followers as "a leader of men, a skilled revolutionist, and his skin has been punctured in honorable warfare" (91). Nevertheless he dresses like a wealthy fop, showing off an imported silk handkerchief and confiding "I have a taste for elegant refinements" (93). He is more likely to be seen playing his guitar and singing a corrido than engaged in guerilla warfare. We also associate revolutionaries with ideals of justice and compassion for the poor and downtrodden, whom Braggioni purports to represent politically yet Porter makes it clear that he is hardly a bleeding heart, but instead is a man of vast "cruelty and vanity". In fact, he seems to exhibit no generalized love for mankind that might be associated with egalitarian political sentiments instead we are told that "Braggioni is cruel to everyone, with a kind of specialized insolence, but he is so vain of his talents, and so sensitive to slights, it would require a cruelty and vanity greater than his own to lay a finger on the vast cureless wound of his self-esteem" (90-91). It becomes clear that his radical politics are not the result of compassion but of resentment.

Eugenia Collier, the author of the short story Marigolds makes great use of literary devices such as imagery, diction, flashback, and juxtaposition in a way that creates a voice for the narrator that conveys both the regret over, and possibly the longing for her childhood. The diction, that is, the vocabulary choice is expertly combined with imagery, or the unique descriptions and sensory details, in order to allow the reader to formulate the experiences and the surroundings of the narrator's childhood in their imaginations. Flashback is used to allow the narrator to not only explain how she viewed the events of her past as a child, but to compare these views with her adult feelings of the same events. Juxtaposition aids in further explaining the connection between the setting and emotions of the main character, creating a better picture of the narrator’s life. These elements all combine to construct a narrative that effectively conveys the coming of age theme.

The story takes place in a neighborhood that i estimate is quite small considering Carolee knows her neighbors are gone. The setting revolves around Carolee’s home. Her doing her chores in her home and the suspect roaming around outside. The setting influences the story a lot because it influences Carolee’s reaction to what happened. She had never seen anything like that in person and it opened her eyes to how society really is.

There comes a point in one’s life when they must recognize the hardships placed upon them, and instead of being ignorant of those hardships, they must confront them head-on. In “Marigolds”, a short story by Eugenia Collier, the main protagonist, Lizabeth, encounters various struggles that come with living in a poor town in rural Maryland during the Depression, allowing her to learn more about growing up and accepting reality with all its flaws. Lizabeth is a 14-year-old girl who feels a conflict between her inner child and her inner woman, as she is unable to do anything that satisfies both sides of her. She feels too old to be a child, yet too young to be a

One of the most universal symbols of beauty is the flower. Their delicate buds hold such great beauty, while being so fragile and temporary. Despite their magnificence, flowers must remain stationary. It is a prison, yet no one thinks beyond the simplicity of a pretty flower. Like women, flowers are seen at face value without any concern for the lack of freedom, opportunity, and expression they have. Women are meant to be seen just how society expects and not any other way. In Chronicle of a Death Foretold, female characters face the serious consequences of societal expectations and views on sexuality. Gabriel Garcia Marquez uses the motif of flowers to symbolize women and their virginity to demonstrate the confinement of women in society.

The book setting takes place in Mexico City in 1583 at a convent. Father Benito Lara was a Franciscan monk around 27 years old with a medium build, lean, clear tone, chestnut color hair thin to baldness identifying himself as the new confessor at the convent. The father was approached a private corner where an older woman Huitzitzilin 82 years old also known as Hummingbird frail with yellowish tone skin, small face, skeletal, dark marks, stringy white hair waiting to stated her last confession. Openly of her conversation with the father, Huitzitzilin describes her people splintered by the Spaniards, cast out, rooted out and beaten. The people had suffered from hunger and pestilence and felt like foreigners in their own rural area, these were powerful words coming from Huitzitziln. Zintle was the cousin of Huitzitziln and her first love during the Spanish Conquest of Mexico also the father to her unborn child. Huitzitzilin was different from others that was instructed about the aborigines of Mexico because the way she spoke about cultural repression of European religious, the struggle between gender oppression and duties of being a woman. Women are considered of less importance even in our world today, where we are supposed to have equality.

When Maria was 14 her family decided for them to have a better life then they should come to America. He wanted his children and their children to have more opportunities than he did. So their brothers and sisters ended up getting their legal papers in Mexico, and then drove across the boarder for a long trip to Stockton, California. Her father stayed in Guadalajara to manage the family business with her oldest sister Sophia, named after her mother. That summer Maria and her brothers and sisters started working in the fields in Stockton. Maria’s job was packing fruit like apricots, peaches, strawberries and all other types of fruits and vegetables. She also did a lot of the harvesting at Beacon’s Island.

The other main character of the story is Adelina a girl who leaves her home in California to go to Mexico. Adelina is driven out of the United States because her family won’t accept her relationship with her lover, so they both decide to go to Tijuana, a city in Mexico. Not much is said about Adelina’s experienced in the United States. What we do know is that she had a family that loved her, but she decided to leave it all behind to be together with her boyfriend Gerardo. In Mexico she finds nothing but shame and misery because Gerardo could not find a job and the only way for them to make money was for her to be a prostitute. Besides having to expose her body, Adelina, is physically and emotionally mistreated by her boyfriend until it finally leads to her death when she tells him that she is going back to the United States with Juana.

The Years with Laura Diaz, was a journal that Carlos Fuentes wanted the readers to see the twentieth century through the eyes of Laura Diaz. She experienced the cultural and political event between 1905 and the 1970's-from pre-revolutionary, through the building of Mexico's union movement, to the Spanish Civil War, and the massacre of students at Tlatelolco on the eve of the 1968 Olympics. Throughout her journal she experienced political, economic, social, situations.

It strikes in the modern world, in Texas, in Northern Mexico. It delves into the darkest recesses of humanity. De Alba presents women as an expendable commodity in Juarez. Prostitution is legal, and women are used up easily and then murdered; left to die in the wastes. De Alba compels the reader to look at themselves to see if they are taking advantage of anyone; not just women.

To begin, Rebellion is one of the major themes of this novel. The story starts with Anita and her family who lived in Dominican

The complete defiance by The Rite of Spring of the pre-established Romantic ideals instigated the aggressive response of the audience in the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées in 1913. By questioning artistic traditions and social conventions, The Rite of Spring immortalized itself as a trigger rising tensions looming in early 20th century Europe. Before The Rite of Spring and its realization of modernism, the “-ism” represented across Europe was Romanticism. Originating as a literary movement in Germany, throughout the 19th century, Romanticism swept across Europe bringing notions of individualism and idealism with it.

Flowering Judas was about this woman in Mexico who was a Catholic. Her name is Laura and she is a teacher and had a lot of admirers, she did not pay them much attention nor did she pay attention to when the children would say or do anything other than when they spoke to her and said good morning. I think the reason she moved to Mexico is because she wanted to get away from what she did when she was home, but being a Catholic she can not commit a sin such as losing her virginity before she is married. So far she has not found anyone worthy of being her husband even tho she has plenty of men who find her beautiful and full of grace, she does not want any of

Katherine Anne Porter is a renowned literary figure of her time known for her distinctive stories that encapsulates to integrate the factual crusade of human nature through self– revelation. It is significant to note that her fictional art deals with penetrating vision of human life and its complexities. A profound study of her short stories and novellas gives a pragmatic expression on subjective consciousness, which means, her works apprehends to the perceptual experiences, that is, from her memories of the past and from the real stories. Edward Schwartz mentions “Miss Porter’s “truth” is the truth of feelings and behavior rather than that of ideas” (qtd in CLC,311). Ultimately, her writing presents a unique perspective, which relatively focuses