Frances Ha Essay

“We have to be braver than we think we can be, because God is constantly calling us to be more than we are.” (“Madeleine L’Engle”) Madeleine L’Engle had a very intriguing life. Her famous writing style was affected by her childhood and family.

The book I read was “Figuring out Frances”. The characters in this book kind of remind of my own life. When I was in the sixth grade my friend was in the fifth. We used to go to each other house, until she met new friends. She stop calling me, and she started going places with other people. I really did miss her, but I met new friends too. By the end of the school she apologized, and I accepted it.

The story follows the path that Frances, a writer from San Francisco, takes when she finds out that her husband is having an affair. Patty, France's gay best friend, tells to Frances, "you know when you come across one of those empty shell people...there came a time in each one of those lives where they are standing at a crossroads...someplace where they had to decide whether to turn left or right." The story is a struggle in which Frances decides to either stay in the comforts of her sadness or transcend her tragedy by falling in love with life. Patty changes her tour plans in midst of a recent pregnancy and decide to gifts her plane

Adoring one of the walls upstairs in the San Diego Museum of Art in the Balboa Park is a neoclassical masterpiece crafted by French-born artist Marie Guillemine Benoist. This Oil painting, done on canvas, shows encased in a wreathed and rustic bronze frame woven in fertile vines bearing fruit. With the respectful dimensions of 100.33 cm (39.5 in.) length and 81.6 cm (32.13 in.) width, and hanging slightly above eye level it is easy to behold the bold and obvious detailing of the beautiful young women it portrays. However as visually stunning as this painting may be, the real beauty can be found in the history, controversy, and significance this work conceals in secret.

Madame Defarge is a round character in A Tale of Two Cities, which is demonstrated in her cold and observant manner from the beginning. Madame Defarge had a “watchful eye” but keeps composure, implying that she does not give anyone a clue into deciphering what she is thinking (Dickens 55). The clothing she wears includes a large shawl and large earrings. In addition, her large, steady features intimidate others and keep her presence known. She does things quietly, not in timid fashion, but rather in a secretive way. An example is when she signals her husband with the raise of her eyebrow and a cough to que him to look around at the new suspicious customers (Dickens 55). Dickens includes the details about her knitting and failure to make mistakes to show how

1. How hard must you pull on the third rope to keep the knot from moving?

The holocaust is a sad event that happened in history. There were Jews who lost their lives because their religion was seen as a dangerous race to society. Many Jews lost their lives do to that judgement. This talks and goes on in the book The Diary Of Anne Frank. In the book the girl Anne Frank is very calm and collected in this time she said “In spite of everything, I still believe people are really good at heart. I believe that the quote is true. I say this because in the book they all had their days were they were all upset or sad, but other than that they all had a little happiness in them.

If you have a conflict with somebody, it can affect more than just the people in conflict. It can hurt them mentally, physically, or emotionally. By yelling, ignoring or harming others, you hurt more people than just each other because the people around you get the hatred from both people. If you physically harm someone and another person tries to stop it, they could get injured as well. If two people are having a heated argument, and someone is standing off to the side, you could potentially start saying mean things to them, even if you don’t mean it, and that could mentally make someone really insecure about themselves. When you are in conflict with somebody, you start only thinking about that person and your conflict, you may eventually

In the book and movie adaptation of Victor Hugo’s Les Miserables, a struggle for love exists between three characters. Eponine and Cosette pursue Marius Pontmercy throughout the story. Whereas Eponine and Marius seem to know each other well in the movie, Cosette and Marius believe they are in love after simply looking at one another. Marius is presented with a choice, and he picks Cosette. However, Marius should have decided to pursue a relationship with Eponine rather than Cosette because his interactions with Eponine were more meaningful.

In the story Great Expectations, written by Charles Dickens, one of the main characters other than Pip is mentioned and introduced in the story. The Character’s name is Miss Havisham. Miss Havisham is known to be wealthy “spinster” who has an adopted daughter of her own, named Estella. Estella is also the girl that Pip falls in love with and also wants to marry. Miss Havisham, herself has a troubled past. The day she was getting married, her soon to be husband left her at the altar and took all the money with him. The other characters in the story like to believe this is why she is so sour.

Generally speaking, using Atwood’s three selected novels, the present study has investigated an inner human evolution, a movement which involves an episode of variations from trauma, through suffering and pain, to the knowledge and understanding. Therefore, it can be suggested that the female psychoanalytical development makes the said novels receptive to the feminist-psychological reading. In other words, Atwood’s selected novels have been here analyzed in light of the feminist and psychoanalytic, especially the Freudian, insights. The feminist-psychological insight indeed identifies a recurrent theme in Atwood’s works, which also subsumes different political, moral, and psychoanalytical attitudes.There is a circle to show the close relationship between childhood,

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in Jane Austen’s novel, Pride and Prejudice. Many call her materialistic, but tend to overlook

The aim of stylistic analysis is many-fold. The main purpose of this paper is to identify stylistic markers, to study how the stylistic devices used help to achieve the communicative purpose of Keats's "La belle Dame sans Merci", and to identify the functional style the poem is representative of. This paper aims at analyzing the text of the poem "La Belle Dame Sans Merci" by John Keats on four different levels of stylistics: grammatical, graphological, phonological and morphological level. The purpose of this study is to explore the literal and hidden meanings and to enhance the understanding of the poem.

The French are all about preserving their culture and being individualized. They often take great pride in the French products and the French style, and believe in keeping the French culture “pure” so they also limit the amount of foreign goods that are being imported. But during the World Wars the French began to allow foreigners to immigrate into France to take jobs due to an increase in job shortages. The immigration from the World Wars added to the diversity of the French culture. Ever since the 1850’s there has been a steady flow of immigration into France, and now nine percent of the French population is made up of immigrants (Gofen 62). The break down of the cultures in France is eighty-five percent of the French population is Roman