Home: Its Meaning and Representation in the novel Brooklyn In the novel Brooklyn the

Love is a game. The object of the game is for men to win the hearts of women. But winning the hearts of women is rare for men to do. The man in the poem “Love In Brooklyn”, is a novice player in the game of love. Because he is unfamiliar with the rules, he does not know how to win the hearts of women. Because of his lack of knowledge in women, he is extremely introverted when he interacts with women. He said, ““I love you, Horowitz”... and he blew his nose””(Line 1). The way he said “I love you” made the meaning of the statement lose its value. He also tried to prove to her that he loved her by comparing his love for her to a tank sliding through the trees (lines 12-14). He compares his love for her to destruction illustrating that he is clueless

Since I moved to Toronto, I’ve been getting a lot of questions like “where are you from?” or “where is home?”. I guess the question is only natural since Toronto is a big city where people from all over the world gather. Whenever I get such questions, I tell them that it’s hard to say since I’ve stayed in multiple places and had countless places that felt like they were home and not. To me home has always changed, home was always changing based on the circumstances, or the chance to find a better place. As much as I would have wanted to feel a ‘rootedness’ in one place by staying put, I realized later on that just because I stay there for a long time does not necessarily mean home. Country to country, province to province, city to city, explaining

Francis reminds Adah that ‘the day you land in England, you are a second-class citizen.’ Through his constant assertion that she is second-class, Adah fights to eradicate the stereotypes that are normalised about black women’s position within society. Emecheta devises the attic space as a site which interrogates Adah’s perceptions of her own cultural identity. Adah cannot belong in a physical space in London, or in her marriage to Francis so, she seeks this elsewhere. Her educational background provides a space of belonging and relieves the tension she feels in her marriage to Francis. Thus, ‘literature becomes a vehicle for expressing her sense of identity, belonging and home.’ Whilst the attic space causes a separation between Francis

In the first place, everyone has a different view on what home is to them. Throughout the book Laila talks about her old home and how it was so different from her current “home.” In the book it reads, “Now we sit in our airless apartment, curtains closed against the outside world, pretending. My Mother pretends nothing has changed (Carleson 3).” From the start of the novel Laila references this foreign county as her home. She never specifies what country we just know it is a Middle Eastern country. Laila was forced to move to United States which is a big culture change from her home. She names many differences from the start. The first one she mentions is going to the store and buying your own cereal which is very strange to her. It is not

Every year my cousins, and I would walk around my grandma’s neighborhood in Sikeston, and we would trick or treat for a few hours.

“In white society, a person's home is a structure made of bricks or timber, but to our people our home was the land that we hunted and gathered on and held ceremony and gatherings.” – Nala Mansell-McKenna, Youth Worker, Tasmanian Aboriginal Centre (Korff, 2016)

One day Brooklynn and her family went to the huge pumpkin farm. And on the way they hear a big boom in the corn fields. Brooklynn went into pumpkin farm and had a hard time finding the perfect pumpkin. She finally found the pumpkin she wanted and went home to carve the pumpkin. On the way home in the back it starts to glow and nobody notices how much it is starting to glow. When they get home her brother Ethan saw the pumpkin and wanted to have it for himself, Then Brooklynn found out he wanted to have the pumpkin and she didn’t like that he wanted it. They started fighting for hours and it went on and off and it never stopped for days and finally they stopped. Brooklynn had won and took it to her room and hid it if Ethan wanted to steal it from her. Meanwhile Lilly,

In a small maintenance closet, I, Lilah Kokinos, stood across from Roland Caine. With little light streaming through the cracks around the closed door, the room was dim, but I could see we contrasted physically. I sensed Roland’s eyes rake over my dark eyes and hair; my unlined, olive skin; my petite, curvy form. I studied him, too—his dark blond hair falling just above his blue eyes; his faintly-lined, tanned skin; his tall, lean form.

The day I turned 17 I thought I had my life planned out. I had counted on graduating early and moving to New York City. Overall in my life I was told to make a plan and stick to it, I got caught up in living in the future and forgot to think about the present. Senior year was supposed to be easy and fly by, and it did, but I wasn’t happy with the outcome. As the end of my last semester in high school approached I found myself dreading it and kept asking myself “this is it?”.

because she did not want to make him mad. Brooklyn never came home and talked about it. Do you remember the message he sent you about him kissing her down there. Did he said he kissed her down there or use specifics? She said he said he kissed her down there. I said there is one message that stands out to me. Do you know what message I’m talking about? She answered no. I said about him rubbing his penis on her vagina. She said she does not remember that one. What message stands out in your mind the most? She said when he asked her something about toys. When you say toys you are talking about sex toys. She said yes. She also said she remembers saying she does not want anything inserted into her daughter.

The main character in Home Alone 2: Lost in New York City, Kevin, displays various personality traits that clearly shows his character. Kevin, a very clever ten-year-old, tries to outwit the two prison escapes, Harry and Marv. Kevin runs into an abandoned building that happens to be under construction to try to trap them. He then sets up traps like tarred stairs, swinging bricks, and even a blowtorch pulley system. Kevin also never allows Marv and Harry to take him away without a fight. Kevin always tries to escape before Marv and Kevin can catch him. He never goes anywhere without setting traps to protect himself. Finally, Kevin defends himself in many ways by using random objects. Kevin used gasoline in the toilet to keep Marv’s head on fire, forcing him to run outside and leave Kevin inside, allowing him to escape. He also used bricks tied to a string to keep Harry and Marv from

It felt pleasing to be among her things again – the bits of worn, friendly ruins of her past. A favorite book was tenderly caressed; the chandelier her mother gave her glinted in the afternoon light, even the faded sofa was treasured. The effervescence of her feelings somehow imbued the surroundings she’d overlooked to come forward in deep relief.

Nolan looked like he was suffering badly. His whole face turned crimson, muscles tightening. Since I couldn't pinpoint the problem, I couldn't give any treatment. As a last resort, I yelled for help, banging my hands against the wall of the vents but in vain. I had forgotten we sat in a soundproof zone.

I hear the doorbell ring from my bedroom and I jump off my bed heading to the stairs and sliding down the stairway. I get to the door and open it seeing my best friend Asa awkwardly standing there with his hands in his pockets, he smiles, “Hey,” he says, “Hey, what’s up?” I say smiling back. He walks in and I close the door behind him. He sighs, “Ohh nothing much…” he says shrugging. We head up to my room and he flops on my bed and turns on the small tv, I sit at my desk and start working on a sketch, “What are ya working on?” Asa asks into my ear making me jump, “None of your business, psycho.” I say rolling my eyes, “Mmkay…” he says sitting on the bed, “What what are we doing today?" He asks starting to fiddle with the hemming on his shirt, "Let's

Traditional Criticism uses a biographical or historical approach; it is how the author's life becomes evident in the text and how the author mirrors the struggles of a certain main character. The author Colm Tóibín relates to the main character Eilis Lacey in the novel, Brooklyn as there are similarities between the father figures of both Eilis and Colm. Eilis’s immigrant travels resemble the author Colm’s own immigrant travels and the times that Colm was brought up in was represented in the novel, Brooklyn. In Brooklyn, Eilis mentions that her father passed away, the author Colm Tóibín’s father also passed away when he was 12 years old. The author relates his personal tragedy to Eilis as they both lost their father at a young age. Eilis explains how they did not depend on their father for money. “As their mother's pension was small, they depended on Rose, who worked in the office of Davis's Mills; her wages paid for most of their needs.” (Tóibín 86). This quote shows that much like Tóibín this family depended on the mother for money as they are being raised without a father.