Hope Is The Thing With Feathers By Deborah Ellis

In the short story “the White Heron” (1886), Sarah Jewett portrays a young little girl, Sylvia, bear the temptation of money and affection from the young man with mental struggle, and resolutely determined to protect the fairy of nature – a white heron. Through describing Sylvia’s authentic emotions and using of vivid theme colors and exquisite word choice, Jewett delivers the story like showing a lifelike 19-century country-life drama in front of the readers.

What is hope? I think hope is a feeling of wanting something to happen. According to Lisel Mueller, written in 1976, her poem “Hope” is about how hope could be found everywhere and is part of everything, even in the roughest situations. I think the theme of this poem is that hope is present, even if it is extremely hard to find. Mueller uses many metaphors to describe hope as if it were something else.

“...rumor on the street: The Taliban were going to take control of Swat…. Our hearts sank”. (58) Malala’s peers and classmates started to get nervous and scared to come to school after the continuous threats being thrown upon them. Using others stories in her book helps create a tone by using negative connotations to set the reader in a dark and scared mood. When Malala gives stories from her, other students and families, it provides a believable strong story. The readers are then provided with reliable information from people who experienced the story itself. With the help of reliable facts and quotes, Malala uses logos to persuade the reader about the Taliban and how it destroyed them.

Hope is a very powerful thing and the way you handle it can affect you in different ways. Everyone sees and feels hope differently but it is overall a beautiful thing. Throughout the novel Copper Sun by Sharon M. Draper, Amari tends to lose hope very often from herself and others but mostly regains it. The novel Copper Sun has a very similar theme to the poem, “Hope is the thing with feathers” because it captures the thought of losing all hope but being able to regain it and never letting go of it just like Copper Sun portrays. Amari is a hopeless soul when she is reminded that her life is not well, she has lost all contact of Besa, her family is all dead, and through her struggle to freedom.

Throughout all of the texts, the main character shines a factor of perseverance in their story in order to have hope and overcome their odds. The protagonists in each text are determined to overcome their obstacles and receive a favorable ending. In Emily Dickinson’s poem, she uses a metaphor to portray hope as a bird that is constantly helping other people. Even though hope is not a tangible thing, the bird perseveres through every situation and “never stops at all,” when aiding people in tough times. Likewise, in the article by Mark Memmot, Alice Herz- Sommer pushes through Nazi imprisonment in hopes of seeing her family again. The author writes, “Despite all that has befallen her, Alice insists that she has never, ever hated the Nazis,

Throughout this well-written, emotional and inspiring novel about Malala Yousafzai we have not only seen who she is as a person, but we have seen the challenges in her life and we have come to learn her story due to the rhetorical strategies she has included all throughout the book. Malala has shown us the use of pathos, logos and diatyposis. Malala has always been a different person in her family ever since she was little and that has helped her become the women she is today, the woman who stood up to the Taliban and survived a head shot bullet, but most of all she is a girl who stood up for children's right at a young age by simply going to school. Malala’s story isn't about herself, it's about her country and what the Taliban are doing

Young love, it is a thrilling time in where the blinded youth cross a field unknown. A field where one must undergo a numerous amount of challenges and temptations. In the short story "A White Heron" the author, Sarah Orne Jewett, tells a story about a blossoming girl who encounters a young man, a typical boy meets girl scenario, so it would seem. The desire to be loved can drive a person to do the craziest of things, especially at a young age. Growing up one can learn to express emotion through every gesture and every facial expression, through that process a person can come to realize their own self-hatred with rejection while living in a world in which people strive to be accepted and crave to be desired. In society each gender must face different experiences through life. As a man one expects a provider, a leader, a hunter and as a woman one is expected to be a caretaker, a follower, as we are simply a man 's prey and conquest. In "A White Heron", Sarah Orne Jewett address a social issue of gender inequality by presenting a story about a man 's urge to control a girl.

Hope is important because it gives you strength to do the unimaginable. Both Hope Is The Thing With Feathers and The Hero’s Test discuss hope and its importance in life.

The first couple of days she worked she was very nervous. If she made one careless mistake she would risk exposing her family’s secret and would face big consequences. Her family was already in a tough position as it was. A couple weeks passed and the Taliban had no clue. Parvana started to grow more self confidence every day.

The Girl with the Broken Wing is a book by Heather Dyer and it’s a good one too! I like it because it’s a comedy and it shows how it would be if angels merged into our world. I got attracted to the book because I saw wings on the front cover and then I read the title which sounded interesting to me. I really liked how the author used her imagination to imagine what kind of chaos would happen if an ANGEL came to school or do other kinds of crazy things.

“We call upon our sisters around the world to be brave – to embrace the strength within themselves and realize their full potential,” – Malala Yousafzai. In “I am Malala” Malala describes her life before being shot. She illustrates a life of happiness and the struggles of sexism. Although Malala grew up with knowing that everyone around her thought the females were less than males she tell us that everyone should be treated equally regardless of gender.

In Malala Yousafzai’s book,I Am Malala, she reveals true moments that occurred in her life including tragic, life-changing events. In this excerpt with adjectives and adverbs intact, imagery is incredibly prevalent. As a reader emotions are stirred and anticipation is built as the words fly across the page. Malala poignantly details the struggles she endured in her stand for educational rights and as she was personally attacked by the Taliban. Incredibly, she survived the attack and became an even stronger advocate; she addressed members of the United Nations and has become a face and a voice for those who cannot speak for themselves. Even within this small excerpt, one can sense the severity of the situation and the courage it took to

“Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten” (Gaiman). The Taliban’s terrifying presence in the war-torn Middle East dramatically increased over the last two decades enabling them to enforce their archaic beliefs forcefully over a multitudinous population; inflicting severe and deadly consequences to anyone standing in their way. Indoctrination of male dominance over women assists the Taliban in their overall objective to control the region. As a teenager, Malala Yousafazi refused to accept her role as a submissive female without rights or purpose. She boldly voiced her desire to go to school, to learn as boys learn, and to receive the same opportunities. The response? They stopped her school bus and shot her in the head on her way to school. While Malala survived horrific circumstances, she uses her extraordinary story as a catalyst to bravely continue her activism in educational equality, demonstrate unwavering courage in the face of danger, and expresses selfless passion, traveling the globe as a hero to millions.

Desmond Tutu once said: “Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness.” As stated in the quote, the feeling of hope motivates people to look forward to a new tomorrow, and some literature works elaborate on the basic fact of ‘Never losing hope.’ Emily Dickinson, a well-acclaimed poet, highlights an accurate portrayal of the abstract concept of hope in her poem, entitled “‘Hope’ Is The Thing With Feathers,” through the usage of having a balladic nature, inimitable formatting, a powerful metaphor, vivid imagery, and stylistic alliteration. Although Dickinson’s way of expressing the message differs much from Tutu’s, readers can note multiple similarities. Both works portray differing definitions of what hope means

She introduces the metaphor in the first two lines of the poem by saying, ““Hope” is the thing with feathers - / That perches in the soul -” and then builds the poem around the idea of a bird. When Dickinson says, “And sings the tune without the words- / And never stops - at all -” she shows that the hope doesn’t have to be sensible, and it never stops existing in one’s heart. In the last stanza she says, “I’ve heard it in the chillest land - / And on the strangest Sea -”. It is not a possible thing to hear the hope, but in this line she tries to say that that hope is everywhere. Even though the main idea of the poem is hope being in everyone’s heart, the metaphor of hope being a bird is actually what makes the poem more interesting for the