How Far She Went By Mary Hood Analysis

What would you do if you were accused of a crime you did not commit? Would you be angry, or would you fight it? What would you do if you were punished for proclaiming you were innocent? This was the reality of many people in Massachusetts in the late-1600s. The poem “Half-Hanged Mary”, by Margaret Atwood, is written about this situation. It tells the story of an alleged witch, Mary Webster, being hanged and left over night. The next morning, to the villager’s surprise, she was still alive. Mary continued living for another 14 years after the incident. Although, the theme seems to be about a witch surviving an execution; it is actually about an innocent person surviving an unjust assumption.

he Sovereignty and Goodness of God: Being a Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson. Mary Rowlandson lived in Lancaster, Massachusetts with her three children, her husband, and around 50 families, many of which were either killed or captured during the attack. Based on Mary Rowlandson’s writings it seems she was quite firm in her puritan beliefs, for example, strict adherence to studying the bible and god on the day of Sabbath was a central puritan belief, and while in captivity Mary was reflecting on how careless she was of gods holy time referring to the Sabbath, and how “evil” she had walked in god’s eyes. Mary believed that her fellow puritans were faithful to their god until their last moment, and she hoped

In Crossing the Swamp, Mary Oliver exposes human nature to its simplest state; the passion for life present in the natural world transforms the individual by bringing one closer to the sublime. The spirituality teeming in Oliver’s swamp metaphorically represents hidden beauty within the mundane, as a call for shifted perspective and dignified appreciation permeates the passage.

To him, adults never showed any respect for those who were younger than them unless they were perfectly as they expected (Banks 129). The adults weren't interested in who they were, only what they wanted them to be. This idea is something that seems to be very accurate within the novel and in some real life situations. Within the novel, Chappie's family tries to force him to adhere to their expectations, rather than trying to understand who he is and why he is that way. Rather than on pushing him as away, his mother could have tried to get him help and discover what her husband was doing to him. Instead of protecting him as a mother should, she pushed him into dangerous situations that put his life at risk. Even when he comes back, she doesn't attempt to discover why he hates his stepfather so much. She simply decides that it was Chappie’s fault that they were having so many problems and that he had to accept that they were going to get back together (Banks

“Crossing the Swamp” by Mary Oliver explores the speaker's immersion into a dense marsh in relation to nature’s grandeur. The poem moves as she does, both universally and literally, to emphasize acceptance of having no control over nature’s sublime and autonomy over her outlook when confronting struggle.

3 months later at Lakes Memorial hospital in Salt Lakes ,Michigan around 5:30 am on January 5,1993 on a cold windy Tuesday morning just before the break of dawn Mary Monley gave birth to a beautiful baby boy with bright red “carrot” and blue eyes in a private cold room with pink and blue trimmed walls . A clear nuique was placed beside her nice comfy bed in light blue linen sheets. Mary cried ,”Just like Patrick ,Just like Patrick”. Surrounded by family members and co-workers. The widow of detective Patrick Monley who was slaughter by what look to be a piece of hard metal or steel. The case remains open until this present time .

In the short story, How Far She Went, Mary Hood uses diction with the changing connotation of the words “how far she went” in order to advance the relationship between the grandmother and the granddaughter. The word far was used in the beginning to describe the physical distance between the granddaughter and the grandmother. This was shown when the granddaughter ran away and would always be described as “not far enough”. The relationship between the granddaughter and grandmother was terrible at the beginning and always painted by having a far distance between the two. The whole reason she ran away was to avoid living with her grandmother after her father tricked her into staying for the summer.

In summary Mary Barbercheck Mixed Messages, is trying to display simply, where do gender roles come from? She states how there are two models in which why people believe why women don’t peruse careers after obtaining advance degrees. The first model is the deficit model; it examines the treatment women receive. Which emphasize barriers in the scientific community such as legal, political and social barrier. However, this also uses an assumption on women’s goals; that there the same as men’s. The second model is the difference mode, which can be seen as outdated says that simply women act differently than men, thus can obtain the same measurement of success as a man can. As describes in the text, the problem with both these model is that their

Taking place in the rural woods, Mary Hood’s short story “How Far She Went” illustrates a grandmother and a granddaughter’s fight for survival due to the granddaughter’s desire to be rebellious. The incorporation of symbolism proves vital to the reader as it depicts a lake as an escape from the dangers of violence and sexuality, in addition to the rebirth of a new understanding of life through experiences learned. When individuals adopt the rebellious mindset of ignoring a set of rules, an intense experience may occur allowing for individual growth and maturation.

Prologues are often an author’s way of introducing important information or topics needed to understand the body of writing on a deeper level or as a way to direct the reader to a certain line of thought or specific interpretation of the writing. Anne Sexton writes a prologue for every single one of her poems in her compilation of fairytale poetry throughout Transformations. She gives the reader so many hints throughout her prologues on what the reader should pay attention to. In “Red Riding Hood”, Sexton draw immense attention to the issues of deception in real life though the importance she places on these issues in her poem. She calls out not only the frequency of deception in life but she calls attention specifically to the deception of a mother’s security.

Mary Oliver, who was acknowledged by the New York Times as “far and away, this country’s best selling poet,” was born on September 10, 1935 in Maple Heights, Ohio. At age fourteen, she started writing poetry about the lush woods surrounding her childhood home. Later on, she drew inspiration from Edna St. Vincent Millay, a poet and feminist, whose house she stayed at in New York. While she was there, she met her lifelong partner, Molly Malone Cook. In the 1960s, she and Molly relocated to Provincetown, Massachusetts. Influenced by transcendentalists like Whitman and Thoreau, she is well known for her themes of the natural world. However, while her earliest poems solely focus on nature, she evolved to become more personal and spiritual by

Marilyn Dumont, a successful Metis poet, is widely recognized for her powerful yet subtle approach to enlightening the history of shadowed civilization, nearly brought to the brink of extinction by ethnocentrism and injustice. Being raised in a town surrounded by reserves, with a father who speaks fluent Cree, allowed me to form an appreciation for the perseverant culture, many fail to recognize. In “The land she came from,” Dumont utilizes main character Betsy Brass, known as “shiny black bird woman” to represent the fearlessness, and determinant Indigenous peoples had been dealing with such mass tragedy. Concrete walls made of starvation, and injustice placed by European settlers “when it all went wrong,” forced Indigenous people to surrender everything they had, as a reminder that, the only power Indigenous people held at the time, was that of their mind (Dumont 43). Author Marilyn Dumont employs the use of literary

The very core of development is change. Sometimes bad, sometimes good, change always leads to a shift in personality. “Crossing the Swamp” by Mary Oliver is a journey of escape as the speaker, who is in a struggle to improve herself, is desperately fighting to come to a place of salvation. The speaker has a relationship of fear and animosity towards the swamp, being a metaphor for the very thing weighing her down, which is equivalent to the relationship of fear and animosity that she has towards the elements in her life that are keeping her from self growth, and is exemplified through her precise diction.

Not only did these girls and women have to deal with the social issues from society, many also had to face abhorrent abuses from their fathers, male relatives, and husbands. The main character, Celie, is sexually abused by her father from a very young age. Celie becomes pregnant twice and her father steals both babies from her to sell. She is mentally and verbally abused as well. The abuse from her father, primes her to accept the abuse from her husband.

The story of the Virgin begins in Sao Paulo in 1630 when Antonio Farias Saa wanted to build a church in honor to the Virgin in his farm on Santiago del Estero, Argentina. He made them to be send there. The cart with the two images of the Virgin made a stop in Lujan in the third consecutive day of trip. The next day they tried to keep the travel towards the farm but the oxen did not advance. The travelers tried to make them move but nothing happened. When they decided to get some boxes out of the cart the oxen advanced, but when they put them back in the oxen would not walk. After a couple of tries they realize that the cart did not advance if two special boxes were in. The people of the village were surprised by this and they opened the boxes