How Has Lucy Changed After All The Time

Throughout the year we have read many stories where reality and fantasy come into question. Once again we have this same problem with “The Youngest Doll”. What makes us question reality or fantasy in the story is the vivid description the author gives of the dolls that the aunt makes for the girls. With the description of the “wax mask of the child’s face” or the “porcelain of the hands and face”, it gives off the allusion that what may seem as a reality may in fact be a fantasy and it is that allusion that gives off the feeling of uncanniness. This is not the only theme that is displayed throughout the story, the others being “eyes”, as well as women being

The warm sun beaming through the big window embraced my cousin Jasmine and I as were getting dressed to meet our grandpa. The draft slapped my face as my grandma came into our room to inform me on what not wear, “No sandals, little Jasmine”. Confused and upset all my “hard work” was done in vain I challenged her authority “Why? It’s hot outside and It’s not like I’ll step in anything”. There was a spark in her eye as those words escaped my lips, it was the same spark that occurs before she lays down the law. However, this time the spark appeared and vanished in a matter of nanoseconds, “Ok little Jasmine you wear what you want…” as she began to

This goes on to show that the narrator (who expresses herself as young, poor girl) does not have any women in her family and Lucy is someone she can run to and be her female barrier through life, as a sister which she says, “And we look at each other, our arms gummy from Popsicle we split, we could be sisters right?(5)”.Relating to she wants so much to be close to this girl, and she imagines them as sisters. In addition to, there are no male presence around except for her brothers which makes her feel like she can not relate to “their”world. Another reference of identity is in the story “Barbie-Q”, the little girl is playing with Barbie dolls with her friend, and the barbie dolls are very basic with not much clothing. Moreover, there is no “Ken” Barbie dolls around either. This compares that there is no masculinity as well as how poor these two girls are since the dolls only have few clothing. As a result, these girls have to share . Before long, they have an opportunity to buy some barbie dolls when there is a sale on burnt dolls due to warehouse that caught on fire. “And if the prettiest doll, Barbie's MOD'ern cousin Francie with real eyelashes, eyelash brush included, has a left foot melted a little—so?”(16). The girls do not care or take notice to the damage, they are grateful for what they have.

The young girl was sitting in her room, brushing her favorite doll’s hair while humming a sweet melodic tune. Her doll was made of brown fabric with pieces of yellow yarn tightly stitched to the doll’s head. It had black button eyes and a pink sundress on. This doll was Haddi’s most prized possession. Haddi’s doll was given to her by her mother when she was a baby, right before her mother had passed away.

The rain got harder as Tina walked alone in tears. She missed her daughter Iris. Tina thought about all the good times they had together. She wondered why Iris had done that to herself. Iris was a skinny young girl who killed herself. Iris wa bullied at school for how far she was, so Iris decided to stop eating. Tina was walking in the rain. It had been a year since Iris was gone. She thought back to that day. Tina woke up and made herself some coffee. She nibbled on a muffin that she bought from the store yesterday. She took Iris to school and then went to work. Tina went throughout her day as usual, but what she didn’t know was that soon her daughter would take her own life. Iris got home and went up into her bedroom. Tina wouldn’t get home

Although secure in her makeshift safe house, she was by no means sheltered from the insidious scratching. The scratching was joined with another sound, one not so alarming in tone. It was a baby’s sob, sounding so hurt and in need. All of these things pounded in the girl's mind. What if it was her baby doll? Her baby needed her. She couldn’t reject her little helpless baby.

Suena was walking home and she felt like she was being followed, but she thought it was because of the horror movie she watched the night before. It was about a twenty minute walk for Surena to get home and she often enjoyed but that day she didn’t enjoy it. When she got home there was a note on her fridge from her mother saying she’ll be back in a couple of hours and that there was leftovers in the fridge. She still had that icky feeling that someone was watching her, she kept saying in her head that it was just the horror movie scaring her. Her dog Belle was eating the couch again, when her mom got home she’d be mad. Surena went up stairs to her bedroom and forgot to lock the door that day, when her mother warned her many times before to

She walked in the house for the door was open. A large creek of n old door he opened . It echoed throughout the old castle. Strange enough the outside of the house was ugly and old, while the inside was like an enchanted castle that looked as if a king lived there. Everything was sparkling clean, no spider webs, no crumbs just elegance and gorgeousness. A sudden bang was heard upstairs. “ Hello.. Matthew?” she said scared and confused. As she was there to investigate she noticed a scratch on her arm that had been open and bleeding the whole time. She ran out in fear and went home. She was looking out the window when she saw matthew coming back home with black bags. As he knocked on the door it opened and he seemed to be arguing with someone at the door. He looked really frustrated. Suddenly he stopped and turned to Leanna's window where she had been looking. She closed the curtain scared and decided to go to sleep. That night she heard the doorbell ring. “ Oh hey Matthew, what’s up?” Without hesitation he yelled, “Did you go inside my house tell me, did you?” As she looked down at her arm covering it with her arms crossed she said “ No, never.” He uncovered her hand as he looked scared at the cut he said “ I’m sorry, look there’s a demon in my house that has been haunting and feeding off of me and my family. He killed them all... now he scratched you and left his mark in you. The only way he will come after you now is…... through me!” As the possessed Matthew attacked her, she ran upstairs where she knew she had a gun. The lights went dark, she heard a deep breathing as she heard her name being called in a demonic voice. “ LEANNA! Where are you?” Scared for her life she grabbed the pistol she had hidden and started to load it. The house started to shake as a loud frustrated monster like scream was heard throughout the house. The beep in her made her ears bleed as if the

Background- Isabella and Mother were once rich. With their long gone dad/divorced husband. After school Mother or Father, usually picks up Isabella from school. This time it was Father. Father Picked up Isabella from school and went home. Only to find out that Mother had another boy home. He wasn’t just home Mother and John were upstairs on the bed, messing around. At that moment Isabella heard her dad yell like never before. She came rushing upstairs only to see what she could never unsee. Father took Isabella and as many things as Father and Isabella could, took the car and left. A few days later Mother called Father and said, "The police are on their way to bring me back Isabella, and there is nothing you can do about it."

One character that helps illustrate that theme within the film is Lucy, who is constantly being dominated by her father, Battling Burrows a prizefighting boxer. Lucy is framed almost exclusively always shot in an extreme close up to illustrate the intense emotion and internal struggle that Lucy is going through throughout the film. In fact the director adds an even closer frame on Lucy by surrounding her in a circle of darkness in some shots to exacerbate this emotion. Another example of mice en scene on this character is the framing in the closet. When Battling Burrows is attempting to breach the closet and get to Lucy the film also expands on this by slowly tightening the frame around Lucy. The camera is also shot from a high angle looking

There are two kids named John Conlan and Lorraine Jensen and attended high school at Franklin High School.John had met Lorraine on the school bus on their way to school. Both of the kids were good kids except John had a bomb avocation but then he started organizing fruit rolls . Both of the kids were a little Ingrate if they did not get what they wanted. John had friends like Dennis and Norton that should be mortified of their behavior. When those three friends are around they all act infantile towards each other. John and Lorraine got to know each other very well and they started to hang out. They were taking a walk one day and the turned on Howard Avenue where there were nice houses except one-ninety. Ninety-one Howard Avenue was a dump,

Susie’s mother opened the door to let Molly, Susie’s babysitter, inside. Ten-month old Susie seemed happy to see Molly. Susie then observed her mother put her jacket on and Susie’s face turned from smiling to sad as she realized that her mother was going out. Molly had sat for Susie many times in the past month, and Susie had never reacted like this before. When Susie’s mother returned home, the sitter told her that Susie had cried until she knew that her mother had left and then they had a nice time playing with toys until she heard her mother’s key in the door. Then Susie began crying once again.

That day at school, she saw some kids picking on a little boy with really fluffy hair on the playground. She gets upset seeing someone being hurt so she storms over there and stands infront of the crying boy and yells for the bullies to stop it. They see her arms and laughing asking her if she scribbled on herself because she thought it would make her look cool. She gets more than upset now, she's angry, really angry. Not because they made fun of her (even though it did hurt) It was because they were still trying to hurt someone. Her eyes arent blue anymore, They're a deep Purple. The kids that were just bullying the boy dont know whats going on. It's like a flash and Kathryn can see again, but shes horrified at what she's seen. The bullies were all on the ground, one was bleeding, another screaming for help because of his leg. She turned around and saw the fluffy haired boy looked horrified and before she could say anything to him, he got up and ran away in fear of being hurt. Kathryn ran home that day before school even ended. When she got home she cried to her father saying she was a monster and that she hurt

When Alexis's little sister Kasey becomes obsessed with an antique doll, Alexis thinks she is just being her usual weird self. Things get weirder, though, when their house starts changing. Doors open and close by themselves; water boils on the unlit stove; and an unplugged air conditioner blasts cold air. Kasey is changing, too. Her blue eyes go green, she starts using old-fashioned language, and she forgets chunks of time. Most disturbing of all is the dangerous new chip on Kasey's shoulder. The formerly gentle child is gone, and the new Kasey is angry. Alexis is the only one who can stop her sister -- but what if that green-eyed girl isn't even Kasey

Every year she would get a new one for Christmas. She would love them and care for them as if they were a real baby: “Her new baby doll [...] It was so perfect and so small [...] She gently lifted the dimpled arms and then reverently placed them back. Slowly kissing the set painted mouth, she inhaled its new aroma [...]” (107). Cora Lee shows a young girl’s tendency to host a premature motherly love, for dolls. A problem arises from her love of these dolls when she begins to have real babies and treats them like her dolls. Cora Lee has the illusion that every baby that she has will not “grow up” and will always be a baby: “Why couldn’t they just stay like this--so soft and easy to care for? How she had loved them this way [...] Oh, for them to stay like this, [...] so there were no welfare offices to sit in all day or food stamp lines to stand on” (112). She has a lot of children, most who are no longer toddlers. She treats these children as a nuisance because they are not like her dolls she loved when she was young. Even though she is the one continuing to have children, she blames them for her poverty and lack of peace and quiet. She even implies that she does not love her older children as much as her newborns and she verbally abuses them: “‘Are you gonna be a dumb-ass too?’ she cooed at the baby. ‘No, not Mama’s baby. you’re not gonna be like them’” (113). She equates her children to a non-living baby doll;