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Ixchel doesn’t know meaning of love and have to sacrifice it. She will be living her life to fullest with her child without the child’s father. The style of One Holy Night is shaped by wrong belief and trust of innocent girl and going through the difficulties of life that has been changing her life and her beliefs forever

Most times, anything abnormal or odd tend to be pushed under the rug. Edgar Allan Poe subtly brings attention to topics the are typically ignored. E. A. Poe had far from a perfect childhood. His father left when he was young and his mother died when he was three. Poe also seemed to have a lonely childhood after his parents were gone. He was separated from his relatives and didn’t appear to have many friends. He attended the army and after went into West Point. His academics there were well but he was eventually kicked out because of poor handlings of his duties. Before Poe died, he struggled with depression and a drinking problem. Some believe Poe’s tragic lifetime was the inspiration for some of his stories. Such as, “The Fall of the House of Usher”. A possible theory about this story is that Roderick and the Narrator were one in the same. This essay will discuss the possibility of them being the same through plot, characterization, and personification.

Ferdinand’s incestuous behaviour towards the duchess follows the similar pattern pointed above ,i.e., Ferdinand’s aim is not the achievement of sexual relations with his sister. One may like to contest this reading by highlighting Ferdinand’s highly erotic language for

One of Roderick's fears was death. He was from a well-known and honored family, and he and his sister were the last of the long line of Usher descendants. His sister, Madeline, had been fighting a severe and long-continued illness for quite some time, which had added to much of Roderick's gloom. " Her decease, would leave him the last of the ancient race of the Ushers." Roderick seemed not only to fear the death of his sister and ultimately of himself, but also the uncertainty of the future. "I dread the events of the future, not only in themselves, but in their results. I shudder at the thought of any, even the most trivial incident, which may operate upon this intolerable agitation of soul."

Her story of being “bundled along from farm to farm” evokes sympathy in not just the characters in the play but also the readers of the novel. According to Kent Agnes had been at many farms throughout her life either as a foster child “left to the mercy of the paupers” or as a work maid in the house. We as the readers are positioned to feel sympathy for Agnes being moved from house to house allowing no stability in what was her very short childhood. The audience is positioned to feel a sense of outrage as Agnes is left by her mother when she was five with nothing more than a stone to “talk to the birds”. Agnes conveys to Toti that the only happy memories of her childhood was where she found a “better family” at Kornsa which is ironically where she is sent to spend her final months before her execution. The fact that Agnes “no longer loved” her biological family was symbolic of her moving past her childhood toward adulthood at a very early age. As Agnes reflects on her past she notes how she is “quite alone” which evokes sympathy in the reader who feels that she “doesn’t have a friend in the world”. Agnes tells of the traumatic ordeal she went through in losing her foster mother Inga during childbirth. After this Agnes was then fostered out again and put on her journey hopping from farm to farm. It is this unstable and very brief childhood that allows

The event that provoked the change is when her and Inchun were separated from their mother at the guardhouse. At this moment she took on her mother's role for Inchun, and matured so soon. A few quotes to support my reasoning and show her change are, “I saw them pull Mother out of line. Inchun and I stood frozen as we watched. I could tell she saw me and was worried. She shot a glance at me. I remembered what the guide had said, and knew Mother was trying to tell me to go on”(Choi 133). This quote gave me a vivid look at her changing. When she had to go on, she matured and grew up. This change was so dramatic and fast that it is indeed a major change. It also affected the final tone and mood of the book.

The envelopment of poor relationships in one’s earlier life often directs a person towards negative actions and shape his/her personality for the worst. Eldin is a prime example of a person who struggles and allows his past actions to determine his destiny. After her husband passed away in the war, Eldin’s mother

For this assignment, I chose a quote out of the book “Clotel, or the President’s Daughter”. The author, William Wells Brown frequently integrated outside quotes and works into his novel for a variety of reasons. The quote that I chose to do my paper on, is not originally from the novel, but a Washington Irving quote Brown decided to include in the novel because it was consistent with his writing and helped bring together a theme that his novel rotated around. The quote can be found at the very end of the novel and it reads as follows: “A celebrated writer has justly said of a woman, “A woman’s whole life is a history of the affections. The heart is her world; it is there her ambition strives for empire; it is there her avarice seeks for hidden treasures. She sends forth her sympathies on adventure; she embarks her whole soul in the traffic of affection, and, if shipwrecked, her case is hopeless, for it is a bankruptcy of the heart.”” (103) One of the main purposes of this quote is to explain the decisions and thought processes of the female characters throughout the novel.

As a child Antoinette, is deprived of parental love. Her father is a drunkard and has many mistresses and illegitimate children. According to Daniel Cosway's account, old Cosway is cruel to his own son. Yet even if Daniel was not really a Cosway, and his descriptions were made out of spite, or if old Cosway had cared any more for his legitimate children than his bastard ones, his alcoholism is real, and

Throughout the novel Praisesong for the Widow, Avey Johnson goes through many different “journeys”, both physical and spiritual. On one of the “journeys”, Avey Johnson has the pleasure of meeting a man that goes by the name Lebert Joseph. Lebert Joseph is an important character in the book; he makes a major impact in Avey Johnson’s life. Lebert Joseph’s purpose in the novel is to get Avey Johnson to remember her African heritage and to never forget it. Avey Johnson regains the knowledge of what made her the person she is today with the help of Lebert Joseph. In this essay I wish to demonstrate how Lebert Joseph is important to Avey Johnson.

The story runs around Fitz, the main character, who trains as an assassin to protect the throne from his evil uncle Regal, which makes him almost lose his life. In this paper, I will demonstrate how the theme of betrayal and abandonment in the novel as shown in the following paragraph: “I look back on myself and wonder. Separated from my mother, dragged off to a new city and crime, abandoned by my father to the care of his man, and then bereft of my puppy companion”. The paragraph shows that Fitz had faced betrayal and abandonment by people who were close to him.

As cultural critic Edward Said once wrote, “[Exile’s] essential sadness can never be surmounted.” Mariam, the daughter of an affair between a wealthy businessman and a lowly servant, is exiled from her home of fifteen years into a marriage with someone who she has never met. She is left heartbroken, melancholic, and feeling alienated. Before her forced marriage, Mariam is huddled into her father’s house where she spends a few weeks coping with her mother’s death. The narrator describes the events leading up to her temporary residency with her father Jalil, “Two days before, Mariam has slept on the sidewalk waiting for him. Two days before--when

Comparing the characters of Angelo and Isabella, one could argue that Isabella is ‘the symbol of goodness and mercy set against a background of moral decay’. Alternatively, one could see her character as self-righteous and hypocritical, as we later discover when she values her chastity higher than her brother’s life.

Although the King’s son, Ferdinand loses his luxury life and has to face the test of survival, his determination and valor enables him to live a time of jubilation. Living in Naples, Ferdinand struggled to find his true love, but shortly after he arrives on the island, a spirit named Ariel uses his mellifluous voice to guide Ferdinand towards Prospero’s daughter, Miranda. With one glance, Ferdinand falls for Miranda, who he claims as, the “perfect and… peerless” (III, i, 47) lady he’s been waiting for. In addition to love, Ferdinand is also living every adolescent’s dream; being away from their parents. Without his father next to him on the island, Ferdinand gets to make his own decisions and lives his life without his father’s ruling; obtaining the feeling of independence and discovering what he is capable of doing on his own. Ferdinand finds pleasure with the feeling of freedom, wanting to “live here [forever]”

Wycherley shows how jealousy can make people lose their moral standards and commit acts with little regard for others. Harcourt’s jealousy causes him to go to extremes. He disguises himself as a parson with the intent to deceive Sparkish into believing he has been married to Alethea. Wycherley reveals Harcourt’s real plan to marry himself to Alethea to the audience through the use of irony: “nobody else / shall marry you, by heavens; I’ll die first, for I’m I should die / after it” (IV.i.148-150). Harcourt is propelled by jealousy, resorting to deceit and manipulation while holding little regard for others. Through Harcourt we witness jealousy’s corruption of society, making people superficial and selfish.