Jun Burnett

It seems her looking at mirrors reassures her that she is still beautiful. Caldwell, recounts “In many senses Connie is right that (beauty) it is everything, but sees only the positive effects of her prettiness, not the dangers of attracting the wrong attention (par2). The only opinion she seemed to ignore is the opinion of her mother. " Oates depicts, Connie would raise her eyebrows at these familiar old complaints and look right through her mother, into shadowy vision at herself as she was right at that moment"(Par

treated her differently and she would always notice the looks on peoples' faces, as it got

Gary Soto, born on April 12th, 1952 is a proud Mexican-American that grew up in a very low class neighborhood in Fresno, California with both of his parents (Gillespie,

came to her door, the manifestation of her nightmares came as well. Being cognizant of

like'. We also find out that she has her own private dream that she could have been an

Bigotry and stubbornness are perceptible attitudes of small-town communities in 1960's Western Australia. The notion that the inhabitants of the tight-knit community of Corrigan are racist, prejudiced and ignorant is explicated in Craig Silvey's coming of age novel, Jasper Jones. The bildungsroman is narrated by Charlie Bucktin, an adolescent from the small town of Corrigan. Charlie becomes unexpectedly involved with a local indigenous boy, Jasper, as they set out to discover the truth about the death of a young girl from their community. Throughout this quest, Charlie comes to many realisations about life, ultimately, that society can be very cruel. The prejudism and ignorance of the tight-knit community of Corrigan manifests in the

During the film, she notes that there was once a point in time where she envisioned

On the AMC hit television show, Mad Men, the main character Don Draper spoke very powerful words when he said, “People tell you who they are but we ignore it, because we want them to be who we want them to be.”. The main character of the novel written by Craig Silvey titled, Jasper Jones dealt with the troubles of, as Don Draper said, people ignoring who somebody is simply because we want them to be who we want. Set in 1965 in a small West Australian town called Corrigan, main character, Charlie Butkin is faced with the fear of being drafted into war with Vietnam and seeing his friends treated poorly by others because of racism. The novel kick starts, however, when Charlie is interrupted by Jason Jones tapping on his window asking Charlie

“My heart almost burst with expectation. I looked again into the hall mirror, seeking Shirley Temple with her dimpled smile and perfect white-skin features. Bluntly reflected back at me was a helmet of black hair. I looked down. Jutting out from a too-large taffeta dress were two spindly legs matched by pair of bony arms. Something cold clutched at my stomach, made me swallow.”(Choy 41).

“One day I was able to get up, after gathering all my strength. I wanted to see myself in the mirror hanging on the opposite wall. I had not seen myself since the ghetto.

How like a mirror, too, her face. Impossible; for how many people did you know

17.“There in the dark her memory was refreshed, and she succumbed to her earlier dreams” (Morrison 122).

Although she knew that she could not rid herself of the way she looks, She

Quote: “She took her face away from his shoulder and looked at him, but saw nothing at first glance, just the face of the boy she scolded when he was wrong, the one she encouraged when he was right, the face of the boy which bore the look of her husband and herself, and the face she loved.” (O’Casey, 37)

talked of "seeing" in her dreams much as she saw when she was awake (let it be