Literary Devices In Girls Like Girls

In the short stories “Stones” and “To Every Thing There is a Season” the authors Sandra Birdsell and Alistair MacLeod both use literary devices in a similar manner in order to achieve their thematic objectives. This essay will compare the way the authors use three literary devices such as imagery, metaphor and similes in their short stories to portray the thematic objective of loss of innocence.

    Postmodernism is a form of literature which is marked both stylistically and ideologically, by a reliance on such literary conventions as unreliable narrators , parody, unrealistic plots, dark humor and authorial self-reference.  A Girl’s Story written by David Arnason is a perfect example of postmodernism because David tends to ignore the traditional limitation of structure. He uses the power of his mind to develop his story (A Girl’s Story). David uses the cultures and classes to create a limitation free story that anyone can enjoy and understand.

“Girl” is a short story in which the author, Jamaica Kincaid, unofficially presents the stereotypes of girls in the mid 1900s. Kincaid includes two major characters in the story “Girl”, they are the mother and the girl. Although the daughter only asks two questions in this story, she is the major character. The mother feels like her daughter is going in the wrong direction and not making the best decisions in her life. The whole story is basically the mother telling her daughter what affects her decisions will have in the future. The mother believes that because her daughter isn’t sitting, talking, cleaning, walking or singing correctly it will lead her to a path of destruction. “Girl” is a reflection of female sexuality, the power of family, and how family can help overcome future dangers.

Though its primary function is usually plot driven--as a source of humor and a means to effect changes in characters through disguise and deception—cross dressing is also a sociological motif involving gendered play. My earlier essay on the use of the motif in Shakespeare's plays pointed out that cross dressing has been discussed as a symptom of "a radical discontinuity in the meaning of the family" (Belsey 178), as cul-tural anxiety over the destabilization of the social hierarchy (Baker, Howard, Garber), as the means for a woman to be assertive without arousing hostility (Claiborne Park), and as homoerotic arousal (Jardine). This variety of interpretations suggests the multivoiced character of the motif, but

Jamaica Kincaid was born in West Indies, which is located in Antigua. When the author writes you can tell she's from an island, on the way she uses to describe the ways a women should act. Kincaid usually writes about mother-daughter relationship. Her writing has a lot of feminist perspectives. The way Kincaid writes, she has an amazing way of making you visualize, they way she goes in depth with the topic.

The tone of this song is hopeful. It tells women of all ages to stay true to themselves, even when everyone else around them is changing. This is mostly relatable to teenagers attending high school. In the song it says, “Hold on to your innocence, stand your ground when everyone’s giving in”. During high school, children are introduced to various new things, such as: drugs, sex, and alcohol. It is the students’ personal choice whether to give in to these new additions or not, but the song suggests they stand up even when everyone else around them has given in. The song has three stanzas with four lines. The rhyme scheme is grouped into pairs, rhyming the first two lines and the last two lines in each stanza. Rhyming two consecutive lines can make the song easier to remember. “This One’s for the Girls” is extremely catchy, not only by its meaning, but also its rhyme scheme. It makes an imprint on one’s brain.

“Fine. I’ll take her, but only if you have Dad legally sign the company branch I work at over to me.”

The film demonstrates how people that do not channel their imagination are worse off. For instance, in the opening journey to the military base, Carmen is immediately characterized as an unbeliever, saying “you shouldn’t fill your head with such nonsense.” Along with this, she is immediately characterized as sick, which suggests a defect in her. By quickly pairing a lack of imagination with a lack of health, del Toro hints that imagination and overall well being may correlate. Furthermore, throughout the film, Ofelia has nothing positive to say about Carmen besides that she is beautiful: “She’s very pretty, even though she’s sad for many days at a time. When she smiles, you’ll love her.” Only giving Carmen compliments related to her exterior exemplifies that she has an internal problem; she represses her inner originality and imagination, and

In order to properly view a story from a feminist perspective, it is important that the reader fully understands what the feminist perspective entails. “There are many feminist perspectives, and each perspective uses different approaches to analyze and interpret texts. One is that gender is “socially constructed” and another is that power is distributed unequally on the basis of sex, race, and ethnicity, religion, national origin, age, ability, sexuality, and economic class status” (South University Online, 2011, para. 1). The story “Girl” is an outline of the things young girls

In “Youth” by Daughter they sing about growing up and leaving your childhood and teenage years behind you. The artist is trying to telling us that good years come and go and just like our bad years too. We get attached to people we’ve become best friends with then out of nowhere they get up and leave, we go through things and there’s nothing we could do about it. Even though teens don’t know it at that exact moment in time, they do things that harm themselves mentally and physically.

In the story, “Girl” is being told in second person. The mother is giving her daughter instructions on life and, how she should be lady like in public while doing her daily task.

Girls, young women, and mature mothers. Society has consistently given women strict guidelines, rules and principles on how to be an appropriate member of a man’s society. These rules are set at a young age and enforced thoroughly into adulthood. When not followed accordingly, women often times too many face reprimanding through means of verbal abuse, physical abuse, or social exile. In the midst of all these strict guidelines and social etiquette for girls, a social rebellion started among girls and women and gender roles were broken, however the social rebellion did not and does not affect all girls and women. For instance, in less socially developed places, young girls on the brink of womanhood are still strongly persuaded to be a man’s idea of a “woman”.

Exposition - A nine-teen year old girl named Marta is on top of skyscraper that houses apartments and businesses. She sees the city as a mess and becomes dizzy over it.

There are many different reasons why the poem “Girl,” and the poem “If,” are very different and there are some reasons why they are the same. Unlike the poem If, Girl talks about most of the stuff a girl has to do in order to be a pretty young woman and not a wharf-rat boy like she is right now. If, talks about what everyone needs to do to be a young man or a young woman unlike girl where it just talks about what a girl has to do to be a young woman and for the baker to let her smell and touch the bread in the bakery before they buy the bread. They are both the same because they talk about how a woman needs to act to be a young woman not all sloppy and a wharf-rat boy.

Alice Munro's short story, "Boys and Girls," explores the different roles of men and women in society through a young girl's discovery of what it means to be a girl. A close examination of the elements of a short story as they are used in "Boys and Girls" helps us to understand the meaning of the story.