Literary Devices In Girls Like Girls

I felt the steam rise up and come out of my ears! Had my teacher betrayed me? But what I was more worried about mama and all of my brothers and sisters. Were they going to get found by the border patrol? Were we going to get separated? These were all the things I thought about when we went down the road in the white van that looked like it had been treated with no care to get Robert at Santa Maria High School. "You illegals are always causing so much trouble, why do you even come here? Seems like too much trouble to me."

The writer sits, their fingers lay gently across the lettering of a keyboard. Images and words swirl through their mind, formulating the perfect literary storm. Yet their hands refuse to type. Even with the perfect story in mind, the writer must first choose the most effective mode of discourse to properly communicate their desired message. Every piece of literature, whether it be a poem or a novel, contains either one or various types of this communication. Rachel Lloyd, the author of Girls Like Us: Fighting for a World Where Girls Are Not for Sale, uses a total of four modes of this dissertation. These include description, narration, exposition and argument, and each contributes to the message of Lloyd’s memoir, some more effectively than

Thesis: “Girl” talks about multiple advices that are given to a female during her lifetime, not only by her family but the society in general, not allowing or giving them the chance to choose their own path and even though it can be considered a story about an old reality, it is still actual and real for a lot of girls.

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

Before analyzing “Girl” by Jamaica Kincaid and “The Birth-Mark” by Nathanial Hawthorne, it is important to understand the role that women played in society during the time the short stories were written. In each of the stories the theme relates directly to the expectations that women were held to during that time in history. After reading both of the stories, it is clear that there were several literary elements used to portray the domestic responsibilities of women in society at the time. Analyzing theme, symbols and point of view allowed me to understand how utilizing several different literary devices can make the moral of the story even more understandable.

The Miller's Tale by Geoffrey Chaucer is a mirror of medieval society particularly in the way it depicts the relationships between men and women as well as giving a realistic portrait of working class people during the middle ages. Alison, the main character illustrates how a woman was able to use her sex through her actions of deceit to many characters. Popular belief holds that courtly love was prevalent during the medieval period; however The Miller's Tale provides a more realistic look into sexual relationships through its use of infidelity and sexual humor. Chaucer's characters are typical middle class workers rather than elite nobility. In addition, many of the characters seem heartless and corrupt. Alison's character is far away

In the song Like a Boy, by Ciara, exhibits how extraordinarily different the relations of men and a women are in regards to romantic behaviors. It portrays a message of comparing gender roles by a woman kvetching how men can easily get away with treating women as inferiors without as much as a scold. She puts her male companion in the shoes of a female to see if it would too trouble him in the same manner. For example, Ciara states, “sometimes I wish I could act like a boy”, this lyric alone can speak the stories of many women in today’s society. In addition, Like a Boy proves how active inequality between sexes still exists today. This also can lead to questioning of how successful all of the women’s movements and revelations truly were if

The short story Girl portrays a young girl, who is listening to a speaker, presumably someone of authority and most likely a maternal figure. The speaker (we never find out exactly who she is) spends a great deal of time passing on instructions to the girl. In the beginning of the story the speaker seems to be lecturing her, but as you continue to read, the tone changes to one that is more caring; it almost seems as though these instructions are meant to be sweet pieces of wisdom passed from one woman to another. The theme of this narrative displays the transition from adolescence to adulthood, and how as one goes through this transformation both their responsibilities and values grow and change through their every day experiences.

To express your sexuality means to have capacity for sexual feelings and motives. Whether it is interest in gender preference, realization of sexual orientation, or expressing who you are gender wise, male or female, every single person is subjected to these individual rights. In the short poem “The One Girl at the Boys Party”, Sharon Olds defines a young teenage girl as she comes to conclusion with her sexuality and discovers her growth in maturity as a young woman. In her journey, mathematical metaphors are used to describe her confusing feelings towards her new found sexuality. As this young girl becomes a woman, values and symbolic numbers related to math are provided, which represent her quest towards maturity and sexual development as

The reason I chose this piece to do my literary analysis on was because something I found very unique and interesting was the fact that we, the readers, know that one girl is one race, and the other girl is a different race, but we never find out which is which. The way this story was written, makes either one seem to belong to either race, so there is no need to stereotype, because if one girl does something that seems stereotypical of one race, the other girl does something even more so. The way that the author was able to keep that up so well and not give away who was which race, amazes and intrigues me, although within their friendship, it doesn’t really make a difference. I think that this proves that stereotypes of people are not true to the race/culture/religion etc. but the individual person. The biggest proof of this is the fact that they both grew up in the same home, raised by the same person/people, with not a certain ethnic influence, yet they each ended up a certain way. When they get older is when this becomes most evident, Twyla becomes a waitress and Roberta is presumably an escort, from the way she is described. Roberta’s mother doesn’t want to be friends with Twyla’s mother, so that may be a tell of the races, but it is still pretty vague.

In Erin Entrada Kelly’s The Land of Forgotten Girls, the majority of characters are dynamic or have the potential to be dynamic. From the main character, Sol, to minor characters such as Mrs. Yeung or Blackbeard, the junkyard owner, and even to Vea, everyone in this story has the potential to grow and change. This was an important factor in the story for me because it shows young readers that their past actions do not have to define who they are as they go forward and that, even if they are on a destructive path, they can make changes in their lives to mature.

Is bullying really that big of a problem? These days, it is easily ignored amongst public attributable to the fact that it is such a common thing. People never take it seriously let alone think of the subject for that matter. Bullying needs to be taken care of sooner the better or else it shall get worse in the future and out of control. An example that supports that statement would be the book “Some Girls Are” by Courtney Summers.

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.

Watching this video I think that, this is the way many girls think of themselves. As a joke, as something fragile that has to be pretty all the time. Since a very young, we are told that the sky's the limit, but if you are a woman the limit is determined by how pretty society thinks you are. Although our brothers and our cousins are told that they have to study so they can become the man of the house, however we are told that we have to be pretty and know how to take care after a house, so that we can get engaged to “a well educated man”

I bet you like to be treated well. In the story, Quarta was not treated well. Her classmates were really mean t o her even though she was really nice to everybody else. The theme in the story “The Girl With Only Two Arms And Two Legs” By is to treat people how you would like to be treated. You can tell this is true because Quarta is very nice to everybody but nobody is nice to her. I know this because she lets anybody play One Ball, a game she introduced to her classmates. One Ball is a game that is very close to volleyball. I also know that this is the theme because Quarta helps others. Even though her classmates who had four arms and four legs are mean to Quarta because she has only two of each. This shows that she follows the golden rule even though her classmates are mean. Last but not least the other kids are plain out mean to her. These are reasons why this story is about treat people how you want to be treated.