Lylanna Research Paper

Everyday, we make/face a decision. Whether it be a significant or minor decision, we still make a choice, and depending on what you do, it may majorly or barely affect your future and change the course of many different possible outcomes.

She was excited that she still had something of Tariq to hold on to. She loved Aziza with her whole heart, but when she found out she was having another child, Rasheed's child, Laila was not as excited as she was for Aziza because the baby was not made out of love but by force. Laila still knew that she would love Zalmai because she was still her child even though the father was someone she did not want anything to do with. One lesson from Laila's childhood that she applies on her children is to get an education. She especially applies this to Aziza since she is a girl, Miriam and Laila teach her lessons from the Koran. Even though they have to learn in secret since Rasheed forbids them learning in the household. When Laila was younger, her dad emphasized very much that she needed to get an education. At the end of the story, Aziza and Zalmai are able to attend school. Another lesson taught to the children was that they will always be loved. Laila was always told by her father that she was loved very much. Laila translates that onto her children all the time, her and Miriam expresses it throughout the book ever since they were born. Even though Zalmai had the love of his father and Aziza didn't, you could tell that Aziza felt the love from her mom and aunt. Another lesson is to always keep trying, when Laila was younger she knew that her father loved him but her mother never had a real connection with her. But

Walimai then unfolds the story of his father’s love story. With She was beaten, shackled and “was wet with the dew of all the men who had covered her before” him(4). He quickly recognizes her because his mother is also an Ila woman. He takes care of her — washing her disarrayed body, starting a fire for warmth and protection, and hunting for food. He also believed in fasting for ten consecutive days as a way of a spiritual cure those who are suffering, “in this way the spirit of the dead one grows weak, finally it lets go and journeys to the land of the soul” (5). He grew weak, yet still taking care of her. They began to love one another, and did not want to be apart. Taking her first steps, she ventured to short travels, but was not ready for a lonesome journey. With each trial, the journey becomes a little farther. Twelve days later, she was gone. He holds himself back from calling her name aloud to take her back forever. He continues on with his journey to the village, hunting for food as he returns to the village not

Poor Lourdes feels unwanted from the beginning of her life with her mother swearing to forget her; therefore, throughout her life Lourdes feels a lingering resentment, even though the acts by Celia were purely through emotional displacement brought about by the nastiness of her in-laws. “Her mother’s doleful rhythm followed them everywhere” (Garcia 25). The reader can plainly see that Lourdes is both embarrassed and ashamed of what her mother was and is unwillingly to forgive her. Lourdes claimed her mother was dead to garner pity from strangers so they would buy her sweets, and secretly wished it were true at times.

This is significant because her pursuit signifies initiative, which is a sign of confidence. However, she also does not unconditionally offer her love. The fact that she requires that Lanval be “worthy and courtly” indicates a sense of self-worth. Finally, in her offer, she does not mention any concrete details of what she would do for Lanval, let alone drop anything of her life for his interests, which suggests that although she will love him, she will not let him rule her life (another indicator of her self- worth). This behavior is quite powerful, as the her confidence and self preservation prove that she is a dominant type of individual.

The strange diseases that went throughout the tribe were known as smallpox, pneumonia, influenza, malaria, measles, cholera, and whooping cough. Little did the family know, that their mother (Amadahy) was coming down with smallpox? They had no doctors to help Amadahy. All they could do was pray and sing for their poor mother. Adsila was growing eminently worried for Amadahy’s

she was kind and gentle but the power of slavery overcome her once gentle spirit. He explained that she wasn’t bad a person at first, but having complete control over another human being transforms her from an angel into a demon.

Between Shades of Gray is a historical fiction written by the American author, Ruta Sepetys. This is a story of about war, loss, love, family and hope. I am a voracious reader and have read numerous different books with diverse genres. To name a few, I have read

La Loca’s existence is crucial for two major reasons. First, her resurrection in the first chapter declares the nature of the story and hints of its magical narrative. Castillo wastes no time to inform her readers that So Far From God is a work of magical realism. Second, La Loca exists to encourage Sofi to rebel against the religious institution and the political establishment. As the narrator reports, “Loca had never left home and her mother was the sole person whom she ever let get near her” (221). This is a hint that La Loca’s relationship with Sofi goes beyond a mother-daughter relationship. It is a cause-and-effect relationship, since Sofi’s rebellion is staged on three different phases—each phase begins with La Loca (the cause) and ends with Sofi (the effect).

La Loca, the families youngest daughter, had an encounter with both God and Satan. She told the people of her town, Tome, that she has been to hell, pulgatorio and heaven. “God sent me back to help you all, to pray for you all…” (Page 24) When La Loca was three years old, she had what the doctors and people in the town believes was a seizure caused by the baby having unknown Epilepsy. However, the way the narrator described what happened was “. . . the little body possessed by something unknown that caused her to thrash about violently until finally she fell off the bed.” (Page 20) Following this situation, right before the family and close friends was going to bury the baby, the casket opened and the what is now alive, little girl sat up

As much as her mother was unpleased with it she was helping out, because Mare’s sister, Gisa makes more money for the family than Mare has ever. Gisa is a embroiderer for the silvers, and mare hates that everyone see Gisa more superior than herself. This shows that the hero of our book is very envious. This also is present when she meets evangeline, a silver princess who is to be married to cal the soon to be king of Norta.“If there was ever a person begging for an elbow to the face, it is Evangeline Samos.” (quote said by the author herself). This shows that Evangeline is a well hated character throughout the book, why? Mare is very jealous and that's her fatal

“But she had managed. And, of course the citizens of Mt. Harrison just couldn’t leave the old woman be. They thought it was bizarre. Her living out in the forest all by herself—that it wasn’t possible for a woman as old as Alcina was to

While she and her husband denounced the Peyote religion due to their first-hand observation of peyote's destructive--often deadly--effects, they asserted the superiority of Indian spirituality over the disregard for nature, disrespect of other cultures, and depredation of people which accompanied alleged Christian practices such as stripping children from their language, culture, religion, family, and environment, the blatant injustice and trauma of which the reader poignantly feels in her fiction during the hair-cutting scene and in the mother's desperate cry to her departed warrior brothers.

“What, can you do me greater harm, than hate? Hate me? Wherefore? O me! What news, my love? Am not I Hermia? Are not you Lysander?” (Act III, sc ii 277-279) Hermia was hurt and suffering because her Lysander left her unpredictably and so sudden. Was she not good enough, who is to blame? Hermia’s answer to these questions were Helena, her dear childhood friend. Hermia blamed her for the chaos that was brought into her life and the sudden loss of her loved one’s interest. But unfortunately, Hermia was unaware that Helena had nothing to do with this chaos. It was all love that twisted a perfect relationship of true love into a chaotic monster.

The two ran in the woods, got lost, and settled down to rest until the morning. Hermia's love was still deep for Lysander, but she was not comfortable sleeping directly next to him. This showed that she still had her morals in tact and she made him sleep further away from her. As morning came, Lysander awoke before Hermia and, abandoned her because he was under the spell. When Hermia woke up and saw that her true love was missing, she quickly went to find him. Hermia never gave up on her love for Lysander. She only wanted him and nothing was going to stop her. Astonishingly she was able to pass all of the obstacles in her way and still retain the love for Lysander.