Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings's A Mother In Mannville

The main question Marjorie Prime opens for the audience is, “what can technology do for the human experience?” The answer to this question is tricky, but I think it was covered well throughout the play by focusing on the idea of, “ what would you say to a person you loved if they were still here?” First, the definition of “the human experience” is all of the emotions and events someone will experience throughout their lifetime; examples fitting for this play are grieving and death. The first moment from Marjorie Prime where I felt the meaning was the first time we see Walter Prime. Walter Prime is clean cut and smooth in his dark blue suit and oxford shoes. He could pass for human, but his voice is eerily like that of a male Siri on iPhones. The whole idea of getting a prime for Marjorie was so that when her memory is totally gone from her mind, it will still be in the “mind” of the prime, and then he can feed her back her memories. The prime is in the form of Marjorie’s husband, Walter, when he was in his thirties. Both of these elements of the prime give Marjorie back some companionship other than her daughter, Tess, and Tess’s husband, John. We learn later on in the play that Marjorie lost her son, Damien, to suicide. The prime is able to help Marjorie's “human experience” by not relaying the painful memories of him back to her. He in turn indirectly takes away her grief because other people can add or delete Marjorie's

Virgil had gone to the bank to ask what kind of cash was used and to his surprise, it was all coins. Quarters, halves, and even nickels and dimes. There were some bills as well, but the largest was $5. He could’ve deposited it and gained interest from it, getting about $18 a year. Also, it would’ve also been safer for him and his money. Sam had been hoarding it slowly, but surely, to save up for his mortgage and after this concern had been resolved, Sam was released and was a free man

It is impossible to interpret Gloria Naylor’s 1988 novel, Mama Day, in one way. There are multiple standpoints that a reader can take in explaining various events that occur throughout the book, as well as different ways that the characters in the book interpret these events. The author never fully clarifies many questions that the story generates so as to leave the readers with the opportunity to answer them based on their own personal experiences and beliefs. The multiplicity of perspectives in Gloria Naylor’s Mama Day is embodied in the legend of Sapphira Wade and the dynamics between logic and the supernatural and between George and Cocoa.

Imagine living as a motherless farmgirl during a time when horrendous dust storms would occur. Not only do you not have a mother and are living in a terrible environment, but at the same time, you are living during The Great Depression. Billie Jo Kelby in, “Out of the Dust” by, Karen Hesse, had to deal with these painful events as a teenager. She has been in a terrible accident that took her mother’s life and scarred Billie Jo forever. To make matters worse, Daddy is so heartbroken by his wife’s death, that he can’t talk about it with Billie Jo and the two almost separate from each other until Billie Jo runs away but then comes back and reunites with Daddy. Billie Jo is friendly with the people she loves, sorrowful

“…put a match to it. One hundred twenty-three dollars in legal tender was promptly reduced to ash and smoke” (29).

“But you didn’t give me as much as you gave him. isn’t my money as good as his? Don’t you know they always give men more?”(Page 168)

But I have been noticing that the quarter is no longer worth what it used to be, I’m not sure if this is because of a global factor or just a national factor but no longer do I get what I used to for a quarter. Last week my family and I went washing at a local laundry matt, while we were removing our clothes from the washer getting ready to placed them in the drier we realized that now instead of getting 10 minutes of drying time for one quarter it was now only 8 minutes. At first I didn’t think it was a major difference, I thought to myself, “Two minutes less oh well that’s not so bad”. It was until I put 75 cents into the machine I realized what a huge difference two minutes can be when multiplied. I was so annoyed because instead of putting three quarters in to dry my clothes I had to put four instead. In a way I felt cheated out of my quarter. In all with the drying of my clothes, my two sibling’s clothes, and my parent’s clothes we had to spend an extra $2- $2 that could have been spent on something else.

Martha Ballard, while to many the messiah of Maine, might have been more of a parading pestilence as she moved throughout the town giving treatment and illness, one and the same. Throughout Martha Ballard’s diary and Laurel Thatcher Ulrich’s transcription of such, A Midwife’s Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, various examples of transmission can be seen with some cases leaving individuals dead and families destroyed. Such sicknesses included Dysentery, Scarlet Fever, and unidentified illnesses. While Martha brought happiness through births and lifesaving procedures, she also brought along hidden pestilence. The Ballard family was instrumental in the spread of disease throughout their town, Hallowell. Due to lacking medical knowledge and no

"The fifth day after my arrival, I put on the clothes of a common laborer, and went upon the wharves in search of work. On my way down Union Street I saw a large pile of coal in front of the house of Rev. Ephraim Peabody, the Unitarian minister. I went to the kitchen door and asked the privilege of bringing in and putting away this coal. 'What will you charge?' said the lady. 'I will leave that to you, madam.' 'You may put it away,' she said. I was not long in accomplishing the job, when the dear lady put into my hand two silver half-dollars. To understand the emotion which swelled my heart as I clasped this money, realizing that I had no master who

LeAnne Howe made this book to tell the story of American Indians who fought for their freedom and land from the white men. She featured moments of her life in an effort to include an insight to show that all American Indians, even now, are affected by the allotment of the American Indians. LeAnne Howe even dedicated Miko Kings to “all the American Indians who’ve played the game.” Baseball was a sport that the Indians had been playing for years as a way to pass time and connect the tribes (48) (LeAnne Howe, Miko Kings, 112) in this story. Baseball intertwined with this story because baseball and the events that followed are emblematic of the struggles the American Indians faced in the early 1900s.

America should not kill the penny because getting killing the penny would be like cutting off your hands. America needs the penny so they shouldn’t get rid of it. According to the spruce.com, “The penny is a very sentimental coin to most american due to Abraham Lincoln on it”. The penny would have to be rounded up to the next cent which is the nickel.

Could you visualize yourself as a ten-your-old boy, living in the Great Depression, with no family to turn to? In the novel, Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis, a character named Bud experienced many dramatic events. His mother died when he was six. Soon after, Bud was sent to an orphanage. Still, Bud was determined to find his father and faced hard situations.

hundred twenty-three dollars in legal tender was promptly reduced to ashes and smoke” (P. 29). Chris

The time period between the late 1800s and early 1900s was a ground for many crucial changes for women and how they were viewed and treated. The right to their children, property, and earnings was granted to them during this time period ("Women Suffrage in the Progressive Era - American Memory Timeline- Classroom Presentation | Teacher Resources - Library of Congress"). Many women, no matter what their occupation might have been, supported this movement ("Women Suffrage in the Progressive Era - American Memory Timeline- Classroom Presentation | Teacher Resources - Library of Congress"). Female Writers were extremely proactive when it came to clearly displaying the mistreatment that women endured while society viewed it as right. One writer in particular, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, published a short story the displayed the injustice in the treatment. “The Revolt of Mother” clearly displays the repression of women in a society much like the one we live in today, and the story leaves the reader with an essential lesson of standing up for one’s self. This piece of work is heavily influenced by the oppression Freedom faced during her life time.

Judith Wright’s poem “Mother to Child” is about a woman’s emotions during the different stages of motherhood. It tells the audience that the bond between a mother and her child is very powerful and that it changes as the child grows. Wright shows us this through her use of imagery, symbolism and the structure of her poem. The use of those three elements of literature help communicate the love the woman has for her child and how their connection grows stronger as time goes on.