My First Birthday Party - Original Writing

Katharine Brush’s short story “Birthday party” depicts a man treating his wife rudely after his wife surprised him for his birthday. Brush tries to show the readers that people shouldn’t be rude or ungrateful when a loved one tries to impress them. Brush used imagery and assonance to achieve her purpose.

In the short story "The Birthday Party", author Katherine Brush conveys the idea of negligence towards small details. Through utilizing imagery, symbols and foreshadowing a turn of events, Brush successfully reaches the audience. Brush utilizes the hat as a symbol. At the beginning, Brush depicts the wife as “fadingly pretty, in a big hat”, however at the end of the story the author mentions that she is hopeless and hiding under her best hat. The hat is a symbol for dissatisfaction and a possible transition in her life.

Miller demonstrates in “Our Mutual Joy: The Religious Case for Gay Marriage” the importance in Scripture concerning gay marriage and why it isn’t necessarily valid in all arguments. The gay community suffers biblical scrutiny at all times because there are people, and whole communities such as churches, who don’t agree with their sexual orientation. Miller defends this community by comparing it to a heterosexual marriage because after all, it isn’t any different. “More basic than theology, though, is human need.” (Miller). What any person wants is to love and to be loved; why should this be exclusive to only heterosexuals? Using statistics to prove her points, she turns to a poll: “(In the Newsweek poll, 55 percent of respondents said that married heterosexuals who have sex with someone other than their spouses are more morally objectionable than a gay couple in a committed sexual relationship.)” (Miller). This shows how the idea of marriage has changed. Miller also compares old traditions that are presently

Although this seems amiable, there are others who argue that homosexuality is a sin and gay marriage should be prohibited according to the bible. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1I7PGovmaYs Voiceover: In this video clip, two pastors, Dr. Jeffress and Dr. Hudson, debate upon whether gay marriage should be allowed. Dr. Jeffress begins the discussion by saying that: “ If you expand the definition of marriage to include homosexuals, why not expand it to include polygamous? ... The real problem of this whenever you counterfeit something like marriage, you cheapen the value of the real thing.”

I snapped back into reality and opened my door. I stepped out into the narrow hallway, and I rested my hand on the door knob. The door was almost closed when I had a sudden urge to sneak one last glance at my room. Not being able to let go of my room, I cracked the door open again. My eyes rested on the skeleton of the room, and I gently closed the door.

Within this same faith community, some indeed argue that God is opposed to same-sex relationships; as a result, such persons present themselves as diametrically opposed to the notion of same-sex happiness, love, marriage, family, and sexual intimacy. It is important to note that such a discriminatory perception is rooted in a religious interpretation regarding God’s relational will for humanity. This is a tautological debate which the black church must refuse to entertain and/or engage. Rather, the black church should be committed to conversation regarding pragmatics which promote the love ethic of Jesus Christ.

Dobson covers the authoritative biblical evidence for the union of one man and one woman found in Genesis 2:24 “Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.” This scripture in itself has enough validity to stand against anything mankind could hurl at it because it is the very word of God; nevertheless, Dr. Dobson points to history and civilization that have passed to validate his point as well. In his argument for traditional marriage he leans heavily upon the attraction between man and woman and how they are made for one another; to this fact, he gives supporting proof that the union between man and woman is key to the stability and productivity of mankind. Therefore he concludes that if mankind gives into this homosexual tendency to marry and corrupt the course that God has set we are heading for doom as

She’d half laugh, not sure if I was joking or not, and apologize. Mom would shake her head, and we’d sit through our meals in silence, letting the shrilled squeal of cutlery on plates do the talking.

Imagine spending weeks or multiple months planning the right thing to give to your significant other on their birthday. However, when you present them with your gif. You receive malicious comments rather than gratuity from him or her. This leaves you heartbroken and maybe even angry. Katharine Brush writes in her short story, “Birthday Party” about a birthday party gone awry. She explains the events of the evening and even sympathizes with the woman.

When I was younger I never really thought I was different from other kids; I mean I knew I was adopted by my grandparents but I never had to do anything differently until about second grade. We were doing a family tree activity which was meant to be an easy assignment because it was pretty much just fill in the blank of your family member, but I can remember the feeling I got as my teacher was almost done with the directions and all of my other classmates were already rushing to start while I was still just staring at my blank

Using the biblical marriage chart, you can see that there are several forms of marriage in the bible. For example, a man can take on multiple wives. Solomon for example had 700 different wives. In addition to that, Jacob had 2 wives himself. The father of the 12 tribes had more than one wife and that was fine because it counted as biblical marriage. Another example is that man can have a wife, plus other concubines. Solomon was documented having 300 concubines. In Deuteronomy 22, if a virgin is raped, she must marry her rapist. This constitutes as a biblical marriage. As Robert Cargill writes, if you’re against same-sex couples getting married, be ready to defend all forms of marriage that are sanctioned in the bible

In the short story " The Birthday Party" by Katherine Brush, the author writes about a real life scenario of a married couple in the 1940's. Brush writes the story in a second-person narrative to have the reader experience the scenario. The author's main purpose is to describe the role and treatment towards women in 1940's society. The story starts off with the narrator (the reader) describing the married couple he/she saw while eating the the same restaurant.

A couple of years ago, my family and I went to a party for my cousin’s graduation. My sister, Alexa, and I were extremely zealous; we had never been to a graduation party before. Of course, the entire ride there, we sat in anticipation, wondering when we were finally going to arrive. Finally, after a couple of hours in the car, we had made it to the party. As a matter of fact, my cousin’s house appeared magnificent and they had a trampoline in the backyard that I couldn’t wait to jump in.

M W: There is nothing in the bible that said it's ok to marry the same sex. I'm sure there is something that said man and woman, not man and man or woman and woman.

In Leviticus, it says that ‘You shall not lie with a male as with a woman; it is an abomination’. According to Aquinas, this then means that same sex marriage is unnatural because it goes against Divine law as it is contrary to the messages portrayed in the Bible. Aquinas argues that one of the primary precepts of life is to reproduce and therefore same sex marriage is unnatural because same sex couples can’t reproduce naturally, and goes against the idea that reproduction is the ‘Final Cause’ of sex within marriage. Additionally same sex marriage could be argued to be going against eternal law as God created Adam and Eve so that they could reproduce and therefore same sex marriage is going against God’s wishes for humanity and goes against the idea of marriage as a