Sheila Mant: A Short Story

Judging from most classic fairy tales, a prerequisite for being the heroine of the story is being incredibly beautiful. Beauty, in life as well as literature, is incredibly valued. To be beautiful is to be good and vice versa. This line of thinking is well-represented in classic fairy tales. “Cinderella” by Lin Lan is one of the best examples of how a piece of literature, as well as a society, sees the relationship between virtue and physical attractiveness. Lin Lan’s Cinderella, as with many fairy tales, believes that beauty and goodness are strongly correlated, shows this through the characters and how other characters value beauty, and represents the opposite as well: to be evil is to be ugly. This point of view shown in “Cinderella” is

Have you ever wished that someone had given you a guide on how live the right way? Jamaica Kincaid does just that in her short story, Girl. The narrative is presented as a set of life instructions to a girl by her mother to live properly in Antigua in the 1980’s. While the setting of the story is not expressly stated by the author in the narrative, the reader is able to understand the culture for which Girl was written.

Painted Girl put her bags down on the counter, tired from a long day at work. Tizio was great. He’d taken her to his uncles place and they’d spent a wonderful day ordering things from his antique store. She looked around the kitchen. Chinese takeout littered the countertop but no one had cleaned up. She picked up a note.

In both stories “Girl” and “Story of an hour” there is use of gender that describes a typically unfair direction of the role of a women, yet the use of gender is describe differently. The use of gender in the “Story of an hour” is mainly about how the wife of a husband who dies in the train crash is going to deal with life without her husband and if she will be able to handle it emotionally. While the story “Girl” deals with a mom that tells her daughter to be well mannered fit in socially with society. The role of women in both stories is to be well mannered and considerate with high standards of behavior. For instance, in the story the women tell the daughter “ on Sunday try to a walk like a lady” (123). A lady is what the mom wants her to become because she is afraid of her becoming unfit for society. Ladies are expected to be very polite and speak in good manners in order to fit the ideal women. In the “Story of an Hour” there is a specific way her family wants her to handle her husband death. The facts Mrs. Malland was told about the tragedy at a certain times makes me believe that writer wants us to believe that women have harder time dealing with her marriage life.

I believe that the narrator drops his fishing line in the water as he paddles his boat to pick up Sheila Mant because he has the desire to join two of his passions. To the narrator Sheila Mant “appeared unutterably suave, the epitome of sophistication." She was a lovely creature in which he did not fully understand. He spent half of his summer watching this lovely being and trying to truly understand her, all the while trying to impress her. The other half of his summer he spent practicing his fishing cast, testing the reel’s drag on his rod, and bass fishing. By putting his fishing line in the boat he could possibly catch a bass fish and at the same time impress Sheila. He took his passion for fishing and his passion for Sheila Mant and subconsciously

When I first read through Jamaica Kincaid’s “Girl,” I’ll admit my first reaction to the piece was relief at the short length. However, as I processed what she was writing, my appreciation for the piece deepened. It is rapid and blatantly lays out the standards that Kincaid was held to during her childhood. It is written as though the reader is on the receiving end of a harsh set of rules, seeing their brutality from Kincaid’s perspective. Originally, I believed Kincaid’s purpose for writing this piece was to highlight the stark contrast in the treatment of men and women.

The girl was sweating hard, the others were too. They each felt as if they had run a marathon, they were out of breath and tired. The girl kept moving, twisting her leg into an unnatural position and reaching her arms farther than she thought possible, she twirled just as the woman had taught them, then she dropped to her knees and put her hands in a prayer position, using her toes she hopped back up and glided to the front of the stage where she knew she would be directly in the woman's line of sight. She waited for the queue and on the downbeat she bowed and then leaping into the air, she spinned a full three sixty and when she landed she put her face down and made sure her hands were back in the notorious prayer position. When she brought her head up and looked at the woman, the look she saw made her heart sink into her stomach, she knew what the woman was about say, but she prayed

It has been a couple days since her close friend, Holly, disappeared from the streets. Stan, their pimp, also disappeared around the time that she went missing. The police don't care about prostitutes unless they want sex with them to 'release stress'. Selina grew tired of waiting for the police to do their job and put on her catsuit again. She just got word that one of Stan's prostitute was somewhere in Gotham and she didn't have a clue where she was. Selina got finished putting on the suit as he grabbed her mask and grinned as she begun to say, "It's time from me to get answers.". She put on the mask and opened the window as she exited out of it.

“Girl” written by Jamaica Kincaid is an unusual text that depicts a mоther’s list оf rules that her daughter must fоllоw in оrder tо be accepted in sоciety. after reading this narrative fоr the first time, I read it as a resistant, I had nо idea what culture, time periоd оr what the true meaning behind this list was. I did, hоwever, knоw that it had sоme link tо hоw a wоman has tо behave.

Alice was a beautiful girl. An angel at school. She had curious large blue eyes that were lined with smile lines like the ancient roots of willow tree.behind elongated blonde eyelashes, like golden thread. Alice was a polite, clear, logical and payed attention at school. Bustling corridors, cluttered classrooms, noisy chatter, bright displays rushed around her as her friend left for home one by one at the ring of the school bell.

This dream was way beyond romantic, but of course it also has to be a little weird. It was like the manga I read called First Girl. In the beginning of what I remember; I was following a guy under water. When we had reached the destination, he had said a chant in front of two very large tiki statues and when he was finished they had opened up to a secret passageway. When he went in, I had waited for a few seconds and then I had said the following chant myself and continued into the passage as well (I never saw what was in there).

You might think I know who Daisy is. I just walked into the Target store and a taken aback to see a dog ! At first, I thought it might be a toy that her mom was carrying, but to my surprise, it was a real female dog! We literally interacted for maybe 2-3 minutes and I told her Mom, this reminds me of the video "We met a girl." She laughed and said she knew about it and was very kind to take my picture with this little Daisy.

Many traditional fairy tales have been remade into Hollywood movies. The fairy tale of Cinderella has been produced in movies many times such as Ever After (1998) and A Cinderella Story (2004). A Cinderella Story (2004) has an interesting storyline, cast, themes, and appeals to teenagers and young adults.

     When examining adaptations of fairytales you must look at the original source. This can be a very difficult task because with fairytales we never really know where the original came from. I will base my paper on the theory that the original tale of Cinderella comes from the Grimm Brothers version of Ashputtle. In comparison we will examine two movies. First there is the Disney version Cinderella. Secondly we will look at the movie 'Ever After'.

Comprehending her lyrics, one may perceive from the understanding that her intended audience is actually anyone who may be feeling the same way as her and the effect in which she wishes to have upon them is to be like her in the