Octavia Spencer : An Analysis

In Kindred Octavia Butler highlights how Dana’s fear of the past will interfere with the present. Butler demonstrates how Dana tries to fit into the 1800s to accomplish her goals and not have consequences in the present. The patriarchy is shown in both time periods although it grows or manifests differently. In kindred Dana travels back in time to save Rufus her ancestor who always seems to get himself in trouble. Dana is trying to make a difference in the past but it is very hard when all she does is cause more trouble than anything else. Her husband is then left behind in the past for five years and that changes him and ultimately leaves a mark on him. Dana tries to make a difference and education the slaves in the past so that they can protect themselves but it backfires and Dana gets punished. This shows the patriarchy in both periods that a man is viewed as more powerful than women and is considered the man of the House. The past shapes the future. The past ultimately makes the future.

American Beauty, a film that was written by Allan Ball and directed by Sam Mendes in 1999 is a unique piece that demonstrates many sociological themes throughout the development of the plot. The characters strive to portray themselves as the All American Family. They live in a nice house, drive nice cars and seem perfectly normal to the general public, but the audience is allowed to view the deep set issues that plague the main characters; Lester Burnham (Kevin Spacey), Carolyn Burnham (Annette Bening), Jane Burnham (Thora Birch), and Jane's best friend Angela Hayes (Mena Suvari). As the plot develops there are many obvious parallels relating the lives of the characters to Merton's Strain

In the film ‘Her’, directed by Spike Jonze, the main protagonist,Theodore Twombly conveys the idea of alienation via technology and its possible effects, due to his depression via his divorce and his easy going relationship with an artificial intelligence operating system named Samantha. The idea of alienation and technology and its possible effects on human relationships is conveyed via the quote, “Sometimes I think I have felt everything I'm ever gonna feel. And from here on out, I'm not gonna feel anything new. Just lesser versions of what I've already felt.” Theodore recently experienced is his divorce depression, and therefore becomes vulnerable, anti-social from society and isolated himself, by spending time with the artificial intelligence

Alexie's father was the reason he began to read which later became his passion. His father loved to read, and even though they did not have a ton of

Margaret Tate played by Sandra bullock is a very well organized, obsessive anal boss that everyone in the office fears. She is average height with a slim built and clearly works out. Long brown hair that is neatly done. Margaret is in her early to mid-30s. She is very pretty with flawless tan skin. She is very well dressed and has a very powerful presence and demands the attention of the room when she walks in. she is very high maintenance and stuck up. She has a very strong confident walk that lets you now that she is in charge and she is not afraid to use her power. No one under her is comfortable being themselves around her. She has multiple nick names in the office such as “it” or “the witch”.

how it caused her to become a writer fiction. To express the intensity and value of said

The author compares her love for “devouring” books with her mother’s mutual literary “insatiability”. Welty recollects the influence of books on the both of them to demonstrate the important effect reading had on her life even through her mother. Later in the paragraph another bit of narration in the form of an anecdote is present. Welty begins by alluding to her idol Mary Pickford and then discusses her mother reading a magazine with focus while playing with Welty’s siblings. The fact that Welty retained these memories is a testament to the position such events occupied for her as a child; books and reading maintained a vital spot in her

By carefully reading the summer reading novel and completing this packet over the summer, which you need to bring to class on the first day of school, you will be prepared to discuss the story in the fall, to take a summer reading quiz and to write an in-class essay using your novel and packet as the basis for your responses. As you read the novel in preparation for the unit, you will first need to understand some of the basic elements of the story.

Any book she could get her hands on she would read and sometimes even twice. The librarian at the library, which was just a couple blocks down from Jane’s home, loved Jane. She would recommend books for her all the time. The older she got, the more Jane figured out she loved to read romantic love stories. She found they were mesmerizing and mysterious. Most love stories had a happy ending and Jane loved that because the feeling ‘happy’ wasn’t something Jane felt very often. She would sit in the library for hours and just read. It gave her comfort. She loved walking in and smelling the fresh pages of new books. It was her home away from

Your past is filled with many things, good and bad. In the book The Adoration of Jenna Fox, the author, Mary E. Pearson uses her main character and her story to show that even though things happen in your past, you should not let it haunt you. Your past is not always you. Therefore, the theme is that the past does not have to define who you are. The Adoration of Jenna Fox specifically highlights the theme when she first starts to remember what the accident she went through actually was.

It's a privileged life unlike that of her birth mother, a woman of African American descent from Indianapolis who had her first child at age 15. Her American family is "really nice but they don't have a lot of money

She was very talented at art, and saw/read many books written for children or young adults. What surprised her is the fact that she never came across a book that was about characters in books coming out of their stories and breathing. She had often imagined the characters in her favorite stories as living, breathing people, and was shocked that no one seemed to be publishing anything like that. This inspired the main plot of the Inkheart series, which is about a man and his daughter who have the very rare talent of reading aloud in a way that literally pulls the characters out of a book and into the world that we live

Overworked, underpaid and underappreciated. Have you ever felt that way at one point of your life? Many people have felt that way before or currently in a job that make them feel that way. That is what the play writer Annie Baker portrayed in her play “The Flick”, which won her the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. The drama also deals with the challenges of friendship, love, and self-identity.

Welty at one point describes how her mother loses herself in her imagination while reading books (878). The influence of books in both Welty and her mother’s childhood is especially present throughout the passage, but now it is a rare occurrence to see a child reading a book. Creativity and the use of imagination is arguably one of the most special thing a child has. Reading, being read to, and even looking at the pages of books as Welty did in her youth allows for inspiration to flow in ways technology cannot compare

Jessica, you had a lot of great identifications as to why you thought Alexis perceived reading the way she did. One thing I found interesting was that she did not think her friends found reading fun, but they would recommend books to her. I wonder, if possibly,