Okwiri Oduor's The Rag Doll

Charles Chesnutt’s “The Doll” is a story of seeking truth, facing discrimination, and making bold choices for the sake of one’s own livelihood. Through Tom Taylor’s slow-building narrative, Chesnutt reveals the complications keeping the barber from exacting his revenge on the man who murdered his father, Colonel Forsyth. Despite having the perfect opportunity to do so, Tom remains steadfast in the face of the colonel’s taunts, ultimately deciding to stay silent. Aside from highlighting Tom’s emotional turmoil throughout the tale, “The Doll” also ponders how black Americans are to advance and protect themselves, especially as individuals within a societal system built against that very idea of social mobility. The story therefore

The speaker describes, “They swathed my limbs in a sackcloth gown/ on a night that was black as tar”(Cullen 7,8), which then causes the reader to imagine the scene in their mind. Cullen describes a baby being “swathed in a sackcloth gown” and this happening when the night was “as black as tar”. This imagery causes an image of what they interpret this scene to appear in their mind, which further immerses the reader into the poem. Cullen has a vivid image of what this scene looks like to himself, and the reader creating their own image of the same scene brings a better understanding to what the author was attempting to show. While Lily is asleep in the honey house, she has a vivid dream of her mother following Lily’s trail of honey and when she comes into view she is part roach. Lily explains, “She is smiling, so pretty, but then I see she is not a normal person. She has roach legs protruding through her clothes, sticking through the cage of her ribs, down her torso, six of them, three on each side,”(Kidd 174). Kidd creates a vivid and detailed image of a woman with a beautiful smile but with the lower half of her body as a roach using imagery. Kidd describes Lily’s mother as “following Lily’s trail of honey,””smiling, so pretty,” and “She has roach legs protruding through her clothes.” The imagery generates an image of the woman as

In the first half of the passage, the author portrays the creature as a baby by creating a disoriented tone through the use of obscure diction and childlike imagery in order to express the creature’s bewilderment and lack of comprehension at the beginning of his life. The creature mentions how his earliest memories are “confused and indistinct”, that he remembers them with “considerable difficulty”, similar to how adults have a difficult time recounting

In the novel, Things Fall Apart, written by Chinua Achebe, Okonkwo is a sympathetic character and unsympathetic character in regards to his family relationships with his adopted son, Ikemefuna, his daughter, Ezima, and his father, Unoka, as a result of he appears to genuinely care about his family; but, the pride within himself prevents his expression of such pride and concern openly.

Some symbols in this story, such as the horses that play a character in the story symbolize the power, grace, and beauty of the city. The bird or swallow symbolizes freedom; but swallows can only fly a certain amount of distance before they have to rest meaning that there is only a certain amount of freedom, or the people who walk away from Omelas can only fly so far from the city to escape before they realize they made the wrong decision that it is too hard to live from their already perfect society and just live with the fact that a child suffers for their happiness.

There is a single symbol that encapsulates the majority of these notions throughout the entirety of the book: the bird, the bird in the house, the bird "caught between the two layers of glass" that so changes Vanessa's life. Birds make too frequent and deliberate an appearance throughout the collection of short stories to be mere haphazard additions to the background; instead, they, along with the images and concepts associated with them, serve to alert the aware reader to what Margaret Laurence, through older-Vanessa, through child-Vanessa, is trying to tell us. The birds, and their associated images, are central and representative of the novel as a whole.

The door of A Doll’s House is closed at last. This is a symbol for the end of the way society thinks about women back in the Victorian era around the 19th century. At the time Henrik Ibsen wrote the play A Doll’s House in Norway, it was normal for society to look down upon such women that would leave their children and husbands behind. Men had a higher status than women at that time. The title “Doll’s House” ties well with the play because it illustrates how in the past, society treated women as dolls. The title of the play demonstrates an allegory for women’s roles because it

Although the daughter’s shame in her mother is evident, she is also prideful of her as well. The strong love that the mother and daughter share is pervasive throughout the story. The story is being told by the daughter after she is all grown up. The fact that Jones uses such vivid detail on the mother’s preparation for her daughters first day of school shows that the daughter loved her mom and all that she did for her. The daughter recalls that her mother spent a lot of time preparing her when she says, “My mother has uncharacteristically spent nearly an hour on my hair that morning, plaiting and replaiting so that now my scalp tingles.” (Jones) She also remembers that her “pale green slip and underwear are new, the underwear having come three to a plastic package with a little girl on the front who appears to be dancing.” (Jones) The daughter having remembered details like these illustrate that she has an immense love and takes pride

Although a lot of the story is pretty straight forward, she does use literary devices to help the reader understand the life of Birdie a little better. For example, in the end of the story she describes the vision of herself on the swing set outside of the hospital in saying, “Each time, the girl went fuzzy like an image on the television set with poor reception.” This simile allows the reader to really see what she saw or felt because we all can picture that type of image. Another time she uses a simile saying, “The swing is swaying gently, as if someone had just been on it.” These subtle literary devices help the reader to understand little things about the story in order for them to see the situation Birdie is in. However, there are not as many metaphors or a huge amount of other literary

Repression can lead one to forget about something traumatic and allow them to move forward into the future. Repression can have many different effects on a person to them move forward such as changing themselves to act differently because they do not want to revert back to an undesirable version of themselves. One may repress an undesirable version of themselves because that version connects to something unpleasant in the past. In Joyce Carol Oates’ story The Doll, Florence Parr, the protagonist of the story manages to turn herself into a doll in the real world by repression. Florence represses an unwanted version of herself, her childhood self, because this part of herself made her not feel loved and appreciated by people in the past. Therefore, the idea of Florence behaving as a doll repeats throughout the story because she represses her childhood self that does not display doll-like characteristics and thus allows her to keep acting like a doll and be loved by people.

As the passage begins, the narrator has a dream incorporating the Seamstress, himself and Lou. In this first section of the passage, the narrator is frightened by the Seamstress as her relationship with Lou progresses, and that the narrator finds the Seamstress to be soothing. The first way this passage portrays this is by the use of shifting diction. As the dream begins, the narrator's perception of the girl shifts several times before cementing on the Little Seamstress. This diction implies the narrator's true feelings for the Seamstress. It does this by the narrator recognizing the girls before it focusing on the Seamstress. Another way the narrator's fears and feelings for the Seamstress is seen through the details about the pig. At the beginning of the passage when the narrator wakes up from the dream he “was soothed

“Ink smeared like bird prints in snow” is the first simile that appears in the poem and serves multiple purposes. The most obvious one is the creation of imagery, where it compares the black words the persona writes on paper to the bird’s foot prints that are left behind when a bird walks on snow. The imagery alludes that the persona will leave a “footprint” in the form of a note that people can use to trace her path but she will never be there anymore. From line thirty-six to forty, the poet creates another imagery of a sparrow (a tiny and a delicate bird) flying in windy snowing weather. The sparrow is dizzied and sullied by the violent wind; it encounters a lot of difficulties and fear. In this imagery, the persona compares herself with the delicate bird. She compares the challenges that the sparrow goes through to the suffering she encounters relating to her parents.

The whole second half of the poem is one giant extended metaphor!  Wilbur compares the difficulties of growing up those of an ‘iridescent creature’ – a ‘dazed starling’ that in spite of difficulties, ultimately flies free.  It serves as a metaphor for life’s ups and downs.

A Doll’s House, by Henrik Ibsen, creates a peephole into the lives of a family in the Victorian Era. The play portrays a female viewpoint in a male-dominated society. The values of the society are described using the actions of a woman, Nora, who rebels against the injustices inflicted upon her gender. Women’s equality with men was not recognized by society in the late 1800’s. Rather, a woman was considered a doll, a child, and a servant. Nora’s alienation reveals society’s assumptions and values about gender.

The Dolls House is a story where you can see the cruelty of children towards each other. This story is centered on the concept of three middle class girls who are given a beautiful doll's house as a present. They are thrilled about the new toy just how any child would feel when they receive a new doll or