Personal Essay On Miranda's Life

Miranda began to form a dependence on Dev and felt validated by him when he did or said things no one else had done for her before. Her new independence she discovered when moving to Boston was fading when she entered her relationship with a Dev.

Yet her compassion, as real as it is, also has a certain element of shallowness, or at least inexperience about it. She has lived the majority of her life in isolation, on an island known with her only companionship being that of her father. Growing up on this deserted island, Miranda learns to live and abide by the example set by Prospero. He is her only contact with the humanity and therefore he is her only friend and teacher. She knows no other woman and therefore had no female figure to aid the process of raising her. She is naïve and unaware of life's experiences, having been shielded from the rest of the world.      

As nature becomes more unpredictable, Pfeffer indicates that the family is confused and unsure of what is to come, but aware that life is about to get extremely difficult. Although the family is just “a little shaken up”, there is no “sens[e] of relief” for Miranda as she displays true concern for her loved ones (27). Her reaction exposes the consideration and worry she feels, rather than the self-absorbed, immature attitude she expressed before. Not only does she worry about her family, but when her friend Megan begins sharing food and skipping meals, Miranda confronts her decisions because she cares for her health. Even though she disagrees with Megan’s conservation, Miranda contributes to the theme of

In her novel, In the Time of the Butterflies, Julia Alvarez unfolds a dramatic character transformation of the Mirabal sister, Maria Teresa. She is detailed to be a very thoughtful character who always seem to look out for others, especially those important to her in life. Alvarez induces this empowering development of Maria Teresa through the usage of diction, point of view and selection of detail.

She served as president of a local PTA, as a member of both the Hudson Guild's Advisory Council and Community Board 4, and as a secretary for the Citywide Council for Presidents of the New York City Housing Authority.

This shows that Miranda is trying to adjust, thus, it develops her character overall from being at first teenager like, to being more worried and observant of the changes going on in her

“She saw ghosts of herself everywhere here. A twenty-three-year-old Miranda with the wrong clothes and her hair sticking up, washing her hands and peering anxiously at herself in the ladies room mirror; a twenty-seven-year-old recently divorced Miranda slouching across the lobby with her sunglasses in place, wishing she could disappear, in tears because she’d seen herself on a gossip website that morning and the headline was agonizing: IS ARTHUR SECRETLY CALLING MIRANDA? (Answer: no.) Those previous versions of herself were so distant now that remembering them was almost like remembering other people, acquaintances, young women who she known a long time ago, and she felt such compassion for them.” -Station Eleven, pgs. 205-206

the revolution against Trujillo for women’s rights, but that isn’t her entire story. She lived with her parents for many years because of limitations. Her father (Papa) owned a plantation which got plenty of money so that they could live in a sort of richy way. Minerva went to Inmaculada Concepcion (a school) with her sister, Patria, where Minerva finally felt free. After months of school, Minerva had made friends with an assortment of people. Minerva, and her newfound friends Sinita, Elsa, and Lourdes, decided to do a play about how they won independence a hundred years ago. Their play was very much liked, so they got to perform in front of Trujillo. The play had a few

“Get out of my way!”, Miranda screeched as she pushed the kind girl over. Miranda Vanderweele is the most menace person you could possibly meet. She never helped anyone, anything, including her community, or even herself. Everyone in Paradise, Arizona had a normal life except for poor Miranda. Her life was surely no walk in Times square, on an exquisite, breezy fall night with her magnificent family, that she did not have. She lived in a cottage that was beyond dingy, rotten, and had a nearly deadly, revolting stench coming from the dumpsters that she lives beside. Miranda had no family, that she liked anyway. Miranda lived with her great aunt, Bailey. Sounds like such a beautiful, kind, and

The Authors theme for life as we knew is family and survival. In life as the authors shows a lot of examples of Miranda and family struggling to stay alive because of different types of event even if it’s natural or not.Such as, a flu spreading through death and miranda having to cure her siblings. That shows how Miranda cares for her family. They survived and now live good and eat even do they it was. And that shows how important every single Family member is key to survive.

She uses this relationship with Dev as a learning experience for her mistakes and realizing how her decisions in life affect others. Dev made her feel good by complimenting her “sexy” dresses she wore. The whole time she was thinking that he really cared for her, but she soon realizes that he was manipulative and selfish. Throughout her relationship with Dev her co-worker was unaware that Miranda was the mistress sleeping with her cousin’s husband. Her co-worker stated, “It wasn’t the first time her cousin’s husband had had an affair.

Miranda has many dynamic relationships with many characters throughout the book. Many people influenced her and change how she thinks during the course of the story. The first person I will write about is Julia and her impact on Miranda. Julia is the first character I chose to write about about. Julia is a worldly and got the nickname Swiss Miss from Miranda due to her travelling the world and her race.

Prior to his death, the author begins the book informing the readers that Jim Burdens parents have died. When spring arrives, Ántonia insists on working in the fields with her brother and is not able to go to school with Jim. That is another elaboration of how separation is the theme Willa Cather is presenting. The changing of the seasons and the growing apart between the characters. They see less of each other, and Jim longs for their old friendship; but eventually his grandparents decide to move to town. Their neighbors hire Ántonia as their housekeeper and there is small reconnection until she is fired and goes to work for Mr. Wick

We see from the passage above that Miranda is not sure whether her life before the island was a dream or whether it was reality. She is a character who is associated with the distinction between the two, because she lives on the island with

    Some critics of Shakespeare’s play, Measure for Measure, judge Isabella as "a narrow minded but passionate girl afflicted with an irrational terror of sex" (Barton, 546), "a young, immature woman" demonstrating "moral absurdity and cruelty" (Nicholls, 478), whose actions are scarcely defensible. A classmate of mine asked, "Why doesn't Isabella just sleep with Angelo? What's the big deal?" These statements reveal that these people have no understanding or sympathy for Isabella’s position: socially, morally or physically.