Personal Narrative-Eulogy For Emily

In the book Seedfolks, a character named Kim travels to vacant lot in her town, Cleveland Ohio, to plant Lima Beans to honor her father, who passed away before Kim was even born. While Kim is in the process of planting her beans and watering them daily, people around the vacant lot being to notice her actions . Many people follow what Kim is doing and make there own little garden, which causes the community of Cleveland to be together and to communicate to one another. Throughout the book many character come and go to the garden, and each character shares something in common with someone else apart of this Community Garden. The novel Seedfolks shows that the garden has change everyone’s perspectives on things, and made them feel apart of something they might have never been apart of before. Some people that are involved are KIm, Ana, Sae Young, Maricela, and Curtis.

The garden is the vehicle in which the narrator reveals her reluctance to leave behind the imaginary world of childhood and see the realities of the adult world. The evidence supporting this interpretation is the imagery of hiding. The narrator uses the garden to hide from reality and the

“So it goes with me day by day and age by age, I tell myself. Locked in the deadly progression of moon and stars. I shake my head, muttering darkly on shaded paths, holding conversation with the only friend and comfort this world offers, my shadow.” (Gardener 8)

In “The Mower Against Gardens,” Andrew Marvell uses a conceit to liken the plants in an English garden to the women of a brothel, exemplifying the theme of man’s perversion of nature. Three main metaphors are used, the first being mankind as the brothel owner. The second metaphor is the flowers as prostitutes, and the final metaphor is the flowers’ offspring as abandoned children.

She said, “The chasm of distance that once stood between us was gone, all because of that hyacinth. That exquisite little hyacinth. He pulled it out from under dad’s garden, sealed in a ziploc bag. Yes, a ziploc bag with his precious offering of love and life inside. His offering required no explanation.” This is the beginning of her ethnography that shows what a garden symbolises to Laurie Thorp, and how it can bring peace and unity to everyone. She believes that a garden can bring people together, which can be a solution to our woundedness. I feel like she is also trying to show her deep abiding connection to the earth. One of the places where healing took place in the story of the garden is when Laurie Thorp tried to convince the teachers at Jonesville elementary school teachers that her research is solid in page 19. At first when she was trying to present her idea to the teachers earlier in the book, she was not successful, and the researchers seemed uninterested, but in page 19 when Laurie Thorp managed to explain the benefit the garden can have as a whole, new voices started to emerge like gloria that called her “you are very typical”. Another place where healing took place as the story of the garden unfolded is in page 21, when Laurie Thorp talked about how “the garden created a space amid the turmoil and scrutiny of schooling for us to feel graced. wounded as we all were, there was a reason, finally to give thanks: a

"The Chrysanthemums" introduces us to Elisa Allen, a woman who knows she has a gift for growing things, but it seems to be limited to her garden. Diligently working in her garden, Elisa watches as men come and go, living their lives unconfined, wondering what it must feel like to have that freedom. That emotion is revealed as Elisa gases at her husband and acquaintances talking, "she looked down toward the men by the tractor shed now and then." As she tills the soil for her chrysanthemums Elisa tills the thoughts in her head. The garden she so desperately maintained represents her world. A world that will only flourish if nourished. Emotional nourishment and stimulation is what Elisa lacked and longed for. The garden is limited in space to grow and so is her marriage. The garden is safe, non-threatening and so is her world. The garden contains many different elements that make it what it is, although unseen, and if the proper nourishment is not given it will die, as with Elisa.

Upon looking outside, I found myself facing a horrific and terrifying view of the garden. It felt like as if you have become a part of some horror movie. The clouds were covering the moon and wasn’t letting the light pass through making it pitch black and scary. The constant transformation of the clouds into unusual shapes make the night even more frightening. The stone pathway leads to the ghastly garden of misery. The paths take you to every grim corner of the garden. The dried up plants and the trees give the image as if their souls have been taken away from them and left them to rot here. The mysterious light breaking free from the clutches of the shape changing mists cast dreadful shadows all over the garden. The light falling on the

I have raised my voice for, and will continue to raise my voice for, people less fortunate than myself. More specifically however, I often stand up for and help my autistic older sister, Abby. Ever since I can remember, I have felt obligated to fulfill my duty as a "little-big brother", because she is older than me. Whether it be taking her to school, taking her to baseball games, or playing "Dogoply" with her, I have tried to imprint a positive attitude on her so that she can continue to grow into an even greater person than she already is. One time after a football game junior year, I was hanging out with my classmates when the topic of Abby came up. They all talked about how they were the best of friends with her and how they loved her. Sure, all of

In New England, ornamental gardening is impossible; hopelessness is the effect of the “hard soil.” Since this type of gardening is for pleasure, it seems as though humans are able to survive symbiotically with nature but are not able to harness satisfaction, causing corruption and hardships. Anti-transcendentalism and the soil is further explored when Hester confronts Chillingworth about his revengfulness, “Would he not suddenly sink into the earth, leaving a barren and blasted spot, where, in due course of time, would be seen deadly nightshade, dogwood, henbane, and whatever else of vegetable wickedness the climate could produce, all flourishing with hideous luxuriance?” (Hawthorne 158).

September 9, 2015, a baby is born. With black hair, brown eyes, and the face of an angle, she was wrapped in a two blankets and pajamas. The name on the certificate, Elizabeth, and she is born 5 inches tall, weighs 6 ounces, and has a perfectly round head, she looks like a turtle as she stretches her neck. We call her our little lizard, but to be honest she looks more like turtle than a lizard any day. The hospital I go to, to see little lizard, smells like soap and hand sanitizer, it brings back memories of a moment in time 2 years ago when I walked down the same hospital corridors to see my area 51 baby, Evelynne. As I walk down the same hallway to the same room where I first saw my Evelynne I am reminded of a responsibility, a responsibility

This perspective communicates to the reader that although this garden looks like a restful or beautiful place, it does not end their suffering. The garden only appears to be a haven from a distance. Through this example, Atwood illustrates that the wives’ choice to demand only oppressive or meaningless rights or privileges does not decrease their present

everyday for years I would grow more grayer and older going to the markey for Emily. Every December Ms. Emilynwould get another notivce for taxes, which she would return back without opening. She had me close up the top floor of the house and she now lived downstairs. And there she passed her ime downstairs from decade to decade.

Her name was Emily, Emily Sandlers she was very smart and beautiful. She had blonde hair, blues eyes, and pretty fit. This was her story…

There is another mention of a garden in nature in Act III, scene iv when Queen Isabel is walking in the garden and overhears an older gardener speaking to his assistant. Isabel and her ladies hide, so they will not be discovered, and listen to the conversation where the garden is used as a metaphor to converse on matters of state. The gardener instructs his assistant to bind an apricot tree, to which the man asks why they should bother to keep order in their garden when the country surrounding it has been allowed weeds to grow and become infested by bugs. The elder gardener explains to the assistant that the responsible party "has met with the fall of leaf", meaning Richard has been overthrown.

In a tumult of wind and rain, a hail of twigs and leaves thundered through the trees and tore the arching grasses out by the roots. The deer bolted and hid, quivering, in the darkest thickets. The sky boiled, and the younger saplings were bent almost to the ground. Even as the shadows bounded up the stalks and blades of weeping grass, and the soft plink of falling rain quickened to a constant hiss and sputter, the sun found its equal. A thousand stars came down to earth and unleashed their pent-up fury on that wood.