Personal Narrative : The Silent Tears

phone rings and she picks it up as we continue to sing our young hearts out to the Jonas Brothers. All of a sudden my friend and I hear her mother shriek with a pain we have never heard before. Her mother cries out, with tears bursting uncontrollably from her eyes. Marley and I go silent and wide-eyed with shivers down our spines. We had never seen a grown up act this way. She hits her husband’s bicep repeatedly rocking back and forth in her passenger seat screaming, “WHY!” Her husband is in the driver’s

Bullied-Personal Narrative It hurts, It hurts worse the 1,000 needles digging into your skin. A hole just forms in your heart and sucks you in. It all started that one day, the seed of all massacre. We were at Elitch Gardens. Me, Sam, and Maddie. Earlier than expected, Sam was upset. She stayed silent, and didn’t ride any of the rides. She stayed silent and ignored me and Maddie. Even when we tried to confront her about the problem. I was getting restless, but I kept to riding the rides with Maddie

Harriet Jacobs A narrative that describes a young girl's trails and tribulations while being an involuntary member of the institution of slavery, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl attempts to open many eyes to the world of slavery. The author, Harriet Jacobs, wishes those in north would do more to put a stop to the destructive practice entitled slavery. As Jacobs states, slavery contains a de-constructive force that effects to all who surround it. It tears apart families (both white

Good Will Hunting is a 1997 film which falls under the genre of social drama which isn’t much popular among masses but still this film managed to achieve two Oscars. This is because of the good narrative that was built in the film accordingly. Basically this film focuses on Will Hunting who is blessed with extraordinarily genius mind and every mathematical problem is easy for him. However he works as a janitor in Massachusetts Information Technology (MIT) and all he does are cleaning class rooms

the Bundren family, use words that obfuscate their true emotions. Faulkner uses his characters to portray speech as just another factor of nominalism and allows only silence to present the truth. Addie Bundren, even after death, is not completely silent through the trip to Jefferson. Her presence is an incessant reminder that words are “just shape[s] to fill a lack” (pg 172). For Addie, speaking doesn’t have an impact because “words are no good” (pg 171). She knows that “fear was invented by

Singin’ in the Rain follows Don Lockwood, a popular silent film actor, as he attempts to maintain his star status during the advent of “talkies”. Lockwood’s journey manifests fame’s capricious temperament, the studio’s commercial interest, and the influence of outside variables on a film. Singin’ in the Rain uses Lockwood’s struggle with celebrity to expose the importance of public image and self esteem. A set of practices concerning the narrative structure compose the classical Hollywood Paradigm

Wilkie Collins’ The Woman In White: 19th Century Victorian femininity exposed through the accounts of multiple narrators Readers of nineteenth century British literature imagine typical Victorian women to be flighty, emotionally charged, and fully dependent on the men in their lives. One envisions a corseted woman who is a dutiful wife, pleasant entertainer, and always the model of etiquette. Wilkie Collins acknowledges this stereotype in his novel The Woman in White, but he contradicts this

The week had been strenuous, yet productive. The multiple meetings with fellow organizations and countless hours of volunteer services depleted my energy. Add the hours of academic work, and well, I could never complain that my life was uneventful.On this eventful day, the Social Justice Fellows were holding our monthly guest speaker meeting. Although at the time I was feeling lethargic, the monthly meetings always gave me a boost of inspiration. I have an affinity towards academia and activism,

Lee Hirsch lets the kids shown in the movie speak for themselves, and also lets their parents speak up as well. This helps to successfully convince the viewer. There are multiple scenes that show children in tears due to the harassment. One of the most moving scenes was Tyler’s dad speaking about his sons death after he had returned from the funeral “The last couple of days we had heard that he had his head shoved into a wall locker. Some kids had told him to

identity comes into being through her incestuous (if accidental) marriage to her brother. For the majority of the narrative, however, Defoe defines Moll through her lack of identity and the performative aspects that accompany her malleability. During her reunion with Jemy in Newgate, where Moll is allegedly her most reformed and penitent, she still uses her "woman's rhetoric" (251), meaning tears, to entice him to forgive her, using emotions as a deceptive trick rather than an instinctive reaction to the