Peter's Obsession To The Garden

Children are seen as vulnerable as they are young and unable to look after themselves without the help of a responsible adult, such as a parent or an extended family member. Children are meant to be protected, but this is not always the case. In this essay, the case of Baby Peter will be used to help illustrate the concept of children being ‘at risk’. In order to help explain the concept of children being ‘at risk’, Beck’s thesis of ‘risk society’ will be described, the vulnerability of children will be explained and the constructions of childhood will be mentioned in order to help talk about how children in society today are at risk. Other theories, such as cultural theory, scientific theory and the psychological theories will also be mentioned in the essay. Towards the end of the essay, child protection procedures and the child protection registers will be introduced and talked about as these can help to reduce the chance of the child being ‘at risk’ in a ‘risk society’.

In ‘I kneel to pick frail melancholy flowers among ashes and loam’ a tone of loneliness and sadness is established as the persona enters. Harwood describes the violets as ‘frail’ and ‘melancholy’, terms that arn’t usually associated with flowers. This is also explored in the juxtaposition of ‘ashes’ and ‘loam’. Ash is symbolic of death and decay which contradicts the ‘loam’, symbolic of life and birth. The persona’s dark and unpleasant perceptions reveal their uncertainty and state of mind. The present tense indicates the persona’s adulthood and their sense of longing and unsatisfaction conveyed through the nostalgic delivery of

The two housewives have a passionate love for gardening and bestow their love and appreciation towards their gardens. In the twentieth century, gardening was advocated as beneficial to one’s life and family. In the New England Quarterly, the journal, “Gardening as ‘Women’s Culture’ in Mary E. Wilkins Freeman’s Short Fiction,” states,“The time women spent in

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

In “Incident in a Rose Garden” we are cast into a garden on a bright summers day where the frightened gardener seeks to flee death to be with his living family. It is hard to come up with two more different settings. Consider the bleak and dreary winter night versus the walk in the sunny summer flower garden. There are also two completely different moods, one glum and morose and the other excited and frantic.

When Stephen visits Sachi’s garden for the first time, he finds that “There were no trees, flowers, or water, only a landscape made of sand, stones, rocks, and some pale green moss . . . Sachi had created mountains from arranged rocks, surrounded by gravel and elongated stones flowing down like a rocky stream leading to a lake or the sea” (40). Unlike Matsu’s very green and tree-filled garden, Sachi’s garden is very dry, and simplistic, yet has a peculiarly admirable feeling when one is able to see the subtle details. Although it is very different from a typical garden, its components harmonize to create a new and beautiful pattern. At first, Stephen is overwhelmed by the unfamiliar concept of a dry landscape, but after taking it in, he says it is beautiful. This garden is has a fresh taste to it, leaving Stephen to decide the effect it has on him, whether it be positive or negative. When creating the garden, Sachi insisted that it should not have flowers. However, eventually, “between two large rocks grew a neat cluster of blooming flowers, startlingly beautiful, a splash of blue-purple . . . thriving among the muted, gray stones.” The way that the bright colors contrast against the dull gray shows that something unfamiliar and novel can appear beautiful in its own way. Since Sachi’s garden is filled with pebbles and stones, the dainty flowers stand out comely, and to

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"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.

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Peter was mostly introverted and very sarcasticas. Because of this he was very on edge sure he joked around, but most of the time he will get embarrass or annoyed by his mother or Anna. Think about being introverted as a snail. Snail’s are very slow creatures yet they are very interesting expasipicialy when they get frightened, they hide in their shell. It symbolism the protection of the shell acting like a safe haven, like Peter he’s always in his room it’s his safe haven. Like Snail they hide their true self by hiding in their shell. Peter rebsentine that, we only get to see the bad side to him and not the good side, but like snail they need to find a new shell and by that Peter needs to learn to grow up in a way. So he found a new way, he

2- Big spoon/Little spoon?: Peter’s the big spoon and you're the little spoon, at least most of the time. He wouldn’t admit it to anyone but he likes being the little spoon on occasion. Not that it matters, he just likes being close to you, no matter the circumstance.

1 Peter was shortly written after A.D 64-65. One of the main reasons Peter wrote was to comfort and encourage his friends who were going to be facing unfair, gruesome treatment because of their faith. Mostly, how to live a victorious life in the midst of the chaos. 1 Peter 5:10 says that the suffering will only last a little while but he will raise us up and strengthen us. Life is short and Peter reminds us that our eyes should be focused on the eternal, what cannot fade away. We are strangers in this world, just waiting for the day we get to go home. We live in this world but must be in accordance to our calling and sustain the community of faith. We all will be persecuted so unity was important for as iron sharpens iron, we sharpen one another

the student’s and Peter’s opinions of World War I coincide with their philosophies on love. Throughout the couple’s stay in Yugoslavia, the student subconsciously compares Princip’s actions to those of her own, World War I to divorce, and the effects on war casualties to the effects on the participants in divorce and their

Spiritual Leader Peter was to be placed on trial. He was asleep, fastened with two chains between two soldiers. Others stood guard at the prison gate. An Angel had come before peter in his prison cell. When he saw the Angel, he thought he was dreaming. They passed the guard and city gates and the angel left his presence. Peter came to the actual reality of knowing it was not a dream. Realizing this he said, “The Lord has sent his angel and saved me from Herod and from what these people had planned to do to me. Peter was a leader in the church, so he had prayed for God to work things out. They were constantly in prayer. Once he was freed with the leading of the angel Peter took a visited to the home of Mary. While a group of people were gathered there praying, he knocked, and a servant came to answer the door. When she realized who it was, rather than open the door, she ran to let everyone else know Peter was there. When she told the people gathered together, they did not believe her. Meanwhile, Peter continued knocking on the door. When the door opened, they all were shocked to see Peter standing before them again.