Proserpina's Mother Ceres

King Pluto goes and tends his daily routine and when he leaves Proserpina starts plotting ways of escaping while she’s completes King Pluto's chores she scheming escape plans and the perfect times to execute her escape.

Families are a strange phenomenon it can be a source of mutual and beloving kinship or a deep pool of antagonism that can potentially destroy connections between one another. In the story Tita is bounded by her mother's command with her freedoms handicapped to take care of her mother given her role as the youngest daughter in the family. ...Esquivel's novel is about the hardships and tribulations of a family, as it shows many characteristics and traits about the acts of undying loyalty to an authority, which plays into the abusive power of cruelty, as this leads to isolation and suffering, thus creating a victim.

A direct result of these chaotic years is the siblings' inability to relate. When Esteban bought a luxury, an elaborate coffee with his money she scolded him for "spending Mama's medicine money on his private little whims" (Allende 43). Eventually Esteban tires of this oppressive way of life and goes to search for a "destiny that was bright, free, and full of promise" (Allende 44). At Tres Marias he hopes to find his Eden. All this cargo from his past is called to his attention by the letter he receives from Ferula. The letter does result in inflicting guilt on Esteban, for his lack of morals and complete selfishness. Ferula tells Esteban, in the letter, that their mother wants to see her son again before she dies. "Esteban had never really loved his mother or felt at ease in her presence," but he knew that resisting this visit to pay his last respects would be unethical (Allende 71). Visiting "this woman who was always present in his nightmares," was unavoidable (Allende 72). Esteban did indeed become a rich man at Tres Marias, but along the way he was cursed by Ferula to eternal loneliness.

Elena is a strict and ridged woman who takes total control of her girls’ lives particularly her youngest daughter Tita. Tita is the protagonist in the story, she is in love with a young man named Pedro however, according to family tradition, and she has to take care of her mother and cannot marry. Instead, Mama Elena sets up a marriage between Pedro and Tita sister Rosaura. Pedro marries Rosaura to be close to his true love. Rosaura, has always been jealous of Tita because she is a good cook and a nurturer. She jumps at the chance to marry Pedro knowing it will hurt her sister. The middle sister is Getrudis, She is the rebel of the family that runs away and works in a brothel. Later she becomes a general in an

Ceres set into a slight panic gathered herself and set out to find Petunia. Ceres walked around to the seaside only to be met with nothing, causing her to become more frantic; thoughts racing through her head, the last place she could think to look is the forest. Ceres quickly ran towards the forest just a few ways down. She called out to her daughter, “Petunia! Petunia are you out there?!” trampling through bushes and running over shrubs, but then beautiful flowers started to come around. Ceres ceased her running which turned to cautious pacing, her daughter had to be around here somewhere, Petunia always loved beautiful flowers. A few more steps in front of her was her daughter, taking the hand of a mysterious man in a chariot, the man was gloomy yet handsome. Ceres yelled out for her to stop, “Petunia don’t!” but it was too late, the man along with Ceres’ daughter rode off in the distance at an incredible speed. All Ceres could do was shout in despair as her daughter was taken away.

novel has a very important message for readers today. In the novel, The Chrysalids, and in reality presently,

This section is about a girl name Anaxandra. She is taken hostage by a foreign country and its ruler, Nicander. The reason Anaxandra is taken hostage is so that her father could reveal where he is hiding his treasure. Anaxandra ends up telling Nicander where the treasure is accidently. This mistake costed her her family’s love. She was abandoned and was forced to go across the sea to live on Nicander’s island. Nicander’s daughter, Callisto, was Anaxandra’s only friend but Castillo sick and unable to get out of bed. One day when Anaxandra on the outskirts of the island, pirates came and raided the island. They killed everyone and and burned the entire country to rubble. The only survivor was Anaxandra because she jumped off a cliff into the

In this non-fiction historical novel, it allows readers to get a sense of the lives the girls went through. Readers learn from the very beginning something traumatic has happened for only one of the four sisters to be alive. “A chill goes through her, for she feels it in her bones, the future is now beginning. By the time it is over, it will be the past, and she does not want to be the only one left to tell their story” (Alvarez 10). As the exposition starts off, Dede, the only sister alive, is asked about her sisters which lead to a trip down memory lane. One of the three sisters decides to get married and have children while the other two decide to join the revolution against Trujillo which leads to the conflict of the story. Patria is the oldest of the three who chose to get married at an early age and have children. Dede the second oldest who is the one telling the story. She is also the sister who stayed alive and is the only one who strayed away from

Family is a part of life that builds one from inside out. Whether or not one likes their family, no one will ever more be important than its family. Despite this, A Thousand Splendid Suns delineates family’s worth and it’s significance it plays in our lives. Though, the novel does not only range from blood-relatives, but to those who share the most sentimental of moments; those who accompany you during your times of hardship; those who give you an akin cordial feeling of home. These characteristics give definition to what family can mean to an individual or as a whole. An example of the “family importance” theme given by the novel, are our two main protagonist, Mariam and Laila. The two share a nonbiological mother-daughter relationship and also share similar adversities that they’ve faced with concerning with their parents. In comparison, Mariam and Laila share evident similarities that pertain to the tribulations of their father and mother.

Two souls bound together across time and space. The love between the protagonist, Odysseus, and his beloved wife Penelope in enduring and everlasting in the Odyssey. The hardships they both endure make each of them stronger individuals and stronger together despite the distance between them. This strength they share becomes especially apparent as she laments of her sufferings to a strange man when all hope is lost. Penelope sharing her story about weaving and unweaving the shroud for her husband’s father illustrates how deep her sorrow is for her lost Odysseus, and how she has retained her honor while being faithful to her lost husband despite all her troubles and anguish.

Kindred is a science-fiction novel by Octavia E. Butler, that follows the story of the African-American lady Dana as she travels back in time to a time of slavery to help out her ancestor Rufus. She is sent back and forth to her time and Rufus’. Every time she is brought back to Rufus, her stays get longer and longer. The Myth of Persephone. A Greek myth that teaches a lesson to the reader. Persephone is the daughter of Zeus and the harvest goddess Demeter and is the queen of the underworld. Who was kidnapped by Hades, the God of the Underworld? This story is to explain the changing of the seasons. Persephone is considered to be a girl that travels back between two worlds, a world filled with the love of her mother and the second being the world filled with the love of her husband. Author Octavia Butler and Dana, explain and teach by showing and telling the experiences that go on in the story and how she reacts to them.

From the beginning of the narrative, Liliana Heker introduces the tension between the protagonist and her mother. Rosaura’s mother tells her daughter,

The author begins to imply struggles in the relationship which is considered modern. Lovisa starts to feel less important to her husband and is looking for ways to make him interested. The story implies that when Lovisa gets a chance to disobey her husband by being friendly with his enemy, she takes it and lies about where she was. Some facts in this short story are stated and some are implied. Some stated facts are marriage, happiness, and fear of not being good enough for the relationship.

When Mayarri arrived at Loilgo, the villagers promptly, yet respectfully, denied her request. Mayarri was no stranger to rejection, but as she was a strong and powerful deity, she usually never stood for it. Mayarri would usually kill all who opposed her but what these people told her that day made her think another way.

His mother, whom he once distinguished as “amaltu,” was quite comely, as black as glowing obsidian, copper hair as long and straight as soft rivers. A Loynn slave master and lord surely could not resist, and within that master’s sin, inside his mother, would bud three younger sisters. The moon of their birth would herald the suicide of Paltryce’s father and the bleeding-of-death of their mother.