Reconciliation

In her comic-style article you can see there is a lot of visuals as you go through the reading. The visuals throughout the article helps the readers get her ideas more clearly than a regular article with no images. For example, on the first page of the article she talks about homophily and even though she gives the definition before the word, the picture of her in a flock of birds can help the reader understand and visually see that homophily means the groups we associate ourselves that have similar views to us. Not only do the visuals help the reader understand her argument but it also makes the reader look more

Everyone has some summers that are very more memorable than others, and for Clair it was her fifth-grade summer. In the passage Cherry Bomb Maxine Clair uses various different literary techniques to characterize her memories of her fifth grade summer world. She uses literary devices such as diction, imagery and details to characterize the memories of her fifth-grade summer as joyous as well as a time of innocence. Clair uses diction and language to help characterize her adult memories of her fifth grade summer. Clair uses words from a childhood perspective to emphasize and show what it was like when she was a child.

By using imagery throughout the book, the reader gets a better idea of what life was like through Jeanette's eyes.

Reconciliation has been a somewhat popular issue in Canadian academia and in Canadian society in general. Reconciliation in the Canadian context is defined as a restoration of the relationship between the Indigenous peoples and non-Indigenous people due to the historical injustices, that continue to affect Indigenous peoples even to this day, committed by the Government of Canada against the Indigenous peoples. This is a massive undertaking that will require the participation of both Indigenous peoples and non-Indigenous peoples alike. A project of this magnitude will not be an easy task to accomplish, as undoing over 100 years of trauma to the Indigenous peoples is not something that can be undone over night, but rather it will take decades to accomplish. There will be many obstacles in the path of reconciliation that will have to be overcome. However, reconciliation is the best opportunity to repair the relationships between the Indigenous peoples and the non-Indigenous peoples because it makes sense for all Canadians to be involved, the Government of Canada is backing the reconciliation process and some work to repair the relationship has already been done and has beneficial results for everyone.

It is told in the first person so that the reader feels they are present while the story is happening. Even though it is told by a young girl of thirteen as she recounts the details as if reliving the incident. She takes the time to introduce each character in a way that gives them life and personality. Josie is a young newly married woman, pregnant and facing physical abuse

The novel is narrated by Mattie Cook in the first person. She is only able to speak for herself. The only thoughts and feelings she displays are her own and the story is set wherever she is.

This story is told in the first person point of view. The author chose the story to be first person to build a connection with the reader, and to tell stories from their own perspective, since they are more reliable than being told by someone else. First person also allows the reader to create a relationship with the protagonist and get to to know the character by the choices he made and the life experiences he had.

In writing, an author should be mindful of what they are trying to accomplish with what they are describing. Stockett is able to accomplish this when she uses imagery thoughtfully. “In the lounge, the air seems to still. Husbands drinking their whiskeys stop in mid-sip, spotting this pink thing at the door. It takes a second for the image to register. They stare, but don’t see, not yet. But as it turns real—real skin, real cleavage, perhaps not-so-real blond hair—their faces slowly light up. They all seem to be thinking the same thing—Finally... But then, feeling the fingernails of their wives, also starring, digging into their arms, their foreheads wrinkle. Their eyes hint remorse, as marriages are scorned (she never lets me do anything fun), youth is remembered (why didn’t I go to California that summer?), first loves are recalled (Roxanne . . .). All of this happens in a span of about five seconds and then it is over and they are left just staring” (321). Imagery provides a way for a character and conflict to develop. Also, since imagery provides a way for the reader to immerse themselves in a story, it is considered a defining part of what makes a good

Another example of imagery in the story is when the author used it to describe Emily when she ask for poison to the druggist.“still a slight woman, though thinner than usual, with cold, haughty black eyes in a face the flesh of which was strained across the temples and about the eyes ockets as you imagine a lighthouse-keepers face ought to look”. The author makes emphasis in Emily’s face and eyes meaning that she is lost in her own world and foreshadows that Emily would use the poison for something wrong.

The author uses imagery to interest the reader in her story that may seem mundane without the imagery. An example of this happening is when Jeannette is going to her new school in Welch it was her first day and the teacher picks on her because she did not have to give the school her records to her not having them as that is happening a tall girl stabs her out of nowhere“I felt something sharp and painful between my shoulder blades and turned around. The tall black girl with the almond eyes was sitting at the desk behind me.

Imagery is a vivid illustration in the mind of the audience. For example on page 3, it says “...Her long hair was streaked with gray, tangled and matted, and her eyes had sunk deep into her sockets, but still reminded me of the mom she’d been when I was a kid, swan-driving off cliffs and painting in the desert and reading Shakespeare aloud.” This quote is explaining how even though her mother is much different then other people’s mothers, Jeannette still sees her as herself. The mother that couldn’t drive very good, the one that like to pant all the time, and the one that love to read Shakespeare

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Christensen, “the flower that she flirtatiously throws at a young admirer had been used as evidence of her tampering with men’s emotions” (254). Laura is only misleading him and expresses the wrong intentions by throwing a flower to him. Also, a “Captain who had been a soldier in Zapata” also desires the love of Laura, even though it defeats his masculine figure as a soldier. But Laura refuses to unlock her heart to this brave and daring soldier. Laura blocks everything and anything that attempts to reach for her heart. Sister Mary Bride states, “Laura does not merely reject illicit love; she rejects all love. She rejects life. She is the essence of negation” (129).

These paragraphs inform the the readers about the writers purpose by using diffrent types of imagery in order to create a personal imagine inside of the reader"s heads. This gives the reader a better understandinmg of what the author is trying to make a point about. For example stated by Jenny Allen, "lie down and stare at the ceiling hoping that if they will focus all of thier thoughts and energyon the

Throughout the course of human history, violence has been a reoccurring theme in the conquest for power in countries across the planet. Understanding the ideology behind some of this violence have puzzled historians and psychologists for centuries; furthermore, the presence of reconciliation between the victims and perpetrators after some of these horrific acts of terror is even more astonishing. This form of reconciliation was a significant factor during South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) formed in 1996. After close analysis, I have been able to identify the difference between the similar terms of reconciliation and forgiveness, understand the evaluation process of reconciliation between victims and perpetrators