Red Roses Short Story

Riley Edlitz suffered through years of harassment in elementary school, which she believes catalyzed her role as a bully. Now a freshman at Scarsdale High School, Riley distinctively remembers feeling powerless and insecure. “The bullying just really got to me, I believed everything they said about me. I felt worthless.” She was mocked, tormented, and insulted on a daily basis; “I became a shell of the person I once was,” she accepts.

The Ethics Games Dilemmas this week presented “The Mysterious Roses” and “Cold Feet” simulations. For the exercise we were required to address the issues in the simulation and identify the best decision for all parties involved. This summary will review what ethical issues were presented in the simulation, the decision making steps to ethically address the issues, the perspectives and lenses that were used to make the decision, influences in the decision making and concepts that relate to my work place.

Day to day, people attempt to live unconstrained by convention or circumstance. Often the people around us hold us back from thinking and feeling the way we truly do; However, there will come a time when we will need to say what we truly believe. In this story, “The Glass Roses”, the main character, Stephen, is faced with the issue regarding his father, “a real man”. When faced with his father telling him how to live and what to believe.

How can someone pursue a personal desire if they spent their life trying to conform? Alden Nowlan’s short story, “The Glass Roses” explores this through the protagonist, Stephen. Stephen’s personal desire to feel accepted conflicts with his feeling of having to become like the pulp cutters because he is not mentally or physically ready to fit in with grown men. This results in Chris finding a way to become his own person. Stephen’s journey to pursue his personal desire is shown through setting, character development, and symbolism.

At a young age, children do not understand the importance of having compassion as for they hold innocence within themselves. Growing up and maturing into an adult, children begin to progressively lose their innocence as they become more of a compassionate person because one can not have both innocence and compassion simultaneously. In fact, a coming of age short story called “Marigolds” written by Eugenia Collier, tells about a young girl named Lizabeth who grows up to become a compassionate person. For the most part, Lizabeth tells her childhood experience in a flashback on how she mostly remembers Miss Lottie’s marigolds. Ultimately, Lizabeth decides to destroy Miss Lottie’s marigolds out of anger because she hears about her parent's economic struggles. Shortly after Lizabeth realizes what she had done, she realizes the meaning of why Miss Lottie plants the marigolds. Throughout the short story, “Marigolds,” the characterization of Lizabeth helps develop the author’s argument that one can not have both compassion and innocence. The three events that show this is, when Lizabeth hesitates before throwing the rocks at the marigolds, hearing the sounds of her father’s sorrowful cries, and eliminating Miss Lottie’s marigolds.

Paul Jennings’ “A Dozen Bloomin’ Roses” is an effective and well written short story. It is part of a larger text called Quirky Tales which is part of the “Un” series written by Paul Jennings. It is a ghost story that may mistake for a sad romance as it contains death, shyness, unrequited love and bullies. The author uses a device called misdirection which makes you think one thing deliberately. Along with this, Paul Jennings’ effective use of language techniques leaves the reader with a striking imagery in their minds. But the things that stand out most for me are Paul Jennings’ clever use of characterisation and the interesting storyline.

Yolen enlightens and inspires responders through the use of structure, language and other techniques. The novel Briar Rose by Jane Yolen is a heart wrenching story of sleeping beauty intertwined with the horrors of the Jewish Holocaust. The structure of the novel is altered in a way to interweave three stories including Gemma's Briar Rose fairy tale, Becca's quest and Josef's story. The use of language techniques explores the idea of the characters as it gives an understanding of their circumstances and the situations they experience. Some of the techniques Yolen uses to enlighten responders is the use of other techniques such as allegory and symbolism which acts as a metaphor in which one story represents another.

The book Red Azalea written by Anchee Min is a true tale about her life and her upbringings. The author was raised in Shanghai and was brought up being taught under the influence of Mao and on the operas of Comrade Jiang Ching. She is a very intelligent girl in school, and she becomes the leader of the Little Red Guards because of her good grades and hard work in school, a communist party, but a school version. Anchee Min excels in school with her amazing speaking and writing skills, therefore her other party members decide that she is the right one to speak on their behalf. When she is told by a secretary of the party that she must speak against her teacher Autumn Leaves at first she doesn’t believe but she is then told that the teacher has written a journal about the students and how “Min is “educable”” she is very angry about this so accuses the teacher

Individuals often find the definition of identity complex and difficult to comprehend. A balance must be struck between the contending concepts that a person’s identity is founded on how they view themselves, or how others perceive them to be. During the 20th century, strict adherence to archetypal roles was expected. Who an individual was, how they interacted with others, and their status in society, was determined through the judgement of others and subsequently, the archetypal roles they were placed in. For Stephen, a young fifteen year-old who is struggling on achieving true self-fulfillment in a society that is male dominated, he drives his sense of identity and self-perception from how others see him.

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Lindsey Ames, a soon to be high school freshman, views her new school as an opportunity to start over. With the help of her new established friends, Teeny and Grouper, she believes that a change in her wardrobe will eliminate her image that was so haunting and discomforting in the past. Lindsey is successful for a while until her worst possible nightmare appears, her long-time adversary, Avery. The same spoiled bully that ruined her whole middle school life, now reminds Lindsey of her place. As the book continues, the main character’s coping strategies begin to be visible to the reader. Lindsey and her friends, without including the adults, struggle to manage the bullying. Despite this immutable problem, there are other things on Lindsey’s mind. She wants to join the National Honor Society, she wants to take Italian, she wants a cute boy to ask her out, but most of all she wants to change her reputation. However, this does not happen so quickly. As tensions rise, Lindsey faces the complex nature of bullying, and experiences the ups and downs of life as a high school teen.

"Red Rose" is a poem written by Anne Sexton. It is a story about a child abuse by his mother. Through the poem, the poet has revealed a strong relationship that exists between the mother and son regardless of the pain and abuses that the boy receives from his mother.” Red Roses” is told through the third person the narrator himself where he has revealed the pain gain by the Tommy the child character of the poem. This situation reflects or addressed the social issue.

Ring of roses a poem and a game of children singing and dancing around in a circle. The famous children’s nursery rhyme “Ring of Roses” is believed to be based on the black bubonic plague that struck Europe over the course of the 13th – 16th century. In my opinion it makes sense when you analyse and link each line of this nursery rhyme it can easily be interpreted to mean something relating to the plague.

"Margaret, are you lamenting/Over Goldengrove unleaving?" "Goodness, My Love Is Like A Red, Red Rose" Robert Burns. It was about the fondness for of his sweetheart and how beautiful she was. This is the issue that made me truly turn out to be more familiar with this work. The speaker is bantering with a tyke named Margaret, who is crying madly finished who appreciates what. The speaker construes that she's crying since every single one of the leaves in the woodland of Golden timberland have passed on and tumbled off the trees. The speaker tells the tyke that as she gets more set she up, won't not notice or care to such an extent, yet rather he besides says that crying over the fallen leaves recommends something other than what's expected: it displays that Margaret is beginning to consider mortality and, yes, her own particular inevitable passing. It's hard to acknowledge, yet it's legitimate! This is a number about death, directed to an enthusiastic youth.

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