Rose Dancing at Lughnasa

The facial expressions and body language exhibited in the scene portray the emotions the author intended for the audience to experience while watching. For example, the scene starts with Troy revealing to Rose that he is having an affair. As Rose hears of his extramarital affair for the first time, she is clearly stunned, as so mirrored in her blank expression. Her face is vacant of emotion as she comprehends this news, and once she does, she collapses. Rose’s fall showcases the impact of the affair on her, which allows the audience to relate to her. Rose’s facial expressions reveal a lot about her character. She is a loyal, selfless, and a hard worker.

“ She thinks of her mother, who is dead. Dead, but still her mother. Joined. This is confusing. Of her father a gray old man who sold wild mink, rabbit, fox skins to Sears, Roebuck (Walker pg.2). Roselily once again starts to think back to the days when she was a child, to the days when she had no worries. She feels her mother who is dead still stands beside her in spirt to guide her on this unknown journey she is about to embark on, and for a moment it gives her comfort. “Or forever hold,” the Preachers’ words ring in Roselily’s ear. “ She does not even know if she loves him. She loves his sobriety. His refusal to sing just because he know the tune. She loves his pride. His blackness and his gray car. She loves his understanding go her condition. She thinks she loves the effort he will make to redo her into what he truly wants (Walker pg.3). Here the author really dives in to what Roselily thinks of her new husband. She knows she doesn't love him and probably never will. However, there are aspects about him which she thinks she can love and she realizes that will have to do

Rose is unable to fully accept herself or the statements made by her mother throughout the chapter, until she reflects back on her relationship and realizes how her mother predicted this by the condition of the garden taken care of by her husband. She understands her mother finally and stands up to Ted, explaining to him how she was going to fight for everything in the divorce.

Everyone knows the connection a mother has with her children, it is talked about all the time. Imagine being the mom of someone who is like Rose, who has a mental illness, who is hurt. The hardest thing for a mother is looking at her child and seeing hurt crushes a mom. This can be seen in the story when Rose has a breakdown, which includes her hurting her mother, because her mom stepped in to try to stop her from hurting herself. “My mother put her arms around Roses waist and tried to hold her back” (4). This is very important becauses Rose is putting her mother,

Well come on…I’ll make a batch of biscuits,” (26). Rose steadily tries to be the best mother that she can be for the Maxson family and not just take care of herself. She represents the primary care giver of the Maxson household by cooking for everybody and bringing the whole family in together to eat. “Okay, Troy…you’re right. I’ll take care of your baby for you…cause…like you say…she’s innocent…and you can’t visit the sins of the father upon the child. A motherless child has got a hard time,” (79). By Rose saying and doing this, it just proves how loving and tender hearted she is. Even though Rose is not the child’s mother, she still wants what is best for the baby. “Stop that yelling. You gonna wake up Raynell. I just got her to sleep,” (80). This shows that Rose has fully accepted Raynell as her daughter. Rose does not see Raynell as just Troy’s daughter but also hers too. Rose says, talking about Lyons, “Let the boy have ten dollars, Troy,” (19). This shows how loving and caring Rose acts towards Troy’s son. Rose and Troy clearly do not have enough money to be giving it out, but she encourages Troy to give some to Lyons because she cares about everyone. Rose is a very good hearted person who uses all of her characterisitcs to keep everyone in the family together and keep them in check.

The basic conflict of the play is the unsettling fact that somebody has stolen the corpse of their beloved nun Sister Rose.

Wesley Howard was married to Rose’s mother, Elizabeth Parsons. Soon after that, the couple had begun expecting a child. But, Elizabeth had died soon after Rose’s birth. Wesley is absolutely devastated by his wife’s death. He gets a ragtag engineering gig, spends most of his time at a bar called the Luck of the Irish, and talks down to Rose many times due to how much he misses his late wife. Wesley never even tells Rose that her mother died, he tells her that she left because he feels like she left him to raise his daughter by himself. He takes care of Rose because it’s the last connection to his wife, he finds Rain and gives it to Rose to make it happy. But after Hurricane Susan, he loses his job, he loses his house, and Rose gives up Rain. ““I was just trying to do something nice for her,” says my father. “I got her a dog and she gave it back. The one great thing I did. The one great thing.”” This quote is on page 210, and it shows how much he wants to protect and care for his child. On page 210, “Rose is fine. She has all she needs here. She’s just fine.” this quote shows how the author uses repetition to expose the desperateness and weakness he feels at the thought of losing Rose. But, this ignites a feeling of realization in Wesley, and he has an epiphany in the middle of the night. He wakes Rose up, drives her over to his brother and her uncle Weldon’s home, and drops her off. Right before driving away, he gives his daughter an affectionate and warm hug before driving off. Wesley realizes that Rose needs a support system to grow and live as an eleven year old child. She’s feeling more lonely after giving back Rain to the Hendersons, and he wasn’t there for her, but his brother was. His brother can give Rose the life she deserves: Weldon understands her, he has a money and job to provide for her, he’s

Walker continues to use negative imagery and ideas to reveal her hesitation towards the arrangement. The author uses these literary devices because she wants to illustrate Roselily’s reasons for marrying the man. Roselily does this because it is what's best for her and her children. In a way, Roselily is being forced because she does not have a better alternative to her current life. By marrying the man, Roselily will have a renewed lifestyle and reputation. Roselily imagines the flowers in her hand as kids. When she does this, her head fills with murderous thoughts. “A squeeze around the flowers in her hands chokes off three and four and five years of breath” (Walker 4). As guilty as Roselily feels, this shows how Roselily wishes she never had given birth to any of her kids. When she tightens her grip on the bouquet of flowers, she thinks of her children. Roselily dreams she did not give birth to these kids. Roselily’s ideas of murder could possibly be associated with her obsession with the idea of her personal spirit being robbed from her. Weddings usually give off positive connotations, however in Roselily’s mind she disturbs the happy wedding with dark thoughts such as the idea of murder. Deviating from the topic of “personal spirit”, Brent studies the ferocious thoughts swarming Roselily’s mind. “Roselily’s rebellious thoughts during the wedding ceremony go so far as to enter the realms of murder and blasphemy. She expresses a wish that she could be free of her three

| Rose is describing her frustration and also, describes her jealousy towards Caroline’s life; that she escaped from living on a farm and had the ability to choose her life.

Rose’s distraught for her marriage with fiancé is very evident in her facial expression as she runs to the stern and looks off to the ocean. When Jack enters the scene, it is apparent that he is nervous; but, as he approaches Rose, his face reflects calm but courage. While attempting to discourage her from suicide, Jack realizes she is actually very disturbed, but afraid to jump.In this case, he shares with her some anecdotes on his experience with ice fishing to ease her stress off. Examining another sub-scene where she trips and falls, we can see his courageous face turning into a face of her new hope for life. Her face is brightened, her eyes are mesmerized, and her mind is strengthened by the end of this shot leaving audience enchanted.

In The Book Thief, Liesel's adoptive mother, Rosa, has a name that translates to Rose. Throughout history, roses are a symbol of unwavering love, vulnerability, and protectiveness. Their overall appearance exhibits beauty and is symbolic of affection, yet fragility is integrated into their meaning as their petals are easily torn and without love, roses lose their individuality. To protect itself from external threats, roses have thorns that can injure anything coming close. Similar to the symbolism of roses, Rosa’s protectiveness, endearment, and vulnerability develop and highlight the many sides of her character.

She is a housewife. She can't do much in her life because of how she's married. Rose has her own dreams, but she keeps them as a boundary by only focusing on trying to be the best wife and mother she can be. She builds a fence to keep her family together. However things change for her, when she learns about Troy's affair. She starts feeling devastated. She tells Troy, "I been right here with you, Troy. I got a life too. I gave eighteen years of my life to stand in the same spot with you. Don't you think I ever wanted other things?" (44). Rose maintained her relationship for eighteen years and has never done anything wrong to mess it up. She sacrificed everything for Troy and her kids, but she never cared or stood up for herself. In order for Rose to survive, she should learn to follow her own

As a side note I did look to see if I could find Rose’s diary but was unsuccessful. If anyone can find it I would be interested to read that passage in full context.

That`s all you got to measure yourself against the world out there.” It’s in this moment that she is carried away to the extent of revealing her painful escapades she went through in her marriage. She explains how she first met Troy, a man she could settle down with and have a baby at the age of thirty. Rose went further in describing the nature of the chores she was responsible for as a wife such as cooking supper, keeping the bed sheets clean and so forth, but things got out of hand letting the man rule all her world. Rose says, “I took up his life as mine and mixed the pieces so that you couldn’t hardly tell which was which anymore”************* This shows the sacrifices that Rose made as a wife and mother just to make her own world comfortable.

The setting for “The Fatal Sisters” is an eleventh century, war-ridden Ireland.  The nation’s fate appears to rest upon the shoulders of a few bloodthirsty