Roselily

Roselily is told in third-person omniscient point of view. We know this because the story gives us the thoughts of both the man and women. The fragmented parts of the story give us the commonly used phrases from a wedding ceremony, but from the other parts of the text the reader gets the thoughts of the women. After each fragmented piece of the phrase is read, the women gives her thoughts on what’s been said. The story says, “or forever hold…She does not even know if she loves him”, this shows us hoe when the officiant reads the words forever she thinks about the future she’s promising to her husband. The story says, “to join this man and women…She thinks of ropes, chains, handcuffs, his religion”, while the wedding officiant

As children, we start off naive and innocent so we are interested in everything around us in order to gain knowledge and then wisdom to make a positive impact on the world. In the process of growing up, we want to have limitless dreams. We can be whatever we want to be; a princess, a neurosurgeon ninja, etc. However, as we mature, we experience evil and cruelty and this destroys our innocence and makes us tend to want to go back to not having a care in the world. Although we want to return to innocence, growing up benefits us because we gain wisdom and knowledge.

“The Flowers” by Alice Walker is a very well written yet short and sweet story that paints a very vivid picture of main problem the times. It expresses the reality of the lynching of the African American community in a way that is very easy to understand. Alice Walker uses vibrant details to bring to light the severity of the problem and what people of that time period went through. The story also showcases a deeper meaning that does not necessarily revolve around lynchings but represents the loss of childhood innocence. “The Flowers” explains the reality of racism and lynchings of the time while also providing an inner lying message about one’s coming of age and loss of innocence.

The use of multiple layers of narrative in Jane Yolen’s- Briar Rose is highly effective in communicating the story and the story and themes concerning Gemma’s past experiences of the Holocaust and Becca’s quest for truth and fulfilment of her Grandmother’s legacy. Yolen uses a number of voices or accounts of events to give the reader a dramatic sense of the extent and the horror of Gemma’s experiences. The fairytale story, Becca’s quest and Joseph Potocki, all add richness of detail to the novel as a whole. Techniques that incorporate this include symbolism, allegory, intertexuality, narrative structure and language.

She also tells her to “watch out for people dressed up as ministers” (203) because they were the most dangerous and not to count on police officers because “they’d be the first ones to diddle you” (204). Rose is still optimistic and is clearly naïve after all Flo has told her, “she did not believe anything Flo said on the subject of sex” (204) and she “provokingly said” (204) that she is not “scared” (204). She seems to believe that the good will win upon the bad. Also the word “provokingly” and her rejections of Flo’s advices makes the reader have a clear idea of her age. Once Flo got out of the train, “Rose had no intention of keeping an eye on anybody” (205).

In Alice Walker’s Roselily, our main character (Roselily) is a mother of three residing in Mississippi. She questions her actions to marry a man of a different religion, but knows that the marriage will give her a (limited) sense of freedom, and will give her children an opportunity to lead better lives. The story’s central idea reveals that sometimes the love and concern for others can lead to the sacrifice of one’s own happiness.

Alice Walker's short fictional story, "Nineteen Fifty-five", revolves around the encounters among Gracie Mae Still, the narrator, and Traynor, the "Emperor of Rock and Roll." Traynor as a young prospective singer purchases a song from Mrs. Still, which becomes his "first hit record" and makes him rich and famous. Yet, he does not "even understand" the song and spends his entire life trying to figure out "what the song means." The song he sings seems as fictional as certain events in this story, but as historical as Traynor's based character, Elvis Presley.

She was staring at his chest, blindly, not knowing what to think, not thinking at all. He lifter her chin, gently. “Look at me Faye.” She did, but his face was a blur. “Faye, we’re in this together—you and I. Don’t you see that? It’s not just your problem, it’s ours.” In “A Sorrowful Woman”, I found the husband’s nurturing ways most appealing. He completely rearranged his life to make sure that his wife was as comfortable as possible. The passage that most signifies this is found on page 41. With great care he rearranged his life. He got up hours early, did the shopping, cooked the breakfast, took the boy to nursery school. “We will manage,” he said, “until you’re better, however long that is.” He did his work, collected the boy from the school, came home and made the supper, washed the dishes, got the child to bed. He managed everything. One evening, just as she was on the verge of swallowing her draught, there was a timid knock on her door. The little boy came in wearing his pajamas. “Daddy has fallen asleep on my bed and I can’t get in. There’s not room.” In “A Sorrowful Woman” what I found most unappealing was that even though the husband clearly loved her, instead of getting her the help she clearly needed, he let her sickness overcome her.

Throughout Roselily, Alice Walker uses mood, time and place in the setting to craft her story eloquently and effectively. You get a clear picture of what Walker is trying to convey when Walker, most importantly describes theme and setting in her short story, Roselily. For example, Walker uses place and description to convey a clear picture of her "standing on her front porch of her house...waist high through a bowl of quicksand soup." (Walker 2,3) The reader understands that Roselily, is feeling confused and stuck. Roselily was feeling like she was drowning, but

Both rose maxson and Mrs. Mallard are marriage women who are suffering in their marriage and pretending to be happy on the outside. But on the inside they are overwhelming because in the story on page 1146, from fences “and you don’t want to either. Maybe you want to wish me and my boy away. I’ve got eighteen years of my life invested in you. You ought to have stayed upstairs in my bed where you belong.” This lines are showing that Rose not frail but she is suffering. She have been suffering for 18 years because of her husband troy and have to put her dreams and goals to the side.so that she can be commitment and nurture in her marriage and for her family but she want her freedom which is show on page 1147 “ I been standing with you! I been

As the weeks have gone by, the trenches get lower, just like the number of people. For every one German soldier, there are three enemies. Shell craters litter the Earth, along with blood and mangled bodies. There is almost nothing left. Aeroplanes cover the sky.

The setting of Alice Walkers short story” The Flowers” is important for us, the readers to obtain a perspective of how life was like growing up for a 10 year old African American girl by the name of Myop. The title of the story is “The Flowers.” When you think about flowers, you instantly compare them to being beautiful, pure, and innocent. The title of the “The Flowers” is a symbolism that correlates to Myop who is the protagonist of the story. Myop is just like a flower in the beginning of the story. She’s a pure and innocent child but that pure innocence changes when she discovers something that’ll change her life forever.

How do we lose our childish way of seeing the world? How can we suddenly they see the world as it is, in all its evil? ‘The Flowers’ is a story about a young girl who goes through an experience that forces her into changing her way of seeing life, and it presents themes like growing up and loss of innocence.

Her race also brings about her poverty. She is so poor that she has no choice, but gives away his fourth child to his father. What is worse, her life is so hard that she marries herself off to a man to whom she is not attached. The reason she marries him is that she is “impatient to be done with sewing” and “with doing everything for three children, alone” (7).Roselily knows clearly she will no longer be herself after the marriage: “She thinks she loves the effort he will make to redo her into what he truly wants” (8). She has no choice but transforms herself to the kind of woman her husband wants.

Although Roselily’s life in Mississippi before marriage may not have been the greatest but, she is comfortable with it, and is scared of the change that is about to occur. As the preacher is finishing the ceremony she thinks” She wants to live for free for once. But she doesn’t know quite what that means.” She knows that once she gets married, between being a housewife and his restrictive religion she will