Sandra Cisneros Four Skinny Trees

Trees represent her life because they aren’t simple. Trees are large and strong, their roots are in the ground and their leaves sway in the sky. At first, Melinda’s life was as solid as the tallest tree in the world. “This was the girl who suffered through Brownies with me, who taught me how

The novel Speak by Laurie Hales Anderson shows Melinda Sordino struggling through the year, and her recovery from the painful memory of getting raped at the party in summer break. In the beginning of the story, the story shows how bad Melinda feels and then she changes and starts growing and at the final stage of the story Melinda becomes a strong hard oaktree-like person. In the book Speak, the author symbolizes the tree to show Melinda’s change from being an outcast to being an accepted person; this also supports the theme: time can help heal one’s painful memories.In the beginning of the year, her trees looked like trees that existed nowhere on earth, but by the end of the year, her trees were breathing and looked as if they had shot up

The character who changed the most from beginning to end in The Bean Trees was Lou Ann Ruiz. When Taylor first meets Lou Ann, she has just been left by her husband, Angel, to raise her newborn son, Dwayne Ray, alone. Despite this Lou Ann still wishes for her husband to return because she believes that a marriage should last forever. Throughout the story, Lou Ann goes from relying on her husband to unbuckle her shoes for her to becoming an independent, single mother.

However, in her attempts to grow upwards despite the constant blowing wind are averted and she eventually succumbs like the Joshua tree, and grows sideways, finally allowing her struggle to be

“Mom frowned at me… that gives it its beauty.” (p. 38) When Jeannette devises a plan to uproot the Joshua tree, which has grown sideways in the direction of the constant wind that passes over it, her mother quickly dismisses the idea. Rose Mary claims that the tree is beautiful not because it grows straight like the other trees, but rather because its struggle defines it and makes it unique. Rose Mary is typically unwilling to tamper with nature and she is particularly drawn to the unique form of the Joshua Tree. Through the figure of the tree a young Jeannette learns an important lesson about non-conformity.

Second, the sentences, “[The tree] must truly have been amazed that morning; the old pine must have loved his new dependent,” mean that the woods love her; in addition, the author uses contradictory to describe Sylvia. I can conclude that Sylvia’s spirit is stronger than her small body

On Mango Street, it’s nothing new for kids to jump off a building and end up killing themselves. Rape? That's no big deal it happens all the time. Not only is Mango street like this, but the majority of Southern Chicago is like this. Many people are forced to live in this type of environment because of their economic state. Many people like Esperanza hate the place they live and are desperate for a change. Esperanza knows that there is a little chance of change. Around her she sees people living their suffering lives and not their bright future they had planned. Looking at the people around her makes her want to leave Mango street and start a better life. She knows that if she stays in this neighborhood, she will have a dark future like

One topic that Cisneros illustrates throughout her novel is that feeling excluded from a group or society can affect our emotions. In the first chapter in the book shows a scene where Esperanza, the main character, is playing in front of her house when a nun from her school walks by. The nun then asks her where she lives and Esperanza points to her house. “You live there?” (5).

I am the only one who understands them. Four skinny trees with skinny necks and pointy elbows like mine. Four who do not belong here but are here. Four raggedy excuses planted by the city. From our room we can hear them, but Nenny just sleeps and doesn't appreciate these things. When I am too sad and too skinny to keep keeping, when I am a tiny thing against so many bricks, then it is I look at the trees. When there is nothing left to look at on this street. Four who grew despite concrete. Four who reach and do not forget to reach. Four whose only reason is to be" (Cisneros

In Toni Morrison's novel Beloved, each character holds a special connection to trees and each places different meaning in them. The motif of trees and plants represent a calming force, escape from hardship, and circle of life that can heal the wounds of slavery. Paul D and Sethe are two characters in particular who place unique meaning in plants and use them as a way to escape their painful memories and the horrors of slavery.

The pear tree is her inspiration and her first true desire. She longs to bud and blossom, like the tree, and cannot wait to discover herself and all the wonders of the world.

Throughout the tumultuous events that Hester Prynne has had to face so far, she has undergone a dramatic change in her personality. She has become more cold, in a way; she is more serious and somber, perhaps because she has faced sin. But more so, I believe she changed in personality because she became a mother. She needed to become a stronger, more mature person to provide support for Pearl, who has already had the world against her (because she was born of adultery). Having sinned and faced punishment, Hester became a "harder" person.

The Middle Ages was one of the most bloodiest times because of the torture tactics that were used as forms of severe punishments, handed down to citizens for a majority of crimes such as murder, theft, kidnapping and even trivial crimes like gossiping, sorcery, and heresy. Lack of education along with impunity caused excessive amounts of crime during the Middle Ages, making many of the lower class citizens resort to stealing. Multiple forms of torture were enforced to keep the community in a state of fear that would keep citizens thinking that they might end up being the next victim. The middle age punishments for crimes were precursors to today's law enforcement and prison system. With no police to regulate citizens on the daily keeping order and peace was in the hands of the community.

In Allen Johnson’s “The Forest, The Trees, and The One Thing”, he expresses that in order to understand sociology we need to be able to understand the relationship between biography and history. To explain this, Johnson uses five rules to sociology called the sociological imagination. These rules explain how an individual relates to social systems.

The best-selling novel by “DaVinci Code” author Dan Brown “Inferno” has a plot that is driven by the human overpopulation crisis. Brown depicts a mad scientist that believes he can rid the world of the majority of its health and environmental issues by simply purging the world of two-thirds of its population. But is the assertion brought forth by Brown’s antagonist that far from the truth? When we look at the effects of human overpopulation on food, air quality, water shortages, and other natural resources it’s hard to disagree.