Sleeping With Cats By Marge Piercy

“Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change.” Jim Rohns quote highlights the basis of Debra Oswald’s play Gary’s house, and also Miroshav Holubs poem The Door. This essay will explore the notion that change causes people to shift their thinking and actions after significant catalysts. Gary’s House illustrates many of the issues and predicaments confronted by the characters and how their alteration in behaviour can have a beneficial outcome for them or others around them. The concept of "The Door" is based on the idea of taking risks and embracing change. The poet uses persuasive techniques to encourage and provoke the audience to take action.

“I never thought much of myself” said Jennifer. “I do not know why, but I just figured I was not worth much”; Jennifer was a young girl who was trapped in the lifestyle of her two alcoholic parents. Jennifer 's father would beat her and neglect her, while her mother kept sipping down alcohol, watching Jennifer suffer. Jennifer 's childhood was ripped away from her, however even though the pain from her childhood has made her a stronger person as an adult, no child should ever have to endure the fear to live day to day. (IHOPE Foundation).

In her early life she wrote about things that no-one ever wrote about such as her being sexually abused, racism, single-parenting, and her being in part of the civil rights movement. She experienced first hand racism. When she was seven years old, she got raped by her mother’s boyfriend. She was a civil right activist.

Throughout her life would observe her father’s sermons, articles, fiction, and his poetry which may have been a large influence on her own writing. He also told them tales of history, tradition, and romance. However any literary influence her mother

In her early childhood, Louisa May Alcott moved to Boston, Massachusetts, and she was taught by her father. She grew up during the times of the menacing Civil War and had a bit of a rough life growing up. Louisa May Alcott was very imaginative as a child, and she would often write plays with her sisters. Moreover, Louisa was a tomboy growing up. “No boy could be my friend until I had beaten him in a race, and no girl if she refused to climb trees and leap fences.” Her family was in poverty, and 15-year-old Louisa vowed to do “whatever she can to help the family.” With very few jobs for women, that led up to her career in being an author. Furthermore, having a rough childhood is what made Louisa a strong and determined woman.

She teaches her readers that anything is possible. Her parents were immigrants from Puerto Rico with minimal english. Her mother always taught her that education is very important. She grew up in poverty with juvenile diabetes and limited resources. Her father passed away when she was nine.

author’s life as she grows up while developing a multitude of mental illnesses. By the end of her

Piercy uses imagery from the beginning to the end of the poem to describe the girl’s life as she aged and to describe the different ways that she was supposed to act. She states that the “girlchild was born as

times and conditions drove her to writing from the start. In the book, there are stories

She was introduced to the world of writing at an early age. Her father was one of the

When she was young, she had a pretty rough childhood and her family had a lack of money. And when she was only three her father struck illness and got typhoid fever and died. Also in that same year they moved and her mother remarried. As well her mother's new husband didn’t like kids, especially young children and her mother agreed to move away with her husband and leave her children behind. So she moved in with her step dad’s family, which meant having to deal with his strict mother and they didn’t have much money. They even lacked in money to buy school pencils. And at age eleven she finally reunited with her mother, At 15 she encouraged her mother to let her join the New York City drama club. But her drama teacher told her mom she was wasting

This young girl did what she had to do in a tough world. As a poor family food was scarce and washing wasn’t the main topic. It is hard to be sweet and be moving around place to place for their father to get work again and having to deal with school in the middle of finding a new job. They all focus on working together and even if they are alone, they find a way to work or have fun. They didn’t have toys or tv to watch or anything fun, but that leads them for creativity and to actually be a kid outside of the house. So living the way they have sometimes actually helped their minds to adapt to difficult situations and to be creative. She has to steal if the food if none was available, she has to be stronger for her family because they are

She is always well written. Complete with many stories and possibilities, She is unable to decide Where exactly her heart lies. The book often opened And cast to the side,

This paper is a self-analysis of Rachael Law. That’s me. I’m a young adult aspiring to be an independent individual who has a firm understanding of who they are and why they are here. I enjoy listening to others and drawing on a daily basis. This analysis highlights things that are dear and close to my heart. Analyzing the key pieces of my puzzle of life. Even if I haven’t been on this planet for too long I know I’ve gone through more than enough to fill this paper.

In the poem , “The Author to Her Book,” Anne Bradstreet describes her conflicting disposition towards her work by using poetic structure, imagery, and personification.