Some Girl(s): A Ttragic comedy

She flirts with many men and young adults throughout the play, which makes the reader feel a lack of sympathy for her as the men she desired ended up becoming major contributors to her eventual downfall, in particular Stanley.

In the short story “Girl”, by Jamaica Kincaid is told from the perspective of two different people. There is a bonding relationship that is happening between the two people in this short story. The mother seems to be the main character in this essay uses a very strict tone to her daughter. The daughter is being told about how to do things in her life the correct way. The daughter barely speaks during this essay, she is doing more analyzing than arguing with her mother. When the mother gives the daughter advise she was trying to give her words of wisdom. But, at the same time, some of the ideas the mother gave to her child was offensive like “slut”. The mother has different perspectives throughout this essay with a lot of different

By having Everyman interact with these conceptualized characters, the author externalizes his inner conflict. Perhaps this technique seems too obvious or almost condescending to our more literate age, but whatever the case, it effectively conveys the central message of the play.

What exactly is a “Guy”? Well, as Barry says “I don’t know. I haven’t though that much about it.” While he may not have given it much thought, he explains the difference in a couple ways. He tells us that guys like to buy “neat” things that they don’t really need. He also states that guys will rise to meet a pointless challenge. And when it comes to feeling, Barry says that, if they even have them, guys are not

“Girl” is a short story in which the author, Jamaica Kincaid, unofficially presents the stereotypes of girls in the mid 1900s. Kincaid includes two major characters in the story “Girl”, they are the mother and the girl. Although the daughter only asks two questions in this story, she is the major character. The mother feels like her daughter is going in the wrong direction and not making the best decisions in her life. The whole story is basically the mother telling her daughter what affects her decisions will have in the future. The mother believes that because her daughter isn’t sitting, talking, cleaning, walking or singing correctly it will lead her to a path of destruction. “Girl” is a reflection of female sexuality, the power of family, and how family can help overcome future dangers.

Girlhood demonstrates the importance of how attachment, family structure and peers have on the successful navigating the juvenile justice system and being able to reintegrate into society. Early on in the film we learned that if juveniles are to be successful at staying out of the juvenile justice system

The play moves on and it gets into Kate Monster developing a crush on Princeton and she hopes he is feeling the same way. HE comes to

The 1991 movie My Girl tells the story of 11-year-old Vada Sultenfuss who, having lost her mother at birth , lives with her dementia-ridden grandmother and her job-oriented father in the funeral parlour that he owns and operates. The story follows Vada, an extreme hypochondriac who has many strange misconceptions about death, through a variety of life-changing experiences, including the engagement of her father and the devastating loss of her best friend, Thomas Jay. Through these experiences, the audience witnesses Vada’s social, emotional, and intellectual growth, as well as her changing views of death.

From what we gather in the beginning of the story, the man loves the woman because of her innocence. The man “enjoyed her moments of shyness” because it was “a precious thing to him” but this slowly changes when they start playing the game. As we see their time at dinner, the man notices “the more the girl withdrew from him psychically, the more he longed for her physically.” The man’s point of view of the woman changes from emotional to just physical. It is like the man went back to his caveman or animalistic instincts in the way he desires the woman. The man shows that he is the hunter and the woman is his prey, and the pursuit is very excitable. There are some men that love the pursuit and after they claimed their prize, it does not excite them like it once had because it does not have the same thrill. He basically wants to dominate the woman and show her that he is in control, and has power over her. All males have experienced this feeling over someone

As the play progresses, we are shown various incidents in the play which elicit emotional responses from the reader: the longing Cyrano has for Roxane; his belief that he can never have her because of his appearance; a comical intervention as Christian gets a nose up on Cyrano; Cyrano and Christian working together to court Roxane; the author of the letters to Roxane being unknown to her; the passionate speech which Cyrano delivers to Roxane from behind the shrub; the existence of the cadets in such grim conditions; the death of Christian; the final resolution of Cyrano's love for Roxane and his death.

Bruno goes through with this plan and strangles Miriam at a local county fair. While Guy doesn’t want to kill Bruno’s father, Bruno threatens to blame him for the murder of his wife, while using a lighter that Guy left behind on the train as evidence against him. Guy receives help from his true love, Anne Morton, and her sister, Barbara, by devising a plan where he won’t be accused of murdering his own wife. In this movie, the male castration is that Guy is unable to get out of the trouble he has come across without the help of Anne and Barbara.

In David Ives’ short one-act comedy play “Sure Thing” he examines a number of variations in which a conversation between a guy and girl could take place. Theme, setting, plot, characters all of these things are essential to the understanding and captivation of the audience. With every exchange of conversation there is the ability to regain a fresh start by getting a second chance to make a good impression.

because she too is a victim like many others in the play, but is the

the play and keeps her within his own game, as if he was playing with

The tangled web of relationships that connect each character in this story are what drive Congreve's play forward. With each past affair (or current) affair that