Stone Soup Barbara Kingsolver Analysis

Barbara Kingsolver’s “Stone Soup” is a personal response to society’s view of the “broken” family. Kingsolver believes that society has for too long criticized divorce, remarriage, single parenthood, gay parents, and blended families, and that alternative families deserve equal standing in our society. In response to reading Kingsolver’s essay, this paper will serve to show which parts of “Stone Soup” are supported by outside evidence and which are not.

Lee’s essay “Magical Dinners” and Slater’s “Tripp Lake” are two stories that allows you to see different situations that involve a parent and a child. They both struggle with different things one being with dramatic life changes that come with being a foreigner moving to the united states and one being a childhood camp experience and the mothers maternal fear of the daughter.In Magical Dinners it showcases the story of the authors mother and the frustrations of living in a place with unfamiliar food,language and faces. In Tripp Lake the author is the narrator and you see the mothers feelings convey through her daughter being able to do things she wasn 't when she was younger. In these two stories we will look at the impact both mothers had on there child 's lives and trying to please them through the events , actions and motions involved.Based on reading the two stories Magical dinners and Tripp lake i found that they have similarities that produce two different results.

In the text “Once More to the Lake” author E.B. White focuses on appealing to fathers or even possibly parents in general. The text is eloquently written to ultimately reiterate that change is constant and at some point in life all people will eventually die. His primary goal of this text is to enjoy the moments in one’s life before life is over. A nostalgic tone is used throughout when comparing his childhood memories to the current memories he is making with his own son. White is effective in illustrating his purpose by using techniques such as logos, ethos, pathos, and imagery to encourage his audience to be aware that their own lives are inevitably growing older each day.

“Stone Soup” is an essay written by a divorced women by the name of Barbara Kingsolver and in this essay she states that she is severely criticized at times for being a divorced woman and raising a child without a husband. In the essay, she says that instead of getting casseroles people treated her like she broke the family fine china. People thought that she did not try to salvage her marriage. Criticisms like these are not uncommon though.

Luke Fox Mrs. Robilotta AP English 7th period August 30th 2017 Stone Soup and woman and The Future of Fatherhood Rhetorical Analysis Families are breaking apart, divorce rates are at an all-time high, and the traditional nuclear family is becoming something of the past. This is leading many people to wonder "What happens next?" Is society heading in the right or wrong direction? Should increasing divorce rates be a celebration of progressing forward in society and destroying failing marriages or should divorce be something to look down upon? With families breaking apart many people want to know how we can mend the divide and find a way to get parents back together again. But yet others insist that sometimes it can be beneficial for families to split apart, in order to get away from a suffocating and unhappy marriage. In the essays Stone Soup by Kingsolver and Woman and the Future of Fatherhood by Whitehead the two authors cover the topic of divorce and broken families and formulate rhetorical strategies in order to convince the audience of their stance, however, Whitehead made the superior arguments because of the tone she used and her better credibility. One reason that Whitehead created the superior argument is because of the tone she used. Whitehead used an accusatory tone while Kingsolver used a more critical tone. At first it may seem like that both authors choose to establish tones that might deter the reader, but upon reading the pieces it becomes clear that

Similarly, Hayden’s Those Winter Sundays starts with a young adult reflecting back on his childhood and remembering how hard his father worked. He thinks back and his tone is of admiration and respect. This is apparent when the young man reflects, “Sundays too my father got up early…No one ever thanked him.” (Hayden, 1-5) The young man is realizing how hard his father worked and how little recognition he got. This makes a certain degree of guilt come over the young man. He remembers “fearing the chronic angers of that house” (Hayden, 9) and dislikes his father because of it by “speaking indifferently to him” (Hayden, 10). Then the

Barbara Kingsolver’s essay “Stone Soup” is about how a family should be like. The ideal family has a mother, father, sister and a junior. Kingsolver writes how she thought her family would be perfect. She says that people assume that children with divorced parents are unhappy. Single parents, gay parents, and remarried parents are not the ideal family but that is ok.

In Stone Soup, by Barbara Kingsolver, Kingsolver argues that “any family is a big empty pot” and it does not matter what the family consists of because no family is the same (403). She employs her own personal experience and gives examples of how the shape of families has changed over time.

Are mothers in prison not good mothers? Are all divorced families unhappy? Are these myths true? Myths are traditionally false beliefs or ideas. In other words, there are mothers in prison who love their children and there are divorced families who are better off separated. Many people believe in myths that cannot be proven. In the essay, “The Long Good-Bye: Mother’s Day in Federal Prison”, Amanda Coyne writes about her visit to see her sister at the Federal Prison Camp. She describes the environment in which the inmates live their day-to-day lives and even though these “convict-moms” are locked up and separated from their children, they still care and show them love (Coyne 56). In the article, “Stone Soup”, Barbara Kingsolver writes about how in today’s society a divorced marriage equals a “broken” family (66). She feels that even though a couple might be divorced, there can still be a “happy ending”. Both authors are able to dismantle these myths by

The father decides that they cannot wait for the two inhabitants of the town to come along, and, even if they did, there were not enough supplies to maintain them all. The fate of the two are left unknown, but we are led to believe the worst. A similar case occurs when they come across a large house. Inside the house, in the basement, a prison filled with beaten human livestock, including a man who has had his legs grafted to his pelvis. Instead of risking his and his son’s lives to save the masses of people, both travelers rush into the woods to escape the cannibals. At the end of the book, after the father’s death, the boy decides to forge southward, thus upholding his father’s dream. The son’s future and that of humanity is left unknown. The future and previous actions of these individuals are left for the reader to decide and to

Madurodam has been the smallest city in the Netherlands since its inception in 1952. Its tributaries and canals measuring no more than a finger’s width. Its ornately crafted Dutch gabled houses would make amiable summer residences for rodents. Its immaculate portrayal of railway lines would have any train-spotter paralyzed with awe. This war-monument-turned-amusement-park steals the imagination of children and adults alike. There is a certain human tendency to associate affection with objects of a reduced size. Maybe it is this affection that serves as the reason almost all of the toys we make for children, as Roland Barthes puts it, “are essentially a microcosm of the adult world [...] reduced copies of human objects,” (“Toys” 689).

White’s realization of reality and mortality makes him return to the present. Throughout the essay, there is a lost sense of time. When White watches his son pull up his shorts, he recognizes that he could no longer dwell in the past and relive his past in the eyes of his son. White is going through a midlife crisis. He becomes cognizant of the fact that he is no longer a child. He has been reliving his past by pretending to be his son and returning back to his childhood. He would see himself as his son and imagine the times when his dad was with him. He is now aware that his own death is inevitable as he feels the chill of the death of his youth. The cycle will continue as White’s son brings his son to the lake in the future.

While culture is prevalent in everyone 's lives, the way that culture is interpreted can drastically vary depending upon the generation a person grew up in. In both Madeleine Thien 's “Simple Recipes” and Kazuo Ishiguro 's “A Family Supper” the way in which the children view culture is significantly different from their parents views. While the children in each story grew up in different countries, the similarities between the children and their families are strikingly similar. The cultural views of the father and son in each story leads them in separate ways, which ultimately causes major rifts within the families and creates significant tension between father and son. The fathers in each story are authority figures to their children. Although the level of authority each father has over their children is drastically different due to the age of their children, it is clear both fathers demand a certain level of respect from them. The suppers in each story, while seemingly insignificant at first, actually carry a much deeper meaning. The suppers play a large role in how each story plays out. Although there are differences in regards to how each story conveys the message of cultural divide, the point remains the same. Culture is always evolving, and while this is generally viewed as a success for society, if those involved do not have a firm grasp on what is changing, it can lead to disagreements within society and in some cases disagreements within

Divorce will lead to happiness. As odd as divorce leading to happiness may sound, it contains truth. Stone Soup, written by Barbara Kingsolver, contains her personal experience with divorce, and the effects divorce had on her family. Kingsolver uses personal experience, to demonstrate that divorce frees the families from bondage.

How far would one go to fix a mistake; to fix something that should never have happened? For Harry Finn and Annabelle Conroy, there is no threat too large to stop them from fixing their mistakes. In Stone Cold by David Baldacci, Annabelle Conroy and her father Patty hatch a plan to get revenge on the man who bereft them of the woman they both loved. On the flip side of things,Harry Finn, an ex-Navy Seal, assassinates the men of Congress who wronged him for deeming his father, Rayfield Solomon, a traitor of America and having him executed. In this journal, I will be evaluating how Harry Finn actually feels about his assassinations, questioning Paddy Conroy’s true allegiance, and predicting Oliver Stone’s plans to set things right.