Summary Of Quotes From 'Cant You Stop Cleaning'

Jeanette was thinking this to herself while in her apartment. She had just seen her mom rooting through trash on the street and had hurried home out of fear. This quote is important because it shows that Jeanette has passion for her parents but is too afraid to address them in a realistic manner. It shows that she doesn’t have extreme care for her parents, being embarrassed by them, and ashamed of them but not doing anything to really help them.

Throughout the Genesis Flood, Atrahasis Flood and the Epic of Gilgamesh flood, there are many different ways to interpret the different views of The Flood. These different narratives in these stories have their own explanation on how this myth took place and the different beliefs that occurred during this flood. The way you portray each narrative is based on what exactly your beliefs are.

At the end of Bell Street, McKay Street, Mayo Street, there was the Flood. It was the Wawanash River, which every spring overflowed its banks. Some springs, say one in every five, it covered the roads on that side of town and washed over the fields, creating a shallow choppy take. Light reflected off the water made every- thing bright and cold, as it is in a lakeside town, and woke or revived in people certain vague hopes of disaster. Mostly during the late afternoon and early evening, there were people straggling out to took at it, and discuss whether it was still rising, and whether this time it might invade the town. In general, those under fifteen and over sixty-five were most certain that it would.

Many women have been through incidents where one has had to exhibited personal strength to get through an appalling event or circumstance. Preparing for this journey, Strayed packed a backpack to take along with her on the Pacific Crest Trail. Not knowing what all she needed, she packed unnecessary items such as books, shoes, stoves, and even a twelve pack of condoms, but why? Going into something for the first time not knowing what to expect can be very dangerous. Every night the unexpected happened “Each night the black sky and the bright stars were my stunning companions; occasionally I’d see their beauty and solemnity so plainly that I'd realize in a piercing way that my mother was right. That someday I WOULD be grateful and that in fact I was grateful now, that I felt something growing in me that was strong and real” (Strayed 128).

She also talks about how she meant to be unimportant to the families so that she can to be treated as guest. Eventually when the author and her team get used to within the families they were studying, they have literally got the real life scenarios and

We see a silence in several women today by looking at their swollen eyes and their cold and startled behavior that they are traumatized by their own husbands. Solnit expresses, "Every woman knows what I’m talking about. It’s the presumption that makes it hard,

Otsuka shows us this saying, “she sat by the stove for hours not talking. In her lap lay a half finished letter and an open book. She wore a thick woolen scarf around her neck. When the dinner bell rang she sat up with a start. In her mind there were always men at the door we just need to ask your husband a few questions.”(93).Otsuka goes on to say,“Sometimes I don't know if I'm awake or sleep’ ‘you're awake’ The boy would tell her”(94). This quote really stresses how much this life-changing stress is affecting the mother by showing The reader her response to the situation. The way she responds to seeing the evacuation notice, and takes charge, and the way she tries to cope with being in the camp are opposite. The mother's response to being in the camp is to stray from society, and to keep herself in her own world making her lose her grip on

The Hurricane and flood in the novel, “Their Eyes Were Watching God” by Zora Neale Hurston illuminates the similarity between the novel and the natural disaster that occurred in south Florida in 1992. In the novel, Their Eyes Were Watching God, the protagonist Janie marries and remarries three times in hope of finding the right man who can help her find her voice. As can be seen, Hurricane Andrew and the hurricane in the novel are similar in that they both correlate with one another. Janie walks through a hurricane that symbolizes of all the troubles she faced in life which is similar to Hurricane Andrew and the hardships it caused for many people living in south Florida at the time. The hurricane being a metaphor for her other struggles, helps us get a clear understanding of the hardships she faced in life. Once the storm ends, all these troubles Janie had to face in life come to an end as well because now she gets to live a new life back in Eatonville without any of these marriages or anything else that caused her troubles in life previously. The claims made by Steinberg help analyze the similarities between Janie and Hurricane Andrew which gives us a clear understanding of how Hurricane Andrew is a representation of Janie’s hardships in life.

that she may remain a housewife, but change the way she caters to her family. Despite all of the

whatever danger lies before them. Furthermore, she gives him no optimistic view of the future, and,

Each translation of the flood is very much different. In the Anthology, it is not as straightforward about the flood happening. “ Upon you he shall shower down in abundance, he shall pour upon you a harvest of riches” (Foster, 144) , where one would have to read more to realize there is a flood about to happen, whereas in N.K. Sanders translation, it deliberately states “So the gods agree to exterminate mankind” (Sanders, 20) , which is more blunt about the extermination of mankind or the flood. The Anthology hints toward it by using words such as: pour, shower, and harvest, but it is not as deliberately obvious as Sanders translation. Also in the Epic where it talks about the building of the boat, Sanders version says “ Tear down your house, I say, and build a boat” , which obviously tells

Overall, there is an obvious feeling of disempowered regarding her right and or ability to make life decisions. She comes from a close-knit family, though some of her siblings have moved away to seek out goals beyond those that they may feel their parents are putting upon them. She has recently begun to

Some of these womans include her mother and sister. Her mom pushed her to her limits and helped Bri overcome obstacles. She pushed her to go outside her comfort

In an unlikely turn of events she finds herself being placed into the hard situation of having to take on the role of a more active

Essentially, the theme tough times help us mature is elucidated thoroughly in the story of “A Temporary Matter.” The characters of Shukumar and Shoba encounter a life-changing obstacle that endangered the nature of their relationship. "When he returned to Boston it was over. The baby had been born dead. Shoba was lying on a bed, asleep [...]." (Lahiri, 3). The unfortunate loss of their newborn baby had left the couple broken into pieces and emotionally unstable. The marriage of Shukumar and Shoba had began to perish, slowly as the days passed by. They were no longer able to look at one another in the eye without the feeling of a heavy burden on their chests. Shukumar became aware of their situation and decided to act upon it. The married couple came to a compromise that they would say one confession that their partner had not known about them during dinner.