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“The Blue Sweater” talks about a lifelong philanthropist named Jacqueline Novogratz and how she aided some of the world’s poverty-stricken populations with an economic plan. The book mentions how in 2001, Novogratz started a project for a nonprofit venture capital firm that aimed to reinvesting charitable funding that were focused on entrepreneurial endeavors. One of the projects associated with The Acumen Fund are, the development of clean water.

The novel, Girl in the Blue Coat by Monica Hesse takes place in the Netherlands during the German occupation of the Holocaust. A young girl, Hanneke, who is involved in a black market operation is faced with an unusual and presumably impossible task; she had to find the young Jewish girl that mysteriously disappeared from hiding, while in her neighbor's house. Throughout the novel, Hanneke learns many valuable lessons, which can also be applied to the readers lives, making the novel meaningful in my opinion.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman was a prominent American feminist, sociologist, novelist, writer of short stories, poetry, and nonfiction, and a lecturer for social reform. She served as a role model for future generations of feminists because of her unorthodox concepts and lifestyle. She also wrote many books, short stories, poems, and essays including Why Women Do Not Reform Their Dress. Gilman’s purpose in Why Women Do Not Reform Their Dress is to express her ideas on why women went through so much pain wearing the clothes they did, just to be acknowledged in certain social circles. Gilman explores the different ranges of imagery, detail, and diction to depict the need of women to be approved by society and the torment they put themselves through to do so.

In Purple Bathing Suit poem, Louise Gluck develops a difference between needing someone even if they are not perfect in their eyes and being unsatisfying staying in a relationship can be. There were a few things in Gluck’s poem that made it fascinating, such as the individuality related to gender, the level of love/hate relationships, and the truth of realizing that real reason you stay.

Automobiles are such a significant part of our culture today and have been for the past century as a whole. From the big screen to the pages of a book they can play seemingly important roles that cannot be ignored. Often times these vehicles can assume almost human like characteristics which can cause you, the viewer/reader, to develop a relationship with these inanimate objects whether they are the new, beautiful and sleek sports car or the old, ratty and beat-up truck. In Louise Erdrich’s “The Red Convertible” there are many occurrences in which the state of repair that the Olds is in gives you the sense that it closely represents Lyman’s current feelings towards his brother and how these feelings change and evolve throughout the length of the story.

In the short story “The Red Convertible,” by Louise Erdrich, there are multiple literary devices used throughout. However, Erdrich most commonly utilizes theme and symbolism. She uses certain themes throughout most of her work, as noted by Keri L. Overall in a literary analysis. “Indeed, the themes of Erdrich’s stories range from the effects of war on families and personal identity to loss of heritage and family and personal relationships.” Erdrich also employs the use of symbolism in this story, to great effect. Furthermore, the two most important themes in this story are Brotherhood and War-time trauma, while the most important symbol is the red convertible.

The story the scholarship jacket by Marta Salinas made me think of last year when i was talked into playing high school soccer again by a club coach. I put in a lot a lot of hard work to be on the team again. I was a varsity player as a freshman but the coach and i did not get along. I quit the day before the last game and districts because he constantly used foul language towards any players his daughter disliked and constantly was disrespectful. After three years he was still mad that i quit. As i worked hard to get my math class finished to play he was working on stopping me. I completed a whole semester of geometry in a week, skipped a lot of lunches, stayed after school and worked at home to finish. I was trying to play the junior varsity

Author Louise Erdich is famous for composing short stories about Native Americans due to cultural and identity ties to the group. The story “The Red Convertible” depicts joyful and fond memories shared between two brothers, named Lyman and Henry. However, towards the end of the story, a devastating calamity befalls on one of the brothers. This story emphasizes how the two brothers went through difficulty stages and changes that challenged their coping mechanism. The red convertible had a positive influence on the two brothers. The red convertible united the two brothers since it was there means of travelling around the world together, forming a close bond and enjoying each other’s company. However, all the joyous moment came to an end with the impact of war on Henry’s mental health which caused him to commit suicide. The effect of war on Henry cut the connection between the two brothers, causing both of them to experience pain.

Countless stories of heroes and heroines have all followed the same cycle from beginning to end of a hero’s life. The cycle starts from a certain event affecting the hero’s life leading them on a quest that is typically filled with some form of adventure. The hero is equipped for the quest with a type of power or aid from the supernatural to help them face trials to further prove themselves. Once the hero completes the quest, they experience either physical or metaphorical death and are rewarded greatly. According to Griffith, “A White Heron” by Sarah Orne Jewett fits the hero archetype from the main character being sent on a quest full of trials to the reward of the quest’s completion.

Child labor during the Industrial Revolution was very dangerous for all of the children. Many of them suffered terribly from all of the weight they had to carry. Most of the time the machines were to high and they couldn’t reach them. Since they were too high they would end up having to climb up the machines and they would end up getting hurt. In, The story of the Cotton Dress, it says, “If they slip they can hurt themselves badly.”

When people are growing up, they are bound to change a little; nonetheless, certain traits do not change from one’s childhood, but instead stay with them into their adulthood. Jacqueline Novogratz, the author of The Blue Sweater, told about her experience while living in Africa. When she was younger, she had had a promising job in Wall Street in New York before she quit and arrived in Africa. During her two years stay, she learned valuable things and became mature.

Gail Godwin’s “A Sorrowful Woman” represents the feminist thoughts of a woman oppressed by a male dominated society. In this society crated by Godwin, a woman’s role is as a homemaker, however the main character refuses to accept the role given to her. The woman withdrawals from her family and reality until she finally cannot handle it anymore and kills herself. Through the use of character development, Godwin is effectively able to shine light to how one could oppress a female through the hidden familial problems in what appears to be a happy marriage.

It was one of the worst human rights disasters ever to face our planet. Tens of millions of people, told they were not worth their own lives, were rounded up and marched off to camps where death was their almost certain fate. The Holocaust perpetrated by the Nazi regime during World War II has become the centerpiece for countless movies, books, essays, tv shows, and plays, each and every one shedding it’s own light on how it has affected different people and their families. Aryeh Lev Stollman and Art Speigelman are just two of the countless writers that have brought us emotional stories of families affected by the Holocaust. Stollman’s piece, Die Grosse Liebe, from his 2003 short story collection entitled The Dialogues of Time and Entropy, portrays a young boy who, after his father’s death, begins to learn more and more about his sometimes mysterious and self-hidden mother who has, for as long as young Joseph has known, been exiled in her own home where she speaks little and with almost no emotion whatsoever. Speigelman’s piece, an excerpt from his serialized book Maus, is a memoir in graphic form in which Speigelman himself asks his father to recount his days before, during, and shortly after the war. Both pieces provide an in depth look into the way the narrators learn about themselves, their family history, and the world in general.

In Carol Ann Duffy’s “Little Red Cap,” taken from her collection The Worlds Wife, Duffy incorporates her feminist views on life to help develop Red-Cap’s character into an independent woman. In her work, Duffy intends to illuminate for the audience that woman are more powerful than they are perceived by society. In the poem, she writes about a young girl at the peak of her childhood, who is about to enter into the next phase of her life. The young, inexperienced girl describes the beginning of her transformation into adulthood after losing her innocence to “The Wolf.” The loss of her innocence contributes to the realization that she no longer needs an old, no good wolf. She gains the courage and reflects on how her life changes dramatically after her departure from the wolf. The poem “Little Red-Cap," written in The World’s Wife, closely relates to certain aspects of the original fairy tales written by The Grimm Brother and Charles Perrault. Duffy’s version of “Little Red Cap” is a rewrite of the original fairy tale “Little Red Riding Hood.” Duffy incorporates her strong feminist views by allowing Red-Cap to initiate her encounter with the wolf and to use him for gaining knowledge for her career and sexual desires. These aspects contribute to the development of Red-Cap’s character into a more independent woman to contradict the oppression of women in the past and present generations, and allowing her to offer suggestions for women in the future.

Money and wealth isn't everything. Madame Loisel from The Necklace by Guy Maupassant has to learn that the hard way. Madame Loisel is a woman who feels entitled to a lavish lifestyle. She is a character who is dissatisfied with her current lifestyle even though she has a caring husband who provides her with everything he can. Madame Loisel is invited to an elaborate party in which she feels she needs a beautiful gown and a diamond necklace. In order for Madame Loisel to attend the party her husband gives her 500 Francs and she borrows a very expensive diamond necklace. After the Loisels attend the party they realize that they have lost the necklace and now their lifestyle must change dramatically so that they can pay to replace the necklace. The Loisels both work very hard for the next ten years to pay back the money they borrowed to replace the necklace. Madame Loisel realizes what a comfortable life she had and how her greed got the best of her. Leading her to a life of misery and hard labor to replace the diamond necklace. Madame Loisel is a complex character because she is both round and dynamic.