Summary Of The Wind By Barbara Kingsolver

The two sisters,Premila and Santha in the short story “By Any Other Name” shows on how people in their new school would mistreated them due to their ethnicity. Both Premila and Santha went to a Anglo-Indian day school in Zorinabad where a teacher decided to changed their names to Pamela and Cynthia. Pamela was Premila and Cynthia was Santha ,the teacher decided to change their names because they were too difficult for her to pronounce.The Indian children sat in the back of the classroom and the

A name is an integral part of one’s identity, being given at birth and held on to till death. It represents who a person is. Sometimes someone might go by different names depending on how close they are to another. A name can be altered to tease lovingly or show sincerity. Such an instance takes place within the text. Surnames in the Native American community differ from that of western society. Descriptions took the place of a typical last name, creating more intimate and interesting names. For example, the main character of this excerpt is Jimmy Many-Horses. While Jimmy speaks with a cousin, he is fondly called “Jimmy Sixteen-and-One-Half-Horses” (Alexie 157). This reveals a relationship that is close enough to give nicknames. Later on, the character calls him “Jimmy Zero-Horses” to show solemn disappointment (Alexie 157). This remorseful teasing reveals the intimacy of these

Judge - a man who is closed to the process of deliberation. He refuses to let Drummond call witnesses to testify about evolutionary theory. He judges the court with an obvious bias towards the state's case.

In fact, this has some extreme similarities to the Southern culture, although it takes place in the North. Even so, if a Southerner would read this literature, they would not think it is from the North, but taking place in the South if they did not read where its location is. For the South, a person 's name is everything to them, it truly identifies them as a person. This is crucial to Pearl, who tries to keep her reputation in tact with her name. She does not want her name or her families name to be full of corruption.

According to dictionary.com, a name is a word or phrase that constitutes the distinctive designation of a person or thing. A name is an identifier, however in the story Of Mice and Men, one character is not given a name. Instead of being provided with an identity, she is known as “Curley’s wife”, not just to the readers but to the other characters in the story. John Steinbeck does not give Curley’s wife a name as she is seen as the property of someone else and doesn’t know who she really is herself, but if she were to have a name, her name would represent her physical attributes.

In the novel, many of the characters are provided with names of either biblical or mythological descent. These such names provide insight as to the identity of the character in the novel and further the purpose of the character in the progression of the plot. Many of the children’s names were chosen at birth by sticking a pin into the

Personification The uses of personification in this poem there are in line eleven, Of cypress, I roamed with my soul. This statement explains that the lover compares his psyche to a human being, so it could walk. In line fourty four and fourty five, And has come past the stars of the Lion / To point us the path to the skies.

The narrator is not the only story character without a name. The narrator's parents are also unnamed. The unnamed are all individuals who fit within the black community in expected, responsible ways. Sonny and the other named characters, such as Creole and Isabel, all have names due to their deviance. Each of these characters don't quite fit into the normalcy embraced by the narrator. Creole, in particular, gains his name by providing a parental figure to Sonny. He usurps the place that otherwise would have been filled by Sonny's nameless father.

Abel included elements such as; personification, imagery, metaphors, and juxtaposition. Personification played a huge roll in the poem by giving wind the ability to suck and allowing rain to gather. “For the rain to gather/ for the wind to suck” (10). These two examples in the citation prove the appearance of personification. Although he used personification, she also uses imagery in the poem. “Blood on the leaves and blood at the root/ Black bodies swingin' in the Southern breeze” (2-3). Imagery symbolizes the bodies that were hung and the red blood that dripped onto the roots and leaves. Abel’s poem is a metaphor to black people because the strange fruit in her poem are actually the two black people that were hung on the tree. She starts the poem with, “Southern trees bear a strange fruit” (1). Starting the poem with a metaphor allows the reader to designate the example. Juxtaposition, the placement of two or more things side by side, is also used within the poetry “Strange Fruit”. “Scent of magnolia sweet and fresh/ And the sudden smell of burning flesh!” (7-8). The literary device, juxtaposition, allows the diversion between the smell of the flesh and mongolia's to be very close but differentiate from the smells that they give off. Abel Meeropol altered his choices on the types of factors he used to make the poem represent and stand for something that is very significant to its

In the play Inherit the Wind, Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee use a historic event and twist it into a believable fiction narrative that shows the fault of a small southern town. As it is presented, the play was written to be seen as a more meta commentary on the American people, and the trial was supposed to symbolize American thinking as a whole. The authors make clear that the trial is not only against the defendant; it is also striking the people of the setting. The fault displayed in the play's titular town of Hillsboro is that the citizens are quick to lap up the word of the holy men and their holy book, and they are also inclined to automatically deny or ignore anything that could possibly challenge what they have been spoon fed from The Bible. The two characters that

Her self-esteem was insulted at a level where she had a sense of awakened rebellion and didn’t want to stay around that people anymore, she did everything that she could to take a revenge. Another example is Henry Louis Gates Jr.’s “What is a Name” where the author’s father was called Georg instead of his real in front of him. He realized what was wrong and was very upset about it. But his father took the situation in a different way, he just continued talking to the man as usual as if everything was ok. Perhaps he thought that his distorted name won’t change his status as a hardworking man who has money. These are perfect examples of human nature, one doesn’t want their name to be distorted because it represents their identity and honor, but others think that the name won’t change their identity. In the end all will be left from us will be our name and the identity behind

In the short story by Alice Walker titled “Everyday Use” The act of naming or, in Dee’s case, renaming is a way of connecting to the past and an indication of the fluid nature of identity. Dee, on the other hand, attempts to transform herself and embrace what she considers her true heritage by adopting an African name.Dee says “No Mama,” she says. “Not Dee, ‘Wangero Leewanika Kemanjo!” “What happend to ‘Dee’?” I wanted to know. “She’s dead,” Wangero said. “I couldn’t bear it any longer, being named after the people who oppress me (701).” Dee believes that the name Wangero holds more power and significance than Dee, the name passed down through four generations. Dee dose not want to accept the heritage assocated with her real name.Dee’s belief that she was named after her oppressors shows a critical lack of understanding. Quick to judgment, she sees her given name as an emblem of a racist, abusive world, as opposed to a tribute to a long line of strong women. Dee’s decision to take on a new name highlights the confused views she has of her

The short story “Jesse” by Joy Boothe tells the story of how the narrator came to name her son. The storyline takes place over the course of 22 years starting with the narrator being five years old. In the beginning, the narrator is disgusted by the name Jesse as it reminds her of her alcoholic and emotionally unstable great uncle Jesse Long, who ultimately ends up committing suicide. The story progresses and the narrator meets kind and loving black man called Jesse, and thus her perception of the name changes for the better.

“That’s disrespectful. Seriously I think Alison, your great grandmother, probably lied about the whole story anyway. Alison was trying to get my sisters to stop arguing about dating dark guys. Besides I’ve never heard about the civil war story from any other family members. You should just talk about why you want to keep your last name and what the name means to you.” my mother smirked, I saw the gears in her head turning “Have you guys actually explained

To begin with in, “By Any Other Name” written by Santha Rama Rau throughout the story it tells how Santha and her sister Premila go to an Indian school where everyone only speaks English, but toward the end it tells how the both sisters were treated for having a different race.Rau reveal, At The Anglo-Indian day school in Zorinabad to which my sister and I were sent when she was eight and I was five and half they changed our names” (43). The headmistress decided to change the girls name simply because the names were difficult to pronounce. The names that the headmistress gave were English names, since almost everyone who went to that school spoke English and keep their culture