Swans: A Narrative Fiction

Her head was down. ‘Don’t touch me,’ she said. “Please don’t touch me.’” Through their disagreement the little flame of love that once was a tremendous flame has now dwindled down to the smallest dying ember left. Her words are like daggers piercing the heart of Jake Barnes who longs for her. She denies him of everything he wants with her, but she will not let him leave her side, but rather have him some torturous limbo crushing his heart every time there is a slight chance she gives him. Another example of this would be when she comes to visit him after they went out drinking and she left with the count to go have some fun. “I have to go.’ ‘You don’t have to.’ ‘Yes I do’”. This is her telling him goodbye after they kiss. She keeps saying that she loves him and they reject the idea of a unsexual relationship with him. This longing for her just cuts deeper into Jake.

Ethos- Uses authors, economists, students and even cites herself to help establish her as an expert, makes her arguments more believable.

Childhood is arguably the most exciting time of a person’s life. One has few responsibilities or cares, and the smallest events can seem monumentally thrilling. Often, people reflect on the memories of their youth with fondness and appreciation for the lessons they learned. Sarah Orne Jewett captures this essence perfectly in the excerpt from “A White Heron.” Jewett uses many literary devices, including diction, imagery, narrative pace, and point of view to immerse the reader in familiar feelings of nostalgia and wonder, and dramatize the plot.

One’s view on something often changes when you look at it from more than one point of view. Morality plays a significant role in any decision making process. It is hard to justify any decision that is not moral. Sarah Orne Jewett’s “A White Heron” has many elements of nature, and of the preservation of what Sylvia holds dearly. The thought provoking short story evokes emotions of caring, loving, and fear. All of these emotions are shown by different settings and characters in the story.

De-Hong helps clean up the carnage cause by all the civil war. When the communists take over the town, they do not pillage, rape, or extort as all the other groups of people had done before them. Many are courteous and kind and

His mind reeled in such agony that he dropped the blade he had drew and clamped his hands over his ears, slamming his eyes shut as the voice grew louder. "...As for why you are here, what you are looking for...I do not know. But I have a guess as to what you want." So loud. "...I did not think you would take so long." His jaw clenched as his teeth crushed together, his knees almost buckling. What was she doing? It was all...

In the book of Wild Swans: Three daughter of China by Jung Chang tells about the experiences of the life of Chang’s Mother, Grandmother, and Chang herself. The book starts off with Chang’s Grandmother Yu-fang. She was forced to be a concubine for a warlord general at a young age. She eventually escapes with her child after marrying a wealthy doctor, she continue to raise her child even rejected by her husband’s family. De-hong a happy girl who grew up normal until she start getting into politics. De- hong joined the Kuomintang party until the communist beat them. She then married Wang, an officer in the army, and they both began working for the Communist party where they are prosecuted for their affiliation and sent to detention camp. Chang is born in the middle of this political turmoil, she grew up through many of the hardship of China. The role of women and family in society was important and it changes throughout the story of each woman. The time of Chang 's great-grandfather “following the custom, my great-grandfather was married young, at the fourteen, to a woman six years his senior. It was considered one of the duties of a wife to help bring up her husband.”(Chang, Jung. ""THREE-INCH GOLDEN LILIES"" In Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China, 2. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1991.) Therefore in the lives of the three woman it will tell us about the role of women and family in the society .

"Look at you, you weak bitch. On your knees, where you fucking, belong." He laughed, a cold, merciless sound that matched the expression on his face as he slapped her, almost tauntingly with his meat again, the sound of flesh slapping against flesh loud in the night air, and then forced her head back, and her body to arch with the impetus with which he jerked on her hair. His feet moved forward and he planted them either side of her shoulders. "That's right, you're going to do anything I want." She'd had more than ample opportunity to utter the safe-word he told himself, as the whip arced again, this time cracking six inches above her thigh, before the leather tails struck skin and curled around her thigh, and simultaneously the string of the corset was ripped, rather than pulled open, and Lila Ross's tits feel free. A large rough hand quickly grasped one in it's palm, and Tom stepped forward, swinging the whip again as he squeezed, and stepped forward; his raging and throbbing manhood at the woman's eyes level. "You don't want me to hurt you, then open your fucking mouth and beg for me to screw it, like your husband wouldn't

The curve of her lips is so dainty, so bloodred, like the perfect cut through the jugular. Stop. I tell myself. You’re not him right now. Those taunting lips, though, I can see them on the rim of a crystal glass of champagne, spiked with perhaps Belladonna, a fitting name, a fitting death for this beautiful lady. I shake my head, drawing it out of the haze of who I am, who I want to be at that moment. She tilts her head slightly and those lips move, forming words I don’t comprehend.

Coping is expending conscious effort to solve personal and interpersonal problems, and seeking to master, minimize or tolerate stress or conflict. Everyone copes with political and cultural changes differently. It depends on what the individual thinks about the change; whether they believe it is positive or negative, if that person is afraid to voice their opinion, or if the change benefits them is some way, such as gaining power. Usually an opinion about a change is due to: individuals’ backgrounds, what they believe, what they’ve experienced, what they’re afriad of. Basically everything about them and the way in which they have been living their lives up until the point of change. Wild Swans, by Jung Chang, is about three generations of women

Throughout our lives, we will all experience the occurrences of political and cultural changes. How we cope with this alteration can set our paths for the near or far future though it may not be clear at the time. In the autobiography Assignment Rescue a man by the name of Varian Fry voluntarily goes to Europe to try to help the men and women on Hitler’s list escape. Regardless of the dangers he set out to help. In the book Wild Swans three generations of women have their experiences told. Each one of them deals with political and cultural changes particularly with women. Finally the Novel Things fall apart focuses on a man named Okonkwo who throughout the stories suffers from the aggressive cultural changes brought upon by the Christian European

Although A White Heron is such a short story it says so much about America and some

Karl leaned over, "A weak whore, that's all you are. Can't stand up to your Father, can't stand up to me." As he hissed the words, he stepped to the side of the bed, hooked his fingers into her hair at the nape and shoved her head down so that her cheek was pressed to the mattress. Simultaneously, he drew back his arm, and a moment later the crack of leather striking denim filled the room, and bounced off the walls. "Look at you. On your knees, allowing yourself to spanked like a naughty fucking schoolgirl", Karl

With a rough jerk, he wrenched one arm behind her, then did the same with the other. He placed his lips next to the Lexi's ear, and pressed his heavy chest to her body to maintain control over her movements as he looped the belt under her arms, and bound her wrists together at the small of her back. The mocking continued as he ran the tip of his cock down between her cheeks, until it pressed against her puckered hole. "Tell him that I fucked you up the ass?" Teasing. Taunting. In total command. "Contemplate how good that's going to feel while I'm using your cunt, Lexi. Something for you to look forward to." She was his to do with as he pleased. "I own you,

SWANS – A RELOCATED FAIRYTALE is inspired by a Hans Christian Anderson fable. The script shines with imagination and creativity. The idea of a rather poor pickpocket teaming up with a rich, but spoiled princess to break a spell and save their families has strong merit. It’s a nice setup for conflict and romance.