'Symbolic Elements In Granmother And Poppy'

Annabella teaches Kira a few things about dyeing her own threads but later dies. At the end of the story, Kira finds out that her father is actually alive, and she meets him for the first time. In this essay, you will read about the main conflict, the setting, about the characters, and some of the fantasy elements that were used.

It showed the narrators attempt to have normalcy and sanity during the time of being locked away. Her husband banned her from spending anytime doing anything active, but to her it’s a way to release her mind. When the women is caught writing in her notebook she has it taken away, but soon finds a way to sneak behind her husband’s back and secretly write. Too many people, writing can be therapeutic in which it allows them to ease feelings of emotional pain. During the time in 1892, women kept their thoughts to themselves, afraid that if they allowed someone else to know, that they would face “social discrimination”. When the notebook was taken away from the women, this made her have to tuck away her thoughts and it eventually led to

While communicating her main story, Griffin puts into words two other incidents in order to help the readers understand her notions. These two storylines are placed seemingly in a random way in italicized sentences between passages throughout the essay. The first are descriptions

1. What piece of paper did the author’s mother carry for twenty years, and why did she carry it?

Through her use of diction, imagery, and syntax in her story, "Marigolds" Eugenia Collier captures the voice of an adult looking back on a significant event from her childhood. When the narrator thinks about her past she remembers, "I opened my swollen eyes and saw in front of me a pair of large, calloused feet; My gaze lifted to the swollen legs, then the shadowed Indian face surrounded by stubby white hair" (Collier 22). These words are examples of imagery because it captures the narrator's voice as a sacred child looking up at the old woman. Another example of diction is when Eugenia Collier writes 'I leaped furiously into the mounds of marigold and pulled madly, trampling and pulling and destroying perfect yellow blooms" (Collier 21). This

The slips of paper are used to expose the symbolism of words and the arbitrary relationship between an object and its label,

The narrator, Larry, is devastated when he receives a letter from Kitty, his younger sister informing him that she is unable to hold on to life much longer. This particular letter reminds him of a time long ago when she was

Throughout the excerpt the author compares letters and words that Estrella’s learning to the tools she already know. When she says “...so what is this..the scripts A’s had the curlicue of a pry bar, a hammerhead split line like a V…”(15-19) This portrays Estrellas confusion towards the letters on the chalkboard and her trying to make a connection with the tools she knows. She wants to understand the letters presented to her ,but struggles to do so making her feel frustrated and confused with her class. What added to the frustration were the hurtful words said to her. She compared them to “...rusted nails piercing the heels of her bare feet” (39-40) This comparison gives a reader a glimpse of how much hate and pain she has from learning this new language in her class. Another example is “the curves and tails or tools made no sense and the shapes were as foreign and meaningless to her as the lines on the blackboard.”(41-43) She tried to learn what they were teaching her, but she finds both irrelevant to her life and does not think she needs to know what each means. There is no pot in trying because she will never understand them. She sees no

By selecting which details to include Viramontes is able to depict Estrella’s change from being a perplexed child who does not read to someone who reads and understands the need to learn. Key idea worth developing--how does she arrive at this insight? Viramontes begins the excerpt with the question “So what is this?” (line 1) Then, she explains the red tool chest and Estrella's disorientation. She states, “Estrella hated when things were kept from her” (line 12) and the toolbox was an example of something that was kept from her, a secret.The toolbox held secrets and “funny shaped objects” (lines 6-7). All of which Estrella was unaware and uninformed about. Furthermore, in school Estrella is unable to learn essential skills, such as reading and writing, due to the fact that teachers will not answer her questions. Additionally, some teachers care more about Estrella’s hygiene rather than her education, this lack of interest in her

A writing technique that the author uses, is jumping around to different time periods. The main time periods she uses are the 1950s, the 2000s, and a few periods in between. This allows her to tell different stories, Henrietta’s

Lastly, Sarny is caught writing. She gets so excited learning her first word BAG and starts writing it everywhere. “Wrote it all over. BAG, BAG, BAG” (page 61).

From the time she was little the only family she had around was her mother, Linda. However, one day Penna makes a new discovery when she and her mother hear a strange noise in the attic. When they go up the ladder into the attic they find a small, frail killdeer. While she and her mother were on their way out, Penna sees a loose board with a letter underneath it. She grabs the letter before her mother, Linda, can see it and hides it in her room.

The paperhanger is a talented con artist. Working for Dr. Jamahl and his wife is one of the few jobs he has, because that is just the cover to what he does to women. The vanishment of the doctor’s daughter brings mystery to how she just so happened to disappear, bringing fury to those who search for her body. The story enhances enticing irony, vivid imagery, and alluring foreshadow as to what really happened to Zeineb, the child who is missing.

an impact on her life based on how she grew up. The two short stories The Flowers and

Susie worries most about her gifted and petulant sister Lindsay. Lindsay is only one year younger but still is not told directly about what's happened to Susie; instead she hears telephone snippets and bits of conversations between her parents and the police. After hearing her father describe Susie's features, she asks her father not to lie to her, so he doesn't; but even answering her question, he can't face the truth of his words. Susie watches Lindsay sitting alone in her bedroom trying to harden herself. As the story unfolds, it is clear that Lindsay carries the hardest burden, because no one will ever be able to look at her and not think about Susie. By losing her sister, Lindsay is in danger of being robbed of herself.