Tension In Confetti Girl

Pastan displays a parent remembering when his or her daughter was being taught to ride a bicycle in lines 1-10. They were guiding the bike while running next to the girl, when she started to pull away and ride for herself. This represents how throughout the first years of a girls’ life she is being guided by her mother or father, but when she reaches a certain age she is no longer in need of their help. In lines 11-17, the parent is nervously waiting for his or her daughter to crash, but the daughter is still peddling, getting faster and more dangerous as she rides along. In life as a girl grows up she starts to do things alone, and the parent feels like they are losing their daughter. This worries the parent who is no longer next to her to catch her if she falls. Then, in lines 18-24, the girl riding the bicycle is having a great time, and the parent knows that he or she is too far away to catch her fall. In “For a Daughter Leaving Home,” it shows the view of the girl from the perspective of the mother or father as she rides away in the lines that read, “the hair flapping / behind you like a / handkerchief waving / goodbye.” As

The bond between the women is like a knot just like the knot tied around Mr. Wrights neck when he was strangled and also how the women will 'knot' tell even through they solved the murder. This theme of the knot is crucial to the plot of the play. The other helpful explaination was of the preservative jars. I thought of the obvious symbolism behind it but Smith discusses how there is one jar left like the remaining secret of the motive. The specific pages I listed for this work were definitely the most helpful.

During the weeks Molly spends with Vivian, she learns a lot from Vivian. Most important, she realizes that Vivian also had a difficult childhood but was able to overcome her bad experiences and lead a happy life. Molly’s realization reflects the theme of the book: learning about the experiences

One reason why the narrators and their parent's relationship becomes more distant and full of tension is because of their different interests in thing. In paragraph 26 of the passage Confetti Girl, It states "...Why should I eat when my own father has abandoned his food? Nothing's more important than his books and vocabulary words. He might say I matter, but when he goes on a scavenger hunt for a book, I realize that I really don't." This quote explains that the narrator feels that her own father cares more about books and vocabulary then he does about her. She gets frustrated and wonders why she should be eating when her father left his own food looking for a book. The tension is created because the narrator does have a high interest in books, but her father in the other hand does. She wants him to give more attention to her rather that his precious books.

In “Confetti Girl” by Diana Lopez and “Tortilla Sun” by Jennifer Cervantes are about two different points of views from the kids and parents, causing tension. “Confetti Girl” is about a girl who disagrees with her dad about her school work. She wants to play and focus on soccer, but her dad wants her to focus on her schoolwork. In “Tortilla Sun” is also about a girl who disagree with a parent. Her mother is going away to Costa Rica to finish her studies and she has to send her daughter to live with her grandmother she barely knows in New Mexico. In these two stories the children are disagreeing with their parents’ better judgments. I believe that what caused the tension is that the parents and kids aren’t agreeing on the same thing so it causes tension.

Furthermore, the author explores the tone of the novel by providing specific details. In An-mei's childhood story, the author chooses to describe the pain An-mei feels as the soup pours over her by providing details of the twinge. She describes it as "the kind of pain [specially] terrible that a little child should never remember it" and how it still remains "in [An-mei's] skin's memory" (Tan 39). By depicting these details of the pain, Tan expresses the feeling of misery An-mei feels, which appends to the melancholy tone. Additionally, in the story of Ying-ying's first marriage, the author presents explicit details of the emptiness Ying-ying feels by portraying details of her as "a tiger that neither pounce[s] nor lay[s] waiting between the trees" and "an unseen spirit" (Tan 285). This emptiness Ying-ying feels seems to indicate the melancholy tone that appears noticeable in the novel. Clearly, the details Amy Tan chooses to describe in the novel seem to specify the somber tone.

As the story progresses, the theme changes from being comical to being violent. Also, the reader's perception of the grandmother becomes more intense . As O'Connor said, "[t]here is a change of tension from the first part of the story to the second where the Misfit enters, but this is no lessening of reality" ("On" 176). The presence of the Misfit causes the story to become more of a mystery; therefore, the actions of the grandmother also become a mystery because the reader doesn't know what to expect from her. It is a surprise to the reader to find the grandmother become so sincere. The grandmother tries many traditional methods to keep the Misfit from killing

This opposition adds tension to the story. The story informs, “Mom was always bugging me to make friends, which I didn’t see the point of, considering we moved every few months. And we moved for all sorts of reasons: closer to the university for her…(paragraph thirty one)” This shows how the mom cared about her finishing her studies and not how her daughter felt. A few of the reasons why they moved was for the mom and not caring about the girl’s thoughts. That relates to the other character in Confetti Girl. Another idea the author illustrates is, “Opportunity? For me? Or for you? (paragraph thirty four)” This statement depicts that the mom cares most about her studies and is trying to make it seem like it is an opportunity for the protagonist.the girl realizes this as she argues that it is only is the mother’s chance to become successful. The mom did not put her child before her which is generally what parents do. The final quote that the author uses to show selfishness in the parent is, “‘I’ve brought your suitcase.’ She stood outside my door for what seemed like forever. I pictured her on the other side, arms crossed, head down. (paragraph forty four)” This shows the mom’s dedication to get her daughter out of her way and not thinking about her feelings. The mom only has her eyes set on finishing her university. The suitcase she had at the

When writing a story, authors have to worry about ways to add tension to the conflict. To add to this aspect of a story, authors can make a twist in the plot, use more sensory detail, or introduce new characters. In Diana Lopez’s realistic fiction, “Confetti Girl,” and Jennifer Cervantes’s, “Tortilla Sun,” both the narrators have different perspectives from their parents. In the stories,”Confetti Girl,” and ,”Tortilla Sun,” the fact that the narrators have different perspectives from their parents adds tension to the conflicts by having characters disagree on a certain topic.

There are many literary elements that contribute and help to further explain the theme of Susan Glaspell’s one-act play, “Trifles”. The theme of isolation in “Trifles” can be backed up by multiple dramatic literary elements that are very evident in the story. Characters can help support the theme in many ways by difference in gender, how isolation affects the theme, and how they work together. Another literary element that is crucial to the theme of isolation is the setting of a lonely farm house back in the woods unseen by the public from the road. Lastly, the literary element of conflict relates to the theme of isolation in the many ways that conflict brings out isolation between the characters in the play. The theme of isolation in “Trifles”

The reactions in Trifles reveal to the reader how heavily defined gender roles were in the early twentieth century. The two genders quickly form separate bonds with one another in this play. The men of this time dominate every aspect of this story. They make sarcastic jokes at the women when they start to show concern about things that appeared out of the norm in Mrs. Wright’s house. The first thing they noticed is the broken can goods when the Sheriff says, “Well, you can beat the women! Held for murder and worryin’ about her preserves” (Glaspell 1245). This tone of voice reveals how the men did not take the women seriously. They laugh at the women’s idea of trifles but as Phyllis writes, it is “their attentiveness to the "trifles" in her life, the kitchen things considered insignificant by the men, the two women piece together, like patches in a quilt, the

Poor Gertrude has made the pathetic journey from blissful ignorance to wretched half-enlightenment, and her peace of mind is totally destroyed.  Likewise, Ophelia is totally changed within the course of the play.

Crying over spilled milk is silly, right? Worrying about the little, mundane things is pointless and a waste of time. In Susan Glaspell’s one-act play Trifles, she demonstrates how being sensitive to the subtle details can be vital to solving a mystery. Throughout the one-act play, Glaspell highlights the theme of gender roles through the women’s worries, irony, and symbolism.

The distress of the lady needing to free the lady who she feels will be trapped inside those yellow wallpaper influences those move of the story in that it makes the spectator on address the mental solidness of the hero. This likewise makes the story should take a makeshift route from pity and sentimentality with mental angst, and at long last of the liberation from claiming all apprehensions and feelings through those breakdown of the lady. This gives those story with a complete tour and power of feelings that extent from the wonderful of the extreme, also provides for those spectator An reach from claiming separate sentiments that will wind with those consequent "piece and resistance" the place both the reader and the hero will have any desire

The original text centralizes around the idea of addiction. The four sisters are obsessed with what they think is a “stylish” and “elegant” process of smoking. Their addiction is hinted through their carefree conversation and ignorance towards the health hazards of smoking and their constant denial of their addiction being legitimate. The play encapsulates the audience with the ignorance of the four sisters and their late realization that their addiction will only result in bad (after recalling the death of their father, who passed away of throat cancer). The daughters attempt to quit smoking in the end, but whether that is successful or not is ambiguous. The daughters are prisoners of obsession and have such a late realization only after seeing the effect smoking has on someone within their circle. This shows the difficulty to get over an addiction and the bitter epiphany it takes for one to realize that they have an addiction