The Bride Comes To Yellow Sky

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Alterations: Comparing the Changes Caused by Marriage of the two Bessie Head Short Stories, “Life” and “Snapshots of a Wedding”

Literary and commercial fiction are the two types of fiction that Authors all over the world present to readers. Commercial fiction always entertains readers and this is the point, to provide a story that anyone can enjoy. Literary fiction does not offer a clear way for one to understand and literary fiction is not created to be understood. Literary fiction makes readers do all the work and find meanings all by oneself. It is vital to be able to determine a literary work from a commercial one to fully grasp a work and the methods to determining one from another is easier than one thinks.

In the book Spoon River Anthology, author Edgar Lee Masters uses epitaphs to recap the lives of the Midwestern people that lived in a town called Spoon River. Masters awakens the souls of the people to tell the secrets of their lives and the myths of moral superiority of the town. Spoon River is an evil and corrupt city filled with sneaky, conniving people and a few good hearts. Spoon River Anthology describes the relationships and marriages of the people in the town. Some of the marriages were extremely happy and others were abruptly unhappy. In our society, the qualities of a happy marriage differentiate based off the concepts of a happy marriage in the book.

Do people disagree with their parents? What do they do? How do both sides react?In the short story “Biderbiks Don’t Cry” by Avi, a boy named Charlie goes to a dance, and comes home beat up. Charlie confronts to his dad and he gets irated. Through this story, the author unfolds the theme of bravery.

The Sheriff’s Wife of Dickson County Mrs. Peter’s the sheriff’s wife in the short story, “A Jury of Her Peers” by Susan Glaspell. Her knowledge of being a housewife is why her husband Sheriff Peter’s brought her along for the murder investigation at The Wright’s home. She did not know The Wright’s until Mrs.Wright was brought in after her arrest. Even with Mrs. Peter’s timid, helpful, and observant ways she still stayed true to her sex.

In the film Monsoon Wedding, Indian culture is illustrated in the practices of the traditional Punjabi wedding. The wedding in the film was arranged as is the norm in Indian culture. Thought the wedding was rushed it was not forced. Aditi wanted to be married having realised the uncertainty of her previous relationship with a married man.

----------------Another symbol in The Yellow Wallpaper is marriage. Marriage, in the eyes of the narrator represent a kind of imprisonment and suffocation by men. Because of her marriage, the narrator is held captive in the bonds of marriage and is unable to control her own mental stability. Her husband is often portrayed as a domineering man who treats the narrator as a child. He refers to his wife by; “a blessed little goose” and “Bless her little heart”. And at one point in the story he even says; “What is it little girl.” Though John is carful and loving, he is also domineering and condescending. In the marriage he, the husband, is the provider and caregiver and therefor will not allow the narrator to work.

Frankie feels she does not fit in with the people around her and feels she needs to change herself in order to fit in. She makes many changes to her life but in reality she only changes how she sees herself. Frankie feels like an outcast when her brother gets married and moves away. Frankie's need to belong does not change who she really is, just the way she sees herself. Frankie believes that by changing her name she can move with her brother and avoid being apart of the misfits. She wants to leave the life she has for a better life but realizes that she is who she is. It is explained, “The Member of the Wedding charts one young white girl's struggle to find a place in, or escape, the stable, if oppressive, racial and gender norms of a small Southern community” (Thurschwell). Frankie’s need to belong, changes her actions and decisions but her true self is still seen by others around her.

Aguilar 1 Aguilar, Kimberly English 28 Aksoy, Can December 8, 2014 Word Count 1,324 Comparative Paper When people rely on surface appearances and false racial stereotypes, rather than in-depth knowledge of others at the level of the heart, mind and spirit, their ability to assess and understand people accurately is compromised (James A. Fordes). In the Novel The Country Husband, A man name Francis Weed almost gets into a plane crash and realizes he gets another shot at life. He begins to have marriage problems which makes him have an affair with the baby sitter name Anne. At the end he realizes that he needs help and seeks for it. In the Movie Crazy stupid love, Cal Weaver realizes that his wife is having an affair with one of her co workers and instead of trying to fix it he relieves his stress by having one night stands.

Leslie Marmon Silko, the author of the narrative essay “Yellow Woman and a Beauty of the Spirit”, uses different techniques in her writing to catch the reader’s attention and make points clear, convincing, and engaging. Silko relies on three different structural components such as reflection or flashbacks, in order to effectively catch the reader’s attention and give show the overall central ideas of beauty and cultural inheritance. Silko also uses her experiences with other characters in order to make her points clear, convincing, and engaging.

Described as utopian in nature, the Chinese culture is often in pursuit for the perfect individual, a harmonious and structured society where the citizens as a whole create the ideal culture. In a collection of short stories entitled The Bridegroom, author Ha Jin documents this aspect of reality in homeland China. Primarily for the purposes of instruction and satirical verse, Ha Jin, shows how people are trying to find themselves in a society that focuses on the ‘whole’ of the country rather than the individual. He is able to interconnect this theme of individualism through four major stories in the book while presenting ‘Chineseness’ or satire of fictional verse as a way to focus on the changes throughout China

This joint family, like any social organization, must face problems such as acceptable division of work, relationships and specific family roles. These familial relationships are managed on the basis of a secular hierarchical principle. In fact, all Indians owe respect and obedience to the head of the family, who usually is the father or the oldest man of the family community. In The Gift of a Bride: A Tale of Anthropology, Matrimony and Murder by Nanda and Gregg, it is explained that, “females [are] placed under the perpetual guardianship of first their fathers and elder brothers, then their husbands.” (Nanda & Gregg 22) Thus, all the spending decisions, studies and profession, or marriage, are exclusively the responsibility of the father after the possible discussions with the other men of the family. Age and sex are the basic principles of this hierarchical system. The eldest sons enjoy greater unchallenged authority than their cadets. Of course men have more authority than women, but older married women have an important role within the family. In fact, the authority of a woman depends on the rank of her husband inside the group. Traditionally, the wife of the patriarch rules over domestic affairs and has considerable power over the other women in the community, especially her daughters- in-law.

Monsoon wedding”(2007), an award winning movie, directed by mira nair. Features widely known Indian actors, such as Vasundhara Das, Naseeruddin Shah and Vijay Raaz.

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