The Destruction Of A Child In Shakespeare's Lizabeth

Now Mrs. Greenleaf was a fat, dirty woman who did not take care of care of her family nor her house. She was one of the neighbors close by and the wife of her employee, Mr. Greenleaf. Mrs. Greenleaf would spend all of her time doing “prayer healing”. That is, taking clippings of bad stories out of the paper and burring them in the woods. She would then do some ritual over them. Her husband worked for Mrs. May and was always had to be told more than once to do something before he would actually do it.

In “Marigolds” by Eugenia W. Collier, Lizabeth and the children view Miss Lottie as an ugly and unpleasant woman prior to the ultimate destruction of the marigolds, and Lizabeth’s understanding of Miss Lottie changes when she realizes the struggle and hard times, Miss Lottie has live through. In order to pass their time during summer, Lizabeth and the children hide in the bushes near Miss Lottie’s house to annoy her and have some fun, and when Miss Lottie spots them and tells them to go away, Lizabeth comes out of the bushes and chants (later joined by children), “Old witch, fell in a ditch, picked up a penny and thought she was rich!” (35). Calling Miss

The role parents play in a child’s development is critical. They are the people who have the most influence on them, effecting most aspects of even their adult life. When too controlling, the role of a parent can have lasting negative consequences for the child. In the play, Hamlet, by William Shakespeare, the author shows that loss of an authoritative parent leaves people trying to replace the loss of that control in unhealthy ways that destroy the person. This can be seen in the lives of Ophelia, Hamlet and Laertes, who all loose a controlling father.

At the end of the story, Lizabeth changes into a better person as she begins to learn the same philosophy Miss Lottie lived by. Since Lizabeth views her life as an epitome of failure, she decides to make Miss Lottie’s one as well. After Lizabeth hears her parents arguing, she decides to destroy all of Miss Lottie’s hope by destroying her marigolds. She destroys a good

Miss Lottie’s old house symbolizes the deterioration of the entire nation during the Great Depression while the marigolds she plants represent hope in the face of despair. In detail, having Joey deciding to go to Miss Lottie’s house, Lizabeth describes the house as “...the most ramshackle of all [the] ramshackle homes.” (257). During the Great Depression, everyone has many money problems. So the fact that Miss Lottie’s house isn’t the best of all of the houses, shows how the Great Depression causes hardships. The Great Depression makes it so that the nation suffers in an ongoing poverty, which is why Miss Lottie’s house is very much broken. Furthermore, Lizabeth continues to describe the house when she states “a brisk wind might have blown it down… There it stood...a gray, rotting thing with no porch, no

This quote is from a night when Lizabeth could not sleep and heard her father crying for the first time. It was important for her because it helped her realize the gravity of her family’s situation. She was starting to see everything differently, a little more broken. Collier remembers thinking, “The world had lost its boundary lines. My mother was now the strength of the family; my father was sobbing like the tiniest child,” (4).

John got older and found someone else still remembering his beloved wife. Mr. John moved out of the farmhouse but knocked the house down so that all would be left there is Bessie. He never got over her but he was able to start a new life. The kids would go from time to time to stand around the spot where their mother laid to rest at. Bessie was the best woman ever because she would starve plenty nights before she watched her family starve. The reason of her being buried there behind the farmhouse was so that the family would never forget her and that she had no family left around. Bessie was a very young mannered woman who did her best at

All the Marigols And The Migrant Mother The Great Depression Era,a time in American history when the nation feel into a time of poverty and hopelessness. People standing in lines for hours for a bowl of soup and a piece of bread.When jobs were few no matter how desperatly people looked for them.Doing without and wondering if or when a better time would come. The story "Marigolds"by Eugenia Collier is the memories of Lizabeth, a fourteen year old black girl in rural Maryland.When I think of that time and place ,I only remember the dry September of the dirt roads and grassless yards of the shantytown where I lived.Memory is an abstract painting - it does not present things as they are,but rather as they feel. Another inconsistency of memory, a brilliant splash of sunny yellow against the dust, Miss Lottie's marigolds. Lizabeth has a lot of memories.Fishing for minnows with cupped hands just to have them slip away.Loafing around trying to find something to do.The Childrens favorit thing to do was to annoy Miss Lottie.An old Indian woman they called a witch. Why ,when her shack seemed like it would fall down at anytime would she have beautiful mounds of

In the play Romeo and Juliet, written by William Shakespeare, we learn of the many hardships and highs Romeo and Juliet go through over the course of the story. The play Romeo and Juliet is based off two star-crossed lovers who are separated from each other due to a feud between their two families. Their love is so strong that at the end of the story Romeo and Juliet both end up committing suicide because they can’t live without each other. Whether it is problems with love, or them complimenting each other on how they feel about the other person, Shakespeare uses many literary devices to make the reader dig deeper into the context to find the meaning behind the sentence. Some of the literary devices are; similes, metaphors, and personification.

The book tells the story of a kind and beautiful girl named Cinderella. who lives with her evil stepmother and two stepsisters. The stepsisters Anastasia and Drizella keep Cinderella busy all day, forcing her to do various chores such as cooking, cleaning, and sewing. One day a messenger comes to Cinderella’s home with an invitation to the royal ball, where all young ladies are invited to dance with the Prince and hopefully become his bride. Cinderella is ecstatic but her stepmother assigns her chores that keep her busy all day, and leaves for the ball with Anastasia and Drizella. Thoroughly disheartened, Cinderella goes out to the garden and cries. There

In this poem, Frost explains that nothing, especially that which is perfect and beautiful, can last forever. He gives several examples of this: The first green of spring is her hardest hue to hold. So Eden sank to grief. The novel tells the story of Ponyboy Curtis and his struggles with right and wrong in a society in which he believes that he is an outsider. Ponyboy and his two brothers, Darrel (Darry), who is 20, and Sodapop, who is 16 ... have recently lost their parents in an automobile accident.

“And then,” LeRoy recited, listening to Rachel’s crayon scratch along a piece of notepaper, “the beautiful princess broke free from the castle’s highest tower. The straw broke her fall, cushioning her from the cold ground, and she laughed as she realized how thoroughly her stepmother had underestimated her talent. She freed her steed from his moldy paddock and road as far away from the prison of her old home as she could. There was a prince for her to rescue and a whole world to see, and no matter where she ended up, she vowed to herself that she’d live to become happily ever after.”

Early in their lives, two young sisters, Ruth and Lucille, experience loss and abandonment from the men in the family. Their grandfather had died in a train derailment into Lake Fingerbone before they were born, and their father leaves them while they are very young. Then their mother commits suicide, but not before dropping the girls off on their grandmother’s porch. Moreover, then, “she sailed in Bernice’s Ford from the top of a cliff named Whiskey Rock into the blackest depth of the lake (23), again into Lake Fingerbone. After only a few months their grandmother dies leaving the girls to the remainder of the family, a collection of eccentric females. The girls deal with all of this by relying on each other. Soon, their great Aunt’s,

This story is about a wife named Louise Mallard who has heart trouble, so she must be informed carefully about her husband’s death. Her sister, Josephine, is unfortunately the one who has to break the news to newly widowed wife. One of her husband’s friends, Richard, learned about her husband’s death when he was reading the newspaper and heard about the crashing of a train that Brently was on. Louise is devastated when she learns of her husband’s death and runs upstairs to be alone. Louise sits down and ponders about life while looking out the window and hears a vendor yelling what he is selling. Still crying, she looks into the distance wondering what’s next. She is nervous for her life ahead and doesn’t know what she is going to do without her husband. She starts to think about what life is going to be like without having anyone telling her what to do, when to do it, or how to do it. She starts to feel warm inside knowing she is finally free. Louise knows she will become overcome with emotions when she is forced to see Brently’s body. She imagines the years

The events in the story are presented by the author in chronological order. The author introduces the main characters and the setting of the story at the beginning. The story takes place on a fine September night, under a silver moon outside on the porch of Petey’s home. “I’ll get my fiddle,” said the grandfather to his grandson Petey, “and play ye some of the old tunes.” Instead the grandfather brings a big, expensive, double blanket, that is red with black cross stripes which is a going away present from his son, Petey’s dad. Petey’s feelings are stirred because he knows that it is the last night he will be spending with his grandfather as he will be sent away in the morning. He sadly realized this when he saw the blanket. He wanted to cry but at the age of eleven, he felt that he was too old to do so. The grandfather played many old songs on his fiddle that reflect the joys and sorrows the family have experienced together. This shows the reader that the grandfather experiences a deep internal conflict. He probably experiences sadness and a little regret because he