The Diary Of A Teenage Girl

The theme of struggling with identity, present in all three of the abovementioned films, is significant in characterizing the popular views of young women. In The Breakfast Club (1985), one of the leading characters, Claire Standish, is a spoiled, prim, popular princess at first glance. As the film progresses, the 1980’s cultural construction of young women begins to appear and as Claire comes forward with her sensitivity, stresses, and struggles she begins to rebel against the rules of detention by smoking marijuana in the school library and by kissing the “bad boy” that is serving detention with her. Claire’s rebellion reflects the adolescent angst present in the 1980s possibly caused by teenagers’ subjection to new music, more drug use and being further informed about diseases such as HIV and

In the short story “Girl”, by Jamaica Kincaid is told from the perspective of two different people. There is a bonding relationship that is happening between the two people in this short story. The mother seems to be the main character in this essay uses a very strict tone to her daughter. The daughter is being told about how to do things in her life the correct way. The daughter barely speaks during this essay, she is doing more analyzing than arguing with her mother. When the mother gives the daughter advise she was trying to give her words of wisdom. But, at the same time, some of the ideas the mother gave to her child was offensive like “slut”. The mother has different perspectives throughout this essay with a lot of different

Society is often seen to have different biases or perspectives on topics such as the role and perception of women. The short story, “Girl” by Jamaica Kincaid, consists primarily of a catalog of commands and instructions, the purpose of which is to make sure that the mother’s daughter is constantly in check and not getting into any trouble. Jamaica Kincaid utilizes a wide range of techniques such as symbolism and diction in order to showcase the theme of how the depiction of women rely mainly on how they present themselves in the public and how they are so easily described as impure or filthy.

People sometimes have tough ordeals. Some may act negatively toward the problem, but the people that act positively toward the problem are able to see hope in places where they wouldn’t expect it to be in. People have been through cruelty, yet they continue to stay positive. People still have the positivity to cling onto their last hope, or even continue to think positively when there is no hope at all. People like Anne Frank, in Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl, continue to stay positive throughout the horrible ordeals that have happened. Some of the Japanese in Dear Miss Breed: True Stories of the Japanese American Incarceration During World War II and a Librarian Who Made a Difference have continued to stay hopeful while in internment

The narrator of Jamaica Kincaid’s Girl, who is implied to be a mother, reveals much of her worldview through the story’s dialogue. In this dialogue, she both instructs and scolds her a girl who is implied to be her daughter. The instructions that the mother imparts to her daughter in Girl offer a deep insight into what the mother believes is good for her. In teaching these lessons, the mother is preparing her daughter for what she believes is her daughter’s future. Thus, these lessons are setting the expectations that she has for her daughter within her world.

Sex and relationships are recurring themes throughout the genre and are essential elements teen narrative. Their portrayal ranges from comic interactions to serious exchanges and emotional liberation from restrictive forces. Timothy Shary explains the significance of these two thematic threads: “Romantic longing and sexual curiosity take on heightened intensity and profundity for youth in the adolescent years struggle to recognise and cope with the emotional and psychological changes”(2002). The character’s experience with sex are usually comedic and linked to sexual discovery and loss of virginity, which are continually present topics in the narrative. It is is often a determinant that shapes teen identity, as well as providing a commentary on societal questions regarding a desire of intimacy. The sexual exploits between the teen male and female investigates teen behavior and the conceptualization of feelings and emotions in their discovery of identity.

Society has created in their minds the way a woman is supposed to act and the things they are allowed to do. In Jamaica Kincaid’s “Girl”, we see a young woman being forced to live by the likeness of the society in which she dwells. Although this is not the life she wants to live, she has no other choice than to become the woman she was made to be.

The year is 1979, 15-year-old Jamie (played by newcomer Lucas Jade Zummerman) is reading an excerpt from “Our Bodies Ourselves”, one of his newly acquired feminist essays to his mother Dorothea (cinema’s matriarch Annette Bening). He proclaims every line about the politics of the female orgasm with pride and satisfaction in regards to the rapid pace of his maturity. After excitedly finishing the last paragraph, his mother looks at him and says with tender anguish “Do you think you know more about me from reading that?”

When I first read through Jamaica Kincaid’s “Girl,” I’ll admit my first reaction to the piece was relief at the short length. However, as I processed what she was writing, my appreciation for the piece deepened. It is rapid and blatantly lays out the standards that Kincaid was held to during her childhood. It is written as though the reader is on the receiving end of a harsh set of rules, seeing their brutality from Kincaid’s perspective. Originally, I believed Kincaid’s purpose for writing this piece was to highlight the stark contrast in the treatment of men and women.

The short story Girl portrays a young girl, who is listening to a speaker, presumably someone of authority and most likely a maternal figure. The speaker (we never find out exactly who she is) spends a great deal of time passing on instructions to the girl. In the beginning of the story the speaker seems to be lecturing her, but as you continue to read, the tone changes to one that is more caring; it almost seems as though these instructions are meant to be sweet pieces of wisdom passed from one woman to another. The theme of this narrative displays the transition from adolescence to adulthood, and how as one goes through this transformation both their responsibilities and values grow and change through their every day experiences.

"I had sex today. Holy shit!" So is the sentence that begins Diary of a Teenage Girl, Marielle Heller's film adaptation of Phoebe Gloekner's eponymous graphic novel. We're introduced to our 15-year old heroine Minnie Goetze(Bel Powley) from the film's first shot, as the camera closes in her overly contented face, dreamy eyes, hipster-esque t-shirt (Micky Rat), and then tracks her is some really soothing slow-mo as she walks through a park lined with a group of 70s-era free-lovers (yes, there is a topless chick). Less than fifteen minutes later, however, when we find out how Minnie actually lost her virginity, it comes off as quite a shock, yet it doesn't diminish the adolescent sweetness that carries this scene.

Walters references the primary source His Girl Friday throughout, but also relies on the analysis of multiple secondary sources to support his arguments. Several film books and journal articles are used to explain how the film falls into the screwball comedy genre and plays with gender dynamics, but still has elements of a melodrama. Each contention is supported with specific scenes from the primary film source.

Even the name, Minnie makes the character smaller, which herself does not exist and is surrounded by mother and aunt. She just experienced the resistance through normal short daily excursions and this way imprisoned somehow through the story. So the repressed character is leaded to creating a story.

In the article ‘Into the Woods’: How Disney Tiptoed Around Johnny Depp’s Creepy, Sexualized Song,” Ashley Lee thoroughly displays the underlying motif of sexuality in a song part of a controversial portrayal of the children's tale, Little Red Riding Hood. In this article, Lee describes the way the song “Hello Little Girl” alludes to more mature topics than what may meet the eye of a young child, as well as the efforts of the directors to handle this bold topic. Through my essay, I intend to discuss the excess illustrations of double significance that are viewed through the duration of the song that Lee is writing on. Lee persuades her view on this by giving multiple examples from the scene of the movie,

Bridget Jones chronicles a year of her life via diary entries in Helen Fielding’s book, justly titled Bridget Jones’ Diary. The first-person narrative entitles readers to Bridget’s inner workings. Buried inside we find something much darker than her hapless-yet-cheery blonde exterior would suggest—calorie-counting compulsions, daily weigh-ins, ruminations about her romance life, and much more. Though blunt and revealing, Fielding’s account of a 32-year-old singleton’s life fails to subvert the woes its readership, and very own protagonist, face. Small advances on the frontline of feminism are made, but mostly, the message of the novel remains as unchanged as Bridget does come the end of the year. The message is of feminine upkeep, romantic pursuit, and ultimately, self-neglect.