The Divine Secrets of the Ya Ya Sisterhood

The novel revolves around two women, Mariam and Laila. The novel takes place during a terrible time to live in Afghanistan, but things were especially hard for women. Their lives brought together and are forced to live through unimaginable situations. At first, they didn’t get along, but then a beautiful friendship began. Their friendship would eventually be their salvation. They both experienced incredible character development. Mariam and Laila’s childhoods were very different, which is explains their characteristics in the novel. Laila’s modern upbringing gave her courage, which inspired Mariam to take action in both of their lives.

The main character is sent by his father to stay with his grandmother. This is where you learn that the strong heart runs in the family. This is true because she is a seventy-eight year old woman and will still patch out two acres of corn and make enough bread for the winter to do what she can to keep her family feed.  In her old age she hasn’t kept the best health. Some days she is too sick to get out of the bed. The main character takes care of her he cooks all the meals for her and helps her start to feel better. Living with her he hears stories of his father and how he is an honest man. Also his grandmother tells him about his grandfather and all the great things he would do.  Living with his grandmother is a great experience for the main character because she brings him history of his family and teaches him many things on how to live a content life.

Regardless of how a child acts towards their parents, all that matters in the end is their unconditional love for them. However, the time it takes for them to express their gratitude will depend on each child. In the novel The Namesake, Jhumpa Lahiri demonstrates this, describing the life of a young boy named Gogol and his continually progressing relationship with his mother. It demonstrates that a child is unable to view his or her parents as a human being until the parent figure experiences a traumatic event that allows the child to empathize with their parents.

The author, Marjane Satrapi, shows the details and complexities of the conflict the protagonist faced during her journey of growing up and evolving. Over all in the story the protagonist does a good job pointing out that it is a struggle before finding one’s true

The main reason that this book has an excellent storyline is because of the description of each story event and its process that fascinates and mesmerises the audience by capturing their attention in the author’s most meaningful experiences. The author was able to take on the challenge of fitting her autobiography into a limited amount of pages without affecting the quality of the story, making it more appealing. The author was able to achieve this as she only wrote out the main events that affected her life immensely. As a result, the story delivers a very straightforward and meaningful plotline. For example, the author would put in interesting events from every grade, like where she talks about her wanting to go to school and nothing else in the first chapter. This book also has a good storyline because of the different decisions that Samanci had to make as she wrote the story on how she developed in different kinds situations, which resulted in her having to choose between different paths in every critical turning point of her life. For instance, after getting in trouble many times at the prestigious high school, Samanci decided to go to a public school and ended up getting into a university that she dreamed of, a decision that makes the story develop much faster and captures the audience’s attention. In addition, the author used very humorous ways of telling the reader of the political aspect in Turkey, like when she talked about how Turkey’s leader Ataturk revolutionized the country and how Turkey banned a lot of foreign products at the time. These examples and ways of delivering the story’s meaning all reflect how Samanci wrote a superb story.

Much like the country of Afghanistan, characters in A Thousand Splendid Suns carry on through tough times and loss. Mariam and Laila persevere through unhealthy relationships with their mothers, as well as their abusive relationship with Rasheed. Through their character growth throughout the book, they grow into strong individuals. The war that has greatly damaged their country leads them to be able to overcome anything in their lives. Through this character growth, strength and perseverance through tough times proves to be the most prominent and important theme in the

Throughout the passage, Katherine Anne Porter creates a story using figurative language, imagery, and dialogue to develop some of the characters emotions that are portrayed. All of these emotions the characters are feeling helps the reader understand more of the story and can aid in the knowledge of what is taking place.

On the other hand, it could be articulated that the female characters in both the novels have proved their mental instabilities, individualisms and rebelliousness have disturbed the lives of others. Moreover, it could be analyzed in the novels that both the author in their social context has explained the dark secrets of the life of individuals.

In my opinion, the author, Ruta Sepetys, moves the novel in an interesting fashion. I liked how there are many characters and how there is a lot of things happening. The author kept the reader interested at all times throughout the novel. The author, Ruta Sepetys, who writes historical non fiction books just as this novel, was born the daughter of a Lithuanian Refugee which may have influenced her to write this very novel. It is geared in a positive way due to Joana, a main character in the novel, helping to portray this with her nursing skills. Seeing the book in the Character of Joana’s eyes affects the overall novel in many different ways. Some may be on Joana’s good side and others may be on her bad side.

By going into the personal life of the main characters Hersey makes connections between them and the readers, allowing the reader to understand the position the characters are in and understand the horrid things that occur to them. For example, when the bombs go off the first thing that Mr. Tanimoto does is run towards the bomb site it in an attempt to find his wife and child. This situation reaches many readers as they realize that in a similar situation they would run towards disaster in order to help their loved ones, even in the risk of potential dangers. In another situation, when the bomb drops Mrs. Nakamura faces a situation where her three children are buried under rubble and she can only hear one of them. Any parental figure reading this would be petrified by the situation, knowing that one second their child is quietly sleeping behind them and the next they are quiet under piles of rubble would frighten anyone.

Alexie draws in the reader by first telling a short story about her father back in the 1970’s. Alexie then goes on in briefly telling the reader what prison was like for their father. Eventually moving on to how the father met the mother and the relationship they father and mother had. This is an interesting take on the way a child views their father and mother and how the father has craved freedom. The fluidity of this short piece is excellent, it is not choppy and it gives just enough detail without dragging the story out. It also helps that this piece is an easy read. One of the things that I enjoyed from the piece was the comparison to how Indians would live compared to different races mentioned in the piece. I though it gave the Victor the narrator some personality. Victor also does a lovely job on creating the images of what his parents and their relationship, as well as his love for his father. The analogy of Jimi Hendrix and freedom for the freedom was easy to pick up on, especially for when the father had bought himself a motorcycle and found the freedom he craved (something Jimi Hendrix heavily

Rebecca Wells paints a picture of the various roles that women often must encounter in their lives: mother, daughter, friend. As said by Charlotte Observer "She [Wells] speaks eloquently to what it means to be a mother, a daughter, a wife-and somehow, at last, a person." Wells uses a captivating style to create a simple plot, memorable symbolism and a reoccurring theme of friendship. The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood teaches about the importance of giving and receiving love and finding joy in everyday life.

This book is filled with many emotions. It allows you to brainstorm on the next events of the story. I chose this book because the cover gave an image that was curious, which I was anxious to finds lots about. The predictions from the book gave me ideas as I read. During the story, I made several images in my mind to understand it closely. In my view, this story was adventurous. This book will have you wondering what will happen next!

The construction of the characters and their relation is also important to the perception of the story. Given the fact that the story is told from the perspective of Lane, it is interesting that Sheri’s character is described in a flat and static way. The author makes a

In this essay I wrote about the meaning behind literary elements like symbolism tone and theme. Amy Tan in my opinion did a great job at showing emotion from all the conversions in this book and it really make the characters feel alive. She also did great at showing the theme of family between all the characters. Her symbolism also make you think and it even made a lot of thing that happened in earlier in the book make more sense. Not all their wishes work out how they wanted them to they are still family and still love each