The Dress

This piece has a woman looking at her reflection in a shattered mirror, the bold text reads, ‘You Are Not Yourself.’ I chose to discuss this piece first because of its relevance to our most recent reading, The Last Time I Wore A Dress, by Daphne Scholinski. It encapsulates the stereotype that society has created for what is considered appropriate and inappropriate for someone to identify as a female. Throughout the book, Daphne struggles with her gender identity, she writes, “It was the doctors who came up with the idea that I was “an inappropriate female” – that my mouthy ways were a sign of deep unease in my female nature and that if I learned tips about eyeliner and foundation, I’d be a lot better off” (Scholinski 6). In our lecture about

Greed plays a huge part in some families especially between siblings. Sharing family heirlooms can be the cause great conflict in families, this is one example, through which sibling's greed becomes evident. This and other types of greed tear one family apart in Alice Walker’s “Everyday Use”. In some cases, one may feel as if they would be able to take better care of the desired heirloom instead of their sibling or siblings. This and other forms of greed are destructive to the family in, “Everyday Use”. This small family that includes a mother and her two daughters go through some trying different word times in life. The oldest daughter, Dee, is extremely different than both her mother and her younger sister, Maggie. Dee wants nothing but the best in life and does not seem to care about what she must do to get what she believes she needs. The world has never told Dee no, until her mother refuses to give her their family quilts, but insists on giving them to Maggie. After this conflict, Dee leaves her mother and sister’s home.

The narrator is a young girl who has the simple chore of ironing. The poem “Ironing Their Clothes” has a significant impact since it shows the interaction between the family members. The poem relates the story of the family life while tells about the child ironing. The reader can appreciate the enormous love that the girl has for her father, mother, and old sister.

Her unforeseen actions are due to the rest care tradition, which has progressively worsened her mental state and caused her to overlook her role as a caring wife in desperation to escape the imprisonment of the tradition. As witnessed from the two short stories, conflicts arise amidst families due to the events of old traditions, establishing a divide between family members that is difficult to overcome once constructed.

In the text it states "I moved the red sweater to the corner of my desk with my ruler." This shows that Rachel acted like a child because only children like to move weird or discusting things with something that's not their hand. Also, this shows that Rachel was scared of touch the sweater because she felt embaressed by Mrs.Price.

Walter Mosley’s novel, Devil in a Blue Dress, explores the racial prejudices in Los Angeles during the 1940’s. The novel takes place in 1948, when the United States was still legally segregated into black and white communities and when people divided themselves into lower and upper classes. Easy Rawlins, the main character in the book, is an ordinary lower class African American worker, who faces limited opportunities and little money to live on. Throughout the novel, Easy Rawlins experiences firsthand the blatant racism prevailing in 1948. Walter Mosley’s novel reveals how life was in Los Angeles after WWII, before the civil rights movement. By viewing an American city from the perspective of a black lead character, Devil in A Blue Dress helps one become more conscious of how racial barriers have appeared in the eyes of African-Americans.

Well Rachel did When the teacher said, “Who owns this sweater?”, a girl said it was Rachel’s. The teacher said “I remember you wearing it Rachel.” Rachel felt butterflies in her stomach because she knew it was not hers, and it was disgusting. Also, no one stood up for her.This means, it is just one more reason why Rachel should learn to stand up for herself. Rachel was very lonely on her 11th birthday. This is important to notice because, No one was there to make her feel special. Rachel learns to stand up for herself because sometimes others are afraid to

Rachel’s understanding of age reflects her age to grow up. From her point of view, the older you get, the wiser you are. This is why she doesn’t try to keep arguing with Mrs. Price when accused of being the owner of the red sweater. “Today I wish I was one hundred and two instead of eleven because if I was one hundred and two I’d have known what to say when Mrs. Price put the red sweater on my desk.” Rachel feels that if she was older than Mrs. Price then she would've been able to deny that the red sweater was hers. Being able to shut in her emotions, however, shows off her maturity. All the while she was having a heavy internal conflict, she didn’t let it show on the outside.

In reading this story we find a woman tired of being a mother, a wife and of her life in general. "The sight of them

After the death of her husband, Mother struggles to keep her family together by providing the support and guidance they need, and encouraging them to use good judgment and think of the family as a whole before making their decisions. As the family faces various obstacles, each seemingly more severe than the last, Mother begins

People resort to many things when they want to escape from something oppressive. Many will resort to fantasies to free themselves from the harshness of reality. Living in a false sense of reality ensures that a person does not have to face her own problems. In the short story, “The Dress” by Marta Jara, Jara develops the idea that a person’s will to escape may be driven by her isolation and imprisonment. When an individual is isolated and lonely she could become desperate and dominated by the thought and need for attention. She may become willing to go extreme lengths to be noticed and to ultimately escape.

Also, it develops children’s reading skill and give confidence of reading. For example, chronological order is the basic order in narrative order that helps the story to flow smoothly and easily by following the story time step by step. Even though most of the book order is chronological order they have their own way to tell the story which is called variation in narrative form, it is form that they helps easy to understand the story and character’s feeling, though and action. Then variations in representations of time, which is known as a flashback, it is form that tells past of the story and through these readers can know the background of the story or helps, remind that what the character was like before, also we could find what will happen in future events (Lukens et al, 2012, p. 141 – 144). Therefore, without these three types of narrative order, children might have difficulties to read and understand the story or in worse case they might lose the interest of reading a

When the narrator accepts her decision of being on Flora’s side, she also realizes and acknowledges her powerlessness in her own situation. This realization resolves her internal conflict about what gender’s roles she can fulfill around the house – no matter how much she longs to work outdoors with her father, she is a girl, and there is nothing she can do to change that. The narrator’s action of holding the gate open for Flora was a symbolic cry for help, because she, perhaps unbeknownst to her, saw the parallels between her own and Flora’s situations, and freed Flora in a quiet plea for someone to open the gate that confines her and allow her to run free and do as she wishes. Saying that “that was the only thing I could do” (Boys and Girls;

Many people wonder whether terrible things happen because of fate or because of their actions. In the story “The Necklace” by Guy de Maupassant, a young woman named Mathilde borrowed a diamond necklace from her friend and lost it. She secretly bought another diamond necklace to replace it and lived for ten years in poverty before discovering that her friend’s necklace had fake diamonds instead of the real ones she bought with which she replaced it. Mathilde is a victim of her own desires because she is not responsible, she is not honest, and she has a very poor attitude.

I don’t think the story not being in chronological order affect it one bet. To me it gives the novel a sense of being by moving around in time to past and present. I think that O'Brien structured the story this way to give it a more realistic feel. I day this because the short story is written as the narrator remembers it happening. That’s why the story goes from talking about the war to his time with Martha. To me he wrote it this way to let the readers make there own conclusion about the order of things. One can compare the order of the story to his time in the war, confusing and