The Fashionable Mrs Blue Essay

The novel, Girl in the Blue Coat by Monica Hesse takes place in the Netherlands during the German occupation of the Holocaust. A young girl, Hanneke, who is involved in a black market operation is faced with an unusual and presumably impossible task; she had to find the young Jewish girl that mysteriously disappeared from hiding, while in her neighbor's house. Throughout the novel, Hanneke learns many valuable lessons, which can also be applied to the readers lives, making the novel meaningful in my opinion.

“Why not?” cried Jo in surprise. “Isn’t this the land of do-as-you-please?” “Yes” said Silky. “But it’s time we went back to the faraway tree this land will be moving on and nice as it is, we don’t want to live here forever.” “Gracious no.”

The Color Purple by Alice Walker is the story of a poor black woman living in the south between World War 1 and World War 2. This was at a time when, although slavery had ended,many women were still virtually in bondage, and had to put up with many conditions that was reminiscent of the days of slavery. The problem was that they had to endure being treated like an inferior being by their own families sometimes, as well as from the white people that lived there. It was a life that was filled with misery for many black women, and they felt helpless to do anything about their situations.

One of the key points to her being such a marvelous wife was her cleverness. Her cleverness was shown most strikingly when she led on the suitors into believing she was going to select one of them after

“Fine I mumble, and drag my feet over to her bed. She motions to a purple and black duffle bag and I pull out a blue ombre bedding and a electric blanket. I plug it in and groan, knowing Pastel would want the same so I do her green ombre sheets to while i’m at it. I jump off her bunk and look around for the last open bed. I grab my red comforter with little roses printed all over and put it over my solid red

As Lelia’s belly continued to grow, the winter of ‘55 felt endless, followed by a spring that brought copious amounts of wind and hard-driving rain. As a result, the raw cold air escorting the early springtime rains in Maine kept Lelia and her children chilled to the bone, as well as hardworking: stoking the fires until the end of April.

ynn Peril’s, Pink Think is a book that examines the influences of the feminine ideal. Peril was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, but has lived in the San Francisco Bay Area since 1985. She writes, edits, publishes, and dissects popular culture, especially that concerning gender-related behavioral instructions. She starts off the essay with her thesis saying that the human female is bombarded with advice on how to wield those feminine craftiness. She starts the book with how young women were supposed to wear conservative dresses, and get boyfriends in hopes of those boyfriends to become their husbands and fathering their children so they may become what was perceived as victorious, a mother and housewife. These ideas and concepts fitted to the times that Peril mentions in her book. She founds this a very negative outlook on pink think and is trying to me, the reader to also look at the book as something negative and vile. Today, I believe that these stereotypes have indeed changed, and do not exist as much in the world we live in today. However, in today’s world new concepts and ideas have manifested in for young women in America.

She stubbed her cigarette on the heel of her shoe and flicked it to the side. It was time for her break, which would have amounted to five or six minutes, and instead of going to greet Cecil she lingered on stage with her back turned in his direction. She removed her compact mirror with intentions to spot-check her makeup. What she saw did not displease her: her eyes were outlined with mascara and kohl, the dark red tint to her lips had yet to run, and her rouge still looked quite nice against her pale complexion. She wore a beige-colored dress that came a few inches above her knees, exposing her stocking-cladded stick thin legs. The dress was straight and loose and covered her boyish figure. She wore a long bead of pearls around her neck. And if one looked close enough, they could see a dust of freckles over her button nose. She was everything her parents hated about the younger generation. No wonder they had set her up with such a

Once upon a time there lived a farmer who had three nephews. When he had died he gave the eldest son his gold cobblestone. The second son got the farmer’s favorite go-kart and what were left for the youngest son were the farmers Alpaca. He was very attached to the alpaca, they were best friends.

In the novel, The Color Purple, there are three main characters who demonstrate meaningful traits of women. Celie, the main character, is the most important of the three. She is influenced by other characters in the novel and is inspired to let herself seek their virtues. Celie's two friends, Shug and Sofia, are both strong women who teach Celie how to achieve the happiness she desires.

Bea is a liakeable person. She is in love with the color purple, is very outgoing, and is an art teacher. Val and her met when Val visited her art store one day. Ever since then Val has been going to visit her studio every week, to draw or let out her feelings. Bea is the kind of person that could turn anyone's day from sad to happy, because she is always happy, and makes sure that everyone around her is too. Ever since she was a kid she loved to draw and paint with only the color purple, so she made her life long dream come true realistically and in her paintings and drawings. At the end of the book, as Val was graduating, she saw Bea there without anyone. Val realized not everyone needs someone special in their life like a spouse to live

“…but the grandmother had on a blue straw sailor hat with a bunch of white violets on the brim and a navy blue

Copley’s piece titled Portrait of a Lady in a Blue Dress created in 1763 by John Singleton Copley, represents an unnamed female portrait painted with oil on canvas. The piece currently resides in the Art Institute of Chicago in Chicago, Illinois. The work of art can be seen from one side only because it hangs on the wall. There is a great deal of indications in the painting to show the viewer who this woman was and how she ranked high within society.

In the poem “The Lady’s Dressing Room,” written by Jonathan Swift, one may say he portrays himself to be a chauvinist by ridiculing women and their cryptic habits. However, others may say he wants to help women from the ideals placed upon them by society and prove to be an early feminist. This poem written in the 18th century represented women to be fake and sleazy at first. Then during the 20th century, the feminist movement used it as an attack against women, depicting the poem’s meaning as not valuing their rights and freedoms. The truth far hidden from these points of views became uncovered recently. This essay will explain both sides of the views and using critical thinking will uncover the real message the author intended to portray.

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