The Magic Barrel Essay

When it comes to who the girls want to marry, there is no winning with Reb Smolinsky. “The mother worries about marrying of Bessie, who is getting old. The boarders, whom the family hoped would want to marry the girls, only have eyes for Mashah, who spends all her money on herself. Fania is the first to get a young man, but he is poor and goes to night school. He writes poetry to Fania.” (Overview) A man by the name of Berel offers to marry Bessie with-out a dowry but Reb insists he must make him a business because he can’t live without Bessie’s wages. So Bessie must turn him away and stay with her father, also Mashah falls in love with a piano player from a rich family. “The man put new light in her eyes, new life in her face, and such a wonder-working joy in her heart that it changed the “empty-head” into a signing sunshine. The pretty doll became overnight a feeling person- a person with a heart.” (53) They were head over heels in love but his father didn’t like the idea of a poor Jewish girl marring his son, but that isn’t what stopped them. His

What draws Mr. Duffy to her initially is her general disposition; she acts very calm and natural, and she isn’t too shy or awkward. She points out the numerous empty seats around them in the concert hall, but makes no fuss over it whatsoever. He also detects her intelligence and sensibility, both of which are important facets of Mrs. Sinico’s personality. To him, the most important of the traits he sees is her vulnerability. This is revealed briefly as her pupils momentarily “swoon” into the irises, indicating that she is open to his influence in ways she has not verbally stated. This is significant to Mr. Duffy because he knows that if she is vulnerable toward him, he can be dominant over her. The suggested attraction she has leads him to believe later on that “he would ascend to an angelical stature” in her eyes. He believes that this vulnerability is in fact a weakness in her character, and that she would hold him in a much higher esteem than anyone else in her life.

Secondly I would like to write something of a quick summary so that the movie can be better understood. The movie begins as many do as of late with a man, or to be more specific a bachelor. Of course

To make things a bit more clearer, In this story we saw this man named Manley Pointer who came and visited Mrs. Hopewell 's house selling bibles. But, Mrs. Hopewell 's daughter, named Joy but is called Hulga, is an atheist. Manley, Hulga, Mrs. Hopewell, and Mrs. Freeman, who is like Mrs. Hopewell 's maid, are talking amongst each other, but the only important thing from this moment is that Hulga and Manley made a connection. Later on Manley offered to meet up with Hulga for a picnic to which she had said yes, but she did not know what was coming to her.

The novel, Matched by Ally Condie is set in the future world, where everything is controlled by the government. The society, which is the United States has strict control over marriages, and what happens. The citizens of this society are divided by law, and reputation. The law-breakers are called Aberrations and are not paired with a partner. The Protagonist in the story Cassia, is matched with a young boy named Xander, that she has known throughout her life, and Ky, who is an Aberration. She

The characters all come to get advice from N’Gana Frimbo a “conjure-man”, and fortune-teller.” Frimbo sees each of his clients in the front room of his apartment in darkness while he conducts readings. He has his clients sitting across from him with a spotlight on them so they cannot see him, but he can see them. He uses this method of consultation to analyze their behavior. Several of his clients feel that their spouses’ are having affairs but don’t have proof and try to solve their problems by drinking, dancing, and gambling. However, they continue to seek help from Frimbo to explore his magical powers as a spiritualist or ‘root man.’ The supernatural abilities of Frimbo to predict the future draws them back to him.

In addition, the two voices in the narrative illustrate the contrasting perceptions of childhood and maturity as we can see that the younger Leo simply believes if he ‘went away…the relationship between Ted and Marian would cease’ (Chapter 16. p. 182), whereas the elder Leo is able to analyse his feelings, ‘I thought I knew what was best for myself…I was shaken and frightened’ (Chapter 16. p. 183). Consequently, the first person narrative in the past tense effectively conveys a sense of the adult narrator carefully exploring his conscious in a philosophical manner, whereas child narrator’s naïve attitude is portrayed in his black and white perception of the crisis, believing that he is solely to blame for the blossoming of the lovers’ affair, ‘I had attacked them first’ (Chapter 16. p. 182). Thus, the reader feels a certain degree of sympathy towards Leo’s predicament as he possesses a common child-like sense of misguided responsibility. However, it is evident that he is merely facilitating the relationship between Ted and Marian. Nevertheless, the writer also presents Leo as somewhat egocentric as he sees

Lee Cockerell’s first leadership strategy that he outlines in his “Creating Magic” book is taking care of employees. In this instance Cockerell goes into detail on saying that in order to be able to run a very successful company the owners/company itself needs to give respect, appreciation, value, into everyone. He outlines this with his acronym RAVE (respect, appreciation, value, everyone). In doing so, the company will have a lot of loyalty and respect back from its employees. Cockerell implemented this concept with Disney, as Disney has the lowest turnover rate in their industry. By giving employers the RAVE treatment, employees genuinely care about their company because they view that the company cares about them. This method that Cockerell outlined in his speech and in his book is very similar to a leadership theory that we have learned in class this year, called path-goal theory. The path-goal theory is an ideology that focuses on the leaders to motivate their follower’s. In this instance Cockerell was in an executive position with Disney, and he had to make a decision on how to efficiently and effectively run the company through his position. He decided to motivate his employees through compassion. Cockerell was a very compassionate person towards his employees. One of the most significant ways that Cockerell was able to achieve this was with the RAVE method. The RAVE method was able to motivate his employees by giving them purpose in the business which created a

In the second section, Mari Sandoz starts off with the explanation of when the young men were through with their puberty rites. The young men had certain duties to perform because they had seen a vision during the puberty rite. He then starts to learn the ways of being a hunter, to be able to provide for his family. By this time, he needs to find a wife for himself.

Curley had money, which was something that she needed so she chose him for a husband. She then is disappointed with her present life and unhappy with her new husband.

Both of the tellers’ attitudes can easily be seen in the tales they share. The Merchant gives the negative view of marriage while the Wife’s encounter is triumphant for women. The Wife enjoys being married, which is evident by the number of husbands that she has had. The Merchant has been married two months and hates every part of it. The Merchant uses many stories of unhappily wed men and women to support his view. He shows that

Penelope, a loyal, faithful and patient wife is faced with suitors pressuring her daily to remarry. She uses her wit and cleverness to hold them off. She assures the suitors that she will remarry as soon as she finishes the burial shroud for her husband, which she has no intention of finishing until her husband returns. Upon realizing that her husband had returned she makes an announcement to marry the winner of the archery contest.

The film “Arranged” touches on many aspects that the readings discussed, and offers new insight into conservative religions and the interactions between people of different faiths. One particularly interesting aspect of the movie was the tension that the two women – especially Rochel – experienced. First there’s the tension within a religion: Rochel is really dissatisfied (at least at first) with the matchmaking process and says she doesn’t want to do it anymore. However, her mother is aghast to hear that and asks her to think about her family, because if Rochel doesn’t get married it hurts her sister’s marriage prospects and hurts the family’s reputation. In some way, this makes it seem like there’s a lack of personal choice in this arranged marriage system. And even though Rochel ends up with someone she really likes, it’s not truly because of the arranged marriage system – it’s because she meets Gideon in real life and Nasira is kind enough to help her and go around the traditional matchmaking process.

The Story begins on the three hundred and twenty third birthday of the narrator, Winzy. Winzy informs the reader of the events that occurred which lead him to drink a mysterious potion when he was young. Winzy had a close friend as a child, called Bertha, whom he explains is taken in by a wealthy castle owner after both of Bertha’s parents pass away. Winzy’s employer, Agrippa asks that he observe the changes in a certain potion overnight. Winzy is told not to drink it because it cures love. However, Winzy procedes to drink the potion once it is developed- but only finishing half before he drops the rest on the ground. The potion does not provide the effect that Winzy anticipates, so he marries Bertha soon after. Agrippa becomes ill a few years

From his description of her face, we get a glimpse of their entire relationship. "Her face, which must have been handsome, had remained intelligent" (120). Her appearance is not as important to him as her intellect - the base of their later relationship. He also notices the fact that "she seemed so little awkward" (120). He notices in her eyes "a defiant note" but also "a temperament of great sensibility" (120). The way her eyes are described, as if a battle is happening there, suggests maybe on an uneven person, maybe a clue to what will come later in her death. We know that she is married and has a daughter. We learn that she is alone most of the time "As the husband was often away and the daughter out giving music lessons..." (121), and that the relationship between her and her husband is not close: "Captain Sinico encouraged his visits... He had dismissed his wife so sincerely" (121). From his description of their relationship in the newspaper article "had lived happily", we understand how oblivious he was to the fact that she wasn't happy.