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She is upset by the loss of the day even though her mother attempts to distract her with a garden of flowering violets, her father also attempts to comfort her. Finally, she returns to sleep after dinner. Her memory is a positive memory and the motif if the violets are used to link the past and present as it will help her get through her dark times. In the visual her memory is included, and he mother confronting her is one of the main images that she remembers from this. The image of her mother comforting her is a very important one, as it establishes the role and persona of a mother at the time and how women in that era were seen as to stay home look after children and the men went out and worked to support the

Although dreams are important, it is equally important to accept one's fate, Arnold's parents had dreams however they accepted their fate. After his talk about how poverty ruins many dreams he mentions that if “ Given the chance,” his mother “would have gone to college.”and if his father had been “ Given the chance,” he would have “become a musician.” Mary, Arnold’s sister had a dream to write and publish romance novels, but instead of following her dream she accepts her future like many of the characters in the novel. Arnold has dreams yet he did not accept his future, so he pursued his dreams instead of giving up on them like many in his family had done. In this novel dreams were used to show who someone actually was, most people in the town of Wellpinit had given up their dreams and accepted who they were. Rowdy and Arnold both had dreams that they wanted to achieve, towards the end of the book they end up accepting their future. In conclusion Dreams play a major role in the novels, however most of the dreams are left behind, and the characters accept the lives they

In the sixth short story. ‘On Her Knees’, Winton explores the relationship between a mother and son and focuses on the key issue of Sacrifice. The mother has taken a job below her standing to pay off debt from a now distant husband and to allow her son to go to university so they can experience a better life. Winton invites the audience to consider the mother’s sacrifice by utilising the son’s point of view of how he feels about his responsibilities into account of his mother’s new job. The son often helps his mother at her new job and when he isn’t helping he is ‘stewed with guilt’ (pg 101). Consequently, the guilt of his mum’s sacrifice has put an enormous amount of pressure on him, as if he might fail her if he doesn’t proceed to do well at university. Winton’s use of character development to present the theme of sacrifice, invites the audience to consider the value behind the sacrifices we make for the people we love and care for. Unlike this short story, ‘On Her Knees’, ‘Abbreviation’ and ‘Damaged Goods’ can be seen as

Sophie had all her simple human rights taken away and was dehumanised just because she was born with an extra toe, which was completely out of her power. This shows how dehumanisation is used to emphasise how sad and difficult the dystopian world of the Chrysalids is.

The metaphors allowed charlotte to express certain feelings and ideas that she could not have expressed before. In addition, during this time Charlotte has not yet given in to her mother’s influence, constantly rejecting her mother’s views on Miss Hancock and other subjects. Through metaphor she describes her mother as a mountain “surrounded by scrub brush and Poison Ivy” (p. 72). This develops the idea that during this time of her life she takes displeasure and disagrees with the ways her mother treats other people. Through Charlottes grade seven life, she has been able to do what she wants to do, however, this all changes with the absence of Miss

Her mother had to go from a state of peace to mourning. All she was left with was her daughter’s precious shoe, along with the memory of her which she loved so much. “O, here’s the shoe my baby wore, but baby, where are you?”

Sympathy, another theme in this book, can have the same amount of impact on an individual.  Instead of it having a negative reaction to the reader it has a superior reaction to the reader.  ?Lee Chong? knew he could not have helped it, but he wished he might have known and perhaps tried to help.  It was deeply a part of Lee?s kindness and understanding that man?s right to kill himself is inviolable, but sometimes a friend can make it unnecessary?(Page 2).  Lee was having compassionate sentiments for the man who committed suicide.  He had a deep feeling that he could of helped in someway to convince the man that his life was worth living.  A side story that was important to the theme of Sympathy was a story about Mrs. Kitty Casini a mouse and Mary Talbot ?Kitty Casini had a mouse?Daintily she stabbed the mouse through the back and drew it wriggling to her and her tail flicked with tense delight? ?I can?t blame Kitty Casini? said Mary. ?I?m just not going to like her no matter how much I want to??(Pages 155-156).  Mary had intense sympathy for that mouse that with no doubt died a tragic death.  She went to the extreme of disliking on of her favorite cat.  Sympathy can bring about the good in people.  Sympathy for loved ones or strangers can surprise one for their intense emotions.

When she sees that it is her friend Charlotte in this heart breaking situation, she says: “gracious heaven is this possible? And bursting into tears, she reclined the burning head of Charlotte on her own bosom; and folding her arms about her, wept over in silence” [125]. In this passage, Mrs. Beauchamp proves how sentimental and good she could be because not only does she have a sick child at home, but she finds the time to actually care about others and because she actually cries for Charlotte, a person who is not even her relative. She is a sentimental person because she is the only one that in the beginning offered Charlotte her friendship and because thanks to her, Charlotte’s father is able to see Charlotte one last time and forgive her. In many cases, this might be confused with weakness but it is not weakness. It is the ability to feel others pain as your own, it is the ability to care for others as you would your own relative; it is being a moral person and only through the act of sensibility can this be shown. In a situation like this, an immoral person might have only thought about their own problems and not the problems of others.

“I was not looking for my dreams to interpret my life, but rather for my life to interpret my dreams.” Susan Sontag was an American writer, filmmaker, teacher, and political activist. She expresses how life and all of its conflicts can affect one’s dreams. What are dreams? In life, dreams can be experiences to look forward to, hard work at a job, or other things of the imagination. Dreams can also be something to hope for or to accomplish. Sadly, there are conflicts that can get in the way of someone reaching their dream. A person’s sex can give power or powerlessness, determine the expected behaviors of male and females, and judge a person’s appearance. In the works of To Kill A Mockingbird,

The man recognizes how easy it is to surrender to the mirage of good dreams, where the richness of color and variety of detail provides a dangerous contrast to the grey monotony of both his and his son’s reality. Often, he awakens “in the black and freezing waste out of softly colored worlds of human love, the songs of birds, the sun,” (272). Those dreams are an invitation to rest in some nonexistent land. The man recognizes this as a dangerous temptation so he forces himself to wake up and face the cruel world rather than deteriorate in a world that no longer exists. His philosophy is that “the right dreams for a man in peril were dreams of peril and all else was the call of languor and of death.” (18). Only bad dreams belong in his mind because all good dreams are a reminder of valuable days that cannot be lived

Despite her diminutive size and quiet disposition, Mercy commanded my complete attention. So small as to appear child-like, and dressed in loose-fitting clothes that hid her slight form, she entered my office timidly, and started sessions in silence, repeatedly waving her hand across her face in characteristically self-effacing gestures before speaking. But her somber self-possession and meek temperament stood in stark contrast to her ferocious energy; Mercy was dead serious. She came to therapy after being forced to give up a promising career as a modern dancer due to a chronic knee injury. Finding herself unmoored, lost and alone in the city, with no family or friends she could rely on for support, Mercy struggled for

The setting of Alice Walkers short story” The Flowers” is important for us, the readers to obtain a perspective of how life was like growing up for a 10 year old African American girl by the name of Myop. The title of the story is “The Flowers.” When you think about flowers, you instantly compare them to being beautiful, pure, and innocent. The title of the “The Flowers” is a symbolism that correlates to Myop who is the protagonist of the story. Myop is just like a flower in the beginning of the story. She’s a pure and innocent child but that pure innocence changes when she discovers something that’ll change her life forever.

Through the mother, we see that dreaming may lead to a painful disappointment. The mother has an unrealistic image of her and her future husband as an idyllic, respectable and happy couple, which is not true in reality. “… avoiding the riotous amusements being beneath the dignity of so dignified couple”. She is trying to make an image of herself as an intelligent, domestic and interesting woman, which shows

Linda Pastan made this poem include various forms of figurative language to hide the literal message that it's trying to portray. Figurative language is using figures of speech to make the text be more powerful, persuasive, and meaningful. Figures of speech such as, similes and metaphors, go beyond the literal meanings to give the readers a new way of looking at the text. It can come in multiple ways with different literacy and rhetorical devices such as: alliteration, imageries, onomatopoeias, and etc. With the usage of the literary devices Pastan has used, it introduced the relationship between the mother and the daughter. It shows the memories of how the mother helped her daughter grow from a little girl to a young adult getting ready to go her own way in life.

It is through the physical pain that the reader understands the emotional strain and turmoil of the protagonist’s plight. The juxtaposition of survival and living are never more evident here. Her children are kidnapped; killed or sold. She has a body still recovering from the birth of a child, and she is forced to take her mother’s place, as a victim of domestic violence and sexual assault. Walker cleverly crafts this sense of desperation with Celie’s soul baring letters to god, the reader realizes she is has no one else to turn to; her writing only re-enforces her father's control over her. Her persevering spirit is what makes her survival so unique in the sense that she does not become embittered through any of it. “I look at woman, tho, cause I am not scared of them.” Telling god that she has not been traumatized at all by her mother’s passing, in fact, she goes further on “Mabey cause my mamma cuss me you think I kept mad at her. But I ain’t I feel sorry for her. (Walker, 5)” This for the reader is the most heart-breaking stance that she takes, as the reader is aware of the fact that her mother hated Celie’s guts with writing agony because her husband choose to rape her when she could not have sex with him. The reader singularly carries this sense of desperation for the protagonist as she continues to power through the intensity that surrounds her.