The Wild Girls Analysis

After reading Stage 2, there has to be a relationship between the epigrah and the girls’ development. The epigraph shows the difficulty of adjusting into the new culture while the girls in stage two shows what each character develop over time while having these kinds of difficulty on their sides.

The author uses her to hair to show how the attitude towards her from the other children's perspective changes, and so does Joan herself. In the beginning, John Updike shows that when Joan had long hair, the kids picked on her and treated her poorly. On page 2 it states “Boys were always yanking open the bow at the back of

It did not take long before Joan decided that she needed to assist in the war. She was merely 17 years old, still a young teenager that was ready to leave home, her family, and anything else that tried to stop her behind. With a claim that she heard voices, she convinced her jury and the English that she was God’s Chosen one and that this worthy voice told her that she must go to France (p. 24). Taylor details the conversations that took place during Joan’s trials, allowing the reader to make their own judgement of why Joan decided to go into war and if she was actually guided by angels or if she was simply talented in fabricating stories.

As the narrator, Claire creates an emotional and compassionate tone throughout the story. Her dialogue constantly consists of words such as “honey”, “mommy”, “love”, which constitutes to the overall mood of the text (Carver 363). Additionally, she is constantly catering to her husband and child by cooking, cleaning, and performing tasks of the typical “stay-at-home” mom. Her affectionate personality, want for control, and mother-like performance plays a role in Carver’s explanation of the stereotypical mother and wife.

In the story, Into the Wild, by Jon Krakauer, the main character, Chris McCandless left a strong and lasting impression on a lot of people. Chris who was well-educated, smart young man who touches a lot of people heart, but mostly touches the heart of an a 80-year-old veteran Ron, Franz who is a retired army veteran who once had a drinking problem due to his son and wife's death and two other people who name is Jan Burres and Wayne Westerberg that seemed to catch the interest also. McCandless was one of those people. Which it stated that ‘McCandless made an indelible impression on a number of people during the course of his adventure, most of whom spent only a few days in his company, a week or two at most

Charlotte rejects her mother’s ideology from a young age, and has the perspective to see past the illusions of perfection her mother creates, and Miss. Hancock gives her the weapons to fight her mother. In seventh grade, Miss. Hancock teaches Charlotte about the metaphor, sparking the creativity within Charlotte her mother shunned. The metaphor becomes a symbol throughout the short story, but it also develops into something deeper. The metaphor becomes an allegory of Charlotte 's rebellion against her mother’s influence, and her future. Writing is an outlet, an opportunity for Charlotte to express and understand herself. The form of expression was a gift from Miss. Hancock, who arms her with the power of creativity. “‘My home,’ I said aloud, ‘is a box It is cool and quiet and empty and uninteresting. Nobody lives in the box,” Charlotte says in seventh grade. She has a complex understanding of herself, and is able to articulate her frustrations through metaphors. After graduating out of Miss. Hancock’s seventh grade class, the story picks up introducing the reader to Charlotte as a

“He was dead. Ribs all smashed. No question of that.” This proves that Lob risked his life for his true love, Sandy.” Joan Aiken, the author of “Lob’s Girl,” uses story events to emphasize the bond between Lob, a german shepherd, and Sandy Pengelly, a girl that lives in Cornwall, United Kingdom. As said before, Lob is an adorable german shepherd that meets a girl named Sandy Pengelly on a beach. It was love at first sight. Some evidence supporting how the author uses story events to emphasize the bond between Lob and Sandy is that Lob is Sandy’s dog, he wakes her up from a coma, and risks his life for Sandy. All these actions are reasons how the bond between Lob and Sandy is unbreakable.

The father’s way of dealing with his inner issues is reflected by the way he distracts himself with hobbies of the women he loves. This illustrates how a sudden tragedy can influence someone’s lifestyle. In fact, before his first wife passed away he showed a lot of interest in art and when she died he was lost and devastated ,” (…) after mom died, my sister and I used to worry about his living alone. And he was lonely.We knew that after putting in his usual twelve-hours workday, he would return to the empty house (...) then read medical journals until it was time to go to sleep.”(16). This implies that

At the beginning of this same line, the girl tells what she does not like, "It seemed to me that work in the house was endless, dreary and peculiarly depressing."  She sees her mother's life and the work that she does and simply does not want to be a part of it.  She also outright says, "I hated the hot dark kitchen in summer; the green blinds and the flypapers, the same old oil table and wavy mirror and bumpy linoleum" (113).  The girl is showing her opposition to her assigned gender role.  She does not like working in the house or preparing comparing and contrasting of the father's world versus the mother's world.  The father's world is composed of outdoor work, fox farming, has no emotion, expresses freedom and identified by light.  The father's world is all about the death of animals.  So, there is no time for emotions.  This lack of emotions is also carried into the relationship between the girl and her father.  The girl says, My father did not talk to me unless it was about the job we were doing.  Whatever thoughts and stories my father had were private, and I was shy of him and would never ask him questions" (112).  The girl accepted this and considered it part of the attitude you have to have for this job.  The girl prefers her father's type of emotion rather than her mother's.  The girl describes her mother's emotions:

When she told her husband she was leaving for Berkeley or San Fransisco, she always went to her family graveyard. Didion deeply wants to make her family happy, and will go to lengths of agreeing with false information to keep them content. She openly agrees with aunts when they ask if she is happy living in New York City, when she resides in Los Angeles. The piece suggest that her family did not approve of her husband, and they have had issues with her since the marriage. She comments on her brother not using her husbands name, only referring to him as “Joan’s husband,” even when he is present.

Based on Rosalind Wiseman's non-fiction book, Queen Bees and Wannabes, the 2004 movie, Mean Girls, was directed by Mark Waters and the screenplay was written by Tina Fey. Through the use of cinematography and music, the viewers were able to experience the real high school society. Mean Girls is about a sixteen-year-old homeschooled girl and her first-time experience at a public high school. Through his movie, Walters portrays the damaging effects of female social cliques on every student in high school.

Nature is truth at its purest form of life: cruel, ruthless and impartial. Dubious about the utopian society we live in, Mccandless vies to find the world’s underlying truth in his Odyssey. Some of us want to be as courageous as Mccandless and leave behind everything for the sole purpose of finding the truth, but can not bring ourselves to do so because of our attachment to material things. Mccandless wants to understand human nature and nature itself, to do that, he rids himself of all attachments and travels to the places where he knows nature would be at its peak. In the book Walden mentioned throughout the story, Thoreau reveals: “Nature was here something savage and awful, though beautiful. I looked with awe at the ground I trod on, to see what the Powers had made there… Night” (Thoreau 172).

On that day norsemen invaded the village leaving everyone dead except for Joan. She hid until it all blew over. Quickly, she took shelter in a hollow crack of the reredos: “Joan shrank back into the darkness. The screams of the dying were all around her. Hunched into a ball, she buried her head in her arms. Her rapid heartbeat sounded in her ears” (154). Joan was truly terrified of the situation, blood was painted on the floor and there were bodies dismembered. Her brother John had died in the midst of battle and her friend Gisla was kidnapped by the norsemen. After the chaos had died down Joan arose from her hiding place and made quick decision in order to elude from the norsemen incase they came back. She did not want her fear to deter her from making the right choice. Joan used this opportunity as a chance to make a brazen choice in her life and start anew with the life she had always wanted: “But now there was no time to consider. It was a chance. There might never be another… At twilight the figure of a young man stepped from the door of the ruined cathedral, scanning the landscape with keen gray-green eyes” (157-158). This tragic event in Joan’s life may haunt her but it made her stronger as a person by choosing the right path that leads her into

Woolf demonstrates how women writers have often failed in this because of our frustration and bitterness with a world that presented to us and our writing not welcome, or even indifference, but hostility (41). She makes it clear that if there is ever going to be a “Shakespeare’s sister,” we must---at least while we are writing---swallow that sense of having been wronged, for it stands as an impediment to our creativity. This is the mental freedom that women writers must attain.

What was the first seed that sparked the story that would become The V Girl?