Theme Of Desert Rose

The Sapphires directed by Wayne Blair represents the theme of war throughout the film with the use of cinematic techniques and setting. The Sapphires follows four aboriginal girls; Julie, Cynthia, Gail and Kay on their adventure to Vietnam in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement and the Vietnam War. The film follows the four girls on their journey around Vietnam performing for American troops while fulfilling their dreams of becoming a famous singing group. Throughout the film, Blair explores the theme of war through a variety of scenes and techniques. War ruins the lives of many people and this is demonstrated through the film with the use of cinematic techniques, setting and with the support of other themes. By exploring the theme of war, Blair is able to help the audience make connections to the film through the events and setting the character’s experience.

In addition, the author helps the reader understand the selfishness of the mother when the reader finds out she have stole the Persian Carpet “several months before” (230) the divorce and puts the blame on Ilya, the poor blind man. Furthermore, the visit of the children is supposed to signal a fresh start for the family. The mother even emphasizes she wants the girls to come “live with [them]” (229). Yet again, even if they meet in order to reunite, characterized by a situational irony, they see themselves separated because of her mother selfish decisions.

In Moonrise Kingdom, this theme is showcased through Sam and Suzy’s childhood romance. Anderson’s portrayal of first love- naïve and untouched by experiences of prior hurt encapsulates the beauty of the innocence of children. This fits Anderson’s trademark theme, as experiences of first love can never be regained once lost.

Adolescence is a bumpy and unknown section of the road known as life. Both the short story “Marigolds” by Eugenia Collier and the poem “Hard on the Gas,” by Janet S. Wong relate to the theme that “the road to growing up and maturing isn’t always smooth”. “Marigolds is the story of an adolescent who is growing up in the Great Depression. Through hard experiences and tumultuous emotions, the narrator learns that growing up is full of ups and downs. “Hard on the Gas” is a poem about a grandchild driving with his or her grandfather. The grandchild realizes that the road isn’t always perfect and that there will be bumps along the way. The theme “the road growing up and maturing isn’t always smooth” is conveyed in both of these selection.

One of the most universal symbols of beauty is the flower. Their delicate buds hold such great beauty, while being so fragile and temporary. Despite their magnificence, flowers must remain stationary. It is a prison, yet no one thinks beyond the simplicity of a pretty flower. Like women, flowers are seen at face value without any concern for the lack of freedom, opportunity, and expression they have. Women are meant to be seen just how society expects and not any other way. In Chronicle of a Death Foretold, female characters face the serious consequences of societal expectations and views on sexuality. Gabriel Garcia Marquez uses the motif of flowers to symbolize women and their virginity to demonstrate the confinement of women in society.

Jane Yolen, in her novel Briar Rose, has used an allegory of Briar Rose or Sleeping Beauty as a metaphor to hide the real experiences and emotions suffered from the Holocaust during World War Two. The development and techniques employed within the story are extremely effective for the use of the allegory.

James Joyce’s “Araby” is a short story narrated by an adolescent boy who falls in love with a nameless girl on North Richmond Street. Every day this boy watches her “brown figure,” which is “always in [his] eyes,” and chases after it (27). According to the boy, “lher image accompanie[s] [him] even in places the most hostile to romance” (27). He thinks of her bodily figure often, invokes her name “in strange prayers and praises”, and emits “flood[like]” tears at the mere thought of her (27). The boy exhibits all this emotion, despite the fact that he “had never spoken to her, except for a few casual words"(27). Therefore, when he finally has a conversation with her, about a Dublin bazaar called Araby, it causes him to become disoriented. The boy fails to concentrate at his Christian Brother School and at home, because Mangan’s sister finally talks to him. The boy, determined to get something for his lover at the bazaar she cannot attend, asks his uncle for money. However, to his distress, his uncle forgets and the boy is unable to attend the bazaar until “it [is] ten minutes to ten” (31). This delay and the long journey by train causes the boy to become irritated. His irritation soon turns to anger as he enters the bazaar only to find it practically empty except for two men with “English accents” and a female engaged in a conversation (32). At this point, the boy loses interest in buying anything at the bazaar for his lover and decides to feign interest to appease the

The narrators of “Araby” and “The Lesson” live in a cloud of youthful naivety. Despite being faced with very real challenges, they continue to be blissfully ignorant of pressing adult issues on the horizon. Both characters are faced with disappointment and life’s reality in supposedly magical places. The experiences the characters are faced with, and the lessons they learn, are representative of Piaget’s theory.

Driss Chraibi's Mother Comes of Age is an exceptional novel about an Arab woman seeking knowledge of the world. Despite the main character's age, the novel can be described as a bildungsrowan because of her personal growth. This woman develops and matures from a secluded, uneducated woman to an informed activist, proving she is capable of anything.

Sundiata has quite a few main themes throughout the book. During the core of the book the griot makes clear that man does not have power nor control over his own life. Sundiata's rise is predicted by soothsayers even before he is born, and a lot of his way towards the founding of the empire is basically a step towards grasping his destiny in life. The griot giggles at people who would challenge to disrupt or work against fate, for it happens to be something that is permanent. Among countless other things, the epic is indirectly an exploration of what assets explain Sundiata as an idol, and by allowance, what qualities are brave. when Sundiata is crippled when he was, little and could not walk, he had tough arms. But when he finally stands

In the case study of Katie’s story, her spirituality or religion influences her attitudes, perceptions, values, beliefs. Her religion is influenced by the different developmental stages of her life, her environment, as well as her journey. Her parents, religion, schooling, experiences all play a part in Katie’s influences. Katie mentioned that “the region of her youth was something that she performed by going through the motions”. As Katie entered in to adulthood she began to relearn and reexamine and look deeper into her own understanding of a new spiritual world.

Despite their differences in social status, Gabriel and the boy are similar in their emotional makeup. The narrator of “Araby” is a sensitive boy whose romantic notions are easily aroused and

“Araby,” is a story of emotional passion carefully articulated by the author, James Joyce, to mark the end of childhood and the start of adolescence. It is told from the perspective of a young boy who is filled with lust for his friend, Mangan’s, sister. He lives in a cheerless town on a street hosting simply complacent families who own brown faced houses that stare vacantly into one another. The boy temporarily detaches himself from this gloomy atmosphere and dwells on the keeper of his affection. Only when he journeys to a festival titled Araby, does he realize that his attempt at winning the heart of Mangan’s sister has been done in an act of vanity. Joyce takes advantage of literary elements such as diction and imagery to convey an at times dreary and foolishly optimistic tone.

In Stations of Desire, by Michael A. Sells the idea of gender and mysticism can be uniquely seen throughout the small novel. The majority of his writing being love poems, examines several relationships, person to person, creator to creation, and object to object. Specifically we focus on one reading in particular ‘Hadith of Love’. Through the several love based texts, it creates a definite picture of the specific gender roles and rankings of the time, both for female and male. In Hadith of Love we see the relationship between God and Arabi. In reading the text, we see that it is a narration of the self, from Arabi’s point of view, describing his overwhelming amount of love for his God. Although not frankly stating that Arabi is male, we can

This excerpt from the book Desert Flower follows the life and experiences of a young woman named Waris from Somalia. When she was five years old a gypsy woman performed an infibulation on her using a broken razor blade on a rock in the African desert. Waris eventually fled her life in the Somalian desert to live with her sister for a time in Mogadishu, there she eventually came into the employ of the Somalian ambassador to London who was married to one of Waris’s aunts. She traveled to London with the ambassador and worked as a maid for the family, when it was time for them to return to Somalia she declared she didn’t have a passport in order to stay in London. Quickly Waris befriended a woman named Halwu. Through her Waris met a man named