Themes InThe Rememberer And Jealous Husband Return In Form Of Parrot

While reading "The Rememberer" by Aimee Bender was very powerful and had the most effective tone and style. I felt the joy that Annie felt when she talks about making love to Ben. I also felt the pain Annie felt through each phase of Ben's transformation. The way Annie is hopeful that one day Ben will come back to her makes me have hope for her. You can almost hear the sadness in her voice as she looks at Ben in his slamander form and asks if he, "remembers her." (341). The way Annie talks about Ben's reverse evolution is so descriptive, yet simple. Annie was open and honest to herself about what was happening to Ben. She was so calm, almost as she was at ease with everything.

The main reason that these stories are alike, are that they relate to women. Whether you are a daughter, or a wife, changes are you can relate to

In the book “The Memory Keeper's Daughter” by Kim Edwards a doctor and his wife have twins and the first child is a healthy boy but then the second child that comes out is a little girl with the signs of down syndrome and he asks his Nurse to take the baby away to an institution while he tells his wife the baby girl died. Through out the entire book it is a struggle for Dr. Henry's wife Norah to have closure with the fact that her baby girl is said to be dead and she never saw her, held her, or cared for her. Kim Edwards shows through the whole book that we are only human, the themes that life is beyond our control and through the connection between suffering and joy.

According to Erikson, this is when the elderly start to be proud of their accomplishments, but are also faced with disparity of the goals they never reached (Berger, 2011). Noah is proud to be telling Allie about their past and wants her to remember it because he is taking so much pride in it. Even though Noah wants Allie to remember their past, he is dealing with the disparity that his wife may not ever remember him. An example from the movie is when Allie remembers who Noah is for just a few moments, and he is so glad and has thought she is back forever, but Allie immediately goes back into not knowing who Noah is (Cassavetes, 2004). Noah is immediately sad and despised that his wife will never be the same.

In Robert Olen Butler's, "Jealous Husband Returns in Form of Parrot", the narrator finds himself unable to trust or communicate with his wife because of his own vulnerability and fears of losing her. Tragically it was his fear that killed him in the end; while trying to spy on his wife and the new guy from the shipping department in his bedroom, the narrator falls from a tree dying instantly and ironically is reincarnated as a handsome Yellow-nape Amazon Parrot. Although parrots can mimic sounds or words they hear, it seems there is only more of a communication gap between the two as fate reunited them together now as a widow and a pet bird. By the end of this story the differences in the narrator as a

In the story “Behind Grandma’s House” the young child is perceived as a misfit rebel that is trying to express himself by scaring animals and cussing at a factious pastor (291). These are two completely different characterizations of the youth. Marion is a prime example of an outgoing person that will go far in life where as the young child in “Behind Grandma’s house” is the complete opposite and would be the personality that would be getting in lots of trouble on many occasions and possibly making nothing of himself. The two stories have two completely different characterizations of the elderly. In “Behind Grandmother’s House” the grandmother is the voice of reason in the story. She hits the young child who is behaving poorly to discipline him. The grandmother knows what is right and wrong and would be considered the outgoing person in the poem much like Marion in “A Visit of Charity”. In a “Visit of Charity,” there are two elderly women one is just named the first woman and the other is the woman in bed (117). The woman in bed is a complete pessimist. She argues with the first woman about everything that comes out of her mouth including whether the two women enjoyed the last Campfire Girl that came to

Hart Crane utilizes similes in metaphors in “Forgetfulness” to convey the the theme that being forgetful is to be lost.

The book setting takes place in Mexico City in 1583 at a convent. Father Benito Lara was a Franciscan monk around 27 years old with a medium build, lean, clear tone, chestnut color hair thin to baldness identifying himself as the new confessor at the convent. The father was approached a private corner where an older woman Huitzitzilin 82 years old also known as Hummingbird frail with yellowish tone skin, small face, skeletal, dark marks, stringy white hair waiting to stated her last confession. Openly of her conversation with the father, Huitzitzilin describes her people splintered by the Spaniards, cast out, rooted out and beaten. The people had suffered from hunger and pestilence and felt like foreigners in their own rural area, these were powerful words coming from Huitzitziln. Zintle was the cousin of Huitzitziln and her first love during the Spanish Conquest of Mexico also the father to her unborn child. Huitzitzilin was different from others that was instructed about the aborigines of Mexico because the way she spoke about cultural repression of European religious, the struggle between gender oppression and duties of being a woman. Women are considered of less importance even in our world today, where we are supposed to have equality.

Exordium: In the short story, "Jealous Husband Returns in Form of Parrot" by Robert Olen Butler, a jealous husband who lacks communication skills with his wife take his to drastic measures to prove his wife's infidelity, which leads him to his very death. The husband then goes through reincarnation and returns as a "yellow-name Amazon" parrot to be then brought back home to his now widow wife, now seeing how disloyal she truly is. (3)

It conveys purpose and selflessness as paramount to this growth. This unit closes with couples in distress and the crisis they face. It explains that addiction, infidelity, and major losses are some of the most common difficulties couples face. Recognizing unstable patterns and realizing when referral is necessary are covered here.

In the introduction of the film, the narrator was talking about how a bird struggles for survival when losing a parent. The bird loses an extra care taker, making life’s survival rate decrease. The bird's loss of a parent is the archetypal symbol in this story because Nicholas Nickleby losses his father after the bird story is read in the introductory. Nicholas and his family's life situation becomes more difficult economically because of the lack of income. The death of a parent is brought up several times throughout the story like Smike's tragic story. Smike had the most difficult life out of all the death of a parent situation because he grew up never knowing either of his parents. A child struggles to grow up with only one parent, but having no parents to be raised by is twice as hard. Smike was never raised by anyone except Mr. Squeers, who raised him as a slave. Also, Anne Hathaway's character lives with only her father because she lost her mother very young. She struggles to earn money for her and her father’s living up until she loses him as well. At the end of the story, Kate and Nicholas Nickleby marry their significant other. The man marrying them says that growing up without a parent is always difficult, but sharing and creating new blood for someone else rebuts a family, making a stronger bond. This wraps up the archetypal symbols seen throughout the entire film from the scene of the bird losing a parent in the beginning of the film to the

F. Scott Fitzgerald understands that memory is a double-edged sword, and he illustrates this thought in two of his short stories, Babylon Revisited and Winter Dreams. In his story Babylon Revisited, the protagonist, Charles Wales, is tormented by memories of his past. His wife is dead, and his old friends won’t stop interfering in his life. His sister-in-law is basing her current ideas of him on the fact that he was an irresponsible person in the past, and it hurts his life greatly. Winter Dreams takes a slightly different approach. In this tale, the memories of the protagonist, Dexter Green, start off as pleasant but are later warped by new information. With these two works, Fitzgerald describes the problems that memories can cause in

The narrators in the two stories both possess similar traits, but some aspects of each narrator are distinct. In “The Tell Tale Heart,” the narrator is

But he ends up having a shift towards the end. The readers can view Mr. Wilson and Macomber beside each other and can tell Macomber is very inexperienced by saying “He was dressed in the same sort of safari clothes that Wilson wore except that his were new” (pg. 2). The readers perspective of Macomber is that he is very inexperience with hunting. He’s clothes he has on shows how he is new to this and how he wants to be more like WIlson with his clothes and have his perspective of the hunting stage. Macomber is very inexperience with hunting and being out in the woods learning new things. But he also has a fear of WIlson telling his secret with the lion. The readers see how much of a coward Macomber is because he keeps asking Wilson, “I’m awfully sorry about that lion business. It doesn’t have to go any further, does it? I mean no one will hear about it, will they?” (pg. 3). Macomber is new to all of the things that Wilson is teaching him with the hunting. The reader's perspective of him is that he has a fear of someone telling on him to his wife, because he wants to feel like a man, and what happens doesn't make him look like a man through the reader's perspective. Mrs. Macomber thinks he is a coward already since they wouldn't let her go on the hunt with them.Macomber was very fearful and new to things in the beginning of the story. But after the intercourse with his wife and Wilson, he suddenly changes

If a reader is given two short stories, two stories that are seemingly different on the surface, to read and compare and contrast, a surprising amount of similarities and differences can be found. Unless they deal with the same subject matter, most short stories aren't really related, until some analysis is done. The stories "A&P," by John Updike, and "An Ounce of Cure," by Alice Munro, are very similar but very different.