Carlotta Rodriguez's The Gift

In the year 2008, I received my first elf for Christmas. Her name was Snowflake and she appeared with my brothers’ elves and my mom’s old childhood elf, Duende. She’s so beautiful with her velvet green dress, red and white striped tights with green velvet elf shoes with tiny bells. Every year after Thanksgiving, my elves would arrive. I have about twelve elves because I take such good care of them that Santa sends me his elves. Our family elves are extremely mischievous and do tricks every day during the Christmas Holidays. It is my favorite time of the year. Every morning as soon as I wake up, I run downstairs to see what mischievous things my elves have done. They are very smarting, witty and extremely creative. Christmas is my favorite holiday. I love Christmas carols, decorating the house with my mom, baking cookies for Santa, the smell of pine from the Christmas tree and opening presents Christmas morning.

The Simple Gift shows us how the friendship of Billy and Old Bill overcome their wealth and status. For example Billy takes care of Old Bill. Billy provides Old Bill with company, friendship and breakfast in the morning. In the passage too early (p. 55). Billy leaves a bowl of Weet-bix and milk at Old Bill’s door .This shows that Billy has compassion, generosity and empathy. Billy inspires Old Bill to stop

The narrator grows up through the memory of a women named Mai Ling. In the excerpt “Kuraj” by Silvia Di Natale, Mai Ling to whom is noticed as a mother figure. The excerpt how the people from this environment admires and values the action of being protected; therefore, the narrator felt that Mai Ling was he/shes protector. “I know that I dreamed about her and it was Mai Ling with her almond eyes in her pale face.” The narrator describes the appearance of Mai Ling by using the literary devi

First, though Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey is not completely categorized as a feminist novel, by portraying the protagonist Catherine in the way Jane Austen does, she expresses her opinion that women have been individuals with

With this section of the novel concluding, the audience has an invested a substantial amount of hope in the possibility of scrooge altering his miserable ways. Evidenced here ‘"No. I should like to be able to say a word or two to my clerk just now! That 's all." Showing the audience that Scrooge is starting to comprehend all the lives he has affected negatively.

Have you ever wanted to live in a place that is peaceful, quiet, and has everything under control? Would you give up colors, weather, memories or even love for that? Jonas lives in a futuristic community that has everything under control. However, when Jonas becomes the Receiver, everything changed. Jonas starts to become curious about the truth, Elsewhere and the past. The Giver’s community would be better with love, colors, and pain.

“Our problem right now is that we’re so specialized that if the lights go out, there are a huge number of people who are not going to know what to do. But within every dystopia there’s a little dystopia.” (Margaret Atwood) In 1992, Lois Lowry had was inspired by her father’s memory loss to write a novel. In The Giver, 12-year old Jonas is chosen to be the Receiver of Memory but throughout his training, he struggles understanding whether the community he lives in is a utopia or dystopia.

The book Sarah’s Key by Tatiana De Rosany shows a theme of determination. When Sarah’s family is taken away by French police in the middle of the night, she locks her younger brother in her bedroom cupboard in a desperate attempt to hide him from the police and save his life. Sarah makes a promise to her little brother that she would come back and save him. Throughout this story Sarah is determined to keep this promise in the internment camp, and when she escapes. Although much of her determination brings her joy, it also brings her sadness and despair.

“Jonas has not been assigned,” She informed the crowd, and his heart sank. Then she went on. “Jonas has been selected.” The quote pertained to this story due to the significance that Jonas had differentiated from his peers that had their differences acknowledged by the Elders themselves, each with their own desires within a career. The quote influenced Jonas his decisions within the chapters beyond the quote within the story, nevertheless brought Jonas his viewpoint of the situation and his decision into escaping from the community with Gabe to journey off Elsewhere. For example, Gabe had been planned for release the same day Jonas had escaped from the community, due to Jonas’ significant viewpoints he couldn’t bare the loss of Gabe, especially since he would be the only few to discover the true meaning behind being “released.” In the end of “The Giver,” Jonas and Gabriel had hallucinated while freezing to death because of the wild berries, the memories, and the physical limits of his human body.

Yes, I consider The Scarlet Letter is a work of feminist literature. During the time of Hawthorne, the writings of his opinions for the womens were very forward and powerful. The novel has discovered the typical lessons on the themes of feminist by Nathaniel Hawthorne in 1850. In The Scarlet Letter, the main heroine Haster Prynne and Pearl as her daughter are considered the two main prominent characters. So, the knowledge about them is persuaded the early feminist considering the heroines in the writing of The Scarlet Letter. The narrator has established the work opposing a feminist central character. It describes Haster’s sin and love that has given a view of woman’s unique.

“Notes of a Native Son” follows the narrator and author, James Baldwin, from the past to the present as he reflects on his father’s and his relationship, while he tries to understand him from a more mature and forgiving perspective. James’s father has always been bitter and emotionally distant as long as he can remember, due to being born into slavery. However, James also inherits this mutual hatred towards the white society in America, by his father instilling his “bitter warnings” into him, but James later understood that his father only had his best interest in mind and felt a subtle sense guilt for having anger and resentment towards his father. “The Gift” depicts a story of the narrator as a child getting a splinter taken out of his hand by his father, and later inherits partial character from his father in a sense, as he remembers and emulates him, while the author takes a splinter out of his wife’s hand. Although, he doesn’t remember all the details of this ordinary setting, he recalls his father’s “tenderness” and “flames of discipline”. James Baldwin’s “Notes of a Native Son” and Li-Young Lee’s “The Gift” both bridge past and present memories that illuminate the

old sinner! Hard as a steel and sharp as a flint, from which no steel

The term ‘feminism’ and ‘feminist’ first started to gain popularity in the 1970s. Starting in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, continued into the 1960s and 1970s, then followed by the 1990s to the twentieth century, feminism and feminist grown across the nation. From clubs and organizations, to readings and speeches, feminist all across the nation, and world, have influenced aspects of our daily lives, including our literature. “Feminist criticism examines the ways in which literature reinforces or undermines the economic, political., social, and psychological oppression of woman” (Tyson 83). In simpler terms, feminist criticism is critiquing literary readings, through the mind of a woman’s opinion of structure and being.

“An Unknown Girl” by Moniza Alvi is a free verse poem about the author’s experience getting her hand hennaed in an Indian bazaar. Throughout the poem, Alvi makes use of structure techniques like end-stopped lines, occasional rhymes, language, imagery, and changes in tone to explore different aspects of the concept of identity.

The narrator is unknown to the readers but describes Catherine’s, and other characters inner thoughts, that would otherwise be reserved to them. Although it is Catherine that is made the main focus, “Catherine’s feelings, as she got into the carriage, were in a very unsettled state; divided between regret for the loss of one great pleasure, and the hope of soon enjoying another”, her narrative representation is sympathetic and pleasant but the third-person structure also allows for Catherine’s nature to be presented without confusing the