Two Worlds, One Childhood By Marie Arana Analysis

Paul Newman once said, “People stay married because they want to, not because the doors are locked” (74). There is no such thing as the perfect relationship, however, being involved in a healthy relationship is essential for a person to feel valued, safe, and happy. Unfortunately, in the situation of Kelly Sundberg’s personal essay “It Will Look Like a Sunset,” and Kate Chopin’s short story “The Story of An Hour,” include extreme examples of unhealthy relationships. The essay “It Will Look Like a Sunset,” shares painful experiences of Sundberg’s physical and emotional abusive relationship with her husband Caleb, while “The Story of an Hour,” shares a rare reaction of a married woman, Louise Mallard, who explores her emotions cautiously when hearing about the death of her husband. Each woman faces their own prison created by their husbands. The two marriages represent the figurative meaning of doors being locked in a marriage. Both pieces of literature convey the theme of confinement by using the literary devices of foreshadowing, imagery, and conflict.

When referring to writing, tone is described as the writer’s attitude toward their subject matter and audience. To analyze any literary essay, recognizing tone is vital to understanding how the writer feels about the subject he has written about but also the underlying message he is trying to convey. In the essay written by the investigative reporter Jessica Mitford entitled, “To Bid the World Farewell” Tone is very pronounced and effective in getting the main point of the essay across. The author uses many different tones, from which I have selected three to analyze. All three off them use the good principles of writing a convincing and informative essay. Her ability to sarcastically familiarize the general public with the ‘dark arts’ of the embalming industry is both suggestive and engaging. She also uses an abundance of euphemisms, hiding the disturbing truth under a string of organized connotations. Her last method of tone is to inform the reader of the embalming methods by explaining with the wordy and often misunderstood colloqialisms of an actual ‘dermasurgeon’, in which she provides multiple quotes to further convince the reader.

Martinus Jan Langeveld writes of the phenomena of a secrecy in his article “The Secret Place in the Life of the Child”. Langeveld argues the secret place of a child is crucial as it allows the child access to the strange world around him. This secret place is chosen by the child and does not consist of any intellectual thinking, but playing. When the secret place is invaded by another, no matter the familiarity, “will come from a different world, a different reality. . . the head of the newcomer belongs to that of an intruder who disturbs the quiet peace . . . the intruder’s voice is out of place here. . . because the secret place has its own life” (181). One of the constructions of this independent life is that “time stands still or time flies”

Julia Alvarez’s poem “ALL-AMERICAN GIRL” talks about a girl who wants to look American. The poem is told in the first person(a girl), perhaps Julia Alvarez. As she begins speaking, she talks about what an American girl should look like. The speaker says that she “wanted stockings, makeup, store-bought clothes”(1) and wanted “to speak English so you couldn’t tell”(3) she came from somewhere else.

Eavan Boland’s poem “It’s a Woman’s World” illuminates the fact that history has shaped an unfair role for women in today’s society. Boland criticizes the gender bias with regards to the limitations placed on women and their job choices despite their ability to be just as successful in the workplace as men. Regardless of the fact that the bias against women in the workplace is often overlooked, Boland aims to show the shared reaction of women to the gender bias prevalent in our society by using short sentence fragments, repetition, and a fire motif throughout the poem.

These Shining Lives by Melanie Marnich was performed by Grapevine High School Theatre, December First and Second at Grapevine High School. These Shining Lives is the story of Catherine Donahue. Catherine Donahue was employed at the Radium Dial Factory, a factory known for its generous pay with easy labor. Radium Dial produced glow in the dark watches hand-painted with a radium compound. Working at the factory all of the factory workers were using a technique known for painting china, where the painter would twist the brush in between their lips to get a fine point upon the brush. When the material was consumed, it permanently embedded itself within the bones of the workers, where it continued to emit radiation for the entirety of the victim's

The author Linda Pastan, imagines a parent running breathlessly to regain her strength from the ending connection she once shared with her daughter in her poem, “To a Daughter Leaving Home.” It’s a mother’s biggest fear when it comes to their child or children leaving home while going their own ways when the time is right. This poem is based on childhood, fatherhood, and even motherhood.

In our reading, there were many things that jumped out to me, but I wanted to touch on a couple of them. Firstly, I wanted to discuss the whole idea of “the bridge” in the story. On page 11, at the end of the 2nd paragraph, Carnehan talks about how he came to the first village. Carnehan speaks of how he and Dravot arrived “without any trouble”, and then proceeds to explain how they gained control of the village. The idea of bridges shows up again on page 14, as Carnehan makes the natives builds bridges that “cut up the country horrid”, and finally at the bottom of page 18, as Dravot falls to his death. I feel that the “bridges” are a representation of the connections between the foreigners (Dravot

In our life, we are connected by all kinds of different bridges, among our family members with the blood relationship, among friends with common love, among strangers with the same one world. And here, in Helena Maria Viramontes’ s short story "The Moths," we can find a kind of bridge that built between family members, generations and also morality and rebirth.Through integrating the personal experience, here the writer mainly present how the build was built and what function the bridge is in the short story “The Moths” .

Over time, the bridge comes to represent the merging of both Antonio’s Luna and Márez identities through the connection of his parents’ homelands. Antonio feels linked to the bridge because it represents his dream of pleasing both his parents,”I started across the bridge, and it was the first time I ever remember talking to it. Oh beautiful bridge, I cross you and leave town, I cross towards the llano! I climb the hill, I race over the goat path, and I am home! I did not feel it was a silly song , I only felt happy. “ Through this song, Antonio expresses his love for the bridge, for it connects both his father’s and Mother’s sides of their family. Antonio feels pressured to choose one future of siding with one of his parents. While he is on

Many people turn to their cultural background to seek answers to life’s unpredictable happenings because your culture is deeply rooted and in chaos it remains unchanged. It can provide you with the light at the end of the tunnel during a tough moment, but it is not the silver lining in every situation. Sometimes the path that our culture wants us to follow in the rearing of our children is not necessarily the optimal path for growth. Strict patriarchal views disguised as traditional values designed to inhibit the growth of a curious and a thriving teenager can be detrimental to their self-discovery. Granted that a how-to guide on raising your children does not exist, it is important to understand that placing restrictions can be harmful.

A bridge has always had a leading role at this point. A bridge with contradictory personality. Bridges are made to connect two pieces of land, while the bridge in our history, was separating as boundary two

“Suzy and Leah,” a diary entry series by Jane Yolen, was about two different girls, one of whom lived in a refugee camp in the United States. These girls did not know or understand each other in the beginning, but they eventually became friends. Leah was a German-born Jew who had fled Germany in 1944. She had come to the refugee camp and quickly realized that it was in lack of food and clothing, much of which was donated by the people of the city.

In the poem “Daddy” the main character explains his dislike of her father and how he is happy that he has died. He stated that she would have rather killed him herself. I believe that his father was a Nazi during the Holocaust. Initially when I first read the story I did not understand the meaning of it, but after reading it a second time I understood why the main character felt the way he felt. The main character was afraid to be around his father, He couldn’t even sneeze the wrong way around him. Her father is described as a big hefty man that she described as a “bag full of God”. She also felt as if she was not German because she had not learned the language and felt distant from him, she felt more like a Jew and even started talking like one. It is also revealed that she killed her husband and that her mother might be half Jewish.

In Girl in a Cage by Jane Yolen, Marjorie the kings daughter of Scotland is like me in the way she feels she doesn't need anything special to be happy. She evan says “What do I need most?…No feasts or dances or lovely clothes”. I feel that I don't need new things to make me happy as long as I have my family, people who love me and a roof over my head. In the middle ages everyone wanted new and fancy things to show they were higher and richer than anyone else, but I believe you don't need fancy things to prove that. Though I am like Marjorie that way I am not like her in the way she is spoiled and takes everything for granted. When she was taking a ride in a carriage she says “This is not a proper carriage,” ..“Can’t you find a better one?”.