We Keep On Dancing

He tells his father about all he had remembered from the day of his mother’s death. “You were wearing your brown corduroy trousers and the black T-shirt with no sleeves. I tried to stop you and I couldn’t , and you carried me back into my room and put me to bed and told me I was just dreaming. You locked me in that room and I ran to the widow and broke it with my hand and started yelling for someone to come and help Mommy.” (130) He shows that he is disappointed and can clearly relay that

The narrator doesn’t feel too jealous of Lacey Estrada because she knows that Andy is like every other rodeo boy. He won’t marry a girl who he (or anyone else) has fucked. This statement is then contested after Andy Tyler dies in an accident. The paper announces in Andy Tyler’s obituary that he was engaged to Lacey Estrada. When reading this, the author goes on to detail the narrators feelings that you can almost taste the salt tears from being hurt.

In his use of characterization, he descriptively talks about the different states his mother undergoes in her illness and the surrounding events and emotions elicited by her continuous downfall, readers experience a feeling of sympathy for Wolff in his circumstance. This also brings light and support to his obscure, perhaps unethical, reasoning that his mother's life, along with those who find

One interesting fact that I have noticed deals with the movie When a Man Loves a Woman, the meetings the heroine of the movie is saddened by the fact that she is no longer the same person, she was while she was drinking. She is no longer as much fun, or no longed as interesting as she once was. Many of the people at the "real meeting" expressed the same concern, that the fun life is no longer fun, and they are not the same people as they once were.

He barely speaks any words about himself, instead he chooses to tell everything about his wife’s life. When the narrator speaks of his wife’s first husband, he says “this man who’d first enjoyed her favors…why should he have a name?” (Carver 275). The way he words these phrases shows how he is trying to hide the fact that his wife has been with another man. The insecurities about the relationship probably began when the wife told the narrator that Robert “asked if he could touch her face. She agreed to this. She told me he touched his fingers to every part of her face, her nose—even her neck” (Carver 274). The narrator doesn’t say anymore on the topic and decides to move on, but the silence shows how he doesn’t approve of the situation. The narrator felt that his wife “told [Robert] everything, or so it seemed to me” (Carver 275). When the wife notices how the narrator is uncomfortable about Robert she says “If you love me, you can do this for me. If you don’t love me, okay” (Carver 276), which shows that she doesn’t have much stake in the relationship either.

The narrator’s style of narration reveals his character’s narrow-mindedness and apathy that contributes to his character’s unhappiness. When discussing Robert’s wife, Beulah, with his wife, he

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

When his mother, too, had fallen ill, Ethan had had no time for “convivial loiterings in the village” (Wharton 61). Once a social and admired man, Ethan now lives in a life of solitude and silence. After his mother fell ill, “the loneliness of the house grew more oppressive than that of the fields” (Wharton 61). His mother had been a talker in her day, but after her illnesses, the sound of her voice was seldom heard. When asked why, her answer would be “because [she was] listening” or “they’re talking so [loud] out there that I can’t hear you” (Wharton 61). Towards the end of her illnesses, Zenobia Pierce came to help Ethan. It was only then that Zeena’s volubility was “music in his ears”, relieving him of the “mortal silence of his long imprisonment” (Wharton 61). After his mother’s death, Ethan married Zeena, hoping to rid him of the loneliness of the farm. However, Zeena, too, eventually fell silent, and Ethan must take of her like he once did for his mother. In addition, irony also takes place during Ethan and Mattie’s first evening together. Zeena, being a hypochondriac claims that her “shooting pains” have gotten more severe and therefore must leave to Bettsbridge to see a new doctor, leaving Ethan and Mattie alone. On what should have been a romantic idyll, the evening is in fact stressful and

be with him, it makes me nervous.” (Gilman pg. 204) She is very articulate and likes to write but due to her controlling husband is not allowed to; so, she keeps it hidden. Maybe, due to the fact what she writes about are her inner thoughts and feelings which reflect on those around her. ” There

The narrator’s varying stately yet fervent tone illustrates her obligatory feelings as well as her true emotions regarding her husband and lifestyle through her descriptions of the “nursery” where she is confined (Gilman, 648). John, since he is both her husband and doctor, “hardly lets [her] stir without special direction,” characteristic of patriarchs of the family; he also “laughs at [her], of course, but one one expects that in marriage.” (Gilman, 648 and 647). Since the narrator feels

Ethan, the main character, continuously fails to express himself, no matter how strongly he desires to. “He took a wild step forward and then stopped.” (88) In the scene Ethan arguing to keep the hired girl his wife and him have, but fails to show any emotion. This causes the situation to turn against him, due to his failure to show how he feels. “When the door of her room had closed on her he remembered that he had not even touched her hand.” (72) In this scene Ethan tries to connect to the hired girl, Mattie Silver, who he is secretly in love with. Ethan spends the entire night with her, and yet

In “The Story of an Hour”, the main character Mrs. Mallard, gets news that her husband has been killed in an accident. Her sister delays telling her the news because she has a bad heart, but when she finally tells the news, Mrs. Mallard wants to be left alone. They think that she is very upset by her husband’s death, but

Stewart becomes heart-to-heart with the audience by openly expressing his feelings caused from the domestic violence with the emotions “guilt” and “loneliness”(5). Normally people that suffer from traumatic experiences like domestic violence don't openly speak about their feelings which signifies how passionate he is about ending violence. Stewart begins to display the empathetic and caring side to himself by proclaiming “...did nothing to deserve the violence.”(4). As Stewart speaks about how he believes his mother did not do anything to deserve the violence she endured, it proves how much empathy he shows for his mother as well as how much he cares about others. Moreover, Stewart shows more of his empathy and compassion for others by using pronouns like “we”, and “us”(8). By using first person plural pronouns, Stewart shows that he is not just worried about him, and his mother’s situation, he’s also worried about the thousands of others that suffer due to domestic violence. Being worried about others is the true meaning of empathy. All in all, the empathetic and passionate tone the author adopts into the text shows more of his attitude regarding domestic violence, not for just himself, but the entire

Dance has been a natural movement form since the beginning of time. The origin of dance is unknown, just as the knowledge of the benefits of dance are unknown to many in our society. Many people do not enjoy dancing and also do not fully understand the positive benefits that come from dancing. Researchers such as Edwards, Duberg, and many more have found countless mental and emotional benefits of dance that originate from movement patterns, brain connections, and even expressions of emotion. Many are aware of the physical benefits of dance, but beyond the physical benefits of dance, there are also emotional and mental benefits that come from dance as well.

     The director is trying to communicate the love from a father to his daughter. It shows the natural love of human being, so