Where She Went Analysis

I read The Back of the Bus, by Mary Mebane. In this essay Mebane tells us about a real life situation that she witnessed as a young girl. The situation occurred in the 1940's, while segregation was almost at it's worst. Mebane talks about the tension between the people on the bus when a white man got on and there was only one seat left, next to a black man. During all the tension the bus driver tried to tell the black man to move but, as he did a black woman stood up fighting for the black man and his seat. The bus driver realized they were at the last stop and let the situation go, as if nothing happened. I believe that the black man shouldn't have had to move but for his sake, he should have moved so he wouldn't have had to face the harsh

Gabrielle Roy's "The Move", highlights a young girl's longing for adventure and travel toward unknown destinations. However, as she realizes what is truly present outside her imagination, a surge of disillusionment comes over her. The child's description of horses, spearheading an adventure, but then falling ill and tired, illustrates the girl's realization that excitement and joy in the world cannot amount to her vivid imagination. In the short story, the image of weary moving horses parallels the child's sudden grasp of reality, illustrating the naive character's loss of innocence.

While Susan Bordo, Jib Fowles, Ed Dines and Jean Humez agree on one thing, advertising is there to sell a product. I could related to Susan Bordo’s Hunger as Ideology and Dines and Humez’s ADVERTISING AND IDENTITIES. Bordo’s meaning of the “control” is displayed will in the first opener. The statement, “Does she eat?” shows that the person possess some form of control. One could state when she does eat, she takes FiberThin after ever meal. But the Ad doesn’t inform us if she using it in right way. Susan Bordo states that women may feel they have an eaten disorder, but still want eat from the Jell-O. An example could be for male light beer, when trying to stay in shape, drink light beer. Susan states one should always be in control with one’s

The central narrative of My Antonia could be a check upon the interests, and tho' in his fib Jim seldom says something directly concerning the concept of the past, the general tone of the novel is very unhappy. Jim’s motive for writing his story is to do to change some association between his gift as a high-powered any professional person and his nonexistent past on the NE grassland ; in re-creating that past, the novel represent each Jim’s retention and his feelings concerning his recollections. in addition, inside the narrative itself, persona usually look rachis yearningly toward the past that they need losing, particularly when Book I. Life in blackness Hawk, Jim and Ántonia recall their Day on the farm Lena appearance back toward her spirit together with her family; the Shimerdas and therefore the Russian mirror on their lives in their several home countries before they immigrated to the United Country .

As the final Act comes to an end, I’ve come to realize several moments that were overlooked throughout the play. Although some parts were clear, some were vague and left me thinking. According to the text, “Herrick. That’s not Satan, just a poor old cow with a hatful of milk. Come along now, out with you. Tituba. Take me home, Devil! Take me home! Sarah Good. Tell him I’m goin’, Tituba Now you tell him Sarah Good is goin’ too” (Miller 129)! This quote depicts an image in the reader’s mind that shoes a cow that represents the Devil. I find this scene a little contradicting because earlier in the play, it was mentioned that “witches” summoned the Devil through song and ritual. Now, how does a cow take the form of the Devil?

Danielle Evans’ short story, “Someone Ought to Tell Her There’s Nowhere to Go”, is a well-crafted narrative that is primarily based off a character named Georgie, who suffers from PTSD and faces many hardships in his personal life as he tries to build a relationship with his former girlfriend Lanae, and her daughter Esther. Evans successfully uses literary elements such as symbolism and foreshadowing in order to effectively appeal to the reader and explain how Georgie is struggling in his new lifestyle. These aspects further help to magnify Evans ethical and emotional appeal to her audience.

Throughout My Antonia, the difference between immigrants and native lifestyles are shown. While neither Jim not Antonia is rich, Jim is definitely more well off than her. He knows the language and has enough that he can have more opportunities. Antonia realizes that her life is going to be more difficult and that she will have to work more because of her mother’s decision to move to America. She tells Jim that “if I live here, like you, that is different. Things will be easy for you. But they will be hard for us,” (90) and knows that her gentle personality might be at stake. This also foreshadows future events where Antonia struggles as an immigrant farmer. It adds obstacles to her life which might lead to them drifting apart in their friendship, even complete separation. This relates to the world in how immigrants had a harder time getting going in life. Antonia’s mother has already become changed because of poverty. She is grasping, selfish, and believes everyone should help her family. Jim’s grandmother defends her, knowing that, “a body never knows what traits poverty might bring out in them,” (60), though it is socially unacceptable. The pressures of helping her family led Antonia to not be educated and become a farmer. She is happy, but this leads to Jim being away, “twenty years before I kept my promise,” (211) as he is a successful lawyer and travels. They still have old connections, though being from Bohemia did change Antonia’s life and where it could have gone.

Sometimes you may read an article and it may be worlds away from the way you live, but the key to understanding and processing these types of articles is to relate it to your life and what you know to really understand it and make it personal. While reading of a Mexican nun and the biggest Mexican restaurant in Mexico, I may not be able to relate directly to the stories. However if I look for aspects in the stories that I can relate to I will have a better understanding of each story.

In order to make this reflection as honest as I can, I’m going to have to reveal that my beliefs and idea on reading do not synchronize with those of Perrine and thus it is difficult to incorporate her advice and provide an unbiased reflection that does not conflict with the author's analytical interpretations. What is perhaps the punchline of the text states, “Immature readers seek only escape. Even when they think they are reading for interpretation or some useful moral, they insist that what they read return them always some pleasant or exciting image of the world or some flattering image of themselves” (Perrine 2). While the previous quote may not be completely applicable to me because the text was assigned, I can see myself getting lost within the text and with that, my interpretations. Had I perhaps distanced myself and not been allowed to get “lost” in the text then I would have provided an interpretation for the assigned novels with less emotional bias in it. Perrine then goes onto say an immature reader tends to “make fixed demands of every story and feel frustrated and disappointed unless these demands are satisfied. Often they stick to one type of subject matter” (Perrine 3). While I cannot see any educated individual following this, perhaps to some extent I may have allowed an untidy ending to fix my feelings toward a novel to be relatively

Despite being from different countries, time periods, and social statuses, poets Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Natasha Trethewey seem to have similar social views as seen in Browning’s The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim’s Point and Trethewey’s Enlightenment. An examination of A Runaway Slave at Pilgrim’s Point by Elizabeth Barret Browning and Enlightenment by Natasha Trethewey demonstrate that Trethewey and Browning used poetry to express their dislike of racial prejudice and slavery relevant to their time.

And she smiles at me, and it’s like we’re the only two people out here, the only ones who know what’s happening. Which is that this song we’re all singing together is being rewritten. It’s no longer an angry plea[...] This is our new vow” (Where She Went 260). This is actually the last sentence of the book which is sending the two characters off into their lives together.

I will be examine two articles that I shared on twitter in relation to the question “Why doesn’t she just leave?” The main reason this question is asked is the misunderstanding or stereotypical idea that people have regarding domestic violence and those involved. In his article Jess Hill discusses what be believed to be true about domestic violence. He believed that it basically was otherwise good men, driven to the edge by distress and mistakenly took their anger out on their loved ones. This is one of the common myths of domestic violence, the idea that sometimes it “just happens”. The common belief is that sometimes people make mistakes, don’ all of us, so sometimes people just get overwhelmed and do or say something that we regret. As the text mentions, if you compare family violence to stranger violence you can easily see that the “made a mistake” or “blowing off steam” defense does not hold up in regards to domestic violence. I think this article does a good job in giving the reader insight into the true nature of domestic violence.

Anne Bradstreet and Abigail Adams were educated, passionate writers during their time. Through their works, they discussed things that were a major concern or interest to them. The Prologue is one of Bradstreet’s most skillfully written, thought-provoking works. It is a reflection of Anne Bradstreet’s life, views and struggles of living in a Puritan society dominated by men. Like Bradstreet, Abigail Adams was diversely educated on topics that most women never considered. She was famous for writing letters to her husband, sharing her views on society, women’s rights and politics. “Remember the ladies” was one of the most influential letters written by Abigail Adams, asking her Husband to remember women’s rights. Anne Bradstreet and Abigail

1. Early in the essay, Carl T. Rowan describes Miss Bessie as five feet tall and no more than 110 pounds. While explaining how she doesn’t seem physically threatening, Rowan notes she had a “towering presence in the classroom. She was the only woman tough enough to make me read Beowulf” (411). Rowan’s resistance towards reading Beowulf led to him learning about Miss Bessie’s large brown eyes, that resembled “daggerish slits” (411). Rowan describes his former teacher in a way that resembles someone who is looking up to an authoritative figure. Whenever he comments on her appearance or personality, it he does in a very respectful context. Just by the way Rowan often talks about Miss Bessie, it’s obvious the amount of respect and admiration he has

In the film ‘Her’, directed by Spike Jonze, the main protagonist,Theodore Twombly conveys the idea of alienation via technology and its possible effects, due to his depression via his divorce and his easy going relationship with an artificial intelligence operating system named Samantha. The idea of alienation and technology and its possible effects on human relationships is conveyed via the quote, “Sometimes I think I have felt everything I'm ever gonna feel. And from here on out, I'm not gonna feel anything new. Just lesser versions of what I've already felt.” Theodore recently experienced is his divorce depression, and therefore becomes vulnerable, anti-social from society and isolated himself, by spending time with the artificial intelligence