Why Is Francie So Idealistic

The library was the crown jewel of the house. It was at the center, and occupied both floors with a cherry wood spiral staircase connecting both the floors. It also had a great balcony off the second floor that overlooked the whole estate, and her parents hosted a multitude of social gatherings with “important, respectable people” whose names Essily couldn’t be bothered to remember. Every wall of the library was covered with bookshelves that were either filled with books, or various souvenirs her parents had acquired through the years, such as a large globe or a painting of some idyllic city. It was all lit by an enormous chandelier.Waiting at one of the tables in the center of the library was her tutor, Mr. Smith, and her

In Ray Bradbury’s fictional novel about the horrifying future, he discusses topics that, politically and socially, can relate to Judith Ortiz Cofer’s short story; The Paterson Public Library. These two pertain to each other because both Bradbury’s and Cofer’s characters are afraid of situations that involve books. Though they do compare in many ways, there are also differences between the stories.

Katie Nolan, Francie’s mother, is the main reason that Francie is able to survive her arduous childhood and succeed in life. Food, heat and protection are always available to the Nolan children even if it means that Katie has to work multiple jobs or even sacrifice some of her own needs. Katie gives all she can to provide for her children and Francie truly values her mother’s hard work. Francie appreciates her mother’s thougtful acts, but still, Francie develops

"Sadly Frances had many misfortunes is her future. Her family suffered through war and loss, but she always kept her faith. While her husband was fleeing capture, soldiers destroyed her home. Instead of moving she cleared up the rubble and turned it into a hospital for homeless people."

This quotation reveals Jeanette's passion towards literature,and her goal to become a journalist in the future. Therefore, literature plays a major a role in Jeanette's life, because her passion of writing helps her achieve peace and allows her to block out all her problems in life.

Writer and illustrator, Lynda Barry, writes The Sanctuary of School were she recounts her childhood of neglect. At the age of seven, she recounts how school helped her through her life. She adopts a tone of being fortunate when she recognizes that with the help of her teachers and painting, she is able to forget about the neglect from her parents. Barry's purpose is to make people aware of school funding to the arts in hopes of building funds for the arts.

Through all the readings that she had possessed she had become, what was the start of, an independent woman. The fact that she continued to read to further her knowledge and to learn more did not faze her that not many other women were doing as she was. At a young age she knew that “settling” with the roles of women during this time was a life that she had to choose but she also wanted more. She wanted to educate herself and that she did through the works of her favorite author’s books and poems.

In Betty Smith's A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Francie Nolan and her family struggle with many economical and emotional hardships in Brooklyn in the early 1900's. Her mother, Katie, and her father, Johnny, marry and have children at an extremely young age, causing their family's fate to be doomed right from the start. Francie, the older of the two children, has her mother's hard-work ethic, and her father's sentimentality and imagination. Through Francie's fear, humiliation, compassion, sorrow, pride, and disillusionment throughout the novel, she becomes the strong, intelligent woman she is. Francie is a sum of her family's suffering and experiences. With every incident, she loses some of her innocence.

“It’s difficult in times like these: ideals, dreams and cherished hopes rise within us, only to be crushed by grim reality. It’s a wonder I haven’t abandoned all my ideals, they seem so absurd and impractical. Yet I cling to them because I still believe, in spite of everything, that people are truly good at heart” ( ). Many of the people who had to endure the brutality of World War II held on to their ideals and dreams for the future. No one knew for sure when or if the war would end, but they still talked about what they were excited to do when the war was over. Anne Frank and her family from Diary of A Young Girl, and the Sone family from Camp Harmony all held onto their hope and optimism through the hardships and brutality of World War II.

ii. In contrast, Katie, Francie’s mother, is able to overcome poverty because she breaks down the gender stereotypes of what a married woman should do in her time; Katie goes out of the house to work. At that time, were expected to stay home and be cared for while caring for the children

She began to find herself wanting to stay in the house to read instead of going out to play. She first started reading to escape from the problems of her daily life. She would read books about black history, religion and love. When she becomes old enough to date boys she begins to read books about pornography, not knowing that these books were not fit for a girl her age. Then she begins to pleasure herself in private, but after her sisters catch her she begins to feel ashamed and never does it again.

William Dean Howells’ “Editha” tells the story of a young girl and her plan of manipulating her fiancé to go off to war. Howells uses psychological realism during the readers initial encounter with Editha, her interactions with George, and ultimately how she reacts to his death to express how romantic idealism can lead to unethical ideals. Editha’s romantic views of war leads to a tragic outcome and readers are taught the importance of always loving someone for they are.

One of the challenges of growing up is loneliness. As a small child living in Brooklyn Francie had no friends her age, the kids in her neighborhood that would have been candidates for friends either found her too quiet or shunned her for being different. "So

When Zooey goes to Seymour and Buddy’s room he reads the quotes on the bulletin board of favorite books. In this room there are many quotes from the spiritual classics the children thrived on. Books of literature and spirituality become a metaphor for the higher life of imagination and seeking that the children shared. Zooey claims that Franny did not get The Way of a Pilgrim from the library, but from Seymour’s desk. This makes Franny upset because these books containing a beautiful world that sustained her and her siblings at home are destroyed in college by academic analysis. The telephone on Buddy’s desk that belonged to

At its simplest, The Librarian is about obsession, addiction, and the lengths to which one will go to fulfil their desires. More deeply, the story illustrates the evils of addictive behavior and degenerative effect that it has on one’s life and loved ones, ultimately leading to a life of isolation, dependence, and the suppression of any other potential paths of joy. Daniel illustrates the great lengths to which people will go in order to feel the relief and freedom that their addiction or compulsion provides them. This is evident in the degenerative nature of Daniel’s compulsions in the few days that the story covers, ultimately resulting in him needing to touch that which he wants to most, butterflies, rather than being complacent with substitutes. The escalation of his compulsion is also evident in the progressively more extreme lengths he is willing to go throughout the story in order to satisfy his compulsions, beginning with touching anything that he sees that draws him in regardless of what it is, then causing him to lure a young girl into a secluded space in order to touch her eyelids, and finally deciding to abandon his worries of endangering the butterflies, deciding that substitutes are not enough and causing him to leave everything behind in order to fulfill his ultimate compulsion, caressing butterflies. The end scene in which the butterflies that Daniel cut out of books are released from his drawer and fly up in the air suggests