Clearman Blew’s essay “The Unwanted Child” shows Blew’s thoughts about having a child and making an important decision that could change her life. Blew does this by using scenes with her mother to display her mother’s experiences with her grandmother. Readers can identify that Blew’s mother is “the unwanted child” along with her unborn child. In “The Unwanted Child,” the author uses dialogue between Blew’s mother and her to show that her grandmother didn’t want her mother to be born. The essay switches
Amy Tan's essay ¨Mother Tongue¨ is about language and the barriers it can create when people cannot speak with perfect accuracy or the way that is known as the norm. She uses examples of how language impacted her mother so that she could reach out to others who have had similar experiences and show them that they are not alone; that this happens to other people more often than they might think. Additionally, she uses these examples to show people who aren't affected by a language barrier what this
Reconciling Edna’s Suicide and the Criticism Surrounding” by Mary Bird. The first essay I read was titled “Reconciling Edna’s Suicide and the Criticism Surrounding” by Mary Bird. In this essay she reveals two point of views about Edna’s death. Bird presents two thesis statements. The first thesis is “…awakening is one of mental clarity, and her suicide is a triumphant act. By committing suicide Edna is finally freeing herself from social constraints and possession.” The second thesis is “Edna’s awaking
while and will probably never change. In the essays “Size 6: The Western Women’s Harem” by Fatema Mernissi and “Mother Tongue” by Amy Tan, both women share their stories about being stereotyped and judged. Both Mernissi and Tan use the nonfiction elements of characterization, as well as point of view. Although both Mernissi’s and Tan’s essays have a relatively similar theme, their situations are completely different. Fatema Mernissi’s essay “Size 6: The Western Women’s Harem” shares her
eternal revisers, the better off we will be. What I learned from the revision is that there is always room for improvement. For the final essay, I made global revisions like: structuring, adding details, deleting senses, and adding sentences. I also made some local revisions like: grammar, fixing typos, and fixing strange sentences. Revision is necessary to make an essay better and is a chance to make brave changes that you were not willing to address in the beginning. I am a more humble student now that
My main priority was to revise assignment three, the personal essay since it was more valuable than the other two major assignments I have written throughout the quarter. In this essay, I found a lot of defects that directed to the confusion to the reader to understand the truths of my life. In this essay, there were a lot of different techniques I learned such as changing a personal truth to a story in a piece of writing. Another technique, I learned was to make my essay better by including the
This essay suggests that the narrator is drowning, “Looking back, I wonder why all of us who were subject to my grandfather’s assaults-me, my sisters, my cousins, and my mother, her sister, their cousins before us- didn 't display more unmistakable signs of distress” (Morgan 322). This quote suggests that the narrator feels like she is drowning, because the author states that drowning is quiet, and that is what the
Literary Devices in “I Want a Wife” A man’s nightmare and a boy’s daydream: a wife. Once men have grown too old to be cared for by their mothers, they often find a wife to take her place. While some cherish her, others greatly take advantage of her. Judy Brady writes about how she, too, would like a wife. Judy wrote her essay to help her audience understand the position women are becoming to their husbands. Instead of his companion, she is more relatable to a nanny or a personal assistant.
best way to raise my child?” Children don’t necessarily come with instructions or tips on how to raise them when they are born. That decision is all up to the parent(s) who raises them. Amy Chua, who is a Chinese mother, thoroughly explains the strict parenting for Chinese mothers in her essay, “Why Chinese Mothers Are Superior”. Sophia Chua-Rubenfeld wrote the essay, “Why I Love my Strict Chinese Mother” to express her appreciation of having a strict Chinese mom. In these two essays there are some
Dorothy Allison’s essay, Panacea, recalls the fond childhood memories about her favorite dish, gravy. Allison uses vivid imagery to cook up a warm feeling about family meals to those who may be a poor family or a young mother. Appeal to the senses shows this warm feeling, along with a peaceful diction. Before she begins the essay with the imagery, Allison adopts a persona of a mother who is formerly poor as a child, and now middle class with a large family. This is when she describes her past in