William Carlos Williams' Doctor Stories Essay

Because the story is told from the point of view of the doctor, it is possible to see what is happening to his thoughts as the stubborn child further agitates him. He begins his examination as usual with a calm collected mind, but as times goes on he become more and more forceful and eventually he become simply cruel. The doctor is obviously in an unstable state of mind because as he tells the story the tone remains calm but the events become very violent. Also the doctor makes it very clear that he find the young girl attractive which is rather disturbing. As the doctor become more agitated he begins to show features of child molestation or rape. He takes out is anger on her by forcing a tongue depressor into her mouth and cutting it open. It is evident that the girl is becoming more fearful as the story progresses because the doctor takes note of her breathing becoming more rapid. The doctor feels a physical release when he finally pries her mouth open and reveals that she has been lying about having a sore throat. The parents allow the doctor to be dominating because they fear the child will die of an unknown sickness. However, the child is left feeling violated and abandoned by her

William Carlos Williams' Doctor Stories tell the realities of being a physician. The physicians in the Doctor Stories tell the careful balance that many doctors face throughout their careers. From addiction to lust, to more, doctors are humans with human emotions. William Carlos Williams proves that doctors can still perform their jobs despite interesting conditions. Through the expression of characters and slight sadness expressed in his short stories, coupled with his expressive poetry, William Carlos Williams conveys the feelings a doctor has that makes them no different than other people.

First of all, the setting of this novel contributes to the Rivera family’s overall perception of what it means to be an American. To start this off, the author chooses a small American city where groups of Latino immigrants with their own language and traditions, lived together in the same apartment building. All these immigrants experienced similar problems since they moved from their countries. For example, in the novel after every other chapter the author

Williams was a man with two unique sides, a careful, wanton organizer who could change from officer to beast and back again in a matter of hours.

By recording the lives and recounting the traditional trails of an immigrant population, the novel produces in an artistic yet authentic literary piece the spiritual history of a people thereby providing them a distinct cultural voice. The stories in the novel practically served to support and confirmed the hardships and brutalities that the immigrant Mexican farmers faced at work. In the story, “That It Hurts”, one boy was expelled from school because he was Mexican. While the predicament of the Mexican migrant workers is comparable to the slavery of the blacks earlier on in the history of America, the novel depicts a young man’s struggle for self-identification which ended with a reaffirmation of his bicultural predisposition as well as his patrimony and allegiance with America. The novel did not necessarily represent resentment against the Anglo culture and resistance. People should reconsider the maltreatment of immigrant workers and the discrimination of ethnic minorities in general. For instance, the novel did not directly criticize the Anglo culture but only uses it for comparative discussion of differences aimed to

John Williams was born John Towner Williams in Queens, New York on February 8, 1932. Williams has composed some of the most prominent scores of film history which have often been directed by Steven Spielberg. Raised in New York, Williams comes from a musical family. John’s father was a percussionist in the CBS radio orchestra. John’s music life began when he was a young child as the first instrument he learned was the piano, then the trumpet, trombone, and clarinet. Also, John started to compose music and was known to arrange his own musical pieces when he was just a teenager. Williams made his way to Los Angeles with his family in 1948 where he temporarily studied composition at University of California Los Angeles. Despite being drafted and

However, because it will use examples to organize and describe information seeking a conclusion on the identity formation of undocumented immigrants it is qualitative. I will seek key and specific examples in which Reyna Grande’s personal experience is reflected on her fictional novel. The way in which the novel differentiates from the memoir is also of great importance because these differences highlight something that the author wants to emphasize or hide. Across a Hundred Mountains narrates the fictional story of the immigration of a young girl while The Distance Between Us: A Memoir retells the real experiences of Reyna Grande. Through the identification of the similarities and differences of the memoir and the novel it will highlight the ways in which Grande uses fiction to explain real life experiences that are difficult to

For the past few decades, waves of immigrant families come to the United States in search of a new home. People from all over the world who have escaped their native country wanting to have jobs in order to support their family and live the “American Dream”. The U.S. Demographic History states, “In any event, 1965 initiated a second ‘Great Wave’ of mass immigration, which continues today. During the 1990s, legal immigration averaged 900,000 annually, increasing to about one million per year during the next decade.” Many of these immigrants of whom have came from the eastern hemisphere have believed that they will live a better life under the liberty, freedom and the pursuit of happiness that the United States can give them. While America has many things to offer for these new incoming families, this country also has cultural conflicts that clash between their natural traditions and modernity. In the novels, The Joy Luck Club, The Bonesetter’s Daughter, and The Kitchen God’s Wife, Amy Tan creates the broken relationships of immigrant mothers and their “Americanized” daughters who struggle in social barriers they both face as they live in the new setting. Amy Tan analyzes mother-daughter relationships between character’s lovers and friends and how they develop over a course of unexpected events.

The protagonist in the story narrates about the life of a couple she hired to work for her. O’Connor talks about the social issues that affected the girl child during the postwar period. The author presents two families, one with two daughters, and the other with one daughter. The woman who hired the couple with two daughters loves the girls because she does not get along with her own daughter. O’Conner writes, “Mrs. Hopewell liked to tell people that Glynese and Carramae were two of the finest girls she knew” (O’Conner, 1955).

As a result of the dramatic point of view, Williams is able to hide an embedded lust for what is essentially rape within the doctor’s procedure that is “imperative” and must be done. Whence reading one can tell the opposition comes from William’s speaker who gives the reader a feeling of calmness in the professionalism of the doctor, only to later reveal the doctors true personality. An essential character in the story is the little girl who the doctor is checking for diphtheria, although not much more is revealed about the little girl. The point of view is also with other characters who do not contribute much to the script of the overall story. This is a removed way of making the doctor seem like a normal professional, seeking to aide others.

However, in reality, this fantasy is misleading and in most cases, unattainable. Lim realizes this misconception through the struggles her immigrant parents experience in the pursuit of this dream, seeing her “father’s dreams crushed under bales of blouses.” Back in her homeland, Lim’s father would likely be an established man of success; however, he sacrifices his own honor in exchange for an opportunity in the “land of the free,” trading his past life for a new life of menial factory work. Nevertheless, success cannot ever be guaranteed. The “bales of blouses” symbolize the insurmountable obstacles that he, as an immigrant, encounters in the new land of America.

2.The doctor admires the child’s resistance due to how resistant she is. The child endures pain in order for the doctor to not find out the truth as the author describes “The child's mouth was already bleeding”. The child seems to avoid death by avoiding her deathly

It was storming almost the entire time in Virginia. There was a lightning flash every minute and rain droplets always on the windshield. I, being the person who worries all the time, thought we would never make it to the house we were staying at. In reality the total amount of time we took was 4 hours to get from my house to theirs. I wish it didn't take as long but at least we made it in one piece. When we got done unpacking, we relaxed and watched movies. The first movie we watched was ¨RV”and the second one was ¨Mrs. Doubtfire¨. That was a great and funny night and while watching those movies I was thinking to myself, what if Robert Williams was still alive? What would his next movie be?

When you hear a poem can you always paint a picture to go with it? In 1909 the theory of Imagism was introduced and began to spread across the world as a new form of literary style. William Carlos Williams was just one of many poets who incorporated Imagism into each of his poems. Using skills such as objectivism allows Williams to paint a picture for each individual reader as the read through his poems.

Artists design works of art for a variety of reasons; some desire to communicate a message and some want to pay a homage to those important to them. Charles Demuth’s ‘I saw the Figure 5 in Gold’ proves any inspiration can be turned into a beautiful composition.