Yellow Sun Conflict

The Narrator feels suffering is something we cannot control and is ridiculous to cry over as she

After his stay at the Carpenters,he had gone back to the orphanage “ the home of angels”. The nuns had found out about the abuse that jennings had received from the carpenters, they determined that him nor any other foster child would be staying there anymore. Jennings had told one of the nuns that he was going to be sick, the barley got to a sink before it came all up. Jennings then had gone to the nurse, he had explained that he did not eat anything but jell-o powder. “ why did you eat jello powder?” sister frances asked. “ i was hungry, sister. I had to eat something.” “didn’t they feed you?” “tears came to my eyes. I shook no.” Then after a while of him staying at the orphanage, his mother had finally came to get him and promised to never do it again. Since he has gone to the orphanage, he had missed so many school days that he had to be left back into the second grade. Jennings feels like his life is getting worse and

The raging child, the family sacrifice, absorbs the family’s suffering. Unheard, they lash out, hoping someone will hear their screams of desperation and help. Instead, authorities muffle their cries as they cart them away: to the principal’s office, to detention, and generally someplace out of ear shot. Powerless, they sink into despair or drugs, sometimes finding solace in the streets. Romantic relationships may promise a sense of renewal to the lonely and depressed Adult Child. They bask in the rush of excitement that springs from mutual attraction and discovery. But when they need to work out problems and issues, they feel frightened and lost flooded with childhood memories of hatred and destruction. Without the tools to work out disagreements, they sit alone with the agony of

pain and suffering here, possibly regarding what it was like to be a child at the time the story was

It says on line 277 that “I covered my hands with my ears, but I could not cut off the sound of my father's harsh, painful, despairing sobs.” Her father's despair about living in squalor make her fearful about life, because she is unsure where she stands in the weird world around her. Many

The central character in which the story takes off upon is Mitchell Stephens. He is drawn into this case by his own anger. He has his own sense of suffering and confusion toward his own daughter. Stephens is torn by his urge to save her and his fear that he can't possibly do so. He recalls the flashback of his little girl as a toddler at a near death experience and him as her father while singing to her, held her life in his own hands prepared to perform an emergency tracheotomy. And in that way, Stephens' own experience bonds together with the nightmare of those pain stricken parents: the ultimate unbearable burden of caring for children where strength will be tested beyond its limits. Stephen's own daughter in whom he loves dearly has been taken away from him although she is not dead; she is practically gone out of his life. He is pissed off, "enough rage and helplessness, your love turns to steamy piss." (101). Stephen is set to find the cause, something or someone to blame for their misfortunes and to rage against whatever forces took their child, "I don't know if it was the Vietnam war…I don't know

1 Alexandre Duforest E7 P6 Ms. Olsen 11/5/15 Suffering to Survive Many kids, both boys and girls all over Africa are suffering in many ways. Either their family is poor and they do not have any food or water, they have lost their family by running away from the war, or they are even just suffering from diseases they get from their water. In all the ways they are still suffering and they should get help or at least be thought about. Salva and Nya, the main characters from the novel

“No… we have a daughter, and I don’t want to break a holy vow” (Linmark 94). This is a perfect example of how religion has oppressed these people over time. Furthermore, this may contribute to the extreme discourse between the parents and the children throughout the novel. The children can see how religion has affected their parents as they are virtually brainwashed by their spiritual beliefs and the children wish to avoid the oppressions of this institution. They do so by using their language to rewrite traditional Catholic litany and hymns invoking other “cultural” saints to paint a picture of their lives and the lack of God’s presence that they feel.

Just then the mother heard an explosion, and her eyes grew mad and welled up with tears. She ran through the streets of Birmingham, calling her child’s name out.

Sometimes the parents are not ready for the truth, even if the children are. Fiction helps us imagine what we can go through as a parent and how should deal with this as children. On page 221,

Some people have ideas about stereotypes, and more often than not, when they try and bridge their cultural gaps, they find out they have more than they think in common, and the fact they are under the same sun no matter what. Same Sun Here, by Silas House and Neela Vaswani, is a realistic fiction novel that takes place in New York City and a small town in Kentucky. This story is told through a series of letters and the characters are just doing a project over the summer, soon they become fast friends confiding into each other and learn through different perspectives. When debris from and explosion hits River’s school, he and Meena help each other and set aside their differences to be able to find things in common, and no matter what, they

Writing within the socio-political discipline and the term “Black Diaspora” borrowed from my primary resource The Book of Negroes, I show how do the difficulties and situations shape a person in the literary fiction. I argue that Aminata Diallo does not fit into both North America and Africa even she finds and keeps her personal identity. Finding and keeping personal identities is a profound theme in The Book of Negroes. The scene that Aminata boards the boat, her friend says: “I have taken many men to the sea, but not once have I seen one return to his village” (Hill 51). Even though Aminata is only eleven-year-old by that time, she has a strong sense of belonging to her motherland, so she tells her friend: “I will sleep by day and walk at night.

The mother’s infant sobs for food, and as a result the bawling brings a wave of sorrowful and provoked faces to attention. A hot sour stench fills her lungs, a toxic aroma that brings one’s hands to their nose for protection. The scenery of broken building and broken people breaks hearts

However, his words are a key element to the story because they reflect valuable lessons that the children may need for future reference. The narrator wants to save the children from heartache and disappointment; however he fails to realize that all children must experience these emotions for themselves in order to become mature. As the narrator stares into the lives of the children, it seems as though he is reliving his own life. His

Chinua Achebe (1930 – 2013) is best known for his novel Things Fall Apart, in addition to writing novels, Achebe was a critic and a poet. This paper intends to analyze and discuss Achebe's war poems. The poems that Achebe wrote in the time of the Nigerian civil war which lasted for three years and Nigerian people suffered a lot because of that war, Ogaga Okuyade in his article Of the Versification of Pain: Nigerian Civil War Poetry states that: "The Nigerian civil war is about the ugliest moment in the history of post-colonial Nigeria – a moment of hatreds and sufferings." (Okuyade in Emenyonu. 128). Poets of civil war, including Chinua Achebe, try to show the pain and suffering of the Nigerian people due to that war and what follows it from poverty to killing and starving of children and women.