Alice Liddell

during the early 1900’s, a young girl must overcome years of abuse, betrayal, and become an independent, confident woman. Through strength and persistence, Celie is able to find truth through the female bonds and friendships of unconditional love in Alice Walker’s The Color Purple. In The Color Purple, women were often weakened by men having their sense of self-worth controlled by principles of beauty, ability, and what they could provide for men. The men in the novel kept them uneducated so that

Thriving or Surviving: An In Depth look at Alice Walker's The Color Purple One might think that a childhood of sexual violence, emotional abuse, and rape would make a character dark and embittered; however, in Alice Walker's The Color Purple, the author explores the thin gray line that stands between surviving and thriving. Manipulating her characters so that they are constantly crossing the line back and forth. It is her protagonist, Celie, who imbues the reader with a pondering of the human condition

know what to think of the situation and they do not want to believe it. A person in denial will act differently than someone who is not. They may not speak much, zone out often, and will not make themselves presentable when going out into public. Alice Sebold wrote The Lovely Bones, which was a book about a 14 year old girl, Susie, who was murdered on her way home from school by her neighbor. Her entire family experienced grief from the tragic death. Susie watched down on her family from heaven,

“Love loves to love love.” James Joyce. Regardless of geography, gender, sexual orientation, religion, race, education or economic status humankind desires love, and it’s through literature and art that we find a universal connection provided by the artist or author, and oftentimes advice to help us cope with our humanity. For instance in “If You Forget About Me”, poet Pablo Neruda uses literary devices such as tone and metaphor to represent how love can be romantic, yet volatile. For example

After reading “A&P” by John Updike and Alice Munro’s “Boys and Girls”, a centralized theme arose. Each story’s protagonist demonstrates a unique internal struggle centered on the restrictions society places upon them. Even though the short stories written by John Updike and Alice Munro are remarkably different from each other, it is possible for a reader to interpret similarities between the two. A&P is the story of a nineteen-year-old boy, Sammy, who is fighting against the expectation to

Stories can be told in many different ways through different forms of media ultimately trying to explain the same idea. The short story “The Bear Came Over the Mountain” and the movie “Away from her” are examples of two different ways of telling the same story trying to grasp the same ideas through different forms of media. In this essay evaluations will be made between two different forms of media using the short story “The Bear Came Over the Mountain” and the movie “Away from Her”. The evaluation

Lovely Bones Essay “Heaven is comfort, but it's still not living.” -Alice Sebold. Alice Sebold the author of Lovely Bones creates a story of depression, guilt, and grief with the murder of Susie Salmons. In Lovely Bones the death of Susie affects all those close to her, like her mother, her father and her classmates. Her father grieves with despair as the murderer has yet to be caught. Her mother can not handle her disappearance and finds unnerving ways to cope. Susie’s classmates, Ruth and Ray

I observed a two year old male child; I will be referring to him as Tony Brown. The project I think went pretty well. The observation took place at his home while his mother was present. Tony Brown is a Hispanic male; he is a cute little kid. My topic is how Tony Brown uses language to interact with his environment and I observed how he did. I observed him at his home, the second floor of an apartment complex. I was in the living room while he roamed freely, while I watched how he interacted with

devices to convey a message between the setting and characters. In Lewis Carroll’s novel, Alice in Wonderland, Alice’s curiosity and innocence as a child in the Victorian Era leads to her exploring another world called Wonderland. She is challenged to find the true meaning of exploring outside of an ordinary world which leads her to question her own identity. The depths of wonderland and many influences Alice stumbles across changes the dynamics of her inner self from a child to an adult. The white

Trying to Fly Away from the Pain The short essay “The Fly”, written by Katherine Mansfield in 1922 paints the picture of an old man who is referred to as the boss, who is still grieving from some sort of tragic event that happened to him. Continuing to read through the story, the narrator goes on to inform the reader that the boss’ son was killed in World War I, and that the boss is still reeling from the death of his son. From a little hinted symbolism we can connect that the fly itself represents