Breath, Eyes, Memory

THE IMPORTANCE OF A FAMILY Having a loving family is something that no child should live without. A loving family helps shape your personality, and also helps instil good decision making in you. They also act as your support system, when you are going through hard times. Lastly, they teach you about your heritage and culture, this helps create a sense of belonging. These are just a few reasons why having a loving family is something every child should have. This theme is shown through THE FARMING

of meeting Sebastian, she is sadly disappointed. Her hopes of Sebastian surviving the massacre are still embedded deep within her, but the truth is that he had passed and all that was left for Amabelle was the presence she felt when revisiting the memories they had made at the waterfall. “Water the destroyer, in the form of

Trauma in Breath, Eyes Memory Psychological trauma is one way a distressing event can affect someone, and can lead to long-term post-traumatic stress disorders. The novel Breath, Eyes, Memory by Edwidge Danticat follows the life of a young girl, Sophie, who leaves her home in Haiti to live with her mother in New York. Her mother, Martine, is a survivor of rape and “testing”, a method used by mothers to determine whether their daughters are still virgins. Sophie is “tested” by Martine during her teenage

precious. They don’t want to lose them.” The Novel Breath, Eyes, Memory by Edwidge Danticat is about a young Haitian girl named sophie who was left behind with her Aunt (Tante Atie) by her mother (Martine) whose in New York. Sophie goes back and forth visiting/living with her mom and she finds out a lot about her culture. Her haitian family was mostly made up of women who have been living in the darkness with bad experiences in the past. Breath, Eyes, Memory by Edwidge Danticat illustrates how cultural

Bastardes Carborundorum: Feminism in Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale, Edwidge Danticat’s Breath, Eyes, Memory, and Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar Feminist literature encompasses a wide range of issues concerning gender equality and the many waves and movements of feminism that have arisen throughout history and across generations. Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale, Edwidge Danticat’s Breath, Eyes, Memory, and Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar are three works which deal with a broad range of feminist

“melodies” seems to be symbolic of thoughts or memories. These melodies are like a tune that you cannot get out of your head, a memory that he is unable to forget. In his next phrase, “Like spring flowers blossom it and floats like a scent away,” he uses the

tilted to one side. The figure was getting bigger, getting closer. In a blink of an eye, Jonas covered Gabe and held him tight against his side as they crashed into the cold white figure. Snow dust flew everywhere, getting on Gabriel’s face and body. Gabriel shivered and whined in shock and cold. Gabriel’s nose was as blue as the afternoon sky; Jonas remembered the colour from one of his memories.

silence of the night; 2 Come in the speaking silence of a dream; 3 Come with soft rounded cheeks and eyes as bright 4 As sunlight on a stream; 5 Come back in tears, 6 0 memory, hope, love of finished years. 7 O dream how sweet, too sweet, too bitter sweet., 8 Whose wakening should have been in paradise, 9 Where souls brimful of love abide and meet, 10 Where thirsty longing eyes 11 Watch the slow door 12 That opening, letting in, lets out no more. 13 Yet come to me in dreams

My favorite smell is the smell of fresh burning wood of bonfires. As I breathe in the smoky smell of fire, I start to picture Silver Dollar City. I begin to hear the crowds of people stepping on the crunchy leaves and making sounds of delight when they see their favorite roller coaster. I can picture the thrilling sensation and hearing the screams of happiness as I walk by a ride. I breathe in the crisp, smoky smell again to see millions of twinkling lights around every tree and building.I take a

grab on to so her arms waved aimlessly with the warm breeze. She tried her best to recall how she got to this point and why? The wind started picking up as it made her long black hair swirl in the dense fog. The patch of haze dissipated before her eyes to reveal a long gravel stairwell that reached the ocean's edge. Her heart pounding in syncopation of each step she took as the wind guided her one stone closer to the sandy beach. She lowered closer and closer to the ocean and her heart pounded faster