Carol's Daughter

Most stories convey a form of message or meaning, and the short stories Everyday Use by Alice Walker, and The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien are no different. Everyday Use tells the story between a mother and her two daughters, who are living two completely lifestyles. One who now lives a more “modern lifestyle” and the other who is still living traditionally like the mother. In The Things They Carried the author recites stories about the time he spent in the Vietnam War, he also goes on to talk

No one is the same everyone is a different person and while people may have similarities they are still different people with different ideas and thoughts and outlooks on life even mothers and daughters. Such as the daughters and mothers in the book, The Joy Luck Club. For starters, a young girl named June and her mother Suyuan Woo were both alike in one common idea that they had completely different views on everything even in speaking as she states, “ these kinds of explanations made me feel

girl; much more so than her daughter, […] but had none of her mother’s-well, “vividness,” someone had once called it (Wharton 122). Next, the idea that daughters should be dependent on their mothers is clearly an understatement in “Roman Fever”. In comparison to Slade’s and Ansley’s generation, their young girls enjoy taking more risks as Mrs. Slade stresses, “To our grandmothers, Roman fever; to our mothers, sentimental dangers-how we used to be guarded! -to our daughters, no more dangers than the

email or text, which was 90% about my daughter during in school year. We met up once to just meet in person but most of that conversation was typing back and forth, along with gestures. As you can imagine, that limited the amount of information that was shared. Although I consider her my friend, there is so much I never had the opportunity to learn about her. She is one of the main reasons I wanted to take ASL. I wanted to be able to communicate with her. My daughter was in the ASL Club as well. That

On August 23, 2017, Professor Henry split her English Composition class up into four groups. These four groups were given instructions to write an essay together. The essay was simple. Get to know one another and write an essay about yourselves. The task allowed them to get to know one another inside and outside of the classroom. Getting to know each other creates tolerance of all diverse types of people and their respective backgrounds, possibly even lifelong friendships. Every group coming together

young woman by the name Ashputtle; who mother died but is helped by a bird in a tree by her mother's grave. Before her mother dies, she tells her daughter she would look down from heaven and watch over her. Could the bird have been heavenly sent from her mother? Only God knows. Shortly after her mother died her father marry a ruthless wife with two daughters who showed no compassion to Asputtle. They persecute Ashputtle and put her through hard labor. Although the daughter’s life seem to be going down

took advantage of it and not seeing that what he does slowly killed his son and probably goes for his environment as well because the boss does not have friends except for Woodifield. When his kingdom starts to crumble, his vanity gone and his two daughters turning their back on him, Lear starts to lower his pride as

embark on a journey with my two daughters, Jazmine (4 and proud of it), & Layla (terrible 2.5's) Goins to experience the eclipse at its fullest in Totality town (Andrews) North Carolina. Second thought's about this were weighing heavily in my head. Especially in the wake of the recent tragedy that took place in Charlottesville, Virginia. But being that this was a very important historical moment, I really wanted this experience not only for myself but for my daughters also. So with out any more

suffering, while Gloucester’s blindness was ignorance to his sons’ true intentions, leading to suffering as well. King Lear’s naivete began at the beginning of the play, as he looked past the true intentions of his daughters due to his pride. He fails to see that his most beloved daughter, Cordelia, loves him though she will not play into his selfish and narcissistic behaviour. Out of anger, he disowns her and banishes the loyal Kent when he defends Cordelia. Lear is blinded by his status as king,

Mama who is telling her story of her two daughters, Dee and Maggie. Both daughters live their lives in very different ways. In Dee's case, she goes out to make all that she can of herself while leaving her mother and sister behind. Maggie stays at home with their Mama and makes the most out of what surrounds her. All three ladies have different perspectives of their own heritage and identity. The conflict in “Everyday Use” is that Mama has these two daughters fighting over a quilt. In the end, readers