Daughters

The Jeweler’s Daughters “Why won’t he just die?” Debora Clayton said when The Rev. Charles Spears, Rector of the Downtown Church of Our Savior had finished saying The Litany at the Time of Death. Karl Frielingheisen, her father, was curled up in the hospital bed, staring through the side rails with dull gray eyes. Two weeks after an unsuccessful heart valve operation, he had drained his family and himself with his dying. The priest took her arm and led her into the corridor. “He can still hear

The Wedding Planner's Daughter. Coleen used symbolism very well in this book that it even determines the theme which is: never give up on your dreams. Coleen has this as the theme because of the symbol that represents the main character Willa. In all of the books that Coleen wrote she has used symbolism in all of the characters to show and represent the theme of the book. Coleen has very good symbolism formatting. For example, in the book, “The Wedding Planner's Daughter,” it states, “ I never

Throughout the second half of this semester, we have read poems that all had some type of comparison. It may not have been an obvious comparison, but most of these poems had at least one. In the poems, “My Papa’s Waltz” and “For My Daughter,” both describe a beloved family member. They both put in clear detail of the positive and negative things about said family member. These poems both describe someone misunderstanding or mistreating another. It is amazing how each of these poems can describe or

The purpose of the study “Traditional and Nontraditional Mothers' Communication with Their Daughters and Sons” was to determine if in fact there is a difference between the way a mother communicates with her son and with her daughter. There are two hypotheses: 1) that using different linguistic qualities can be characterized by who the mother is speaking to, be it son or daughter. 2) that mothers with nontraditional views on the roles of males and females will relate to their children in a less “sex-role

Michael Ondaatje uses a unique approach on how a father can communicate affectionately to his teenage daughter through the use of dramatic monologue. A dramatic monologue, otherwise known as a persona poem, is a monologue in which the character is talking to an unidentifiable listener at a dramatic moment in the speaker’s life. One of Canada’s greatly renowned authors, Ondaatje, is a native of Sri Lanka, but became a Canadian citizen as a young adult. He is well-known for his novel, “An English Patient”

Finding the Heart in Rappaccini's Daughter      In Hawthorne's short story, "Rappaccini's Daughter", Rappaccini is ostensibly a cold, calculating scientist. A pure scientist who would willingly give his daughter, himself, or whatever else most precious to him "for the sake of adding so much as a grain of mustard seed to the great heap of his accumulated knowledge" (1641). This leads most to believe that Rappaccini lacks any emotion and concern for his "scientific subjects" and their desires

“Rappaccini’s Daughter,” written by Nathaniel Hawthorne, is a short story about how beauty is within and not just physical. When Hawthorne was four years old his father was in an accident and died on the scene, leaving his mother to raise him and his siblings alone. Thus, leading him to have respect for all women, and it is reflected in the story. For instance, the main character Beatrice is this aesthetic, sweet, and a naïve woman and Giovanni is just focused more on her beauty rather than anything

“To A Sad Daughter” by Michael Ondaatje: A Father’s Confession Michael Ondaatje uses a unique approach on how a father can communicate affectionately to his teenage daughter through the use of dramatic monologue. A dramatic monologue, otherwise known as a persona poem, is a monologue in which the character is talking to an unidentifiable listener at a dramatic moment in the speaker’s life. One of Canada’s greatly renowned authors, Ondaatje, is a native of Sri Lanka, but became a Canadian citizen

Hawthorne's Rappaccini's Daughter This essay focuses on the way Hawthorne’s “Rappaccini’s Daughter” articulates the tension between the spirit and the empirical world. Hawthorne challenges the empirical world Rappaccini, both malevolent for his experimentation with human nature and sympathetic for his love for his daughter, represents, by raising an aesthetic question Rappaccini implicitly asks. Hawthorne never conclusively answers this question in his quest to preserve spiritual beauty in an

Famous for creating allegories throughout his works of literature, Nathaniel Hawthorne makes no except for Rappaccini’s Daughter. The plot begins with Giovanni Guasconti traveling to Padua, Italy in order to gain an education from the university there. He becomes a resident in a home next to a beautiful garden owned and cared for by a Signor Giacomo Rappaccini alongside his daughter, Beatrice. Giovanni is entranced by not only the beauty of the garden, but more importantly the beauty of Beatrice;