is one of our mentors. She has been there since the beginning and I am very glad to meet her. She helped out with the finances and made sure the event flowed through. The lady in the grey suit is the one who gave the trophy to us. Her name is Laura Albanese and she is the Minister of Citizenship and Immigration. We are all very honored to have received a trophy from her. On the left most side is a woman in red. Her name is Carine Strong and she is one of the founders of Volunteer MBC. On the right
Richard Powers’ work Gain is a tour de force of whatever it is. I say this, rather than describing it as merely a novel, although that is precisely what it is, because Powers has herein created something more than your typical story. In this work, two seemingly unrelated paths are set on ambagious paths which will ultimately culminate in their intertwining. On one path we are presented with the apotheosis of a specific corporation’s development, and on the other is the idiosyncratic life of an individual
the many difficulties that Tom, Laura, and Amanda face. As such, he burdens the family and ultimately has influence on Tom’s decision to leave them. Williams uses various literary devices to enhance the theme that one must act without pity in order to escape life’s struggles. The Glass Menagerie takes place in St. Louis, in 1937. The main protagonist, Tom, works in a shoe factory, and his only source of enjoyment is writing poetry and watching movies. His sister, Laura, is a crippled woman with little
focus on personal needs. Amanda treats Laura like a child and constantly makes decisions for her, and she and keeps him from enjoying his life. Amanda belittles Laura’s self-ownership which makes Laura immature and helpless as an adult. When the subject of gentleman callers comes up, Amanda addresses Laura, saying, “How many do you suppose we’re going to entertain this afternoon? [...] [reappearing, airily] What? No one — not one? You must be joking! [Laura nervously echoes her laugh]” (Williams
about with what other people think and the fact of just having a blast every time they are able to. When Mrs. Sheridan heard about the death of Mr. Scott she felt pity for a moment, but continued her party arrangements. In contrast, her daughter, Laura, seemed more humane because when her mother thought about giving the party’s leftovers to her neighbors, she felt that it was rude. Therefore, I can see that she feels empathy with the death of Mr. Scott. One of the themes that I can constantly see
Along these lines, The Beast in the Jungle seems to possess a critical position all the while as a story of "time lost and discovered once more," and "time ruled, caught, charmed, surreptitiously subverted better distorted" (Genette, 1980, 160). James' decision for such worldly setting is, indeed, an exhibit of the account's potential for fleeting self-sufficiency. James abuses fleeting conflict as an excellent means for checking past close by present experience (Bahun, 2012). The guests of the party
beginning of the play, Laura sees herself as “crippled” and not “expecting any gentlemen callers,” for she is extremely shy and unconfident. Furthermore, she embodies her collection of glass menagerie, for when Tom hurls his coat across the room “It strikes against the shelf of Laura’s glass collection... [and] Laura cries out as if wounded.” Laura’s action in this scene symbolizes her frailness and how she is a piece of the glass menagerie. Being part of the glass collection, Laura is confined to the
178). Rebecca devoted her life to Tomas. Due to him being deaf, she never knew what he could comprehend. As for McCracken’s “Thunderstruck”, we are introduced to a brittle mother-daughter relationship. The story focuses on Laura, the mother and Helen her eldest daughter. Laura is characterized as a constant worrier. “She had never truly gotten rid of a single maternal worry.” (McCracken 201). She was far from a perfect mother, a flaw of Laura’s, was that she never knew how to be authoritative towards
Throughout the course of this essay I am going to discuss whether I think contemporary plays continue to experiment with form and content. Form means how we stage a play and perform it; this could be through mime, physical theatre, comedy, melodrama and many more. The playwright will suggest the best way to convey the drama to the audience but it is important to remember that directors can completely change the form of a play, and this is fairly common with stock material such as Shakespeare – done
On the pitch black stage the screen is lit with the image of an orange ribbon. Laura’s body becomes noticeable and the screen starts to fade out. The music fades. Laura is sitting on a red beanbag at the foot of the coffee table in the living room. She is wearing snow white crop top with blue marble colored mini skirt- her hair is pulled back into a tight fishtail braid. She is on her computer watching Keeping up with the Kardashians on Instagram. Amanda appears at the top of the stairs. At the