Maggie May

to return home from college while Maggie her youngest daughter is at home. Mama is aware that Maggie will be shy and nervous when Dee arrives, while Dee will be happy, free-spirited, and worry free. Dee arrives and interacts with her family and it is clear the obvious differences that the two daughters have. Dee lives a more liberated, confident and carefree life while Maggie is self-conscious, shy, and reserved. In other words, Dee is an extrovert while Maggie is an introvert. Maggie’s burns impact

heritage. In the beginning, the story introduces the characterization of Mama and shows how she views her individuality. Mama waits for Dee “in the yard that Maggie and [her] made so clean and wavy” (Walker 278), which emphasizes the physical characteristics of the yard; also the use of the word “so,” shows the strong attachment that she and Maggie, her daughter, have to their home. The fact is the yard is “not just a yard. It is like an extended living room” that expresses the essence of her being (278)

In Alice Walker's "Everyday Use" the reader is introduced to three main characters, a mother and her two daughters. The first daughter, Maggie, still lives at home with her mother and is her companion. Dee, however, moves on with life and goes out to make something of herself in the world. The story is an account of one of Dee's visits, but the narrator, the mother, makes a very obvious comparison between Dee and Maggie's looks, intelligence, behaviorism, and values. The reader has a lesson to

much debated character MAGGIE TULLIVER from the book Mill on the floss written by George Eliot. The project I propose analyses Maggie’s character as a whole. The report will begin by discussing the critics point of view of various reasons responsible for the death of Maggie Tulliver. The report then focuses on how society and how her relationships lead to her downfall from the point of view of various critics. A part of my report also critically analyses the death of Maggie Tulliver. Lastly my report

story “Everyday Uses” begins with a Mother talking about her daughters, Maggie and Dee. Dee is outgoing, beautiful, and judgmental; she searches for things that may give her life purpose. Family values are of very little importance to Dee. She finds her significance more in her appearance than in endearment to the people of with whom she has shared her life, due to her insecurities. Then, there is her little sister Maggie, a small, shy girl, who has large insecurities due to her appearance. She

containing one’s natural tendencies in the character of Maggie Tulliver. As the novel follows her coming of age, Maggie grows from being an impulsive, dreamy child to a young woman who struggles with subduing her passions. In containing her personality, Maggie struggles internally; and this containment further manifests in her hair, one of her most noteworthy features. Unruly in her childhood, her hair becomes continually contained as Maggie subdues more of her natural personality. Yet, Maggie’s unruly

inclination to the philosophy of transcendentalism. The search for self and the individual who looks towards nature for symbolic answers all come from the individualistic belief that transcendentalists celebrate (Hart). In Cummings’ poem “maggie and milly and molly and may,” he elaborates on his theme of self-discovery and portrays himself through the four girls mentioned in the title. After reading through the poem, there are a few things that you can point out right from the start. Like a nursery rhyme

Calling Maggie May is a book that any teenager can have a connection to or relate to, I have also connected to this book in many ways and here’s why. She is a sixteen year old girl like me who is trying to find her place in the world. Trying to search for something better but also not knowing what that something is. She does what she is told and tries her best in school to get good grades and constantly worrying about making anyone disappointed in her especially her parents, that’s also what it's

was different, they all had an upbeat rhythm; each poem was congenial. My favorite poem to read was “maggie and milly and molly and may” by E. E. Cummings, the couplet style poem. The poem goes against all rules in the writing world; Cummings uses broken syntax, self-created compound words, decapitalization, and unusual forms of punctuation. This poem seems very innocent and free. Maggie finds a sweet singing shell, Milly

individualism in ‘anyone lived in a pretty how town’. In ‘maggie and milly and molly and may’, Cummings expresses and promotes his transcendentalist philosophical views through the use of personification. In the second couplet of the poem, Cummings introduces maggie, and she symbolizes the ‘sweetly’ troubled one. When Maggie was in a time of trouble, she turned to nature (the shell), as transcendentalists do, to find comfort. Maggie not only finds nature, she also finds art in the form of music