Miss Elaine

Attempting to escape her own reality Miss Brill from Katherine Mansfield’s short story “Miss Brill”, creates a fantasy world where she doesn’t have to face the reality of her lonely insecure life, until it all comes crashing down in front of her in a matter of moments. This story, although really short is very compelling because the author has managed to put the reader inside of Miss Brills mind letting us in on all her insecurities and thoughts. Out of fear, people build walls isolating themselves

Beauty Pageants General Purpose: To argue Specific Purpose: To argue that beauty pageants are exploitive Thesis Statement: Beauty pageants have a bad effect on society because: 1) it spotlights only one kind of beauty, 2) it lower’s women’s self-worth and self-esteem; and 3) it affects a child’s development Introduction I. [Attention Step] When meeting someone for the first time it’s usually not the person in the inside that you notice first, but rather their physical features. II. [Topic Justification]

In “Miss Brill,” Katherine Mansfield conveys a character, that is naïve and old, named Miss Brill. When one reads this short story, he or she would tend to sympathize over this character. Analyzing this character is going to be the key aspect, in understanding this short story. Mansfield creates a character that has an enthusiastic/ optimistic, old/ passive, and lonely/ independent personality. According to this fiction, Mansfield produces a character that is enthusiastic and optimistic. “Oh, how

In the events previous to this passage, Miss Havisham has just dismissed Pip’s presence at Satis House and paid the premium for Pip to be apprenticed to Joe and become a blacksmith. In this passage we see the effects of this on Pip, and more importantly, the reflection of adult Pip when looking back at this time. Throughout Great Expectations, Dickens uses double voiced narration as a tool of self-reflection for Pip and consequently, to show Pip’s personal growth as a character. In this passage from

chapter 49 of The Great Expectations by Charles Dickens, a fire breaks out in Miss. Havisham’s home and leaves her and Pip badly burned. Charles Dickens included this part in the story to show both the guilt Miss Havisham felt for her cruelty toward Pip and Estella, and her repentance for her guilt. The fire itself is a symbol of a purge of Miss. Havisham’s guilt in an attempt to repent for what she has done. Miss. Havisham herself is a devastated character. Her past sorrows made her do unthinkable

believe she is dead, and given to Miss Havisham; a woman whose heart becomes shattered by a man from which she becomes obsessed over. Pip is a small boy whose family with the exception of his sadistic sister have all perished. Pip’s sister constantly beats him over the tiniest of things and when Joe, his sister’s husband, tries to step in, is only beaten harder. Pip and Estella meet when Pip is brought to the

words “coarse and common” throughout the book reinforces class gaps. Dickens uses the repetition to illustrate how like these words are repeated, so is the mistake that Pip allows his expectations to ruin any possible happiness. Finally, Pip says, “(Miss Havisham) reserved it for me to restore the desolate house, admit the sunshine into the dark rooms, set the clocks a going and the cold hearths a blazing, tear down the cobwebs, destroy the vermin” (29.2). This image creates a picture of pure happiness

I In Charles Dickens’ novel, Great Expectations, those who endure guilt about situations beyond their control may grow up in an onerous household, and Dickens evinces this when Pip grows up in a house of abuse, poverty, and Christianity. Mrs. Joe Gargery abuses Pip physically and psychologically. She proclaims Pip embarrasses her to other people while he is present. Mrs. Joe declares Pip is a mistake, and she fritters time away raising him “by hand” (Dickens). Additionally, each time Pip perpetrates

One of Pip’s first forms of suffering was through his home life at mostly a very young age by the hands of Mrs. Joe. Often times during Pip’s childhood, Mrs. Joe would often physically beat him for his wrong doing and one of her more popular ways to do so was through a stick called the Ticker. Young Pip explains his situation as this: “Having at the that time to find out for myself what the expression meant, and knowing her to have a hard and heavy hand, and to be much in the habit of laying it

I attended the Miss Essence Pageant that was held on Thursday, February16 at 7:00 o’clock located at the Fowler Center on Arkansas State University’s campus. This event allows African American women to showcase their talents and earn a scholarship. The pageant was put on by the Black Student Association and the Office of Diversity. When I first walked into the auditorium, I immediately heard loud rhythm and blues music that was played by a DJ. There were rows filled with people ready to watch the