Simply Mortified

Lucy Honeychurch lives in a world in which actions are more often than not dictated by politeness and social cues, rather than real emotion. She’s a bright young lady, but she still can’t quite figure out how to negotiate the boundaries of society. The longer she stays in Italy, where things are evidently more straightforward and less uptight than they are in England, the more she realizes that she has questions that her former way of life don’t answer. This initial stage ends when George kisses

In Tess of the D’Urbervilles, Thomas Hardy distinguishes Tess Durbeyfield as a girl in the midst of her physical development whom society mistakes for a matured woman and as a girl constantly remorseful over the traumas she endures. For instance, after falling asleep while driving a carriage, it crashes–resulting in the death of her family’s horse and the tainting of a white road by blood. Even though her family does not blame her for the accident, Tess still feels remorseful. After the Durbeyfields

initially, solitary shrinks a person with helplessness,”. She then gave an example how one time the guard threw her tray, causing gravy and vegetables to spill on the floor and for once she actually picked up three peas from the “muck” but was then mortified by behavior no one else would ever see. It comes to show that no human should every go through something like that, whatever the situation may be. The cells weren’t in the best condition

Research Paper: Bullying Bullying can be found almost everywhere; in homes, on the internet, and especially in schools. Students of lesser abilities or non-conformists can essentially be main targets; however, anyone is vulnerable to a bully’s wrath. Although the common lunch thief threat has been the general association with the word bully, that term has unfortunately evolved and become apart of the violent side of our culture today. All too often students feel the need to “disappear” or escape

Behind the Beautiful Forevers by Katherine Boo is a documented version of life in a Mumbai slum. The “story” revolves around the life, death, and hope in the undercity of Annawadi. The book thrusts the reader into the hidden worlds behind the lavish living of the rich and into the lives of people that are impossible to forget. Originally published February 7th, 2012 by Random House in New York, Katherine Boo writes about the apparent economic inequality occurring in the Mumbai undercity. This telling

pyramid of increasing status with increasing responsibility, Austen portrays it as a social food chain of the flatterers and the flattered. For example, when Mrs. Clay quits Bath at the end of the novel, Sir Walter and Elizabeth are "shocked and mortified...they had their great cousins, to be sure, to resort to for comfort; but they must long feel that to flatter and follow others, without being flattered and followed in turn, is but a state of half enjoyment" (Persuasion 220). Unlike the landholders

It was a normal girls ' night for Mabel, Grenda, and Candy. Age-inappropriate romance novels, heaps upon heaps of junk food, dollar store teen movies, gossip, sleepover games...any preteen girl 's dream. And Dipper 's worst nightmare. All Mabel had to do to get Dipper to get far, far away from their room was even so much as think about having a girls ' night. After the traumatic experience he 'd had attending one in Mabel 's body, he couldn 't even stand to witness them anymore. They always had

Chapter 2 Elizabeth Bennet - Analysis “It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.” This opening sentence from Pride and Prejudice reflects the ideals of the age when it was written. Jane Austen wrote about the societal norms and the mindset of the general public through the medium of a family with five daughters, the Bennets. Elizabeth Bennet, the second of the daughters is the one who is different, and the protagonist of

Anneke Buskes Mrs. Witt Pre-AP English October 5, 2015 Double Decker Elvis Around and round the whirly-gigs spun, dancing lazily in the stagnant air, only moved by fans set up behind them and the occasional measly breeze. Their mesmerizing patterns and colors filled the skies, larger than life, even when their movement was in slow jerks and circles, a mere reflection of their true abilities. Their dances, inspired by mechanical breezes, were hypnotic, and to a small child, seemed bigger than the

Elizabeth immediately regretted her temper, but by the time she cooled enough to be rational, she was half way to Oakham Mount. She had stormed out of Netherfield in a most unladylike manner, slamming the front door behind her, and set off down the drive and into the woods at a near run. That woman truly was insufferable! Intolerable! Unbearable! Elizabeth had vowed to herself that she would not rise to the bait, no matter how provoking Caroline Bingley was. It was never a good idea to speak when