Keilani Spahn Mrs. Moretti English 3H 1A 20 August 2012 Descriptive Language In the short story “The Stolen Party,” Liliana Heker uses lots of descriptive language to describe Rosaura’s experience at a birthday party. For example, when Rosaura is passing around cake to the other kids, she remembers a story, “in which there was a queen who had the power of life or death over her subjects. She had always loved that, having the power of life or death.” Furthermore, this illustrates how the main character is relating past occurrences to the present event taking place. She feels as if the cake represents a sense of control over the other kids. Ultimately, this makes her whole experience at the party get better and better, putting her in favor of the other children.
However, until she reaches her ideal of life she has to go through a lot of difficulties presented by her first husband Logan Killicks and her second husband Jody Starks. During this part of her life, on the one hand, she becomes aware of the way a lot of men look at women and of how those men expect women to be so that she gains some kind of double consciousness when looking at her self. Nevertheless, during here marriage with Tea Cake, she also learns that there are men who accept women the way they are. Through her relationships she ultimately finds herself and peace in life. Although she looses Tea Cake at the end of the novel, Janie is finally satisfied since she has achieved the fulfilment she sought.
Poetry Analysis of Sharon Olds “Rite of Passage” When first read you might speculate if the poem “The Rite of Passage” by Sharon Olds is about the celebration of ones life. I sense, however, that the author is paralleling the malice of war with disillusions about the future of children. I will illustrate how a seemingly innocent birthday party is used with irony to portray a very disturbing observation of young children. The poem “Rite of Passage” is derived from a mother dealing with her son’s loss of innocence as he begins to transform from a young child into a man. It is important to consider the sensitivity of the speaker is biased, as she discovers her son has assumed peril behaviors.
In the essay Tannen discusses how men and women communicate very differently and how it affects our everyday lives. She gives real world examples, provides evidence for her claims, and genuinely makes a compelling argument on the vastly different ways men and women go about socializing. She discusses how when men are alone with women they tend to not talk as much, body language men and women use, and how women fear being pushed away while men aren’t in touch with their feelings at all. It’s clear through the essay, as I said before, that Tannen has done her homework on the subject and that it would be difficult to make a case against any of her points. This is why I found it interesting that in the academy award winning film From Here to Eternity, the males and females exhibited behavior that was completely contrary to Tannen’s findings.
She sneaks around spying on her husband. It is not until Torvald calls for his wife, that the audiences can see the childishness begin to surface in Nora. He showers her with nicknames that she responds to in a very schoolgirl manner. She seems to flirt with Torvald as if their several years of marriage have not phased her love for him. The way Nora responds to her husband along with how he speaks to her also makes her relationship seem like one a father would have with his daughter rather than a marriage of several years.
The mother of the boy turning seven is the speaker, and a happy tone can be detected. The mother tells about this birthday party in a happy or joyous tone because it is a celebration of her son’s life; “they relax and get down to playing war, celebrating my son’s life.”(Olds.p.171.25-26.) Also a sadder tone is also present; it is because the mother is coming to the realization that her son is growing up. A major theme running throughout this poem is about growing up and a child trying to be what the world expects of them. When the author says, “short men, men in first grade”(Olds.p.171.3) she is referring the boys gathering and practicing to be men.
For my personal reading book I read The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake by Aimee Bender. From the beginning of the book, you can see that Rose Edelstein has a complicated family life; a fragile and trapped mother, a brother who is out of touch with the world and a strange father who is so scared of hospitals that he waited on the sidewalk outside during the birth of his children. On the day of her ninth birthday Rose’s mother makes her a birthday cake. Rose takes a bite and soon realizes that she can read her mother’s emotions through the food that she makes. Rose has to grasp with the fact early on that she will spend the rest of her life with this ‘superpower’.
Petruchio says, “Be she as foul as was Florentius’ love, As old as Sibyl, and as curst and shrewd As Socrates’ Xanthippe or a worse…” The humorous situations, verbal and physical, are the structure of this farcical comedy. Blue Book #2 Rita Rudner’s quote on marriage implies that marriage is painful for a man and that he must buy his wife jewelry to reconcile. This quote stereotypes a man’s perspective of marriage. Marriage, however, can be joyful and peaceful, as I have been blessed to experience first hand. My parents have been happily married for thirty years.
Throughout the course of this essay I will discuss how the author, priestly, presented the contrasts in his novel, ‘An Inspector calls’, and I will write about how effective his devices are, these contrasts include the difference in age and social status. When the curtains first opens the lighting is ‘pink and intimate’ for the cheery occasion of an engagement party for Sheila Birling and Gerald Croft, but once the Inspector arrives the lighting should be ‘brighter and harder’ so the spotlight is on the Birling family and reveals who they really are. The first contrast, and possibly the most influential on Eva Smiths death, was the contrast between rich and poor. Priestly uses, on many occasions, exaggeration in the characters dialogue, especially Mr Birling’s, in order to highlight his opinions on how self-centred the upper classes of 1912 were. An example of this is when Mr Birling says ‘lower costs and higher income’.
Right away, Carver has used food as a way to set the mood for the beginning of the story. Scotty’s birthday cake is a sign of a celebratory event, and therefore creates a happy setting. On a slightly different note, it is stated that Ann was not comfortable around the baker, mostly due to his abrupt nature, “He made her feel uncomfortable, and she didn’t like that” (376). Because Ann is not comfortable around the baker, she does what anyone would do, and searches for some sort of connection between them to bring them together. “…everyone… must have children who’d gone through this special time of cakes and birthday parties.