The narrator, similar to the woman, highlights Helene’s insecurities. The narrator makes Helene hesitant to ask the women where the restroom was, this shows that she felt a lack of confidence with in herself. Helene’s hesitant action is evidence of the narrator’s diction. The narrator uses confusion and another character to foil Helene to see the truth of…
Her husband becomes her champion to fight on her behalf. Lady, being a woman, is considered his property this makes the crime against him. Marguerite endured pregnancy leading up to the duel. Jager makes sure to show us how hard it was for Lady Marguerite to speak up about the attack.…
Lilly is upset because she was trying to find “Nuggets” for her “Mental Pool”. She was trying to ignore everyone to find “Nuggets” when she accidently walks on the wrong train thinking thats where her friends are going, but they turn and Lilly doesn’t. Lilly learns that not to ignore people that are trying to help her, but to focus on what they are saying.…
<br>"Then a white man walked over and pulled the sheet off. The man was on his…
portray the early life of Ernesto Galarza, it also does a tremendous job of capturing the essence of…
Ms. Maloney didn’t care that she had gotten an innocent man arrested, she had her children and that’s all she needed, but ever since that day she’s had awful nightmares of her murdering her husband, she feared she was going insane. Her children were 16 and she wanted to confess once they turned 18, but she no longer wants them to know the truth. She doesn’t want her children to think she’s a monster, she loved them so dearly, she did all of this for them. “I can do this, I need to do this…” she’d tell herself, attempting to pull herself together even though the guilt felt like it was consuming her. She looked at the clock, 2:55 PM, the children will be coming home soon, I need to keep it together.. After a few minutes of silence, she heard the front door open and her son walked in. She got up from her seat to help him out. “Cole, honey, how was school…? And where’s your sister?” He sat down his bag on the floor and sat on the couch next to his mother. “School was fine, and Violet wanted me to tell you that she’s going out with some friends and will be home late.” Ms. Maloney made a humming noise in response. “I’m going to go to my room and do my homework.” “Okay.” Ms. Maloney turned on the television and sat there. She thought about how Cole is beginning to look more and more like his father, and how Violet is growing up and hanging out with friends. She loved them so dearly, she killed her husband and told no one, just for them to live. She went into a trance like state, and reenacted the scene in her mind, she felt like she was actually in the memory, she saw her husband, she had a weapon, but this time it wasn’t a leg of lamb… it was a knife, but she continued on, she saw her husband in front of her, he turned around and looked terrified. Ms. Maloney was so confused, this wasn’t how she…
Philip catches the plague and they are still isolated. Marguerite is trapped inside the shelter with late Philip for five days before someone comes to get her. This is an example of social inequality as they are Marguerite is left with Philip who had passed away, in a small shelter in winter so it was freezing and smelt of…
Just because Ms. Strangeworth called Mrs. Crane's baby spoiled, “ That little girl is going to grow up expecting luxury all her life.” “ A princess can be a lot of trouble sometimes.” Does not make it right to commit property damage. By destroying the roses Mrs. Crane has committed a crime. It is not worth it to pay a fine or face jail time over cutting down flowers. If found guilty she’ll be an outcast to her…
The story begins with a prison guard arriving at Mrs Spencer's door to give Paula the unfortunate news that her husband, Charlo has died. Then Paula explains the marital status between her and her husband, which is that they are separated. She talks of their wedding, their children and then she moves on to talk of the savage attacks Charlo gave her. She tells of times when she was raped, battered and even more brutal, nearly killed. She told the doctors that she fell down the stairs or walked into doors' to justify her broken bones and bruises, because if she told them the truth, Charlo would hurt her, yet again. After seventeen years of too much pain and torture she received from him, she gives him a taste of his own medicine and throws him out of the house for good. Paula's family has barely enough money to manage throughout the week but they struggle and live in a state of poverty. Paula's marriage with Charlo goes from love to loveless and she becomes trapped within herself and she can't do anything about it because she is so weak from her beatings.…
makes life miserable for Jane. Jane is not as angel-like as her aunt expects and she is not regarded as good enough. Therefore Jane lives under tyranny and is treated like air by everyone.…
Mrs Gruwell learns about their everyday lives and the things they go through and finds a way for them to learn and relate things that significant others such as Anne Frank have gone though.…
Mrs. Thompson immediately expresses that she holds Jeannie responsible for the incident of rape. She says, “I told you to keep away from men. I told you it would make trouble, all that being cute and dancing around”. Mrs. Thompson also blames Jeannie for Vern losing his job and says that Jeannie doesn’t appreciate Vern’s hard work and that she ruined his career by “doing a terrible thing”. This shows that Mrs. Thompson is extremely oblivious to the realities of sexual violence and that she fails to comprehend that Jeannie’s way of dressing or behaving is in no way an explanation for the trauma that she faced. Gallant emphasizes that as a woman, to be harmed does not mean that you will gain sympathy and understanding from the society around you or find support to defend…
The story tries to document her life through the eyes of her son, the narrator. It tries to depict a son’s attempts to understand his mother – about who she really is, throughout the various phases of her illness- before, during and after the episodes of madness.…
The text proposes that Marguerite's general personality could have led her to defy social norms expected of women. Marguerite had been…
Birds have hollow bones! Doesn’t that seem weird to you. HOLLOW BONES! Those stupid little creatures are so brittle! So, when I watched a bird slam into our class window in the middle of our history class (French Revolution), I screamed! Not because I was scared but because hollow bones break easily, and I was pretty sure that bird broke a few of its bones. After the accident, the bird just sat there near the window looking inside, those beady eyes seemed to be pleading for help. Well after the history class, when I noticed that the bird was still there I went up to help it. It looked petrified when I came near and opened the window. It was only then that I noticed that it was a sparrow. I took it in my hands, and made my way to the infirmary.…