According to the National Cancer Institute, “In 2015, an estimated 1,658,370 new cases of cancer will be diagnosed in the United States” (“Cancer Statistics”). What if one of those cases was your mother? Husband? Grandson? What if more horrifically, it was all three? For Mary Kenyon, that devastating thought became a reality. In just three brief years, she lost her mother, husband, and grandson. All three of them battled cancer, and two of the three died from the disease. Through strength, resilience, and a whole lot of faith, Mary overcame grief and shows true heroism by inspiring people and helping them defeat the same obstacles she faced.…
First of all it is clear that the mother and daughters relationship is a little unstable. It is clear that the two did not always see things the same way in the line “they clawed their womanhoods out of each other” (line 3). The poem also suggests that…
In the book “The Memory Keeper's Daughter” by Kim Edwards a doctor and his wife have twins and the first child is a healthy boy but then the second child that comes out is a little girl with the signs of down syndrome and he asks his Nurse to take the baby away to an institution while he tells his wife the baby girl died. Through out the entire book it is a struggle for Dr. Henry's wife Norah to have closure with the fact that her baby girl is said to be dead and she never saw her, held her, or cared for her. Kim Edwards shows through the whole book that we are only human, the themes that life is beyond our control and through the connection between suffering and joy.…
The general subject to both of these poems is the fact that they both have to do with love, and sex. Although in the poem To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time the writer is talking about all young girls to lose their virginity. I know it is directed to all young girls because in line 10 it states, “When youth and blood are warmer.” When he says “youth” he is talking about young girls. The poem To His Coy Mistress is talking about how the writer wants one,a certain girl in particular to have sex with him. He is doing all he by convincing her and trying his best for her to say yes. In lines 15-19 he says, “Two…
The essay will be about the Novel Throwaway Daughter a fiction that is about a girl named Grace on a journey of finding her identity. The main story is about a young girl Grace Parker, who was abandoned in front of the orphanage by her mother and was adopted by a Canadian family. She is haunted by the fact why she was unwanted by her parents and she denied her heritage until she witness the death of protesters in Tiananmen square. As she continues to mature and grow she becomes more curious about her mother of what happened to her,thus her journey begins in china on a quest of finding the answers and herself.Grace (Dong-mei’s) journey allows her to fully embrace her heritage, finally giving her an identity through her childhood, adolescence,…
In this poem “The Mother” it was this mother that had many abortions. This speaker was having an emotional breakdown. For example, “I have heard in the voices of the wind the voices of my dim killed children” (Brooks 1940). When reading ‘’The Mother’’ the speaker talked about her and focused on the children she aborted. But the speaker never mentioned a father. So, after realizing she did not mention a father this question came to an understanding. Why do people have different emotional and physical feelings after abortions? When asking that question by people it means men and women. There is evidence of when it comes to abortions, many people do not think about the men withdrawals. Abortions, which are the discontinuation of a pregnancy before…
In the essay "Only Daughter", a daughter is seeking her father's approval. Sandra Cisnero gained her father's approval in multiple ways. She ultimately gets her father's approval when she shared her story in Spanish with him. Sandra also gained approval by making a name for herself and succeeding in life. This was important to because the author's father wanted to share Sandra Cisneros's story with the rest of the family. Additionally, sharing the story allowed her father to better understand her feelings throughout various stages of life.…
The last reading of the week was “All About My (Absent) Mother” by Deborah Paredez. Paredez mention how absent mothers serves in the media as key narrative features in teenage girls who pass the traditional feminine roles to take on an adventure. The absent mother factor in the media is more about an expressing of anxiety among the Latino establishment and the possibilities of Latina’s increasing economic power. Fathers take on the role being more feminist than the mother for instance, in the film Real Women Have Curves the father wanted greater things for her daughter than the mother.…
Secondly, these two poems are differentiated from one another because they include female speakers that bring compassion into the poem. The speaker in "Lineage" repeats "My grandmothers were strong" (l. 1, 6) to show how strong they once were and how she, today, lacked strength. When their ancestors existed, women were not given any rights or privileges depriving them of freedom. The speaker says "They moved through the fields sowing seed" (l. 3) representing they had no privileges but they still worked hard and strong, standing up for what they stood for. Although women had no rights, they had still stood tall and worked their way up to freedom.…
The three poems that was chosen to analyze is “It & Co”, “My God, It’s Full of Stars”, and “The Largeness We Can’t See”. “It & Co” was basically explaining that whatever someone is going through they are not going through it by themselves. In other words, her father died but she knows she cannot be sad or feel like she is the only one going through this because it is a common thing that happens. “We are a part of it. Not guests. Is It us, or what contains us?” In this poem she also expresses how she finds peace with the death of her father. Finding peace with her the death of her father was the same scenario for the poem “My God,…
The poem, "To a Sad Daughter" written by Michael Ondaatje, sends a powerful message regarding a father 's love, and his hockey idolizing daughter. Through analysis it is clear that Ondaatje does not use many overt poetic devices, but his subtle figurative language and specific word choice makes for an extremely effective poem. His decision to use common language and keep it simple helps to relate and understand his emotions for his daughter. In order to make the connection between the author 's motive in the poem, and its effectiveness through analysis- one must first understand the context of the poem.…
“When Miss Emily Grierson died, our whole town went to her funeral the men through a sort of respectful affection for a fallen monument” This part of the poem sounds as the men only went to the funeral out of respect for Mrs. Emily. The women went just so they could have a glimpse of the inside of her home “ The women mostly out of curiosity to see the inside of her house” . This story was written in 1930 but in 1863 is when Abraham Lincoln issued his Emancipation of Proclamation that stated all slaves should be forever free. Mrs. Emily still had a manservant through which shows that she is still living in the past because sixty-seven years had passed but if you think about it this story takes place in Southern Mississippi so I’m not surprised.…
What goes through your mind when you read a poem? What is the message that the author implements into their writing? Well, the two prominent poems that need further explanations towards these questions are “Do not go gentle into that good night” by Dylan Thomas and “Love is not all” by Edna St. Vincent Millay. The positions of both authors are very different within their poems from each other though they both spread a good moral towards the reader. In “Do not go gentle into that good night”, Dylan Thomas’ stance is to fight against death when it comes at your doorstep. In “Love is not all”, Edna St. Vincent Millay’s stance is to realize that love is not always happy thoughts, but you should still remember those you’ve loved in the past. Knowing…
The first main characters name is Alice, this is a five year old girl. She is stolen away from her family and friends at the local playground. She was stolen by a man called Ray, which is the second main character. This is the horrible man you took this five year old little girl away from her childhood. He makes her life a living hell, the only thing he is concerned about is keeping her looking like a little girl forever, keeping her below 100 pounds. He renames all of his victims Alice and they all had blond hair and blue eyes, Ray killed a 9 year old girl because she started to develop into a young lady. He gave Alice hormone pills so she wouldn’t develop as fast. But at age 9 Alice started to develop so Ray sent her to the park to find him another Alice, of course, he threatened her and told her that he would hurt her if she told on him. She set off and found our next main character who’s name is Shelly, she had long blond hair and blue eyes, around 5 years of age. Shelly had a brother named Max and this is…
The poem discusses the funeral of a woman and how she is presented in her funeral as someone people would be more likely to romanticize than what she actually was, perhaps out of a misguided sign of respect. The other more hidden meaning behind the poem is the author's reaction to the women herself and how she is portrayed in almost a spiteful, angry way because of his anger over her wasting her life in gray dullness.…