The Bonesetter’s Daughter is a novel about three generations of Chinese women. The novel starts off with a short prologue told in the perspective of LuLing Liu Young. LuLing is the daughter of “Precious Auntie”, a horribly disfigured nursemaid who is later revealed to be her mother, and the mother of Ruth, a “ghost-writer” who authors self-help books. Ruth lives with her boyfriend Art and his two teenage daughters, Dory and Fia in an apartment in San Francisco. She mysteriously loses her voice for several days per year around August 12. Ruth is nearly driven to the brink of exhaustion from trying to cope with everything life is throwing at her- her job, her boyfriend, her mother, as well as her past. The novel is divided into 3 parts; Part…
The Bottom Line: If you're looking for her sister's bones, you'll have to dig deep.…
While dancing in the forest, a group of girls go dancing with a slave. The local minister catches the girls. As one of the girls fall into a coma like state, rumors begin to circulate in town. Doubt, questioning, and rumors of witchcraft fill the air in the small Salem town. Throughout the story, the author uses hysteria to evoke chaos, doubt of one’s neighbor to create fear in the townspeople.…
The theme that I have chosen is death. I chose this theme because death plays a part in Andy's life and it plays a part in Henry's life. It affects us all in our lives because people die all the time and people go through hard a time when people die and that's what happens in the book. I will be explaining how death is used in the book from the First World War and during the present day.…
Salvage the Bones and Peace like a River are both very unique novels. Salvage the Bones, by Jesmyn Ward, is about Esch and her family getting ready for a hurricane, while also facing other personal challenges. Peace like a River, by Leif Enger, is about Reuben Land and his family trying to find his brother, Davy, while also being the only witness to his dad’s miraculous events. There are plenty of aspects that I liked about the books, however, there are also many parts that I disliked.…
Reverend Parris caught the girls dancing in the woods. Abigail was trying to make a love drink and so she can kill Elizabeth so she can have John Proctor to herself. Also Betty was trying to talk to the dead, to her dead siblings to see who murdered them. Shortly after the get caught dancing in the woods some of the girls get sick. Since some of the girls were sick, people began to think it was because of witchcraft. Once Betty woke all the way up her and Abigail began to call of some people’s name that they said the saw with the Devil. Elizabeth founds out the John was having an affair with Abigail. Cheever came into town and was going from door to door to ask people some questions. Cheever started questioning Elizabeth and Cheever asked John to say all Ten Commandments to see if he still horning God and not the Devil.…
Mary Warren in the beginning is a sweet girl who would never lie to anybody, but towards the end she changed a lot by making a doll with a needle inside of it. Also, when she goes to court she lies about witchcraft. Rebecca Nurse is married to Francis, they had several children in the beginning but somehow they all end up dead. After her kids died she was accused for killing them all. Rebecca is the same way as Mary…
Betty and Abigail claim that Tituba, Sarah Osborne, and Sarah Good are the cause of their situation. Both said Tituba, the slave, once told story about witchcraft. As the play in the book develop, Tituba was forced to confess due to the threat of whip to death by Reverend Parris, her owner. Osborne is a lower class person who had not attend church for 3 years because of illness and dealing with legal issue with the Putnam. In fact, the accusation of Osborne were strongly supported by the Putnam. Ann Putnam believe that she is the reason that cause the death of her children. Sarah Good was lower class person who’s accused to be a witch since she can not recite the ten…
The structure of Briar Rose is interweaved with three main stories: Gemma's fairytale, Becca's quest and Josef's experience of the holocaust. Two parallel stories are developed simultaneously as Becca realises that Gemma's version of her Briar Rose tale is actually a metaphor for Gemma's life. The placement and segments of the never-completed fairy story at intervals throughout the narrative adds suspense and mystery. Gemma's story is told to the readers most through her own unusual retelling of the original briar rose fairy tale. As in all good fairy tales, the older sisters, are at times unsympathetic to hearing this same favourite story repeated countess times. It is the youngest of the three sisters, Becca, who shows the required goodness and empathy. To her, the storytelling is not only the essence of her childhood, but also the nature of her grandmothers past of its mysterious and aristocratic origins. The placement of segments of the never-completed fairy tale at intervals through the narrative adds suspense and mystery to the novel. More importantly the fairy tale references deepen to the story of Gemma's holocaust sufferings. Yolen also uses intertextuality to structure her novel. The story tells a narrative in the present, but flashbacks are…
I simply am mystified by the events which enraptured your attention. What was the fire for? Is there a festival of some sort? WITCH 3: Beyond these fated woodlands resides a crownless king riddled with…
Bone’s actions in the story express antihero behaviors than heroic during his journey of sufferings. Although Bone struggled for moral, as he understood it, regarding his attitude towards Rose, the little girl who was trying to save. But, Bone developed to be a highly negative teenager with a drug problem and a person who tried to gain attention by cutting his hair, getting tattoos, and choosing a new name as a new symbol for himself. He was not able to make the correct decision, as he lacks the experience and the wisdom to know that is not the right decision. As previously mentioned, the story signifies the important example of how we would imagine a contemporary young people to react if they face the same challenges and experience the same…
The play starts out with Abigail, Mercy, Susanna, Mary Warren, Betty and Tituba dancing and trying to conjure spirits in the forest. They get caught by reverend Paris, Betty's uncle. Abigal and the girls blame Tituba for conjuring the devil. Once Tituba gets blamed she starts naming off people she has also seen with the devil. Abigal has had an affair with John Proctor so she accuses Elizabeth of witchcraft aiming to take her spot. Elizabeth is found guilty of witchcraft because of a poppet found at her house placed their by Mary Warren. Procter goes to the court to try to show that Abigail has a personal vengeance against Elizabeth but is eventually accused of witchcraft by Mary Warren himself. Since Proctor won't confess or give up names…
15. A gorecrow flies by and takes the arrow that Arthur shoots straight up into the air. Kay says that it's a witch. This is a foreshadowing of bad things that will happen.…
The first lesson that I learned was that mass hysteria often creates harmful stereotypes. In the play, mass hysteria spreads throughout the entire community that there are young girls who are capable of witchcraft. These rumors are spread although there is no tangible proof. This is significant because it fuels stereotypes, i.e. all women who deviate slightly from social norms are witches. This is a very valuable lesson in today’s society, as people often participate in mass hysteria, which strengthens harmful stereotypes. For example, if there is a group of men on a plane and each man is wearing a turban and speaking softly amongst each other, then other people on the plane might start gossiping and spreading rumors that the men are planning a terrorist attack. In several minutes, the whole plane might be in an uproar over the thought of a potential terrorist attack and the men might be classified as terrorists and even brought into custody, although there is no physical proof.…
The second part of the story, which takes place a hundred years after the first, is both disturbing and mysterious. It involves a group of young people, Mr. and Mrs. Jenny, their pretty sisters and their sisters’ lovers who talk about the possibility of having a ghost inside their house and eventually discover the house’s dreadful secret. This part reveals the secret from the first part. Without it, the first part would have been very vague and incomplete. Along with the characters from the second part, we must attempt to read across a hundred years of silence to reconstruct the first woman’s story. We are forced to discover what traditions, what historical and cultural continuities link the two halves of the story together.…