Frank McCourt’s memoir, Angela’s Ashes, depicts to role of the family in times of hardship and great desperation. Despite the fact that young Frankie’s family, who lives in Ireland half a world away from his home in New York, has been torn for several years, we see the McCourts turn to them in their time of need. By leaving New York and returning to Ireland, the McCourts placed themselves in an even more financially depressed state; though not without struggle, they were able to…
Hammurabi had 282 laws many with extremely harsh punishments like death. Hammurabi was the ruler of Babylon for 42 years and was thought to have gotten his laws from the god of justice Shamash. I believe that Hammurabi’s code was unjust because of the family law, property law, and the personal injury law. First of all, it is unjust because of the family laws. Law 148 states that if a man's wife wife is severely ill the man can remarry but he cannot divorce the ill wife and still has to take care of her.…
Frank McCourt’s memoir Angela’s Ashes follows McCourt through his life from youthfulness to maturity, from misfortune to comfort, and from family to independence. Throughout his memoir, McCourt’s experiences provide for a strong central message for his readers: although at times it may seem impossible for an individual to reach success, overcoming the obstacles and limitations imposed by society makes becoming successful an even greater accomplishment. During the course of his novel, McCourt shows how he found himself throughout his life. Even though it took a long time for Frank to come of age, this process is shown in three stages: regret, realization, and reassurance.…
In Frank McCourt’s Angela’s Ashes, the symbol of Angela’s red flapper dress highlights the pain of lost dreams. This symbol is very important because it highlights Angela’s youthful dreams, the beginning of Frank’s dreams and also how Angela’s dreams end. Frank uses Angela’s red dress to make uniforms for a soccer game against the rich kids. During the game, Frank scores a goal to win the game. This goal gives him hope that he will amount to something. Using Angela’s dress for uniforms shows the sacrifice of her dreams to make new dreams for Frank. It opens his eyes to new hope and a new outlook on his dreams.…
Often times, we endure problems within ourselves that can either be solved or left alone to embrace. Whether it is mental or physical, many of us find it natural to undergo inner-conflict. In the two passages, “The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man” and “Quicksand,” the authors provide the audience with a theme that connects them both. After uncovering their internal conflict, they eventually decided to unknowingly distract themselves from the issue. This includes the way the authors utilized the setting and characters to convey their theme. When dealing with inner-conflict, the theme is developed by expressing personal past issues, discovering new people, and ultimately uncovering a sudden romance.…
When faced with a difficult situation, a person usually does one of two things: gives up or shows strength and fights through it. In Farewell To Manzanar by Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston, the author recounts her story of her experience in Manzanar, a Japanese internment camp in California, during World War II. In The Circuit by Francisco Jimenez, the author recalls his journey as a migrant child in the 40’s in California, as his family struggles through all kinds of labor camps. Both Francisco and Jeanne show resilience in the difficult situations they face; however, Jeanne shows defiance towards her father, while Francisco is always sweet and kind. Ultimately, neither character has a lot of control over their fates,…
The novel “Looking For Alaska” focuses on many themes such as friendship, death, mortality and rules and order. These themes are seen predominately throughout the course of the novel and inspire character development of each character in particular “Pudge”. The themes that will be focused on in this report are friendship and death.…
Hannah walk into Eva room wondering and saying Mamma, did you ever love me, Plum or Pearl. Eva was outrage that at Hannah how could she say that, she fight to put food into her children mouth and clothe on there back with tremendous struggle. However, she didn't have the opportunity to have funny loving time with her children. Hannah looked into Eva eyes and ask why did you kill Plum. She burst out into tears because of the condition, that Plum wanted to crawl back into her womb. Eva clarify that he had become a child again, looking back when he was constipated the horror and danger to his life, she felt earlier years. Hannah was telling Eva about her dream about a red bridal grown, but Eva wasn’t really thinking about it, she was too distracted by 13 years old Sula.…
In a cycle of subduing, a person may have to do something astonishing. A challenging act may be needed in order to gain hope into someone's life. In “Barn Burning” by William Faulkner, the main character, Sartoris, is a young boy who lives in a poverty-stricken family with a father that is leading him towards a dim future. Sartoris has his father as a source of knowing what misery and hopelessness comes from their family. Sartoris is determined to have a brighter future than the one in which he feels his dad is going to provide him. He goes about this by going against what his entire family has told him. Throughout the last two paragraphs, William Faulkner used a hopeful tone to emphasize that Sartoris escaped misery once he decided to go against his family’s dynamic.…
The novel Tracks, while an entertaining read, is (as I 've learned) far more than a simple novel. The book perplexes me with its symbolism and layered and difficult to discern metaphorical references. I am accustomed to reading books wherein characters are simply people, birds, bears, the wind, etc. Surprisingly, I did "get" the underlying story; Nanapush was telling Lulu about her family her people and what portents the future held for them all but, the symbolism was not clear. Only after hour upon hour of research, reading and pondering thereon did I gain a modicum of understanding of the importance of symbolism in Native American culture, story telling and, literature; their Anglo-American counterparts a largely devoid of metaphorical and symbolic elements. This is a clear indication, though her name, Louise Erdrich leads one to believe she is Anglo-American, is actually a Native American and of the Ojibwe People. In fact, Harold Flett reinforces this deduction in Aboriginal Symbols and Practices: "There are many symbols, practices and customs, some of which are well-known to many people and some which are known only to a few. To achieve full understanding of some of these symbols and practices, one must personally experience them or be led to enlightenment through traditional teachings of an elder."…
Chip, Miles, Lara, and Takumi all try to figure out how and why Alaska died. They are trying to find out whether it was a suicide or an accident. They are extremely determined to find answers. They came up with a lot of clues. An example being is a note they found in Alaska’s book The General in His Labyrinth she wrote “Straight and fast,” which was her answer to get out of the labyrinth of suffering. So they thought that this correlated to the way she died, by crashing into a police car without swerving, going straight and fast. However, the whole thing is a mystery and no one will precisely know how she died. That is character vs. character external conflict.…
The main concepts this short story depicts is perseverance and strength in hardship. Phoenix Jackson displays bold courage, fortitude, and persistence as she faces the extensive trail into town. She comes across a strong hunter which could be highly dangerous as the setting is directly at the end of the Civil War. Jackson…
After the fiasco of a talent show, “two days later”(Tan 141) Suyuan is back at it again with getting June to continue her piano lessons. But, June resists by saying ‘I’m not going to play anymore’(Tan 141) but Suyuan yanks her “by the arm...half pulling, half carrying”(Tan 141) her to the piano and the quarrel continues.…
Some of the most important days in an individual’s life are the last few they will ever have. These are the times people typically want to be surrounded by the ones they love. It is hard for most family members to watch their loved one die. And it is especially hard for those that are not ready to accept the fact that there loved one will be passing. Nurses are a very important support to both the patient and their families. It is important to know how to treat not only the patient but the family and ensure that the patient is comfortable in their last few days of life. The purpose of this paper is to address the practice problem; what is the best way to support and help families that are not ready to accept that their loved one is dying and help the family let go? I intend to answer this practice problem and support it with a review of literature on the subject of death, dying, letting go and the involvement of family in this process. In answering this practice problem I will use Cornelia Maria Ruland RN, Ph.D middle range theory on end of life care and a borrowed theory by R.S. Lazarus on stress, coping and adaption and apply it to different practice situations involving end of life care.…
In terms of dramatic conflict, I interpret the final line of the story to mean that her knowing her husband was dead shocked her to…