Have you ever felt uncomfortable in a gathering that caused you to agree or disagree with your belief because of the mask you wear? Masks are a manner of expression that hides one's true character or feelings; a pretense. In John Irving book, A Prayer for Owen Meany, he uses Owen's life to demonstrate the idea that masks shield beliefs.…
“In The Cemetery where Al Jolson is buried” by Amy Hempel uses the word masks throughout the story to convey guilt, fear and unacceptance of death. The first mention of the word mask is in the beginning of the story. We are just beginning to understand that Hempel is describing two people in a hospital, the narrator is visiting her friend who is sick. They are both wearing masks, the narrator checks to make sure that she is still breathing and that she is not “ used to the mask yet.” The friend has her mask hanging loose, a “pro by now.” The fact that the narrator describes her friend at being a “pro” and the fact that the narrator is not used to her masks, tells us that the narrator has not been to visit before.…
She is a very happy girl very different than other girls her age. She herself represents individuality and free thinking. She’s real, alive, vibrant, and dynamic. She makes Montag look at the world differently than how he used to see it as. She makes Montag change and turn against his society by her ideas and behavior. She then gets murdered, but I believe that she dies because the government killed her for being a different…
Angela’s flapper dress is a strong symbol in the book. It illustrates that Angela was a young, carefree girl before she got pregnant and married Malachy. Little by little the poverty, Malachy’s drinking, problems with her relatives about Malachy, and losing her children chipped away at her hopes and dreams until there was nothing left for her but to smoke cigarettes and stare into the fire. The last of Angela’s dreams, ashes dying away in the…
The mask is a form of deception or illusion. Sometimes, it can be worn as both. It hides the true emotions of slaves, keeping the slave master from knowing what is going on in their minds. The mask also allows the slave to have an identity without the master's detection. The mask gives the illusion that the slave is exactly how the masters believe, ignorant, incapable of true emotion, and unable to think for themselves.…
What is really happening in the maquiladoras in Mexico? We all hear about how dirty and dangerous factories in America are but not maquiladoras. What are maquiladoras? they are Factories built by US companies in Mexico near the US border to take advantage of much lower labor costs in Mexico. In the painting “Self Portrait Along the Borderline Between Mexico and the United States” by Frida Kahlo, one of Mexico's most famous artist, She shows how America is affecting her country, Mexico. She painted something to show her culture and how it is being ruined. The factories, Maquiladoras, are effectuating the air in Mexico with all its pollution and it slowly affects the culture and causes chaos because the new American culture is ruining the Mexican culture. They are ruining the overall landscape when they build more and more factories. She uses Ford, a big car manufacturer, to show how its pollution is coming into Mexico. It could also mean how it is taking over Mexico by how it is a maquiladora. She basically is showing how much maquiladoras are killing people. Maquiladoras affect people, specifically women because they are the majority that works there, by how horrible of conditions it has.…
The Latin American countries, in the period of 1875 to 1950, dealt with many communal and political concerns regarding a profusion of issues. These problems included the fight for independence, the rights of women, political stability, slavery, differences in ideological views, and gender inequality within countries such as Brazil, Argentina, Cuba, Bolivia, and Mexico. As conflicts pursued, civility began to cease and civil wars broke out. The countries of Latin America also ultimately suffered due to setbacks on international life. As a result, relations with the outside world became difficult and complications persisted.…
In the beginning of the movie, this beautiful African- American woman Mona is modeling in the water with a stern seductive face. Wearing a blonde wig, a zebra print swim suite, and long fingernails, she roles around in the sand in all different poses for her white photographer. He instructs her to be sexy and flirty while he snaps photos of every move she makes. Mona is fulfilling the role of an ideal European model, and has lost her own self-identity in the process. The Eurocentric worldviews of what is accepted and what is pretty has led Mona to loose her own identity of who she really is and where she came from. Therefore, Mona’s curiosity leads her to a dramatic change in herself, and a whole new perspective.…
The website reveals that as a child she had very low self-esteem. She felt and believed that she was unattractive and like a complete misfit. She did not like her physical appearance, and hence could not give favourable descriptions of herself using observable characteristics. To me I think she had issues with her Identity as a child. As a child she lived a fantasy Barbie life since she was 6 years old after her parents gave her a Barbie doll. Through Barbie she could glimpse an alternative life. As Cindy Jackson grew older, her self-concept changed, and she was readily willing to do all she could to make herself attractive. She wanted to look better, and believed that by transforming herself, she could perfectly fit into the society.…
My favorite passage takes place after she gets in trouble for not wearing her scarf correctly. She states, "I want to argue. I feel like a child, defiant, but powerless. Burning with injustice, but also with a hint of shame. I do as I am told, feeling acutely conscious of the bare skin I am covering". I like this passage because you can really understand how she is feeling, and how difficult it is for her to adjust to two different life styles. Some of my friends from a Muslim country said “she should learn both culture in order to understand them. It is not hot to wear hijab when you are born and raised in Muslim society. It’s for to wear hijab because she didn’t practice her original culture. She was more western nice.”…
She wants to restore the broken connection with black folks and other people with nature because she feels that it’s lost. “The sense of union and harmony with nature expressed here is echoed in testimony black people who found that even though life in the new world was “harsh, harsh,” relationship to the earth one could be at peace.” (Hooks) When black folks lived close to nature, they’re one. Like when they farm, they felt a connection with the earth and it pleased their soul. They had this personal power and well-being when working and growing their own food. But when they migrated from the South to the Industrial North, it corrupted them, “...wounded the psyches of the black folks.” (Toni Morrison) These people were used to working on the soil, so when they moved it was all new, and it was hard starting a new life. The industrial north makes them feel alone because they weren’t working together anymore. In Waring Cuney poem, he described how ugly ‘she’ feels when she’s not close with nature. She blinded because she’s being judged for her skin color and she thinks has no beauty. “If she could dance naked under palm trees and see her image in the river she would know…,” she would know how beautiful she is, nature makes her feel this way. It covers up her flaws and she feels connected to the earth. It gives her freedom because she know who she is with this connection. This gives her…
This artwork makes people question the artwork itself, why this Lady carrying a basket on her head. The elements of the basket and the wearing of the cloth show that the photographer is an outsider and this shows how the artist was charmed by the lady’s beauty and wants to portray the powerful role of women and how the Native Americans lived in the…
As the scene takes off the narrator reveals another symbol the white woman carries on her body. The narrator realizes as his eyes wander along her body an American flag tattooed on her stomach. The placement of the tattoo on the womans body symbolizes the equality black men and white men will never share. The narrator desires the white woman, as they desire freedom and equality. “I felt a desire to spit upon her as my eyes brushed slowly over her body (Ellison 182).” The narrator desires the white woman just as he desires freedom and equality as the white men have. He also craves for equality as he does the ability to love this white woman. The act in itself was used as a form of embarrassment from the white men of power towards the black…
She was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, where prejudice among social classes was very prominent. As a high school student she fit in with everyone but didn’t like how seperate everyone was. As tension…
harder for people to get to know her. By joining the Mask and Wig Club, in North Crawford, she was given the opportunity to open up to others and meet new people, thus making many friends. We can see that by emerging from her protective shell, it was easier for her to get to know the people around her and for them to get to know her as well.…
