Margaret Sanger uses the analogy of a garden to represent motherhood in "The Children's Era" by using this analogy, it helps the reader see the issue of motherhood in a different way. Sanger uses the examples of soil and seeds to show that if a woman doesn't feel…
She’d fallen asleep in the warm June sun while tending to her infamous rose garden, and never woken up. I like to think that, if she could have chosen her way to go, falling asleep among her beloved roses and slipping off would have been her pick. My mother’s love for her rose garden, and by extension, gardens in general, might be seen as eccentric. She even requested before dying that instead of purchasing cut flower arrangements for her funeral, donations might be made to the National Fund for the United States Botanic Garden.…
Mothers are very important to every living person on this earth. They nurture, educate, and enthrall pupils from birth well into their adult life. According to many psychologists, women are born with nurturing tendencies that are used throughout the rest of our lives. Regardless of monetary and social status, a mother is someone caring and loving. In both ROOM and The Glass Castle, the mothers are nurturing and loving regardless of both above statuses. They also share resilience, creativity, and a dependency on others that can be at times overwhelming.…
The most important person a girl looks up to and connects with is her mother. However, the girl may sometimes lack a mother figure, and may look to another: father, brother, sister, and if alive, grandmother. Janie Mae Crawford and Nanny share a complex relationship as her mother figure disappears and it is left to Nanny to nurture the protagonist, influencing many of her choices in the near future. Creator of character Nanny and Janie Mae Crawford, Zora Neale Hurston depicts the complexity of Nanny and Janie’s love in her novel, Their Eyes Were Watching God. Hurston effectively describes the difficulty of the mother-daughter relationship between Nanny and Janie. Janie and Nanny’s bond is compassionate,…
In the poem “Momma” by Chrystal Meeker, the narrator shows the reader what the true meaning of being a mother is. It shows that it is not about what a mom can give to their child or what they buy for them, but what they will give up for their children. In this poem, a mother looks back on her own childhood and realizes what her mother was willing to sacrifice for her children. The poem expresses a mother struggling to raise her children amongst difficulties and the true meaning of motherhood.…
Motherhood can be a great honor and privilege to those who choose to be a mother. It can alter lives and change the basis of a woman’s world, as she creates life out of her own blood and flesh and becomes exposed to the purest form of love. Yet throughout history, motherhood has been warped; it is not always a choice for a woman to delight in and explore, it is sometimes forced upon her or used against her, making her a victim of her own womanhood. Although Addie Bundren, Sethe, and Medea made mistakes, some unforgivable, they were all victims of motherhood. From the moment they were inducted into motherhood, they were destined to fail, as their circumstances never boasted of success. They must not be judged just as we would judge an average…
Sue Monk Kidd teaches us the importance of relationship and the power of female community. Lily longs for her mother and cherishes the few possession of her mother. She keeps a box of her mother’s memories buried in the orchard. In the box, there…
The poet demonstrates the reality of motherhood through metaphorical representation. This is evident through ‘someone she loved once passes by- too late’. This is a metaphorical representation of her past and it has changed from being lively in love to developing depressing thoughts within the park. As her ex-lover passes by, it is evident through metaphor 'From his neat head unquestionably rises a small balloon', this visually portrays that it is very clear that he left her, after seeing her being no longer young and fashionable, instead, contrastingly captured in the complex consequences as a result of motherhood. In her final statement to her ex-lover "its so nice to hear their chatter, watch them grow and thrive", it is proved that she continuously rehearsed this saying to tell herself falsehoods to remind herself that life is not monotonous and torturous instead their is some hope in motherhood that the change experienced can be…
As she grew older she began to resent Nanny for showing her a way of life where what matters is not the emotional but only the economic stability of the person whom she would be spending her life with. A person such as Janie who viewed the world as the blossoming pear tree where she once sat under and questioned her own nature was able to learn not to mourn but to live “To my thinkin’ mourning oughtn’t tuh last no longer’n grief.”(Page 114). Years ago Janie had told herself to wait for her in the looking glass. “The young girl was gone, but a handsome woman had taken her place”(Page 108) the moment where she was able to separate herself from the “weak” animals and children that could not think for themselves. However it was when Nanny had died along with her dream of love that she became…
The relevancy of timeless themes and issues throughout Gwen Harwood’s poetry is why it is till read in the modern genre.. Harwood’s emphasis on the connection between themes and issues in both modern and past contexts, makes it appropriate for students to study as the appreciation and understanding of her work expands. Themes such as family and relationships, life and death that Harwood displays in the texts of Mother Who Gave Me Life, Violets and At Mornington conveys the idea, that we still need to come to terms with the same issues today as they will always be around.…
The narrator, Amanda Coyne, begins her essay from the mother’s perspective. She describes herself visiting her sister in Federal Prison Camp with her nephew. The story is focused on the relationship of separated children and their imprisoned mothers. The narrator describes the mother’s unusual response to their children in regards to the smell of the flowers bouquet. The way that mothers were referring to the smell so significant gives a visualization of a deep longing and separation in their hearts. The common use of anecdotes and juxtaposition in this writing stands out as a useful tool to describe the characters. The use of a brief narrative to describe kids shows a bit of resentment children.…
Harwood’s poem ‘In the Park’ explores the exhausting and all-consuming task of motherhood and the effects that slowly take toll on a mother’s vitality. Throughout the first stanza Harwood uses everyday imagery to give the reader insight into the exhausted nature of the mother. Harwood offers the reader simple yet expressive imagery in line one of the poem, when a mother’s clothes are described as “out of date”, this imagery presents the clothes to the reader as a symbolic view of the woman’s attitude towards her life which is now seen as old, tattered and worn out, not unlike her clothing. After the first line the reader is left with an impression of the mother as being immersed in the past dwelling on the contrast between how her life could have been, and the mundane reality that has come to pass. When the children are introduced into the text the reader is invited into a part of the mother’s life that Harwood presents as a draining, somewhat parasitic addition, where as traditionally the sacred relationship between mother and child is one of great value. The image of two children that “whine and…
The legislative branch is the most powerful branch in government. The legislative branch is in charge of making and passing laws. They have the power to override a president’s decision, stop laws from being passed, and basically control all decisions the governments makes. The legislative branch, also called the congress, consists of the House of Representatives and the Senate. The reason for two houses of congress is to balance out the concerns of smaller but more populated states against states that are larger but with less population.…
A dani wa ye - The one creates us and places us on the planet earth…
Technical communication is a field that focuses on providing information to users who need assistance to accomplish a defined goal or task. The purpose of technical communication is not to entertain people. The focus of technical communication is to assist users who need specific information on using products, completing tasks, operating equipment, and completing other types of activities in technical writing.…