The book, The Glass Castle, is a memoir written by Jeanette Walls, which tells about her childhood and growing up with an alcoholic dad and a mentally ill mother. The "Glass Castle" is a page-turner that should catch any reader’s attention. It is a book that would make you feel upset and angry. It shows an unconventional childhood and how that had made her stronger and successful woman in the future. A sad story with a happy ending. Jeannette Walls had a dysfunctional family and her childhood is hard to believe.…
He let the ministries zip past (the pink, the white), and a series of stores on the main street, their windows flash ing. Now he was beginning the most pleasant part of the run, the real ride: a long street bordered withtrees, very little traffic, with spacious villas whose gardens rambled all theway down to the sidewalks, which were barely indi cated by low hedges. Abit inattentive perhaps, but tooling along on the right side of the street, heallowed himself to be carried away by the freshness, by the weightlesscontraction of this hardly begun day. This involuntary relaxa tion, possibly,kept him from preventing the accident. When he saw that the womanstanding on the corner had rushed into the crosswalk while he still had thegreen light, it was already somewhat too late for a simple solu tion. Hebraked hard with foot and hand, wrenching him self to the left; he heard thewoman scream, and at the collision his vision went. It was like falling asleep all at once. He came to abruptly. Four or five young men were get ting him out from under the cycle. He felt the taste of salt and blood, oneknee hurt, and when they hoisted him up he yelped, he couldn't bear the presssure on his right arm. Voices which did not seem to belong to thefaces hanging above him encouraged him cheerfully with jokes and assurances. His single solace was to hear someone else confirm that thelights indeed had…
This begins with her ‘folding a little towel’ at her time of death, which is symbolic of the way she has continuously served others. She then calls her mother “a fabric of marvels folded down to a little space”, which refers to the marvels she accomplished during her short life, but can also be interpreted as her metaphorically large heart being ‘folded down’ into her small body. Her face ‘crumples’ like ‘fine linen’ because of it’s fine lines but also its delicacy and in the ‘remembered hours’ she is represented by a beautifully embroidered linen, which both physically and emotionally representative of her mother’s…
For some, the pitter patter of rain was calming, for Emily it was maddening. It reminded her of the days leading up to her marriage to Samuel. She had only been fifteen, Samuel thirty-five. Her parents, knowing she had no interest in marrying Samuel and so considering her a flight risk, kept her cooped up until the marriage. Her family had been poor and so they believed marrying Samuel was the only chance Emily had at escaping that poverty.…
In this book the symbolism of the Bird serves as a reminder to Edna’s entrapment of her victorian women in general, like the birds the women's movements are limited by their society and are unable to choose their own rights and communicate with the world around them. The novel winged only describes the women so they can use their wings to protect themselves and shield so they can never fly. Another symbol for the book is the Sea. The sea symbolizes freedom and escape, the sea also serves as a reminder to Edna of the fact of awakening in a rebirth, and the strength, glory, and lonely horror of the women's…
It was a cold winter day in the town of Budville. The sky was a leaden grey, heavy with snow. The ground was blanketed in a thick layer of frost, sparkling like countless diamonds under the dim light of the morning sun. Maria, a young girl of ten or eleven, trudged through the snow, her breath forming tiny white clouds in front of her face. She wore a thick fur coat and mittens, her scarf wrapped tightly around her neck to protect her from the bitter cold.…
The use of imagination brings a child's perspective of the garden to a level in which everything is brought to life in and around the backyard. The child's perspective makes simple items show great symbolism such as the washing line which lifts the persona to an "exalter position, almost sky high". The washing line is also personified with "sliver skeletal arms" and is "best climbing tree" which metaphorically describes the washing line. Sustained metaphors like "pegs adorning its trunk" are used to further show the responder the comparison between the washing line and a tree. The use of similes enables the responder to be able to take part in the poem and see things in the eyes of an imaginative child, a child who finds a simple backyard, where clothes can be hung like "coloured flags in a secret code", mystifying and amusing.…
Questioning, the man above on why the features look the way they do, consequently it drives anyone insane, hoping no one notices these imperfections. With this in mind, in Fish Cheeks by Amy Tan, the fourteen-year-old girl is getting all worked up about Robert the boy she fell in love with, on what he was going to say about her unmannered family that Christmas Eve. The young man does not even acknowledge her! Controlling another human beings’ thoughts is impossible notably, Amy is worried about something she has no control over. Concerned about something that is impossible to change. It is important to realize that no one is perfect, and everyone has their own flaws.…
Going from store to store, hands thirsty for shine, I reached for polyester satin, machine-made lace, petunia- and Easter egg-colored, brilliant and flammable. Nothing haute about this couture but my hopes for it, as I tugged it on and waited for my one, true body to emerge. (Picture the angel inside uncut marble, articulation of wings and robes poised in expectation of release.) What I wanted was ordinary miracle, the falling away of everything wrong. Silly maybe or maybe I was right, that there’s no limit to the ways eternity suggests itself, that one day I’ll slip into it, say floor-length plum charmeuse.…
In Gilead there is a class system. At the top of the system is the Commander and then the Commander’s wife. They have the freedom to speak freely. The classes under the Commander and his wife are cramped in what they can say aloud. Atwood’s use of language in the dialogue between the lower classes shows the result of Gilead.…
This is done by showing events through the eyes of the recently awoken soul. By making our eyes the spirit’s eyes, the poet is able to immerse the reader into the spirt world where the reader is not allowed to bring preexisting thoughts on things such as laundry. Furthermore, this poem begins with “The eyes open to the cry of pulleys” which makes the reader want to see what the eyes are seeing. Throughout the poem, the poet is continually playing with the reader’s sight in this spirit world with images such as “the sun acknowledges with a warm look.” These unfamiliar images created in this spirit world create an incubation chamber where complicated thoughts on qualities can be represented through things such as…
I stared at the ceiling. It seemed so far away, so out of reach. There were still holes where the climbing ropes once hung. Young boys climbed to the top against all odds. Gravity pulling them down towards the earth where they belonged. I looked over at June, sleeping peacefully. And then over to Moira, neither of them would ever know why I disappeared that night. I slowly got up and arranged my pillows to look like a sleeping body. A crude representation, but it would do for now. I crawled along the floor careful not to alert the Aunts. Their cattle prods sparking at the tip. Similar to a thunder-storm, I’d never seen a thunderstorm since I became a handmaid. God forbid the leaders of Gilead lose their precious handmaids to a thunderstorm. I had practiced my handiwork for a year, planning my escape, nothing would stop me. I pickpocketed the card from Lydia and silently walked over to the door. The console beeped loudly just as Moira sneezed and a resounding noise rang around the room. I smiled at the room, Not from nostalgia but rather form knowing this was the last time I would ever see this place.…
Do you ever get so close to someone you can feel them mentally like if something bad happens to them you can feel it even if they don’t tell you. Yeah I had that. Goodbye is such a weird word isn't it. I mean what it it is saying is the bye is good when it's not at all bye isn’t a good thing. But somehow saying goodbye makes it better. It doesn’t because if you say bye or even goodbye it means that something or someone is leaving which is never good. What happened it you don’t see that person the last thing you heard from them was goodbye. It’s like they know they're leaving. I hate goodbyes. I’m rambling on again aren't I? I have done that a lot since...…
Frown sinking to worry. Forgetting all fears of darkness, the clicking of heels reaches the boy’s side. This woman’s smile calming, light, voice lulling. She's careful not to startle him as she brings him securely to her chest. Her once spotless outfit washing in the mud-stained concrete. Meanwhile, a spark has grown in the boy’s eye. This stranger matching visions of guardians in his past. His weak body comes alive, a flash of silver brightens the street. The boy shoots up. A jagged silver strip tearing the woman's cloth. Her heart halting - mid beat failing. Gone is this privileged girl an empty shell in her place. Organs once keeping her inside now dangling on the street. Cackling breaks the mist. Excited hands fiddling with the tan coloured skin, mouth straining so unused to his smile. So our scene can now fade on the platted strings of flesh, the boy having gained one tiny spot of enjoyment…
PROLOGUE A little girl looking the age of five had her platinum blonde hair up in two pigtails and a flowing summer dress on with her eyes crinkled and a blinding smile on her face whilst running around two older adults looking the age twenty-five. The father with dazzling sea green eyes and jet black hair messily atop his head with a physic body and good posture in a blue T-shirt and jeans with his hands tucked in his pockets, stood next to him was an equally as beautiful woman with dark blonde hair tied back in a ponytail and gentle features on her face as a smile tugs her lips. Her slim body figure in a sundress as it flowed in the wind.…