My book Gathering Blue by Lois Lowry was about a girl named Kira who lives in community where things are very weird. Kira had just become an orphan recently when her mother died of the flu. Since her mother died of the flu they had to burn down Kira’s house. Kira came to the grounds where her house was, and started to rebuild when a large women comes in and tells her she doesn’t own this space any more because her mother is dead and with Kira’s messed up leg she is useless, so they are taking her house and are going to build a place for the children. Kira says that she owns the space and refuses to move.…
The novel Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward tell us a story about a 15-year-old African American girl named Esch. She lives with her father and 3 brothers in small bayou town called Bois Sauvage in Mississippi. Unfortunately, Esch is living an unhappy and poor family. Her father has problems with alcohol, and her mother died after her last pregnancy when Esch was only 8 years old. Even though Esch’s mother is dead, her presence is obvious from the very beginning of the story, and she stays present throughout the whole book. Esch constantly compares the present with the past, when her mother was alive. Mama is the only woman that Esch can refer to about feminine issues, among all males surrounding her. Therefore, the most tender memories that Esch keeps in her head are connected with her mother. Mama is an invisible guardian whose lessons still continue to guide and protect all of her children.…
The first books she steals is The Grave Diggers Handbook on January 13 1939 on the day her brother dies and she also last sees her mother.{insert quote}. This book is basically a manual on how to dig graves just as the title suggests. This book, because…
When I was younger I loved dolls; I loved playing pretend with them, dressing them up, and pretending that they were real. For my younger self to hear of a doll that not only could talk but could move her eyes on mouth on her own was mind blowing. I saw a lot of cheery commercials on television for a doll called Amazing Amanda. It was so cool; the doll even had the same name as me! When I ripped through the colorful Barbie wrapping paper Christmas day and saw that it was the Amazing Amanda doll I jumped around like a grasshopper and raced to go find batteries. I played with that doll everyday, singing songs with her loudly which probably sounded more like off-key screeching. It was incredible to me to watch her glassy, blue eyes blink and…
To be kind and happy during hard times can put a stop to many struggles, especially friendship. The Friendship Doll, by Kirby Larson, is a book about many characters who experience Miss Kanagawa’s magic to change hearts and lives during the Great Depression. Bunny, Lois, Willie Mae, and Lucy awaken Miss Kanagawa’s heart in each of their own stories. The characters all have different ways that they learned to be kind and happy to others during the Great Depression, but there was always someone or something that kept them from breaking. Miss Kanagawa is set on an exciting mission to carry out the true meaning of friendship and happiness. She and her fifty-seven doll-sisters travel from New York to Oregon.…
In the novel, the characters tell the story by using an internal monologue and take turns giving their version of what happened during their mother’s death. The family lives in a part of the south and must make it to town to get the mother buried in a proper setting.…
A Doll’s House has several high points that lead up to what I’ve considered the most defining moment. When Torvald finally reads the letter Krogstad (a fellow schoolmate and an employee at the bank) wrote revealing that it was not from Nora’s father that she borrowed money, but from him, what follows was totally unexpected by me. It seems that the situation of her husband falling ill and the decisions she had to make in regards to that, forced her to grow. In the end, Nora makes a decision that she doesn’t want to be married to her husband Torvald any longer, and she tells him so. The line, “We’ve been married for eight years. Doesn’t it occur to you that this is the first time the two of us, you and I, husband and wife, have had a serious conversation?” (Isben 1879 p. 590) says Nora, licks at where she is going with this conversation between the two of them.…
Before Dolley Madison became famous for her marriage to President James Madison, the spectacular parties and the political rallies, she lived with her family in a Quaker settlement in New Garden, North Carolina. Dolley Madison was born May 20, 1768 to John Payne Jr. and Mary Coles Payne. Dolley had four brothers and three sisters. It was a full house but Dolley liked having siblings.…
This story focused around a fifteen year old girl name Chloe Saunders has the ability to see ghosts. On the first day of school, Chloe saw a ghost which haunts her school. She had a mental breakdown during school and other people believed that she was crazy. She was sent to a group home for the disturbed kids called Lyle House. At the Lyle House, she met many other teens who had problems of their own; however, she uncovers the secrets about the other teens and herself. She discovered that they were not crazy, but rather they were part of the supernatural world.…
Nathan, Jean, The Secret Life of the Lonely Doll: the search for Dare Wright. NewYork: Picador, 2004. Print…
In the past, women were always considered the subordinate gender that was expected to powder their nose and stay at home to be a homemaker. Even now, despite the movement to liberate women from stereotypical gender roles, women are still seen as the inferior gender that is discriminated against in society. As suggested by the popular Barbie doll created by Mattel, the idealized image of a woman in our patriarchal society is one who takes care of the home and is flawlessly beautiful with perfect skin, long legs, small waist, and slender figure. The Barbie doll is used as a tool for patriarchy in that it reinforces the notion that women should be domestic workers and maintain a feminine outer appearance. Also, patriarchal values affect girls starting at a young age as they unconsciously begin to believe that Barbie is what a woman should look and be like. With the appeal and popularity of this doll for the past several years, it is difficult to alter the notions of womanhood suggested by this doll. This implies that patriarchy is something we can not permanently overthrow because it is so deeply rooted in our society.…
During the late 1800s, it was socially wrong for a woman to express herself. In many occasions, a woman would be unhappy in her marriage, which would often lead to depression or even suicide. This essay’s purpose is to examine a woman’s struggle, not only in her marriage, but also society as a whole.…
References: Ibsen, H. (2011). A doll’s house. In D.L. Pike and A.M. Acosta’s (Eds.) Literature: A world of writing stories, poems, plays, and essays [VitalSource digital version] (pp. 555-589). Boston, MA: Pearson Learning Solutions…
Simple words can drive a person to be happy and successful however, they can also turn fates hand on the innocent few and chase them around their whole lives until they cannot run anymore. Barbie Doll is a tragic poem that tells us about the girlchild’s life from childhood to puberty. Throughout her life the girlchild was bullied and harassed about her appearance because she didn’t live up to the social view of how a young woman should look. So with sadness and the yearning to be accepted she was driven to the point of taking her life. I believe if one soul had the kindness to tell her how beautiful she actually was, the outcome of the story would have changed completely.…
In this book there were to main characters, to teenage girls. They were best friends and the book started off with them hanging out, at one of the girl’s house. The mom and dad were going away on a vacation, and wanted the girl to come with them. She ended up saying she couldn’t because she had a lot of homework to finish, and she couldn’t miss out on any more school. She said she would stay at her friend’s house while they were gone. Instead of doing that, her friend had pushed her into throwing a party for a few people. When the party had begun, more and more people started to show up. Eventually the street was filled, and the entire house. Things were getting spilled, broken, and stolen. Her friend had gotten alcohol poisoning, and the police ended up coming. Her friend’s mom had helped them clean up afterward, but things were still broken and stolen. Windows were even broken.…