For ethos‚ or credibility‚ Tan makes personal references to her mother and factual events‚ as well as a description of her own accomplishments‚ which give credibility to her and her work. Her mother proved to her that she could understand people when they spoke perfect or regular English as well as when she read in English. The logic behind this validates her point that if she can
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much she regrets not listening to her daughter’s pleas and leaving her alone some nights. The mother tells a story of how she would rush back home‚ and when “[Emily] saw [her]”‚ Emily would “break into a clogged weeping that could not be comforted”. The cries still haunt the mother and so do these memories. I hope that the audience sees how the Great Depression affected different things‚ such as a mother and daughter’s relationship. It also affected how children grew up‚ they couldn’t spend as much
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In other words‚ life is full of obstacles and hardships. But what is most important is to persevere‚ and I defiantly agree with this statement. Two literary works that support this statement are “Mother to Son” by Langston Hughes‚ and The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros. In the poem “Mother to Son”‚ the speaker admits that her life has been difficult‚ but despite the hardships‚ she does not give up. She uses an extended metaphor to describe to her son‚ how even though her life has been
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their children up. Likewise‚ Mrs John concentrates on her household‚ as well as on Annie’s upbringing and education. In addition‚ many critics comment that Annie’s difficult relationship with her mother represents the relationship between colonial Antigua and England. LeSeur argues: [A]lienation from the mother becomes a metaphor for a young woman’s alienation from an island culture that has been completely dominated by the imperialistic power of England. [...] Kincaid focuses intensely
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In the articles‚ “Mother Tongue” by Amy Tan and “Rhythm of the Caribbean: Connecting Oral History and Literacy" by Glasceta Honeyghan‚ the authors discuss different types of language styles that they grew up with. The authors discuss their difficulties and what was enjoyable to them. The articles remind us that working hard on what you enjoy will be worth it one day. In the article‚ “Mother Tongue” by Amy Tan‚ Tan describes what it was like growing up in an immigrant family in the United
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Alison Bechdel’s memoir‚ Are You My Mother recounts her extremely difficult and painful relationship with her mother as well as the struggles she endures due to her queer identity. For individuals that identify as homosexual‚ disclosing their sexual identity can often be a negative experience that works to oppress rather than liberate them. This memoir illustrates how a deep‚ almost obsessive attachment‚ to a queer individual’s parent can work to further complicate‚ worsen and intensify the common
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at all stages of life: childhood‚ our teenage years‚ and then adulthood. Flying Over Mother uses flashbacks‚ cinematography‚ and the actors’ performances together with the narration to demonstrate how the protagonist’s life is constantly accompanied by fear: beginning with his mother’s lessons as a child and then by his approaching death as his ship plunges from air to earth. The flashbacks in Flying Over Mother take the audience from the cockpit of a crashing spaceship to scenes of a Russian peasant’s
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peasants. These episodes of conflict set the scenario for the violent events of the Great Revolt of 1381 and ultimately led to a major shift to established authority and feudal structures. The revolt unfolded quickly‚ but not without previous warnings. Two major shaping events can be clearly identified when analyzing the changing political and economic activities of Englishmen in the period before the Peasants Revolt. First‚ the spread of bubonic plague‚ referred to as the Black Death of 1348-49 under
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5 years and nearly an entire continent separated King Philip’s war from the great pueblo revolt. Compare and contrast the causes and consequences of these 2 conflicts. The Great Pueblo revolt of 1680 all started with the droughts of 1660 when the Southwest had severe drought that brought famine and disease. During this‚ hungry Apaches who couldn’t find food on plains attacked the pueblos. This angered the people on the pueblos‚ but there new leader Pope’‚ a mysterious medicine doctor‚ tried
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Revolts seemed to be relatively common wherever slavery occurs‚ be it Ancient Rome‚ Russia‚ Haiti‚ or the United States of America. Slaves‚ assumedly‚ had their own reasons to believe that their revolts would be successful whether it was a belief in God’s protection‚ a feeling of strength in numbers‚ or a general sentiment of being dead would be better than living in slavery‚ but few had a reason as good as those after the successful slave rebellion that occurred in Haiti. This rebellion led by Toussaint
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