Dear diary‚ My parents are not happy with me. I went to school and there’s just a matter of time until something goes wrong. It will obviously go wrong where I hate to go‚ Mrs. Hawthorne’s art class. The bad things started when Mrs. Hawthorne won’t help me. I got steaming mad and I broke her potters wheel into three pieces I felt really sorry but she didn’t believe me. I could feel every one laughing and smiling at me. When mrs. Hawthorne got mad she stormed out of the classroom. The boys started
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Dear Diary‚ This week has been so busy that I ‘aven’t been able to write. I suppose life is alrite over ‘ere but it gets kinda lonely. Curley’s borin’ and jus’ sits on his ass all day and all the guys are jus’ crazy bastards. They don’t talk to me‚ turn there noses down at me they do. Think I’m a tart just ‘cause I’m pretty and I’m a gal’‚ the only one on the god damn ranch! I’m the only one ‘ere who knows how to have fun. I met Curley when I was about sixteen. I had run away a year before and
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Later‚ Blanche opens up to Mitch and tells him about her past with her ex husband. Stanley doesn’t stop snooping through Blanche’s things because he is determined to find out the truth behind Blanche. He soon finds out that Blanche didn’t leave her job like she told them she did. She was actually fired because she was involved sexually with a student. Stanley also discovered that Blanche was actually kicked out of Laurel because she was sexually involved with the local soldiers. Of course Stanley
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He burns the skin off layer by layer watching it slowly filter away‚ until finally there is none left‚ and the only thing left to do with them is throw their bodies into the fire. These thoughts infiltrate my mind. I continue to write in this diary as it’s the only thing keeping me sane. I rarely think of Julia. I find it hard to fix her imagine in my mind. A force pulls inside the bottom of my throat‚ pulling its way upward‚ slowly trying to draw back down as I inhale‚ then pulling itself
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Dubois shows a mixed array of actions that confuses the audience into whether she is to be sympathized or not. At the beginning of the play‚ the author Tennessee Williams shows us the arrogant and demanding side of Blanche‚ provoking the audience to dislike her‚ but as the play goes on‚ Williams gradually reveals more about Blanche’s troublesome past‚ making the audience sympathize her more. Blanche arrives at the Kowalski household— Elysian Fields‚ dressed fancily. “She is daintily dressed in a
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DuBois and Washington on Education Over 100 years ago W.E.B DuBois and Booker T. Washington began a debate over strategies for black social and economic progress‚ which is still prevalent today. Booker T. Washington believed that the role of education for African Americans should be an industrial one‚ where as W.E.B DuBois wanted African Americans to become engaged in a Liberal Arts education. Washington ’s approach to solving the problems African Americans faced was rooted in his belief in
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This play is about people who display cruelty and harshness in their treatment to others‚ especially those who are weak and vulnerable. Blanche Dubois is the central victim of mistreatment even though she had tried to make Stanley the victim. She displays her self as fragile and moth like‚ dealing out her share of insensitivities that happened during her younger days. Also because of her moth like image‚ the other characters see her as an easy target to knock down and use her insecurities against
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Stanley comes from Polish descent but proudly claims to be born and raised in America. At the start of the play‚ Stanley is portrayed as loyal friend and a passionate husband. When Blanche DuBois arrives at the Kowalski’s apartment‚ Stanley seems to immediately distrust her. The reader learns that Blanche has lost most of what she once had. Blanche’s last living relative is her sister Stella‚ who she tries to convince to leave her husband and marry into higher social status. After a month passes
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Entry #19 – As I Lay Dying: This book switches from narrator to narrator and does not have a truly set main character. Although we get to experience the story from different points of view it is a bit much too keep switching between narrators especially since the deceased character Addie ends up narrating chapters that take place after her death. I‚ personally‚ would have liked it if the book had only one narrator and a set main character to maintain some sort of consistency throughout the book.
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Compare Blanche and Amanda In today’s socioeconomic world‚ there is no room for slacking off or failure. People are seen as individuals who earn their social status and there is much pressure to succeed. In the plays‚ “The Glass Menagerie” and “A Streetcar Named Desire” both written by Tennessee Williams‚ there are two main characters who are not capable of living in the present and have a difficult time facing reality. Amanda Wingfield‚ the mother from “The Glass Menagerie” and Blanche Dubois
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