HOPE FOR THE FLOWERS By Trina Paulus Main Characters: Stripe and yellow caterpillar and other caterpillars Setting : Tree‚ caterpillar pillar and the world The story started when Stripe‚ the main character‚ hatches from an egg. He begins his life by eating the leaf he was born on. He realizes that there must be "more" to life than just eating leaves. He senses there must be a way to get up into the sky. He searches for a way and finds himself at the base of a pillar made up of caterpillars
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Imagine being in a nursery school classroom full of all your friends. Your biggest problem is whether or not the kids around you‚ most likely the boys next to you have “cooties”. From my understanding‚ those were the best times of my life. I had no problems in the world or worries about anything. After all‚ boys go to Jupiter to get more stupid and girls go to college to get more knowledge. I would have never thought that the gender roles in this rhyme would have truth value or be the opposite. In
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Generation to generation they passed down different cultural traditions like in the article by Jamaica Kincaid "Girl". this is the way you set a table for tea‚ this how you set a table for dinner". Originally were brought up to be house wives and care takers. Their jobs were to clean‚ cook‚ do the laundry." Wash the white clothes on Monday and put them on
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shift you from what you truly desire and make you feel like you’re alone for the rest of your life. “I don’t know what’s worse: to not know what you are and be happy‚ or to become what you’ve always wanted to be‚ and feel alone.” ― Daniel Keyes‚ Flowers for Algernon In Charlie’s case‚ before the operation‚ he thought that people loved him and he had many friends that he can look back to when he needed. He quoted: “It is easy to make friends if you let pepul laff at you” This statement suggests
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1.) How do you interpret the story of the caterpillar pillars and the transformation of Yellow and Stripe into butterflies? The story of Yellow and Stripe in Hope for the Flowers is analogous to our own Human search for purpose in life. Human life seems as open as life would seem to a caterpillar‚ a parallel that the story draws on to create a critical dialogue in our own mind as we read the text‚ raising such questions as: What is my purpose in life? Is whatever I am doing now only just “climbing
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If you were stuck on an island with people you despised‚ how would you feel? For the native islanders of Antigua‚ this was the case. But for one islander‚ Jamaica Kincaid‚ this misery not only became a reality‚ but also her motive for writing A Small Place. By analyzing her essay through the Psychological‚ Marxist‚ and Reader’s Response lenses‚ Kincaid’s use of language ties together a story of retribution. A Small Place reflects the psychological effects she was left with by colonization‚ the unfair
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Elaine Potter Richardson famous for the short story written titled “Girl” was born in Antigua in the British West Indies in 1949. Well who is Jamaica Kincaid one may ask? Well they are the same person. Elaine changed her name to Jamaica Kincaid when she started writing because her family disapproved of her career as a writer. Kincaid moved to New York at the age of seventeen where she met a columnist named George S. Trow while working for a nanny who helped her writing to be publish in a
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“Girl” by Jamaican Kincaid‚ written 1983‚ is a short story that consists of one single sentence said by one character to another. The sequence of imperative sentences is interrupted twice by the second character to defend themselves and to ask a question‚ otherwise‚ the first character expresses advice and scolding in the sentences. The speaker lists instructions on how to behave properly‚ how to act around others and how to do household chores such as cooking‚ setting the table‚ sweeping and ironing
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“Girl” by Jamaica Kincaid is written about a girl who is being told how to behave by her mother. The mother is constantly telling her how to act. Though at times it definitely feels like the mother is scolding her‚ especially when it comes to acting like a slut. The mother keeps giving her advice that she thinks will help her daughter succeed in life. I think the mother obviously cares very much about her daughter or she would not bother giving her all this advice‚ but it comes across as over bearing
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The Cocoon of Embrace: The Only Way to Go Up "Hope for the Flowers" is a story about a caterpillar‚ Stripe‚ who was born in this world and lived a normal life as expected from a caterpillar: eating and growing bigger. However‚ he became tired of doing such routine over and over again and thought that there must be something more to life. So he left the tree which served as his home from the very start and went out to the world to wander. Yes‚ he was fascinated with things he saw‚ but he was unsatisfied
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