The book Speak is about a young woman who has just entered high school her name is Melinda Sordino. She has entered high school being disesteem by the majority of her old friends and much of the school’s population because at a party she called the cops. She only called the cops because she had too much to drink and was raped by a boy named Andy Evans a senior at her high school who is described as a “Greek God”. So after all this happens she starts battling with depression‚ but she is fighting it
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Different types of syntactic foregrounding are examined in this essay when applied to poems. There are three poems that are analysed‚ ‘Child’ by Sylvia Plath‚ ‘Women and Children First’ by Ingrid de Kok and ‘Bitter-Berry Daybreak’ by Ingrid Jonker which are used to analyse the terms accentuation‚ creation of hierarchies‚ shifts of accent‚ ambiguity‚ semanticisation and the creation of hierarchical relationships and how they affect literature. Accentuation is evident in all three of the poems. Accentuation
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house and shut her in the cellar. It would be an hour before they came to get her‚ but then Rat Court would be all over and she would say what she had to say and go home” (Plath 1). Explanation 1 Millicent puts up with the hazing in order to be accepted. She realizes agreeing and not making a big deal out of these initiations will get her accepted into the “Magic Circle” after. After analyzing her situation while locked in the cellar‚ Millicent comes to the conclusion that she should not have
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i dont know i jThesis Statement / Essay Topic #1: The Bell Jar as a Coming-of-Age Novel For most adolescents‚ the coming-of-age period is challenging and painful. For Esther Greenwood in “The Bell Jar” by Sylvia Plath‚ however‚ coming-of-age is literally life-threatening. As she notices the differences between herself and her friends and attempts to find meaning in her life‚ Esther contemplates suicide and then makes several unsuccessful attempts to end her life using various means. The source
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become a follower‚ it is difficult to change‚ and may become trapped in the life of doing acts and deeds for the leader who takes all the credit while we starve just to keep in the category of a follower. In both short stories‚ “Greasy Lake” and “Initiation”‚ the main characters are confronted with decisions that makes it very hard for them to pull themselves out of. The two stories commonly share the same message that maturity‚ temptations‚ and peer-pressure arise all the time and how we deal with
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This passage from Woolf provides greater insight to Irene’s conflict between her different identities‚ as a women and as a person of color. Woolf talks about how “the mind is always… bringing the world into different perspectives” (97)‚ and this is true for Irene‚ thought Clare can be seen as a stand in for the world in many ways. Throughout the book Clare causes Irene to question her own actions and beliefs as a woman of color. Clare represents the world of “passing” which Irene has chosen not to
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Comp 111-B 81 Foley No Resurrection Sylvia Plath’s poem Lady Lazarus‚ signifies her struggle with life through suicide and resurrection. While the tone of the poem is quite morbid‚ the theme of death throughout the poem is portrayed in a positive manner. Some may argue that the poem illustrates resurrection‚ but in actuality‚ it depicts the writer’s wishes to be dead‚ and a lack of wanting to try and make life work. The author makes many references to killing herself and it comes across
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The main relationship in the two poems “My Papa’s Waltz” by Theodore Roethke and “Daddy” by Sylvia Plath is portrayed by the bond between a father and his child. Though both poems have the same overall subject‚ they can be perceived differently. In “Daddy”‚ Sylvia Plath represented the relationship through a dark demeanor. While in “My Papa’s Waltz” it had a lighter perception. In “Daddy” the poem goes through stages of dislike and anger. It starts off as if saying the child is done keeping the
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In an interview with Peter Orr in 1962‚ Sylvia Plath said‚ "I believe that one should be able to control and manipulate experiences‚ even the most terrifying..." In using her own experiences with attempted suicide and involuntary resurrection‚ Plath has done just that in "Lady Lazarus." Plath continued with: "I think that personal experience is very important‚ but certainly it shouldn’t be a kind of shut-box and mirror-looking‚ narcissistic experience. I believe it should be relevant‚ and relevant
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Sylvia Plath is a lot like Esther in the way each of them had grown up. In The Bell Jar it explained how Esther’s father had died when she was a very young age. More importantly‚ Sylvia Plath’s father had died when she was a young girl as well‚ only eight years old. Plath had also been a straight A student‚ just as Esther was‚ she was awarded a scholarship for an all girls school In Massachusetts. While gaining college experience Plath “immediately felt the pressures
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