Oh Lord‚ what has this hellscape made us into. Beasts of our basest instincts no longer able to help one another? Gone are the days of community and respect. Now we live only for ourselves and our survival. I can only think of the agony my husband must be in knowing he died in this tragic place with only me to mourn him. No neighbors came knocking to give their comfort to me. The women I would have once called sisters have abandoned me in my time of need. I waited and waited for them to come to no
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It’s the middle of December and I’m convinced I’m dying of depression. Not the depression where I sulk in my bed all day long but the kind where I’m in desperate need of some sort of excitement in life. Mid semester finals are just about over and I’m already drowning in work for all of my classes for next semester. I’m seventeen and seventeen year olds should not have to deal with this much stress in their lives. I mean between Spanish and Statistics‚ I think I might be the first teen to die from
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I don’t know to what extent it had been there‚ remaining there‚ before me‚ or on the off chance that I had been there previously. I saw one evening to turn upward from my daily paper‚ behind the blind that serves as the window dress before my most loved seat. It was an unusual shadow‚ an outline simply drawn. I felt no trepidation‚ interest‚ on the grounds that I thought it would be a fantasy of my eyes estranged by the columns of letters like ants wandered the whitish leaves day by day. I flickered
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Oh right‚ oh Oh why na-da-da-da I keep my head high I got my wings to carry me I don’t know freedom I want my dreams to rescue me I keep my faith strong I ask The Lord to follow me I’ve been unfaithful I don’t know why You call on me This is my canvas I’m a paint it how I want it baby‚ oh I This is my canvas I’m a paint it‚ paint it‚ paint it‚ how I want it nigga Fuck you cause there There is no right or wrong Only a song I like to write alone Be in my zone Think back to Forest Hills‚ no perfect
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In an night that could only be described as hell‚ their battalion had been able to take back the small town‚ and were even able to take some of the Germans in as POWs. They were still too small and weak to keep moving‚ so they set up base in the Town. Thom had sustained nerve damage in his spine that had rendered him paralyzed from the waist-down. Apparently‚ immediately after the Doctor told him the news‚ Thom had demanded total privacy to see if his dick still worked. “If Richard works‚ it’s
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In Sandra Cisneros’ book‚ “The House on Mango Street‚” Cisneros writes that‚ “the boys and girls live in different worlds” (Cisneros 8). There are only so many ways one could translate this sentence‚ and one of the meanings that can be deduced is that boys and girls are treated differently. This idea holds true today‚ but the gap between what people think boys can do and what people think girls can do has become smaller over the past years. But still‚ there are some prejudices left‚ things like
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of “successful”. Having the perfect husband‚ a beautiful home‚ a great job‚ being a great mom‚ and a whole lot of money. These ideas are also called “gender roles”. The gender role of a woman has to fit many standards. In the novella‚ The House on Mango street‚ Esperanza becomes more aware her role as a woman in society as she encounters situations of the gender role of a woman. At the beginning of the novel‚ Esperanza is just a curious‚ innocent 13 year old girl. Having other women in her neighborhood
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Female Sexuality On the book The House on Mango Street Esperanza is a little girl that is affected by different situations. There are things that happened to her that shaped her as an individual and change her perspective of life. Female sexuality is a really strong topic where we can see how young females are affected with it and how they see it. Esperanza is a young virgin girl at the beginning of the book and she longs to have a sexual encounter for it is something new for her. She is just
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In Sandra Cisneros’s The House On Mango Street the author’s use of leimotif shows the reader that where your feet take you and how you look establishes who you are. Throughout the book Cisneros uses leimotif many times. In chapter six‚ "Our Good Day"‚ Esperanza is explaining how rugged Lucy and Rachel look. She says "They are wearing shiny Sunday shoes without socks. It makes their bald ankles all red‚ but I like them." (15). Rachel and Lucy are two kids that come from poor families. They only
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Intro paragraph: Esperanza sees everyone in her community and in someway gets influenced by them. Whenever Esperanza sees someone in her neighborhood doing something worth writing about‚ she gets into deep thought about it. Esperanza also gets influenced by her own friends and family too. In this book Esperanza gets affected by the community she lives in and the people that live there. Body paragraphs: In this book Esperanza gets affected by the community she lives in and the people that live there
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