its constant advancements and how it is always evolving‚ but to some people this world may be considered a scary place. This fear of the outside world has the ability to make those who fear it unable to accept reality. In Tennessee Williams play The Glass Menagerie‚ the thought of accepting reality is especially hard for the Wingfield family‚ Laura‚ Tom‚ and Amanda‚ causing them to close themselves off each in their own unique way. The loss of reality seems to be furthest gone from the eldest child
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The Glass Menageries Tennessee Williams used the theme of escape to propel the play Each of the characters have all there means to escape their life and deny the real world. Laura escapes is not to go nowhere and to stay with her glasses‚ she has too many self esteem issues so Laura tries to stay to herself a lot. Jim he uses his old high school life as an escape for him. Amanda tries to use her past life to be happy of her everyday life. Tom now he goes out to the movies‚ drinks every night
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Kyle Scott Reading 96 Journal # 2 The Glass Castle #2 After the Walls had been in Welch a while‚ Rex and Rose-Mary decided to leave the children with Rex’s mother Erma‚ and make a road trip back to Phoenix. Their excuse for leaving them was that it was only going to be a short trip‚ all business‚ and to retrieve anything they had left behind. A week after the parents had left Erma was hammered‚ she had been drinking since before breakfast‚ and told Brian that his pants needed sewed up. She
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THROUGH THE LOOKINGGLASS By Lewis Carroll The Millennium Fulcrum Edition 1.7 Contents CHAPTER I. Looking-Glass house CHAPTER II. The Garden of Live Flowers CHAPTER III. Looking-Glass Insects CHAPTER IV. Tweedledum And Tweedledee CHAPTER V. Wool and Water CHAPTER VI. Humpty Dumpty CHAPTER VII. The Lion and the Unicorn CHAPTER VIII. ’It’s my own Invention’ CHAPTER IX. Queen Alice CHAPTER X. Shaking CHAPTER XI. Waking CHAPTER XII. Which Dreamed it? CHAPTER I. LookingGlass house
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The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls Jeannette Walls is an aspiring journalist who is ashamed of her past. She grew up with three siblings who were going through the same difficulties as she was‚ and two parents whose idea of life was different from society. Growing up practically homeless her entire life was a struggle that she is ashamed of‚ but helped her become the journalist she is today. Jeannette grew up with parents who have a different way of looking at the world. Her father was an entrepreneur
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Contrast in the Glass Menagerie The Glass Menagerie is a story that is filled with many contrast which seems to give the story more life. The contrast that I will be discussing will involve the characters‚ their ambitions‚ the past and future‚ gender roles. As I said before these contrast is what pulls the story together‚ and makes it intriguing. I will discuss what the glue is keeping this family all together. The Glass Menagerie shows a family whose views on their lives are on different
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Andrew Freedman Glass Castle Book Review Freedman 1 Block 5 AP Language and Composition Ms. Snedeker The Glass Castle is a chilling memoir written by the writer Jeannette Walls. The memoir is about her unfortunate childhood‚ which involved constantly being on the move due to her father Rex’s drinking problems getting them into debt or losing him a job. The author has a way of describing things that leaves readers emotionally connected‚ sympathetic‚ grateful‚ wanting more and many other reactions
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isn’t into a screen‚ where your face is into a book with paper pages. The book I’ll be summarizing is a book about lesson about to be responsible‚ a book about having an unstable family and an unstable family life. The title of my reading is about The Glass Castle. The author’s name is Jeannette Walls‚ the book is about a family with poverty‚ the lesson of this entire book is about being responsible. being a good influence and to have a good structurized family because things can affect others and you
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Mixed emotions float in the atmosphere. I notice a child crying. She is saying goodbye to her father who is obviously going away for a while. Tears run down a mother’s cheek‚ who is welcoming her son home. The reflection of a business man shows in a glass elevator – he is anxiously checking his watch. Different families bustle past me‚ chatting about their up-coming adventure. I glare at two mischievous‚ little children fighting with each other as their mother clings to them.
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The glass menagerie symbolizes the life of Laura. Laura grew up with a medical problem that included wearing braces on her legs. Laura felt different and outside the norm for other children. Her fragile body made her to become shy and private. Her only solace would be the collection of fragile glass animals. The oldest of her collection was the unicorn. The unicorn a beautiful and majestic creature‚ still having the visible "deformity" of the horn. The unicorn just did not quite fit in with the other
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