...and Minerva. Those characters agree with the quote because they are willing to lose everything in order to get what they want. In the Time of the Butterflies, Lina, a student, meets Trujillo, the president of Dominican Republic, at Inmaculada Concepcion. Trujillo had been watching Lina over a balcony near the school and insisted on seeing her. When they met Trujillo gave her a medal. After the meeting, he would visit her and send her gifts. Sinita asked Lina if she had fallen in love with Trujillo and Lina answered, “With all my heart,” (22). The day of Lina’s birthday Trujillo throws her a party. Then goes on a week vacation with him or so the girls at Inmaculada Concepcion thought. The girls at the school loved and adored Lina and didn’t understand why she didn’t want to come back to them since they treated her like a model to girls. Minerva, Lina’s friend, and her father were in a wagon when her father states, “Look, Minerva, one of Trujillo’s girlfriend’s lives there, your old schoolmate, Lina Lovaton,” (23). Lina gave up her life at Inmaculada Concepcion and with her family to go with Trujillo, a guy who was already married to another woman and had a bunch of girlfriends just like Lina. All...
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...islands and some random book called How the Garcia Girls Lost their Accents. A lot of things but they do still have a lot of similarities. This summer I learned from both reading How the Garcia Girls Lost their Accents and going to Hawaii on vacation. After reading the 290 pages of How the Garcia Girls Lost their Accents, I look back and see what messages and lessons were ingrained in the plot and events of the notice that there is much to be learned. I will elaborate on the many similarities as well as life lessons learned from these experiences as well as the many ways they are applicable to each and every person. One of these lessons, was that people, even if they are close friends and family will always find their personality, and will always differ from one another. Early in the book, it was explained how once the main characters of the book, the Garcia sisters, grew up having the exact same clothes, toys, and other possessions, differing only in color to distinguish which girl it belonged to. Later in life after taking separate paths for themselves the sisters later criticized “The little one...
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...Scott Perreault December 5, 2012 Assimilation or Humiliation In “The School Days of an Indian Girl” written by Zitkala Sa, we are thrust into the issues confronting the Native American population. White European culture was the controlling force in this era of misunderstanding and ethnocentricity. They felt threatened by a culture they did not understand, and so in response and a need to alleviate the pain of their insecurity, they required that the young Native American be assimilated into the ways of the White. The narrator who is immersed in this unreal reality is forced to submit, to resist is futile. The innocent girl from the reservation becomes a success story to the white man, but in doing so is alienated from family. The dreamlike excitement of the train journey to the school would soon become a nightmare of sorts for her and her companions. It took very little time to discover that this was not her land, and her habitation here only aroused suspicion and mistrust. Sa writes, “I had arrived in the land of rosy skies, but I was not happy, as I had thought I should be” (Zitkala Sa, 1140). It is evident here that although the landscape is quite appealing and pleasant to the senses, she realizes that beauty is skin deep, and what lies beneath is an affront to her. For her everything is foreign; no sense of familiarity to envelop her, but her spirit did stay intact. From time to time, her anger exuded the rebellious spirit within. “With fire in my heart, I took the...
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...I never thought I'd become the type of person who could get caught up in the drama once called 'a petty excuse for lonely housewives to indulge in the lives they wished for themselves as teenagers' by a man who smoked more weed than he drank water. However, as I've grown older I've begun to realise just how much drama seems to enjoy my reluctant company. It's not like I'm trying to live in some sort of sad excuse for a novel, I just seem to attract the kind of people who leech off of that kind of thing. As a younger teen I lived off of the words of those more successful then myself (which was basically anyone who had managed to pass the end of year exams without having a mental breakdown), and there was one person in particular who caught...
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...Land of the Lost Stewart O’Nan Everybody has tried to be lost, either in a physical place or in their own life and mind. This theme is the short story ‘’ Land of the Lost’’ about. Here experiences the reader the development of a woman, who gets more and more obsessed with a case about a missing girl. The short story never explains to the reader, if the woman finds the girl, and why she is so obsessed, which I will try to find out. I will analyse the main character, her obsession, the title and therefor will I analyse the ending of the story with the information, I discover. The events of the short story are being told as a 3rd limited person narrator, because we only see the events from the main character’s point of view, and how she feels. We see everything through her eyes. The short story is written chronologically and has no flashbacks or flash-forwards. So the reader doesn’t know, how the life of the main character has been in the past, except that she has two boys and is divorced. This makes the short story very mysterious, because the reader doesn’t see her thoughts very often and only see it from her perspective. Therefor the author holds some information back e.g. he doesn’t tell us, if she really finds the body, and why she is so obsessed, which I will try to find out. I can therefor conclude that the short story is written in 3rd limited person, chronologically and the author is holding back some information. The author never tells the reader, what the main...
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...THE REAL MEANING BEHIND LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD APRIL V. SLAUGHTER INTRODUCTION TO LITERATURE (ENG 125) DAVID MAKHANLALL 4 MARCH 2013 I will be describing the theme of Little Red Riding Hood, and the real meaning behind this story. The elements that I found that will be contributing to the theme, is symbolism and the point of view. The point of view is described in our text as is third-person objective, which the narrator takes a detached approach to the characters and action increasing the dramatic effect of the story (Clugston, R. W. 2010). Plot is described as “a dynamic element in fiction, a sequence of interrelated, conflicting actions and events that typically build to a climax and bring about a resolution.” (Clugston, R. W. 2010 Ch. 5) To me the theme in the story is how Little Red is coming into her own maturity. With identifying the point of view of the story, you first need to know that the narrator is not telling the story in the first-person point of view, the first-person point of view is when one of the characters in the story, telling their own thoughts or feelings. Third-person point of view is when the narrator is not a character in the story. There are a couple different types of third-person point of view, omniscient, and objective. Omniscient point of view is when the narrator is knows or can relate to the characters, there is a second type of omniscient point of view is limited omniscient point of view which is when the narrator relates only...
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...The short story called “My A`ntonia” is told from a fictional memoir named Jim Burden. Once you read about the author, Willa Cather, you get a better understanding of who Jim is and why he is there. Willa based many of the events, characters, and settings through her own childhood experiences. The story is written in first person because the story is focused on Jim’s perspective. The story is also written all in past tense. I feel Willa wrote her story in first person past tense logic because it revolves around her past memories that can never be regained. “My A`ntonia” starts off to be boring in my opinion. Once the reader has their full attention on the story, they start to grasp what is written between the lines, and the small hints that...
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...today’s era. Sammy was doing everything in his will to capture the eye of the girls. As they approached each aisle he eyeballed their every move. Sammy seemed a little stunned by the girl’s arrival, to the store in their swimsuits. Sammy's slang justified him as a typical teen of the 50's. You could tell Sammy was a young man trying to find his way into society. Sammy was trying to make his lifestyle a bit different from those around him. He was working at the grocery store trying to make his mom and dad proud. Although, Sammy seems a little selfish he was beginning to become someone who could make decisions for himself. When Mr.Lengel approached "Queenie" and the other girls he says "Girls, this isn't the beach". He continues to carry on lecturing the girls about how they needed to be decently dressed when coming into the A&P. However, while Mr.Lengel was making his remarks about Sammy began to show a characteristic of sympathy. A sense of compassion presenting absolute understanding the young girls position. Sammy reaction was nothing unusual from teen today. It was almost as if you mess with one teen you mess with them all. Although to me Sammy seemed to be making his gestures to impress the girls. Sammy does not appear as a male chauvinist. However, he does seem to be exceptionally mannish. The words in which he used to express the young girls gave me a very vivid sight. His descriptiveness of the girls didn't seem repulsive or unsuitable. "A&P" does not come off to be sexist...
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...Cosette Wood The Amazing Adventures of Rozebell Robin Once upon a time there lived a little girl named Rozeabell Robin. She was as little as a worm. She was raised by a skunk, but the skunk sold her an orphanage. Something scary happened...at the very moment she got sold she was gone! One minute she was in a dark hall filled with beds and the next minute she was in a tree. When she woke up to find herself in the tree she was very curious how she had gotten there. She looked around and saw a family of birds living on the branch next to her. They were busy eating worms for breakfast and didn't notice her until she said "Hello". The birds were startled at first because they thought she was a worm since she was so small. Rozeabell started waving at them so the birds would know she was nice, and then the birds realized she was a little girl. The birds invited Rozeabell to have breakfast with them. "How did you get into this tree?" the birds asked Rozeabell. ''I don’t know."she continued,''I do know that i'm lost." Just then a hawk flew by and she was gone. While she was flying with the hawk she was trying to recollect how she got into the tree. “Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh!” The shrill scream of Rosie falling from a sky portal woke the entire flying forest. As Rosie approached the ground, she braced for impact but to her surprise, she landed on...
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...young girl to show that it is not easy being a foreigner in an unfamiliar country. A stretching problem throughout the entirety of the text is that Firoozeh’s family has little to no knowledge of the english language. For example, when Firoozeh is asked to show her complete knowledge of the english language, all she can say is a few colors, “...proudly recited all that I knew: “White, yellow, orange, red, purple, blue, green.” When enrolling in her new...
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...The last spring I remember once I had someone very dear to me, someone that left deep traces in my life, someone that would live in my heart forever, someone that I will never forget. In order to preserve the memory of this angel, a divine human creature, I devote this story to my friend because her innocence and her fragility has been inspiring me for years. I hope that many people will understand the hidden message once they've read the story. It was a wonderful spring dawning. The air was poisoned with nothing else but the strong smell of the spring flowers and the joy of the birds' songs. We were holding our hands and happily as happy can two little girls be, we were bouncing and jumping in the park. Spring could be seen in our eyes, sunshine could be recognized in our smile. It seemed to us like we were flying in the air as two colourful butterflies from a flower to a flower, each of them more and more beautiful, each of them more and more attracting, as if they were the last days of our lives and each of them was more and more challenging. Smiling faces everywhere, people could envy our happy childhood reflected in the deepness of our sight. We were so excited in those spring rainbows above our heads without knowing that this would be our last spring together, remembered afterwards as the coldest one and the darkest one in my life. It's funny how Marta and I met at a beach resort. We could never imagine that we were going to be inseparable friends. Although...
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...of pleasure, but I fell for temptation. I contemplate if he is the one or just another. It’s oddly quiet and I can almost hear my thoughts out loud. I can feel the guilt slowly start to settle in, but I push it aside. I try telling myself it was for my own pleasure. I’ll take it as a more positive note instead of the daunting feeling I’ve lost all the virginally of myself. The definition of a virgin: a person who has never had sexual intercourse, an unmarried girl or woman, or an unmarried girl, religious woman, especially a saint. It’s like all the T.V. reality shows minus the drama and preparations on a woman in her white dress walking down the aisle as her husband awaits her. She’s wearing a white wedding dress to show she has stayed faithful to only one man and is giving up her virginity to him. Right? I can't exaggerate how many TV. shows I’ve watched on women walking down the aisle on their “special day.” The question that always comes to my mind is, “Is she a virgin?”, and “Why is she wearing white if she’s not a virgin!” I can’t help but ask myself those questions even if I’m being morbidly judgmental. As a little girl, I once planned out my whole wedding in my mind--the wedding dress, the veil, the shoes, the corset, the undergarments, and they were all the color of white. I was a virgin, too! I will have to conceal this fact from my parents and myself when I walk down the aisle on my “special” day. It’d be interesting if women had to dress on the color symbolizing...
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...One morning the girl awakes in a panic, thinking she is going to be late for school. She gets herself dressed and quietly slips out of the house undetected by anyone. She is in a panic to get to school. Barry writes, “All I knew was a feeling of panic, like the panic that strikes kids when they realize they are lost” (Barry 857). However, this little girl is not lost. The only place she feels safe and wanted is at school. Once she arrives at the school she helps the janitor with his morning routine. Then her teacher arrives, and the girl runs to the teacher crying and looking for comfort. There are many broken families in this country, which forces some children into adulthood much sooner than they should be. A parents’ role is to care for and pave the path into adulthood for their children. In Barry’s work, the young girl’s parents are not there for her. Therefore, she looks to her teachers and school “family” for that guidance. Barry’s narrative alludes to a decline in family values as well as the removal...
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...Better Barbie By Jesse K., Grand Ledge, MI I don’t have any alumni ties to Brown, though it’s possible I could be the long-lost granddaughter of James S. Miller. Never have I sailed the Pacific Ocean on the back of a humpback whale, nor can I wrap sushi with the skill of former Iron Chef Masaharu Morimoto. I haven’t done much research regarding podiatry, and chances are I will never win the Michigan Mega-Millions lottery. I am, however, the proud owner of a Little Mermaid Edition Barbie. At some point in almost every little girl’s life, she becomes engrossed in the Pepto-Bismol-pink world of Barbies, a place I entered at the age of seven. My sister, Hannah, and I decided to take our collection of 11-inch plastic friends for a dip in the pool one sweltering summer day. Hours of giggling resulted from tossing the Barbies as high as we could into the air and watching them dive gracefully into the waves. Three … two … one, I launched my Little Mermaid doll in the same fashion as Apollo 11. We watched her rocket into the sky. I glanced at my sister, who was scrambling through her scorecards to make sure she had the well-deserved “10” ready. My eyes returned upward, anticipating the gymnastic stunts Barbie would undoubtedly deliver to her enraptured audience. Where was she? The crowd was growing restless. Had she landed on the moon? Utterly bewildered, we combed through the freshly mown grass and woods, but unfortunately, our search bore no fruit. After a moment of sorrow...
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...The happiness times in my life became the darkest time in my life, I was scared, lost, and bitter. At the end of my ninth grade year I was very happy. I had been promoted to the Tenth grade. I had a wonderful family, a loving boyfriend and some wonderful friends. What more could a girl like me ask for. In August I began my tenth grade year. Over the summer break my boyfriend and I had become even closer. We started doing things that we knew was wrong but we did them anyway. I was so in love so what I thought what we was doing was so right. He was a few years older than me and I felt like he knew what he was doing. So as we continued to do the things I never considered the consequences. Well around the middle of September I started feeling sick. I started getting sick on the stomach to where I was throwing up all the time. My mom told me that I needed to go to the doctor but I put it off for a couple of days. Trying to see if the sickness would go away. But it continued and I finally made an appointment. Upon the arrival to the doctor office I prayed and talked to my boyfriend and a few of my friends. Once I got in the office my heart began to beat fast and became very scared. I sat there for a while then they called my name and my heart began to beat even faster. The first thing they asked when I got in the back “Are you pregnant”. Of course I said no. So they proceeded with the checkup, once the nurse finish se walked out. I sat there for a...
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