...classes are still recovering from the Great Depression. In the early stages of the plot of the Glass Menagerie, we also learn that his father left the family a long time ago, even though there is a picture of him that is plain sight throughout “The Glass Menagerie”. While Tom is speaking (as well as throughout the play) pay attention to the screen which presents certain words and images important to the text and try to imagine how this might be if you were sitting in the audience. In these first few scenes of “The Glass Menagerie” by Tennessee Williams, we meet the mother, Amanda, who still seems caught up in her life as a former Southern belle. She chides both of her children about being odd (Laura wears a brace on her leg and is painfully shy while Tom writes poetry and disappears every night to go the movies and get away from the depressing house). Laura is a fragile figure and collects glass animals and one night, when Amanda and Tom quarrel, he breaks several of Laura’s prized possessions. True to her character in “The Glass Menagerie”, Laura does not angry, she only becomes more sad and fragile and the family that is falling apart before her eyes. Amanda is constantly pressuring Laura (click for a character analysis of Laura in “The Glass Menagerie”) to find a suitor and even...
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...The article entitiled 'Senior Picture Day' was a realistic short story written by Michelle Serros. It tells us a story about a girl's experience that feels not so confident with her looks, especialy her nose. She started to develop a habbit of squeezing her nose to make it look less 'Indian'. Ever since she was in seventh grade, she would squeeze her nose everytime she has a chance, for example while she was brushing her teeth and when she was waiting for breakfast. Also in seventh grade, she met a girl named Terri and they eventualy became best friends. While waiting for Terri's swimming pool to be built, Terri invited her to her house to play on her dad's Citizen Band. Although her father don't like seeing her daughter play with the CB, Terri was actually pretty good at making this sounds better and was making new friends. They met a boy 'Lightning Bolt' and Terri started flirting with him, but was interupted by her dad's complaint. The next day she accidentaly overheard Terri talking bad about her with Lightning Bolt when he asked about her. She heard Terri saying that she has a flat chest, skinny, and what really iinsulted her was Terri joked about her nose and said it was 'Indian'. After that incident, the squeezing began and she never spoke to Terri again. Four years have passed and the squeezing has made an impact to her appearance during senior picture day. Personal response I feel that this story taught me a lot about the troubles of growing up as a teenager...
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...The Mighty According to the dictionary shy means easily startled timid. Freak the Mighty by Rodman Philbrick is about a shy young man named Max. One character that stands out in the story is Max because, Max doesn’t talk much in school but he has his classes with his best friend also known as his tutor his name is Kevin. Kevin and Max go on fun adventures with each other, every day is something new. This character can be described as brave, shy, and friendly. One character trait to describe Max is shy. This is evident when Max shrugs his shoulders and doesn’t talk in class. The evidence is on (81) Max said, ‘‘I just shrug and smile and wait, because I know Mrs. Donelli will get tired of asking and move to the next’’, or Freak will...
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...that were produced in this era were known as silent films and include motion pictures with subtitles instead of sound. Some of the motion pictures known as silent films include: The Gold Rush, Girl Shy, For Heaven’s sake, The Dark Angel, and Dangerous Money. The film reviews of these motion picture films will be looked into for a better understanding of how the audience felt about these films. These American films were born in the age of reform and addressed themes that focused on major social and moral issues that the audience could relate to. A common theme that was prevalent in the aforementioned movies is the openness of romance in the American society. Romance films mainly involve a connection or bond shared between the two protagonists. There were many ways the theme love was displayed in these silent films. Some examples of the themes displayed in these romance films include: young love, love at first sight, unrequited love, spiritual love, sexual and passionate love, sacrificial love, tragic love, and forbidden love. The film, The Dark Angel, could be looked at as a tragic love story at first and then at the end a “happily ever after” type ending. It takes place during the “echoes of the world war” and uses the world war as a stage of conflict in the love story of Hillary Trent and Kitty Vane. This film also reflects what the American society was going through at the time. Most men were going off to war and women were left independent not knowing...
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..."The Lions of Little Rock" by Kristen Levine. This historical fiction tells the story of an extremely shy white girl, Marlee, and a very bold and brave black girl, Liz, who become best friends. Liz tries to pass as a white girl to go to a white school because the education is better with more opportunities. Marlee does not like to talk and must count prime numbers in her head until she can speak aloud. Liz then starts to teach Marlee how to be less shy and to speak her mind. However, Liz is discovered and is forced to go back to her previous school. Marlee is devastated. Nonetheless, despite the dangers on both families Marlee and Liz meet each other every Tuesday at a secret place and become secret friends. But they are found and are forced...
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...The Glass Menagerie Dr. C. Hemmye University of Phoenix In the play The Glass Menagerie, many characteristics were shown in different people. There were primarily four main characters in the play: Amanda, Laura, Tom, and Jim. Each character had their own original issue in the story, which makes the play so entirely complex. What makes the play interesting are putting those characters together and creating inside moral and conflict. As a result, everybody still appears to be an outcast in his or her own world. The title The Glass Menagerie was named because of Laura’s glass animal collection. She had many different animals that symbolized your everyday people that she came not to be a part of. One of the animals was a unicorn which was a symbol of Laura by representing the idea of being different. Laura was described to have a shy personality and would never attempt to make a change on her appearance to people. One of the main appearances she was embarrassed about was her crippled leg. Since she is already shy, this adds on to the fact that she can be very sensitive as well. Near the end, when Jim accidentally broke unicorn’s horn, she was hurt from seeing the broken glass and finding out that Jim was engaged after kissing her. To show Jim her pain, she gave him the unicorn showing that she is fragile like the glass unicorn (p.1282-1283). The most emphasis was on the kiss because it was assumed from the audience that it was Laura’s first kiss. Amanda...
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...human potential, and self-actualization, the self-concept, and healthy personality development. The social cognitive perspective stresses how the conscious thought processes, self-regulation, and the importance of situational influences. We learn many behaviors by observing them, and imitating the behavior of other people. We not only observe other people’s actions, we also see the consequences that follow. The reciprocal determination explains how human behavior and personality is a reaction of behavioral, cognitive, and environmental factors. The trait perspective on personality is a theory that focuses on identifying, describing, and measuring individual differences. Most people can be outgoing others can be shy. There are some people that are average not too shy and not to outgoing. There are...
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...certain inner comfort in knowing he could knock down anybody who was snooty to him, although, being very shy and a thoroughly nice boy, he never fought except in the gym. He was Spider Kelly's star pupil. Spider Kelly taught all his young gentlemen to box like featherweights, no matter whether they weighed one hundred and five or two hundred and five pounds. But it seemed...
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...anyone and where jealousy and hate take over. You may ask yourself if love really can kill. The short story “Abduction” is about a boy and his family and how things didn't work out at all.The conflict of the story is between a boy and his older sister. What is important is that the story is not told from the boy or his sister’s point of view but from someone standing outside. There are hints that indicate that the narrator is a sibling to the boy and his sister.”He’d been born late in my parents’ marriage and was much younger than she was”(l. 35). It becomes clear that the narrator has got the same parents as the boy and his sister and that the main character´s sister, Ann, is older than him. ”Being only a few years older I remembered those days too but my recollections were a bit different”. From these quotes it is clear that the three persons are related - they are siblings. There are other quotes though which contradict this. “Like most teenagers he hadn't much confidence in his mother and farther and Anne, his sister, had all the answers.” Instead of mentioning Ann as “our sister” he disavows her as a family member. Another example of this: “because their parents were shy…” Again it gives us an idea of the dissociation the narrator has to his own family.In the beginning of the text the narrator thinks about killing his sister or at least hurting her. After having read the story we know that the youngest brother dies in the end. Ann is...
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...behind this strong dislike. One of them could be that small towns are often seen as these tight and small communities where everybody know each other in one way or another and are noisy with too much time on their hands, which resolves in gossip spreading out quickly in town when something happens. But what do you do when you try to move past the gossip, and stumble upon the ugly truth? We see this in the novel “Vast Hell” by author Guillermo Martinez, where the quote is also from. The story takes place in a small village, and resolves around a man that thinks back to the arrival of a nameless young boy in the small-town, that manages to become the talk of town, when rumour starts spreading that he is romantically involved with the wife of one of the two barbers in town, who people call “the French Woman” for unknown reasons. Fuel is added to the fire when the boy and the French Woman disappear, leading half the town to believe they ran off together and the other half to believe that the barber somehow did away with them. Further investigation into the case gives the story a whole different turn, because after digging in the ground to see if the barber had buried them there, they do find dead bodies, but not the bodies of the boy and the French woman, but of a lot of unknown people. The story is told with a first person narrator, which is this man working in a grocery stop, who seems to be a very common and simple citizen in the small town, with no personal relationship to the...
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...Sam was an active teenager. He joined many school activities, and he was pretty smart too. All of that made him famousat his school. But, he had dark side too. He had bad personality, especially at social media. All of his popularity made him arrogant and rude at social media. Until one day, Sam’s father knew about it from his friend. “Why are you so rude with your friend? Your friend told me about that. And you know it’s social media!”, said his father. “Why shouldn’t I? And who the hell told you about that!”, Sam replied. “That’s not your concern. What the matter is, you put yourself into a problem, and being hated isn’t good for you”, said his father. “Don’t be overreact Dad, it’s just social media”, Sam replied. “Listen son. There are regulations about talking in social media and all what you had said could be recorded and screenshoted. I want to tell you a story”. There was a man called Thomas. He was a...
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...leaves Tom with an overwhelming feeling to do the same, feeling as if his father has found freedom. Throughout the story, it is evident that Tom feels the need to get away because he is constantly going to the movies to feel the adventure he has never experienced. When the reader is shown the true colors of where Tom’s heart really is, it brings a mild discomfort because it is noticeable how much the family really needs him and how devastating it would be to them if he ever left. His indifference towards his sister leaves his mother with a constant want for him to forget his father and dreams because she wants him to take care of them. Throughout the book, the reader gets a sense of disconnection from Tom. He does not seem to really be interested in what his sister is doing nor what his mom thinks. Him going to the movies is a constant reminder to him on what his father is doing and how much he wants to follow in his footsteps. Deep in his mind, he seems to cling to the notion that he might oneday be able to leave. Tom says to his mother, “Why, listen, if self is what I thought of, Mother, I’d be where he is—GONE!”(Referring to his father)(Williams 1772). This shows his desire to leave and do what he has always dreamed of which is have an adventure. The Mother seems to carry this arrogance about her as if she is still young and beautiful. She tells a story to Tom and Laura and the reader can tell they have heard it before. Amanda talks about the seventeen gentleman callers...
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...In many things such as sports and school, it takes hard work to be good at them, because nobody is born good at them. In the story, “The Marble Champ” by Gary Soto, the protagonist, a shy girl named Lupe, shows throughout the story that hard work pays off. In the beginning of the story, Lupe shows that hard work pays off by working on becoming good at marbles. She did finger push-ups, which after that her “muscles burned with exhaustion”. This shows that she is working hard. Also, she squeezed an eraser and practiced like this for 3 hours straight. This shows that Lupe is a hard worker and is very motivated, and all of the hard work she is doing will pay off and will help in the future. As the story continues, Lupe shows that hard work pays...
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...course earlier than usual to pack what seemed like billions of bags into the small dark green Toyota SUV to begin the six hour trek to just shy of Platoro Colorado. After that I finally check to make sure I have everything I meant to bring, just shy of one item to witch was no big deal. Then too jump into the car, feeling the texture of the slightly uncomfortable nylon seats And the minimum legroom. And then we were off. To be completely honest, the trip was rather unpleasant although, we weren’t very hot along the way we...
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...Muhammad and Modesty before God The Prophet, may the mercy and blessings of God be upon him, said: “Every religion has its characteristic, and the characteristic of Islam is modesty.” (al-Muwatta) Modesty, in the sense of shyly protecting oneself with propriety from the lustful or envious gaze, means one takes care about how to express oneself in word and deed. One does not want others to look at one strangely or as if one is blameworthy. It encourages one to be proper in behavior and thought with other people, and with one’s relationship with God. The Prophet once said to his companions: “Be bashful before God according to His right to modesty before Him”. They said: “O Messenger of God, verily we are shy, praise be to God.” He said: “That is not it. Modesty before God according to His right to modesty is that you protect your mind in what it learns; your stomach in what it ingests. And remember death and the tribulations attached to it; and whoever wishes for the Hereafter, leaves the adornments of this life. So whoever does all that is truly bashful before God according to His Right to modesty”.[1] Modesty and shame apply to every aspect of one’s life, and awareness of God’s presence helps one to be bashful and seemly in the way we comport ourselves in every activity we are engaged in. It crowns the moral ethics of behavior and practice, for it inspires him to do all that is beautiful and prevents him from doing all that is wicked. It is a shield of chastity...
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