...short story by S.J. Butler. The story centers on a woman, who undergoes both an emotional and spiritual experience. She learn to overcome her fears. The story takes place in the summer. First the woman is in her office that has a view of a river. She finds the heat of the summer unbearable and she therefore decide to go swimming in the river. She approaches the river and hesitates a moment, were the reader is introduced to the character on a more personal level. The reader learn that it is not the first time she has tried to take a swim in the river. She goes into the river and start swimming upstream, against the current. She passes a bridge and she then encounters a beautiful swan. She is mesmerized by the both the size and posture of the swan, but is also frightens her. The swan makes her feel small and unimportant. After that day, she goes swimming everyday hoping to spot the swan and admire it. At first, she observers the swan from a safe distance, but after sometime she approaches the swan. One evening, as the moon rises, she finds that the swan has entangled itself in a fishing line. She sets the swan free, and they both float down stream, until the swan vanishes out of sight. It is unclear whether the swan lives or dies. The events in the story are arranged in a chronological order that covers the range of days in the life of the protagonist, focusing on her experiences in the nearby river. For the protagonist, each new swim is a new trial. Every time she crosses the...
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...famous speech "I have a dream". Martin Luther King Jr. was a black man, who fought against both apartheid and segregation. His dream came true, as we live in a world where it is accepted by most to have different skin colour, a different culture and religion. The short story "The new girl" by Marc Mitchell, is a good example that children can be more accepting of others, but also how easily parents can affect their children's opinions. The story takes place in a suburb in Alabama around the 1970's, as the story is the narrators flashback from 20 years before the story was written, and the band 'Hall and Oates' was founded in the late 1960's, and it is mentioned that Allison has an interest in that specific band. In this story the narrator is also the protagonist as it is being told in a 1st person point of view. The narrator lived on a street by the name Prospect Street, in a "white lower-middle class neighborhood" (p. 22, l. 15.) In this story, there is the protagonist, Allison and the new girl, whose name we do not know. The protagonist was eight in the beginning of the story and was, together with Allison, one of the only children on the block, so they "were best friends by default." (p. 1, ll. 7-8). The two children spent a lot of time together, as it is written in the text "During summer we spent a lot of time riding our bikes, playing clue, and pretending to be married." (p.21-22, ll.1-2). The protagonist does not mind that the new girl has a different skin colour, as it is...
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...Critical Response: Construction of the Hero Cara O’Keefe The construction of the ‘Hero’ is one every writer should consider. The hero or protagonist is designed to keep the narrative moving and whose actions create progress for the plot (Morrow et al, 1997). Pearson (2001, p. 101) defines hero’s as “fearless protagonists who realise their own special power and go on to take great personal risks in order to change their reality. In day-to-day life, these powerful archetypes provide a structure that can release the ability of ordinary people to rise to challenges, take risks, break rules, and transform their lives”. There are many ways of defining what a hero is and what a protagonist is. A hero is usually the protagonist but this is not always the case and vice versa. For clarification purposes within this analysis a protagonist or hero is a character who drives the narrative and plot and who embarks upon a learning journey that changes them. A writer’s construction of the hero will Is this Essay helpful? Join OPPapers to read more and access more than 325,000 just like it! get better grades be analysed using examples from Kate Grenville’s Lilian’s Story, Dan Brown’s The Da Vinci Code and Stephen King’s Carrie in comparison to Joseph Campbell’s (1949, p. 36) “destiny of Everyman” by firstly illuminating who the hero’s and protagonist’s are, how the character of the hero has been portrayed and how their journey’s compare. Dan Brown’s The Da Vinci Code construction...
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...) Among the character in Every Day Use the older sibling Dee is the antagonist because she shows opposition towards the protagonist who is Maggie the younger sibling. Maggie is the protagonist because we sympathize with her for all that she has gone through. In the A&P Sammy who is the narrator is also the protagonist because he is the primary character in the story. The antagonist is the boss because his actions conflict with the protagonists desires and goals. The characters in I Stand Here Ironing Emily is the protagonist because she is the sick one, she is also the main character and we sympathize with her. The antagonist is the mother, because she concerns conflict with the mother. 2.) In the A&P the setting was in a grocery store on a hot summer day. In this reading it played a major role because it is where Sammy, the main character, worked and it is a public place where proper attire is needed, so the setting helps cause part of the conflict. In Every Day Use the setting was at the house in the middle of nowhere. It was a beat up house, the only thing that the mother could afford. The role it played was being the reason Dee moved out of the house. Other than that the setting had no major role in the narrative. The setting of I Stand Here Ironing was all over the place and it did not serve as a major role in the narrative. 3.) The plot of the A&P was a hot summer day, a teen boy was working in a grocery store. He saw a group of girls in a bathing suit that made his...
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...the name of the protagonist, all we know about him is that he is at the age of forty-one, and has now moved from New York to Paris with hopes of learning the language. Our protagonist is forty-one years old and has moved from New York to Paris to learn the French language. He loves leafing through medical textbooks, and has a love for IBM typewriters, things he detest is blood sausage, intestinal pâtes and brain pudding. He is a sensitive person and seems that he is very young at heart, because of many of his statements throughout the essay, one of them would be: ‘’ Turn ons: Mom’s famous fire-alarm chili! Turnoffs: insecurity and guys who come too strong!!!!’’(Lines 43-44, p.7) On his first day in school he is feeling a bit uncomfortable, or ‘’nerve-racking’’ as he says himself. He did feel indisposed as all the other students were all young, attractive and well dressed, which makes him feel like Pa Kettle, who is a comic character, so we should presume that he is a comic fanatic, since he compares himself to a comic character. The first time he meet his teacher, he could only understand half of what she was saying. ‘If you have not meimslsxp or 1gpdmurct by this time, then you should not be in this room. Has everyone apzkiubjxow?’’(Lines 21-22, p.6), this sentence was an example of what he hears and understands when his French teacher is speaking. The French teacher is very offensive in her way of teaching and has a very high temperament, as our protagonist says’’...
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...Self-revelation can come to someone when they least expect it. When someone gets exposed, they begin to see the world around them differently. In a world of billions of people, some shared similar experiences. “A&P,” by John Updike is of a young man named Sammy, who works at an A&P grocery store and three young ladies who seem, upper class, intrigued him to venture outside of working at A&P. “The Lesson,” by Toni Cade Bambara is about a young girl named Sylvia, she is assertive in her neighborhood but when she was taking on a trip to an upscale toy store on Fifth Avenue she was timid, and left with a lot to think about at the end of the trip.“A&P” and "The Lesson" They both have a contemptuous male and female character who have a low socioeconomic...
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...Psychodrama Tamie White Research Paper CP6634, Troy University Professor Capes December 3, 2009 Abstract Psychodrama therapy of Dr. Jacob L. Moreno is very effective in treating certain disorders such as depression, substance abuse, eating disorders, trauma survivors, and it has been used in marital counseling. In psychodrama a person is helped to gain insights through role playing. This helps the person to gain a better understanding of their problems and turn them into more realistic and meaningful thoughts. Psychodrama can be very effective when used correctly and it continues to offer therapists new ways to treat patients. Therapy Psychotherapy is a technique used to change a person’s behavior, thought process, assumptions, and even sometimes their personality. Therapy is a term often used to encompass all acts of psychotherapy under one common theme, to help the client. Therapy today consists of many different types and themes. Some such as Albert Ellis and Aaron Beck suggested that our cognitive processes are responsible for our behavior, thoughts, and emotions and this developed into the cognitive model (Comer, 2004). Others such as Carl Rogers believed in a more client-centered approach that is “non-directive and based in insights gained from conscious thoughts and feelings” (Coon, 2000). Well known therapies include Freudian psychoanalysis...
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...finds great trouble when her daughter becomes imbedded in a Western culture, which is almost completely incomprehensible to the mother. The short story is told by a nameless first person, auto diegetic narrator, with limited and internal omniscience. The name of the protagonist is never told, but all of her thoughts and contemplations are depicted very thoroughly. This type of narration never describes the thoughts of any of the other characters. The story is written sort of as a memoir and therefore it is difficult to track the exact timeline of the story. The protagonist is a Chinese woman who has immigrated to America with her husband and little daughter. It is described that the main character is uneducated and that she was not allowed to study as young in China, and she only picked up a little bit from looking at her brothers’ books. (p. 4 l. 77-79) This means that se is very uneducated and therefore works at an industrial factory in America. Furthermore, she is also unable to speak English, which means that her young daughter has to translate for her; “For years it had been little Pearl who had gone everywhere with me to act as my ears and tongue.” (p. 4 l. 95-96) It is also seen that the protagonist is a Chinese Buddhist and that she therefore distance herself subconsciously from the Western...
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...recorded, sequential human thought told for the purpose of entertainment to ever exist here on Earth. At its core, the art of storytelling contains many elements that make up a story. Such elements include characters: imagined individuals within a story, setting: where the story takes place- sequentially, and plot: the story being told chronologically. I shall be writing about two other ingredients of literature found within the stories “Godfather Death” by The Brothers Grimm and “A&P” by John Updike, universally identified as protagonist and antagonist. Primarily, I will be identifying and analyzing the protagonists and antagonists of both stories according to Kennedy’s and Gioia’s definition of the terms. According to them, the definition of a protagonist is: the principle person who thrives” and an antagonist is “a character who opposes and interferes with the protagonist as he seek his objectives”. In the first story, “Godfather Death”, the protagonist is the doctor. Even though the doctor is the protagonist, there were multiple actions taken by him,...
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...ENGL347: Women Writers: Assessed Essay “Becoming a mother will be the one thing that frees you as a woman. But it will also be the one thing that traps you...” – Anon. Discuss the way in which women writers use the concept of motherhood as a gender-divide to explore the themes of entrapment and escape in literature. Since the 19th century, the broader sense of literature as a ‘totality of written or printed works’, and the foundational means of communicating information or ideas, has given way to a range of more exclusive and specific definitions. The rapid growth of adult literacy, combined with economic, social and political developments have vastly increased the sheer spectrum and quantity of subject matter and forms which fall under this umbrella term, forcing the need for greater categorisation in order to make ‘literature’ more accessible to the general reader. The resulting categories which attempt to standardise this process may take many forms, including observation of the structure or literary genre of the text (for example, categorising the text as a novel, poem, report or article) or perhaps the particular literary period or movement, which will link all associated texts with underlying principles or stylistic traits, such as the Romantic era or Post-Colonial literature. However, due to a long-standing patriarchal tradition dominating the history of literature- a literary practice challenged and corrected by the rise of the Feminist movement, particularly following...
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...three senses. c. Name the date an exact time that your story begins. d. Describe the weather conditions at the beginning of your story. 3. Protagonist: e. Name: f. Age when the story begins: g. Physical description: h. Create a metaphor or simile that describes the protagonist: i. What is the main thing the protagonist wants at the beginning of the story? j. What in his/her background motivates him/her to fulfill this “want”? k. What does the protagonist think will happen if his “want” is not fulfilled? l. What does the protagonist fear? m. What are the protagonist’s physical strengths? n. What are the protagonist’s physical weaknesses? o. What are the protagonist’s mental and social strengths? p. What are the protagonist’s mental and social weaknesses? q. Make an “X” indicating where the protagonist stands on the following cultural markers continuums: Individualist 10...…9……8……7……6……5……4……3……2......1 Collectivist Uncertainty Avoidance High10...…9……8……7……6……5……4……3……2......1Low Power Distance High10...…9……8……7……6……5……4……3……2......1 Low Orientation Masculine10...…9……8……7……6……5……4……3……2......1Feminine r. Describe the protagonist’s birth family. s. Describe the household in which the protagonist lives at the beginning of the story. t. 4. Plot: Use complete sentences to describe the following parts...
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...auteurism and film noir (House, p.61). The 1940s and post World War II gave rise to a new style of American film, these films appeared pessimistic and dark in mood, theme, and subject. The world created within these films were portrayed as corrupt, hopeless, lacked human sympathy, and “a world where women with a past and men with no future spent eternal nights in one-room walk-ups surrounded by the...
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...during her marriage to a Louisiana businessman and began writing after her husband’s death; being left to raise six children alone. Many of her stories are based on her knowledge of Creole and Cajun life during the time she lived there. She is best known for her novel “The Awakening,” considered Chopin’s masterpiece was subject to harsh criticism at the time criticism for its frank approach to sexual themes (Toth, 1988-1999, p. 1). Her attitude seen throughout her writing’s are about a woman’s place as being in the home and her purpose in life is to nurture her husband and children. Being against oppression Chopin chose to write about these issues through fiction, expressing real women. Kate Chopin is considered by some as a pioneer for feminist authors of the 20th century. Many of her short stories share the same theme of female oppression and independence, as well as freedom from the oppression. They are trying to find a way out of the oppression placed on them by their husbands and use immoral ways to find freedom. In her stories the protagonists really...
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...Wallpaper" is the story of a woman's descent into madness as the result of being isolated as a form of "treatment" when suffering from post-partum depression. The author, who is believed to be narrator as well, talks about her personal travel in to the world where an illness has brought her. All her thought and feelings are written in a journal and as she goes down in to the world that she has created in the confines of the room where she was kept. The story line presents that the narrator's mental condition is getting worse, leading to psychosis. Gilman explains the complexities of woman nature as she uses symbolisms to define the psychological realms of the plot. “The Yellow Wallpaper” The unnamed woman in this story (believed to be the author herself) fantasies about the yellow wallpaper are driving her mad. The protagonist experienced hallucinations and persistent thoughts over things. Crawling women, colorful artwork and a moving pattern depict the narrator's increased anxiety and impaired judgment, "Through watching so much at night, when it changes so, I have finally found out" (Gilman 7). The developments happening in the Balogun 2 wallpaper greatly signifies the progress of the narrator's mental sickness. Evidently, the author is utilizing symbolism in the short story, whereas the protagonist watches herself completely free from inhibitions and...
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...Protagonists’ Desire for change In “A&P” by John Updike and “Araby” by James Joyce the protagonists make important life decisions. Both stories are about young men, leading dull lives, who go through a major change, while trying to escape from their lives. In both stories this change takes place while trying to please a female who triggers something inside them, causing them to act. “Araby” is different from “A&P” because it has religious elements as well as a connection through alienation. In “Araby” the narrator is closely following the crush that he has on Mangan’s sister. The narrator makes a kind of gesture to take Mangan’s sister to the bazaar, but she turns it down because of previous plans. Sammy and the narrator are similar in the sense that they both follow their desire for change. ‘Araby’ and ‘A&P’ are stories of unsuccessful attempts to escape from ordinary lives, only in different ways. Both stories end in darkness to prove that alienation can change the way people react to different situations and both show how the characters react towards change. The fate of Sammy from “A&P” surrounds the ideas of self-identity, desire for change and emerging adulthood, whereas “Araby” outlines alienation, desire for change and the dangers of idealization. The reader gets caught by the setting first in both stories. The protagonists describe the neighborhoods and the daily life in the cities that they live in, in detail. Sammy is stuck in the daily routine of the policy...
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