Of Ocean Tides and Understanding Whether she is writing essays, novels, or memoirs, author Barbara Kingsolver focuses her lens on the natural world. The memoir Animal, Vegetable, Miracle is the author’s testament to the power of locally grown foods. In Prodigal Summer, the Appalachian wilderness is as much a character as are the human protagonists. In her essay “High Tide in Tucson,” she recognizes that as humans we are part of the animal kingdom and that we have a natural responsibility to connect
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Written in 1984 by Barbara Ehrenreich, Nickel and Dimed: On (Not Getting) Getting by in America is an exposé portraying how it is to live with a minimum wage job in America. This piece is a form of a report on an experiment, which she acted upon. Though it may seem like a mocking action to the financially impaired, it was a genuine effort to bring attention to the issue. In brief, she set out to live first-hand what it was like to live with minimum paying jobs in order to bring awareness to the issue
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The Key to Being a Good Mother Motherhood is an unconditional love that every mother provides to their child. It is a common motif throughout The Bean Trees, written by Barbara Kingsolver. Lou Ann, one of the main characters, is a single mother because her husband, Angel had left her with no reasons so she has to raise her son Dwayne Ray by herself. Lou Ann had faced multiple challenges, but she came through with the help of her friends and families. Lou Ann is the best mom in the novel. Lou Ann
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Mama Tataba says as she warns Father about the Poisonwood. The white sap seeps from the frayed bark, but this doesn’t stop the Reverend. He forces Africa to conform to him, yet it fights back leaving him with a repulsive rash the following day. Barbara Kingsolver’s novel The Poisonwood Bible shows a vivid explanation of how the Congo controls its natives and guests. The feverish father, husband, and Baptist priest, Nathan Price, drags his four girls and wife to do missionary work into the center
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In the chapter from “Nickel and Dimed” written by Barbara Ehrenreich, low class jobs are discussed as well as the entrapment in them. People working minimum wage jobs deserve to experience a decent standard of living. The jobs they do are necessary. We may think of them as jobs for people with nothing else going for them, but in reality we do need those people working there. Her experiences working menial jobs reminded me of my job at Walgreens. I started working there as a cashier or a “customer
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Allaina Boggs, period 4 14 October 2014 Mr. Archibald Eng 10H: Outside Reading Response Annotated Bibliography Kingsolver, Barbara. The Bean Trees. New York: Harper & Row, 1988. Print. Marietta Greer, who goes by Missy and is later know as Taylor, embarks on an unforgettable journey from Kentucky, to Oklahoma, to Arizona, and finally back to Oklahoma again. Taylor desperately wants to escape the “regular life” of a Kentucky teenager which is getting married young, having a teenage pregnancy, and
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In Barbara Kingsolver's novel, The Poisonwood Bible, one can obviously see support for Edith Wharton's claim that "lighting up episodes" serve as windows into the significance of a work. Here, Kingsolver uses the passing of most youthful girl Ruth May as a window into the subject of blame and its place on the planet. Through the family's responses to her passing and Ruth May's message to her mom, Kingsolver builds up the subject of blame and obligation. It is fascinating to take note of the diverse
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Xige Wu (Jessica) 5th hour A Life Lesson from the Nickel and Dimed To investigate the life of low-wage unskilled workers, Barbara Ehrenreich found herself in Florida, Maine, and Minnesota as a waitress and housekeeper. After all, Barbara composed these experience into a book: Nickel and Dimed. In this book, Barbara describes her harsh experience as a minimum wage worker who fought to live with a low salary and a high housing cost. Even though this book is not as interesting as action fictions
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The significance of a title is often hidden within the pages of a novel. The true meaning of the title: The Poisonwood Bible, is not revealed until further inspection into the novel. The reader learns that the translation of the word “bangala”, often used by Nathan Price to describe Jesus, can be used to mean “precious,” but also translates to the name for a dangerous plant in the Congo, poisonwood. The author reveals this truth throughout the novel by using contrast and point of view. The author
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I think Barbara Ehrenreich’s Nickel and Dimed is thoroughly written in a descriptive style that informs the reader about predicaments in the lives of low-wage workers. Her purpose in this memoir is to investigate the life of working in an “unskilled labor”, as she is in fact an upper-middle-class journalist. One of many issues had to deal with health. In the book, Ehrenreich says “After two days of minor [skin] irritation, a full-scale epidermal breakdown is under way...I wake up realizing I can
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