In both Sue Monk Kidd's The Secret Life of Bee’s, and Homer's The Odyssey, readers watch as both protagonists are forced to chose between two horrible situations. Both characters are faced with two nearly impossible situations, and have to choose one. In the Odyssey, Odysseus is faced with the well known monsters: Scylla and Charybdis. One is a 6 headed female monster and the other is a dangerous whirlpool. Protagonist Lily in The Secret Life of Bees is faced with the challenge of either staying
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demonstrate the idea of individuality throughout the story. The narrator had become increasingly reliant on the supercomputer until the machine short circuited and died. Amongst EPICAC’s life, the narrator can be viewed as cold hearted. The narrator’s wife, Pat, even refuses the narrators marriage proposal stating: “I could get more warmth out of a sack of
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Fitting in sometimes feels necessary, almost as if it is the only thing that makes someone feel secure. However that security is not always worth the regret. The authors Ray Bradbury, Kurt Vonnegut Jr, and Kij Johnson understand that concept, and capture it in their writings. Ray wrote a story, “All Summer in a Day,” of a girl who is left out because of the other kids jealousy for her. In “Harrison Bergeron” Kurt writes of a dystopian community where everyone and everything are equal. In the last
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Hills Like White Elephants The words left unspoken, sometimes scream louder than what is said. In the short story “Hills Like White Elephants”, the writer, Ernest Hemingway displays this so beautifully and intricately. He does this by using dialogue between two characters that are facing turmoil, but handle this in the most poise nonchalant manner. Ernest Hemingway illuminates the fragile state of a relationship that endures one of the worst decisions. The author displays the emptiness and confusion
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The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros is full of excellent literary techniques, a prime example of this is the chapter My Name. The first example of this is Cisneros use of juxtaposition. While discussing her great-grandmother’s attitude and their similarities, which include their Chinese zodiac sign, Esperanza compares Chinese and Mexican culture, “the Chinese, like the Mexicans, don't like their women strong.” The author does this to make the passage more interesting and easier for the reader
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Edna Pontellier from the story “The Awakening” by Kate Chopin, openly showed her rebellious behavior against the custom and tradition of being a creole’s wife. She is a protagonist who acknowledged her sexual desires and had the courage to act on them. Edna discovered her own identity that’s independent of her husband and children by breaking through the role appointed to her by the society. At the beginning of the story, Edna exists in a semi-conscious state. She was unaware of her feelings and
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make the betterment of the family. “A Sorrowful Woman” narrated by Gail Godwin is a story of a woman who, overthinking with her responsibilities as a mother and a wife, with her responsibilities and roles and she is overpowered her duties, and she decided to withdraw from the family. The narrator states in his story a woman's duty as a wife and a mother in a house starts to become unusual, and she is not satisfied with it. She tries her best to satisfy herself by
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Addie Bundren’s love holds great power in William Faulkner’s As I Lay Dying, as it is essential to her sons’ sense of self. Withholding affection from Darl, her second oldest son, negatively impacts his self-worth to the point of existential crisis. Conversely, Addie loves Jewel, her middle son, which leaves him a man of action, certain in his state of being. Jewel receives love from his mother, resulting in his self-assurance. The product of Addie’s affair with the local minister, Jewel is the
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I am Hmong and, a girl. And because of those two things I had always felt like I was limited to a lot of things in my household, school and community. Growing up in the ethnicity and culture I was raised upon, there were many things that had shaped my life, and has affected my life positively and negatively. In my hmong culture growing up with a lot of siblings and being the oldest daughter and second oldest, there were many things that i had huge responsibility over. My responsibility would have
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com/od/bannedliteratur1/tp/aa_bannedbooks.htm). Mrs. Pontellier was a women that did what she pleased and went after what she pleased and in that time that wasn’t what a women was supposed to do. They didn’t like Mrs. Pontellier because she rejected the traditional roles of a wife and mother and explores her new found for “freedom”, both emotionally and sexually (http://www.stagger.net/books/banned.htm
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