When I was younger I loved dolls; I loved playing pretend with them, dressing them up, and pretending that they were real. For my younger self to hear of a doll that not only could talk but could move her eyes on mouth on her own was mind blowing. I saw a lot of cheery commercials on television for a doll called Amazing Amanda. It was so cool; the doll even had the same name as me! When I ripped through the colorful Barbie wrapping paper Christmas day and saw that it was the Amazing Amanda doll I jumped around like a grasshopper and raced to go find batteries. I played with that doll everyday, singing songs with her loudly which probably sounded more like off-key screeching. It was incredible to me to watch her glassy, blue eyes blink and…
For example when Sarah’s mom didn’t get the courage to stay with Sarah and she decided to run away she regretted that decision forever. “‘She said she knew she’d burn in hell for leaving, but it couldn’t be worse than what she’d gone through for the past fourteen years. She said she had made a number of suicide attempts first, but even messed those up; that leaving her daughter was bad enough, but not protecting her in the first place was unforgivable’”…
So I sat back and thought about it strictly from a reader’s point of view. Perhaps the mother simply wanted her daughter’s doll to be preserved. Maybe she wanted her daughter to be able to cherish the doll through her adult life as well and thus, had to carefully monitor her daughter’s playtime with her gift. Frustrating, but possible.…
However, Doll is the most heroic out of all the characters. She kidnapped Lila from dying in the streets. The old woman questioned Doll about kidnapping Lila, and Doll responded that “nobody going to come looking” (Robinson 8). Doll knew that no one else would take Lila, so she decided to kidnap and treat her as her own child. She cared for Lila by washing and feeding her. After bringing Lila to an old woman’s house, the old woman offered fresh milk and Doll “gave it to [Lila] in sips, holding her head in the crook of her arm” (Robinson 6). Doll resembled a mother, taking care of her sick child. When the old woman and Doll constantly checked up on Lila, Doll told her, “Now, don’t you go dying on me...you [are] going to die if you have to. I know. But I got you out of the rain” (Robinson 8). She allowed Lila to die, which is the same as letting go of loved ones. She did not want to give up on a sick child. Most parents would do the same towards their own child. When Lila saw Doll look beaten up, Doll said, “When [the man] and [I] went to it, I thought that would be the end of me for sure” (Robinson 136). She dealt with the consequences of kidnapping Lila, even though Lila’s family did not care for her in the first place. As a result, she gave Lila the cold shoulder when she visited her in the jail, so that Lila would not be involved in Doll’s…
On one foggy cold night, my family and I were inside watching TV at my house. My grandma had just bought my little sister a doll for her birthday. My sister decided to call the doll La Juana. Juana, had long black thick hair and green eyes. On this night everything started to change. It was around one o’clock when i woke up from my sleep.i heard mysterious noises from the ceiling. I went to go tell my mom, but she told me to go back to sleep and she told me that she would deal with in the morning. It soon stop and i was able to go back to sleep. I soon woke back up again cry. I sprinted to my sisters to my sisters, but she was fast asleep. What i did noticed was that the doll wasn’t next to my sister in bed. I went back to my room thinking…
Joan Templeton writes that Nora’s character in, A Doll’s House was like two different personalities. The obedient and playful Nora portrayed in Acts 1 and 2 could never have become the Nora that was portrayed in Act 3. Joan is not at all convinced by Nora’s character and states that this play has been “largely discredited by critics, directors and actresses.” Joan’s reaction to this play was quite the opposite from Marvin. (Templeton)…
In the exhilarating and gloomy “The Secret Life of the Lonely Doll,” Jean Nathan exposes the emotional journey that Dare Wrights experienced as she grew up in a dysfunctional home where Divorce and separation of her family damaged her drastically. Gordon Berlin an Executive vice president of MDRC, a unique nonpartisan social policy research and demonstration organization said “children who grow up in an intact, two-parent family with both biological parents present do better on a wide range of outcomes than children who grow up in a single-parent family.”(Berlin) Having lived a vulnerable, and abnormal childhood, and an extremely dependent life; Dare Wright was motivated to do whatever she could to escape the depressing reality of her life through her art work.…
The poem “Barbie Doll” is a powerful poem written by Marge Piercy. The title carries a lot of meaning because a Barbie Doll has been an icon in society. Society has a hold on individual’s lives, especially on women. Since 1960, it started to be an issue on women to fit in and become what others want them to be. Women, who adapt to society’s dictate, have to stop being themselves and become somebody else in order to please everyone else. Society tells us how to dress and acting order to be acceptable. By using television, the internet, magazines, billboards and even toys we see a mold of what women are supposed to look like. The world in our eyes make us women think we should look like a Barbie Doll. It is sad to see that this poem was written in 1969 and forty three years later, we realize that nothing has changed and the same barriers still exist.…
A doll, typically, should represent childhood and happiness but when tied with death it begins to represent the opposite. I am not sure why she would do that then if it was not a coping mechanism for her. Death is often a difficult subject to explain to children, or really to explain in general, so it is either brushed off or simplified to a phrase like “they’re in a better place.” However, Bishop’s childhood dealt with death quite often and while in some pieces she is shielded from it, like when her grandmother tells her not to go to Gwendolyn’s funeral in Gwendolyn, other times she is forced to deal with it like when her mother lifts her up to say “goodbye” to her dead cousin in “First Death in Nova Scotia.” I think Bishop uses dolls to simplify death as she does in the poem “First Death in Nova Scotia” and Gwendolyn. In turn, I think this allows her to cope with death and understand in a way that children can understand things. Death is not easily graspable but dolls are so likening them allows her to dwell on the subject without morbidity and with ease. If her cousin and Gwendolyn are dolls then they are not touched by death. Instead, they can live on as things that cannot be destroyed so…
Slowly Nora’s character is forced to discontinue her inauthentic role of the doll and seek out her individuality. She comes to realize that her whole life has been a lie. She lived her life pretending to be someone she is not or wants to be and hid the changed women she had become. The illusion of the old Nora continues well after she becomes the new person. When she realizes that responsibilities for her are more important, Nora slams the door on Torvald on everything from the past. She became a person who could not stand to be oppressed by Torvald any longer. Nora quotes “I’ve been your wife doll here, just as at home I was papa doll child”.…
The baby in her womb don’t have the fault of why he or she created it is the parent has the fault because in what they have done, why is it that the baby is the one who is going to sacrifice to what his/her parents done wrong. This issue is very depressing I’ve learned a lot in this documentation the first is not to become curious to all things because curiosity kills. Rejecting a baby means rejecting love from God and also means rejecting your very own…
In A Doll House, the protagonist Nora lives a very tragic life. Her major flaw is her poor judgment. Throughout her marriage, Torvald treated her as if he was dealing with a child. He ruled her life by controlling their finances, household, and her everyday life. Nora tolerated his behavior. She accepted her role as a housewife. In the text it says how Nora forged her father's signature in order to have money to save her husband's life. She struggled to pay off the loan for years. Nora lived a very unhappy life, and despite everything her husband did to her, she believed he truly loved her. Because of her poor judgment, she lived a very unhappy and fearful life for many years.…
In Sandra Cisneros’ essay, Barbie Q, Barbie’s values are as she physically is, merely plastic. She is a “mean-eyed” fashionista boyfriend stealer with emphasis on the stealing part. Barbie has made society assume that girls and women’s interests are only based on their looks and men. At the same time, girls around the world are getting brainwashed into thinking that is what they were made to do and how they are meant to be. Because Barbie dolls are used by young girls who may be in the process finding who they are, these girls may grow up with these sexist values in their lives. With this being said, young girls are offered a very superficial way of life, the life of a Barbie, which may be pretty and cute from the outside but it’s a very fake one. With this, society has created a twisted way of how a girl or woman should be like. On this essay’s last paragraphs describes where the protagonists dolls come from; a flea market. The doll she had probably was damaged by a fire, but as she describes the damages it shows that in a way the child accepts not only the doll’s flaws, but her own. With this, she will not let society define perfection. And the search for…
The picture I took is of two dolls, one is an old yet very beautiful doll that represents the older woman and the second doll, in the background on the couch, represents the younger girl. The porcelain doll is a hand-me-down and has been kept in near perfect condition, many different people have adored her for this. The other doll is a new version of a raggedy ann doll she is not know for her looks and is quite dull, especially compared the the other doll. Most people would be drawn to the porcelain doll without giving the ann doll a second thought.…
To see of what it was made, to discover the dearness, to find the beauty, the desirability that had escaped me, but apparently only me. Adults, older girls, shops, magazines, newspapers, window signs--all the world had agreed that a blue-eyed, yellow-haired, pink-skinned doll was what every girl child treasured. (Morrison 15)…
