Rich being the niece of Aunt Jennifer; therefore‚ personal feelings are exposed throughout the piece. The speaker speaks in an admiring‚ sincere‚ tone and her sympathy is apparent because she herself is a female. Rich’s poem‚ "Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers" is about the trials of an older woman in distress because her marriage is in trouble‚ and she is too afraid to leave her husband. The most apparent point in the poem is the ongoing contrast between the fictional tigers and Aunt Jennifer. The tigers represent
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Aunt Polly is extremely harsh on Tom. She yells‚ screams‚ threatens‚ etc. Many things provoke her in taking these actions‚ these things all fall under the category of Tom and his extravagant affairs. In The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Aunt Polly is a crude women. Aunt Polly is a very harsh women so it seems. Through her yelling at Tom and threats towards him‚ she demonstrates that she gets extremely aggravated by him. Aunt Polly sets herself up to be perceived as a very harsh person‚ she disproves
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IDENTITY AND CULTURE IN ‘PRESENTS FROM MY AUNTS IN PAKISTAN’ The poem‚ ‘Presents from My Aunts in Pakistan’‚ appears to be about a young girl‚ half English‚ half Pakistani‚ talking about clothes she received as presents from her aunts‚ who live in Pakistan. What the poem is really exploring‚ though‚ is the poet’s views on Pakistani and English culture and how she fits into one‚ both or neither of these cultures. A society’s culture is made up of many things such as the food we eat‚ the music we
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Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain‚ Aunt Polly is a minor character but her role is very important. She is Tom Sawyer’s aunt and also his guardian. Aunt Polly is a sharp woman who tries to keep Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn out of trouble. She is a character that is fearsome‚ respectable‚ and loved. When Huck Finn sees Aunt Polly at Aunt Sally’s house he say she was “looking as sweet and contented as an angel half-full of pie‚ I wish I may never!” (1460). Huck Finn describes Aunt Polly in a loving way but he
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little they are cared about. The setting of the novel also emphasizes how split the town is between the whites and the blacks. The Negroes are shunned to the outskirts of the town‚ deprived of an education and even made to attend a separate church. Aunt Alexandra would be seen as a neutral character because she does not wish to run the risk of being ridiculed by the town for
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Search For My Tongue and Presents From My Aunts In Pakistan: Search for my Tongue and Presents from my Aunts in Pakistan both show people thinking about their ‘roots’. How does each poem convey their thoughts and feelings? In “Search for my Tongue” and “Presents from my Aunts in Pakistan”‚ the poets are conveying to the reader the strong feelings they have about their roots‚ and how it affects them in everyday life. Both poems talk of women who have Asian roots‚ but are now living in other countries
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they knew. My Great Aunt Marge was born in 1928‚ just before the Great Depression really set in. All she remembers of her childhood‚ however‚ is the Great Depression. It seemed relatively normal and tolerable for her simply because she had never known any other way of life. She and her brother led a
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Phoenix6 Last summer I stayed with my aunt Susie for the first time. I had never met her a day in my life. My parents sent me to her house for the summer vacation. I was spending my whole summer with her and her family. I had never that was the first time we introduced. At first‚ I thought that it was going to be my worst vacation ever. I felt embarrassed of living with people I hardly knew and wanted to return home. Days passed and I got to know my aunt better. Every day we woke up early
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My aunt was a person for me just like my mother. She was always on the position that was not far from me also too close either. I liked her pretty much because I felt her like my mother. When I was young maybe in the elementary school I especially had a curiosity with her because I often dropped her house with my mom. I felt curiosity when she talked to my mom in a strange language. I think maybe it was a secret talking between mom and aunt. I couldn’t understand their talking but it made me
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thinking as a result of the cultural world in which members of a society inhabit. Patterns‚ a poem by Amy Lowell reflects on a woman as an individual in society and her strength and ability to escape from her world of oppression through her dreams. Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers‚ a poem written by Adrienne Rich depicts a woman who is constrained and trapped within her marriage. In a patriarchal society‚ society’s expectations confine women because they have to live up to an image that their society wants
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