She was devastated when told the news. Her emotions were everywhere. She didn’t know what to think. She was mad at Amanda but sad for Andrew. She thought to herself “where did I go wrong” blaming herself for amandas actions. She held herself responsible because of how she raised…
She met a charming person, Jody, who swept her away with promises and love. A few years into the marriage with Jody, Janie realized that he is just a power hungry person and wanted her to act like a mayor’s wife and not being herself. She did not like the fact that she was missing out on a lot of things mainly, love. They split apart bitterly and Jody dies of an illness. Janie had wealth and power at that point. Janie then comes across Tea Cup, someone who is 12 years younger than her and is easily attracted to him. She thought “He could be a bee to a blossom – a pear tree blossom in the spring” (104). With tea cup, she ends up figuring out what actual love is. Tea Cup introduces her to a life filled with fun and normal human emotions. The author writes “Janie learned what it felt like to be jealous” (136). Through her life, Janie slowly understands that one’s independence is more important than anything else. “Dats de way it looks. Still and all, she’s her own woman” (111). She also gets a taste of real love in her third attempt. Throughout the book, the author emphasizes on the opportunity women have…
Everyday people are forced into situations without a choice. Whether these positions are small or life changing, individuals are given the option to find good or bad. In the novel Tending to Grace, Kimberly Newton Fusco writes about a young girl's journey into accepting the world around her in a seemingly horrible point in her life. Cornelia deals with the abandonment of her mother and learning to love the crazy aunt she was left with and more importantly,herself. Through the bad Fusco shows that acceptance of oneself and the world around them can prevail.…
This novel begins slowly. Quite a bit of reading is required until the reader is able to fully grasp Olive's situation. The plot drags along as the author takes time to develop the character and at points overemphasizing Olive's problems. As we progress further, things start to happen. When we discover finally what Olive's true problems are and she goes through her emotionally problems everything happens quickly. The reader is suddenly bombarded with fragments of ides and issues. After the incident, the story returns to the slow monotonous pace and the reader discovers more after the character clearly and is then prepared for the predictable ending. The characterisation is definitely there, the way the text even reflects the way Olive feels. The book itself is made of fragments of Olive's journey, sometimes including normal 1st person text, lists so forth.…
2. Kay was the daughter of Gary. She was not that disagree with her mother’s marriage with Ron until she could not burden the pressure from the upper class around them. Alida was the woman representing the lower class and she was nice and happy. They lived with their own characters and feelings. However, Sara and Mona represented the upper class where Gary used to belong to. They were living with a mask. Surficially, they accepted Ron; however, they looked down upon him in the next minute.…
Beauty Quotes “I worked and studied with passionate dedication, lived in hope, and avoided society and mirrors.” (McKinley 5) Beauty is describing herself. She does not feel as though she matches up to her older sisters so she spends her time studying. This shows she does not like the way she looks and that she has grown to except this.…
Good Morning Good Afternoon Miss McCarthy and class. I will be discussing the novel Looking for Alibrandi by Melina Marchetta. The novel, Looking for Alibrandi is charged with emotional energy. Throughout the novel it shows cultural differences and a lack of communication and understanding between the family. This book is written as both a social and cultural analysis of Josephine Alibrandi’s life,, Josephine Alibrandi is 17 years old and comes from third generation Italian Australian. She feels caught in a claustrophobic trap between family lives obsessed with tradition, a strict disciplined Catholic school and trying to find herself and her position as a teenage girl. Throughout the novel Josie is constantly changing her views on people, and experiences her share of emotional upheaveful as she comes to realize that a perfect world consists of more than just gorgeous hairstyles, rich boyfriends and social privileges. It is a common representation throughout the novel that Josie Alibrandi is a selfish and egotistical girl whose internal angst and whose conflict with others all stemmed from her expectations that others should conform to meet her needs. This can be seen in her interactions with her close family members Christina, Nonna and Michael. She also selfish towards her friends John and Jacob.…
While Edith Wharton’s short story Roman Fever also draws upon events of the past, they are presented in a much different light. Grace and Alida happen to meet up by accident, and are not motivated to execute a predetermined scheme as in the case of Montressor. Though we are not provided with details, the unfortunate events of Montressor and Fortunato’s past were one sided with the latter having an upper hand. Montressor balances this by murdering Fortunato. In Roman Fever, however, the two sparring women have actually reached an equilibrium of sorts by their past actions. Alida was married to Delphin for 25 years but Delphin had also fathered a child with Grace prior to his marriage to Alida. As with most works of commercial fiction, Roman Fever’s central focus is on the characters and their interactions. Fast paced, easy reading stems from this character development. The Cask of Amontillado, though, focuses on the plot as a whole and the repercussions of each characters actions rather than limiting itself to petty and often unnecessary dialogue amongst them.…
By showing the struggles of Antonio’s day to day life Anaya gave the readers the experience of battling between the dreams of the adults and the children. This was mostly illustrated in the tussle that Antonio faced because of the pre-made future plans of his parents. His mother dreamed of him being a priest or a farmer like the Lunas, while his father dreamed of a life on the road with his kids. Parents tend to do this, conversely causing a battle in the head of their child; sometimes children must choose their own path.…
Like every proper girl Grace was very naïve when it came to things of the sexual nature. When she observes Nancy’s dress to have some ink-ish snuff stains she tells herself “she most likely slipped and fallen down” (262) She didn’t understand where the stains could’ve came from, besides getting dirty doing house work. Throughout her story Grace speaks a lot about Mary Whitney and all she taught her regarding men such as ‘not sitting where a man just sat’ and how street whores made money. Unfortunately Mary died while going through an abortion, which ironically Grace did not understand at the time. All of this new information did scare Grace, until she finally realised how naïve she really was when she was informed about Mr. Kinnear and Nancy’s relationship as to which she remarked “I was much surprised , and said so; . . . “I was not so knowing as I thought myself, and could scarcely see the nose before my face”. (295-296)…
One scene that shows the similarities between Grace’s and Jayden’s stories happens on Jayden’s birthday, when she runs away to her father’s house. Grace follows her all the way there and waits for her to come out. Once they get back to the facility, Grace stays with Jayden while Jayden tells Grace a children’s story, which ends up being…
Louisa fears that by marrying Joe Daggat, she would be released from her "chain" and that her simple life of solitude would end. This is a lot…
During the course of her H.S.C year at St Martha’s, Josephine Alibrandi changes her understanding of the people around her, the people whom she loves including Nonna, Christina, Michael, John and Jacob in many ways she never thought possible. Throughout the novel, Josephine or Josie to the people close to her also changes from a selfish, uncaring teenager to a caring, more sensitive young woman whose feelings towards others become more apparent and noticeable. Her life is turned upside down in one year, and she learns to change, and adjust to change in others.…
It was the first time for Meg to confess how upset she is at Jo for marrying John Brooke. 5 years has passed for Jo and John Brooke’s marriage, yet Meg still has feelings toward Mr. Brooke. The only reason she married Laurie was to make John Brooke jealous, but that didn’t work. He was already in love with Jo. Jo has two children, Sophie and Justin. Both sisters’ relationship wasn’t as good as before, but it was the first time Jo realizes how much hate and jealousy Meg has for her. Jo never realized that by marrying John Brooke she hurt her sister. 7 years ago, John Brooke and Meg were madly in love until they fought a silly fight that made them break up forever. He then loved her sister Jo and they got married two years later. Mr. March loved John Brooke so much that he accepted him to marry Jo even though he broke up with Meg. Beth doesn’t want to get married. She still didn’t get over he sister’s death, Amy. She always says that it’s her fault that Amy died. Seven years ago,…
In the beginning of the book she is caring and kind towards her husband and willing to do anything for him. For example, the text states: ”...she made the drinks, a strong one for him and a weak one for herself; and soon she was back again in her chair with the sewing, and he was in the other chair, holding the tall glass, rolling it gently so that the ice knocked musically against the side of the glass. For her, this was always…