After being raped by Andy Evans Melinda’s life begins to spiral out of control, but it is clear that her home life was not typical even before the incident. In the novel its shown that Melinda believes that her parents are in an unhappy…
Through most of your life, you are going to want everything handed down to you in a silver plate. This doesn't make you stronger all it does is deplete you. A hardship can influence a person's life because it makes them work for what they want.…
When human beings are faced with hardships and adversity, all will react differently because of his/her’s past experiences. In Of Mice and Men, Curley, Slim, Crooks, and Lennie all are struggling with the difficulties of the farm, but each handle the situation differently because of their positions.…
She dreamed on meeting the perfect boy and having a perfect family, this dream lead her to a perpetual hell. First it started from her getting a boyfriend, yet her father forbid that, then to her getting into fights at school, which of course got her expelled. She was causing…
Although The Sun Also Rises is from Jake's perspective, the main character in this book is Brett, and the novel revolves around her maturity. From the very beginning, Brett's attitude towards relationships and love is shown. She's constantly engaged with numerous men while stringing along her "love", Jake, with little remorse. Even though Brett tells him that they could never be together, she constantly reminds Jake that she loves him. After her relationship with Romero, Brett no longer sees Jake as an option for her. Similarly, Jake realizes that Brett will never be his. As Brett matured after her time with Romero, both Brett and Jake realize that there's no hope for a romantic relationship between them.…
Claudia is a 13-year old Latino under probation. She undergoes a psychological evaluation, which reveals that she suffered neglect from her teenage mother Jennifer and abuse from her step-father. Having been abandoned by her mother in early childhood, Claudia was brought up by her grandparents and aunt. Although he was initially present in his daughter’s life, Claudia’s father also stayed away from her not long after her birth when he enrolled to serve in the army. She reportedly suffered sexual abuse from her grandfather who used to sneak into her bed at night. However, her memory is not clear about what happened when her grandfather crept into her bed. Later Claudia was moved, without being consulted, to live with her new Caucasian…
Everyday, people face obstacles that can either temporarily stop you from the path you’re on or they can set you on a completely different one. It’s these everyday challenges that can make or break you. These hardships can end up defining who you are depending on how you react to them.…
This great poetess Maya Angelou presents in ‘Still I Rise” the average black American woman who rises like the phoenix each time she is bent by oppression. Here, she triumphantly asserts with conviction how she continues to rise with renewed vigor.…
A metaphor is defined as being “the transfer of a quality or attribute from one thing or idea to another in such a way as to imply some resemblance between two things or ideas” . The key features of metaphor ranges from exaggeration and extension to the resemblance and connection between ideas within the poem, as well as symbolism. Traditionally, the conventional interpretation of ‘Still I Rise’ by Maya Angelou lies within the concept of race relations in America, in particular the struggle of Black American women within the Civil Rights era. On the other hand however, a different metaphorical exploration of the poem could reveal a darker side that is not expected at first. Within the text, there are links to the representation of death and…
The sacrifices, the beliefs, and the values parents implant in their children will help determine the person they grow up to be. A child is like a sponge that absorbs their parent’s thoughts and viewpoints that will stay with them for the rest of their lives. A bad event can scar them for life. For example, if a parent constantly yells at their child for no reasons and shows no signs of love, the little one’s childhood would consist of nothing but bad memories. This is exactly what happened to Shelly, the Indian girl from the “Homecoming”. The female protagonist definitely suffered immensely due to the lack of parental love and the constant battles in the house. Her careless parents would never stop blaming her for every little thing causing her to run away from home at a young age. Because of the bad childhood and painful memories, Shelly turned her back against the most important person in her life; her father. By the time she started to appreciate him, it was already too late, he was on the verge of death. In the short story of the “Homecoming”, through the strong use of metaphor, symbolism and irony, Sunera Thobani stresses how a sudden can drastically alter the way one sees parental love.…
Sethe suffered from extremely poor treatment as a slave in Sweet Home. Life as a slave on a plantation was always horrible; however, in Sethe’s case, life as a slave was a living hell. Men repeatedly raped her, degraded her, and treated her like an animal. For example, at one time Schoolteacher, the owner of Sweet Home, instructed his nephews to “put [Sethe’s] human characteristics on the left; her animal ones on the right” (228). Nobody can endure this type of treatment. As a result, Sethe developed an extreme fear of Schoolteacher. This fear haunts Sethe, until she begins to obsess with her past and the possible return of Schoolteacher. This fear is justified when dreaded Schoolteacher returns to Sethe’s home to take her children into slavery. This scene shows the effect that Schoolteacher has on Sethe, as she, not only attempts to kill her children, but also, succeeds in murdering her youngest daughter. Sethe’s murder of her daughter, Beloved, becomes another dreaded memory that Sethe is forced to remember throughout her life. With the thoughts of rape and humiliation forever stuck in her mind, Sethe encounters even greater troubles that force her to look into the past.…
A young woman unable to taste the sweetness of a carefree adolescence, Eveline has carried the burdens of arduous responsibilities since early childhood. The primary source of Eveline’s anxiety is her father- a controlling and intimidating figure. Eveline’s home life is demanding; she works long and hard to help support her younger siblings and run the household’s affairs. Although Eveline’s life is hard, to her it is not an all together terrible one. The day-to-day struggles are taxing, but they are familiar; they are her comfort zone. She has a routine and is obligated and conditioned to her submissive way of living.…
Individually, we all go through breaking points in our lives that help build us up into the people we become. Life can bring us difficult times, challenges, opportunities, but it can also bring us good things through all those experiences. In my opinion, in order to live and understand the world and how it works we must mature. In life, sometimes we must go through situations that scar our hearts. Some series of events that occur in our lives are inevitable; we would like to pause time and stop them from happening, but is impossible. From my own perspective, circumstances happen for us to gain wisdom and experience. At times, our own curiosity to experiment or do things brings us to a point where we have endure hardships. When we go through these hardships in our lives is when we truly get a better insight of how the world works around us. As things get rough and you are learning to cope with different situations, we start to get better at making decisions. We think before we react, we listen better, and intellectually we act more ammended. You give yourself the option of becoming a lion or slug in the world. The philosophy of it is that you can let life smack you in the face and do nothing about it or you smack it back.…
A hardship that I overcame was getting pregnant with Annabel when I was in college. I’m accomplishments are having a baby when I was young, going to college, taking care of my kids, and working. The events in this life was giving birth to the girls, they trips, graduation, and there’s lots more. The kind of person I was, I was so sweet, nice to everyone, courageous.…
You will agree that life dishes out different kinds of challenges to different people. Everyone has to face difficulties, problems, setbacks at some point or the other.…