Tone is the attitude the speaker has towards themselves, their subjects, and their audience. In this case the speaker in this story is the young black girl. In the beginning of the story the black girl speaks with pride and self-confidence. She thinks very highly of herself when she states, "...I was going to be lovely. A walking model of all the various styles of fine hand sewing and it didn't worry me that I was only twelve years old and merely graduating from the eighth grade..." The joy in her voice is felt when she stated "...my work alone had awarded me to a top place and I was going to be one of the first called in the graduating ceremonies. No absences, nor tardiness, and my academic work was among the best of the year..." Unfortunately pride and joy were not the only tone used by the speaker.…
Walker inserted the poem to show that people can change as well as accept who they are. When I read this for the first time I was confused I thought that Alice Walker visited the desert that she was describing. I re read the poem and realized it was a metaphor describing how people can change.…
Monkey is smart animal Eventually, in 630 CE, Monkey is released by the monk Tripitaka, who has been tasked by the Boddhisatva Guan Yin to undertake a pilgrimage from China to India to fetch holy scriptures. The pair soon recruit two former members of the Heavenly Host who were cast out and turned from angels to "monsters", as a result of Monkey's transgressions: Sandy, the water monster and ex-cannibal, expelled from Heaven after his interference caused Heaven's Jade Emperor's precious jade cup to be broken, and Pigsy, a pig monster consumed with lust and gluttony, who was expelled from Heaven after harassing the Star Princess Vega—the Jade Emperor's mistress—for a kiss. A dragon, Yu Lung, who was set free by Guan Yin after being sentenced to death, eats Tripitaka's horse. On discovering that the horse was tasked with carrying Tripitaka, it assumes the horse's shape to carry the monk on his journey. Later in the story he occasionally assumes human form to assist his new master, although he is still always referred to as 'Horse'. Monkey can also change form, for instance into a hornet. In Episode 3, The Great Journey Begins, Monkey transforms into a girl to trick Pigsy. Monkey's other magic powers include: summoning a cloud upon which he can fly; his use of the magic wishing staff which he can shrink and grow at will and from time to time, when shrunk, store in his ear, and which he uses as a weapon; and the ability to conjure monkey warriors by blowing on hairs plucked from his chest.…
She also liberated the body from stays and corsets; her garments would clung to the shape of the body. When she says “When a woman smiles the dress must smile with her” she illustrates how dresses must take on the personality of the person wearing them.…
An image of a person caught her eye across the room, a girl; she looked young, vulnerable and her body was delicate like a fragile ballerina. But then Lola noticed the ugly red scratches and purple bruises that marked her body, tainting the delicate childlike image. The imperfections twisted and turned across her porcelain skin spelling ugly words. The dress the girl wore hung from her, ill fitting her physique. As if she was trying to be something she wasn’t wearing the clothes of the innocent to disguise the stains.…
Repetition: the repeating thematic elements of the sand and the desert (throughout whole poem) - helps the reader to get in the mindset of the ancient Egyptian setting, highlights the haziness and dreariness of the desert… connect to “sands of time”…
The transition in image, setting, and diction all propel Walker's theme--the coming of age. In the last paragraph Myop picks up the flowers and places her bouquet in front of the lynched man. It is as if she is at a funeral, as if she has sobered from her carefree state to one of realization. For, in the last line, the images of the beginning are finally crushed. Myop can no longer return to the world of flower-gathering or sun-lit skipping. For Myop, the "summer is over." Basically he innocence is…
Looking in the mirror, “‘I saw something, but that was not myself: it looked nothing like the innocent, pretty girl I knew myself to be, at heart”…
Throughout the story Flowers, Alice Walker vividly portrays the theme “The Loss of Innocence” through her exceptional use of symbolism, setting, plot and irony. However, the word of Alice Walker leaves an emblematic mark in my life as a reader, as it appealed to me in many ways. All in all, credit is due to her scholarly attempts to draw reader in and for the relativeness in the short…
In the poem, the narrator does not feel her appearance would be described as beautiful. She does not see herself as woman should nor does she display the same grace as others seem to; a distorted image is all she sees. The reason she sees herself this way is because society has set a standard that she feels she does not meet. The poem implies that society commands for a female to appear womanly and proportionate; beautiful and perfected. Every curve, every feature, and every ounce of flesh is considered just as valuable as the actual character of a woman’s being. The standards of the woman lie within a foundation that insists only when a woman is attractive can she be valued. This assumption in turn creates an unrealistic expectation that a female individual must consistently live up to. This is the expectation the speaker of the poem is struggling with. Boland incorporates the elements of an anorexic disorder to closely encounter the true sufferings of the female’s vulnerability.…
Women in our society are obsessed with personal appearance some would say. Sylvia Plath’s poem “Mirror” emphasizes just how much people care about their appearance. Mirrors tell the truth, but people have a hard time accepting it. I believe that Sylvia Plath uses the mirror as a living entity to convey the message that accepting oneself is a hard process, but everyone is capable of doing it.…
The second stanza of She Walks in Beauty continues to praise the woman’s appearance, but starting from line 11, the poet extends this external beauty onto the woman’s personality. In the phrase “Had half impaired the nameless grace,”(8) the poet tells us that…
b. Uncertainty of reversal: it is not absolutely certain whether these obligations will actually come due in the future and therefore may be negatively…
Mueller, Lisel. "Alice Walker." Poetry Feb. 1971: n. pag. Rpt. in Contemporary Literary Criticisms. Ed. Harold Bloom. Vol. 5. Detroit: Gale Research, 1996. N. pag. Print.…
The door opened slowly and calmly bringing with it the fresh air to the dull room. She stepped forward, looked around with interest and hesitation, sat down in a gentle way. Her fresh hair of frosty morning in autumn and her expression from the set smile of a ballet – dancer in the dark attracted me ever and forever. Her beauty came out not from the face of makeup but from animation activity and intellectual stimulation. Her beauty came out most in movements and talkings. What that means is that she was beautiful because of what she was doing and because she was so intensely alive, not because she was a passive, static object, something to be looked at like a beautiful painting.…