Stylistic Analysis Adeline Yen Mah

It is this male dominance that deems women as second class citizens who do not need an education. In ‘Alicia who sees mice’, Alicia attends university , due to her mother dying she has ‘inherited her mother’s rolling pin and sleepiness’ although she has the opportunity to study , it is not as important as looking after her family. Esperanza’s mother is not as lucky , she is a typical women in Latin America. Her life revolves around her marriage, family and children. Due to being a woman , Esperanza’s mother was not able to complete her education , instead she was forced to stay at home and look after Esperanza and her siblings while her husband provided for them, she strongly resents this ‘“I could have been somebody, you know?

From a very young age, she found herself being confined in her home with her father and their butler. There is no mention of her mother, so one can only assume that the mother was absent in Emily’s life. Emily’s father isolated Emily away from the outside world, thinking that no one would ever be good enough for her. This is where the reader begins to see the dependent and possessive nature. Being that she was sheltered away from the outside world, she had no friends, thus becoming dependent on her father.

This has affected her actions and way of living her life and even pursuing teenage dreams. Since Susie didn 't arrive for dinner Abigail still kept her hope up that nothing unusual had happened and that her daughter was in safe hands. Successively she started becoming worried and made phone calls to neighbors …”as my mother made phone calls..” (p 55) which shows us that she is upset. The hope of Susie one day arriving back home started fading away as the days went past and additional evidence came through the police indicating Susie being dead. Going through these tough times Abigail couldn’t show affection to anyone as she had done earlier and therefore the relationship between her spouse, Jack, weakened up.

This shows that Jeremiah is not happy with his family and is very distant from them. On page 101 he mentions that he felt the emptiness of the house settling down around him. Where was his mother? Where had all the people who used to fill these rooms gone to? On page 101 he whispered “Daddy…”, “Mama…”.

From the start of the novel Dedé has been very noncontroversial. When her sisters are going to school she volunteers to stay home and help their father with the shop. Later on when her sisters encourage her to join in the movement against Trujillo Dedé’s husband, Jaimito, tells her she can not join. Following her husbands orders, “Dedé sent Patria a note: Sorry Jaimito says no. And for weeks afterwards, she avoided her sisters”(177).

The daughter is then sent to stay with her grandmother. After more time spent apart, both parties realize their love for one another. Lola also realizes, after talking to her grandmother, that she is so much alike her mother. One may call this a plot twist as well. The two go from hating each other to realizing that maybe they do love and need one

Each vignette in the novel shows how Esperanza craves to leave the shame, embarrassment, and poverty of her youth. Cisneros’ nod to recognizing that her past will always be a part of who she is becomes apparent in Esperanza’s desires to escape her childhood, she promises that when she owns her dream home, she will allow the bums to sleep in the attic. By having a house of her own, Esperanza feels she can be free, independent, and be herself; this dream of Esperanza’s house fills her with hope for her

10. DayStar (revision) This poem that represents life of a woman who feels trapped because of her role as a mother and wife, and she always needs to stay at home. However, her husband can go outside for working, but she spends a day to take care about child. The woman feels she lost herself. Most of women are the same situation as her.

Adaline is an unwanted daughter and is forgotten about in her family. Adaline has a depressing life. I summarized three main things to Adelines sad life of when YeYe dies, when everybody forgets about her, and how everybody calls her bad luck. Overall, Adaline does not have such a good life however, later on when she is an adult things finally start to get better for her. She gets to go to college, moves to California, and wrote a book.

Blanche DuBois first came to New Orleans to stay with her sister Stella Kowalski. She told her sister she was only visiting, but her large suitcase implied otherwise. Her sudden appearance is strange, as she and Stella have had minimal contact with one another since Stella left home. Blanche explained that she has lost the family estate, Belle Reve, due to finances and had been let go of her English teaching position because of her nerves. We later find out that this is not the case.

Ninoska arrived from Dominican Republic 4 months ago and stated that she is having problems adapting to the United States. Youth reported that she misses her friends, school, relatives, her house and relatives. Youth complained that she never wanted to come to the US but that her mother obligated her because she got separated from her stepfather. She also added that because she does not speak English, classes at school are very difficult and that she is getting stress and insecure about her grades. Youth lives in a small apartment only with her mother, they have no relatives on this country and very few friends.

in Clip A Shane misses his mother when she leaves and goes back and forth between wanting to be with his mother and not wanting to which shows insecure attachment. Shane does stop crying once his mother comes back although seems to take a while. Shanes mother seems eager to play with her son and to console him when he is upset. The book defines resistant attachment as being upset when the mother leaves and is hard to console when the mother returns. Based on the definition of resistant attachment provided by the book Shane appears to fit that form of attachment.

This quote shows the readers that Mrs. Wright felt very lonely when her husband was away at work. She knew that having a child in the house would make it less quite, give her company, someone to talk to and keep her busy. The relationship between the Wrights is very strained, there is no bond. The author uses the canary to

She discontinued her painting lessons because she did not want any relationships with the people around her. Naturally, some were offended by her standoffish attitude so they stopped sending her gifts during the holidays. Emily became so secluded, it seemed like she and everything in her house were suspended in time. Even the townspeople described her wallpaper and furniture as archaic and dust ridden when they toured her home after her death. She rarely went out and she spoke of her acquaintances as if they were alive, which shows that she was unaware of the changes and developments around

The second way to minimize a person’s need for closure is hanging out with friends. People who just experienced a broken relationship often engulf by a mountain of questions and the mountain of questions looks like a black hole sucking them inside it. For example, a young girl just broke up with her boyfriend. She tells her friends that she will get closure with him; however, she always stays at home and sinking in the ambiguity. Can she get closure by staying at home?