Annotated Bibliography Accent Tag: NORTH vs. SOUTH. (n.d.). Retrieved October 21, 2015. This is a video showing the difference in word phrasing based on where you live. It is an 8 minute video showing you how people from the south and north. The accent tag has the participant say the same word but it sounds different. Angelou, M. (1970). I know why the caged bird sings. New York: Random House. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings is the autobiography of Maya Angelou. This is the story of Maya Angelou coming of age living in a southern town while facing racism. Maya was sent from California to the south to live with her grandmother. There she was faced with oppression, and she was sexually assaulted. . Audiobook, G. (Producer). (2013, June …show more content…
The story is of a girl named Winnie and a family whom she meets, which are named the Tucks. The Tucks have a secret, and they secret is that they are immortal. They mistakenly drank from the fountain of youth. Oppel, K., & Daniels, L. (n.d.). This dark endeavor: The apprenticeship of Victor Frankenstein (Unabridged. ed.). Victor Frankenstein lives a happy life. His twin brother Konrad, their cousin Elizabeth, and himself are homeschooled. They spend their free time horseback riding and fencing. With their friend, Henry, they explore hidden passageways and secret rooms of the palatial Frankenstein chateau. The only one left is The Dark Library. Poe, E. (199). The tell-tale heart. Champaign, Ill.: Project Gutenberg. "The Tell-Tale Heart," is about a man (the narrator) who is very put off by the eye of the old man he lives with. The old man and his killer seems to live in the same house, and this would suggest a family bond of some kind, and, from here, a father-son relation with ample room for subconscious motives. But the narrator conspicuously omits direct confirmation that the old man is his father (or uncle, etc.), saying only that he loved his victim and that he did not covet the old man’s
At that time, the older Frankensteins choose to pause their frequent traveling, the family finally decides to settle in Geneva. Even Though Victor is something of an outsider, he does have one good friend: Henry Clerval, the man who Victor is attached to. They both have completely different ambitions: Victor has established a great affection for science, while Henry desire is to learn the experiences of human struggle and achievements. Victor's parents then decide that it was time for him to start his studies at a university in Ingolstadt. Before he leaves, Victor's mother died.
The incidents with Aunt Helen, along with the experiences of other characters in the book, allow for a comparison to I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. In this biography, Angelou’s experience with rape and sexual abuse plays a large role in the rest of her life. It impacts her choices, her emotions, and her general experience of life and its challenges (Angelou, 2009). In contrast, Charlie blocks his encounters with sexual abuse to the point of not even remembering that they happened (Chboksy, 1999). In the same book, Sam goes through similar experiences and again reacts differently.
Mostly everybody in the south talk country saying things like hey ya’ll or why ya’ll ant going to the party festival tonight. But people from up north are on a more proper point of speech. They would say are you going to attend the gathering tonight and
As a student originally from the South, Georgia to be specific, attending Western Washington University has led me to come across many different types of people and ways of speaking. Considering the vast diversity, a normal student will encounter many different dialects in various conversational situations. Most people have a vague idea of “American Southern English” that exists and are aware of a distinct region in the Southeastern United States where this dialect can be found. However most do not always have an accurate idea of what it entails.
A classic version of these evidential can be found in the movie, Steel Magnolias. The characters in this movie are truly classic southernism. I believe this movie represents my concept of the south perfectly. The benefits of the southern style of communication or southern drawl made me smile.
Life can be a rollacoster ride. In the film “Bird by Bird: A Portrait of a Writer” by Anne Lamott, an American writer and a political activist. She depicts many struggler and hardships of life, focusing her to use her outstanding writer abilities to write about some negatives and positives things that occurred in her life time. In the film, Anne Lamott has a lot of struggles that she had to overcome …… The three things that sticks out to me and that I can reflect on is the abortion, LGBT, and the financial struggles.
Throughout Maya Angelou’s autobiographical series, we get to know a lot about the relationships she gets involved in throughout her life. As the reader, some of her relationships made you want to yell at your book, but in some cases, you rooted for the both of them because you hoped she would find love. Over the course of the books, you learn why her relationships failed and how they influenced her and her decisions later on in life. Although you learn early on how independent Maya is, you see her with a variety of men in her life: some for pleasure and others who she really cared for. For example, Maya’s marriage with Tosh was something she didn’t expect to happen or was necessarily looking for, but this failed relationship made a crucial impact on her which led her to the successful life she had later on.
Richard Lederer in the essay was interesting, when he like to travel around the country to observation of different language, pronunciation, and accent in that region. He using his multiple example in his essay to give us to reader how hard to new learn their accent, pronunciation. And also the quote is interesting, the quote, he used to useful and try to remind the reader to think you own language, be proud of your own language. He argument also strong passion of his own language he speaks do not try to change your language into of English that nobody really speaks and to support the accent from the another region by saying “the speech is the processing disappear not going, but gone”. I think that make me bored was the word “food”, all of his article talk too much about the different word but the same meaning.
As a very young girl, her mother’s ex-boyfriend molested and raped her. Her rape took up a big part of her life, as it never really completely left her. Early on in her life, she branded herself as a bad person, but as she grew and matured, she realized she no longer identified as a bad person, but rather a strong, independent, intelligent woman who takes pride in her black
One family that displays supportive love in Mary Shelley's novel, Frankenstein, is the Frankenstein family. This family has two parents that love each other and believe that their children can do no harm. The Frankenstein's provide their children with everything they need, from a quality education to enjoyable family memories as they travel Switzerland. On one of these family vacations Victor, the oldest son, discovers science books written by Cornelius Agrippa, that talk about unimaginable objects like the scourer's stone. This is where Victor develops an obsession with creating life.
The novel Frankenstein by Mary Shelley is a bildungsroman, coming of age, novel because it recounts the psychological and moral development of its protagonist, Victor Frankenstein, from youth to maturity, when he recognizes his place in the world. Victor Frankenstein realizes in a single moment that man cannot alter death without consequences. Victor Frankenstein is a scientist from Switzerland who is obsessed with the creation of life. When he is seventeen, Victor 's family decides to send him to the university of Ingolstadt, so that he might become worldlier, but before his departure his mother dies. This loss drives Victor to start over and to become successful.
In Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, Victor Frankenstein and Justine Moritz shared similar home lives, but their integrity and dispositions were as different as chalk and cheese. Through her letters, Elizabeth reminds Victor of some of the better qualities Justine possesses. Unfortunately, Victor Frankenstein does not show any desire to display those traits. He chooses to focus on his studies and ignore those around him, missing his opportunity to share memories with his loving family. Both Justine and Victor have suffered in their families.
As I was reading the autobiography “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings” by Maya Angelou in an archetypal perspective, I realized the story actually really resembles an archetypal plot. Marguerite starts off as an innocent young child and therefore representing the ‘child’ archetype. Marguerite is often singled out and made fun of, but Bailey, her older brother, sticks up for her no matter what making him the ‘hero’ of the story. Although he’s the complete opposite as he’s outgoing, sporty, and loved by all, the two siblings are still very close. The two live in Stamps,Arkansas with their Momma (who’s actually their grandmother) who represents the ‘mentor’ archetype with her wisdom and love for the children.
(Davis) “Caged Bird” is the poem which lead to Angelou’s autobiography “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings” 1970, (Davis) and in 1979 was made into a major motion picture. (IMDB) This poem addresses the feelings of isolation and segregation which allows the reader to travel the path of Angelou during the social injustice
The story begins with Victor Frankenstein who narrates his life. He introduces his friends and families in chapter I. His dad, Alphonse, was a respected man in Geneva. He was searching for his close friend named Beaufort, who moved from Geneva with Caroline, his daughter, because he lost all his money. Through Alphonse’s connections Beaufort was found but after some months he died.