Creon's Speech To Antigone

Selfishness is an imperfection that both characters have in their personalities that they come to grow out of by the ends of the books. How easy both characters put trust in people is another immaturity that they don’t necessarily grow out of, but it emphasizes that they make bad decisions. The fact that Esperanza is a child makes her journey in growing up much different than Walter’s just because of the situations that usually only children are put through. Growing up takes many times of going through tough times and is gradual for both Esperanza and

To begin with, Songnan transitions throughout her story with a variety of flashbacks that corresponds with Birdie’s problematic situations she seems to continuously cause upon herself. The structure of “Waxen Wings” brings together Birdie’s hopes and desires in past tense. Moreover, Songnan orders her subjects according to Birdie’s maturity. She writes of Birdie at “ten years old”, to her middle and high schools years, to finally, age 26. The reader gets the idea Birdie has learned from her mistakes, nevertheless more incidents are depicted.

Although one may think that their own opinions are correct, they must hear both sides of the story before they know what is true. In the novel The Giver, this theme is demonstrated and it explains that opinions may change when knowledge is gained. Generally, opinions can be changed to be more positive than a person thinks the situation is. This is shown through Jonas, one of the characters in The Giver. In the

The behavior of the young girl also derives explanation from Piaget’s theory on centration, which is the greatest limitation of thinking in young children. Based on this theory, the child had the tendency to focus on only one aspect of the new hot educational toy to the exclusion of all the other toy models in the store. From Piaget’s perspective, the behavior of the young girl can be described as egocentric since she was a captive of her perspective and could not take that of her parent’s. Moreover, The the child also seems to be confusing between the appearance of the hot new educational toys and reality. Based on the Domain-Specific Cognitive Development theory, it is evident that the young girl had primitive theories about how the world works, and consequently, this had a significant influence on how she thinks and acts when it comes to the purchase of educational toys.

As Piercy states “This girlchild was born as usual / and presented dolls that did pee-pee / and miniature GE stoves and irons / and wee lipsticks the color of cherry candy (1-4).” As displayed, word “presented” indirectly portrays that the girl did not have a choice in what she wanted to play with, just a common plaything used to mold the girl to what society wanted. In addition, the author is able to describe the girl’s entire life just through a few words by gradually increasing the age of use for each of the objects the girl is “presented”- from “dolls” to “lipstick.” Just from this, it is clear that the “girlchild” is led and therefore influenced to a certain path which that is acceptable to the culture around her. Furthermore, the girl is so affected by her surroundings that when she is told “You have a great big nose and fat legs,”(5) “…she cut off her nose and legs / and offered them up”(17-18). Here, the girl ends up paying the ultimate price in order to fit into her community. The “great big nose” and “fat legs” serve as symbols of her nature and when they are dismembered, she loses a part of who she really is.

With the constant fear of ridicule and discrimination, we still try and define ourselves, though we are always under the society’s scope. Marge Piercy, in her poem “Barbie Doll”, gives us a look at the influence of our surroundings and how something as innocent as a doll can trigger these insecurities. Our strive for acceptance and “perfection” can cause major emotional damage on anyone who identifies as a woman. Young girls look at these depictions of “perfect” bodies, such as a barbie doll for example, and compare themselves. In the poem “Barbie Doll”, Piercy talks about a young girl who she described as “...healthy, tested and intelligent...” (247) but, she was picked on by peers who said she had “a great big nose and fat legs.” This led her to apologize for her body, something no one should ever have to do, as well faking a smile, dieting and exercising.

The mind-numbing boredom that leads the child to ask a question that might seem mature but in reality is nothing more than a child’s thought. The only sliver of impact comes from the mother stating, “When you can no longer make a fist.” This has the ability to connect to a small minority of people who have felt that had to fight their whole life but the question is what 's more “effective,” and “Queries of Unrest” by Clint Smith answers the question

Although, Mami was pleased with the idea of coming at first and hearing about the laundry room. There were many more negatives experiences than positives for instance; Mami was unable to duplicate the words when she would ask the kids how to say it, “Her lips seemed to tug apart even the simplest vowels. That sounds horrible, I said” (Diaz 124). Additionally, her husband also did not contribute much to help her as well telling her “You don’t have to learn, he said. Besides, the average women can’t learn English.

Torvald and Nora 's relationship in Henrik Ibsen 's "A Doll 's House" is untypical of the ones found in today 's standards and society. Firstly, there is usually an understanding of equality found within a relationship, whereas Torvald views Nora as his possession, someone he owns. Torvald talks to Nora as if she was a child and tells her what to do. The word "little" is constantly said before he calls Nora by her pet names; "little lark" and "little featherbrain" are a few of them. This indicates that Torvald sees her as a child and emphasizes that he does not see her as an equal.

On the other hand, you can see where they struggle in making decisions. After all, they are just children. The Glass Castle, the parents of the Walls family, Rex Walls and Rose Mary Walls, gave their children Jeannette, Lori, Brian, and Maureen pretty much complete freedom to make their own choices. Both parents disagreed with the majority of society’s rules,