Gathering Blue Chapter Summaries

Also, Tan shows ‘silence’ as a symbol in The Bonesetter's Daughter because after Precious Auntie's incident she is unable to speak and leads a life in silence. Also for a week each year Ruth loses her voice for an unknown reason. Finally, when Ruth breaks her arm on the playground she is given the love and affection she wants from her mother. Ruth is afraid that if she starts talking she will lose the care she wants. Silence also contributes to the lack of communication which was evident throughout the novel.

One of the symbols used is the beasts. The beasts are an illusion created by the leaders of the village to scare the people. Their fear chains them to the will of the leaders, but those like Annabella who know the truth are free from those bonds. The literal chains of the singer and the robe are also symbols.

However, Mayella actually has little to no values in her life. She is a fragile girl from a crippled family, so she never even had the opportunity to experience what a family with morals is like. When her mother died, Mayella was mentally on her own, and had no one in her life that genuinely cares about her; Scout once said, “She is lonelier than Boo Radley,”

Then, Glaspell also depicted the theme in the play using symbols. The symbols are playing an important role to pose problems for the readers or audience to interpret what Glaspell tries to imply (Knowles and Moon, 2006). For instance, the bird cage is signifying that Minnie had very limited space to do her role as a human in nature. She was so isolated from the mainstream surroundings that she did not even belong to Ladies Aid, a woman organization at that time. This kind of isolation lead to the loneliness as her husband, John Wright, worked in farm all day while she was left alone all day in home.

This is turn means returning to another era which he thinks will lead to disaster. The villagers cannot get away from the lottery because they have no freedom. They are not allowed to emerge from anything if they never question it or

When Kira lost her mother in Gathering Blue, She has lost everything. She thought she had very little time before she either starved to death. Or the Village would condemn he to death because of her disability. She had basically lost all steps of Maslow’s Hierarchy. They had threatened to turn her land into a pen for children.

“Do Not Stand At My Grave And Weep” is the only known poem written by American poet, Mary Elizabeth Frye. “Do Not Stand At My Grave And Weep” is one of the most popular poems in the English language. Mary Elizabeth Frye was a Baltimore housewife who knew nothing about poetry and never got a formal education. Frye and her husband were hosting a guest when they lived in Baltimore, a German Jewish woman named Margaret Schwarzkopf. Schwarzkopf’s mother was ill in Germany and later passed away, leaving Schwarzkopf saddened that she never got the chance to say goodbye to her mother since she couldn’t visit her because of the anti-semitic movement in Germany.

She has a brand new foster home she has to adjust to. She also who has a mother who just throughs her to the side and doesnt care shes there. Lastly she has a social worker who doesn't even try to help make Dawns situations in life better. First off Dawn is a 13 year old girl, and even though she has had no one to guide her through life she should have better morals for herself. I'm not quite how sure a 13 year old girl can

She was born in a very poor family where they did not have name to give to their children. Her name was not given by their parents, she researched by herself until she finds poetries about beauty and twilight where she baptized herself in it. She has a tough life in the neighborhood she was born, it was an inhospitable land with different natural and social problems, she even had to deal with hunger during her childhood. Even though it is a hard place to grow

Personally, I have never experienced isolation like Emily goes through. This makes it hard to connect with Emily’s experience of being all alone in her house. Plus it makes it difficult to understand what goes through Emily’s head when she kills Homer, and keeps him in her house for so many years after he died. In “A Rose for Emily” Faulkner succeed in displaying Emily as someone who isolates herself from the rest of the town.

Once upon a time in the early 1830s, lived a young lady Bessie Vanburen, her a daughter Brea Vanburen and Bessie husband Brandon Vanburen. The Vanburen lived in a small town called Camelot, in the middle of nowhere, where Bessie grew up at. Back in 1821 Bessie and her mother Brenda weren’t getting along because Bessie was becoming a teenager. Brenda and Bessie would never see eye to eye. So one Day Brenda came home yelling about something and Bessie got very upset and couldn’t take the stressing anymore.

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.

A fresh start in a new location can be a good thing, however, if you’re not knowledgeable to the customs of your new environment things can change for the worse. In Kingsolver’s novel, one of the four daughters, Leah, develops a very strong interest in hunting. This seems absurd to the Congolese people as it is tradition for men to do all of the hunting and for women to do the domestic work, Leah hunting would be a clear violation of tradition. Due to this, many people voice their opposition such as Tata Ndu, Tata Kuvudundu, and some of the other old men. Regardless, the people of the village decide that they should vote on whether or not Leah should be able to hunt and it passes be a narrow margin 51-45.

People always need to follow the laws or the rules that made by government, but if people do not actually follow the rules which is means they would get punished by the government. In Fahrenheit 451, the government does not allow people to read books and that is kind of the censorship in the story. If people do not follow the rule such as read books or hidden books,they would get killed by mechanical hound. The firemen will burn all the book that they found from people, but there still some people against the law so that will not be the best way that For example, from Fahrenheit 451 "

Some included devotion, education opportunity, to be abstinent and to escape their lives at home. In the book Marissa knew she would never marry because she walked with a limp and was not beautiful enough, so she asked to be taken to the convent. She explains to Will her reasoning, “‘I am just the kind of spare girl who moulders away and everybody’s relieved when they die. Even if you give me a dowery, who’s going to marry me? I’ve got no land