Junot Diaz The Cruel Country Analysis

Her use of flashbacks tells the different stories of each family, and eventually connects them all near the end. She uses metaphors to express the connection between both the girl and her mother. The similes Tan used are included to compare the differences between the mother and daughter she refers to. Tan has a theme of the importance of family in all her books, but The Joy Luck Club focuses on the most important relationship there is, the one shared between a girl and her mother, and it can overcome even the most different of

The mother yearns for the life she could have had and probably dreams about it every so often, so we created a snapshot of the alternative reality she craves through these photos. *change slide* The purpose of the poem is to challenge the views of motherhood. Gwen Harwood presents the idea that motherhood is anything but glamorous. She shows her audience that being a mother is more than complex and tiring, it is shown in the way she paints the woman as a person constantly making sacrifices for her children, which mentally exhausts her. Throughout the entire poem, she demonstrates the woman’s desire to have a better life and her want for freedom, to be free of responsibilities given to her.

The literary phenomenon of The Bell Jar presents readers with a view of the character of Esther and her story through Victoria Lucas and Sylvia Plath. The development and circulation of the publication created a projection of the integrity of the story’s plot that can be seen as being affected by the autobiography of Plath’s life. The publication of the The Bell Jar, through Victoria Lucas, revealed a story of a young woman dealing with depression and a coming of age story of a young woman trying to live in a society where she does not feel she fits into: having to deal with the patriarchal power, to understand the orders of women’s lifestyle, and the destruction of ambition to become a writer. When it was published in the United States, in 1971, five years later, under the name of Sylvia Plath, the narrative began to take another outlook. This impacted the view upon the novel’s identity, the classification of what the novel truly is.

A wise woman once said, "The more a daughter knows about her mother 's life, the stronger the daughter" (http://www.wiseoldsayings.com/mother-and-daughter-quotes/). As any girl raised by their mother can attest, the relationship between a mother and her daughter is a learning experience. As young girls, you look up to you mother as your greatest role model and follow in their steps closely. In Jamaica Kincaid 's short story "Girl", a mother uses one single sentence in order to give her daughter motherly advice. Her advice is intended to help her daughter, but also to scold her at the same time.

Jim would be remembering the moments he had with Antonia while Clarke would have remembered the memories had with his aunt, both at a young age. They were also both poor growing up which is mentioned and described in both of their little flashbacks. Talking about the females characters from both platforms of literature, Both the Aunt and Antonia have made big impacts on Clarke and Jim.Antonia is remembered by Jim for her precious traits and personality while the aunt is remembered by Clarke for teaching him about music in his youth. They had made big enough of an impact for both main characters to write about them in their

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s major concern is about life’s unexpected surprises and problems. In the story, Ikenna was thought to be dead for so long and came out alive and met James, his friend. Moreover, James encountered a lot more hardships in his life that represent the author’s personal experience and as well as to real people. According to Bellanaja, Adichie suffered from depression, just like an ordinary individual who feel miserable with their life, due to unsaid reasons. Also, it is said that she wrote an essay about depression because she wanted to help people in this way.

Stowe was inspired by American women and mothers to write the novel and its success went hand in hand with domesticity and familial conventions. Moreover, the novel helped promote the power of women in society and some readers even felt identified with the

“Everyday Use” The story “Everyday Use” by Alice Walker is a story between a mother and her two daughters. The story is mainly about a mother and one of her daughters Dee. The conflict is how they both see the world differently. There is a lot of symbolism in this story because of Dee. In Walker’s writing, redemption will take one away and bring one back, in a perhaps humbling but empowering way, to something close to home.

The author particularly appears to be a person growing up in the first half of 20th century when the family values, ancestral connections, and the intimate norms were the things to be preserved. The author connects with her audience on the value and preciousness of the ‘family’ and ‘home’. She writes the essay right in the center of the setting that she is describing and possess a strong sense of connection with her surroundings. She also writes as a mother of the young daughter who wants to transmit the love and knowledge of family values to her daughter, but she knows that these values have become oblique and her daughter would never understand their true

The novel “The Gangster We Are All Looking For” is a narrative fiction novel in which it describes the important of cultural differences, consequences of war and the maturity of the author. Cultural differences is something important to the author herself that somehow helps her to become what she is really today. In the beginning of the novel, there are many traumas deal with cultural differences that the author undertaken. One of the traumas she experienced is when she 's in the United States living with Melvin and his mother, she felt like "she doesn 't want to wear American dress" (Le 16,17). This is understandable when a six-year-old girl wanted to keep her Vietnamese traditional culture.

I am reading The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls. This memoir gives the reader a peek into the major events encompassing in the unusual life of Jeanette Walls. The reason i decided to read this novel was merely because of the raving reviews of the people around me. They said it was a very quick read because i would have trouble setting the book down and they were very true. The main character is the author obviously and we follow her through her struggles growing up that even follow her to some of her adult life until she finally finds her happily ever after.