Literary Analysis: I Stand Here Ironing

The title Hurston uses for her short story is appropriate because that’s what Delia does work and sweat. She sweats to pay for what little she has. She sweats to provide her husband with what he squanders on himself and his plump mistress Bertha. Her husband Sykes does not appreciate her or the hard work she does. He kicks around her sorted piles of laundry, and for the first time Delia has had enough.

3.1. Childhood at Gateshead Hall Jane gets to know that she does not fit into the beauty ideal already in her early childhood. Her physical inferiority to her cousins Eliza, John and Georgiana Reed is mentioned in the very first few page of the novel (Brontë 9). The Reeds keep her “at a distance” (9) and she does not belong to their family. Furthermore, Jane is fully aware of her inferiority and asks herself: “Why could I never please?”

For most people, childhood is a time that should be celebrated because of the bliss and innocence one experiences then. For others, it is the complete opposite. Childhood for those few can be described as being full of uncertainty and fear. In The Book Thief, Markus Zusak portrays Liesel’s childhood and adolescence as a time of tribulation and terror after being separated from her family, having to conform to a society she did not agree with, and living surrounded by war and violence. At only nine years of age, Liesel was separated from her biological family.

Genogram and Ecomap Reflection Paper The story of my family laid out on paper with either scribbly lines or straight lines, symbols that represent death or sickness is beautiful and sad at the same time. Family is a complicated thing. It shapes us in so many ways, the patterns I was able to see on my genogram were interesting. The women on my mother’s side of the family have dealt with depression for generations. I only heard stories but my mother’s grandmother on her mother’s side was a cold and numb woman, especially cold mother, no affection was giving towards my grandmother which laid the foundation for how my grandmother would raise my mother and her two sisters, which eventually trickle down to me and how I handled the responsibility of motherhood.

I believe, that the other books part of this series is about Kasey and how she can’t control her words or emotions, and all of these scenarios are controlled by her antique doll. They will also, most likely involve new characters in the other books in this series. Along with how they will possess Kasey more with her antique doll, and sooner she will get transferred to a place where they help mentally ill kids recover. Moreover, Alexis will have a growing attraction to the doll and she will then get possessed too. On the other hand, Alexis’s and Kasey’s parents would either get into a major family fight that will affect their children, or they will get a divorce.

SOME PEOPLE JUST SHOULDN’T HAVE CHILDREN, SHOULD THEY?” (Jackson 225). She acts pleasantly with the infant in front of Hellen Crane but, shows her judgmental thoughts while writing the letter. This shows that she wears a mark in public and only shows her true self when alone. Although she had been living in the town for seventy one years, no one has been able to see her true face.

These were the first representations of Bowlby’s attachment theory. In his first paper, Bowlby reviewed Freud’s (1950-1953) notion that mature human sexuality is built up of component instincts. These instinctual responses carry the function of binding the infant to the mother, and the mother to the infant. These responses including sucking clinging and signalling behaviours like smiling and crying all develop independently during the infants first year of life, and become more and more integrated during the second half of year one. Separation Anxiety (Bowlby, 1959), his second paper, continues the observations by Robertson (1953).

Through the characters of Mama, Maggie, and Dee, Walker displays the theme of oppression in the short story “Everyday Use.” Through the character of Mama, Walker communicates oppression due to a lack of femininity, education, and an inability to say “no” to Dee. Mama is a burley woman who, unlike Dee, enjoys the lesser things that life has to offer. She excels in the face of hard labor but lacks the skill to pull off a feminine version of herself. Dee longs for her mother to fit in with the women of the decade: “…one hundred pounds lighter, skin like an uncooked barley pancake, glistening hair, and witty (Walker 1).”

Haifeng Yang English 1110.01: Secondary Source Integration Instructor: Torsa Ghosal 30th June 2016 Root of prejudice In the short story Soap and Water written by Anzia Yezierska, the protagonist who was an immigrant was depicted very unlucky through her college life and 10 years after graduation because people felt bad about her uncleanliness. Most of her depiction left deep impression about how hard life for a immigrant student could be. The diploma was held by Miss Whiteside because physical unclean appearance of the protagonist was considered not eligible to teach.

The difference in the concept of marriage is very apparent, hence the wives in the stories were subdued domestic caretakers, while their husbands were repressive breadwinners, each in their separate spheres. Gilman’s “The Yellow Wallpaper”, revolves around the life of a housewife that is unable to fulfill her wifely duties because of her nervous condition. To the readers it seems as if the story itself is the narrator’s secret journal, where she relieves her mind. She began the story as a

This can allow one to believe that her cognitive development, which is composed of learning, attention, memory, language, thinking and reasoning was in no way abnormal (5). During her childhood, it could be theorized that symbolic function and pretend play were a large part of her life. This could have led to her love for drama, and later her becoming a well-known actress. During adolescence and young adulthood Nancy developed conventional and post-conventional morality. This point can be proven by her advocacy in drug abuse awareness during her husband’s presidency during her mid-life time period.

The first essay I chose to read was called I Am in Dementia Prison with My Mom, Janet had no prior knowledge or understanding as to why her mother’s health, mind, and thought process was deteriorating. She couldn’t come to terms with her mom being mental sick and when she did she had help and support from her entire family. The second was titled Transferring Mom was New, But Restlessness and Inactivity Kindled her Agitation. Against her and he husband better judgment she took her mom to the store. I believe she did this because she did not want to tell her mom no, as a caregiver, especially to a loved one sometime following your intuition and saying no can be difficult

The film Including Samuel discusses the difficulties of inclusion. The film follows several families and their experiences with inclusion. Each person presented in the film experienced a different version of inclusion, and with their experience arose diverse challenges. Including Samuel follows people varying in age with a variety of disabilities. The documentary successfully established the difficulties of inclusion within an educational institution.