In Katherine Paterson’s novel, “Lyddie”, the main character must survive and make decisions that will affect her and how she lives. Lyddie was a thirteen year old girl, and her father had left the family. While Lyddie’s mother and younger siblings had gone to their aunt’s home for the winter, Lyddie and her brother Charlie decide stay to take care of it. However, during Spring, both Lyddie and Charlie were demanded to go to work to pay off their family's debts. Lyddie is taken to a tavern of which she meets Triphena ( the cook ) and Mrs. Cutler.
Lyddie was very poor when she was a maid due to no earnings therefore she needed the money. When she went to the factory her wages went up tremendously compared to what they used to be. In another case Lyddie
Cassy’s superior intellect enables her to study Simon carefully revealing his fears and superstitions, weapons she used to defeat him. Cassy uses an attic in the old house to her advantage. This attic is believed to be haunted by a negro woman who was confined in it by Legree himself. She was out up there after being disobedient. The servants of Legree don’t know what happened exactly, but they do know that her body was taken down from it and buried.
Her family was not like the other families on the street. They would stay up all night laughing and talking. Clarisse’s uncle would tell her of how things used to be. They meet for a second time on a rainy night. She says she loves walking in the rain and tasting it.
In this essay, I will be talking about all the hardships that Lyddie had to push through and how bad their lives were back then. Many young girls, working as young as ten, had many harsh conditions already. Starting in chapter 3, which was the cutler's tavern, Lyddie got her first job. Even in the beginning, you could tell it was going to be a harsh time for the rude comments given by the owner. For example, “ “Go along” the woman was saying.
Lyddie must go to Cutler’s Tavern to work in the kitchen; meanwhile Charlie must go to Barker’s mill to work. Lyddie is treated like a slave there, where she has to work
Mattie is broke and homeless after her father’s death, but Zeena offers her a place to live in return for aid in her illness. However, this job and her financial situation holds Mattie back from living her young and curious life abroad, as she can barely maintain pressure of working for Zeena in her additional service incompetence. Zeena constantly brings Mattie down, commenting on her poor housework harshly. To demonstrate, Wharton writes, “ …but of late she (Zeena) had grumbled increasingly over the house-work and found oblique ways of attracting attention to the girl's inefficiency,” (Wharton 43). This allows Mattie to feel locked in a system suffering, but she has to adhere to her obligation to Zeena given her life circumstances, and no matter what her aspirations in youth are.
In the beginning of the novel William Golding’s description of Roger conveys that roger was quiet and mysterious character. In the passage, all the boys including roger were coming out of the dense forest to join the group on the beach. At first, the author uses metaphor to compare Roger’s physical appearance as “a furtive boy”. Which tells us that no one knew him on the island and also that he was very shy. Roger appeared to be a very withdrawn character who did not appear to be concerned with social interaction, and kept very much to himself.
In The Lord of the Flies, “We’ve got to have rules and obey them. After all, we’re not savages.” Jack reprimands (William Golding, ).” This quote means that of the group of boys, Jack, who is the leader of the hunting group, says that the boys have rules to follow so that they remain civil.
In the essay “The life of A Lili” Lili decides to pay no mind to her mother's wishes and journey home through a blizzard in order to prove a point to her mother. Lanham writes, “ I reached the road instead of going to the bus stop like my mother had told me to do, I turned going in the direction of my home. … “ Finally, after what had seemed like an hour, I was home. I walked into my
Good Afternoon boys, you're all probably wondering what a girl is doing here on the island. Well, i was on the plane when it crashed and was surviving on my own. But i knew you were all young and in need of guidance. So I, being much much older than you, decided to keep an eye on you from afar...that was until I saw what you did last night, when you publicly murdered young simon.
Garry Leonard’s “Dubliners” is a critique of James Joyce’s Dubliners. Leonard uses his critique is used as a mean to both inform any potential readers and thoroughly analyze Joyce’s style of writing in his book. Some important points that Leonard address to his audience is that Joyce’s stories never give a reader the happily ever after ending. Most of the time, the reader ends up with more questions than answers after finishing a James Joyce writing. For the common person, that would make a story seem undesirable to read but Leonard points out that this is the norm for any Joyce reading and it is what helps him become such a successful writer.
She expresses that, “North and South Carolina and Georgia place no restriction upon the work of children at night; and while we sleep little white girls will be working tonight in the mills in those states, working eleven hours at night,” (Line 27-31.) She uses the phrase ‘while we sleep’ to generate feelings of remorse among the listeners as the children work tirelessly on end while the adults are resting. She also uses the phrase ‘little white girls’ to create more sympathy as girls were seen as frail and innocent, and it creates the question ‘Why is an innocent and weak person being forced to work laboriously?’. She also states, “Tonight while we sleep, several thousand little girls will be working in textile mills, all the night through, in the deafening noise of the spindles and the looms spinning and weaving cotton and wool, silks and ribbons for us to buy,” (Line 18-22.) She uses auditory imagery in the pathos argument above for her audience to better understand the harsh conditions that the children work in.
The Lord of the Flies explores a very dark side of society , and the author intended this novel as a tragic parody of children's adventure tales, showing us the very evils of nature. He presents it to us with a chronology of events leading to the group of boys on how they go from hope to disaster as they attempt to survive the wilderness. In the beginning, while there is a nuclear war going on, a group of British boys find themselves stranded on an island after the explosion of their airplane. The ended up being roughly divided into two specific groups.
William Goulding’s passage in The Lord of the Flies is about Simon’s innocence even after his death. The passage begins by creating an image of a dark, hell-like, place when he uses the words “darkened curve of the world”. Goulding uses darkness all throughout The Lord of the Flies in order to create this same effect. Next, the passage moves on to describe in great detail the power of the ocean, connecting it to the sun and moon as well as using words such as “the great wave of the tide”. Goulding ends the passage using juxtaposition to describe the light, kindness, and positive vibes that are associated with Simon.