Recitatif By Toni Morrison Character Analysis

In “Recitatif” , the narrator Twyla talks about her past. It is important that she is narrating the story because she thinks back at her time at St. Bony’s, an orphanage she and her friend Roberta had to stay at. She remembers when she first met Roberta and remembers how her mother would not like her being in the same room as her. Twyla refers to herself and Roberta as ‘salt and pepper’, telling the reader that they are both different races.

Another similarity is they are both loud and irrational. Blanche always exaggerates about everything and screams profusely. When Mitch leaves her she walks outside and screams at the top of her lungs knowing she will never have a good man in her life. After Stella was beaten by Stanley, she threatened to leave him and take their child with her. Stanley watches Stella walk up the stairs to her friend’s house when everything hits him at once.

1. Why do you think Michael Cunningham chose to tell three different women 's stories? Michael Cunningham did an amazing job by introducing three different stories with different backgrounds. In this stories we found women struggling with depression and illness. I think Michael chose these stories because it represents the struggles of the modern women.

On One Hits the Baby is an appropriate case to utilize Family Emotional Systems Theory. It is evident that Caroline Fontana is displaying behavioral response to the birth of her little sister. Caroline’s behavioral responses are not healthy to such a major life/ family’s structure change and are not being addressed appropriately. Caroline is exhibiting the following symptoms: 1. Behavioral issues, such as acting out in a negative way at home and at school/ Sleep deprivation/ outbursts of anger

Page. 113 In the novel Roll of thunder hear my cry, by Mildred Taylor. A sense of family is one theme in a book that emerges. Lillian Jean called Cassie names and attempted to push her off the street and

Manpreet Multani Ms. Gonsalves ENG3U 27 April 2017 Character development: Relationships Relationships are everywhere and thousands of women are abused everyday around the world in those relationships. This abuse can be physical, verbal, or psychological. In the novel The Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini, character development of the two protagonists is shown through the different relationships they have. However, Mariam’s experiences within her relationships make her undergo a negative change of self, Laila undergoes both a negative and positive change of self through the experiences within her relationship. The parental relationships of both the protagonists helps them to develop their character.

The Loop of Interracial Relationships in America Throughout the book Land of Enchantment by Liza Wieland we see the development of three main characters and their battle with their individual demons. One of these characters that I really resonated with was Nancy Diamond. Nancy grew up in southeastern part of America and was a part of an interracial relationship. Anyone familiar with the geographic social dynamics of America knows that interracial relationships in the south, especially during Nancy’s time period, is a constant battle with society.

A furious woman abruptly jumps out of her seat and stands directly in front of the coloured mother, she begins taunting and slurring racial remarks. With my head held low I get a glimpse of the desperate mother’s expression, so full of exhaustion. As the white woman lifts her hand to the mother every person on this platform recoils into their seat, unusually do several people on the sheltered platform. She strikes the helpless mothers face and her child immediately begins to scream like an animal before slaughter, the fear is evidently coursing through them both now. She is pleading with this furious woman and every other person surrounding her, begging them to let her remain, for the sake of her child’s health and life.

Emily Dickinson seemed to place herself in the position of the character types in her poems and told readers that she truly cared and was concerned by the true backbone meaning of her poetry, and that the meaning was received to the readers. “Her poetic style was fragmented, enigmatic, abstract, and forcefully sudden in emotion” (Abbott), the way that Dickinson put herself into the poetry was unique and never actually seen in the form that she exclaimed in her poems. Emily Dickinson used what readers call, “The Dash” (Campbell), in many of her poems Dickinson exclaims the ends of her lines. Many poems with a dash, shocked many editors of her time and was turned down by the writers and poets of the time by saying that she needed to change a certain piece of poetry and add a line, however after so long readers find out the Emily Dickinson was a very strong minded woman about her poetry, also had inner problems within her family such as death. Many different interpretations done by literary experts cannot truly come up with the explanation for her use of the dash, also the main reasons all end up the same about Dickinson leading herself to a mental breakdown after her mother and father’s death years before her own.

After she started understanding his parents unjust actions she started participating in sit-ins. She started getting involved with all these things and ends up getting arrested, and to make her stop that they called her mentally ill. At that point her family disowned her and now her family is all other civil right activist. Even after that she didn’t gave up and joined freedom rides. She took plane to New Orleans and then back to Mississippi.

Allegedly, Gregory began to beat McKay and she fought back because she feared that he was going to hurt her. McKay was baker acted at University Behavioral Center. According to Mckay, Gregory yanked her by the arm, kicked her in the stomach, and then proceed to get on top

Synopsis: In this chapter the protagonist, Mary Anne Bell, comes to be with her boyfriend Mark Fossie during war. When she first comes over she is a very innocent girl, but at the end of the chapter she is violent and addicted to war. Figurative Language: #1- (simile)“And over the next two weeks they stuck together like a pair of high school steadies.”