Rhetorical Analysis On Everyday Use

Mama wanted nothing but the best for her; she did everything in her power to get her to college because she wanted her to have a better life than she did. However, Dee used her education against Mama and Maggie in efforts to present her culture in a “better” way. Changing her name to Wangero because her birth name “Dee”, as she informed them “I couldn’t bear it any longer, being named after the people oppress me” (Walker 27). In contrast, Mama and Maggie never changed the way they dressed “African descent” or change their names to portray their true

those cells we’d been working on came from a live woman. I’d never thought of it that way.” (91) They finally began to realize that Henrietta was not a toy; she was a real human being with a life, a family, and thoughts of her own. The fact that she was an under class, black woman in the 1950s made her less of a human. So doctors didn’t treat her fairly like they would someone with a lighter shade of skin. These three ideas relate to each other because it shows how people didn’t bother to get to know Henrietta or the Lacks family until real profit was involved; and the only real time they’d attempt to “contact” the family was to ask for the permission to have Henrietta’s medical records, or it’s bothersome reporters constantly asking them questions that they wouldn’t know the answer

She didn't really have a choice from the start of the film. Jasmine was basically a prize so that the next prince would become ruler and she as queen still has no word of say even as that word had no power. As seen by Jafar the villain of the story tries to take advantage and marry the princess. Then she runs away trying to escape the reality of the problem ahead of her. Even while being saved she was quite independent and didn't really have to be saved all the time.

“My mother got these magazines from people whose house she cleaned” (Tan 222). Soon enough Jing mei and her mother's relationship changed for the worst. All of a sudden Jing mei started to hate what her mom was doing, trying to find a prodigy, so she stop trying. After this incident Jing mei and her mother would never be

In the beginning Hester was portrayed to be every mans desire, the perfect woman. However, after her years with the Scarlet Letter she began drifting away from the society's standards of what made her ‘beautiful’ and she became her own personalized version of it. “It might be partly owing to the studied austerity of her dress, and partly to the lack of demostantion in her manners… That her rich and luxuriant hair had either been cut off, or was so completely hidden by a cap, that not a shining lock of it ever once gushed into the sunshine… there seemed to be no longer anything in Hesters face for love to dwell upon ; nothing in Hester's bosom, to make it ever again the pillow of affection.” (Wahl) She completely changed her physical appearance, not because of her humiliation but because of her realization of how societies standards negatively affects women. She no longer wanted to fit the desires of man, she wanted to fit her own desires. Hester's change in appearance was looked at negatively by Salem society because they could never understand it's true underlying meaning; that beauty is a board standard determined by society as a whole instead of individually.

When Shelley was young, her family dynamic greatly changed when her father married Mary Jane Clairmont in 1801. Unfortunately, Shelley never got along with her stepmother and decided to send her biological daughter, Jane (later Claire), off to boarding school. Her stepmother saw no reason to educate Shelley since she saw her as more of an extra family member rather than a human being (Bio.com). The character of Elizabeth has neither a step-mother nor a mother. In order to avoid these negative feelings and express how absent her stepmother was, Shelley decided to repress her feelings by getting rid of all of Elizabeth’s parents

Johnny wasn’t even a witness at all. Leanora was the main witness in this story. She was just a young girl, who had to grow up too fast. As if it wasn’t hard enough losing her mother at such a young age, but moving to a town where almost every single person was trying to get you to leave, we’d all be different people, some might even become bitter from it. Leanora found ways to overcome her struggles and to stay the girl that she was with the beliefs she

Antigone broke every rule in the book when it came to the way that women were supposed to behave in society back then. Women back then were either seen as slaves, mothers, or concubines, even Kreon told his son Haimon that, “when you lay yourself under a pleasure female the pleasure goes cold soon…and never never never let ourselves be bested by a woman” (lines 740-745 & 772-77), claiming that women are only good for one thing and even that is not enough to trust a woman. But Antigone was not seen as any of these things she believed in something and even though her sister told her not to do it, Antigone knew what was right and defended her beliefs. When Ismene said, “moreover we’re girls girls cannot force their way against men” (lines 70-72) it was obvious that this was one of the reasons that she did not want to help Antigone, she was raised to believe that women did not have the same strength that men have. Antigone defied all “rules” women were taught back then and made sure that not only would she be looked like as a martyr, but as a woman who was not afraid of any

Although I should have recognised, that I hadn’t the right to; who I am, after all; merely a woman, a wife, a nobody, an inferior creature who is not supposed to pronounce that she doesn’t like a thing. I was crying, because I had wanted to hold a little, modest party for my daughter for years. It hurt me that

The one person that Lady Catherine questioned the most was Elizabeth, because she knew the least about her. She asked her about her upbringing and about the qualities that her and her sisters have. It’s clear that Lady Catherine wasn’t impressed by what Elizabeth told her, in her eyes Mrs Bennet (Elizabeth’s mother) failed raising her daughters the right way, because she didn’t hire a governess and because Elizabeth and her sisters lacks musical and artistic talents. This is clear in Pride and Prejudice in the scene where Elizabeth Bennet tells that she and her sisters never had a governess , Lady Catherine, reacts surprised: “I always say that nothing is to be done in education without steady and regular instruction, and nobody but a governess can give it.”(Pride and Prejudice,1992,p 140)What becomes clear by comparing these two scenes, are that both women, Miss Havisham and Lady Catherine think very highly of themselves, and don’t let anything happen without their permission. It’s very clear that they aren’t used to not having their way, which becomes clear when Lady Catherine is astonished by Elizabeths indirect answers and when Miss Havisham practically forces Pip to stay longer after he made it clear that he actually wanted to leave.

Rosaura’s ignorance to her social class is strengthened by her denial to attend to her own mother, who recognizes much more about life’s hitches than Rosaura does. Rosaura believed she was exceptional after she was selected

“Children will not abide any, the slightest, change in the accustomed aspect of things that are daily before their eyes.” (Hawthorne 189) When Hester is ready to drop the A, something that up until then she didn’t believe she could do, Pearl stops her. She has Hester put it back on when she wanted to get rid of it and finally be happy. Pearl stops Hester from attaining a freedom she hasn’t had in years. Pearl doesn’t do it because she really can’t recognize Hester she does it because she wants to leave Hester trapped. Pearl was old enough where she of course can recognize her mother but she completely wanted to lock Hester back in the cage she was in and that was the worst thing done to Hester the whole