Shells By Cynthia Rylant Analysis

I’m Trying My Best We always say that we protect our loved ones from unfamiliar things or situations that may put them in danger, but is this true? . Are protecting our loved ones or ourselves?. The author May Chai Lee in the short story “Saving Sourdi”, it’s a first person perspective that talks about a young sister name Nea that wants to “save” Sourdi the older from a fix marriage that their mother has arrange with an older man. And how Nea deals with this events.

The people in Eatonville only focus on her light skin, and treat her like an outsider. The people gossip about her and wonder why she left town with Tea Cake, a younger and poorer man. Throughout her life, Janie is never able to make her own decisions, and is defined by her husbands. Upon her return to Eatonville after the death of her third husband, Tea Cake, Janie discovers who she is, and decides to narrate her story with a powerful female voice. During the storytelling session, Janie talks words of wisdom to Pheoby.

“My essay about Shells” “Shells”By Cynthia Rylant Is a realistic fiction story about a boy whose parents died and now he lives with his aunt.First they got into a big argument and say bad things like they hate each other.Soon Michael comes home with a crab and names it Sluggo.Finally Michael and Aunt Esther get along and not fight any more. The hermit crab brings them together and it stops fighting.This proves that a pet can bring people together and likely will stop fighting. In the beginning, Michael and Aunt Esther are in a big fight. Like in paragraph 6, “I don’t,” Michael yelled , “it's not you!” Aunt Esther said Michael punishes her every day. Aunt Esther finally ends it, an Michael leaves for school, but when he gets home Aunt Esther is on the phone talking about him.

He goes back to school to pick up his nine year old sister Lauren Onions and they go out to eat dinner. They come back home to find Ron gone and their mom asleep, with multiple missed calls from the school on her phone and a note from the Deputy Head Teacher pushed under the door. Later James discovers that their mom has died because she was drinking alcohol

Nurzhan gets fed up with Ossie and starts to fight him. Nurzhan’s father has to go to the principal’s office along with his sister Maya to translate since their father isn’t able to understand English. Maya translates the principal’s words incorrectly, because she feels empathetic towards Nurzhan. Maya felt empathetic towards Nurzhan, because she knew how hard it was to learn a new language. She also believed that Nurzhan did the right thing, by standing up for himself.

Such as the case with Grete who went through a dramatic change in character in “Metamorphosis” by Franz Kafka. Since taking care of her brother's condition changed her from being a quiet and naive girl who prefers to stay in the background, into an adult who can handle responsibility and can be dependable but also into a cruel person in the end by wanting to get rid of her brother as he became bothersome to her. From this we can conclude that due to the ramification of taking care of her brother’s condition Grete’s overall character changes into that of a responsible adult but in the process she becomes a cruel

As M.D. Helen Farrell analyzes, the relationship between Jack and his mother after their escape is a complicated one―: Jack 's belief system and knowledge of the world are turned upside down, while his mother strives to reclaim her own identity. Jack is forced to grapple with the concept of being a separate entity from his mother. Ma 's own conflicts in their new world prohibit her from providing Jack with much needed reassurance. Jack is trying to make sense of this new world and turns to his mother for answers; however, her answers often prove unsatisfactory to the boy.

Mayella has worked to be a respectable woman, but many things hold her back: her dad, her looks, and her personality. Being a woman and living the way she does, Mayella’s life is ignoble, but the way she treats people makes her deserve the life she has been given. For example, Mayella forces a man to lie, which results in her flaws come around to hurt her, and her to not qualify for a chance to be respected. During Tom’s trial, Tom said, “...scared I’d hafta face up to what I didn’t do.” (page 265), and that’s because Mayella indirectly took an innocent man’s life, which makes her personality even more unattractive. Although women are treated very unequally, some women, like Mayella, don’t deserve to be treated

This argument, though irritates and angers Sripathi in the beginning slowly makes him realize his mistakes. At times, he has made a comparison of his relationship with his daughter and his friend Raju’s relationship with his disabled daughter, Ragini. While Sripathi has distanced himself from Maya because of her love marriage, Raju is very different with his daughter; he is very much devoted to her. His devotion makes Sripathi to think about Maya and he feels guilty that he himself is responsible for her death. It is quite natural that one understands the value of relationship and love after the death of the loved ones because the value is felt more in their

Everyday Use Characterization Essay In Alice Walker’s Everyday Use, the Johnson family experiences a small reunion as the sister Dee returns home. Dee arrives with ideas about heritage that are radically different from the rest of the family. These differences cause tension to wear on family relationships, ultimately causing Dee to leave in anger. Walker uses characterization, contrast, and imagery to portray Dee and Mama’s relationship, and that mother-daughter relations are not always as the parties wish them to be. Mama and Dee are characterized by their appearances, thoughts, and actions.