1.) Vita lives with her mom, Marlowe, her cat, and the Keatses in an apartment building. Her dad left when she was young, and had never come back. Vita also had a dog called Argus , who died, and a cat called Marlowe. 2.) Vita 's three wishes were that she wants to get the role of Helen, she wants her father to be back, and she hopes that Old Farfel is leaving. 3.) Vita got the role of Helen but she felt bad when Helen McGuire got a chicken pox. The wish of Old Farfel leaving also came true when Vita 's mom said Old Farfel wasn 't what she wanted. However, the wish of hoping her father would come back didn 't come true. 4.) Vita stated, "I hate Helen. That 's all I can say" (Kaufman 106). "I don 't like to be around when he 's over," these quotes suggest that Vita has a strong feeling …show more content…
5.) Vita is waiting desperately for her father to come back home but he never did. She once felt that he would return home when she was young, but she decided to let go of the thought that he would return at the end of the story. This draws to a conclusion that Vita doesn 't believe he would come back anymore. Her thoughts and statements about her father reveals that she really loves her father. Vita wrote letters to her dad, she wish that he would come back home, and she was glad that Old Farfel wasn 't what Mom wanted. These are all evidences of Vita expressing her love towards her father. 6.) Vita 's triumphs were that she got the role of Helen and Old Farfel left. Her loss was that her father didn 't return home nor visit her during the day of the play. I think the loss was more important to her, because it made her realized that it 's time to let go of her father that he wouldn 't return. 7.) The theme of this story is that sometimes you have to let go some things that will never come back again. The truth is, even if Vita choose to believe that her father will return or pray for his return, he will not come back. Therefore, she have to let it go, be independent, and
Humans are born to be afraid. A feeling of fear is only natural for humans to feel; it is a part of who we are. However, it can be more than just a feeling. Fear can be a weakness in humans even though it is only our natural instinct for survival. Sometimes, fear is so powerful that it can blur our rationality and dominate how we think and what we do.
The Crucible was based in Salem, Massachusetts in 1692. The book starts off with Reverend Parris finding the girls in the woods dancing. Upon finding them Betty Reverend Parris’s daughter and some of the girls become ill. Abigail Reverend Parris’s niece tells him that when he found them in the wood Betty was so frightened when Parris found her she fainted and won’t wake. With Betty and the other girls unable to wake rumors of witchcraft start around the community.
“To be human is to be beautifully flawed. ”(Eric Wilson). All humans are flawed. That is what makes them human. Flaws sometimes are hurtful, but they make the character interesting.
He finally learns the truth of who his real parents are. Once Lipsha has figured out that June was his biological mother he realizes that he will never have a chance to meet her. This led him to go on a hunt to meet his real father and to learn more about June. He reaches out to his half brother for some answers which gave him a great sense of closure.
Zi Liu Ms. Elder College English 11 The Crucible Break Assignment ACT ONE 1. Why did the Salem settlement need a theocracy? Why had the settlers begun to turn toward individualism?
Shawn Jande Ms. Clancy American Literature B3 15 November 2015 The Crucible Analytical Essay Imagine, being accused of a crime you didn’t commit by your neighbors and friends out of jealousy, and desire. This is what many people in the town of Salem had to go through during the time of the Salem Witch Trials. People's motives such as: gaining and maintaining power, and aspirations for what other people had caused them to make irrational, and atrocious decisions. In The Crucible by Arthur Miller, desire and power drive characters to create chaos in the community.
This all spans from him wanting to get his supposed girlfriend Dawn a Christmas present. Towards the end of the story, we learn that Dawn is living with another guy, possibly her new boyfriend. This is where the theme of loss begins to come in. Not all has he lost is his girlfriend, he has lost relations with his family it seems as well. “My parents.
After doing so and being gone for some time, the daughter realizes that she misses and loves her mother very much. However, when they meet up again, the same sort of physical fight happens. The daughter is then sent to stay with her grandmother. After more time spent apart, both parties realize their love for one another. Lola also realizes, after talking to her grandmother, that she is so much alike her mother.
Drifters by Bruce Dawe “Why have hope?”, is the question raised in the poem “Drifters” by Bruce Dawe. Bruce Dawe’s poem explores how change can damage a family 's relationship and cause them to drift apart. This poem has underlying and straight forward themes depicted about change. Straight forward depiction is the physical movement of the family from place to place and not everyone is in favour of this change. The very first line of the poem, “One day soon he’ll tell her it’s time to start packing”, supports the inevitable change that no one else has a say in except the man.
“Character Analysis over The Crucible” Arthur Miller is a commonly-known playwright, most famous for his 1953 play, The Crucible. The basis for The Crucible came from the witch trials which occurred in Salem, Massachusetts during the puritan era. Miller even uses some of the same characters in his dramatized play that were a part of the original witch trials in Salem. However, Miller made a few alterations to the historical members of the Salem society in order to suit his dramatic purpose in The Crucible, particularly Abigail Williams, John Proctor, and Reverend Samuel Parris.
Family Family is a large part of The Color Purple. Alice walker says makes many points about various subjects, but her opinion on family is clear. Family is not defined by blood relation or marriage, or any traditional connection. This is very clear in The Color Purple, through the life of Celie and her journey as a person Celie is introduced as an abused child/mother of her Pa’s children.
Additionally, she keeps denying her father’s effective theories and methods of which Tatiana urgently needs for her trouble with speaking. After the incidents, each of the family members blamed themselves and accused each other for what had happened, but the truth appears to be beyond our
The family would always ask “why us?” or “maybe it’s a curse” or “she was fine for years”, and the list would go on and on. (225) She didn’t feel like she belonged and her family
Both Arthur Miller’s “The Crucible” and Harper Lee’s “To Kill A Mockingbird” are both books that present us with the theme of ‘men of conscience’. John Proctor and Atticus Finch, both fictional characters from the books, are considered to be ‘men of conscience’. A man of conscience is a man aware of the moral and ethical judgements he has a strong desire to do the right thing whenever possible. The life of these men is ruled by their desire to seek the truth and justice in the situations around them; these traits are displayed in both of the characters throughout both the novel and the play.
Secondly, on the other hand, Valentine is the very caring and the peacemaker of the three siblings. This can be seen by her courage and determination to break up the soon to be fight between Peter and Ender. Valentine’s repetition of threatening Peter, by saying “Where’s Mom” and “I think I’ll call Daddy” shows her resolution to make amends between her two brothers. Though it did not work on Peter as he rebarted her statements, her word choice was cleverly used to make a deeper impact. “Mom” and “Dad” have a higher superiority than Peter has over the younger siblings, which was emphasised when he stated that “(he’s) in charge”.