The Night Waitress Analysis

Thinking and fearing all sorts of dangers… She rather found herself angry at imaginary people who might try to criticize” (Hurston 125). Unlike with previous marriages, she actually worried about Tea Cake and would be willing to protect him. The happy feelings that Tea Cake had given Janie are told after his death. When Janie is thinking of Tea Cake, the book explains that “The kiss of his memory made pictures of love and light against the wall. Here was peace” (Hurston 193).

She does this in order to make them a more interesting read. Angelou was challenged by her publisher to turn an autobiography into fiction, and thus she began writing her life with literary elements put into it (Walker 77). She recreates herself in childhood form in order to “reclaim the horror of childhood sexual abuse from statistical anonymity” (Henke 243). Angelou uses repetition and mirroring in Singin’ and Swingin’ and Gettin’ Merry like Christmas to show similarities in her young life to her adult life, such as leaving her son with her mother like her own mother did to her. She also uses capitalization to show importance.

She worked as a seamstress in a tailor shop, and in her free time she worked with the NAACP as well. She wanted very passionately to end segregation as a whole, so she worked all day for the NAACP. In the poem, Dove states, “The time right inside a place” (line 2). This line shows the reader that the day was like normal until she got on the bus. She was going through her daily routines, but then she could just feel that she wasn’t right on the bus.

Reading Reflection “A Night At The Opera (Cantina)” “A Night At The Opera (Cantina)” production by Suzan Hanson tells story about a group of enthusiastic women to show moral support to the deployed Allied troops during World War II by set a party in deserted storeroom, somewhere in Europe. The soldiers who arrive are fewer than expected, yet it does not dishearten these women to go on with the party. The play introduces various angles from different characters and backgrounds. A mother who meets with her daughter again after years gone by, a woman who lost passion tries to kill herself and saved by her friends, a woman who finds out her boyfriend cheats on her, old friends reunited, a composer who finds his courage to share his composed songs, and a wife who lost her husband in the war. Hanson uses a humorous approach to the play by adding some comical acts, for example a soldier makes fun of a love song and learns a lesson from a woman and the act when a soldier rushes in to the party chased by a big guy with a blacked eye.

At her job, she always as to be occupied with a task, even though her manager does nothing all day. Conditions for the employees are unfair. Their break room is disgusting and it is reminded to them that it is a privilege, as well as their lockers can be searched anytime, they’re not allowed to gossip, and new and possibly current employees will be tested for drugs. Ehrenreich has trouble keeping up with her payments with the wages she is earning and can not imagine how her coworkers are able to live like this, however she later learns that they are also barely making it by. She decides she will need to gain a second job and becomes a waitress for another restaurant, Jerry’s(not its actual name).

Danticat’s story “Night Women” shows a mother clinging onto the hope that her faith gives her for herself and her son. The chapter tells the story of a woman who becomes a prostitute to support her child and herself. She believes that there are ghost women in her village who spend the night undoing the work they’ve done that day so that they have something to do in the morning. She reveals that “There are nights that I believe that those ghost women are with me” (Danticat, 73). She uses her belief in the ghosts to make herself feel less lonely.

Grimm uses the characters of Cinderella and Snow White to perpetuate the idea that women should lead quietly domestic lives. In Cinderella, Cinderella spent most of her time in a kitchen. She truly embodied a woman of the early 1900’s. She wasn’t allowed to do or go as she wanted to, like her step sisters but was forced to work. For Example, “There she had to do hard work from morning till night, got up before day break, carry water, light fires, cook and wash” (121).

These actions contributed to one of her greatest Gothic Literature novels, Frankenstein (“Mary Shelley”). Mary Shelley 's relationships with her parents, her husband, and other writers influenced her to write her novel Frankenstein. As mentioned earlier, Shelley’s mother died during childbirth, leaving Shelley and her father alone. This was a big impact on Shelley’s life. She never really knew her mother, thus giving her the feeling of not knowing the love of

Denotations are used in the words like death, and coffin, to express her sorrow. When Dickinson’s mother’s health began to suffer, she began to spend more and more time at her family’s house, which gave her more time to write poetry. Therefore, most of her poems were dark, and depressing. For example, the poem “Because I Could Not Stop For Death” reflects on death in a causal tone, she is looking back upon how life had been before and how death came and brought tension to her life. She used carriages as a metaphor of life, and that eternity is the

Rolson Jakabot Elizabeth Switaj ENG 210-1 Poetry Essay Broken Heart First of all, I am going to describing my broken heart of a mother who’s having problems in a family, as well as the readers want to know what happened with these two poems Marks and At the Hospital. Now we’re going to find out what was happened in these poems as the authors were talking about into it. There are many different of the poems in the many kind of situation of the pattern of sounds, but the audiences want to know these poems just as the authors who created the poems. First we have to looking for the authors of these two poems and we wants to know what’s going on at the poems, to know what’s going on into the poems and anything about the poems with the senses.

Like many before her, she carried her poverty into adulthood, doing odd jobs with periods of homelessness and hunger. But more disturbing is that poverty is now starting to take its toll on her children, especially her eldest daughter. Metcalf says she recently tried to run away from home in the middle of the night.” This article appeals to emotion by focusing on metcalf and her story. It doesn’t focus on any other person the author is trying to tell a specific story to appeal to the reader. The way the author structures the article affects the effectiveness of the article by appealing to a certain audience.

The title’s girl on the train, Rachel Watson is the protagonist of the novel, who is an alcoholic and characterized to have possessed an overactive imagination. Although she has been fired from her job, Rachel still takes the trains to and from Euston every day, from where she is able to observe the Witney neighborhood and fantasizes about her past life. Her serious drinking issue causes her to be unable to remember what happens when she is drunk; therefore being skeptical whether she has done anything wrongful the night of Megan’s disappearance. Throughout the novel, we witness Rachel’s fight against her drinking problem to remain sober in order to solve Megan’s murder. In the end, with a constant effort, Rachel vividly retrieves all her lost

People find happiness in what they think is best for them; however ‘ Do more of what makes you happy’, which is good; At the same time, ‘ Too much of everything is bad as too little.’In the article “Are You Hooked?”, McLaughlin tell us “Padding across her kitchen floor in the predawn darkness, Mary Curley “ hits the start button on her coffee machine and begins her day with a steaming mug. By the time she gets to her post as a nurse at an assisted living facility, she’s had two more doses of caffeine.” It reminds me of my story,and how glued i am to white rice. My day usually starts at about 6 am which is way before the sun is up, and the first thing that comes to my mind as I wake up is white rice; you may think that as a good practice, when I wake up i would firstly wash my face and brush my teeth; Never. I usually would walk out of my room to infiltrate the kitchen while others are still sleeping, and switch on the lights to rub the sleep out of my eyes. Later, I would tour every corner of the kitchen for about

Dear Mr Arthur Birling and Mrs Sybil Birling The time in which I was working in your household was a very pleasant period of my life. However by the time you read this letter I would have packed my bags and not working as the Birlings maid anymore. The reason behind my decision of resigning is not being payed enough. My fellow friend Eva Smith has worked for Mr Birling in his factory back in 1910 while my sister Ellen was also working for Mr Birling. I have met Eva on my day off, Ellen introduced me to her and we shared many of the same issues including being underpaid and overworked.

Anyways while she was at breakfast we hung her clothes and made her bed. At breakfast she ate bacon, eggs, grits, and toast, with a cup of coffee. We sat in chatted with her for a minute. Then the nurse came in they 're asking us where was our instructor and she needed to see you immediately. Next we took her back to the room, she refused to take a shower however Sarah sweet talk her into it eventually.