Sarah Butler's Short Story 'Number 40'

In the noval you can see how blind ignorance leads to one’s self destruction. In the novel you see that ignorance is disrupting the Narrator 's decision making and her grasp on the pass. Luke and Offred try to escape at the last minute when they were too ignorant to leave the country earlier. In one of the flashback section the author remembers a time where they should have escaped but reassured by just saying “It will all be fine.”

In William Faulkner’s “A Rose for Emily,” the protagonist, Miss Emily Grierson, is faced with challenges that leave her no choice but to find a way to escape the internal struggle of loneliness created by her own actions, leading to self-inflicted destruction. Looking in on the surface, the female character is imprisoned by the repressiveness of her father. While he played a huge role in causing Emily’s mental state to deteriorate, it was ultimately the consequences of her own self-control that confined her mind. Because of her poor choices, Emily lives in misery instead of rescuing herself from such damaging chains of sorrow. Throughout the text, it is evident that the overall conflict in “A Rose for Emily” was driven by self-deprecation

Both of their writing pieces hold the same central ideas and resembling themes. Alexis proves that so much culture has been lost and that this is the root for many of our problems today. Anaya and Vigil both show regret: “The school was telling me that folkways and stories were not important enough to be in the classroom. I was filled with sadness.” (Anaya 5).

Irene Redfield, the protagonist in Nella Larson's “Passing”, exemplifies responsibility and insecurity over the course of her encounters with Clare. First, Irene does not know whether she wants to pass or not. Irene shows her uncertainty about passing when, “It gave Irene a little prick of satisfaction to recall, hadn’t got that by passing herself off as white. She herself had always had it” (45). The way this describes Irene’s attitude towards passing shows she cannot live without being accepted into the white community.

Thus, Zora Neale Hurston uses community as a motif to help prove her theme, using specific details such as Janie’s disallowance to go to the funeral and the community scorning her. In conclusion, the novel “Their Eyes Were Watching God” presents the theme of love and that being in a relationship hinders independence but in an unique way. Hurston uses symbolism like Janie’s head rag which stifled her independence and when burned, made her feel free. She also uses the motif of communities, which are ever present throughout the book, using specific examples such as when Janie isn't allowed to go to the funeral, which hinders her independence because she isn't making choices for herself and isn't doing

Raymond Carver takes a bleak and sometimes dark humor approach to the costs of relationship breakups in his short story, “Popular Mechanics”. While there is a focus on how a child is often damaged during a separation, the emphasis is on the unnamed angry man and woman’s discord. Carver doesn’t clarify what is the cause of the couple’s troubles, but it’s clearly turned hostile. The gloomy depiction prevents any promise of a favorable outcome. The indistinctness of the characters allows the reader to put themselves into the story and to feel the building aggressive tension.

I chose to read and analyze the poem titled “Wallflowers” by Donna Vorreyer and it conveys a theme of social isolation. The speaker is referencing the “uncommon words” to the abandonment that the subject endures. They don’t fit a particular mold that people will recognize, people don’t tend to use these “words” as often as they may use other words. They feel as if their lack of recognition will decrease their value. The subject begin to realize that if they find community within each other then they can create their own little community to escape the loneliness that constantly haunts them.

As mentioned, her central values diminish as she becomes convinced that she lives a satisfactory life compared to others after she is caught right before crossing the border to escape the country and ends up in Jezebel’s. Because she does not experience the reassurance from a group that shares

The narrator, in his own eyes, has no real meaning. His constant drunkenness shields his depression and in times of silence, the narrator and Robert continue to flush down whiskey, one glass after another. Ala Eddin Saleq makes the point that the “Characters' silence[s] is indicative of their inability to communicate with (each)other, reflect(ing) a recurring theme in Carver's fiction. Often his stories are about discourse itself, ways people communicate or fail to communicate, demonstrating consequences of various modes of discourse” (Sadeq).

In her epiphany, the narrator becomes aware of “her own fault” and that she is responsible for the thefts in her life. The epiphany highlights her passivity and apathy which are evidenced through the characterisation and plot structure. “Theft” beings with the narrator realises that her purse had disappeared. Her calm recollection of the last time she had held the purse shows us that she is not panicked and in fact, very meticulous regarding the details. This is the first evidence that she has a somewhat detached personality and contradicts with the janitress’ claim that she “leaves things around and don’t seem to notice much” (65).

She says little about humanitarian aid in the first chapter besides how much it’s making her hate her life. The negative description of humanitarian aid work is a bit off-putting, not only to people who opened the book thinking they would be learning about aid work but also to her personality as a character. It’s easily assumable that being an aid worker would be a difficult and trying job. But the way Alexander portrays herself right from the start may make it difficult for reader to sympathize with her. It has been suggested that the point of the book was to break the idea of aid workers being humble and selfless people, which in the end the book does very

As Ella wrote, “You were right about the fallout from this absurd law. Not only does it cripple communication between islanders, it builds rock walls between hearts” (Dunn 22). In the book, not only did the letters get shorter, the lack of communication prohibited by their absurd laws made the people unpleasant. They were lonely and made many people rather leave than live like

She regrets going against God’s words, but had to give away her purity in hopes of freedom. In reference to Welter, “Woman must preserve her virtue until marriage and marriage was necessary for her happiness. Yet marriage was, literally, an end to innocence” (Welter, 158). Not being able to live up to what the North had in mind for white womanhood, meant that she was deemed unworthy of happiness just for the fact she tried to free herself by giving up her virtue. Linda Brent was also prevented from the high expectations of preserving her purity due to Dr. Flint pressuring her countless times.

It is very difficult to think that the parents I work with do not see how others are also victims of the system. In one account, a woman “did not socialize with neighbors, usually kept her curtains closed, and generally did not allow her young daughter to play outside.” This ideology, which has been inherited from the days of Raeganomics, creates distance within the communities we work with and further isolates our clients. However I think that this propaganda worked to discourage the creation of communities and further isolate welfare recipients. When we contract with our clients, we talk a lot about their support system and community supports are really lacking in their lives.

How did Alyce’s self-esteem change for the beginning to the end, it change because in the beginning of the book the she felt lonely, alos she felt like she a nobody, felt like nobody loved her cared because the always picked on her. She never had the respect until towards the end of book she learn that went respect and did not want to be treated like a piece of dung heap. At the end of the book she finally felt love and like people cared for her because she when she was at the manor she saw jane talk to the person in charge look for alyce and even will came to the manner to take her to coming back also she felt loved because she had edward to love like son. Alyce 's self-esteem changes because her self-esteem was low at the beginning of the