There Were No Marigolds In Pecola's Baby

But at this point Sal’s mother was pregnant so when her mother gave birth the baby was dead when it got strangled with its umbelacelcord. Sal blamed herself because she thinks if she never climbed that tree none of it would have happened. Sal thought, “ He said to me, “ It wasn’t your fault, Sal—it wasn’t because she carried you. You mustn’t think that,” I didn’t believe him,” (page 138). If Sal didn’t believe her father 's words then she thinks she caused her mothers miscarriage and she is probably upset about this.

Desiree’s Baby is a short story by Kate Chopin. “Desiree’s Baby” takes place before the Civil War in a time when black people were neglected and mistreated by the whites. Desiree was abandoned and left behind by her parents when she was a toddler by a big stone pillar. She was found and declared adopted by Madame and Monsieur Valmonde. Armand a man that was really harsh to blacks falls in love with Desiree and gets married with her without knowing anything about her ancestry.

the story starts with a girl named Kira whos dad was supposebly eaten by the beast and her mother later passes away from sickness so they burned her cott down which was done after after sickness. Kira was technically never supposed to live this long, she has a twisted leg in a place where everyone needed to be contribute. The villagers wanted to leave her in the field of leaving since no one was willingly going to take her due to her leg, the Council of Guardians let her stay on the count she would be their weaver and take care of the Singer 's robe.Kira now has a purpose and does have a place in this society, she later finds out how corrupt the council is and how they rule the way they believe is correct. Kira has a choice she could just ignore it and be grateful to have been taken in by them, or she could try to change it for the better. Her father ends up being alive and explains to her how the council runs the community and how the field contained of no beast.

As we know, when Janie had to marry Logan she gets her dreams of a beautiful and happy marriage crushed. All the dreams she had for a happily ever after was washed away with marrying him “She knew now that marriage did not make love. / Janie’s first dream was dead, so she became a woman.” And earlier we see that she felt he was “was desecrating the pear tree” but did not know how to tell her Nanny, so she just “hunched over and pouted at the floor”. So as tie goes on things go as expected and she meets someone named Jody Startks. And even though he did not meet the standard of her pear tree, he seemed like a better option than what was in her life at the moment.

That left the last married daughter of the family, Mary Gibbs. She had also fell apart like the rest of her family. Once it hit the six-week mark, Mr. Gibbs ordered an autopsy, Jane tried her best to prevent it. Later on, the Cops got involved and found out that Mrs. Gibbs was poisoned with morphine and atropine. Jane finally gave up after her last victim and confessed.

After witnessing the life she built being burned to the ground and her husband and only son snatched away from her, Patria collapses, crying, tearing up the grass at her feet, and wailing up to the heavens in grief. But this instance was only the beginning. Soon, her sisters would follow, and Patria would be left all alone, not knowing when or if her loved ones would be released, her hopes for the revolution crushed. If only she and her sisters had not joined the underground movement, they would have been spared the pain and sorrow that would never be paid

The Analysis of Irony in Hansel and Gretel Short Story I. Overview Hansel and Gretel is a story by Grimm 's brother, which tells about siblings who are thrown away by their parents because their parents have no money to feed them and their mother insists to leave them starving to death. Even though their father feels bad about leaving them in the wood but their father has no choice but to obey the step mother. Fortunately, the children are smart enough to find way back to their home although they have to face a wicked witch first before they arrive home safely. II. Theory The explanation of irony according to DiYanni: "Irony involves a contrast or discrepancy between one thing to another.

She begins by informing him that she, “poor Anne/Wife to thy Edward, to thy slaughtered son”(10), is the speaker. Referring to herself using this title, Anne suggests the reason why she has become “poor Anne” is because she is mourning a slaughtered husband. Consequently, her grief has turned her into a wretched and miserable widow. After alerting his ghost of her presence, Anne informs him that the killer who slaughtered his son, is the same one who ended his life. She wails to King Henry’s ghost, that she “pour[s] the helpless balm of [her] poor eyes” (13), into the wounds that have let out his soul.

Suddenly one of her personalities said he fell on a pitch fork and died in front of her eyes. They claimed Sybil was in love and her mother did not give the emotional support she needed to cope with her loss. In the film Franke and Alice, Dr. Oz used a combination of injections and hypnosis to treat Frankie. In most of the sessions Frankie seem to be in a drowsy state, only remembering fragments of her memories. According to the textbook, “Amytal and pentothal are injections that have been used to help patients with dissociative amnesia regain their lost memories (Comer,2015, p. 208).” The purpose of these drugs is to help patients relax so that they can recall the traumatic events that triggered the spilt

The first thing the gray strand of hair symbolizes is Emily’s impervious behavior. Miss Emily is determined to hold onto Homer Baron for as long as she can. She kills him and keeps his corpse inside of the house. The reader soon finds out that Emily is sleeping with Homer’s corpse, because the townspeople find a gray strand of hair on the pillow next to the body. Miss Emily also shows similar behavior when her father passes away as well.