After reading, “Woman Warrior,” by Maxine Hong Kingston, she wrote and I quote, “Even as her hair lured her imminent lover, many other men looked at her. Uncles, cousins, nephews, brothers would have looked, too, had they been home between journeys. (pg.10).” Relating to gender stereotypes this is an example of how a woman's beauty has more of an effect than her actual intelligence. She is only noticed for her looks and her hair. Since she is a women, specifically in her Chinese culture, it is important for her to maintain a clean look. A Chinese woman's hair must be pulled back neatly, she must have work clothes and “good” clothes. They were expected to be “perfect” and hardworking doing the chores that was a part of their role as women.
Many people get stuck in situations when they don’t know whether to believe someone else or themselves, but the best results will always come from trusting one’s own instincts. In the scientific fiction novel Warcross, by Marie Lu, the main character, Emika Chen, hacks her way into the biggest virtual online event in history. Shortly after the head creator, Hideo, flys her out to his headquarters where he tells her that he needs her help in finding someone who is hacking into the game. Over time they get feelings for each other, but Emika still works to finish her job in finding the hacker. She figures out who is trying to hack in and send a virus throughout the game, but she also discovers a deep secret about Hideo and doesn’t know what to do.
Courage is well processed throughout the novel “The Princess Bride”. “I love you”. Buttercup had fallen in love with the castle’s farm boy, Westley. When she confronted Westley about her love for him, he slammed the door right in her face. Heartbroken, she sprinted to her room and sobbed till every tear she had was no more.
In Legend by Marie Lu flashbacks to add insight on Day. At this point in the story Day is going to bed, a few days before he is supposed to be killed. He is dreaming about events that have happened to him in the past. In one of his dreams he recalls the events when he hit a policeman on accident with a ball. Police man over reacted and beat him brutally.
According to the powerpoint Joseph Campbell states, “ The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.” One can understand from this statement that heroic acts are not easy at all times but can be achieved. In the novel The Sword In The Stone a character named Wart takes the decision to stay as prisoner and exclaims, ““I think it is I who had better stay as hostage and you had better go.”. This allows Wart’s friend, Goat, to go get help, even though Wart is putting himself in danger.
Viola Desmond: Historical Persona Essay Sputter, sputter, screech. That’s the sound my car made when it broke down in a random city, leaving me stranded in 1946. A simple and normal event that changed my life and the lives of millions forever. Within the next couple of days, I ended up in a movie theatre, in jail, and in court, but despite the hectic turn of events, I was able to stand my ground and not give in, challenging segregation directly. I had also managed to start a whole civil rights movement, just because I was treated unfairly did not give up.
Shahana is living in a time of war, living with the constant fear of being killed living in the shadow of the line of control where Pakistani and Indian soldiers lurk. In such times Shahana is forced to be courageous to get through these tough times. Throughout the book we can sees pieces evidence of Shahana being courageous. Near the start of the book on page Kashmir is war-torn as they are fighting for land and they often kill people in the process because of a broken cease-fire. This makes life in Kashmir hard because medicine or food supplies as shown on page 12 "Trucks cannot easily get through, and the one that did charged me danger money "usually the trucks are over the LoC often they never arrive because it, she takes courage by
Joan Didion Quote The famous author Joan Didion has a quote that says “Life changes fast. Life changes in the instant. You sit to down for dinner and life as you know it ends.” This quote can easily be mistaken for dark or depressing but there is a lot more meaning behind these few sentences.
Although we use it everyday, technology can be a complex and misunderstood topic. In the science fiction book Warcross by Marie Lu Emika is a struggling bounty hunter, but when she hacks into one of the biggest games in the world, Warcross, she ends up getting hired to track down a hacker by the games creator, and is added to one of the games professional teams. Throughout the novel the theme of things aren’t always as they seem especially when it has to do with technology is represented in the dark world, Emika’s hacking, and in peoples unknowing connections through the internet. The author uses the dark world to develop the theme that things are not always as they seem especially when it has to do with technology by showing the reader that there is a whole entire world hidden below
In our daily lives, we as modern individuals can be seen drifting through each day, determined to make it past the dreaded 24 hours of school, work, or anything within our daily lives. And as omniscient threats linger in the back, law enforcement brutality, political injustices, world war tensions, and large business corporations growth, we simply ignore them. Why? Because we are so determined to reach the end of each minute of the day, worrying about our appearances, our relationships status, and whether or not we will fail our next midterm. And as all those “small things” become background noise to our own selfish worries, they continue to collide and create deeper friction, allowing enough potential for a catastrophe, something that we
Have you ever wondered what it would be like to be living your life in fear? Constantly being wanted, and living on the run and in fear only because you are a divergent? I have read the chapters 1-27 in the book Insurgent, in the beginning Tris and Tobias were on their way away from the city and away from the erudite, who were taking control. After they find out that the erudite are searching for them, they decide to take a train back to the center of the city and stay in the warehouse with a bunch of other divergent.
Quote 1: “She was elusive. She was today. She was tomorrow. She was the faintest scent of a cactus flower, the flitting shadow of an elf owl. We did not know what to make of her.
“… she was seventeen years old, fresh out of Cleveland High Senior High. She had long white legs and blue eyes and complexion like strawberry ice cream. Very friendly, too”(O’Brien 93). Her beauty is both inside and out which can even make the most loyal of men jealous. It can even be compared to Lucifer’s beauty in the bible, “…You were the seal of perfection, Full of wisdom and perfect in beauty”(New International Version, Ezekiel 28.12).
To accompany this desired skin was blond hair, which made women appear more youthful than dark locks. Women with delicate features were prized as far as facial features were concerned. They would have soft features such as large eyes, a high forehead, thin eyebrows, curly hair and pink cheeks. A small mouth and well-defined nose were also very desired. Just like in society today, while natural women were sought after, those who did not meet the standings, were pressed to try and fit a specific image.
The Woman Warrior is a “memoir of a girlhood among ghosts” in which Maxine Hong Kingston recounts her experiences as a second generation immigrant. She tells the story of her childhood by intertwining Chinese talk-story and personal experience, filling in the gaps in her memory with assumptions. The Woman Warrior dismantles the archetype of the typical mother-daughter relationship by suggesting that diaspora redefines archetypes by combining conflicting societal norms. A mother’s typical role in a mother-daughter relationship is one of guidance and leadership. Parents are responsible for teaching a child right from wrong and good from evil.
Chinese women suffer from the unfair notion for thousands of years. The basic requirements of being virtuous women are “Three Obediences and Four Virtues (三从四德)”. The “Three Obediences” were “obey your father before marriage (未嫁从父); obey your husband when married (既嫁从夫); and obey your sons in widowhood (夫死从子)”. And the “Four Virtues” were “Female virtues (妇德)”, “Female words (妇言)”, “Female appearances (妇容)” and “Female work (妇功)”. (Sun, 2015).