In Pennypacker’s book Clementine, there are many adult-centered moments. One particular scene is when Clementine goes to Margaret’s house to visit her. As Clementine knocks on the door, Margaret’s mother answers and tells Clementine, “You can’t play with Margaret today, Clementine. She’s spending the afternoon in her room, thinking about the consequences of her actions. Which is what you should be doing too,” (Pennypacker 33). When Clementine saw Margaret’s brother in the background, she laughed because he was being a silly distraction. Margaret’s mother thought Margaret was laughing about what she was saying about consequences so she said “Clementine, there’s nothing funny about this (Pennypacker 34).” This shows that Margaret’s mother is serious about the mess Clementine and Margaret got into.
The illustration of Margaret’s mother standing in the doorway looking down on Clementine shows there is a direct didactic lesson taking place. This picture reinforces the adult-centeredness that is being portrayed because her mother is an obvious authority figure and therefore knows what is right. Margaret’s mothers concern of Clementine’s and Margaret’s behavior shows that she is caring and giving the children knowledge that they should be taking to heart. She is teaching them a direct lesson. Margaret’s mother standing in the doorway, hovering over Clementine, shows that she is the center of authority and gives her power. When she tells Clementine that she should be in her room thinking about the consequences of her actions it shows that Clementine and Margaret need to be thinking about their actions and learning a lesson. Punishment weakens a behavior because a negative condition is introduced or experienced as a consequence of the b...
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...is own intelligence. He is able to be observant even more so than the adults in his life. Paul’s eyesight is important through the book. His agency is limited by his glasses which he knows that it is. When Paul throws away his suit and has the fit he does, he realizes that he is becoming stronger. This would an example of deviating from the typical case prototype because he is able to learn these assumptions on his own. Throughout the book, Paul is able to solve problems on his own as well as having the courage to be straight forward with his dad and tell him that his eyesight was messed up by his brother. In the book, Paul has more emotions than adults think that he has. It bothers Paul that his father is all about the “Erik football dream” and that he is “like an idiot.” When Paul overcomes this stage he is able to grow on his own and become a stronger person.
Imagery like “several thousand little girls will be working in textile mills, all the night through, in the deafening noise of spindles and the looms spinning and weaving cotton and wool, silks and ribbons for us to buy” illustrates the harsh conditions that the children are forced to work in. By describing this for her audience, Kelley clarifies how poorly the children are forced to live due to the lack of laws. Another example of this is her description of a little girl who, “on her thirteenth birthday, could start away from her home at half past five in the afternoon, carrying her pail of midnight luncheon”. The emphasis on the innocence of children portrays the pity and sympathy that the audience should feel. She creates a scenario that seems much too real when she says “The children make our shoes in the shoe factories; they knit our stockings, our knitted underwear…They carry bundles of garments from the factories to the tenements, little beasts of burden, robbed of the school life that they may work for us.” By going into detail about what kinds of work the children do at work helps to open up the audience’s eyes to a perspective that is more personal and in-depth than Kelley merely lecturing them. In doing this, Kelley is able to invoke a sense of guilt that the audience members share. Consequently, the audience members thus feel the need to make change and rid themselves of the guilt they feel by allowing the continuation of children’s forced
...ther is losing her daughter to time and circumstance. The mother can no longer apply the word “my” when referring to the daughter for the daughter has become her own person. This realization is a frightening one to the mother who then quickly dives back into her surreal vision of the daughter now being a new enemy in a world already filled with evils. In this way it is easier for the mother to acknowledge the daughter as a threat rather than a loss. However, this is an issue that Olds has carefully layered beneath images of war, weapons, and haircuts.
The first thing I did to start to demonstrate the parents’ inattentiveness is through the staging and costumes. The nurse and children’s rooms are relatively ordered, and their clothing is clean. This begins to demonstrate, from the very moment that the curtains open, that things on the modern side try to stay ordered and logical. When something falls out of place, it is put back where it belongs. On the contrary, the classical staging is a bit of a mess. It isn’t a mess that appears uninhabited, but rather a mess stemming from a distinct lack of effort. It is clear that people still live in the classical staging, but it is equally clear that the people living there don’t take the time to take care of their things. This trend of neglect continues to their interaction with Little Jason, when they completely ignore his questions on divorce, and don’t tak...
In Paul’s Case, Willa Cather writes about a young man's unhappiness with his lifestyle, he is awkward, does not fit into his skin different and does not fit into society,his desire to have to more than what he already and to leave Cornelia street to live a lifestyle of wealth, Cather characterizes Paul as very awkward and as someone that does not fit into the normal norms of society. He was not close to his family and had no friends at school or outside of school. At the biggin on the story we are reading in the third person point of view and we are hearing how his his teachers see paul and are discussing about his weird ways and actions.“I don't really believe that smile of his comes altogether from insolence, “he says. “There's something
...ing off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes.” Instead we must realize that the warning in the story is one against disregarding the rules of society and that of family, from both the child and parental point of view, lest we, too, fall from a tower. This holds as true today as it did nearly two hundred years ago, once upon a time.
In this extract, there are three layers of opinions. Yvonne first illustrates that the action that John prisons his wife in the nursery shows that John treats her like a child and that it is a presentation of
Contrastingly, Mrs. Darling, his wife, is portrayed as a romantic, maternal character. She is a “lovely lady”, who had many suitors yet was “won” by Mr. Darling, who got to her first. However, she is a multifaceted character because her mind is described “like the tiny boxes, one within the other, that come from the puzzling East”, suggesting that she is, to some extent, an enigma to the other characters, especially Mr. Darling. As well as this, she exemplifies the characteristics of a “perfect mother”. She puts everything in order, including her children’s minds, which is a metaphor for the morals and ethics that she instils in them. Although ...
In his first year of school, he is only interested in Megan Murray, the first girl Paul has ever lusted for. However in his second year, he meets Rosie. Rosie watches him practise in the Music Room during lunch. Initially, Paul feels intimidated by Rosie as he thinks that she is too much like himself. He is afraid that he now has competition as she is the other smart kid in the class, yet he still chooses to teach her some piano. Choosing to spring lines from Herr Keller’s teachings, he makes himself sound smarter and more accomplished at the piano than he actually is. The characters show the development of Paul through the way they act with Paul and the language and content used in conversation. This enables us to see Paul’s “plumage” being presented to the world as Paul develops through time to become the swan that he is at the end of the novel.
At the near beginning of the novel, Cory and Carrie are both five years old, and know almost nothing of the world but their family and play. This is illustrated on page 14 when Carrie and Cory play in mud after being cleaned and dressed for a birthday party, and complain to Catherine about having to take another bath. They tell her, “One bath a day is enough!...We’re already clean! Stop! We don’t like soap! We don’t like hair washing! Don’t you do that to us again, Cathy, or we’ll tell Momma!”. Throughout the book, Cory and Carrie suffer abusive acts from their grandmother, such as when they are threatened by their grandmother to be whipped if they disobey her (p. 92), are starved for two weeks to the point where they had to drink their sibling’s blood for sustenance (p. 251), and are poisoned with arsenic for months (p. 396-397). Catherine was always a mother for them, she cared for them when they were sick (p. 362-363) and told them stories to calm them down (p. 172-173), and Christopher was always a father for them, ushering them to eat healthy food they didn’t want (p. 167) and trying his best to give them what they wanted and what they needed (p. 281-282). Through their older siblings they were able to make it through the three years they had been abused and locked away in an attic like rats, and were kept from suffering trauma afterwards because of it. Near the end of the book, it is described how they played together, in a joyous way that it would seem no one who suffered what they did could, “...Cory was plucking a tune on banjo...as Carrie chanted simple lyrics he’d composed...And I sang to him that special, wistful song that belonged to Dorothy in the movie The Wizard Of Oz, - a movie that the twins adored every time they saw it…The look on Cory’s face as he
The first still black and white image is a screenshot from the final scene in John Ford's My Darling Clementine (1946) in which Wyatt Earp leaves Tombstone, Arizona with his brothers to tell his Pa about James death. Clementine represents civility and femininity in her role as future schoolteacher in contrast to Mexican prostitute and saloon girl Chihuahua. In this image, Wyatt Earp and Clementine stand apart from each other leaving the audience to wait for a long overdue kiss between the two, which evidently is only on the cheek. Clementine's hands are positioned low but it looks like she is clenching on to something thereby revealing some anxiousness about Wyatt Earp leaving. In the final scene, Clementine represents civilization in which
Paul's Case by Willa Cather shows the world through the eyes of Paul, a boy's who's naive view of a good life leads to a tragic fate. Throughout the story, the reader is shown the life of Paul a snobby kid who believes he is above everyone else. Readers are shown his views of life and given quite a bit of information about Paul's character. By giving details about Pauls character through his thoughts, actions, words, and others' thoughts about him, readers are able to have an in depth view of his character and understand why he ultimately decides to take his own life.
Pauls's Case is the story of a young man who struggles with his identity. Paul feels that he knows where he belongs, but his family and teachers refuse to support his choices. In the middle of Paul's Case, there is a switch in narration. At this point, the reader can associate with Paul and his problems. Paul struggles with both internal and external conflicts, causing him to be quite a puzzling character. From tha perspective of his family and teachers, Paul seems abnormal. From his perspective, however, he seems misunderstood.
The second person point of view helps the reader to connect with the girl in this story. It shows the reader a better understanding of this character and how she is being raised to be a respectable woman. This point of view also gives us an insight on the life of women and shows us how they fit into their society. Through this point of view, the reader can also identify the important aspects of the social class and culture. The daughter tries to assert a sense of selfhood by replying to the mother but it is visible that the mother is being over whelming and constraining her daughter to prepare her for
From the time of a child begins to walk and talk, parents teach them right and wrong by use of rewards or punishments. These punishments range may include scolding, isolation, spankings, or grounding. Simon Messing states “even little boys haze other boys who cry or seem soft by saying he ‘lacks something’ or he is effeminate.” Classroom teachers send children to the corner, write their name on the board, or give them detention when they show fault in their actions. The same set of actions is set up for adults but the consequences are stronger ...
The characters introduced in the beginning of the play prove to illustrate the relationship between social classes and the expectations of each other. The character’s situation within the story shows its importance in the context and is able to define his/her social standing. For example, the mother expects others to do things for her, showing her societal role as a woman who chooses not to help herself; “You really are very helpless, Freddy. Go again; and don’t come back until you have found a cab” (Shaw pg.11). She is able to show her class authority in a lady-like manner while presenting how she believes she should be treated by belittling the value of those who aren’t respecting that. Eliza presents her role as a lower class member of society when she is knocked into by Freddy: “Nah then, Freddy: look wh’y y’ gowin, deah. FREDDY” (Shaw pg. 2). Freddy’s lack of acknowledgment a...