The author Jeannette Walls writes about her childhood experiences. One day, as she is playing with matches and fire, she takes her favorite toy, Tinkerbell and puts the match near her face. Before this, Walls mentions that, “I lit a match and held it close to Tinkerbell’s face to show her how it felt.” Here, she is referencing the time she accidently caught herself on fire and was severely burned. I think that Walls is trying to compare Tinkerbell to herself. “Even though her face was melted, she was still my favorite toy.” I think that Walls is trying to show more about her character that she cares about the type of person she is and the type of person others are. She also later mentions while leaving Tinkerbell behind, “I hoped whoever found
Tinkerbell would love her despite her melted face.” This statement reinforces that she cares more about character than external features or characteristics. What do you think the narrator means when she says, “Even though her face was melted, she was still my favorite toy.”? “She taught us that you could wash yourself up pretty clean with just a cup of water. She a said it was good for you to drink unpurified water, even ditch wate, as long as animals were drinking from it. Chlorinated water was for namby-pambies she said.” I was not sure if their mother was truly trying to help them because she believed it would or if she was trying to not bother with the children or be cheap. I think that both their parent truly have this mentality and that they have adapted a different way of living. Wall’s parents have adapted to their lifestyle and are teaching their children how to toughen up and survive in their living conditions. Other advice, such as not wear shoes will make their feet thicker and stronger seems more like the issue that they can’t afford shoes, but may also be true. I think that the parents are using excuses that they truly believe in to get their children to understand them and do as they are told. Do you think it is okay for her parents to treat the children this way? Do you think it is hurting them or truly helping them become stronger like they said it would?
The Glass Castle is a memoir written by Jeannette Walls about her family. In this story she tells about her adventurous and dangerous childhood that shaped her to be the person she is today. Which is a strong, optimistic, responsible woman who knows how to roll with the burns and the punches literally. Brian, who is younger than Jeannette was her partner in crime in all her childhood memories. Maureen was the youngest she was not too close with the family and if I had one way to describe her it would be lost. Lori was oldest sibling and the total opposite. She was more reserved and very into her art. Which she took after their mother, RoseMary. RoseMary was a selfish woman, she would constantly put herself first. She was also, very weak and
Is self reliance beneficial to children's survival? Self reliance is beneficial to survival for many children around the world. In the memoir The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls the parenting style of Rex and Rosemary Walls taught the children to have self reliance which is beneficial to the children's survival.
In this touching, non-fiction memoir by Jeanette Walls, The Glass Castle recounts the story of her vagabond upbringing in the 1960‘s. Walls notes her parents lack of conformity while also showing their unconditional love, in rather unconventional ways. While touching the bases of alcoholism, poverty and child neglect, the author still maintains the point of a passionate determination to preserve the alliance with her siblings through it all.
In Chapter 2 of Children’s Books in Children’s Hands: A Brief Introduction to their Literature, the authors talk about the 12 main elements of a literary work: genre, plot, setting, characterization, theme, point of view, intersexuality, tone, mood, style, voice, and the stance of the implied reader (Temple, Martinez, and Yokota 24). All of these literary elements capture the reader’s imagination and creates a successful piece of literature. However, the authors stress the importance of genre in Chapter 2, so I will briefly go over the different types of genres there are in literature and how it affects the readers greatly.
In John Connolly’s novel, The Book of Lost Things, he writes, “for in every adult there dwells the child that was, and in every child there lies the adult that will be”. Does one’s childhood truly have an effect on the person one someday becomes? In Jeannette Walls’ memoir The Glass Castle and Khaled Hosseini’s novel The Kite Runner, this question is tackled through the recounting of Jeannette and Amir’s childhoods from the perspectives of their older, more developed selves. In the novels, an emphasis is placed on the dynamics of the relationships Jeannette and Amir have with their fathers while growing up, and the effects that these relations have on the people they each become. The environment to which they are both exposed as children is also described, and proves to have an influence on the characteristics of Jeannette and Amir’s adult personalities. Finally, through the journeys of other people in Jeannette and Amir’s lives, it is demonstrated that the sustainment of traumatic experiences as a child also has a large influence on the development of one’s character while become an adult. Therefore, through the analysis of the effects of these factors on various characters’ development, it is proven that the experiences and realities that one endures as a child ultimately shape one’s identity in the future.
Jacob Portman has this quest to find the home where his grandfather grew up. The home for orphans was or is run by someone named Miss Peregrine, and all the children who’s stay in the orphanage are peculiar. Now if we use “math” in this, we get Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children.
Oscar Wilde once said, “Everything in the world is about sex except sex. Sex is about power.” The content of this quote embodies A Doll’s House and The Glass Menagerie because of the sexual control in both the plays. A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen and The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee William, the characters, although from different time periods, face the hardships of sexual control through the men they admire. Nora is written as the naive protagonist of A Doll’s House, who embodies the themes of the novella as she matures throughout the play. Nora learns that her husband, Torvald, uses her as a doll for his own pleasure and does not truly care for her. In The Glass Menagerie, Laura, the main character, is also
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Over centuries, fairy tales were passed down by word of mouth to portray a story with a hidden meaning. As these fairy tales were passed on they traveled to different destinations and were modified to conform to other cultures. One example of this is the story of Grapnel. Most people are familiar with the Brothers Grimm version of Rapunzel; however, an earlier variant that comes from Italy was the forerunner to the Grimm version. The Italian version, Petrosinella, written by Giambattista Basile, is an example of how culture has an influence on literature. Although this is the case, both fairy tale versions portray jungian archetypes that are often misinterpreted by mainstream portrayals of these fairy tales.
In Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House, Nora Helmer is a traditional “angel in the house” she is a human being, but first and foremost a wife and a mother who is devoted to the care of her children, and the happiness of her husband. The play is influenced by the Victorian time period when the division of men and women was evident, and each gender had their own role to conform to. Ibsen’s views on these entrenched values is what lead to the A Doll’s House becoming so controversial as the main overarching theme of A Doll’s House is the fight for independence in an otherwise patriarchal society. This theme draws attention to how women are capable in their own rights, yet do not govern their own lives due to the lack of legal entitlement and independence. Although Ibsen’s play can be thought to focus on the theme of materialism vs. people, many critics argue that Ibsen challenges the traditional gender roles through his portrayal of Nora and Torvald. Throughout the play Nora faces an internal struggle for self-discovery, which Ibsen creates to show that women are not merely objects, but intelligent beings who form independent thoughts.
Society as a gilded cage refers to people living a life with boundaries. The people living this type of life don’t live life to its full potential because they feel as though there are limits to what they can do. Two examples of individuals living this type of life would be Tom from a “Glass Menagerie” and Nora from “Doll House”. Both these individuals had the opportunity to live a free life but felt as though they had limits causing them to live a restrained life. Although both individuals seemed to be complete opposites they shared similar characteristics.
The play “A Doll House” by Henrik Ibsen starts in the Helmer’s home on Christmas Eve. At the beginning of the play, the audience is introduced to Nora Helmer, the woman of the household. Nora is completely delighted with her life, and feels favorable for the way her life is coming along. She looks forward to the New Year when her husband starts his new job as a bank manager, where he will “have a big salary and earn lots and lots of money” (Ibsen 1350). Torvald Helmer, her husband, teases her and treats her like a child who is incapable. Nora responds to her husband’s actions with pure affection and does not seem to mind her controlled doll-like life. In the play Ibsen creates the setting in the late 1800s where women took care of the household, family, and children. Men saw women as delicate, innocent, unknowledgeable, and uneducated in the business world. Symbolism plays a large role in comprehending the play. The Christmas tree, the Tarantella, and the New Year are symbols that unveil the life of the characters and what they stand for.
Because she is a sweet little girl, the fairytale is giving us messages that we should help our elders and we should be kind. When we hear queer, we do not say “Little Red Riding Hood” off the bat. In the articles from scholars there is a focus on different parts of “Little Red Riding Hood”, messages and how versions are seen as queer in the fairytale. In the article "A Wolf's Queer Invitation: David Kaplan's Little Red Riding Hood and Queer Possibility" by Jennifer Orme, she analyzes the word queer in "Little Red Riding Hood" which has many meanings to the different versions of the fairytale. “Queer reading, however, is all about straying from the path, particularly one built on binary oppositions between masculine and feminine, active and passive, and heterosexual and homosexual.”
“A Doll House” by Ibsen exposes one of the main trials facing Nora and women of today that a lot of men tend to underestimate women. They assume that
In “The Doll’s House” by Katherine Mansfield, the lamp is an important image that repeats throughout the story. “The Doll’s House” explores the separation of social classes between the rich and poor families seen throughout. This is symbolized by the contrast of the lamp’s importance to that of the rest of the doll’s house. The lamp is overlooked by most of the characters who observe the house. This act is comparable to the town’s high-class families, who discriminate against the Kelvey family due to their lower social class. Secondly, the lamp symbolizes the personality of the main character, Kezia. Unlike other characters, who prefer the more extravagant objects in the house, Kezia’s favourite part of the doll’s house is the lamp itself.