Minna Pratt has trouble achieving something that all of her friends find easy, her vibrato. A skill on an instrument (in this case a cello) that involves rapidly shaking the string that the finger is stopping, the technique is used on notes of longer duration—notes of shorter duration usually are played without vibrato. She stays persistent to achieve her goals which is what I think is what the author is trying to express in this excellent novel. At the beginning of the story, it wasn’t such a big deal due to not everybody else had their vibrato either. She and the street performer had a simple relationship with one similar appreciation… music. As he explains it’s all in the mind. She does not believe him and she goes on to get more aggravated by her vibrato. It said in the book “ it’s like a light coming over your head.” Getting a vibrato may be the most magical thing ever Willie the street performer had explained to Minna. She found frustration in this and didn’t want to listen to an experienced string player. She decided to go off on her own and do what she’s been doing which is trying to force it rather than letting it come to her. …show more content…
However, Lucas was not boastful, though he did show off a little bit when he first showed her. He was very supportive of her and was one of the reasons she was able to achieve her vibrato. Orson however, acts like a wise guy and thinks everything is easy. He was the second child in the group to get the vibrato though he acted conceited the whole time. She may have been held back from this, but she still tried her hardest to concentrate on herself. Focusing on yourself and not letting other people get to you is important in trying to achieve something important to
In the article “Swimming for Her Life” by Kristin Lewis the main character Yusra Is a 18 year reefuge who is a olympic swimmer who faces many problems early in life. She and her sister had to flee their country because of terrorists and war. There where not many countries that would allow refugees into their country. So they had to hire a smuggler to get them to germany. While they rode on a boat to greece The motor stopped working so yusra and her sister had to jump in the water and push the boat for three hours. After they got to Greece they had to walk for 25 days to get to germany. Finally they got there and they were very luckie to find a refugee camp. Then when the olympics started they announced that there would be a refugee swim team.
“Look out for the people who look out for you. Loyalty is everything.” In the book, Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes by Chris Crutcher, Ms. Lemry is loyal. Ms.Lemry is a teacher and a swim coach for a school. She is a teacher who stays loyal to her students. She is loyal because she cares for her students who are in her class. Ms. Lemry stands by Sarah at all times and is there for her. Sarah is a girl who got abused by her dad when she was younger. Sarah’s father when she was younger out her face on the stove. Sarah was always scared of her father and she still is because she is afraid of her dad coming back and killing her. Sarah was about to go on the train and Lemry was there to inform her to not get on the train. Her class is called CAT known
Kinesics is the study of body movements and gestures. There are many forms of Kinesics but the most prevalent form portrayed in this movie is Adaptors. Adaptors tend to be signs of either tension or boredom, and are general not positive. Adaptors are excess unmotivated movement, usually in the hands or feet (Beebe, Steven A., Susan J. Beebe, and Mark V. Redmond. "Nonverbal Messages). Adaptors played a significant part in the movie. Fidgeting is how Vivien express to us when she’s nervous. She fidgeting’s throughout the whole. At dinner she started to fidget because she had never been to such a fancy restaurant before, while she was attending a Polo match she started to fidget because she wasn't in familiar surroundings and once again while on the way to the opera. In all of these instances she felt uneasiness about her surroundings. Vivien adaptors helped us understand how she feels about being around new surroundings. Being able to understand Vivien’s adaptors help views better understand the transition she went through in the movie, from hooking on the streets of Hollywood Blvd to shopping in Beverly Hills, attending fancy dinners and attending polo matches. Her adaptors tell us more than t...
...s a moment when she starts to see the true meaning but doesn’t want to accept it at first, which is evident from the groaning and “hiding.” However, at the end of the play and the end of her life, Vivian is ready to accept this truth that she herself is living out the same life as the speakers in Donne’s poems and begins “reaching for the light –“ (Edson 66).
...e relationship with men, as nothing but tools she can sharpen and destroy, lives through lust and an uncanny ability to blend into any social class makes her unique. Her character is proven as an unreliable narrator as she exaggerates parts of the story and tries to explain that she is in fact not guilty of being a mistress, but a person caught in a crossfire between two others.
In the poem the main character Flick is a mirror or allusion for people who was successful in sports, in the past and become a loser in the future. For example Flick was once a high-school basketball star, but now his glorious past is behind him. The ideal image of his character presents a vivid image of most people in that plat sports ...
...re aging from hard work. Throughout the story Cecelia’s relationships with women were portrayed as flat constructs, showing the reader the contempt of all women for a woman of color who refused to accept her place in society and try for something more. In the end Cecelia finally seems to reject these societal constructs and makes yet another decision to isolate herself from her culture and assimilate into white society on its terms. I did feel that the ending of the book was too pat, the author paid insufficient time exploring and developing the complex relationships between women in the book, and that the protagonist did not truly change in the end only persevered in the same manner she had since the inception of the story. In this way I see Cecelia making the same decisions repetitively throughout the novel but in a little higher sedimentary strata each time.
The United States of America became a new nation that influenced other nations to change the world into becoming freer so people can have a say. The New World was a dream come true that was envisioned by artists, politicians, and monarchs. The ones who believed that anything could be achieved by God, the mind, and manpower. Even through opposition from other countries, these brave individuals strived to establish a better life for themselves and their families, aimed to retain a secure future in the process, and wanted to worship God in their own way. People had the courage to cross unknown oceans and territories, sail miles and miles away from the comforts and familiarities of home, and set out to create a new lifestyle in a great land they
This shows the reader the creativeness in how she put together her chapbook. She did not stay in the conventional mode and snuck a subtle final poem into her piece of art. There were many times as I read through her words that I would utter to myself sounds of astonishment as I was taken aback by the brashness
Although Judy Brady discusses how women need to be the perfect homemaker and take care of their families, Brady uses irony to convey that this mentality is the way men think. Brady sees women as very powerful, entitled humans who should not be treated as so. In the article, she explains all the things that the male expects the ideal wife would do. They cook, clean, nurture children, and do all the household duties. Judy Brady sees women as something so special to this earth and men do not respect that.
...l awareness of these “invisible girls”. An example of her powerful writing can be seen in her encounter with the truck driver where she writes, “I said he didn’t want to do it. I said it was his choice. I said he could do it in a few minutes. I said it was his choice, ” (Veselka, 2012, p. 39.) She uses repetition and also varies her sentence lengths to grip the reader to make them feel exactly as she did in that moment 27 years ago.
...r she challenges us to interpret the ideas she presents in our own way according to our own reality. Sprinkle demonstrates throughout the performance although she makes her self slightly vulnerable at times through her dialogue or actions she remains in control of the audience and makes herself vulnerable on her own terms. She displays this power of great importance to her ideas as she once again challenges our values and the values of society in concern of sex and the female body. She does this by constantly working to desexualize her self, creating a clinical image of her body, with this working to create reality that there is no shame in our bodies. Sprinkle thus uses this performance and the dramaturgical techniques I believe to encourage us to deconstruct these meanings of the female body to destroy this patriarchal and sex negative society that we live in.
...e speaker’s “true” feelings about her existence, that it is merely an imprisonment, due to unwanted beauty. Yet, the speaker then states “…come closer…,” and suddenly the reader knows that her lament was only an extension of her deadly craft. The last line: “It is a boring song but it works every time,” is satirical in nature and is somewhat hilarious. It shows the speaker shrugging off her actions, a distinct comment made by Atwood about the negative opinion of women.
Vivian knows that in society her own effort is the key to supporting herself and eventually securing a better future. She wants to set up a life in the city and tries very hard to look for a job. Due to lack of a skill, although she is willing to do heavy or dirty work, she is not able to find a job with enough pay to support herself. Her goal in life is simply to support herself by her own effort instead of letting somebody else arrange and control her life. This, in it self, represents a spirit of active effort for someone like Vivian. In addition to her efforts in trying to support herself and realize her own goals, Vivian also endeavors to help others. With a part of the $3000 windfall she earns from her week with Edward Lewis, she presses her friend Kit to pursue her long-dormant desire to become a beautician. And her most significant achievement is helping Edward Lewis, the corporate raider, rediscover his humanity, so he can build things instead of dismantling the work of others for profit, and find a more meaningful life other than locking himself in work. The two aspects discussed above display the changes of emphasis on self-...