The Heart is in the Wrong Place
Stella Cross is an interesting character in the Novel Alive. She displays several qualities which make her interesting. Stella is eager we witness this when she is about to go back to school after her long wait for her heart transplant. She is also insecure we witness this trait when she refers to her little sister as her replacement and when she talks about how she isn’t the most attractive. Lastly, Stella is curious we witness this when she decides to go after a boy who “literally” makes her heart jump out at him, but later comes to find out that he is the boy who died to give her, her heart and later he tries to kill her.
Stella is eager. In the Novel we see this when Stella is at home
and getting ready to go back to school after she has been out most of her senior year to wait for her heart transplant. Stella’s mom is worried about her going back worrying something may happen to Stella. But Stella states, “My skin practically crawls with longing to get out of this house.” Pg. 14 from this event you can see how Stella is eager. Stella is insecure. In the Novel we see this when Stella is talking to her good friend Henry about her little sister Elsie. Stella feels as if though her parents had her little sister in case something may have happened to her. Stella thinks this so much that Elsie has actually earned the nickname the “replacement child”. Also, she meets a boy who she strangely drawn for reasons that she doesn’t know of at first. While she still thinks she has found who she is meant to be with she feels insecure around him, “And what happens when he realizes I am not the most popular girl at school or the prettiest?” Stella is curious. In the Novel we see this when she cancels plans with her good friend Henry who actually like her a lot, but Stella decided to ignore that fact when she met Levi (the ghost). Henry got them tickets to go see her favorite concert and Stella said yes. Then Levi asks her to go see the same concert and she decides to ditch on her plans with Henry to go with Levi. Stella’s best friend Brynn found out and was not pleased with what Stella did and tried to talk to her about it. Even with her best friend telling her she shouldn’t do it she barely knows him Stella is too curious about him to cancel. “Stella you don’t even know him.” Pg.97 Stella Cross is eager, insecure, and curious. When Stella is getting ready to go back to school we she how he is eager. When Stella talks to Henry about Elsie we see that she is insecure. Lastly when Stella decides to go hangout with a boy she barely knows over her good friend henry we witness her curiosity. With all these qualities we witness how Stella Cross is an interesting character.
Of the three characters in The Shawl, Stella is a flat character. She is only part of the story to allow the author to get to the climax. The climax comes when Stella becomes cold, and takes the shawl for warmth. Again, the author uses symbolism, Stella is cold or cruel. Magda is the most dynamic character. She is presented to us first as a quite baby, who is hungry and does not cry. Magda simply sucks on the shawl. When her shawl is taken, she cries and walks wobbly into the yard.
During the early 1920s the Great Depression took place. The Great Depression affected many people's lives. The immigrants caught the worst of it. They had just come from another country and were trying to start their new lives when the depression hit. They had to struggle once more with poverty and desperation in taking care of their families, the main reason they had left their old countries was to escape the same epidemic that was now overtaking ?the land of the free?. Immigrants, such as the Jewish immigrants, had to live in poverty-stricken ghettos without the necessities they needed to live healthy lives. The 1920s was the time of rapid change, it was the time of risque fashion, it was the time of which that if you were rich and had all the latest fashions then you were ?in? but if you did not then you were an outcast.
When Answering the question whether Sally Bowles fails as a femme fatale and becomes a striking figure of a woman of the 1970s feminist, this concurs a question that we must intern first, who is Sally Bowles?
Isn't it true the relationship between Stella and Stanley is praiseworthy, since it combines sexual attraction with compassion for the purpose of procreation? Isn't it true that as opposed to Stanley's normalcy in marriage, Blanche's dalliance in sexual perversion and overt efforts to break up Stanley and Stella's marriage is reprehensible? Isn't it true that Stella's faulty socialization resulting in signs of hysteria throughout the play meant that she probably would have ended her life in a mental hospital no matter whether the rape had occurred or not?
I'll admit this now. I absolutely adore Kristen Stewart. I think she's one of the most uniquely beautiful woman in the world, with so much more about her, then Twilight. I unfortunately hadn't been able to get a copy of Speak, I couldn't seem to be able to find it anywhere. Thanks to an online movie watching site, I managed to find this gem. I can honestly say, Speak is a film, that toyed with my emotions, like no other film has done in some time. This is very much like my high school was. Full of bullying, teasing, and people hurting others. And it made me feel ashamed of myself, because I actually teased a couple people, like a couple of the characters did here to Melinda. The concept of the story is very simple, yet done so effectively. The film weighs heavily on Kristen Stewart's shoulders, and for her age, that's a daring task, and thankfully she's fully up for it. Jessica Sharzer does an excellent job of developing Melinda. Making sure us as the viewers, go through the emotions with Melinda, and Jessica makes us want to jump into the T.V screen and comfort her, help protect her...
Charlie Gordon is the main character in "Flowers for Algernon." He under goes an operation to enhance his level of intelligence preformed by two doctors, Dr. Nemur and Dr. Strauss. Since Charlie has an IQ that is below average and is the first patient to agree to commit to this surgery, his side affects could include loss of memory, unable to complete certain tasks, poor grammar and spelling, and even fatality. Charlie wants to proceed with the operation since he believes that he should as intelligent as normal human beings and he is sick of others making fun of him because of his disabilities. The experimental surgery that Charlie underwent to triple his intelligence had three major effects on his life.
Within Tennessee Williams's story about love and abuse within marriage and challenging familial ties, there lie three very different characters that all see the world in vastly different ways. These members of a family that operate completely outside of our generation’s norms, are constantly unsure of themselves and their station within the binary not only of their familial unit, but within the gender binary that is established for them to follow. Throughout the story of the strange family, each character goes through a different arch that changes them irrevocably whether it is able to be perceived or not by those around them. The only male, Stanley is initially the macho force in the home who controls everything without question. He has no consequences for his actions against his wife and is never held accountable for treating the people around him poorly; this lasts until Blanche arrives. Blanche is an outwardly demure, but spirited young woman who after experiencing untold misfortune breaks mentally and decides to no longer care what others may think of her. She lives her life lavishly and foolishly by having dalliances with younger or richer men who shower her with gifts and attention to get sex from her all too willing form. Her effect on Stanley is one of temptation and challenge; she continually tries to convince her sister that she is too good for the man and in turn fosters a resentment for her in him. Stella acts as the antithesis of Stanley and Blanche’s extreme personalities. She is innocence and purity where they are the darkness that threatens to overtake her life. Throughout, Stella is a pawn that they both try to use against the other to no real avail as she is determined to make the best choice for herself. In th...
Blanche’s developmental history or character development points to her diagnosis. Blanche comes to New Orleans to stay with her sister Stella after being fired from her job as a schoolteacher due to having an inappropriate affair with a teenage student. When she arrives to see her sister, she is consumed with insecurities regarding her appearance and is condescending to her sister’s humble lifestyle. Stella’s husband Stanley immediately has distrust and dislike for Blanche and treats her
The young and beautiful Stella Kowalski-DuBois is carefree and overall a happy woman. But sometimes, things get in the way of her happiness, whether it be her husband, Stanley, going on about how he dislikes her sister, Blanche, or Stanley continuously putting his hands on Stella. The question here is, why does Stella stay with such a manipulative man? Is it Stanley who won't let Stella leave? Or is it Stella who doesn't make an attempt to leave? By Stella constantly forgiving Stanley for hitting her and not attempting to leave, she is allowing Stanley to believe she'll take him back no matter what, making it harder every time for her to escape. Stella is ultimately responsible for the abusive and unstable relationship.
“She was from Pasadena, this six-foot-two marvel of a woman. It was not so much because she was an extraordinary cook- and she would pointedly remind us that she was a cook, not a chef” (Kehoe 1). Julia Child was an extraordinary woman who had a passion for cooking that she didn’t even know could change the way people cook. Julia Child most definitely influenced cooking for generations to come with her passion for cooking and love for food.
His recklessness is part of his appeal from Stella’s part. Although this type of relationship goes against her childhood, she is honest about her desires. "I 'm not in anything I want to get out of," Stella continually tells Blanche who formulates a fantasy of getting money from an old lover for them to escape. Stella understands compromise. She is realistic. She sees Stanley 's gambling, drinking, and violent outbursts as "his pleasure, like hers in movies and bridge". She believes that people "have got to accept each other 's habits". Cleaning up after Stanley 's violent spells is just a part of living with him. Unlike Blanche, she knows that life is no fairytale, negociations must be reached. Stella is proof of the statement that "there are things that happen between a man and a woman in the dark-that sort of make everything else seem-unimportant". She lives in a decrepit house, filled with smashed glass, part of the noisy part of town, and yet she is
No one knows what or who to believe, because one minute a character is revealing the truth about someone else and the next minute he is telling a lie. Stella struggles the most with uncertainty because in the end, she makes an ultimatum for herself of either believing her sister or her husband. In the book Stella says, “I couldn’t believe her story and go on living with Stanley,” (Williams, 133). She tells Eunice this after Blanche tries to tell her about what Stanley did to her. The uncertainty Stella and the other characters have to live with often alters their decision making process because they need to rely on their gut rather than the rumor being
She would be able to get sympathy with Stella, Stanley, and Mitch if she understood their condition as well. Stella’s condition is opposite from Blanche’s aristocratic lifestyle. She is living in poverty and is unable to provide for Blanche’s elaborate needs. “Streetcar quote” Blanche recognizes her current condition but fails to understand it and empathize, instead she Slanders Stella’s home and invades it “Some people rarely touches it, but it touches them often” If she was a decent guest and sister, she could seize the opportunity to help Stella in the home, perhaps by helping with the daily chores or by fixing it up to become more “homely”. By doing this she would then gain a sense of purpose, cleaning could possibly become a healthy coping mechanism, she would be doing something positive, and by helping around the home, she would gain a healthier, supportive, relationship with her sister and the homes other resident, Stanley. Being unable to empathize with Stanley was key for Blanche downfall; she invaded his home, degraded him in front of his friends and family, and tried to steal his wife from him. If Blanche was able to recognize the positive traits of Stanley, that he is passionate and loving towards his family, she would be able to ignore the “primal, animalistic” manner of Stanley. If she could empathize with his current
Laura Wingfield, a physically and emotionally crippled character, is also the lone character in the production that never does anything to upset someone else. Notwithstanding the encumbrance of her own complications, she exhibits an untainted kindness that stands in plain contrast to the arrogance and resentful sacrifices that characterize the Wingfield family. Laura also has the least amount of lines in the production, which in turn confirms her quality of selflessness. However, she is the axis around which the storyline changes, and the blatant symbols—blue roses, the glass unicorn, and her full glass menagerie—all in some degree characterize her. Laura, like the blue rose or the unicorn, is rare and unconventional, and her disposition is as tender as the glass figurine which she is known so prominently for throughout the production.
Leonardo’s resume consisted of all of his abilities that he thought would be useful the Duke of Milan, like inventing weapons of war, draw maps and sculpture. The subject matter of Kara Walker describes her work as being about past events in history, the unexpected, and “wanting to be the heroine and yet wanting to kill the the heroine at the same time.” She is trying to get people to see the different perspectives of slavery. She also lets the viewer interpret her work to fill in the tension of it. When Kara read Gone with The Wind she was surprised how much she would like a book that has such terrible things in it. She mentioned that it was rich, epic, romantic, and grotesque. The part of the book that Kara made into art is the part is part