Suzy Perspective “Suzy and Leah” by Jane Yolen were about these two girls who have had a different perspective towards the same situation. They both had diaries that they would write in, giving us pieces of information about who they were. The overall theme was that at first, they didn't get along, but over time they understood each other and understood where they had come from. Suzy the little American girl who went to school did not understand the struggles of Leah, the German-born Jew. with white trim. At the beginning of the short story, Suzy and Leah were not very fond of each other, they didn't know each other at all. Suzy didn't know what Leah went through back at her home, she didn't even know where she was from. But after Leah
was diagnosed with appendicitis, Suzy read Leah’s diary and found out why she was always so crabby and why she never smiled. Even Though Suzy was “furious” for Leah writing hurtful things about her, she finally understood what had happened to Leah. Suzy’s feelings changed because realized what had happened to Leah, she knew what Leah had been through, she felt pity and sorrowful for her “How was I supposed to know all that? How can Leah stand any of this? How could she live with all that pain.” Once Suzy read Leah diary that changed their feelings toward each other. The change affected the story because after hating each other, they understand each other, Suzy now knows what Leah’s life was like. The change was good, that changed how they saw each other. They don't see each other has just two people who are forced to work with one another, they now see each other as friends “A new word. A new land. And- it is just possible- a new friend.” Leah explained in the last line if the story. As a result of Suzy betraying Leah’s trust and privacy by reading her diary, she gained lots of knowledge about Leah about where she was from, why she was always so sad, and much more. But knowledge is not the only thing Suzy gained. She also gained a new friend, Leah. The lesson or the moral of the story is to not judge a book by its cover, have a conversation with someone before you decided on judging them or not.
Anzia Yezierska’s 1925 novel Bread Givers ends with Sara Smolinsky’s realization that her father’s tyrannical behavior is the product of generations of tradition from which he is unable to escape. Despite her desire to embrace the New World she has just won her place in, she attempts to reconcile with her father and her Jewish heritage. The novel is about the tension inherent in trying to fit Old and New worlds together: Reb tries to make his Old World fit into the new, while Sara tries to make her New World fit into the Old. Sara does not want to end up bitter and miserable like her sisters, but she does not want to throw her family away all together. Her struggle is one of trying to convince her patriarchal family to accept her as an independent woman, while assimilating into America without not losing too much of her past.
Caleen Sinnette Jennings Queens Girl in the World is an bildungsroman, a coming of age story that takes place in a unique format. Queens Girl in the World is about Jacqueline Marie Butler a 12 year girl who lives on Erickson Street, Queens, New York. It’s summer 1962 and we watch her journey over the next year or so. She experiences love, conflict, ignorance, hatred, violence, and many of the experiences that can happen in the life of a preteen in the sixties as well as to any of us. The many characters depicted, the moments shared made myself and the audience experience laughter, sorrow and everything in between. Queens Girl in the World beautifully blends climatic and episodic structure by using climatic aspects such as a late plot, limited characters scenes and locales and episodic features such as multiple stories that follow a plot of theme.
“Jane Eyre” by Charlotte Bronte and “Sula” by Toni Morrison are two classic works of novels. Both are two completely different stories. One tells the life story of an orphan who was raised by her cruel Aunt and was later sent away to school, worked as a teacher and a governess, experienced sleeping on the streets and begging for food, inherited a fortune from her father, discovers lost relatives and marries a previous employer whom she fell deeply in love with. This story, “Jane Eyre,” was in England during the Victorian Era and it deals with many different themes such as love, religion, social class and gender issues.
Jacobs, Harriet, and Yellin, Jean. Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press
I read House of Sand and Fog by Andre Dubus III. This story is one classic tragedy which also contains a nearly unbearable amount of suspense. It tells a story of the conflict between people of different races who have an inability to understand each other. They each want possession of a small house in the California hills, but for very different reasons. On one side, there is Kathy Nicolo and Sheriff Lester Burdon who want the house from which Kathy was evicted.
The Tunnel” by Doris Lessing, and the second story is “Brothers Are The Same”, by Beryl
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl opens with an introduction in which the author, Harriet Jacobs, states her reasons for writing an autobiography. Her story is painful, and she would rather have kept it private, but she feels that making it public may help the antislavery movement. A preface by abolitionist Lydia Maria Child makes a similar case for the book and states that the events it records are true.
Melinda Gale, the orphanage director, chimed in. “But what about Suzy?” She pointed to a little blonde girl dancing with others. “She’s outgoing, healthy, and has already passed her bench marks for kindergarten.”
Mrs. Suzy Bae slipped and fell on the way to the washrooms, and sustained an injury to her scalp.
There are two women in the book who put their perspective into the story, one of
When she was a child she began to notice that boys were treated far better than the girls. She became outraged and one day after school she told her father about it. Her father then started a school on the one side of their house. It was a school where both the girls and boys were treated fairly and equally to one another.
The first story, The Jubilee Express, by Maureen Johnson, is about a girl names Jubilee and her trip to Florida. Jubilee is forced to ride a train to Florida and stay with her grandparents, after her parents were arrested for getting involved in a riot over a collectable village set called the Flobie Santa Village. It all gets worse when the train is caught in a snowstorm, making it impossible for them to continue driving. Jubilee continuously called her boyfriend Noah, who failed to answer her calls. She decided that she would trudge across the road to a nearby waffle house, for warmth and food. While there she met a guy named stuart, who felt sorry for her, and invited her to his house. Stuart walked Jubilee to his house and on the way
In all honesty, I chose to read The Country Girls Trilogy by Edna O’Brien because it was the only text that I could get my hands on. After reading it though, I’m glad I had the luck of choosing it. I realized, while reading the trilogy, that throughout my course of study, I have not read very many female authors. I may have read a few short stories along the way, but most books that I have read for classes and for pleasure have been written by men. I saw the difference in writing styles as I read the first paragraph of the book and immediately liked the change of pace and detail-oriented style. I also found that I really connected with the main characters, Caithleen and Baba, whose real name is Bridget. I found it interesting that I invested such interest in two characters whose personalities are so different from my own. Caithleen was the narrator in the first two books, and I found that I connected with her most because of her details and innocence. The trilogy represents three phases of these women’s lives from their girlhood, to losing loves and the trials of marriage. Through it all, their interesting friendship changes according to the events in their lives until a sad and untimely end. I’m not sure that that I would want a friendship like Caithleen and Baba’s, but at least that had each other in the end, when the rest of the world seemed to have forgotten them. The excerpt in Colm Toibin’s anthology, The Penguin book of Irish Fiction, is from the first book in O’Brien’s trilogy called The Country Girls. For purposes of this paper, I will discuss the excerpt itself, and then the rest of the first book of O’Brien’s trilogy.
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On June 12, 1929, at 7:30 AM, a baby girl was born in Frankfort, Germany. No one realized that this infant, who was Jewish, was destined to become one of the worlds most famous victims of World War II. Her name was Anne Frank. Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl, by Anne Frank and B.M. Mooyaart, was actually the real diary of Anne Frank. Anne was a girl who lived with her family during the time while the Nazis took power over Germany. Because they were Jewish, Otto, Edith, Margot, and Anne Frank immigrated to Holland in 1933. Hitler invaded Holland on May 10, 1940, a month before Anne?s eleventh birthday. In July 1942, Anne's family went into hiding in the Prinsengracht building. Anne and her family called it the 'Secret Annex'. Life there was not easy at all. They had to wake up at 6:45 every morning. Nobody could go outside, nor turn on lights at night. Anne mostly spent her time reading books, writing stories, and of course, making daily entries in her diary. She only kept her diary while hiding from the Nazis. This diary told the story of the excitement and horror in this young girl's life during the Holocaust. Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl reveals the life of a young innocent girl who is forced into hiding from the Nazis because of her religion, Judaism. This book is very informing and enlightening. It introduces a time period of discrimination, unfair judgment, and power-crazed individuals, and with this, it shows the effect on the defenseless.