"Never say no when you want to say yes" - Jenny Han. This quote emphasizes the importance of following your heart, even when the odds seem against you. Sometimes, taking a risk is worth it. In the novel "To All The Boys I've Loved Before" by Jenny Han, it is shown that prioritizing oneself can be beneficial as it helps resolve personal feelings, promotes personal growth, and allows for reflection on overlooked matters Prioritizing ourselves is beneficial when it comes to resolving our feelings and reflecting on them. In the novel, when Margot decides to attend college in Scotland, far away from where they live and breaks up with Josh, her sister Lara Jean initially feels doubtful about their decision. “So now it’s the last days of summer and …show more content…
However, upon further contemplation, Lara Jean realizes that her sister must have thought about it thoroughly and that she should focus on the positive aspects of the situation, such as having more time to spend with her sisters. This illustrates that prioritizing ourselves can help us clarify our doubts regarding our emotions and feelings. The act of prioritizing oneself is essential for personal growth and development. In the novel, there comes a point where Margot stumbles upon Lara Jean's love letters and discovers her crush on Josh. This discovery further leads Margot to distance herself from Lara Jean, and they stop talking to each other (Han 345). However, when they finally reconcile, the topic of Josh comes up in conversation as Lara Jean mentions him. She reveals that she had liked him first, and had harbored feelings for him all summer before ninth grade. She even thought he liked her back, but was left heartbroken when Margot announced she was dating him. Lara Jean had to swallow her feelings and write him a farewell letter to accept the situation. This aspect of the novel highlights the complexity of teenage friendships and the impact of miscommunication on
Written by Zeami, Hanjo, or “Lady Han,” is a play which “resembles an old love ballad with a haunting tune” (108). Tyler's version is dated 1543, almost a century after Zeami died, which also means the text represented here may be different from Zeami's original. There is also a great amount of honzetsu and honkadori, or borrowing phrases from other prose texts and poems (respectively), not only from the older classics such as Kokinshū or Genji Monogatari, but there are also Chinese references in this particular play as well. I think this play is quite different from most of the other nō plays we have read so far.
This frustration acted as a vehicle for her to gain a desire to be more
Strong, self-contained, Independent, mild-mannered, and courageous are all words that come to my mind when I think about my grandmothers. These are also words that I think of when I look at other black women throughout history. Over the duration of this course I have learned about the tenacity and strength of African American Women. There are many hardships that come along with being an African American female. The trails that African American women have faced molded us into the strong people that we are today.
The book I read was Pretties by: Scott Westerfeld. This book is the second book in a trilogy. The first book is Uglies. You will understand Pretties better if you read Uglies.
Plain Truth and Sing You Home are novels both written by Jodi Picoult. They both have plots involving religion and how it strongly affects characters and the court cases they are subjected to. Religion is a topic addressed in the book in both positive and negative light, the religions exposed; Amish and Evangelical are shown to be extremist. The positive lighting can be seen in some of the characters and their innocence such a Katie (Plain Truth) and Liddy (Sing You Home). The negative is spread across the pages, with murder trials and anti-homosexual preaching’s.
In the poem “The One Girl at the Boys’ Party,” Sharon Olds uses imagery to convey pride in her daughter’s growing femininity. What would seem to be another childhood pool party for the girl turns into an event that marks a rite of passage to adulthood. Though the narrator is reluctant of her daughter’s search for an identity, she ultimately sees her daughter’s transformation to womanhood as admirable. Olds’ pride is first shown when the girl begins to lose her innocence from the unfamiliar surroundings of masculine men. The narrator says, “They will strip to their suits, her body hard and indivisible as a prime number” (5-6). The girl’s stiff and confident stature that this image conveys suggests that she is anxious yet willing to progress
Flannery O’Connor was born on March 25, 1925, in Savannah, Georgia. She was an American writer. O’Connor wrote two novels and 32 short stories in her life time. She was a southern writer who wrote in Southern Gothic style. In the Article, Female Gothic Fiction Carolyn E. Megan asks Dorothy Allison what Southern Gothic is to her and she responded with, “It’s a lyrical tradition. Language. Iconoclastic, outrageous as hell, leveled with humor. Yankees do it, but Southerners do it more. It’s the grotesque.”(Bailey 1) Later she was asked who one of her role models was and she stated that Flannery O’Connor was one she could relate to. One of O’Connor’s stronger works was “Good Country People” which was published in 1955.
Even though, a person likes to think they are in control, life will show them they are in less control than thought they were. In Flannery O’Connor’s “Good Country People,” the character Hulga is a person that wants to maintain control in every aspect of her life good or bad. To Hulga it seems she is in constant control of her surroundings and her life. However, she does not have control that she thinks has.
mother used to come home late at night and used to get beaten by her
or it could be that she feels that the lord is only after one thing.
Naeem Murr's novel, The Boy, is a story about a boy that is put into foster homes all of his life. This boy is exposed to all different kinds of influences that affects his life in a negative way. These are the things that cause the argument in the story; is the boy evil or not?
The story, “Good Country People,” by Flannery O’Connor, is a third person limited narration which means the reader can only look into the mind of only a few of the characters. Those characters are Mrs. Hopewell and Hulga, or Joy. Schmoop discusses a deeper understanding about the narrator of the story.
Sanity is subjective. Every individual is insane to another; however it is the people who possess the greatest self-restraint that prosper in acting “normal”. This is achieved by thrusting the title of insanity onto others who may be unlike oneself, although in reality, are simply non-conforming, as opposed to insane. In Susanna Kaysen’s Girl, Interrupted, this fine line between sanity and insanity is explored to great lengths. Through the unveiling of Susanna’s past, the reasoning behind her commitment to McLean Hospital for the mentally ill, and varying definitions of the diagnosis that Susanna received, it is evident that social non-conformity is often confused with insanity.
Love has many definitions and can be interpreted in many different ways. William Maxwell demonstrates this in his story “Love”. Maxwell opens up his story with a positive outlook on “Love” by saying, “Miss Vera Brown, she wrote on the blackboard, letter by letter in flawlessly oval palmer method. Our teacher for fifth grade. The name might as well have been graven in stone” (1). By the end of the story, the students “love” for their teachers no longer has a positive meaning, because of a turn in events that leads to a tragic ending. One could claim that throughout the story, Maxwell uses short descriptive sentences with added details that foreshadow the tragic ending.
“All of Me” is one of the few songs I liked when I first heard it. I was totally touched by the lyrics, rhythm and melody of the song and the voice of the singer as well. It is a piano ballad sung by John Legend, which dedicated to his newlywed wife Chrissy Teigen, and I think it is definitely one of the most beautiful and romantic love songs and a Valentine’s favorite song. It can be considered as a love letter that the John writes to his wife. The song describes the displays of affection and shows how much he loves his wife. Even sometimes she drives him nuts, he still loves every inch of her. Taking the good things with the bad is love of the most unconditional way.