The Luck of Ginger Coffey and The Stone Angel
Brian Moore, and Margaret Laurence’s concern for the plight of the individual and their position in society is clearly self-evident in their novels The Luck of Ginger Coffey and The Stone Angel. Finding one’s place in society is a major dilemma many people face every day. Once people find their place in society they understand who they are, what is expected by them and what their roles are. Once a person has found their place in society they understand their life and which direction it is going.
The main characters are portrayed as two different individuals with very different lives who have only one thing in common- their inability to find their proper place in society. Brian Moore, and Margaret Laurence’s concern for the plight of the individual and their position in society is clearly self-evident in their novels The Luck of Ginger Coffey and The Stone Angel . The main characters Ginger Coffey and Hagar Shipley both struggle to survive with dignity even though their overwhelming pride often obscures reality. Throughout the novel it becomes evident that both Ginger Coffey and Hagar Shipley’s overwhelming sense of pride obscures their reality and therefore causing problems for them. Coffey the main character in Brian Moore’s novel The Luck of Ginger Coffey is portrayed as a comic hero who has endless limitations that he does not see. Ginger Coffey believes he is his own man, which is why he leaves his homeland Ireland and moves to Canada . Coffey believes Ireland would not allow him to become the person he thought he could be, " What was his aim in life ? Well...he supposed it was to be his own master, to provide for Vera and Paulie, to...to what ?...To make something of himself, he supposed." (Moore, pg.21) Coffey’s values do not seem to be unrealistic or selfish in themselves, but because he sets unobtainable and unrealistic goals he encounters numerous failures. Coffey cannot content himself with a simple job and provide for his family in this way; he wants to become someon! e important, and achieve personal status. Not realizing that these very ideas bind him to a life of repetitive failures. Because of his pride Coffey sees himself not as the middle aged man that he is, but as an attractive young boy out for new adventures.
There are thousands of versions of cinderella told all around the world in different cultures and languages. They are all similar and different in their own way and all of the similarities and differences can reveal something about the culture they originate from. Katie Woodencloak and The Irish Cinderlad have both have their own fairy godmother but they are not the same. Both fairy godmothers reveal something about the economy of the country.
“One can forgive but one should never forget.” - Marjane Satrapi. A memoir is a collection of unique memories that one may never forget. They tell the story of a person’s life and grasp experiences that may be wonderful or absolutely terrifying. In Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood, Marjane Satrapi narrates her childhood in Iran during the Islamic Revolution and illustrates the devastating effects it had on her life. Similarly, Elie Wiesel narrates his horrifying journey as a Jew who endured the unimaginable cruelty of the Holocaust in his novel: Night. Although these memoirs are narrated in different time periods and locations, the authors are both marginalized because of their race and must battle traditional group barriers with their community. Through ethos and marginalization, Satrapi and Wiesel demonstrate that community can be created during times of political and cultural struggle, ultimately illustrating that humans overcome traditional group barriers by including themselves with members of other marginalized groups.
At the University of Waterloo many students do not attend the games like football, basketball, and other school sports. Rubal Singh, a third year student and avid football player says, “The stadium is mostly filled with friends and family. Not many students.” In comparison to other schools in the province like The University of Guelph and Western University there stadiums are usually filled and have many non-related supporters. After interviewing many of my friends that attend our University a mutual consensus was that our school encourages more of an academic agenda than a social bonding one. According to Maclean’s 2013 annual statistics The University of Waterloo has been ranked as Canada’s most innovative and comprehensive university. Impressive, nonetheless, could those statistics mean that the University has no time to be the best spirited as well? Could the academic workload cause negative effects on the extracurricular activities? I believe it could.
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The music, the people, the food, the castle, My dream is to work at DisneyLand because of the amazing disney characters. If I worked at disneyland I would want to have the amazing dream of seeing the castle,seeing the characters, and the obstacles of working in disneyland.I think it would be a dream come true.
The two films, Maid in Manhattan and Pretty Woman, can be considered a modern day Cinderella story. The two plots are loosely based on the the Disney classic. The Disney Cinderella was known as innocent, naive, and passive. The main character in Maid in Manhattan, Marisa, better showcases the new traits of an improved modern Cinderella than Vivian from Pretty Woman by keeping the same innocent nature, but adding more drive and determination to the role.
In the Transcendental aesthetics, Kant defines the objective validity of Space and Time as concepts a priori with the help from of Geometry, showing that if we believe in the validity of Geometry, we have to believe that Space and Time are concepts a priori. In the Pure Concepts of Understanding, Kant claims that our intuitions are dependent on sensibility; everything we sense accumulates into our brain and our understanding of the information we sensed relies on organizing that data so that we can recognize the object. Thus, he asserts that understanding is not a faculty of intuition but sensibility. Furthermore, the act of organizing the data into one representation is defined as function and these functions serve as a bridge between the object and its concepts because concepts are not directly related to an object but just some representations of it. This, when function and concepts are put together, Kant concludes is defined as judgment, knowledge of the fact that there is ...
Hello it’s me Cinderella’s fairy god mother. I watch over Cinderella. I send her help when she is in trouble. There are many times I have helped her. Most people wonder where I live well I live some were called Atlantica. Atlantica is also known as fairy tale land. There are many fairy god mothers that live in Atlantica. In Atlantica there are lots of mermaids, fairies, unicorns, and all magical things.
Cinderella is the quintessential representative for stories that focus on the ideas of rags to riches; a chance that things will be alright, similar to the American Dream which was an ideology that was prominent at the time. It’s also a story that display good lessons about life such as how life isn’t always fair, and that even good people can fall under difficult circumstances, but despite this, good choices in those difficult conditions make the experience better later on. It helps to understand the concept of hope, especially to children that have a harder time grasping the visualization of the topic. Such visualization is shown through the characterization of the main protagonist Cinderella, and how she, despite being in such a desolate situation, had made hopes and dreams to escape the problems that she has by wishing.
Growing up, “I felt like I didn’t have a place in the world—an identity to actually call my own.”
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The attitudes of others forcibly constrict and diminish the subconscious of others ultimately limiting their ability to make choices and clouding their sense of belonging. There is only a matter of time before one's choices are influenced by their surroundings and the relationships that exist there. Psychological barriers created by experience dictate one's attitude ultimately limiting their perception of the world. The attitudes of others can thrust unwanted experiences on one, ultimately altering and damaging their capability to make choices in relation to where they situate their sense of self. Jane Harrison’s Rainbows End, a play about how the ignorance of Anglo-Saxon society in Australia inhibits and challenges an Aboriginal family to find where they belong in society and Edgar Allen Poe’s Alone, a poem that addresses differences in how one views the world and how they make sense of where they belong in it. Both of these texts utilize various techniques that allow us to see how the attitudes of others reduce one’s sense of belonging.