The Children of Mansfield and Tagore In this paper, two stories, “The Child Returns” by Rebindranath Tagore and “The Voyage” by Katherine Mansfield, are explored in the way their differences are portrayed through narrative style and the writing of the author. Fenella, the child in Mansfield’s story, is portrayed as a young, confused girl after her mother died and is sent to live with her grandmother because women were expected to raise and nurture their children. In Tagore’s story, a man named Raicharan loses the son of his rich master and raises his own son as the replacement. The son has little empathy for his birth father’s sacrifices, due to his upbringing as a rich man’s son. While the stories have similarities regarding the way they are …show more content…
Crane has given Fenella the responsibility of looking after the umbrella. It is possible that Mansfield is using the umbrella as symbolism to suggest that her grandmother has decided it is time for Fenella to become more responsible. It is written, “Fenella remembered she had left the swan-necked umbrella standing up on the little couch. If it fell over, would it break?” (Mansfield). This line signifies that Fenella’s sense of responsibility is growing and she is starting to consider things that she had not before. Finally, at the end of the voyage, before her grandmother could finish her sentence, Fenella tells her that she has the umbrella, indicating that her sense of responsibility and her transition from girl to woman is complete. An issue tackled in Mansfield’s story fits with society’s perception of male and female gender roles. Because Fenella’s mother died, her father sends her to be raised by her grandmother to be taught how to be a woman. Fenella knows little about the world, which the author wanted to attribute to Fenella lacking a mother. This could be due to the fact that mothers are expected to “provide total physical and psychological care” of their child (Caplan and Hall-McCorquodale 346). Mansfield was born in 1888 and wrote “The Voyage” in 1921, in a time when women were more restricted in their life and roles. Near the end of the story, Fenella knows more about the world and can care for her grandmother’s umbrella due to the female guidance she has
... and full of energy” (183). This is the first connection between Aminata and her first son Mamadu. It is a physical connection, between mother and son. Although Mamadu was sold from her, Aminata still feels connected to her son. “I looked again at the boy, and thought about how good it would have felt to have my own son alive and strong... I wondered what Mamadu would have looked like, if he had been allowed to stay with me” (327). Aminata thinks about him and his appearance and location. Aminata’s second child, May is born to her when Chekura is not with her. Nevertheless Aminata narrates, “I loved every inch of my daughter and worshipped every beat of her heart...” (345). This quote shows how Aminata loves and cares for May and has established a mother-daughter bond.
The main characters are David, his mother, and father. David, the abused child, cannot escape his mother’s punishments. David’s mother is a drunken, abusive mother that refers to her child as “It”. David’s father is caring and understanding, but cannot help David escape. The mother and father drastically change after the alcohol abuse. David also changes in his attitude towards his parents.
When inquiring about the comparisons and contrasts between Melville’s Benito Cereno and Frederick Douglass’s Narrative of the Life of an American Slave, Written by Himself, the following question almost inevitably arises: Can a work of fiction and an autobiography be compared at all? Indeed, the structure of the two stories differs greatly. Whereas Douglass’s Narrative adapts a typical pattern of autobiographies, i.e. a chronological order of birth, childhood memories, events that helped shape the narrator etc., Benito Cereno is based on a peculiar three-layered foundation of a central story recounting the main events, a deposition delineating the events prior to the first part, and an ending.
As a child, she considered herself as an equal to her brothers and was their playmate in the biruni. Furthermore, her father “had long entertained the highly unorthodox notion that education made women better wives.” Therefore he ensured that all his daughters received the a proper education, similar to their brothers, by attending school six days a week and being tutored in mathematics, reading and poetry. This was in addition to their traditional female education which included household management, sewing and religion. Essentially, the purpose of educating women was to prepare them to be better wives. Yet this education caused Sattarah to think independently and to challenge traditional values. Essentially, educating Satti, caused her to pave a life path of her own instead of conforming and getting an arranged marriage. It fuelled a desire to learn more and help others which ultimately led to her leaving Iran. However, her desire to “do something with my life” was met with an important obstacle. When Khanom mentioned Satti’s request to study abroad to her father, he refused by saying: “She is a woman. A woman will be nothing.” In his opinion, a zaifeh was incapable of living without the protection of a husband. Since her life was in the hands of her father, Sattarah was forced to comply with his demand to marry any man he chose for her. However, before he found her a
Even though the family was separated the author managed to shows that it is the characters strong commitment/bond that cling to them. Pari had spent her whole life feeling empty where she spent her entire life searching for something to fill that hole but failed in doing so. Until years later she receives a letter explaining her adoption and life which later Pari and Abdullah reunited. "A ceremony at which she would be alone, with no family to sit in the aisles, no one to give her away, no on to shed a happy tear on her behalf"((Hosseini, Khaled. And The Mountains Echoed. Toronto : Riverhead, 2013. Print) 223). This shaped Pari identity/future as the reason behind selling Pari was to give her a better life but instead the author demonstrates how she would have been happier knowing her roots and living in poverty verseus living in success with no roots. This shaped Pari future in to living a life of success but no meaning making her lost and much more alone. But it is that very connection with her brother that gave Pari meaning in life, a reason to
In conclusion, this essay analyzes the similarities and differences of the two stories written by Herman Melville, Billy Budd and Bartleby. The settings, characters, and endings in the two stories reveal very interesting comparisons and contrasts. The comparison and contrast also includes the interpretation of the symbolism that Melville used in his two stories. The characters, Billy and Bartleby, could even be considered autobiographical representatives of Herman Melville.
In conclusion, Amit has proven to be a rude little boy who was able to become a gentleman, despite how negatively he had originally felt about his grandmother’s presence. Through these changes, it is evident how much he had mentally matured, with his new, open views of his grandmother. Her unexpected arrival had allowed the boy’s true inner self to be revealed as his character developed and grew in the situation.
In the poems “The Wanderer”, “The Wife’s Lament”, and “Cuchilainn's Boyhood Deeds” there are journeys that each of the characters go through in the poems. In The Wanderer and “The Wife's Lament” the characters are dealing with the lose of a what they called life. In “Cuchilainn's Boyhood Deeds” the young man in the poem is seeking glory and honor. The poem dapple in both a physical journey and a mental or emotional dilemma. In “The Wanderer” the warrior is sent off in exile and he dreams of finding a new lord and a new hall to become apart of. In “The Wifes Lament”, the wife is also living in exile because he husband family has separated them; she images a life where she isnt so lonely anymore. “Cuchulainn's Boyhood Deeds” is about a boy who imagines himself doing heroic deed to gain favor, honor, and to become a legend. Each of the characters has a physical journey that are in the mist of, but while in the middle of those trial they are also faced with emotional pain and longing for a better life.
works of literature have tremendous amounts of similarity especially in the characters. Each character is usually unique and symbolizes the quality of a person in the real world. But in both stories, each character was alike, they represented honor, loyalty, chivalry, strength and wisdom. Each character is faced with a difficult decision as well as a journey in which they have to determine how to save their own lives. Both these pieces of literatures are exquisite and extremely interesting in their own ways.
Pinocchio had a very interesting life, first as a marionette, then as a donkey, and last but not least, a boy. He knew hardship and pain, he knew sorrow and joy, but he is a prime example of what could figuratively happen to everyone who follows his path. The author seems to have been showing us how to change our lives. Pinocchio could be anyone who does not do what they should.
Fern is seen as a naive child in the beginning, her mother think of great things would happen because of her, Fern love being the center of attention and love being approve by her mother, but soon after her mother gave birth to another child which is “Charlie” now is the youngest child who now gets a lot of attention from the family, expect Fern who is envious of Charlie publicity.
Both narratives compare as timeless tales of reputable heroes. They both include similar plots of long journeys back home. The main characters’ flaws are arrogance which is the source of many of their troubles.
In the story “Two Kinds”, the author, Amy Tan, intends to make reader think of the meaning behind the story. She doesn’t speak out as an analyzer to illustrate what is the real problem between her and her mother. Instead, she uses her own point of view as a narrator to state what she has experienced and what she feels in her mind all along the story. She has not judged what is right or wrong based on her opinion. Instead of giving instruction of how to solve a family issue, the author chooses to write a narrative diary containing her true feeling toward events during her childhood, which offers reader not only a clear account, but insight on how the narrator feels frustrated due to failing her mother’s expectations which leads to a large conflict between the narrator and her mother.
Essay 4: Comparative Analysis of Two Texts When comparing two texts, one must look at the characters and themes to find similarities and differences and we see a similarity with the theme of accepting reality in The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet and The Great Gatsby. There are differences in both texts with the way the characters fight reality, but the outcome is the same. The power of love in both texts is looked at as more important than social priorities and the main characters will do anything to get what they want and it results in death. One might come to conclusions to say that F. Scott Fitzgerald based the relationship of Jay Gatsby and Daisy Buchanan on Romeo and Juliet, seeing that both stories have characters who do not accept the reality and in their minds, love overpowers everything. When looking at these two texts side to side, one would notice many similarities in the actions of the main characters.
As in representations of the other British colonies, India was used by colonial novelists as a tool of displacement of the individual and re-affirmation of the metropolitan whole. There are three methods by which this effect is achieved. The first method displays an unqualified reliance on a culture too remote to be approached except physically: a hero or protagonist in a pre-mutiny novel is at liberty to escape to India at a moment of crisis, rearrange his life to his advantage and return to a happy ending and the establishment of a newly defined metropolitan life. Dobbin of Thackeray's Vanity Fair (1848) and Peter Jenkins of Gaskell's Cranford (1853) exemplify this well. Even the child Bitherstone of Dickens' Dombey and Son (1848) regards India as his salvation.