”How Far She Went”, written by Mary Hood, is the story of a rebellious teenage girl forced to live with her grandmother. The girl does not like this at all. She has an attitude and is a pretty rebellious child. The grandma tries being nice to her and does everything she can for her. Due to their different personalities, the granddaughter and grandmother don’t get along very well, and conflict rises quickly. The two women run into trouble when the girl rides on a motorcycle with an older man who has been drinking. The grandma is an older independent woman, set in her ways and she knows what is right and wrong. When her granddaughter gets into trouble, she’s willing to do anything and everything to keep her protected. The grandmother proves to be more than …show more content…
The grandmother definitely is a round character, as she is strong, brave, determined, experienced, and loyal. She proves her strength and bravery as she protects herself and her granddaughter. Before her granddaughter and her are endangered and hiding from the biker men, she stands up to them.“The Dog wouldn’t hush, even then; never had yet, and there wasn’t time to teach him. When the women realized that she did what she had to do. She grabbed him whimpering; held him; held him under until the struggle ceased and the bubbles rose silver from his ear.”(pg 114)Through this statement it shows her determination of keeping her and her granddaughter safe and she loved that dog. She is able to make difficult decisions like this because of her old age and experience. With her knowledge about life and information about the bikers, she’s able to protect her granddaughter. The grandmothers actions also enlighten her loyalty towards her granddaughter, despite their incredible differences. Throughout the story, both characters are shown to be complete opposites of each other yet compliment one another as foil
Furthermore, there are several occurrences of the harm against women in regards to Mrs. Dempster. She undergoes a stark change in personality after being hit with the snowball, described by the denizens of Deptford as having “gone simple”. One of Mary Dempster’s most shocking acts after the fact is when she is found having sex with a tramp (later revealed to have been done in order to restore his faith). Her husband, Amasa, decides that Mary is too much of a burden to him and ties her to chair, making her unable to leave her home. Despite this, the young Dunny does not think of Mary as a burden, in fact referring to her as his “greatest friend”. He keeps her up to date on the goings-on in Deptford, he prides her on her fearlessness. He knows
This essay will contrast a good and evil concept between two different stories. There is an obvious distinction that stands out between the stories; however they are similar in one way. In A Worn Path (Eudora Welty) and A Good Man is Hard to Find (Flannery O’Conner) the one thing that sticks out, is the main character in both stories. The main character in both stories being the grandmother. Grandmothers are of course an important part of the family. In each story we have a grandmother of a different race, appearance, and attitude. In each story the grandmothers take different journeys, but there is one thing they both face being treated disrespected. We live in a world in which the grandmother resides with the family and helps to take care of the grandchildren. In the world today things are different and times are still hard if not harder. We live in a time when respect is no longer earned. Now days it seems as if respect is not as important as it was in earlier years and it is evident in these two stories.
Although this story is told in the third person, the reader’s eyes are strictly controlled by the meddling, ever-involved grandmother. She is never given a name; she is just a generic grandmother; she could belong to anyone. O’Connor portrays her as simply annoying, a thorn in her son’s side. As the little girl June Star rudely puts it, “She has to go everywhere we go. She wouldn’t stay at home to be queen for a day” (117-118). As June Star demonstrates, the family treats the grandmother with great reproach. Even as she is driving them all crazy with her constant comments and old-fashioned attitude, the reader is made to feel sorry for her. It is this constant stream of confliction that keeps the story boiling, and eventually overflows into the shocking conclusion. Of course the grandmother meant no harm, but who can help but to blame her? O’Connor puts her readers into a fit of rage as “the horrible thought” comes to the grandmother, “that the house she had remembered so vividly was not in Georgia but in Tennessee” (125).
Though O 'Connor 's use of characterization, she managed to explore the egocentric mind of the Grandmother. She always wanted to be the center of attention, she was prejudice and believed things should stay the same, and she was very selfish. While she thinks she 's above everyone else, she felt that the world revolves around
There are three phases of thought for the Grandmother. During the first phase, which is in the beginning, she is completely focused on herself in relation to how others think of her. The Second Phase occurs when she is speaking to The Misfit. In the story, The Misfit represents a quasi-final judgment. He does this by acting like a mirror. He lets whatever The Grandmother says bounce right off him. He never really agrees with her or disagrees, and in the end he is the one who kills her. His second to last line, "She would of been a good woman," The Misfit said, "if it had been somebody there to shoot her every minute of her life," (O'Conner 152). might be the way O'Conner felt about most of us alive, or how she felt that God must feel about us.
Numerous are mindful of the considerable deed that Harriet Tubman executed to free slaves in the south. Then again, individuals are still left considerably unaware about in which the way they were safeguarded and how she triumphed each and every deterrent while placing her life at risk of being captured. She is deserving of the great honor she has garnered by todays general society and you will find out her in the biography. The title of this biography is “Harriet Tubman, the Road to Freedom.” The author of this piece is Catherine Clinton. ”Harriet Tubman, the road to Freedom” is a charming, instructive, and captivating book that history appreciates and is a memoir than readers will cherish. The Target audience of the biography is any readers
In Mary Hoods “How Far She Went” A grandmother struggles with the burden of experience, loss and a life of unsparing decisions; where a girl strives to live in a naïve and free spirited illusion. The paths of a grandmother and her granddaughter soon collide when experience and naivety rendezvous on a dirt road in the south. “How Far She Went” illustrates how generational struggles and contretemps can mold people and predispose their lives and the way
The book “A Long Way From Chicago” is an adventurous and funny story. The story takes place at Joey Dowdel’s Grandmothers farm house in the country. Joey and his sister Mary Alice were sent to their Grandma’s house during the summer because their parents had to go to Canada for their work. At first, Joey felt uncomfortable with his Grandmother because he had never met her before but eventually he got to know her and they became close friends.
Poetry serves different purposes and can be used in various different ways; whether it is to describe something as simple as a chair or explore something as complex as the meaning of life. Poets range their poetry to their tastes, finding beauty everywhere they look and scrutinizing the details around them so they can transfer what they sense at those moments onto their readers. Mary Lady Chudleigh used poetry to speak out against the injustices against women and support feminism (Famous Poets). In “To the ladies”, Mary Lady Chudleigh uses poetry as a means of communicating her ideas to the world and persuading her readers. The poem itself works as a warning to women, or as the title puts it “To the ladies”. The warning is simple: stay away
The grandmother is the central character. She is round and static. She is static because her basic unchanging trait is that “the grandmother is a figure of grace and dignity.” The grandmother is polite to strangers and sympathetic to the poor” (Hendricks). An example of the grandmother's actions that show that she is trying to convince the Misfit to live a conventional life is when she says, “Think how wonderful it would be to settle down and live a comfortable life and not having to think about somebody chasing you all the time” (Hendricks).
The granny and the misfit are two completely opposite characters that possess two different beliefs. The grandmother puts herself on a high pedestal and the way she calls the misfit ‘a good person’ based upon his family background gives the reader an idea of what the grandmother acknowledges to be considered as ‘good’. Self absorbed as sh...
The grandmother is the central character in the story "A good man is hard to find," by Flannery O'Connor. The grandmother is a manipulative, deceitful, and self-serving woman who lives in the past. She doesn't value her life as it is, but glorifies what it was like long ago when she saw life through rose-colored glasses. She is pre-scented by O'Connor as being a prim and proper lady dressed in a suit, hat, and white cotton gloves. This woman will do whatever it takes to get what she wants and she doesn't let anyone else's feelings stand in her way. She tries to justify her demands by convincing herself and her family that her way is not only the best way, but the only way. The grandmother is determined to change her family's vacation destination as she tries to manipulate her son into going to Tennessee instead of Florida. The grandmother says that "she couldn't answer to her conscience if she took the children in a direction where there was a convict on the loose." The children, they tell her "stay at home if you don't want to go." The grandmother then decides that she will have to go along after all, but she is already working on her own agenda. The grandmother is very deceitful, and she manages to sneak the cat in the car with her. She decides that she would like to visit an old plantation and begins her pursuit of convincing Bailey to agree to it. She describes the old house for the children adding mysterious details to pique their curiosity. "There was a secret panel in this house," she states cunningly knowing it is a lie. The grandmother always stretches the truth as much as possible. She not only lies to her family, but to herself as well. The grandmother doesn't live in the present, but in the past. She dresses in a suit to go on vacation. She states, "in case of an accident, anyone seeing her dead on the highway would know at once that she was a lady." She constantly tries to tell everyone what they should or should not do. She informs the children that they do not have good manners and that "children were more respectful of their native states and their parents and everything else." when she was a child.
In this paper I will talk about some information that I have obtained from reading Mary Piphers, Reviving Ophelia, Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls and give my view on some of her main points and arguments. I also will discuss why I feel Mary Pipher’s views on the toxic influence of media are accurate, and that it does affect adolescent girls. This paper will also point out the importance of Mary Pipher’s studies on the problems that today’s female teens are facing and why I feel they are important and cannot be ignored.
In literature, a dynamic character changes significantly as a result of events, conflicts, or other forces. In the play, The Crucible by Arthur Miller, Mary Warren, the young servant of the Proctor’s is a dynamic character. Throughout the play, Mary’s personality takes a turn for the better. At the beginning of the play, Mary is shy, timid girl who hides in the shadows of Abigail Williams and lets people walk all over her. As the play develops, Mary realizes that what Abigail is doing isn’t right and rebels against Abby. Instead of following Abby, she follows in the footsteps of John Proctor to bring justice to the girl’s accusing innocent people of witchcraft.
“How Far She Went” is a short story that took place in a farm in the summer of the 1970s. The two main characters in the story are the grandmother and the granddaughter. Similar to the relationship between the mother and Connie from the previous story, the granddaughter and grandmother didn’t get along as well. In the beginning of the story when the grandmother asked the granddaughter to help her to pull the weeds, she would throw a tantrum and would run away until she can’t run anymore. The conflict between the grandmother and granddaughter rise when the grandmother told the granddaughter that she would stay with her when she goes back to school. When she heard this news, she ran away until she couldn’t run anymore. Also, similar to Connie from “Where Are You Going”, the granddaughter ran into a conflict with a group of bikers whom her grandmother did not approve since the little girl was underage and the men were a lot older. Later that night, the bikers harassed both the grandmother and granddaughter by ramming them off the road. This short story related to the theme of independence by the granddaughter wanted to leave her grandmother’s farm. In this story, when she ran away, she didn’t ran away that far because she would come back home. She was still dependant of her grandmother despite wanting independence. Similar irony but with a twist, when they were being harassed by the group of bikers,