Profanity Stigma Prostitution, drug abuse, child abuse, rape, theft, domestic violence, alcoholism, miscarriages, gang fights, and sexually transmitted diseases are all feats that Cupcake Brown had to encounter and take on all before the age of twenty. In Piece of Cake: A Memoir by Cupcake Brown, she tells her life story and how she faced all of those feats. Throughout the book, the reader begins to notice that the use of profanity is present in almost every paragraph if not every sentence, along with the use of improper grammar. Thus, while profanity can be offensive to many, the reader begins to realize how much of an impact in makes in the book. By using the profanity and grammar Brown does, it gives the reader a more genuine look into her life. Additionally throughout the book, there are many horrible situations Brown ends up in that many people can not relate to, so the way she spoke helped readers envision the scene the way it was intended. If she would have taken out the profanity it would have been difficult for the reader to really grasp the situations as how they were. For example, in Piece of Cake, Brown …show more content…
She tells herself that as long as she has a job she isn’t a drug abuser, but she had trouble finding jobs and even more trouble keeping them. When she is told it’s because of her language, she does everything she can to make sure that she talks more properly and uses less profanity, going as far as letting her friends punch her every time she slips up. That’s when she gets her first real job and keeps it for a while, which helps her relieve her doubts about her being an addict. It is a big contrast to her grammar and profanity usage before, and it helps further the reader's understanding about how desperate she was to prove to herself that she was not an addict or an
It is very clear that the narrator is aggravated with the ignorance of some people as they assume she is supposed to sound different than she does because she is black. To emphasize her agitation throughout the poem, the narrator asks rhetorical questions such as; "Was I supposed to sound lazy, dropping syllables here, there, not finishing words but slurring the final letter so that each sentence joined the next, sliding past the listener? Were certain words off limits, too erudite, too scholarly for someone with a natural tan? And Does everyone in your family speak alike?"
Imagine this, it is the 1800’s and you’re shopping for sugar. You see the sweet, pure white sugar and look down. Wham! The price makes your stomach drop. You need a cup of sugar, and the price is five dollars per teaspoon. That’s two-hundred and forty dollars, and you only have two dollars with you! In the articles, How Candy Conquered America by Lauren Tarshis and This Cupcake is Trying to Hurt You by Kristin Lewis and Lauren Tarshis it talks about how the consumption of sugar changes over time from the 1800’s to today. Two ways sugar consumption in the United States differed in the 1800’s than today is how much sugar we eat and how it affects our bodies.
She first lies to doctors about substance abuse landing her support groups for substance abuse and a program to help her stay sober. This isn’t productive for Daphne and she grew tired of being bunched up with the addicts. She decides to come clean, of conscious and recant her exaggerated tales of alcohol and drug abuse before she was admitted into psychiatric care. This is however not seen as her coming clean, she isn’t better, the staff and patients believe the opposite in fact. Her pleas of sobriety and confessions of previous lies are seen as an addict denying their problem and a symptom of her substance abuse; incapable of admitting to herself and others that she has a
from customers caused her to fail at being perfect. The author’s overall argument in "Pancakes" was to show that it is impossible to be perfect through the use of foreshadowing,
Andrea, her roommate, is seeking treatment from addiction to heroin and self-harm. Gwen refuses to having anything to do with the treatment center and group therapy. She believes she doesn’t have a drinking problem at all and therapy is silly. While still denying she has a problem, her boyfriend Jasper slips her a bottle of pills while visiting her. Gwen and Jasper leave the campus and have a night of partying. Gwen arrives back in her room the next morning clearly intoxicated. Cornell, the director of the rehab facility, confronts Gwen and informs her that she violated the rules of the facility. Gwen is told she is being kicked out of the program and is being sent to jail. She becomes outraged and denies that she has a problem and can quit whenever she chooses. Leaving the director’s office, she goes to her bedroom and decides to take the pills that Jasper slipped her. She ends up spitting out the pills and throwing the rest of the bottle out of the window.
When Mrs. Turners brother comes to town Tea Cake gets jealous and begins to whip Janie, “No brutal beatings at all. He just slapped her around a bit to show he was boss” (147). Furthermore, Tea Cake gets jealous of Mrs. Turners brother again. When Tea Cake is sick, Sop tells him that Mrs. Turners brother is back in town causing him to think Janie secretly left to see him (180). Overall, Tea Cakes insecurity is triggered when Mrs. Turners brother arrives in town causing his jealousy to take over his confidence and compassion for Janie and hit
The ability to tell one’s own story, to speak one’s mind, is the best antidote to powerlessness. Tan’s writing instills agency and visibility in Chinese American women. The silence is broken, and their new voices are constructed in collective storytelling, a language of community, without denying or erasing the different positions such collaboration encounters. Tan compels each of her characters to tell their own story in their own words, thus (re)creating the meanings of their life. The interrelated narratives make sense only if readers can discern the specificities of each woman’s story as located within the novel.
Sarah Ellen Polley is a Canadian actress, writer, director, and political activist. Sarah has starred and directed many popular films. One of the films she directed was Stories We Tell. Sarah Polley's compelling documentary, Stories We Tell, mainly focuses on her mother, Diane Polley, who passed away of cancer when Sarah was 11 years old in 1990. This documentary discusses Sarah Polley’s family secrets. Stores We Tell examines the deep and eventful relationship between Polley's parents: Michael and Diane Polley. The film includes many interviews with Polley's siblings from her mother's two marriages, and other interviews with other relatives and family friends. Families create their own stories and narratives. Each family has a unique story.
She specifically mentions in the article that, “Each experience of writing was like standing naked and revealing my imperfection, my “otherness.” And each new assignment was another chance to make myself over in language, reshape myself, make myself “better” in my rapidly changing image of a student in a college composition class.” This reminds me of a new stage of my life making new friends and going down a new path. In high school I had one absolute best friend the rest of the student body was hard to connect with. College gives me a new chance of finding my place and connecting with students going down the same career path. Like Barbara Mellix, I too am go through a language change in college and in my work place. I am doing what I need to succeed and not maintain the same language just to be accepted by my own
The two main characters of the story, Irene and Clare, leave the reader wanting to know more about the life that two very different cultures live. The racism, society, and views of all people have changed since the time period the book was based off of. Irene is left unaccepted into the world and ashamed to be a Negro, where Clare is fighting to keep her Negro past a secret to everyone around her. Reading Passing by Nella Larson is an eye opening experience that will have a lasting effect on the reader.
She kind of abused the substance to the point where she used prostitution to get the drugs and later died of a drug overdose. This book was published in the form of a diary in entry form of a girl’s drug addiction. The characters in this novel are introduced to drugs, sexual activities and abuse.
Jennifer De Leon did a fantastic job narrating the short story. Although she didn’t have a dialogue with Aracelis, the librarian, Jennifer explained all of her thoughts and actions in great detail while Aracelis was speaking to her. Jennifer also did a superb job presenting the people involved in the story. One example of Jennifer doing a great job of presenting someone involved in the story is describing Aracelis. Jennifer states “She is rosy-cheeked and wears a pearl white sweater with a fur collar. Her black hair is thick and long like mine.” which presents Aracelis with a ton of imagery. Jennifer’s description of the library can be described as vivid with the amount of detail she put into her story. For example, Jennifer says “The library
David L. Snead edited the book and combined all of Brownie’s letters into a diary, then transformed them into a story by adding a little of his own commentary to complete
The language is also used to emphasize the feelings and emotions of Callum and Sephy. The use of descriptive writing is employed by Blackman to give the reader insight into the effects and emotions of racism. “I was talking like my mouth was full of stones – and sharp jagged ones at that.” The book is full of descriptive writing and figurative language with use of similes and metaphors to explore the feelings of Callum and Sephy. The way in which Blackman uses these language techniques influences the reader to especially pity the white race and the way they are treated in the book. Blackman has created her own world to resemble our own op...
It seemed like a normal day when I entered Mrs. A’s AP Language and Composition class, but little did I know that she was going to assign a very important project that was going to take forever. I took my seat and wrote down what was on the board. Then I sat patiently and waited for Mrs. A to come explain what we were doing today. When the tardy bell rang, Mrs. A glided into the room and gave us all a stack of papers. She then proceeded to discuss our upcoming assignment, a memoir. As she explained the very important assignment, I wondered whom I would write about. No one really came to mind to write about and I thought for sure I would never be able to get this thing done on time. I finally decided that I would write in on my mother, Kari Jenson. I knew I would probably put the project off until the very end and do it the weekend before even though it would get on my mom’s nerves. Putting work off was just how I did everything, it worked for me. When I arrived home from school that day, I told mom about the project. I told her I would most likely write it about her and she was overjoyed.