Calliope struggled immensely on finding her true self. Written by Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex focuses on Calliope, a greek girl who then transforms into a boy after learning about the secret to her deformity. Throughout the book, she had to figure out who she truly was on the inside and out. In Middlesex Calliope used her power of self reliance to discover her true identity by falling in love with a girl, running away from home, and as a child, keeping her deformity a secret from others.
The character Calliope used self-reliance to discover her true identity by falling in love with a girl. For instance, she fell in love with her best friend and realized she was not attracted to boys. Her only friend was a girl she referred to as the Obscure
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Calliope is now Cal, a boy who is a reinvention of her old self. She discovers her new identity when sitting in a hotel room. While coming to realization Calliope said, “But it was powerful force for me, especially at fourteen, with my nerves bright and and jangling, ready to launch into a symphony at the slightest provocation. That was how Cal discovered himself..” (pg 453) Calliope relied on herself to run away from home after finding out her true gender. While in San Francisco, Cal meets new friends who helps him realize that it’s okay to be different. Cal befriends a transgender named Zora. After hearing about Zora’s struggles and hardships, Cal uses his intuition to see the similarities. To support this, it said, “ I wasn’t the only one!...Fate or luck had brought me here and I had take from it what I needed” (Pg 489) With help from his friends and fate, Cal now knows that he is meant to be a boy. He relied on his intuition to help him make his decision on staying in San Francisco. Cal found her true identity because she relied on herself to run away from …show more content…
In Middlesex Calliope used her power of self reliance to discover her true identity by falling in love with a girl, running away from home, and as a child, keeping her deformity a secret from others. She used her personal resources to determine her sexual orientation. Because she relied on herself run away from home, Calliope discovered that there are other people like her. Since she relied on herself to keep her hidden secret, Calliope didn’t need anyone but herself to love and accept herself. Given these points, Calliope struggled and then conquered figuring out her true self by having
Everyone has once been someone that they aren’t necessarily ashamed of, but something they aren’t anymore. When you’re in school, everyone is different; between the popular kids, the jocks, the cheerleader, the dorks, the Goths, and all the other “types” of people. In “Her Kind,” Anne Sexton shows that she has been a lot of different women, and she is not them now. In this paper we will be diving into the meanings behind the displaced “I,” the tone and reparation, and who Anne Sexton really is and how that affects what she is trying to let people see through this poem.
When Marie tries to ask the protagonist to take a walk, this action shows that she is trying to achieve Pauline’s dream by getting her outside of the house. Therefore, she could finally feel the true meaning of freedom. Nevertheless, Pauline’s mother’s response demonstrates that she wants her daughter’s safety more than anything. The mother tries to keep Pauline away from the danger, so the protagonist can at last have a healthier life. However, Agathe’s reply shows that her mother is willing to sacrifice Pauline’s dream to keep her secure. Therefore, the author uses contrasting characters to mention that safety is more valuable. Furthermore, the protagonist starts to describe Tante Marie and reveals that she always has her hair “around her shoulder” (85). When Pauline describes Marie, Pauline shows how her Tante is open-minded. In fact, Marie helps Pauline to let go of her limitations and to get a taste of her dream. Therefore, Marie always wants Pauline to go outside and play hockey or even to take a walk. These actions that Pauline’s Tante takes show how she is determinate to make Pauline’s dream come true. Thus, the author
In Judith Ortiz Cofer’s “The Story of My Body” Ortiz Cofer represents herself narrative story when she were young. Her autobiography has four headlines these parts are skin, color, size, and looks. Every headline has it is own stories underneath it. Ortiz Cofer’s is expressing her life story about her physical and psychological struggle with her body. Heilbrun’s narrative, “Writing a Woman’s Life” shows that, a woman’s does not have to be an ideal to write a self-autobiography to tell the world something about herself and her life. Ortiz Cofer’s facing a body struggle that is not made by herself, but by people around her. Therefore, every woman is able to write can write an autobiography with no exception.
Through the discussion of terms such as supercrip and home, alongside discussion of labels that he chooses to accept or leave behind, Clare is able to analyze the way that he looks as his identities. Clare’s autobiography uses words and language as a tool to show that a person’s identities aren’t simply labels, but are ways to understand oneself, unite, and even find a place to
Identity is how we define ourselves, how we see ourselves within our communities and it is what we portray to others. In the novel Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë the eloquent use of language allows for the true portrayal of the identities of all the characters in the story. Emily uses anecdotes and metaphors to portray her characters in all their glory. Wuthering Heights is about the consecutive search for one’s true identity by two primary characters. This essay will specifically focus on Catherine and Heathcliff’s search for their identities. Heathcliff and Catherine both vary in social status as the book progresses, each of their respective sexes play a large role in their identities and the choices they make also influence their final identities; these three main factors are what create the identity problem for both Catherine and Heathcliff.
Throughout the first chapters, the reader learns about the struggles that young women are facing and how these girls are influenced to completely change themselves to fit into society. It is mentioned that girls change dramatically, that girls who once were talkative and bold, are now shy and timid. Dr. Mary Pipher believes that to stop
Grande introduces to the audience various characters that cross Juana 's path to either alter or assist her on her journey to find her father. Through those individuals, Grande offers a strong comparison of female characters who follow the norms, versus those that challenge gender roles that
The societal roles and expectations forced upon Juliet regarding her identity impact her actions and decisions. Juliet’s expected contributions to society were based on her gender,her social class and family name, and her age.
Both Piercy and Clifton discuss gender stereotypes and the influences of male-controlled societies. Even though Piercy's girl was 'healthy' and 'intelligent' she was unaware of societies influences of a woman's perfection in a sexist society. On the other hand, Clifton was aware of stereotypes and influences but had ownership over her own body and used that to her advantage.
Although the people surrounding Susanna feel perturbed towards her lack of social-conformity, which is demonstrated through others questioning her “self-image”, she knows that she is simply exp...
influence all her life and struggles to accept her true identity. Through the story you can
...e relationship with men, as nothing but tools she can sharpen and destroy, lives through lust and an uncanny ability to blend into any social class makes her unique. Her character is proven as an unreliable narrator as she exaggerates parts of the story and tries to explain that she is in fact not guilty of being a mistress, but a person caught in a crossfire between two others.
...ut men, family ties and financial stability would be difficult to obtain, which were necessary to secure an identity in the early south. Early Southern women were ultimately forced to identify themselves by the males to which they were tied. Three female characters from the works read thus far, struggled without men to identify them. For Désirée, her past and family heritage proved too much to overcome. Without the surname provided by her husband, Désirée was without an identity to call her own and gave way to societal code. Yet, due to their internal fight for self-satisfaction, Lena and Janie were able to overcome their lack of identity by establishing their own without the aid of a male. In conclusion, identity is attainable for some women. However, it takes a Southern woman dedicated to her own beliefs to overcome such obstacles and return stronger than before.
Anne was not a very good student. She did not like school at all. She could not focus on her studies and her disobedience towards her teachers made them talk to her parents to seek for a counselor. But, her parents did not take the teacher’s advice. Anne’s parents sent her to a boarding school called Rogers Hall in Lowell, Massachusetts. At that time, she started writing poetry and acting. Her beauty charmed many men towards her. At the age o...
In the story, “Boys and Girls”, the narrator is not the only one coming to terms with their identity.