However, Ella’s true green eyes still flashed in her face for no pitch or grease could dull their brilliant color or dim their natural sparkle. Nor could it disguise her proud, erect carriage or change her warm, clear voice. And she carried herself with a natural dignity and grace her stepfamily could never hope to match. But the dowager didn’t see the dignity or the grace, they weren’t important to her. And she didn’t pay attention to the warmth in Ella’s voice, for it wasn’t a voice for command, in her opinion. She only saw what she wanted to see and what she wanted others to see and that was a girl soaked in pitch and dressed in
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.
Lily is thinking “how much older fourteen had made [her]. In the space of a few hours [she’d] become forty years old.” She makes this connection after she realizes that maybe her mother's death could have not been her fault and that it could have been T. Ray’s and he was punishing her for it. This caused Lily to pack “...5 pairs of shorts, tops, ... shampoo, toothpaste...” $38 and a map (41-42). By doing this, it made her feel like she had aged, feeling like a 40 year old.
So what can go wrong with a long so strong, a hold you so tight, a night so calm
Minnie Foster was once described as the belle of the ball. To look at her tonight for the first time you could see why. She carried herself with both an air of confidence and modesty at the same time. Her small eyes dominated her face. They did not look directly at you anymore though. Still, they seemed all knowing and experienced as if they were able to see and know secrets about you that you wish no one knew. Her slender peaked nose was no match for the full lips she had, lips that never uttered a sound and which have become as pale as her knuckles. Her lips were pierced shut protecting the thoughts in her head from falling out one by one to the hard flooring.
Sammy has an amazing eye for detail and no matter how taboo the subject, he manages to get his point across without seeming too offensive. When speaking of the three young women, he takes on the task of describing each girl in great detail and even manages to slip in which one he prefers. Sammy utters “She was the Queen.”(16) A small amount o...
“squick”! “Bang”! I walk in trying to find out where i’m going. Fast. Before anyone notices me. My mom is a vet and i really want a dog so bad! “Lily” said my mom. “squick” my mom enters the room seeing me look at all of the dogs. “Mom can i please…..” “Do you really want a dog this bad”? My mom asks. “Yes and i will do anything… anything” i say in a soft way. “Fine but only if you take care of it and clean up after it”. “thank you.. mom.” I whisper as my mom leaves the room. “Now it’s time to pick out a dog”.
“Straining his eyes, he saw the lean figure of General Zaroff. Then... everything went dark. Maggie woke up in her bed. “Finally woke up from that nightmare. Man… I miss my brother. Who was that person that my brother wanted to kill?” she looks at the clock and its 9:15am “Crap I’m late for work!” Maggie got in her car and drove to the hospital for work.
To begin, In the text on paragraph 10 page 326 the author states”Mother regarded me warmly. She gave me to understand that she was glad I had found what I have been looking for, that she and father were happy to sit with their coffee and would not be coming down.”This is important because she realizes they
Well the world changed late last night in a way I couldn’t protect us from. That’s a terrible feeling for a father. I won’t sugarcoat it—this is truly horrible. It’s hardly the first time my candidate didn’t win (in fact it’s the sixth time) but it is the first time that a thoroughly incompetent pig with dangerous ideas, a serious psychiatric disorder, no knowledge of the world and no curiosity to learn has.
After a long day skiing and a hearty dinner, I sit on the leather sofa in the living room, reclining in my chair while I warm up with the heat of the fire next to me. As I listen to the chatter between all my extended family, we decide to end the night with a movie. My aunt goes upstairs to retrieve a movie from the DVD closet, she searches through the wooden shelves filled with every movie imaginable. She refuses to tell us the film, as she slides the disc into the DVD player. What eight-year-old wouldn’t be excited to watch a movie that they know nothing about? As we all watch the movie trailers before the film begins, the tension in the room rises. The suspense peaks as we all wait for the big reveal. As the words ‘Ella Enchanted’ flash
She's confident and honest when she acknowledges that she has “the body of a weak and feeble woman”, which could create doubt for those who believe that women are the inferior gender, as many men did at the given period. But, by addressing this so-called issue directly she creates an intrepid town for herself, not to mention the fact that she shares of confidence with her subjects as she says that she has “the heart and stomach of a king, and a king of England too”.
Elizabeth gave a small inaudible sigh as she walked through the white grounds of Longbourn, not even pretending to be listening to the constant ramblings of her companion. Instead, she was paying much more attention to the snow that was crunching beneath her feet and to the refreshing cool breeze that hit her face as she walked. She had hoped that her sister Kitty would make this time spent with Mr Collins more bearable, but it seemed that Kitty had suddenly developed an extremely quick pace and was out of their sight soon after they left the house. Elizabeth deduced that this was probably the doing of her mother, who had been trying to get her alone with Mr Collins for days.
Mile after mile my old life is whizzing past just out of my grasp. As Gail Sheehy had said, “If we don’t change we don’t grow. If we don’t grow we aren’t really living.” Right now I really don’t want to grow, well actually I do want to grow because I’m only 4’8 and I want to grow really tall, but that’s not the point. The point is I miss my friends and I’m nervous that 7th grade might be difficult not meaning the assignments will be hard but the experience I mean I’m only 10. Literally I can count my age on my fingers! But, I was reading Shakespeare at 5 and was able to speak 9 different languages at 7. Still I played with the same LEGOs as every other kid (except I build scale models of famous monuments). I still learned how to ride a bike the same way as most kids (shortly after I built my own bike). I just wish I was treated normally, literally most people treat
However, it is through Colin’s song that a more complex characterization of his psyche is constructed. The initial framing of Colin’s character as a male who is unafraid of his feelings sets the reader who also views stereotypical gender roles as intrusive and therefore allows the reader to sympathize with Colin. This would of been inherent in Queen Elizabeth’s reading being a woman leader in a patriarchal society. However, Colin’s divergent androgynous qualities incisively change during the song to that of a young lustful boy with seemingly misogynistic undertones. In the first stanza of the song he
Also, throughout the poem the author is fair and young but she never described what happened after she was no longer beautiful. I believe this was to done to preserve the original mood and purpose of the poem.