Girl by Jamaica Kincaid I chose the story girl by Jamaica Kincaid in the book At the bottom of the river. I've also read the story Blossom, Priestess of Oya, Goddess of Winds, Storms and Waterfalls by Brand Dionne in the book Sans Souci: And Other Stories. Both stories were extremely enchanting. I chose the girl story and not the Blossom, Priestess of Oya, Goddess of Winds, Storms and Waterfalls from the other stories because it was more easier for me to understand and answer the questions. “Girl” is one ongoing sentence of a conversation between two ladies separated by semicolons with only two replies from her daughter trying to defend herself. The story Girl was different than any other story I have ever read there was no characters in
For this book report, I choose the book written by Barbara Chase-Riboud called Hottentot Venus. This book is about a real female from the KhoeKhoe nation and her tragic life. This Young Khoisan, Ssehura, is an orphan in South Africa around the 1700s. After becoming a slave by a Dutch Afrikaner, her name changed to Saartjie (means Little Sarah in Dutch.) As the story goes on, it explains more of Saartjie’s culture, which includes the grooming to be more desirable for marriage. In Khoisan’s culture, female massage their buttocks with special ointment so they will swell, and their genitalia are also stretched. Because of this, Saartjie becomes a physical curiosity and sexual fetish to her white master. Later on, the white master is persuaded by an Englishman to send her to London to become a sideshow sensation. There, along with other “things-that-never-should-never-have-been-born,” she becomes known as “Hottentot Venus.” The story moved on until the end where Saartjie speaks as a dissected corpse stripped of her womanhood by scientists determined to confirm her as the missing link in the Great Chain of Being.
Frankel, Valerie Estelle. From Girl to Goddess: The Heroine's Journey through Myth and Legend. Jefferson, NC: McFarland &, 2010. Print.
Most people are familiar with the Cinderella story as told in the translation by Marcia Brown. There are also cultural and parodied versions of this tale. For a cultural version, I will be referring to Sootface, an Ojibwa tale retold by Robert D. San Souci and illustrated by Daniel San Souci (San Souci, 1994). The parody I've chosen is "Cinderumpelstiltskin", found in the book The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales, by Jon Scieszka and illustrated by Lane Smith (Scieszka, 1992). All three renditions are picture storybooks, and have similarities in the cast of characters and in the motifs of transformation and magic, but there are significant differences within those similar themes.
Throughout decades, parents had been reading and telling fairy tales to their children. Children had been exposed to princesses being humiliated, weak, and poorly treated. But it did not prevent the princess from getting her happy ending. The princess would find her prince charming and ride away into the sunset as she heads to the mansion. The idea that a girl must appear weak, fragile, and be humiliated is embedded in the heads of many young girls to get the desired ending. This concept has been illustrated and taught in fairy tales such as in Perrault 's Stories. Fairy tales in particular like the Cinderella stories re-enforces the idea that women and young girls should follow gender roles to have a traditional happy ending.
The story starts with an unknown woman whose name is not given. While the woman is given little background, she plays a significant role in the plot of the myth and even serves as the primary creator of the Earth. Moreover, the woman is still filled with emotion and personality. In fact, when moving throughout
The first story is The Necklace. In the Necklace Mathilde Loisel is a woman who is ungrateful of the things she possesses. Her husband tells her that there is a party that he wants her to attend with him. He gives her money to buy a dress. She realizes that she has no beautiful jewelry to match her dress. He says that she
Among the short stories that we read in class, Artie’s Angels is the one that I fall in love with. I admire the way Catherine Wells frame the characters, the way she lets Faye tells the story and makes the reader feel as if they were
These two quotes are critical in answering the question of whether or not Marcia Griffiths is the true Reggae Queen. After looking at her success as a female artist, the answer to this question becomes obvious. Women have been oppressed across the globe for centuries, which make Griffiths success as a female Reggae artist that much more outstanding. Looking at her achievements throughout her life starting at a young age to thirty-seven years in the music business, the audience will understand why she is the true Reggae Queen.
“Cinderella” the tale of a suffering young girl who finds her prince charming, and lives happily ever after in a big beautiful castle. Truly, the dream of many young female readers. This story is well known all around the world and has many different versions. This paper will specifically focus on the versions by Charles Perrault and Giambattista Basile. One cannot argue that while writing their individual version of Cinderella both Charles Perrault and Giambattista Basile were strongly influenced by the many other tales of Cinderella, and this can be seen by the repetitive plot line, character and morals in both their stories. Giambattista Basile story was called “The Cat Cinderella” and Charles Perrault named his “Cinderella” or “Little Glass
In the Pacific there is an island shaped like a big fish sunning itself in the sea. Around it, blue dolphins swim, otters play, and sea elephant and birds abound. A young Indian girl lives and waits for her people to return for her, from the land to the east. Karana with her long black hair and her dark skin, held her own on an island after her people had left for a new place. She was sure they would come back the next spring, but after two springs she learned to live on her own. I really admire her strength and her will power. She faces so many different adventures that you can relate to your life in a different fashion.
Right off the bat, I found myself entertained and interested in the words that lied within the text of Marie’s first lay of the lais. I was absorbed, one could say, and couldn’t wait to dig deeper into the remaining eleven short stories. Most of Marie’s short stories are easy to read while understanding the dwelling of the knights and their love contingencies. The Lais of Marie de France is the perfect escape of a good medieval read for anyone who enjoys fairytales, like myself. As of right now, I may not know much about medieval poetry or even much about love, but I can definitely see why the mysterious Marie de France is quite the hot commodity among the medieval readers. Each and every one of her short stories uphold typical elements that
There are many fairy tales that have been discussed in this class. The most interesting stories to me are Snow White by Brother Grimm and Ever After: A Cinderella Story directed by Andy Tennant based on Cinderella by Charles Perrault. There are many different versions of Snow White and Cinderella from numerous cultures. In every version, both stories are known as children bed time stories. In addition, the purpose of both stories is to give a life lesson to the children about overcoming evil to attain happiness. At first, every fairy tale has to deal with evil that threatens the protagonist, but in the end, good must always win. In the same way, both of the fairy tales have a similar scenario of a character that is beautiful and has an equally sweet disposition, but is thwarted by an antagonist
Some fairy tales are so iconic that they withstand the passing of time. One of those fairy tales is that of Cinderella. The rags to riches story that gives even the lowliest of paupers, hope that they may one day climb the social ladder. While the core message of the story has transcended time, over the years it has been adapted to address a variety of audiences. One of those renditions is Perrault’s Cinderella where the traditional idea of gender is conveyed and therefore associated with good/evil. This idea is challenged by a fellow 1600’s French author, L’heriter de Villandon’s, who’s version of Cinderella brings about a female protagonist who is also the heroine.
A person can take a story and look at it from many ways. Fairy tales represent the transformation of young people. Beauty is transformed into a young woman; she passes through the stages successfully and in turn is able to love. Every story teaches a lesson and in this case more than one lesson is taught. Not only is the lesson of sexuality and maturity taught, an even more important lesson is taught. Beauty and the Beast shows that true love comes from within the inside and if it is meant to be it will prevail.
Myra Estrin Levine Nursing theorists are all around the world. In our generation, we may not have met any of these theorists, but we are still fortunate enough to get to practice their theories in our everyday nursing lives. One great theorist, nurse, and educator that has greatly influenced our society is Myra Estrin Levine. She was born in Chicago in 1921 and died in 1996. Mrs. Levine was known as a renaissance woman who became an exceptional nurse by always putting her patients first.