Motifs In Star Wars And Sonny's Blues

Short stories often share parallel plots, themes, characters, and conflicts. For example, have you ever seen a Disney Princess film? How they all appear to have a quest, and fairy godmother or an evil stepmother, and prince charming. Unquestionable they all have changed details and settings, but in the end if you take a deeper look, it is all the same backbone of a story. These repetitive concepts are known as motifs. Motifs are in movies, TV shows, short stories and almost every other kind of fiction. Motifs are found in all the elements of fictions, from characters to plot. Think of Star Wars and Star Trek, what is the difference? Sure there are differences, but they share many motifs. They say “history repeats its self,” the saying should

In the commentary article written by Jack Coulehan, the quote “the girl is a natural performer, a wonderful comedienne, who now is in demand throughout the city and state” this quote shows that other people besides Emily’s mother can see that she has a wondrous talent. Later in the story the mother finalizes understands that she expected to much from Emily, because she had Emily so young she sent her away to figure things out for herself. The mother says “I was a young mother, I was a distracted mother…my wisdom came too late.” Because Emily never showed love to her mother or other siblings, her mother only saw the disconnection, but really she was missing that Emily was scared to love the person that sent her away. As the iron, the mother wants to fix the wrinkled spots of the dress, which is a symbol for Emily. To Emily the wrinkles don’t change who she is, Emily loves to preform, and views herself as the same person no matter what circumstances she goes through, such as the experiences she had in her childhood. The mother comes to the realization at the end of the story of why her daughter doesn’t show affection, when the old man living in the back said “you should smile at Emily more” because she had not shown Emily attention or love when she was younger Emily never expected or understood the unconditional love of a mother to a daughter. In the short story Sonny’s Blues, the narrator and Sonny grew up close, as normal brothers do, but as the narrator reads the newspaper he gets some unsettling news about Sonny. Sonny’s use of drugs and criminal