Anna Avalon was very talented. Not only had she been part of a circus and known how to use a trapeze, but she was able to rescue her daughter from a house that was on fire, by using her talent and her expertise to lunge toward the roof of the house and hang upside down by her feet attached to the gutter. By doing this she was able to crawl in through the window and save her daughter.
2. Anna Avalon was brave. It would have taken a great amount of braveness and courage to do the things that she did, whether it be the trapeze stunts from when she was younger or the act of saving her daughter from the fire. She was a very brave woman. When she got older she became blind. I think that someone has to be very brave to be able to deal with blindness.
Secondly is Clara she is Uriah’s mom and is hard working in the fields and she used to be a cook for the master. The only time she didn’t get enough cotton was when she was teaching new slaves and then she got whipped. When someone ate her corncake she didn’t even say anything. She reacted in realistic way when she got taken away and sold she was crying because she didn’t want to leave her family even after they got to the chain-gang she was calling for her family; Uriah, Rabe, Ella etc. Once she got to the auction the auctioneer told her to show her muscles and she stood up for herself, she said that she can do more than most people. This shows how Clara reacts in a realistic historic
Sasha Dawn’s Oblivion is about Calliope Knowles a 16 year old girl who has a compulsion to write which is also known as graphomania. Calliope’s compulsion to write was brought on by the disappearance of her father the reverend of the Holy Promise church, and a young girl from the church Hannah Ryne’s, as it gets closer to the anniversary of the disappearance Calliope starts to write and remember more of the night. This book is enjoyable because it doesn’t just focus on Calliope’s urges to write it also looks into her past before the night she was found in an abandoned apartment writing “I killed him” on the walls, the book also goes into detail about her foster family and her relationship with her friends.
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Aligning with Anna Comnena’s overall bias, the details in The Alexiad harbor a great deal of disdain for crusaders. The East versus West mentality is evident in the narrative through Comnena’s description of the Crusaders. She uses the names “Celt” and “Norman()” as derogatory describing the Crusaders as uncultured and “riotous().” With Byzantine bias she singles out the Normans especially with respect to Nicea where they “behaved the most cruelly to all (251).” Alexius, himself is written to fear their “unstable and mobile character (248)” which reiterates battles against Normans earlier in his life.
In most of the world's greatest literature, there have been introduced countless courageous characters and triumphant victories. These characters have the power to father strength from distress and grow brave by reflection. Such characters as Janie from Their Eyes Were Watching God, Gatsby from The Great Gatsby, June from The Joy Luck Club, and Edna from The Awakening. Throughout each of these magnificent stories comes an example of bravery and courage. Although in some cases, the characters may not generally be perceived by the public to be courageous at all, they demonstrate extreme strength in overcoming adversity.
Many characters of literature show courage in many forms and for many reasons. Some characters bravely fight the systemic racism of Alabama in the 1930's. Others make dangerous choices in order to pay respects to their family. And some defend themselves when facing unwanted advances from a corrupt leader. Courage is when a person stand ups for something even if the odds are stacked against them; the characters Tom Robinson, Antigone, and Minerva Mirabal are all courageous for diverse reasons and encounter numerous obstacles.
Anna displays courage in the story multiple times despite how unlucky she’s been in her life. At an early age she had faced the death of her first husband, Harold Avalon, and her first child. Harold dies because of an
When Anna Close is first introduced in the novel, As We Are Now she is referred to as Mrs. Close. From what I gather, this was to represent a sort of formality between her and Caro because they were not yet acquainted. Not only this, but it also seems that it was Harriet and Rose's way of manipulating Caro to fear the worst out of Harriet's replacement. Caro knew better than to expect someone who would actually care for her, because of this she was surprised beyond belief when she met Anna.
Most people agree that Edgar Allan Poe wrote "Annabel Lee" about his departed wife, Virginia Clemm, who died of tuberculosis two years earlier. Some critics, however, contend that in the seventh line of the poem he states, "I was a child and she was a child," and he certainly was no child in 1836 at twenty-seven when he married his thirteen-year-old bride. Maybe the poem is about an earlier love, or perhaps it is purely fictional, but addressing Annabel Lee as his "life and [his] bride" in line thirty-eight and writing it two years after his beloved young wife's death, it is seems logical that it is indeed written about her and is simply embellished with a bit of poetic license.
My overall initial reaction to Anna and Isabelle’s story is shock and sadness. How can a mother let her daughter suffer or be in a situation like these girls were for such a long time? It is heart rending that being just a few months old Ana was going back and forth switching from family to family or foster homes who could eventually adopt her. Despite the fact, that Anna’s mother was known to be mentally defected and did not have her family’s support, I feel like she could have made a better decision of giving her child for adoption and letting the new family take care of Anna’s needs. Just like Isabelle had great results due to her training, Anna could of possibly done great if offered the opportunity to train her well. As a mother, I try to give and do my best for my daughter so she can have a great life; I cannot imagine letting my daughter be isolated and in bad conditions as Anna was. On the other hand, I can kind of understand Anna’s mom position on isolating her daughter for such a long time. During the 1930’s around the time Anna was born, it was a humiliation for an unwed woman to be pregnant. It was very rare for a single woman to be pregnant that they would
Marriage is a powerful union between two people who vow under oath to love each other for better, for worse, for richer, for poorer, in sickness and in health. This sacred bond is a complicated union; one that can culminate in absolute joy or in utter disarray. One factor that can differentiate between a journey of harmony or calamity is one’s motives. Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice is a novel of manners, where Elizabeth Bennet and her aristocratic suitor Mr. Darcy’s love unfolds as her prejudice and his pride abate. Anton Chekhov’s “Anna on the Neck” explores class distinction, as an impecunious young woman marries a wealthy man. Both Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice and Anton Chekhov’s “Anna on the Neck” utilize
One of the main issues in “Anna and the King” is the differences between men and women. What is less obvious is that those differences are of two types: the existing inequality of the social status of men and women, and the ways in which men and women try to deal with (end or prolong) this inequality.
Anna in the Tropics is a play written by Nilo Cruz. The story surrounds a family of Cuban immigrants that live in Florida. It’s the 1920’s and they run a cigar factor by rolling cigars the traditional way - by hand. The owner hires a lector who reads to the workers during the hot summers. This cultural custom was practiced in Cuba to keep the hand rollers entertained with dynamic novel choices. What makes this play more interesting is the book choice of the lector. He reads Anna Karenina, a dramatic classic novel written by Leo Tolstoy. The lector brings the cold Russian winter of the story into the factory and insights passion in the workers who find themselves intertwined with the lives of
In this project, I will be discussing about my poet Edgar Allan Poe. Poe had written numerous of poems and stories but the one I chose was “Annabel Lee”. This poem was written in 1849 which was a long time ago. Even though this poem is centuries old, it is still a well known poem. This whole project includes a biography, literary movement, and a explication about the poem.
As we saw at the end of the novel Anna Karenina, Anna ends her tragic life by throwing herself onto the tracks underneath an oncoming train, while begging God for forgiveness during that time. The way Anna's life ended symbolized the rise and fall of her life put together into one incident that took place on the subway. Anna, who at one point was a very prominent woman in the Russian Society, now lived a sad and dreadful life of misery. By reading at the end, it became very obvious that Anna had by far reached her lowest point in life. Her social problems with Vronsky, Karenin, as well as her other surroundings leave her old and alone.