Analysis Of ' My Daughter ' By Judith Sutpen

Julia Alvarez’s poem “ALL-AMERICAN GIRL” talks about a girl who wants to look American. The poem is told in the first person(a girl), perhaps Julia Alvarez. As she begins speaking, she talks about what an American girl should look like. The speaker says that she “wanted stockings, makeup, store-bought clothes”(1) and wanted “to speak English so you couldn’t tell”(3) she came from somewhere else.

“The Girl Who Loved the Sky” by Anita Endrezze was my chosen poem; A story of a short-friendship among two girls. Imagery is used by Endrezze to illustrate the inside of the second grade classroom both of the girls attend. As well as a simile to compare the main character’s feeling toward numbers, I believe to be mathematics perhaps, “I learned that numbers were fractious beasts with dens like dim zeros”(Endrezze 15). Suggesting an unpleasant or rather difficult feeling towards subjects dealing with numbers.

Stargirl was another fantastic book Jerry Spinelli. He added interesting characters, such as, Leo the quiet and shy one, Stargirl unique and fun one, Dori Dilson Stargirl only friend, Archie the wise and elderly one, Kevin Leo’s friend that likes the stoplight, and Hillari Kimble the popular bratty one. This book takes place in MICA, Arizona. Now, in paragraph one I will discuss the plot of Stargirl. Next, I will talk about the theme in Stargirl. Finally, I will evaluate Jerry Spinelli`s job on the novel Stargirl.

In Arlie Russell Hochschild’s, “Love and Gold,” she depicts the economic influences that turn choices of mothers in Third World countries into a precondition. Similarly, in Toni Morrison’s, Sula, a recurring theme of the struggle between independence, the ability to choose, and doing what’s best for others, or coerced decisions, is imminent throughout the entire novel and revolved around the main character, Sula. Often times the factor that weighs down choice is responsibility. Choices are seemingly infinite until you factor in what choices will affect which people and why. Both mothers and caregivers have to put their dependent before themselves, therefore limiting their

In “Only Daughter,” published in Glamour magazine in 1990, Sandra Cisneros talks about how it’s like for her to be the only daughter in a Mexican-American family of six sons. She talks about some of the struggles she faces. Sandra is a writer. A writer who wants her dad to be curious about her writing. He never bothers to ask what she’s writing. When they’d ask her father how many children's he has, he’d respond with “I have seven sons.” The mention of only sons, not a daugher. This proved to her he was only proud of his sons but not her. According to him she’d also have to go to college but only to find a husband. A man who will take her out of poorness. Since, according to Sandra that's why her dad thought college was important for her. He didn't care about her major. Sandra Cisneros is a writer who didn’t have the attention she was meant to receive. Towards the end she finally gets the attention she desired. She translated one of her pieces into Spanish, the only language her dad could read. That's how it gained the attention of her father. When her dad finally reads her story, it fills her with joy. At first she didn't get any attention from her dad at all, because she’s a girl. Sandra Cisneros makes a great argument on her life being full of loneliness. Although, she only talks about her perspective on things. In this article she only talks about her side of the story, and her side only. Sandra talks about how her life was as being the only girl out of seven children.

Spanning and providing passage over rivers, chasms, and roads, bridges are much more than just structures.They can be the attempt to save something precious into what could turn out as divorce. Marie Arana,  a distinguished author for writing “Two Worlds, One Childhood”, shares how she was the link between her two obverse parents, whose marriage was almost doomed from the beginning. Marie even takes note of when she notices her reflection through a little girl, and claims that every marriage has a “moment.”

Elisheva Baumgarten’s work stands as a model for students and scholars alike in its comprehensive review of little-known writings and other sources from medieval Ashkenazi Jews as well as in its meticulous analysis of the often ambiguous writings. In Mothers and Children, Baumgarten examines a plethora of primary sources to explore the inner dynamics of Jewish families; she then uses this information to draw objective conclusions about the relationship between the Jewish and Christian communities in the middle ages.

This week’s reflection is on a book titled Girls Like Us and it is authored by Rachel Lloyd. The cover also says “fighting for a world where girls not for sale”. After reading that title I had a feeling this book was going to be about girls being prostituted at a young age and after reading prologue I sadly realized I was right in my prediction.

Colored people have been mistreated ever since the day they came to America. First, they started off as slaves until the civil war happened and freed the slaves but not to the extent that you would have thought at that time. After the civil war, they were freed but were still treated like different human beings having different bathrooms than whites and different drinking fountains, but many colored people fought to change that and have equal rights like Malcom X. Eventually colored people started to have the same equal rights as everyone else and there were no different bathrooms or drinking fountains. Edwinge Dandticat’s “Message to My Daughters” is finding it difficult on how to tell her daughters the problems of today’s society for colored

Young people live life by the day. The process of self discovery begins as a teenager. For some, this could take years. For others, it could happen quickly. Sometimes hardship leads people towards self-discovery. In the book Ordinary People, by Judith Guest, Conrad struggles with his identity; in the past, Conrad was never able to do anything without his brother’s influence. Once his brother drowns, Conrad feels lost without him. In the beginning, middle and end of the book, Conrad goes through the stages of grief, and through this process, Conrad discovers his identity.

Set in a futuristic society, a central influence on ones status and wealth in “The Semplica-Girl Diaries” by George Saunders, comes from ownership of semplica-girls; women from poor countries who agree to become human ornaments, strung by a microline installed in their temple, in order to provide money for their families. Through characterizing Eva as sensitive, and abnormal, Saunders shows that the average person doesn 't see how owning semplica-girls is morally wrong. The majority of people who can afford SG’s have them; in Eastridge, a presumably rich neighborhood, approximately 39/50 had. This number shows the normalization of owning SG’s. Eva consistently expresses her dislike saying, “I don’t like it. It’s not nice. . .If we want to help them, why can’t we just give them the money?”. The rest of her family are fascinated by the semplica-girls, and aspire to have one of their own. However, Eva sees the cruelty in displaying humans as ornaments for their own benefits, because as she suggests, if they wanted to help them they would give them money. In an attempt to defend themselves, her parents justify owning semplica-girls because the women have seen worse, are “happier”, and able to send money to their families. The fact that Eva goes against society’s beliefs, shows that she sees through the distorted justification society proposes. Her father writes that Eva “has developed tendency to set herself apart from others” and sees her sensitivity as “an

Should Octavia E. Butler’s “Bloodchild” be classified as a slave story? The author claims that “Bloodchild” is not a tale of slavery, but rather a love story and a coming-of-age tale. Does “Bloochild” conform to the conventions of the slave stories, love stories, or coming-of-age tales with which you are familiar? What other classifications—in terms of literary genre, form, or mode—apply to “Bloodchild”?

Through the process of social construction, various social statuses, such as race, class, and gender, are given a deeper meaning than simply a category. In turn, these statuses begin having an effect on the groups they encompass, causing some groups to become dominate over others and shaping the hierarchy of their society. Once established, these statuses begin to intertwine and influence one another, along with space and time, which is called intersections. These intersections work together to further shape our experiences and hierarchies within every society. The intersections between these spheres are further broken down into multiple types, and each type of intersection relates these spheres together in a different way. Intersections can be infrastructures, mystifications, or constructions of hierarchy. All societies around the world are constructed from these effects and intersections from the spheres, and this can be seen easily in the film “Daughter from Danang.” In the film, Heidi Bub, born in Vietnam, was brought to the United States during “Operation Babylift” as an infant at the end of The Vietnam War. The film focuses on the differences between Heidi’s life and the life she would have lived if she was raised in Danang. Growing up in a different place with different people meant Heidi had been exposed to diverse lifestyles and social spheres, which, through intersections, led to a much different construction of what she knows as home and family.

Reading through Baby You Are my Religion by Marie Cartier I see the suffering the LGBT people had to live through. All the individuals interviewed are an example that personal testimony is valid. Hearing their stories breaks my heart, especially knowing that despite all that they’ve had to fight there are still people who get treated this way. I now have a better understanding of the generation before me and some of the hardships that people dealt with at the time. Cartier writes “A new word or house is needed to articulate what these women were doing for each other. I call this new word theelogy, in honor of the concept of friendship, and friendship’s ability to see the humanity, or the sacred, in each other and in our shared community members”

Characteristics of the genre the work does/doesn’t meet: The book is not true so is considered fiction, also Carrie falls in love with the Charles so it is romance.