MOHAMMAD ALI

In “The Wife”, The poet portrays an unmarried woman and contrasts her with a wife. ‘I’m “wife” – I’ve finished that’ explores personal themes of independence, society, and womanhood. Dickinson takes the reader through several differences, emotional and mental, between being a “spinster,” or an older, unmarried woman, and being a wife. In “The Story of an Hour”, the theme of the story is freedom. Once the grief of finding out her husband died passes over her, Louise begins to realize that with his passing she has the freedom to live her own life. You can see the moment this realization hits as she whispers, “free, free, free. Chopin’s view of the repressive role that marriage played in women’s lives as the protagonist, Louise Mallard, feels immense freedom only when her husband has died. While he is alive, she must live for him, and only when he dies does her life once again become her own. Both stories are common in having independent life where Kate got her independence after her husband’s death and found peace where she feels like a relive because to her being in a relationship, she is a slave to her husband and doing whatever he says. They both intend to have their own life and not be under someone that they rely on.

The Author Flannery O’Connor, in “A Good Man is Hard to Find” demonstrates the transformative power of human compassion and grace. Transformations of the two-character stereotypes, which the grandmother and the Misfit embody, are used to get across the story’s message. By allowing the stereotypes to evolve into round characters with the potential to change, the author demonstrates that anyone can change through the presence of grace. The grandmother represents the stereotypical southern, Christian, domineering mother who is often hypocritical and two-faced. She is flawed and annoying from the start, and more than anyone else is responsible for the family’s terrible problem. While she considers herself a “lady” and morally superior to others, she freely and frequently passes judgment on others without inspecting her own hypocrisy, selfishness, and dishonesty. She also takes any opportunity to judge the lack of goodness in people. The Misfit is described as the stereotypical criminal and more specifically, an ignorant, someone who has gone wrong in life. It is hard to empathize with him, especially after he kills the grandmother’s family in such a casual manner. The Misfit carries on a philosophical conversation with the grandmother, explaining that he doesn’t view actions as right or wrong and that if he does something that others consider wrong, he gets punished. Both characters, by the time of their final face, feel profound changes. Only when the grandmother faces death does she realize where she has gone wrong in life. Instead of acting superior like she has throughout the story, she recognizes that she is flawed like everyone else. She sees that both she and the Misfit are the same at their core they are sinners in need of grace. By seeing the murderer as “one of my own children!”, the grandmother offers him unconditional love and acceptance […]

What timeless human experiences or behaviors do you find in your reading of Oedipus the King? The story “Oedipus the King”, is relevant to this world crisis and in the past time as its been happening through the centuries where the kings are getting executed by their own family members to get into power. Just like that what happens in this plot when he would murder his father and sleep with his mother. Oedipus is ignorant of the deep dishonor he has done. Had Oedipus taken a moment to consider that there was any possibility that the man he was arguing with was his father, maybe he wouldn’t have killed him. Immediately following the murder, Oedipus could have felt shame for killing someone, but he could not have felt shame for killing his own father,  however, was viewed as an act of significant dishonor and, therefore, if Oedipus had known immediately after the fact that he had killed Laius, he would have taken on the burden of shame. Speaking to the Chorus, Oedipus asserts, “I account myself a child of Fortune, beneficent Fortune, and I shall not be dishonored.” Oedipus, believing that he has gone his whole life thus far outsmarting the gods, regards himself as being a man of great fortune and honor. Because Oedipus thinks he has not dishonored his family by killing his father and wedding his mother.

Araby is a story about a boy in Ireland who is infatuated with a girl living across the street. When the young girl talks about how badly she wants to attend a particular festival, he sees an opportunity to win her heart by attending the festival himself and bringing her back a gift. However, the boy’s plans are dashed when he arrives at the festival too late and finds that it is already over. The boy is left feeling disillusioned and empty-handed. He has gone through all the effort of traveling to the festival only to be let down, and he feels like he has missed his chance. The theme of the story “Araby” is that a person’s subjective feelings and the objective world are two opposing things. There is no agreement between them. First, we do not understand this disagreement, but later we come to understand that, and we are disillusioned. Even though he had the chance to win her heart, he was never given an opportunity to explain himself. The story ends with the girl walking away from him, never to be seen again. This story shows the importance of communication and how it can change the course of a relationship. The boy in the story never had the chance to tell the girl how he felt about her. If he had been able to communicate his feelings, the outcome of the story might have been different. The boy’s inability to communicate his feelings leads to his disillusionment. This story highlights the importance of being able to communicate effectively.

Miss Moore is trying to teach the students about the injustice of her country. She took the students to the toy store so they knew how some people could afford to buy things that would cost them their food money for the year. She wanted the kids to learn a lesson about how unfair their country is. She was like a role model for the students. Sylvia is the story’s main character who’s telling the story from her point of view. She tells us how she doesn’t like her teacher, Miss Moore. Sylvia tells us how she thought the toy story was too expensive and why people would buy the toys for too much money. Even though Sylvia and the other students talk behind the teacher’s back and do not appreciate what she has done for them, she still tries her best to teach the students a lesson.

The story, “Salvation”, by Langston Huges, portrays that the young child was believing in something that has been told him by since he was a kid by his family and when he was in church with his aunt he experience a lot different from what he has told because he was believing that GOD will be sent down and help him forgiving his sins but he never see Jesus so he was upset about it and he acknowledges that there is no Jesus who comes down to saved him yet the lord of the church was calling him to come and be saved and he wasn’t sure if he goes up and then gets ashamed by others because he didn’t see any GOD there. So starting to believe that it’s a whole lie about Jesus that comes down to save him when he never sees anyone.