The theme of the Emily Dickinson’s poem “The Wife” relates to Mrs. Mallard’s emotional state in “The Story of an hour,” because they both long for freedom. In the poem “The Wife,” She rose to his requirement, dropped The playthings of her life To take the honorable work Of woman and of wife. In this stanza, the poet shares that the woman is getting married and entering her new life to be a wife She made changes, sacrifices, and dropped all her own dreams as a lady/girl to become a wife. Being a man’s wife was an honorable stand for women during the Victorian Era. If aught she missed in her new day Of amplitude, or awe, Or first prospective, or the gold In using wore away, In this stanza, it is a reflection of thoughts and opinions that cannot be shared. She doesn’t share the things she misses in this new life. The word “amplitude” refers to the drastic changes that the woman has experienced from being a young woman with a carefree life to a wife filled with a lot more responsibilities. She does not discuss what she is awed by, and she doesn’t mention her future expectations from her new life because it has slowly faded away with time. It lay unmentioned, as the sea Develops pearl and weed, But only to himself is known The fathoms they abide. In this last stanza, the married woman keeps her happiness and sadness within herself and only she is aware of her own thoughts, feelings, and memories. Within the sea lies depth and only the married woman know how she feels. As in “The Story of an hour,” Mrs. Mallard felt grief for her husband when she heard he was hit by a train, she transitioned into accepting […]
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My research paper is about brief tale “The handsomest Drowned Man” composed by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. A Latin author, who composed the brief tale “The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World,” A Tale for Children, Creative Education, was distributed in the 1993. this sort of narrating into a domain of the incredible that appears to have no association with a specific time or spot. By the by, Garcia Marquez has been affected by his childhood in a waterfront Colombian town during the fierce 1930s. This article upholds my proposal proclamation since it makes sense of how one individual can help someone else create and look thing at things distinctively throughout everyday life.
I have chosen “Salvation” by Langston Hughes for my research essay. My thesis statement is “the author shows how the narrator’s mood changes throughout the story. Langston is seen as an excited, curious young boy at first, but it changes at the end which is very obvious “. As you can see, the literary work I focused on was the character’s mood. I believe a secondary source that would support my thesis is a biography of Langston to see how this real-life experience shaped him into a person in the future. After reading some readings, I have read that Langston was not religious growing up and this may be from the experience he had as a child and the church,
My essay will be talking about The most handsome dead man” By “Gabriel Garcia Marquez. I will be focusing on trying to prove more on how the story she made is very imaginative and has lots of magical realism. the reason why I chose this as my thesis and what to talk about was because I like the imagination it put in my mind when the women said he was the size of a sperm whale. this shows that this has an imagination side and a magical realism to it because a man being the size of a sperm whale isn’t normal. I will be using the news paper Beyond magical realism: Teaching Creative Thinking Using Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s “The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World” as my secondary source due to it being a newspaper. I chose this news paper because it stood out of the crowd and looked like it had good information. Im still looking for a primary source and thinking. In the news article it talked about Marquez used magical realism which falls right under my thesis topic number 2.
I will write about “Salvation” by Langston Hughes for my research essay. “Salvation” by Langston Hughes published in 1940, is a short story from “The Big Sea”. “Salvation” is a short story about a 12 years old kid, who questions Jesus existence after church services, and also reached out to adults after that visit. In this short story, there are a lot of ironies popping out. But the main point which was a lie changed him because Langston realized if he didn’t lie about being saved, his aunt will be disappointed in him. He cried at the end and realized something about Jesus. In BMCC databases I didn’t find any resources yet because of reasons. I will try to find mostly about, how a can lie affects someone, or how can a lie changes a child’s mind. Since we as the reader saw what happened to Langston at the end. My thesis statement would be “A simple lie can affect a kid(person) mentally”.
My research paper focuses on the short story “The handsomest Drowned Man” written by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. A Latin writer, who wrote the short story “The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World,” A Tale for Children, Creative Education, was published in the 1993. I will focus to write about “Leaf Storm and Other Stories” published in 1972. Garcia Marquez, considered by many to be Colombia’s foremost writer, has gained much of his recognition by writing stories that operate on a mythical, almost allegorical, level. “The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World” takes this type of storytelling into a realm of the fantastic that seems to have no connection to a particular time or place. Nevertheless, Garcia Marquez has been influenced by his upbringing in a coastal Colombian village during the turbulent 1930s. “The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World” has always interested critics, both those who interpret the story as a comment on Colombian. The thesis of my essay is: “Esteban a truly great person has the power to change others, to inspire them to be better, to make them want to be extraordinary. The villager’s transformation originates entirely from within. The dead man is dead, after all, which means the villagers are responsible themselves and for the changes that they make. Therefore, my main goal is finding a great biography in context to connect to my primary source to connect with “The handsomest Drowned Man” to help me prepare for the next step.
In my research I will be writing about is Toni Cade Bambara’s “The Lesson”. The reading The Lesson is about how a teacher takes a group of students from Harlem on a school trip to a toy store to try and teach them the worth of money and see how they hold them selves accountable in a store. While looking through the BMCC library I really could not find anything yet to write about but I will continue on doing more research in the library to find something good enough and more understandable and then I will include the sources information in my writing, as their are a lot of stories that can be found to relate to this story I am trying to find one that talks about representation and how the way you represent yourself shows the type of person you are and also gives people a way to judge you.
“The Lesson” is a short story by Toni Cade Bambara written in a first-person narrative told by a young black girl named Sylvia. My thesis of the story is about self-empowerment. From my knowledge of the story, Miss Moore is taking the kids to Fifth Avenue for a tour to encourage the children to walk into the stores on the fifth avenue to explore the new environments and gave a lecture about race inequality. I found the purpose of the lesson is to tell the children that they are not different from other races and how important to have self-empowerment. I haven’t found the book I needed just yet. So far the story’s I found do not have enough details to support my thesis. Still, I am looking for books about self-empowerment and race inequality and see what I can combine for a more exciting research summary and outside sources that can prove my thesis and elevate the details of my essay.
In the essay about suspense in her story “A Good Man Is Hard to Find, by O’Connor, we know what the story is about on the surface. In its interior, I feel the story is about karma and dharma. Karma is the result based on a person’s actions throughout all of their lives, past and present. These actions are related to a person’s dharma, and whether or not they have fulfilled their duties of being a truly good human being. In this story it teaches us that nothing good comes from being selfish and if you are selfish, you or your loved ones may suffer your consequences. The grandmother manipulated her family to do what she wanted, and this was selfish of her. This led to the death of her and her family. This story describes there’s two different types of people, those who know they are bad people such as the Misfit and those who are bad people but portray to believe that they are good such like the grandmother.
My research paper will focus on the short story “Salvation” by Langston Hughes. A young boy who faces emotional pressure to be saved by his aunt and church members. The irony of this is that he wasn’t saved and lost faith in God. My thesis statement is: “Hughes uses an ironic twist between dramatic and situational irony to show a young boy’s disillusionment with faith.” After looking over the secondary sources on BMCC I have learned how to view a story from different people’s points of view of what the story means to them or the message they got from the story. When reading the secondary sources I learned Langston was a famous black American poet who expressed how he felt through his work.
