An Old Fashioned Girl Character Analysis

“But those with an evil heart, seem to have a talent for destroying anything beautiful which is about to bloom.” This quote relates to the text because Miss Strangeworth has an evil heart without knowing it and she destroyed good peoples feelings and in the end when her roses were destroyed, something beautiful of hers was destroyed. (Roses) The possibility of Evil by Shirley Jackson explains that there is an evil everywhere, we can not stop it at all. Miss Strangeworth’s thought, actions and the setting plus the rising action and exposition demonstrate it.

Once, there was a king who lived happily with his eleven sons and daughter, Elisa. However, he married an evil queen who sent Elisa to live with peasants and turned the princes into swans. The Queen hated Elisa for her beauty and made her unrecognizable to the King when she was 15. After this event, Elisa met eleven swans who wore golden crowns. At sunset, these swans turned into her brothers!

In both of “Polly Sits Tight” and “Among the Hidden” Ethel M. Caution and Margaret Pearson Haddix try and convey an internal conflict of should I or should I not and fear plays a large role in their decisions. People should not let fear influence their decisions in life. In “Polly Sits Tight” Polly was scared that other people would make fun of her shoes. So when the teacher asked a question that no one else could answer everyone knew Polly knew the answer.

Shyima Hall was born in Egypt on September 29, 1989 the seventh child of desperately poor parents. It all started when she was eight, her parents sold her into slavery. Shyima then moved away to Egypt capitol city to live with a wealthy family and serve them, eighteen hour a day. When she was ten, her captors move to Orange County California. Two year later on unknown call from a neighbor brought about the end of Shyima serving time, but her journey to free freedom was far from over.

Meghan Sperling Honors 10, 4th hour 1-26-2023 Character Analysis Essay Stereotypical women can't be compassionate, right? In Harper Lee’s novel To Kill a Mockingbird, Aunt Alexandra Hancock comes into the storyline and became a main character toward the middle to end of the novel. Alexandra is asked to stay with her brother, Atticus, and his family so she could be a feminine influence on her niece, Scout. Although she does a lot of background events throughout the story, she plays a huge role in character development, not only for herself but for many other characters. From beginning to end she goes from being unappreciated by her niece to finally being understood.

Jose Goncalves Professor Karen Oden English 1301 Jamaica Kincaid “Girl” Kincaid wrote a fictional story about a mother who was teaching her daughter how to properly act in modern and formal society. From the type of clothes Jamaica mentioned on her essay, it can be told that it portrays the life of an old-fashioned society where a nice lady have to act or behave in a certain way. In the first two sentences, Kincaid says, “Wash the white clothes on Monday and put them on the stone heap; wash the color clothes on Tuesday and put them on the clothesline to dry;” (Kincaid 895). Using these words, it basically says how women should treat and wash their clothes.

Discovery is an instinctual part of the human structure, through discovery an individual can gain insight into themselves and the world around them, which can intern impact their current perspective. Tara Winches novel, Swallow the air, represents this in a variety of ways. Swallow the air is written from the perspective of May Gibson, a teenage girl living in a coastal NSW town. The novel follows May’s travels as she unearths the truth about her past. As the story progresses, the reader observes the protagonists’ responses as a result of personal growth, cultural awareness and the circle of abuse.

In Karen Russell's short story, “St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves”, a pack of wolf-girls are sent to a church to transform them into human-girls. As they journey through their transformation there is a guide called, The Jesuit Handbook on Lycanthropic Culture Shock that helps the nuns running St. Lucy’s. The book describes the transformation in stages to help determine the girls’ place as a human. Claudette, the narrator, arrives at St. Lucy’s with her pack to begin their transformation. She struggles through most of the stages, but succeeds in only a couple of them.

“Penny was thin and dark and taller, possibly older than Primrose, who was plump and blonde and curly.” (352) Penny later becomes a child psychologist “Penny was a good student and in due course went to university, where she chose to study developmental Psychology.” (357) Primrose later became a storyteller and took care of children “Primrose had little education. She was always being kept off school to look after the others.”

The Role of Family in “A Good Man is Hard to Find” “A Good Man is Hard to Find”, written by Flannery O’Connor is a short story that brings out mystery and cruelty. Manipulation plays a big role in this story by the grandmother. She tends to manipulate her family and tends to get her way by playing with them. Although the author wanted to give many perspectives of the grandmother, we as reader got our own views of her.

“Mr. Freeman is ugly. Big old grasshopper body, like a stilt- walking circus guy. Nose like a credit card sunk between his eyes. But he smiles at us as we file into class”(10).

By the elements in Mrs. Jones's purse, the author indirectly characterizes Mrs.Jones as a character who is constantly prepared and efficient. This description implies that her generosity towards Roger is not unintentional, but preferably a reflection of her deep sense of understanding and sorrow. Overall, these instances of indirect characterization help to evolve the idea of generosity and mercy through the display. tough or unyielding people can exhibit acts of kindness and compassion toward

Evans exhibits Rosy’s initially ambitious and spoiled nature to be clashed with the dismal reality of the docile wife through acute attention to Rosy’s yielding mannerisms. For example, in the beginning, Rosy is eager to ask her father for money, assuming that being married will be no different from living off her parents. However, when Lydgate addresses that asking for money is not acceptable, Rosy is characteristics begin to fit into the stereotypical compliant wife when her “lips began to tremble and the tears welled up,”. Before realizing how flawed her marriage was, Rosy was a forward and strong-willed individual who usually attained her desires very easily. However, when faced with the equally strong-willed personality of her husband, Rosy retreats to a defeated and more morose character.

To be trapped in one's own mind may be the worst prison imaginable. In Charlotte Perkins Gilman's "The Yellow Wallpaper", the narrator of the story is constantly at battle with many different forces, such as John, her husband, the yellow wallpaper that covers the walls of her room, and ultimately herself. Throughout the story the narrator further detaches herself from her life and becomes fixated on the yellow wallpaper that surrounds her in her temporary home, slowly driving her mad. The narrator of "The Yellow Wallpaper" is a major and dynamic character as she is the main character of the story, and throughout the story her personality and ways of thinking change drastically.

The setting in “The Horse Dealer’s Daughter” continues to convey the theme that women have been oppressed by society. Mabel faces oppression in the small english town where the story takes place. She explains that being a women does not matter as much when a family has money, but when they are poor she has to walk down the streets with her eyes low and avoid eye contact as she buys the cheapest item in every store (Lawrence 458). This shows that when a woman is seen as being represented by someone with power, in this case it is her father, then they are given a little respect. However, when a women is looked at just as herself and not as a rich man’s daughter she is not seen a colleague to men but as an object that is to be pitied.