All that remains are four useless girls and a disabled with half a foot into his grave." Even at the tender age of eight, these words pierced my heart; especially because they were from my deceased father's brother, a man I loved and considered to be a second father all my life. When my father died, the painful reality of his absence did not immediately hit me because I was still too young to understand the complexities of death. However, at that point in time, those callous words, uttered shamelessly before my father was even buried, elicited a fountain of tear. Looking back, I realized that it was in that moment that I decided to prove him and the rest of the world wrong. Those words were deeply engraved in my heart and implanted a cold-steeled determination in my inner core.
My sisters and I were transferred to a cheaper school and had to walk six miles to school every day. None of us complained and we managed to endure the physical strain somehow. Those six-mile treks, however, were an agonizing bliss. They were moments when my perspective formed. Not only did I learn that people are not always what they seem to be, but I also grew to appreciate and cherish my family more. It also dawned on me that to be miserable or self-motivated was my choice and I ultimately had the power to choose whether I was to be a victim or victor of circumstance. I promised myself that neither I nor my sisters were going to be the useless girls that people expected us to be.
As time passed, the odds seemed to be against me once more. My mother's unemployed status and the economic crisis during that time threatened to shake the firmness of my resolution. Surviving was a struggle. I remember enduring the groans from my ravenous stomach and fighting back tears each time my youngest sister innocently reassured me that daddy will soon come back home with food. My sisters and I endured the pain of being sent back home from school innumerable due to outstanding fees arrears.
When Farfrae enters the scene, also in Chapter V, he changes the course of events permanently. ... The structure of a tragedy is shaped like a funnel; with each introduction of a character with a piece of news, with each choice made by the protagonist, options narrow, possibilities are closed off, until the final outcome is inevitable. ...
With a short summary and a detailed analysis of her autobiography The Living of Charlotte Perkins Gilman, I will relate her true life experiences to the events that occurred in her short-fiction, "The Yellow Wallpaper," emphasizing on post-partum depression, the "rest cure" which was prescribed, and her overall ambivalence toward the male gender. ... "Being naturally moved to rejoicing by this narrow escape, I wrote "The Yellow Wallpaper," with its embellishments and additions, to carry out the ideal (I never had hallucinations or objections to my mural decorations) and sent a copy to the phy...
They felt that the worst problems were caused by narrow-minded social conditioning. ... (Leary 121) Of course, all of this activity eventually caught the attention of people who were not so comfortable with frequent drug use on campus and also the focus it was stealing from their own area of science. ... Some of his works included books like The Psychedelic Experience and Flashbacks, an autobiography. ...
Thus I was faced with narrowing my topic without loosing sight of my main goal. ... It was a sufficiently narrow subject to deal with in the time and space allowed yet at the same time requires enough background to help perceive the larger picture. ... Have read many of his speeches, letters and autobiographies I am left with the opinion that Lincoln suffered at the thought of the sufferance of slaves. ...
Jane Eyre is a well-known gothic English novel publishes during the Victorian period by Charlotte Bronte. The novel contains the social criticism of sexuality, religion and feminist, which considered to be ahead of its time. In Wide Sargasso Sea, Jean Rhys has written a prequel to Jane Eyre. It main...
