After reading the book, "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" I thought a lot about what the book was trying to explain. Throughout the awful events of the black girl, Maya's life, she stayed patient and strong. I do believe that this book belongs among the classic works read by young adults.
Maya went through many different things that made her life very difficult. She grew up in the South around the time of the Depression. There was a lot of discrimination going on at this time, so Maya had to deal with a lot of prejudice people which most kids today don"t have to deal with. She spent some of the story with her grandmother, or Momma, and her Uncle Willie who were both very strict. If Maya or her brother misbehaved they would be whipped with a belt. Today, that would be considered abuse. Young adults reading this book would be able to understand how badly this would affect the life of someone like Maya.
Maya and her brother, Bailey, had to be moved back and forth across the South to see their "Mother Dear". One time, Maya was raped by her Mother's boyfriend Mr. Freeman. He eventually was killed and Maya thought it was all her fault. She went a long time not speaking to anyone except her brother whom she had a close relationship with. She and her bother moved back to Stamps with their Momma and there she saw things that normal 10 year olds shouldn"t see (We"ll just leave it at that). When she was a little older she moved back to live with her Mother Dear. There she went to stay with her father and his wife for the summer. Maya was disliked by her father's wife and was run out of the house. She lived as a homeless person on the streets of San Francisco for a month and finally went back home to her Mother. Maya still stayed strong and decided to get a job. She became the first black woman to work on the Market Street Railway Company. This was a big deal considering that people back then wouldn"t hire black woman to do that job.
One that came to my mind pretty quickly, was "Gone Away," by the Offspring. ... The message of the song "Gone Away," is that people on earth suffer when they lose a loved one. ... And it feels, Yeah it feels like the world has grown cold, now that you've gone away." This talks about how the world has changed because they miss the person gone. It seems to them that they are so far away. ...
Gow has recreated scenes from the Shakespeare play Twelfth Night , in the opening scene of Away, and The Tempest, in the closing scene of Away. ... This is evident in Away from Act 1 Scene 1 where Tom plays 'Puck' in the Highschool play A Midsummer's Night Dream. ... In Away Tom takes on this role, but his magic is not love potions it is courage and sense of reality. ... Without him all problems would of gone without resolution. ... In the closing scene of the play Away, Gow has Tom speaking the words of 'King Lear'...
Away is a charming play that deals with family, relationship, life, growing up and death. ... In the last Act of Away, an entire scene is performed only through Stage Directions, yet it is a major scene in the conclusion of Away. ... When this scene in viewed in performance, we can tell that Meg is rejecting Tom because she begins backing Away from him and cautiously glancing back at the path they came, wanting to go back to the safety of her parents, where Tom can't impose anything like this on her. The audience has gone from seeing the two characters walking closely, side by side, to se...
It is the Civil War and Reconstruction seen from this new angle that makes Gone With The Wind so popular. ... Scarlett's mother died, and her father has gone crazy. ... Rhett told her that he was going away for a long time and doesn't care to see her again. ... Gone With The Wind, with its more than a thousand pages, even if it had no historical value, would be important merely as entertainment. ... It is not too much to say that Gone With The Wind is among the most powerful and original novels in American literature. ...
In Michael Gow's stage play Away we can learn about Australia's history its social issues and its culture through the characters and their actions. ... Roy believes that they should just accept that he has gone and move on with their lives. ... Away explores the way in which the characters affected by death deal with it. ... Away is a play about ordinary Australian life and ordinary Australian people. ... The play Away has been created in historical social and cultural contexts. ...
Two films that provide antithetical views on marriage and intimate relationships are "Gone Girl" (2014) and "My Big Fat Greek Wedding" (2002). "Gone Girl" is a dramatic film that was created after the novel written by Gillian Flynn. ... "Gone Girl" portrays a warped view on a balanced marriage and how manipulative people in relationships can be. ... When analyzing "Gone Girl", education and work, children, and domestic abuse are the main factors that come in to play. ... There is some controversy in "Gone Girl" about Nick wanting a ...
Conflict plays a vital role in Breaking Away. ... So as you can see, conflict plays a vital role in developing the narrative for Breaking Away. ... If this has been Mike's mentality throughout the film, then the narrative would have gone nowhere and never resulted in the Cutters winning the race. ... Dad: Yeah .well .now his body's fine, but his mind is gone. ... This is very true for Breaking Away, each of the characters go through some sort of change. ...
Gone with the Wind, a 1939 American epic historical romance film, was adapted from Margaret Mitchell's Pulitzer-winning 1936 novel. ... In the classic film Gone with the Wind, Victor Fleming helps portray the essential lessons taught to the viewer about letting go of the past, making the best of every situation, and never giving up. Although Gone with the Wind was filmed in 1939, the movie is set during the early 1870's when the Civil War and the days of Reconstruction were in progress. ... After all, most everything had been taken away from them or destroyed, all the while the Yank...
