Day Of The Butterfly, By Alice Munro

In the short story “the White Heron” (1886), Sarah Jewett portrays a young little girl, Sylvia, bear the temptation of money and affection from the young man with mental struggle, and resolutely determined to protect the fairy of nature – a white heron. Through describing Sylvia’s authentic emotions and using of vivid theme colors and exquisite word choice, Jewett delivers the story like showing a lifelike 19-century country-life drama in front of the readers.

Believing that there are things worth risking your life for is a quality that is well respected.

In David Hwang’s play, M. Butterfly, the story covers the superior attitude that Western white men hold toward Eastern oriental women which is shown through Rene Gallimard’s experiences. Throughout the story, Gallimard constantly brings up his favorite play, M. Butterfly, where an oriental woman, Butterfly, gives up and loses everything including her life for the white man she loves, Pinkerton, and despite Butterfly’s efforts, Pinkerton ends up marrying another woman causing Butterfly to commit suicide. Many white men enjoy this play because it portrays white men to look superior and gives them the assumption that oriental women would do and give up anything for a white man. Gallimard is also one of the white men who believe they are superior to oriental women and that no matter what he does, an oriental woman would never leave his side. Gallimard 's belief of racial superiority is what led him to his control over Song as if Gallimard was Pinkerton and Song was his Butterfly, this fantasy that Gallimard created for himself was false because in reality, Gallimard was the Butterfly and Song was the Pinkerton.

Claire Standish or “the princess” portrays the stereotypical popular teenage girl in The Breakfast Club. She is in detention with everyone else because she decided to skip class and go shopping, which also plays into the stereotypical teen girl image. It can also be assumed that she is spoiled and rich since her father tried to get her out of detention but failed, and she mentions to the group that her parents only use her to get back at the other one. She brings a fancy lunch of sushi while the other teens either have nothing or the standard lunch one’s parents might pack for them. There are a couple of times in the movie that she brings up her social standing and could even be considered as looking down on those who are not as popular as her. Even closer towards the end of the movie she informs the others that if they were to say hello to her in the hallway in front of her friends, she would have no choice but to ignore them. By the end of the movie, she has opened up to everyone else about her fears of letting her peers down and has formed a close relationship with Bender.

The book Orphan Train written by Christina Baker Kline gives the reader a detailed look into the lives of both Vivian and Molly, and how their stories compare and contrast. Molly, a young “goth” teenage girl who is orphaned at young age due to the death of her father, is introduced as a “delinquent” of sorts that has to make up for a book she has stolen from the library. Her boyfriend, Jack, finds a volunteering opportunity for her through his mother; the job requires Molly to sort through and get rid of mementos that belong to an old woman named Vivian. As Vivian and Molly organize the mementos, Vivian informs Molly that she too is an orphan, and explains the stories behind each item they encounter. As the story progresses, Molly learns more and more about Vivian’s life, and becomes infatuated with her anecdotes. Vivian tells of how her parents and sister supposably died, how she had to board and “Orphan Train” and was sent to various families. Vivian describes in detail what problems she faced as an orphan, the people she met, and how it shaped her as a person. Despite initially being reluctant to help Vivian, Molly comes to realize that her life story is fascinating, and helps Vivian research the people that came up in her story.

In the short stories, the “Death of the Moth,” Annie Dillard and Virginia Woolf discover a moth flying and observes it. The short versions has two versions and both author tries to explore the theme of life and death and explains their perspectives on it. Both of the short stories have similar titles, but both pieces exhibit several differences. Annie Dillard starts off her short story by beginning the death of the moth and realizes the value of life. Virginia Woolf tells us that she sees the moth as a pathetic creature and sees that death is a powerful force that no one can stand up to. Both authors go into great detail pertaining to life and death.

“How I met my husband” is a short tale written in the year 1974 by Alice Munro. It introduces a fifteen-year-old lady (Edie) that tries to go through an initiation into the adulthood. The lady who was still naïve at that moment was hired by the new veterinarian in that town, Dr. Peebles. I agree with you when you say “It is not until the very last page of the story that we find out who she marries, which is someone whom has not even been introduced throughout the story” because I am also puzzled as a reader and keeps on wondering why the author decided to apply such a title. The title of the tale runs across the entire tale, but it’s only at the end that we come to realize the actual husband to Edie when she went to wait for Chris Watters letter at the mailbox. She meets a young and handsome mail carrier, who later

All of my adult life, ive been drawn,or called ,if you will, to the Metaphysical, in one form, or another,it's mysterious;intriguing,allure had my spiritual thirst wet for knowledge.Even though I was brought up in a Baptist church,and later in adulthood, Baptized a Christian.It never stopped my journey,as I call it,into all things spiritual.I've never been what one would call an outdoorsy person,but I do appreciate the beauty in nature.So for me, it began with simple things I found breathtakingly beautiful.Butterflies,just the thought of the metamorphasis they go through,to become this gorgeous colorful,peaceful,quiet insect that minds its business,brings joy to sunny days,then I noticed ,everywhere I was, their were two in very close proximity to me.Then I became almost entranced,totally captivated by Dragonflies.The sheer quickness in the movement of their wings, the way they seem to communicate with one another,and then I noticed they followed me non-stop,at home ;if I left ,they'd journey with me ,and at my destination ,there they were flying around my car, like tiny winged angels.So the quest began,I looked into it ,and found out the Dragonfly is my Totem animal (made total sense).Continuing my acsention into the many fields,I was on a search to find my personal niche'.I read book,upon book on every topic, from:Witchcraft;to Fairies,toTelepathy;you name it, I studied up on it.Itook a leap,and let me just say,it was'nt a very far leap.I had a visit with a psychic,at this point in my life,I had two children,by two different men,and six to eight months prior,had just gotten my heart broken ... again. I'd started dating his best friend,who was very good to me,and my kids ,and I was falling fast ,so

These modes of electronic communication were first used by Japanese mobile operators, NTT DoCoMo, au, and SoftBank Mobile. Their literal meaning in Japanese is "Picture + Character". Such is their popularity that the Oxford Dictionaries decided their Word of the Year as one of these (Pic 74) - for the first time the word of the year was not even a word! What are we talking about?

The character Helen is a single parent from the 1950s. When the character is introduced in the first scene,she is sarcastic and laid back. As I began to perform as Helen, I understood her character to be fustrated as being a single parent is hard in the 1950s.Helen’s character wants to get married and she wants to marry again. Helen does not marry peter in the text later on in the play.Peter does speak in the text about getting a drink and going to a church however she is not sure at first. when asked the question she told him was drunk. She as a character only starts to believe in her daughter after she sees her talent. She has never cared before about her daughter until this moment however she then begins to care about her towards the end

The first character that contributes to the theme of the story is Mary Lennox, the protagonist. In the beginning of the movie, Mary is unwanted by everyone. “My parents always thought about themselves, never about me.” Mary’s parents made it so she never had anyone who liked her. She never shared anything with anybody and always lonely.

Society tries to place many rules upon an individual as to what is acceptable and what is not . One must decide for themselves whether to give in to these pressures and conform to society’s projected image, or rather to resist and maintain their own desired self image. In the story “Boys and Girls” by Alice Munro, Munro suggests that this conflict is internal and external and a persons experiences in life will determine which of these forces will conquer. In terms of the unnamed protagonist’s experiences in the story, it becomes clear just how strong the pressure of society to conform really is, as it overcomes and replaces the girl’s self image.

In this story, Alice Munro describes a slice of life story for a young girl who has her first encounter of being dumped. Though, in her family they rarely drink if at all, not the same was expected of her. She herself thought of her mother as a very cunning and convincing person even though she was mostly very unemotional but was able to make a good impression when necessary. She was shaped by her inability to come to terms with her breakup through how she got drunk and by almost committing suicide via aspirin though, she stopped herself after the sixth aspirin. It shows how her character developed to be able to relive those memories with a hint of fondness for she wouldn’t be who she was today without them. It shaped her to be a more to be

“I wonder if I 've been changed in the night? Let me think: was I the same when I got up this morning? I almost think I can remember feeling a little different. But if I 'm not the same, the next question is, who in the world am I? Ah, THAT 'S the great puzzle! '” (Carroll)

My little brother and I were walking home from his primary school and decided to take the long way as we still had some time before we had to be home. The long way to our house was always more exciting than the shortcut, as there were all kinds of butterfly 's fluttering about, not to mention there was an awesome playground on the way as well. Phoenix, my brother, and I decided to play around for a little and, once we had finished playing, decided to try and catch the butterfly 's that we saw on the way home. Nearly an hour later we arrived at our front door with grins on our faces from having caught two butterflies. After having walked my little brother home from school I said to my mum "I 'm going for a walk to release the