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The story also explains how Jacqueline’s life was changed forever. The story is extremely effective because it gets its point across by appealing to the compassionate side of the audience.

The mother begins to rebel against tradition by taking an active role in educating and freeing herself. Through her radio, telephone and trips out with her sons she develops her own opinions about the world, the war, and the domination and seclusion of woman. She loses her innocence as a result to her new knowledge and experience.

Which, of course she accepts without much intensive thought. In this new line of work, Maria travels to America, experiencing horrors that change her life, and new found realities that determine her future.

The relationship between Mariam and Laila grows overtime into an unbreakable love. Mariam is a vulnerable character that experienced hardships and negativity throughout her life. Her reliance on faith and religion gave her hope. Laila however, has had a positive upbringing from modern parents. Her education is what made her a strong and intelligent girl. Their personalities contrast to bring the best out of each other. However at first, in fear of being overshadowed by Laila, Mariam says “If [Laila] thinks [she] can use [her] looks to get rid of me, [she is] wrong. [Mariam] was here first. [She] won't be thrown out” (225). As Mariam has never been a priority to anyone in her life she was very defensive over her role in the house. As jealousy embarked upon Mariam,

When she does this readers see that she is not afraid to stand up for the innocent and revolt against the enemy. With these attributes she is almost a freedom leader at times in this novel. When someone’s past is full of stress, disappointment, and sadness, there is no better person in this novel to talk about than Mariam, because all of these emotions build up and are violently expressed in the future. Within the first five chapters readers see that Mariam’s future will not be entirely pleasant, as when she is brought home from Jalil's house she discovers that her mother, Nana, has commited suicide (Suns 36). Nana was already hard on Mariam from the start of the book but her suicide just added to the tons of stress to Mariam’s life.

The relationship between mother and daughter is very evident in this novel. It is implied by the priest that Maria has duties in the household and duties as a woman. François Paradis also knew that Maria would make a good housewife, one that would give wholly, love of the body and the soul that she would be a devoted spirit that would not waver.[6] These similarities are apparent when the daughter’s first love is represented by a symbolic abduction, (winter storm) that is followed by a return to her mother’s way of life. She generously accepts Gagnon as her husband, thus guaranteeing the continued existence of family,

In this film, it also shows how important their loved ones are to them. Like when the three girls get taken away, they used their hands to bang against the window, showing their sadness of separation, and their connection of their love and wanting to be close with their family at every time possible, because every time they were together was a moment each treasured. Their grandmother felt the pain they were feeling, of desperation, frustration and powerlessness, and that is shown to us when she hits herself with a rock on her head to make her bleed. Also the howling sounds she makes shows the pain she feels and makes us feel her pain, too.

Maria is fifteen years old. Her mother reports that Maria has been performing poorly in school and has withdrawn from her family. This began after her transition to secondary school. Her performance further deteriorated when she began second year. Maria stopped participating in a number of her occupations including hockey, playing the piano, the girl guides, shopping with friends and going to the cinema. She now prefers to stay on the computer of listening to music.

The Spanish film Cria Cuervos directed by Carlos Saura is a drama that explores the idea of a terrible childhood. The viewer can see the tremendous affect Maria’s death and Anselmo’s unfaithfulness had on Ana. Ana’s little private world illustrates her trauma through the constant flashbacks and dreams she has about her mother and parents' troubled marriage. Furthermore, Ana’s behavior and facial expressions are extremely realistic and believable because many children are easily traumatized through simple, however, serious events they experience throughout their childhood. Director Carlos Saura tells the story of the film by juxtaposing low angle medium shots which represent the children’s perspective of life with crane and tracking shots to visually

The narrator states that “it was [Maria] who did away with my generation’s virginity” (65). Garcia Marquez uses a hyperbole to portray how crucial Maria Cervantes’s contradictory role is in the men’s lives. She embraces her sexuality and is very open. In addition she also “taught [the men] much more than [they] should have learned, but she taught us above all that there’s no place in life sadder than an empty bed” (65). She reinforces the idea that sexuality should not be repressed because that would only bring on loneliness and despair. She recognizes the “disorder of love” that the townspeople live with because of repressed sexuality. The narrator describes Santiago Nasar’s passionate relationship with Maria Cervantes. He describes their relationship like “a falcon who chases a warlike crane” and that the falcon can only “hope for a life of pain” (65). The author uses a metaphor to compare Maria to a warlike crane in order to show her power and grace. The crane is a bird that stands tall and may look elegant and enticing but because Maria is “a warlike crane” she is able to stand up and fight for herself while still maintaining her grace. Another aspect of her independence would be that she stands alone in her battle against society. Garcia Marquez gives her these headstrong qualities to show how she follows her own path and goes against the town’s beliefs without showing any signs of stopping and to show that

It didn't form an emotional connection, and it focused less on the Mirabal family and more on the interaction between them and the revolution and the regime. The experiences and journal writings in the narrative make it unique and intriguing to the readers, which the movie seemed to lack. The narrative was written by all four sisters, so the reader received their point of view on things, in contrary the movie seemed to be portrayed through Minerva’s point of view. Consequently, it didn't give Patria, Dede, or Maria Teresa a voice in the movie. All the sisters were involved with the revolution, but it wasn't really shown well in the

The film begins by showing Maria in an open and beautiful field. This gives her inspiration and a sense of adventure (based upon the images that images she sees). She works at an abbey and is continuing to face a number of difficulties. This is because Maria has the reputation for being mischievous and not following the practices of the nuns.

When Maria was wondering why the South African men were scared of them, it was clear how sheltered and brainwashed she was. It was then that she realized how unexposed she was and began to become more involved in the efforts to make a change.

The movie is significant for the cinematograph, because it is not only “running against the dominant American politics of the time, rife with suspicions of anything vaguely socialist, but it is also engaging with issues of women’s rights and female equality, that literally had not been documented in film before” (rohanberrywriter). The unity of people was shown before strikers agreed that women can cooperate with them in the scene, when Quintero was arrested because of the police provocation. Esperanza gave birth while her husband was beating by policemen, and couple thought about each other during these painful moments. The message and symbolism of these events were highlighted by the montage technique that alternated Esperanza’s and Ramon’s (husband) faces. The director Herbert J. Biberman also preferred to frame actors in stylised close-ups. The camera was either tilted upward or looked down upon characters in the most scenes. “The camera only enters into medium shots when there is a sense of parity amongst the people framed” (rohanberrywriter). Camera’s low-angled position during scenes of Esperanza’s and Ramon’s household work highlighted future narrator’s words that people’s work should make them feel they move up in the world. The same technique was used in Nazi propaganda

In the beginning we get to know that she has made a promise that she wants to keep for her dead mother. She is throughout the story being tempted to break the promise, but for the reader it reveals as a test for her to choose the right path. Maria can at the same time be referred to as the protagonist, which means she is the center of the story, “Maria saw him, and her heart melted. Frankie Galvan was about the most handsome guy in school.” (e.g. page 2, line 10-12) “The warmth of his