Pressure To Change In Budge Wilson's The Metaphor

“I had a bully who had bullied me throughout all of Middle School yet I still looked up to her.” This bully, Maddy, had put Riley down so consistently that Riley not only felt inferior but put Maddy on a pedestal and idolized her. In this time of bitter weakness, Riley recalls her longing to fit in and to be

It was not the voice they were familiar with to greet them. They had almost come to expect Mom’s warm, quipped voice, or perhaps Mrs. Fletcher’s sweet, pitched calls, given how many times it had happened in the third grade. They remembered the hot embarrassment of having her repeatedly yell to them in the middle of class, of having students snicker as their slow, sluggish returned to the present.

Throughout the novel, she experiences different types of conflicts as she adapts to her new school environment and attemptedly fulfills her obsessive desire to fit in. The inner conflict in which she experiences throughout the

She will cherish what she has learned from Miss Hancock forever. Finally, Miss Hancock’s personality makes her a good role model because she is compassionate as “ she could analyze without destroying a piece of literature,” (217) friendly as ‘[she][smiles] tensely, frilled eyes shining.” (218) and cheerful as ‘she announced, clapping her dimpled hands together, her charm bracelet jingling.”(228) If Charlotte gets influenced by Miss Hancock her future will be stress-free She would be passionate about what she is doing and she would live her life positively with a

All around the world, society pushes people to become who they are. Whether it is a trend or a way of life, those people get to choose how they want respond to society. This develops the person's traits and allows other people to understand why they act the way they do. With character development comes maturity, realization and a path away from society’s norms. The same idea is shown throughout the books The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls, To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros, and Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare. Jeannette Walls believes society’s influence is more helpful to character development because it allows the characters to form around this idea of society and decide how they want to

She is judged differently than everyone else. But things throughout the story begin to look up, her rollercoaster ride through high school begins to go up more than down throughout her high school career. Angie learns rather than to accept the negativity in her life and give up, she stays positive leading to a happy life. Life for Angie has been rough. Angie was extremely close with her sister.

It discusses the horrors of the American Civil War; obviously racism, discrimination, but also most importantly freedom. And throughout the book Charlotte talks about and tries to figure out what freedom really means, since she has never experienced it. And when everything gets taken from her and she doesn't belong to anyone anymore, she doesn't even know what to do or how to feel. She wonders if that's what freedom really is; having nothing, struggling to survive and searching for people who will accept her, despite the color of her skin. But that just can't be freedom.

In the second section of the novel, The Fault in Our Stars, there are four major points that relate to the plot including the emphasis on Hazel’s and Augustus’s character, examples of metaphors and a theme. Firstly, the rising action occurs when Hazel and Augustus get closer to each other and she starts thinking about boys more often. Nonetheless, Hazel is quick-witted, well-spoken, cautious and smart opposed to Augustus who is overconfident, ambitious, and charismatic. However, despite their differences, their relationship becomes stronger and they gain knowledge about each other’s likes and dislikes, interests, and ethics. In addition, there is an example of a metaphor that illustrates Hazel’s comparison of herself to a current situation

One often hears the saying, “Don't judge a man until you have walked a mile in their shoes.” The way an author uses similes can help the reader better understand how the character feel and what they're going through like Sylvia Plath in The Bell Jar. Esther Greenwood, a college student, working at a month long job as a guest editor for a fashion magazine feels like an outcast from the rest of the girls; she doesn't seem to fit in. When she arrives back home, she receives several bad news leads her into thinking suicide is the best thing to do. After multiple failed attempts, she is put into a mental hospital where she will gain hope in life and finally discover who she really is. In Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar, there are several instances in which the author uses similes to illustrate a more detailed image/description to better portray how the main character felt during her New York job, her suicide attempts, and at her stay at the mental institution.

The first time I realized that I was different than my friends was in second grade when I was the only one who knew how to make lasagna. By the age of seven, most children didn’t have to pack their own lunch, let alone make dinner. Like Liz, I was forced to mature at a younger age. Throughout her childhood, Liz hopes that maybe if she is a good girl, then her parent’s behavior will change. When a social worker shows up to her house after Liz begins not going to school, she suspects that “if I had just gone to school, this never would have happened” (130). Liz didn’t have the perspective to realize that most children are forced to go to school when they have loving and encouraging parents. However, she believes that if she changes herself that the social worker, along with her parent’s addiction, would not be an issue if she was a better child. Although whether Liz goes to school has zero impact on her parent’s addiction she continues to blame herself instead of those around her. She does this because it is a lot easier to blame yourself then to give up hope that role models will not become someone who should be role models. Because of this, and her need to survive, Liz quickly learns that if she wants something done that she must do it herself. Liz begins to make her own money by doing things like pumping gas. After she begins making her own money, Liz realizes that as much as she wants her parents to heal, for there to be any change, they need to want it. After witnessing

Anyone who lived through high school gym class knows the desperation of being picked last for the sports team. The same hurt feelings bubble up when you are excluded from lunch with co-workers, fail to land the job interviewed for or are dumped by a romantic partner. Within a society, social classes are unavoidable. In the short story ‘The Doll’s House’, the author, Katherine Mansfield examines the difficulties dealing with class-consciousness and social ostracism in this society, also the influence on Isabel by Aunt Beryl. Mansfield uses various language techniques to intensify the message, class prejudice corrupts innocence and egalitarian attitude.

One’s inner metamorphosis begins with the general disillusionment with one’s surrounding environment. Such a disillusionment can come in quick succession, as with that of Esther Greenwood in The Bell Jar, or more gradually, as that of Antoine Roquentin in Nausea. The Bell Jar begins with the reader experiencing this subconscious disappointment along with Esther as she struggles along her dream internship at a fashion magazine in New York City. “I was supposed to be having the time of my life,” (Plath 2) she quips at one point. Her ideal cosmopolitan life began to reveal its rotten insides to her as she spends her summer in the fashion sphere of New York. Her disdain for this lifestyle begins as she witnesses her fellow interns’ gratuitous exploits, “When I woke up… I think I still expected to see Doreen’s body lying there in the pool of vomit like an ugly, concrete testimony to my own dirty nature,” (24) continues with her sexual experiences that fall far short of her expectations, “…he just stood there in front of me and I kept on staring at

Rita receives the book smarts that she had desired. Professor Bryant got much more, something that Rita also was looking for, he wound up learning more about himself and how he could be happy once again. Rita plans to find more meaning to life and hopes that having an education will open more opportunities in life. Getting an education turns out to be only half of the struggle for her though. Being a woman providing many more obstacles for her than expected as she struggles to find support from anyone. Rita deals with an educated women not being the norm of the day back then but also can’t even get support from her own husband or father. “You stop going to that university and you stop taking the pill or you're out. Professor sees the struggles that he never had to deal with and starts to understand how powerful an education can be. He also becomes more appreciative that he didn’t have to deal with the same struggles that Rita had to deal with. Rita gains a feelings of empowerment and independence through her education which gives more meaning to Professor Bryant’s career and life. Rita brings a new and brighter outlook to Professor Bryant that leads him away from alcohol for a periods of time. He also realizes how wrong the way literature was interpreted and how what was being taught was to uniform and restricted writers from expression too

Amara felt awkward seeing her new classmates stare at her clothing. Mrs. Carter started teaching the lesson the class had already started. Since, this was new for Amara, she was quite perplexed and the

In 6th grade, I sat in a homeroom class taught by one Chay-Cruz Gravell, known to all of us students as Mrs.Chay. Like all teachers, and all people, Mrs.Chay had her good days and her bad days. She possessed that uncanny ability to turn from fire and brimstone angry to giggly and smiley at a moment’s notice. When Mrs.Chay stayed happy, she was almost the perfect teacher, helpful and cheerful and easygoing. If one was unfortunate enough to catch Mrs.Chay at the wrong time, however, the whole class might quiver in fear at the consequences. I never understood why Mrs.Chay’s emotions were such a tinderbox, until, one day, I thought I had set that tinderbox ablaze.