Roselily

The use of multiple layers of narrative in Jane Yolen’s- Briar Rose is highly effective in communicating the story and the story and themes concerning Gemma’s past experiences of the Holocaust and Becca’s quest for truth and fulfilment of her Grandmother’s legacy. Yolen uses a number of voices or accounts of events to give the reader a dramatic sense of the extent and the horror of Gemma’s experiences. The fairytale story, Becca’s quest and Joseph Potocki, all add richness of detail to the novel as a whole. Techniques that incorporate this include symbolism, allegory, intertexuality, narrative structure and language.

If one succumbs to their fears it can deter them from finding love. In the novel, after David’s mother dies, he has this constant fear that the memory of her will be lost if he accepts Rose as his stepmother therefore pushing her away and refusing to allow her into his life. For the majority of the time that David knows Rose, he always avoids her, but when she finally yells at him, David shows how he truly feels by declaring “You’re not my mother...He still loves loves my mum, just like I do. He still thinks of her, and he’s never going to love you the way he loved her, not ever. It doesn’t matter what you do or what you say. He still loves her.” (58-59). It is in this moment that David allows his fear to grab hold of his actions and take control. The fear of losing his mother indefinitely, gets the best of him and doesn’t allow him to open up his heart to Rose. Not only does he push her away but he also rejects the idea of Georgie the second his father brings up that Rose is pregnant. He avoids the both of

She was staring at his chest, blindly, not knowing what to think, not thinking at all. He lifter her chin, gently. “Look at me Faye.” She did, but his face was a blur. “Faye, we’re in this together—you and I. Don’t you see that? It’s not just your problem, it’s ours.” In “A Sorrowful Woman”, I found the husband’s nurturing ways most appealing. He completely rearranged his life to make sure that his wife was as comfortable as possible. The passage that most signifies this is found on page 41. With great care he rearranged his life. He got up hours early, did the shopping, cooked the breakfast, took the boy to nursery school. “We will manage,” he said, “until you’re better, however long that is.” He did his work, collected the boy from the school, came home and made the supper, washed the dishes, got the child to bed. He managed everything. One evening, just as she was on the verge of swallowing her draught, there was a timid knock on her door. The little boy came in wearing his pajamas. “Daddy has fallen asleep on my bed and I can’t get in. There’s not room.” In “A Sorrowful Woman” what I found most unappealing was that even though the husband clearly loved her, instead of getting her the help she clearly needed, he let her sickness overcome her.

In Alice Walker’s Roselily, our main character (Roselily) is a mother of three residing in Mississippi. She questions her actions to marry a man of a different religion, but knows that the marriage will give her a (limited) sense of freedom, and will give her children an opportunity to lead better lives. The story’s central idea reveals that sometimes the love and concern for others can lead to the sacrifice of one’s own happiness.

“The Flowers” by Alice Walker is a very well written yet short and sweet story that paints a very vivid picture of main problem the times. It expresses the reality of the lynching of the African American community in a way that is very easy to understand. Alice Walker uses vibrant details to bring to light the severity of the problem and what people of that time period went through. The story also showcases a deeper meaning that does not necessarily revolve around lynchings but represents the loss of childhood innocence. “The Flowers” explains the reality of racism and lynchings of the time while also providing an inner lying message about one’s coming of age and loss of innocence.

Readers are first introduced to the character of Rose Mary Walls in the beginning of the memoir and over the course of book come to understand her personality and her struggle due to a possible mental illness. Jeannette states, “Sometimes, things just got to her. She retreated to her sofa bed and stayed there for days on end, crying and occasionally throwing things at us. She could have been a famous artist by now, she yelled, if she hadn’t had children… The next day, if the mood had passed, she’d be painting and humming away as if nothing had happened” (Walls 186-87). It becomes apparent that Rose Mary is suffering from depression. On multiple occasions, she is unmotivated to leave her bed and fulfill her daily routine, leaving her children to make up for her absences. These bouts of depression presumably occurred all of her life and have prevented her from developing into a mature adult, thus keeping her from fully nurturing her

Although Roselily’s life in Mississippi before marriage may not have been the greatest but, she is comfortable with it, and is scared of the change that is about to occur. As the preacher is finishing the ceremony she thinks” She wants to live for free for once. But she doesn’t know quite what that means.” She knows that once she gets married, between being a housewife and his restrictive religion she will

Wesley Howard was married to Rose’s mother, Elizabeth Parsons. Soon after that, the couple had begun expecting a child. But, Elizabeth had died soon after Rose’s birth. Wesley is absolutely devastated by his wife’s death. He gets a ragtag engineering gig, spends most of his time at a bar called the Luck of the Irish, and talks down to Rose many times due to how much he misses his late wife. Wesley never even tells Rose that her mother died, he tells her that she left because he feels like she left him to raise his daughter by himself. He takes care of Rose because it’s the last connection to his wife, he finds Rain and gives it to Rose to make it happy. But after Hurricane Susan, he loses his job, he loses his house, and Rose gives up Rain. ““I was just trying to do something nice for her,” says my father. “I got her a dog and she gave it back. The one great thing I did. The one great thing.”” This quote is on page 210, and it shows how much he wants to protect and care for his child. On page 210, “Rose is fine. She has all she needs here. She’s just fine.” this quote shows how the author uses repetition to expose the desperateness and weakness he feels at the thought of losing Rose. But, this ignites a feeling of realization in Wesley, and he has an epiphany in the middle of the night. He wakes Rose up, drives her over to his brother and her uncle Weldon’s home, and drops her off. Right before driving away, he gives his daughter an affectionate and warm hug before driving off. Wesley realizes that Rose needs a support system to grow and live as an eleven year old child. She’s feeling more lonely after giving back Rain to the Hendersons, and he wasn’t there for her, but his brother was. His brother can give Rose the life she deserves: Weldon understands her, he has a money and job to provide for her, he’s

The setting of Alice Walkers short story” The Flowers” is important for us, the readers to obtain a perspective of how life was like growing up for a 10 year old African American girl by the name of Myop. The title of the story is “The Flowers.” When you think about flowers, you instantly compare them to being beautiful, pure, and innocent. The title of the “The Flowers” is a symbolism that correlates to Myop who is the protagonist of the story. Myop is just like a flower in the beginning of the story. She’s a pure and innocent child but that pure innocence changes when she discovers something that’ll change her life forever.

Alice Walker's short fictional story, "Nineteen Fifty-five", revolves around the encounters among Gracie Mae Still, the narrator, and Traynor, the "Emperor of Rock and Roll." Traynor as a young prospective singer purchases a song from Mrs. Still, which becomes his "first hit record" and makes him rich and famous. Yet, he does not "even understand" the song and spends his entire life trying to figure out "what the song means." The song he sings seems as fictional as certain events in this story, but as historical as Traynor's based character, Elvis Presley.

How do we lose our childish way of seeing the world? How can we suddenly they see the world as it is, in all its evil? ‘The Flowers’ is a story about a young girl who goes through an experience that forces her into changing her way of seeing life, and it presents themes like growing up and loss of innocence.

As children, we start off naive and innocent so we are interested in everything around us in order to gain knowledge and then wisdom to make a positive impact on the world. In the process of growing up, we want to have limitless dreams. We can be whatever we want to be; a princess, a neurosurgeon ninja, etc. However, as we mature, we experience evil and cruelty and this destroys our innocence and makes us tend to want to go back to not having a care in the world. Although we want to return to innocence, growing up benefits us because we gain wisdom and knowledge.

Both rose maxson and Mrs. Mallard are marriage women who are suffering in their marriage and pretending to be happy on the outside. But on the inside they are overwhelming because in the story on page 1146, from fences “and you don’t want to either. Maybe you want to wish me and my boy away. I’ve got eighteen years of my life invested in you. You ought to have stayed upstairs in my bed where you belong.” This lines are showing that Rose not frail but she is suffering. She have been suffering for 18 years because of her husband troy and have to put her dreams and goals to the side.so that she can be commitment and nurture in her marriage and for her family but she want her freedom which is show on page 1147 “ I been standing with you! I been

As the weeks have gone by, the trenches get lower, just like the number of people. For every one German soldier, there are three enemies. Shell craters litter the Earth, along with blood and mangled bodies. There is almost nothing left. Aeroplanes cover the sky.

Her race also brings about her poverty. She is so poor that she has no choice, but gives away his fourth child to his father. What is worse, her life is so hard that she marries herself off to a man to whom she is not attached. The reason she marries him is that she is “impatient to be done with sewing” and “with doing everything for three children, alone” (7).Roselily knows clearly she will no longer be herself after the marriage: “She thinks she loves the effort he will make to redo her into what he truly wants” (8). She has no choice but transforms herself to the kind of woman her husband wants.