Ozymandias

There is a fine moral lesson to be learned from the poem by Percy Shelley,”Ozymandias”. The poem captures our attention by telling us this is a promising story of that by a traveler, were he traveled to an ancient civilization. We know from the title it was in Egypt. The statue he had seen was in the middle of the desert, broken apart, but still the face was made out visibly of that person. The face looked stern and powerful, ruler-like, to represent the ruler’s personality- he was wicked but did earn points for taking care of his people.

On the sculpture there is an inscription in which the rule Ozymandias tells any passerbby that “Look around and see how awesome I am!” Yet there is no other evidence of his awesomeness around to look at except his sculpture. The sand is all that the eye can see. The story ends and it tells a point which is of passions, evident through the “shattered visages” – the piece has survived the sculptor’s hand that “mocked” them, and with that the passions and heart of the king’s survived.

“Eveline”

A turmoil for escape is evident in “Eveline” by James Joyce. Eveline was born to a less then heart-warming family in Ireland, where the Irishmen who leaves Ireland is considered to be an ungrateful being of their of country. Her choice is between staying in Ireland with the predictable, infamous behavior of her father and family or go away to an unknown future with her love Frank. Although she has a reason to run away and leave with Frank: her father ridicules her for her hard work, keeps her wages from all the work she does, and is unfair and wants to steer the family his way. However, he does anything but hit her like he used to the older siblings who have already left due to this. It is perceived incorrectly to leave Ireland but it could lead her to the same path her mother led, one of constant struggle to keep the family together ending only in madness.

The perfect example of madness to try and keep their countries nationalism is her mother, who was always grateful and their for the family. However, she died as a “true Irish”, babbling in the native language. Finally, the babbles were nothing more than just that and it represents her struggle to have been for nothing. Eveline sees that with Frank her life is going to be at least different. The adult life of Eveline depicts how much poverty and urge to marry there is. There is a great burden for family care over Eveline and she is nostalgic as much as she is wanting freedom. Her situation traps her because she ends up making the decision to see Frank as a stranger and choose the path her mother had. This will be a cost on her because instead of choosing a path of unknown but hopeful future, she chooses a certain and dismal future in repeating her mother’s life.

The Walking Dead

As the ray of sunshine penetrate through the curtains in the old country style kitchen, lays an old wooden table with two stools, a white kitchen counter top with jars filled with condiments. On the other side of the kitchen are two plates, one with a blue rooster with border designs. There’s an oven and a dishwasher.

            As she puts down the knife to flaunt her hands while she speaks to her father. It seems like she’s trying to convince him about something he’s not so sure about. He patiently listens with a concerned face. He holds his cup of coffee with both his hands while he sits on the wooden stool listening to her speak. It seems like he is about to come to a conclusion soon on the way his face is expressed in the picture.

My girlabout (Plot)

          It’s Angie’s first day going to visit the Zoo with her other half and twin sister, who is the total opposite of her. So the most exciting trip of every young children’ lives is finally here since her sister cried because of her excitement, which seeps through her pores (and eye sockets) but Angie nearly rolls her eyes. The one thing they have in common is that they love exciting and cute animals. Showing new and sporadic emotions Angie loves the adventure and clings to the moments she’s living with her family. 

          The Zoo has all it’s wonderful activities set up for every one of the family to indulge, but presumptuous Angie declared apple’s she brought from her lunch box would be a better substitute for each starving animal and trouble follows. Angie’s sister fights her for the fruits and her decision-making skills in eating the fruits or sharing the fruits makes her become somebody different. She tries to remain wild and free to only be engulfed by her new change in way into this girly-girl. Nobody could have seen this coming. Especially herself conforming to her mommy’s favorite cute ballerina-mover when she became ecstatic with joy.

My girl about

The act of starting my character about a girl named Angie is giving me goosebumps! I view this as a journey into the kids world once again ! I am going to use positive closure and outlets such as meditation, inspiration from children, painting and yoga (Most of these things are just ways to calm me down and get my system flowing and working!) I’m keeping this character a mystery and a secret… from the very character I’m making of, Angie. This makes little sense because  in my humor this is just a way of saying I’m still plotting what I haven’t written down because of my laziness. Let me just say a little thing about this girl Angie, she is a best friend in my thoughts. We are in my mind similiar because I will be reminiscing stories of my childhood. She will seem to feel the same way towards most things, and I’m making her to my level of comfort if she were a real life friend…

Light in the Darkness.

Everything concerning life comes into focus in “If you Touched my Heart” by Isabel Allende, where she transforms a satanic story into telling hard truths, a sad outlook, and with a seemingly just ending. She tells in a dramatic form a story of a man named Amadeo Peralta that grew up to be a ruffian. Amadeo is a 30-year old man full of inhibition without wanting to conquest a “sweetheart” like his father “tasked” him to. However, he had no choice as he would never do anything to go against his father. Therefore, his rise to power led him to his demise – he is the one that got married to a woman he found tasteless and also kept Hortensia locked in a cellar. Hortensia is the simple-minded 15-year old founded working and singing in her village. Her submission landed her of a brief encounter until years later, she went to see him at his house and grabbed him by the shirt, pleading for their relationship which proved to be the cry for help and political abuse involved in our world.
Hortensia was seduced by his confidence, false promises, and unmade visits Amadeo conveniently made tricking Hortensia into staying in the cellar – everything a corrupt politician would do like tell lies to the public and quickly go about forgetting them. This is tantamount to the publics betrayal in being oppressed of their human rights. He also hires an Indian woman who is symbolical to being sinister because she is cruel and believes this is the right fate for the girl. Here lies the satanic fault in human beings, it is faulty of the Indian woman to believe she knows what is best and deserved of Hortensia’s futue. She is wrong and becomes a compliance. This story is a very basic way of New Historicism in seeing the children who find the “door to hell” and let the people know of its existence and noises. As it is revealed the decent citizens look to stop being in fear of Amadeo and prevail in justice. The boys are beckoned, summoned but they feared Amadeo; however, they knew he was corrupt all along, his time came to be imprisoned. The time created an intervention through his evil doing with not only Hortensia but all the citizens, too. Culture as a whole prevailed in human justice and Allende makes the ending a wishful one to represent a product of evil that was meaning for no good, turning it into a happy historical moment. Although in real life this could not happen today, tomorrow or at any moment in history because for many there are no happy endings.

Metaphors have …

Metaphors have a way of holding the most truth in the least space.

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by luciaguti7

Literary Analysis on IF YOU TOUCHED MY HEART

          Everything concerning life comes into focus in “If you Touched my Heart” by Isabel Allende, where she tells in a dramatic form a story of a man named Amadeo Peralta that grew up to be a ruffian. Amadeo is a 30-year old man full of inhibition without wanting to conquest a “sweetheart” like his father “tasked” him to. However, he had no choice as he would never do anything to go against his father. Hortensia is the 15-year old, she is simple-minded, was found working and singing in her village. The seduction began following into submission of a brief encounter until years later, she went to see him at his house and grabbed him by the shirt, pleading for their relationship.

Allende transforms this satanic story telling hard truths, a sad outlook, and with a just ending. His rise to power led him to his demise – he is the one that got married to a woman he found tasteless and also kept Hortensia locked in a cellar. Hortensia didn’t know anything else so she accepted this fate. Seduced by his confidence, promises are made but forgotten, and stopped seeing her and did not take good care of her anymore(a corrupt politician lies to the public in this way). He hires an Indian woman who is symbolical to being sinister because she is cruel and believes this is the right fate for the girl. She is what is wrong with the world, becoming a compliance. This story is a very basic way of New Historicism in seeing the children who find the “door to hell” and let the people know of it’s existence and noises. As it is revealed the decent citizens look to stop being in fear of Amadeo and prevail in justice. They feared Amadeo but knew he was corrupt all along. The time created an intervention through his evil doing with Hortensia. Culture as a whole prevailed in human justice and put Amadeo behind bars. Allende makes the ending a wishful one to represent a product of evil that was meaning for no good turn into a happy historical moment although in real life this could likely not happen today, tomorrow or at any moment in history.

Feminism in “The Necklace”

          An unequal relationship between man and wife is evident in “The Necklace” by Guy de Maupassant. Mathilde Loisel, was born into a middle-class clerks family and married a clerk. She was a woman of beauty and charm, in an era of endorsed control by male wishing she were wealthy. The feminist theory is suppose to be independent, intelligent, and able to make decisions. However, “The Necklace” endorses men’s power over the women’s decision making and public life. It is perceived as correct for equality in a relationship for the male to work and be viewed in public and female stay managing affairs of the home.

          The perfect example of both sexism and oppression is this short story were Mathilde is incapable of her right to exercise decision making. Each detail of the husbands decisions – it is he who gives her the idea of borrowing the necklace, he told her to lie to her friend about losing the necklace, and his idea to borrow money in order to buy a new one. Overall, the husband is the one with all the decision making and finances. Power is held both in public and domestic life which creates the vision of obedient women, repressed in the old- manner of husband’s chauvinism and pride. There are ways for controlling people and creating power over some or even taking away all decision makings completely. In the end, the perspective for Mathilde becomes sympathetic for feminism fails to become a factor in an era where inequality was evident in the relationships between male and female. Ultimately, it is clear that she is meant to feel this way.

Learn.

Within each experience we learn something about ourselves. I will admit that this phase in my life was one of the darkest I’ve experienced. I still can’t get this sadness out of my heart. I stood by a great family friend who had cancer and in reality, held his hand, his beloved wife’s, his sons but not his daughter’s because she wasn’t of the whole-hearted kind. It’s times like these that make me smile and appreciate my family and life. In this chapter of my life, it was long and full of great memories while he stood tall; and painful, but thankfully short, as he spent his last six months with us. I can say I’ve learned so much from everyone in my life as well as my own feelings.

What did they think of but only to celebrate the bad news. As Colombians it is just a way to spend time with beloved and friends but this time meant so much more. The last months were spent on birthdays, baby showers, and holidays for the spirit of holding on to our beloved forever. This may sound easy but it was hard in the beginning, and we knew it was okay. I will admit there were days I couldn’t stand the idea of going, but I got dressed and left anyhow. That’s what he wanted, not to be spending this time alone. He became very sick in the last month. We kept holding on to unrealistic expectations, because we never knew replaying the news that his chemo’s and visit’s were in vain. We kept making parties but it wasn’t working, I began to feel as if the world was crashing down. After such heartbreak when his wife and him told us together, I began to stay in my room more often. I thought of many more ways to stay hopeful and full of light for the situation. For some reason I kept doing this, I remember saying in my prayers that my faith was here, he was such a champion, and I’d know that how couldn’t I wait for the day that the sun came up and news would soothe him and us. So in those prayers I recollected myself and took to thinking that what ended up happening would be part of life. We’d move on and cope with it as best as possible. I felt peace, I walked with this thought peacefully from there on. I believed things would look up.

Reaching the last days, we visited him and brought him flowers at the hospital. My heart went out to this family, so strong and resilient as the third to last day he closed his eyes and the drugs began to slowly grant his wish. He was etched forever in my mind as a sweet and intelligent human being who left too soon. I kept drowning in tears but with the love that was in that air as all his closest friends were with him. Also, I kept to my nature and forgave those who had done to this man wrong, and appreciated those who were there for him and our family.  Now there’s no more anger, resentment, grief or fighting. The next days were cloudy and rainy in my heart and mind as we said goodbye. Life teaches us hardships, trials and tribulations. Sometimes it’s hard to keep a smile on our face when we are going through so much. So I learned that the most important thing is to stick to family, be there by their side and ‘walk with them, talk with them'(Matisayu).