The Unbearable Lightness Of Being And Sugarcoat The Harsh Truth?

In the short story “Choices” by Susan Kerslake and in the poem “The Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost, are two examples of literature which are similar to my experience.

In “The Yellow Wallpaper” the main character is constantly being told what she is and is not able to do such as “But he said I wasn’t able to go, nor able to stand it after I got there;… (Gilman)” This is an excellent example of her feeling oppressed, because her husband feels that he knows her capabilities better than she does. Another example of this is “’What is it little girl?’ he said. ‘Don’t go walking about like that—you’ll get cold.’ (Gilman)” This is an example of John thinking that her condition is so bad, she has to be treated like a child, constantly telling her what and what not to do. In “The Story of an Hour” the shows she has felt depressed with “There would be no one to live for during those coming years; she would live for herself. (Chopin)” After receiving news that her husband passed away in a train accident, she felt as if the burden of doing things for her husband was lifted, and that she could do the things she wants to do.

The book, Nothing But The Truth by AVI is filled with irony and morals. The theme of the story is Actions have Consequences. The main character, Philip and other characters learn that throughout the story.

One example of povert in The Other Wes Moore is when Mary got rejected from her pell grant. When Mary was attending college as the first in her family ever to make it there, but she has just received a letter telling her that her

Joy and Beryl are an obvious example, with their opposing reactions when looking after Harley. Beryl is easily overwhelmed by him and reacts to his anger with her own, using Harley as a way to vent her anger and eventually chaining him up. This behaviour can be traced back to her dysfunctional childhood, putting her in a similar situation to Harley, as she deals with the death of her mother and lack of other family members. Moloney reflects this multiple times throughout the novel in each of Beryl’s anger fuelled and unloving actions, notably when she tries to gag court, keeping the children only for the pension money. This is Moloney depicting Beryl’s inability to develop in a family environment. In contrast, Joy, given sympathy and understanding from her community and having a loving husband and two children to lean on, has helped her recover from tragedy and taught her to correctly handle Harley. Moloney uses Joy as a character foil to Beryl, as she shows Joy naturally creating a family environment. When Harley breaks the mixing bowl and goes into a state of fury, she demonstrates this. “Stop it Harley,” she called, her voice as loud and wretched as the boy’s… ‘It’s alright Harley, we’ll make another one’ she said gently, trying her best to smile.” This stern instruction followed by loving forgiveness is

One great example of this is when Tea Cake saves Janie from the rabid dog. After the incident, Janie says to Tea Cake, “You was twice noble tuh save me from dat dawg. Tea Cake, Ah don’t speck you seen his eyes lak Ah did. He didn’t aim tuh jus’ bite me, Tea Cake. He aimed tuh kill me stone dead. Ah’m never tuh fuhgit dem eyes. He wuzn’t nothin’ all over but pure hate” (Hurston 167). Tea Cake and Janie are escaping from the hurricane when they came across a rabid dog. Janie is holding onto a cow in the water, while the dog is on the cow’s back. The dog walks toward Janie wanting to kill her. Tea Cake dives into the water and stabs the dog to death. The dog put up a good fight because it bit Tea Cake on the cheek. Tea Cake also puts Janie before himself when he consoles her because Janie is afraid of where Tea Cake has gone. The text says, “He found Janie sad and crying just as he had thought. They calmed each other about his absence” (171). Tea Cake is taken away to help clean up the casualties and Janie does not know where he had gone. He is thinking about her the entire time he is away, and he knows that Janie is worried about him. When he returns, he immediately goes to cheer her up. Tea Cake is a very caring and loving

The first example of this concept is used not even twenty pages in the book with Mildred being found having OD-ed. After Montag had called the hospital to save his wife the men who show up are less than caring. “‘We get these cases nine or ten a night. Got so many, starting a few years ago, we had the special machines built.’” (15) The complacency shown in this section is blatant as they show how relaxed they are and uncaring about Millie’s condition. They also show in the quote how society in this novel is reacting rather than preventing suicides and deaths.

Sometimes there is a situation that one is dragged in to, such as some type of accident. For example, Mitchell Stephens is one of the narrators in “The Sweet Hereafter” by Russell Banks. In his side of the story, he is a lawyer from New York who heard about a bus accident in Sam Dent where ten children died in a bus crash. Mitchell is also the one lawyer representing Risa Walker and her husband in a negligence suit that financially compensated them for the loss of their son Sean. Mitchell is not only just a lawyer like many others but also had more experience. He sympathizes with the parents who lost their children in the accident because like these parents who lost their children he also has a daughter Zoe, who is he can consider dead due to her drug problem. To this reason, Mitchell Stephen has the most to gain by telling his tale to the reader because he seeks to relieve himself from his grief and to help future children riding to school who do not have to come to the same fate as others in the accident.

Tragic diseases bring much despair to sufferers as well as those whom they love. Fatal illnesses, as well as accidents and old age, cause painful losses of loved ones. Some families even lose an important member who unknowingly impacts other people in many ways. In the 20th century biography The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, Rebecca Skloot utilizes the rhetorical strategy of emotional appeals to reveal that physical, mental, and emotional pain bring effects that can greatly impact and tear apart families.

One example is present after Zeena announces that she will visit a doctor, and the narrator states, “Twice or thrice she had suddenly packed Ethan’s valise and started off … to see the advice of some new doctor, and her husband had grown to dread these expeditions because of their cost. Zeena always came back laden with expensive remedies” (36). This quote shows that Ethan struggles to care for his family and himself. We begin to see Ethan’s terrible living situation: When Zeena is home, she makes him unhappy, but when she is away, Ethan knows that she will come back with medical bills that he cannot

In the essay Stuff Is Not Salvation by Anna Quindlen, she criticizes consumerism and materialism. She claims that people constantly waste their money on “trifles” they want yet do not necessarily need (Quindlen Par. 9). Her goal is to encourage her audience to see that, as her title states, “stuff is not salvation” (Quindlen Par. 10). Her claims are intriguing, but are slightly weak. Part of the evidence she uses are unsuitable comparisons that can be offensive to her audience and make her seem biased. She also makes predictions about the future instead of facts or events that have already happened. On top of these issues, she uses mostly personal experiences and not information from reliable outside sources. While consumerism is a major problem in American society, there is a more effective way to go about discussing it.

This story is a very heartwarming story, it brings some sorrow, but also some sections of the story that

Third example is when Maya has a son and she fears she will hurt him. For instance,

An example of that could be...What if a soldier didn't want to get up one day on time like everyone else for a certain training event and so when everyone else was getting the training they needed to be successful he was still asleep, then as they're all returning from the training he wakes up and just blows it off like "So what i don't need to know that crap" and he still somehow graduates and ends up getting stationed over seas on deployment, now its been a while since the incident has happened and he still hasn't learned that skill and doesn't even care. One day he is on patrol when they are ambushed, now he's gone through basic training and remembers what to do, but his battle buddy right next to him gets shot in the chest, now being the medic in his squad he runs over to help his battle only to find his buddy has an open chest wound, bradypnea, gurgling, and doesn't remember what do. Now in the back of his mind he is starting to remember that the training he missed that day he wanted to be an individual and not go to training like everyone else was how to deal which sucking chest wounds and suctioning out fluid from the airway.

For example, the lack of communication between the man and the girl. The girl doesn’t tell the man how she feels about the ‘operation’ he keeps discussing. In the story the girl doesn’t want to have the operation as she feels that their relationship won’t be the same. ‘‘And you think then we’ll be all right and be happy.’ ‘I know we will. You don’t have to be afraid. I’ve known lots of people that have done it…” The man tries to reassure her that they’ll be okay, and many people have been in their situation. Another example for the lack of communication is the man must translate for the girl due to her not able to speak or understand Spanish. “The train comes in five