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Giribala is a young girl given to a man by the name of Aulchand in a part of an arranged marriage.   Aulchand has not been truthful to her father concerning his financial status. He has marriage Giribala and had to immediately leave without her because he claims he must build them a house. Bangshi a prominent doctor and a friend of the family, reveals how disappointed he was in his uncle, Giribala’s father for giving his only daughter in marriage to Aulchand (1150). It is at this point that we learn of the type of man Aulchand is. He is not only broke and deceitful man, but a crook. He has stolen money that was for his nephew’s bride and gave it for Giribala.   He lies and cheats everyone he knows. He also is hooked on ganja (marijuana). He left Giribala for a year before returning.   The author reveals that in her community a girl is only born for two reasons to be married or to die.   We also see that Giribala is very young, 14 to be exact, but...

J amaica Kincaid rose from humble beginnings to become a successful contemporary writer, well known for her books and magazine articles about the immigrant experience. Kincaid learned the practice of voodoo from her mother and grandmother, which she later incorporated into her fiction. Her family, because Kincaid was a girl, no value was placed on her gifts. We see this played out in the story of “ Girl ”. The story starts off with what appears to be a mother instruction to a daughter coming into womanhood indicating that she has started her period (white clothes). It is also a warning because it appears that the mother is concerned about the daughter’s behavior, “on Sunday’s try to walk like a lady and not like the slut you are so bent on becoming” (1146). She is questioning her daughter’s choice of music, accusing her rather. The daughter reply lets readers know that she is not who the mother perceives her to be. She has enough respect for herself to not sing benna (music full of...

I mmediately readers learn a little about Hedda… she is discourteous, allowing Tesman’s aunt, who is sixty-five years of age and the woman who raised her husband to find her way home from the pier because she was more concerned about her luggage, “We felt so bad that we couldn’t take you in the, carriage-but you saw many trunks and boxes Hedda had to bring.” Miss Tesman perceives Hedda as shallow and vain individual. She purchases an elegant hat so that Hedda won’t be embarrassed when she walks in public with her.   – “Yes, so Hedda won’t feel ashamed of me if we go out for a walk together” (784).   Hedda will have things her way with no regard for anyone or anything else. She had to have a long expensive trip that her husband could not afford, a house of a certain standard that he could not afford either. George appears to be weak-minded man when it comes to Hedda. He knows he is over his head in trying to provide the lifestyle Hedda demands and is accustomed to. Not to ...

" Separate Ways" This is a short, amusing tale between two main characters Okya and Kichizo with an heart wrenching ending. Both Okya and Kichizo are two of unlikely characters that develop a big sister/lil brother relationship. They are both poor and can barely take care themselves “If only I could sew you a nice Kimono, it would be a happy day. I’d gladly do it. But look at me. I don’t’ have enough money to dress myself properly. I’m sewing to support myself” (908). However Okay is optimistic that her luck will one day change regarding her financial status, whereas Okya believes that it was his fate to be poor. Predicting that he will never succeed. Kichizo is an abandoned child, longing to know his identity; he has no family or friends. He has found companionship with Okya, who has been extremely kind to him (910). The narrator recounts his story of how he came to work at the umbrella shop. He was taken in by the owner who has been dead for two years. He is now in the ...

“Ode to the West Wind” Wind/Words/Power/Influence The West Winds are known to be the mildest and most favorable of the directional winds, yet the author describes them as the West Winds as “O wild West Winds” Knowing the influence of the wind rather mild or wild is why the author beseech help from the wind even though it does not tell him exactly what he wants yet. He describes the dead autumn leaves “Yellow, and black, and pale, and hectic red, pestilence-stricken multitudes: O though, who chariots to dark wintry bed.   Maybe the author is trying to describe how his work is viewed seeing that not too many people cared for his work. “The winded seeds, where they lie cold and low, each like a corpse within it’s grave, until thine azure sister of the Spring shall blow.”   The author is describing that despite the leaves dying, there are still seeds left behind that in due season spring will cause it to eventually grow. The author will hope that one day the impact of his...

Anna Laetitia  Barbauld – A fierce opponent of war and slavery. She was fearless and tough minded poet. With the poem “To a Little Invisible Being Who is Expected Soon to Become Visible” and “Eighteen Hundred and Eleven, a Poem” one can see the strength and the frailness of the author. “To a Little Invisible Being Who is Expected Soon to Become Visible” The author opens the poem with the description of birth as an emancipation from the womb and the mystery of what a child will become. She compares the possibility of what a child can become to the spring time when everything blooms. “Fresh younglings shoot, and opening roses glow, swarms of new life exulting fill the air, haste, infant bud of being, haste to blow” (327)! " That free thee living from they living tomb" describes how a child has no other choice but to be held prisoner in a living tomb, but when the time comes the little captive will burst through the living doors (the womb) and is now a part of society. ...

Introduction: the creation of a magical stone that is quickly deemed unworthy/ reshaped into something of value by the Taoist and Buddhist monk. ( redemption) could the stone represent the author? Vanitas the Taoist realizes the stone carries some consequence but is not sure that its worthy enough to be shared because it has no dynastic period/no social message/no valid accreditation. The stone gives validation of why the story should be published, insisting that the events and characters in the story are of true account. This caused Vanitas to take another look and realized that the stone spoke of nothing but truth and ventured off to look for a publisher. (this could be how the manuscript of Cao Xueqin after his death was viewed and how it was finally published)  The land of illusion – “Truth becomes fiction when the fiction’s true; real becomes not-real where the unreal’s real (528).   (truth is something that is accepted by an individual/individuals than what re...

Wu Cheng’En – a versatile poet (His novel The Journey of the West contains over 1, 700 poems). ·        Known for writing on Mythical and supernatural super natural subjects in a satirical style. ·        Minor officer serving under the Mind Dynasty (1368-1644). The Novel had a historical basis in the journey of the Monk Xu-anzang, or Tripitaka (596-664), who traveled from China to India in search of Buddhist scriptures during the reign of Emperor Taizong, on of the most splendid emperors of the Tank Dynasty (618-907).   Such Travels were forbidden. ·        Buddhism- immortality and ultimate virtue ·        Daoist – self-preservation and immortality (Confucian – Moral virtue) Chapter 1- There is an immortal stone rock, the rock gives birth to an egg, the egg gives birth to a monkey which disturbed heaven. He communed with other animals. Where...

T he Song of Ch`un-Hyang (page 74-89)  Confucianism is described as tradition, a philosophy, a religion, a humanistic or rationalistic religion, a way of governing, or simply a way of life. It developed from what was later called the Hundred Schools of Thought from the teachings of the Chinese philosopher Confucius.   Confucianism, like many other traditions and religions are inherited values. The issue is that individuals are not given the opportunity to develop their own values and ways of thinking. Yet, traditions and religion, for many leaders in the 18 th century was a practical and effective way to rule a society. Another argument against tradition and religion it creates a hierarchical framework, making another human being inferior to another in some way. It takes a way man’s free will. The problem ·        The magistrate is determined to bend Ch`un -Hyang will by jailing and torturing her. ·     ...