Travels with My Aunt Essay

Subjecting herself to thoughts of uncertainty, Madame Augelier is portrayed as the stereotypical stay-at-home wife, worrying about her ability to satisfy her husband. While content with the gifts she had received she believed herself to be guilty of not loving him enough and called him “poor Francois” as the result of her apparent lack of affection. She underestimates her “strength of affectionate habits and abiding fidelity” which although shows that she is modest, is ultimately shadowed by the reader’s realization that she lives to merely please her husband (Colette 1120). Madame Augelier is predictably the ideal wife in a stereotypical story as even with the absence of her husband she is still under the impression that she must please

Not many people get excited when they talk about Chisinau, Moldova, but I do! God sent me to Moldova for five days, June fifth through twelfth, for my first mission trip out of the United States. The goal of my mission trip was to teach English to kids with a church called Meteora in Chisinau, love on kids, and get to know the city and culture of Moldova. It was our goal in Moldova to be God’s hands and feet.

8. How are the background characters such as the young lovers and the lady in black at the shore, significant in Edna 's story?The young lovers represent the love supported by the society Edna lives in, and the lady in black represents what society expects of a woman after her husband has passed. 9. In detail, explain how the flashbacks to Edna 's past function. How does her father compare to the other men in her life?The flashbacks show a time where she was really happy and talks about a time where she remembers just being a little girl and running through a large green field so she wouldn’t have to go to church, besides that she was a carefree person back then. Her father is different because he states his opinion about her actions instead of keeping quiet and he is more controlling. 10. How does the view of romantic love develop in the course of the novel? What is the doctor 's view of marriage and childbearing?The doctors view of marriage and childbearing is that that is what makes a happy family, and the romantic loves develops in person and goes on through Roberts letters to Mademoiselle Reisz 11. Can you think of an emotional attachment and/or a romantic obsession you have studied in a previous work? How does that incident or character compare with Edna 's emotional and romantic relationships?In Romeo and Juliet’s love in their story. Their relationship is similar to Edna’s and Roberts because they love each

“Undressing Aunt Frieda,” is a poem about the narrator’s remembrance of his Aunts life while visiting her on a death bed. The narrative is in first person, and takes place as the narrator and his daughter are about to leave the relative. The first half of the poem explores Frieda and her past. The second half is about how the narrator and daughter have grown and learned from the aunt. While undressing her aunt, the narrator feels emotions and remembers his past with Frieda. The poem describes these emotions and memories in a metaphor explaining unique characteristics of how Aunt Frieda undressed, and how she impacted the relatives.

2. Grandfather is a man that is very religious and an extremist. For him religion and God are everything and if you hadn’t respected those two you were a terrible person. His wife was a woman who thought that marriage wasn’t necessarily for love and just for being a good housewife. I think that in a way she feared him. She was also twenty-five years younger than him. They did have two sons together, but at the end it didn’t work out for he killed her.

Powerful and well-crafted novels spin from archaic yet timeless tales. Thus leaving readers to find their solace between the conflicts and turmoil within the plot. A vast majority of stories contain paradoxical themes and morals that consequently, temporarily confuse the reader, and creating their interpretation of the novel. The Time Traveler’s Wife contains themes of love, fate against free will, time, and more messages written between the lines. Henry DeTamble has a genetic disorder called Chrono-Displacement, which causes him to become temporarily displaced in time against his will. Therefore, it is possible to meet his determined soulmate, Clare Abshire when she is six, and he is thirty-eight- also when she is twenty, and he is twenty-eight. Alternating between childhood and adulthood perspectives, Niffenegger’s The Time Traveler’s Wife contains a problematic love story that portrays the consequences of isolation due to a predetermined belief in love, evident in Clare’s monotonous life. Moreover, the novel illustrates that living according to destiny oppresses a fulfilling lifetime. Many instances throughout the book that demonstrate this are The List, Alba’s conception, and Henry’s final letter.

One of the most rewarding experiences I have ever had was the mission trip I took to Costa Rica earlier this summer. Being able to be immersed in the culture of such a happy country while being able to help a family get a home changed my life forever. Meeting a family that had nothing but was so willing to share the little amount they had was such a humbling experience. Everyone we encountered on the trip was so nice and giving.The most important lessons I learned from this trip is that things I have taken for granted my entire life seem like a luxury to other people. Having a floor without any holes was something that I was just used to and i never thought that was something that could bring a family to tears from gratitude. Handing the keys

The beginning of the memoir confronts the reader with Kingston's forgotten aunt. The little knowledge of her aunt begins

Even though there is no father figure the main male figure is a successful rice merchant that is elderly and walks with a cane and who has a normal family. While it seems like this is a strong male figure in the story he is later easily tricked first by the son and then a second time by the mother. The female character, on the other hand, is a widowed mother who sews silk kimonos and whose head bobs “like the heads of the birds hunting for fish” (Snyder 6). In the beginning of the story the mother seems as if she struggles to support her family and is unable to motivate her son to do something with his life.

In the beginning of the story she describes what it is like at her aunt’s house. “We sit down at the kitchen table. My aunt’s house is smaller than ours and noisier. She has three sons, my cousins. We can hear them making odd sounds in the other rooms, the other rooms of their house. … Today we sit alone at the table, my aunt, my brother, myself. My aunt makes hot chocolate and pours it into plastic cups. She forgets to put marshmallows in it. Joshua, who is my older brother drinks it. I don’t” (1). She helps the reader visualize her living situation and how she feels about it by expressing the discomfort she feels at her aunt’s house. At the beginning of the story her aunt is crying. “My aunt is crying. No one asks why. My aunt is a big woman, and the tears seem silly. It is as solemn and inappropriate as if a man were crying” (1). By describing her aunt’s appearance in this moment, she also helps the reader understand the dislike she has for her aunt. Later in the story her uncle takes her to an aquarium that her father used to take her. “A week ago, or two weeks ago, or more, my father had stood here next to me, and I had pressed my nose to the glass while he laughed. I used to

Bam! It hit me like a speeding truck. Two weeks in Cuzco, Peru had shown me what it is really like to be struggling in all areas in life. This specific mission trip showed me outside our borders there are people in need of basic necessities in life. I spent the better of two weeks learning about myself and the people I was determined to help. Teaching has always been a part of my life, however, after these two weeks, I learned that teaching is exactly what I want to do with my career. The students I was able to work with had not had a proper education, and my teaching them put them that much farther into a life they hadn't imagined ever having. The compassion and empathy I felt in my heart for my students had shown me that teaching is the right

This quote is helping us understand that the family in the story is very different from the common stereotypes of families. Such as how the father is not the most dominant figure in the family, and how the wife is normally not suppose to speak out but in this story she does. Gender roles aren't a huge part of “Answers”, but they do affect how the story goes, and how the characters are surprised at how others act differently than how they thought they would.

Her mother who was a doctor, midwife, fought ghosts and told stories to Kingston, her daughter, which were called talk-stories that described horrifying stories such as Kingston’s aunt giving birth to her vast alone in a pigsty. Her mother was a very complicated character she was loving but also told stories that put her views towards women contradict herself because of Chinese culture. Kingston in the book has problems with that because Brave Orchid, her mother, is supposed to be the most important woman in her life but would submit to the traditions of Chinese culture against women on how they would be forgotten and shunned for having a child with another man other than their husbands, which causes tension between Kingston and her mother. But over some time they began to become close to one another again set aside their differences. Also in chapter four titled “At the Western Palace” talks about a human who left behind his wife in China to go move to America to be with another woman. Kingston’s aunt named Moon Orchid is left in China where her sister encourages her to go to America and claim what is hers but she cannot speak any English and when her sister leaves her in America alone to fend for herself she ends up going crazy and dying in a California state mental

Edith Wharton’s short story “A Journey” tells the story of a woman who travels to New York with her husband. During the first half of the story, the narrator describes the relationship between the main character and her husband, even during his sick days and the second half of the story offers insight into the main character’s reactions towards her husband’s sudden death including her interactions with the secondary characters. In “A Journey”, Edith Wharton’s choice to include secondary characters highlights the wife’s selfishness.

Just like a child who has had a toy taken away from him, he becomes upset that something he once viewed as his, no longer belongs to him. This view is revealed earlier through his fixation of having her take his last name, thus marking her as his. Though he could easily still treat her as a true daughter, Henchard’s has lost his sense of entitlement to Elizabeth-Jane, causing his narcissistic rage to take over. He quickly begins to criticize her for anything she does that reminds him of his former life. For example, “her occasional pretty and picturesque use of dialect words”, which reveal her poor upbringing, force Henchard to think of his own past when he too was poor (99). Though, quite hypocritically, he is “uncultivated himself”, he becomes “the bitterest critic the fair girl could possibly have had of her own lapses” (100). Though he is swift to rage at and condemn Elizabeth-Jane for her inability to completely erase the tongue of her past, ironically he can not erase his past either. Just as Elizabeth-Jane’s accent occasionally slips into her speech, Henchard’s past continues to slip into his new life.