To a Daughter Leaving Home I love this poem the first time I read it. For no reason, I instinctively think the speaker of it is a mother. With simple language, free style and delicate thoughts, this poem has annotated the most common and yet the greatest maternal love. Reading this poem, I can’t help …
Meaghan Quinn Quinn 1 English 102 Section #20 Journal Writing #1 In the short story, Superman and Me, the author Sherman Alexie writes, “I loved those books, but I also knew that love had only one purpose. I was trying to save my life” (Alexie 6). As a young Indian boy living on the Spokane …
Death is one of the main reoccurring themes in the book The Autobiography of a Chinese Working Woman by Ida Pruitt. Death is a catalyst for change, the focus of familial ritual, the result of the Japanese occupation, and the outcome of diseases that had no cure. The consequences of death provide answers to the …
The relationship that a mother and daughter have is something that should be treasured. This is true in both real like and literature. In the Grapes of Wrath, there is a relationship between a mother, Ma Joad, and her daughter Rose of Sharon. A proper definition of a mother is someone that gives rise to …
