... word in it, placed in front of her stomach. In each of the photos the word is different. The first photo the word is prefer, the second which is refuse, and the third is decide. The piece is well balanced, having the three photographs placed in a horizontal line. To add symmetry to the piece, the center photograph has the woman with her hand folded in front of her, as if holding ... 1990, and it can lead to many different thought, ideas, and conceptions. To the viewer the number of twists, braids, and locks in the hair represents the age of an old woman, one who has seen and experienced...

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... all of this made her feel like more of a stranger to the city. Even after eight years in New York she still liked being there. She "Liked the bleak branches above Washington Square...the morning chromatic flatness of Second Avenue, the fire escapes and the grilled storefronts peculiar and empty in their perspective," (Didion 234). She ... had been time she wasted and could never get back. She had realized that she had stayed "too long at the Fair," (Didion 236). The state of mind that Didion held throughout the essay changed dramatically from when she first arrived in New York until she...

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• Grade Level: High School