In the memory play The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams, a man named Tom recounts his memory of his sister, Laura and his mother, Amanda. According to Tom, Amanda lives in the past, striving to find suitors for Laura, and Laura is all too consumed with her glass collection, while Tom works to support the three of them. Tom desires freedom from the life he lives caring for Amanda and ... Laura, and he expresses it constantly throughout the play. To Tom, the ultimate goal is leaving his home and finding adventure away from everything that he knows and ... would rather use alcohol and ciga...

• Word Count: 1672
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

... theme of happiness in his play "The Glass Menagerie." The play revolves around the Wingfield family, a family caught in a life just outside the reach of happiness. Each family member strongly acts in different ways to fulfill their interpretation of individual happiness. But the family member's differences will cause them to strongly disagree on choices of lifestyle, somewhat destroying their relationships with each other. Williams shows that a family ... of finding true happiness. Williams first explores a family that is unable to face reality, using a glass unicorn to represent one fa...

• Word Count: 1763
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

... should be raised. And, I think most parents can agree that children should live in a healthy environment. However, these standards are opposed in The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls. Rose Mary and Rex Walls, Jeannette's parents, have a very unique and somewhat dangerous approach on how to raise their ... because throughout their experiences and various lifestyles, they gained a lot of knowledge and intelligence that could later be used in life. One of the most important things that they learned were simple life skills like swimming. In contrast, these are quite useless to some people bu...

• Word Count: 1488
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

... bad as you want to breathe, then you will be succeed." With this thought, Eric Thomas, an influential speaker, demonstrates that even though the journey of life may lead you to bumps in the road and bruise you along the way, those who are willing to persevere through hardships are able to reach life goals. When one is youthful, society as a whole encourage ... achieve their personal legend. Following a personal legend requires ambition and persistence and if someone does not possess these qualities, the road ahead is impossible. After learning how tough and dangerous the path to the pyr...

• Word Count: 1004
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

... or you don't want me to come. I said that let me call this guy and find out. The minute, I said this, my wife Delilah screamed at me very loud and banged her right hand on the glass door in the lounge. I saw my wife cut her hand badly and started bleeding like speedy tab water. From ... the other side, Dad was shouting at me. I asked dad what you said to Delilah that she hit her hand on the glass door and is severely bleeding. His reply ... was very surprising. I did not say anything to her and don't make her angry, he was telling me! To my surprise, he was not even bothered when I rep...

• Word Count: 4191
• Approx Pages: 17
• Grade Level: High School

... will go for love. Without love in your life, one's journey may seem to be much longer. Actually, without love life is shorter. Because you have not allowed yourself the chance to live and experience your life to it's fullest. Longevity of life should not be measured by length of time, but by quality of life. Love should always ... It is important to remember, love is not really judged by how much you love someone, but by how much other love you. Although, some believe that death is not the end of life, others choose to believe it is merely a transition from one state to another. Death is...

• Word Count: 654
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

... she wanted to see John again and point to them and say, well, I didn't do so badly did I?" She had been strong enough to carry the burden of losing two lovers and a child, yet still raise good children. It was her daughter Cornelia that invoked bitterness in her last days. She thinks ... that Cornelia is consistently whispering about her and had said that Granny should be humored because of her old age. "The thing that most annoyed her was that Cornelia thought she was deaf, dumb, and blind. Little hasty glances and tiny gestures tossed around over her head saying ... , 'Don't cross...

• Word Count: 834
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

... most people, the day is going to go just as one plans, but for some people not as well as they hoped. One would wonder, if this is pure optimism or pessimism? I believe that one's happiness is in the mind of a positive person. When a positive person thinks with the glass half full ... and not half empty, good things happen. The journey people take in their life is to search for happiness. Happiness is something someone can ... feel. Happiness is an emotion that is unique to an individual because it is described differently from one person to the next. What ... doesn't take much to make ...

• Word Count: 1180
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

... helped. Youth, like pristine glass, absorbs the prints of its handlers. Some parents smudge, others crack, a few shatter childhoods completely into jagged little pieces, beyond repair." While this metaphor may prove to be a worthy and accurate portrayal for many of the lives of children and parents in the world, this in no ... family living in a bad area lacking of a fatherly figure in a household. Studies state that 64% of black children are raised in a home with the birth father being absent2. As a result, mothers are forced in those situations and have no choice but to try and take car...

• Word Count: 1233
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

... didn't want anything I said or did that night to be associated with me and my real name"(Plath 17). Her lying about herself shows the reader that she is not comfortable in her own skin and foreshadows that she cannot make progress in her life without first being comfortable with who ... life. In the end, Esther begins to start discovering her identity. After hearing that Joan had committed suicide, Esther has a revelation that the death of Joan symbolized the death of her old depressed, suicidal self. Finally after being trapped in a hypothetical bell jar throughout the whole book, the gl...

• Word Count: 1680
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

... expensive Rachel replies "of course." Likewise Zara says "You think I"d be working here if I could afford a real snake?" But these are all in monetary terms and the director clearly questions consumerist society. Simply look at the ridiculous prominence of brand names and advertisement for everything from Coke to "off-world" colony living to strange pills who's geisha spokesmodel gladly ingests them on ... hundred-foot screens. But, if you look at the all of the deaths in the film (except for Roy's), they are horribly grisly. Zara runs through plate glass trying to get away from Deckard...

• Word Count: 1314
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

... 's railing was composed of a dark mahogany wood. In the corner stood a green and white lawn chair and aside hong a woven off-white hammock where I comfortably laid to read The Color of Water, by James McBride. By the hammock was a little table where my strawberry cocktail was placed, with a slice of pineapple inserted in the side of the glass. As I began to converge in my reading a neighboring ... gray cat hopped in to the deck and smoothly made herself get closer to me. She seemed ... to be enjoying all the beauty that surrounded her and it seemed that together we were appreciating the...

• Word Count: 708
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

... then having problems trying to transfer their jobs to Galatz. That is how I came to consider him very dear to me. He was a tallish person in the year he died and had a really warm-looking face. Surprisingly, his hair wasn't at all white and did not get fattish as most old people do. He ... him, but he never got angry. Though not a very educated man, he did know quite a lot of things which come in handy in the house. He would always know to repair things, from a broken hinge to electrical equipment. I learned quite a lot from him, including how to play ... the guitar. That is how I came...

• Word Count: 369
• Approx Pages: 1
• Grade Level: High School

... new job) or his car breaking down. Just to name a few. Now William has no job. His wife works from home and she got him a job at the same company doing phone sales. He stops working from time to time because he is too drunk to get out of bed and make his calls. He then will sober ... up but then realize he is being treated differently by his family and manager because of the poor choices he is making about alcohol. So he starts to drink again. His manager has given him many chances and is patient but his too will eventually ... of another job. William has now decided to try rehab. He wa...

• Word Count: 683
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

... of what I have experienced in life due to my family members and my relationships with my friends. The reason that I chose to do my project about the relationships I have with my family and friends is due to the fact that without them I would not be the same person today. My family has gone through many rough spots but we always get through are struggles ... because we are very supportive of each other. I have become a supportive person because of the issues that I have dealt with in my life. I never thought that families can grow without marriages, births, deaths, or anything like that ...

• Word Count: 310
• Approx Pages: 1
• Grade Level: High School

... rate of stress is increasing day by day. Our hectic lifestyle or our responsibilities push us being stressful. Stress can result in the competitiveness needed to success in business, achieve an education, foster social relationships, and win at sports. Since everyone wants to be number ... sugary foods, especially chocolate, release hormones of happiness, people generally prefer to eat these foods to overcome stress. Unfortunately, stress, the hormones it unleashes, and the effect of high-fat sugary "comfort foods" can lead people to gain weight. In addition, weight gain when under stre...

• Word Count: 1133
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

... and with her life.Her chrysantemums a great deal to her.This symbolic sence makes clear to the reader tha she wants more from life than just being a gardener. The tinker is a very important figure in this story and represent the kind of life that elisa would like to live.We could see how their life is different ... he lives his life on the road,he could do whatever he wont ,he free and happy of his life.When Elisa talk to him she fill her self more feminine. ... her old shy self.later she says:"ai am strong ,i never knew before how strong " she fills like a renewed women. The moment whe...

• Word Count: 296
• Approx Pages: 1
• Grade Level: High School

... right where I left off. Again I was arrested many more times. I even served some time in prison. After I was released I started using again. It was the only life I knew. I didn't know how to live my life any other way. My family was baffled about my relapse. I should of learned after everything I ... had been through. I still told myself the lie that I didn't have a problem. My family didn't know how to handle me anymore. Child protective services quickly got involved and my children went into foster ... homeless and alone. I lost everything and for a while I didn't care. Until one day ...

• Word Count: 728
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

... of an Hour," written by Kate Chopin, irony of a situation is emphasized too show meaning to the story. After Louise finds out the news of the death of her husband, Brently Mallard, Louise's first reaction was to depart in a "storm of grief" with "wild abandonment" (Chopin 3). However ... began to sit in her chair alone in her room and started to "reach in to her soul" (Chopin 4). Because of the death of her husband, Louise starts to realize the "new spring life"(Chopin 5) and all her surroundings she has never examined before. With her new state of mind Louise becomes jovial ... because...

• Word Count: 274
• Approx Pages: 1
• Grade Level: High School

... in this manner because she is afflicted with a heart trouble. She weeps in her sister's arms and then retreats to her room alone. While sitting in her room looking out the window she chants in a quiet whisper "free, free, free!" It is an obvious point that Mrs. Mallard has been liberated through her husband'd death. Although she isn't without love or ... care for her husband, she admits "she would weep again when she saw the kind, tender hands folded in death." Yet she sees years to come where she would live only for herself. Mrs. Mallard feels trapped and repressed in her marriage to h...

• Word Count: 380
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

... are a multitude of influential males within my life that I greatly appreciate and look up to. However, there is only one who has truly made me the young man I am today. The greatest influence toward my life and goals would be my father. A man I hold to a higher standard than most and greatly appreciate. One of my ... a few years later, and they had me. He has always said to me "when I had you I changed my life for the better" and he sure did. Within in the next eight years my dad went from part time janitor to a District Manager for a major company and responsible for a four state territ...

• Word Count: 751
• Approx Pages: 3
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

... came into visit us and talks to us about drugs and alcohol. The more she talked, the more I started to connect the things she was saying to the ways my dad was acting. I later learned my dad's alcoholism was much worse than I had thought. Throughout the years he would drive me around intoxicated and show up to school ... , like it was no big deal at all. I always protected him and did what ever he said to do. He made me feel so guilty saying I was the reason our family was falling apart. Little did I know, I was blind to realize that I was treated so badly by him. He didn't deserve my lov...

• Word Count: 639
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

... But all of them were excited for war. All of the men who joined the Rough Riders were influenced in joining for various reasons. The men's backgrounds had major influences on the reasons for them to join. They all were there for something. There was the wealthy; they were there to experience life. They had spent ... there were those who were forced to join by their parents. They were out to "defend the family's honor". But they also wanted to find themselves, go their own way not their family's way. And last there were the thieves. These men had figured if they had gone to war they woul...

• Word Count: 307
• Approx Pages: 1
• Grade Level: High School

... do we get so hung up on what we don't agree on, when in fact it's our differences that make life interesting?" These are a few passages from the book that make its readers stop and think, "Why do we do that." What is life about? Often you hear that life is a journey. Some people ... purpose; it just "is." Then there are people who say that we are all just simply here to have a family. After all, the desperate need to reproduce ourselves is etched into the genetic map of every living thing. Bradley Trevor Greive's opinion of these ideas is that they all sound "completely stupid." He states...

• Word Count: 464
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

... that soon turns into an attitude of harsh reality. White slowly describes his love for the lake to express the lifeline of a person. He explains how people live a dual existence from children in their fairly tail land, to adults realizing the reality that everything isn't always perfect, as everything is constantly changing. White uses a ... a single thing wrong with it. He, White, explains the sameness of all things around him, right down to the "dragonfly at the end of the fishing pole." It is constantly never changing. When White gets hit with the reality of life, he uses a metaphor t...

• Word Count: 326
• Approx Pages: 1
• Grade Level: High School