The words used here are "blighted- which means something that stops growth and withers hopes and ambitions. So she is saying that her child has failed in her mother's hopes and ambitions for her. ... Feeling proud of their accomplishments in Paris, where they owned a small gallery, she goes on to say that the Parisians had an admiration for them. ...
I can say that due to my own experiences, especially now in college, I have become separated from the life I knew before. ... My own experiences relate more to Dubois's character than to Rodriguez. ... Rodriguez, though he is blinded by his ambition and desire to replace home with school, is subconsciously aware and comforted by the fact that his parents support him. ... Rodriguez takes this ambition to the next level and makes quite sure that his education and smarts will allow him to live a better life than his parents. ...
Johnson's subject had to separate himself from his prominent family in order to be his own man, or "hang or drown at last," which symbolizes a freedom to live of die as he wishes. When Johnson uses the word "guardian" in line 25 he is referring to his own childhood but not to his parents. ... Johnson not only uses "A Short Song of Congratulation" as praise to another, but also as an escape from his own reality through another persons actions and similar triumphs. ... He writes, "It is true that the first 342 of the 368 lines of the poem recount in depressing detail the failure to insure h...
She therefore forces Janie to marry Logan Kellicks, simply because the man owned sixty acres of land. During Nanny's slave experience, owning land was something that only a white person could do, so for Janie to marry a man who owned sixty acres of land was enough for her to feel that Janie would live a safe and happy life. ... Although she liked Joe's ambition and ability to dream, she was never physically attracted to him as she was to Tea Cake. ...
Discuss the way time functions in Bazin's ontology of cinema. In what ways does Bazin distinguish the cinematic image from other forms of image? Bazin believes in the idea that throughout history man has attempted to deter the flow of time by creating representations of life that will remain beyo...
