Bucket Of Blood And The Wife's Story

John, Sadie’s brother, sped down the stairs and when he sat in his chair he began to inhale his eggs. “Where are your manners John?” Sadie said eating a forkful of eggs. “Blehhhh” John said sticking out his tongue revealing his chewed up food. Pa walked in and slammed the door.

In modern society, more and more people concert about the influence that parents affect their kids. So there are two stories which catch people’s eyes. In the story “Two Kinds” and “Tiger Moms” which wrote by Annie Murphy Paul and Amy Tan, the heroes of stories are Amy’s mother and Amy Chua respectively. The difference is that Amy Chua is crueler than Amy’s mother. However those two characters both hope their kids have wonderful career in the future.

In Sharron Pollock’s, Blood Relations, the play follows the conflict of Lizzie Borden, and her family, who pressure her to wed a widowed man, Johnny Macleod, which leads to her emotional breakdown and decision to murder her step-mother and father, and in the short story “Simple Recipes” by Madeline Thien, it is narrated from the viewpoint of a daughter from a Malaysian-Chinese immigrant family, who’s family has conflicts with adapting to their new culture in Vancouver Canada, while maintaining their native culture to please their father. With both works of literature, Lizzie and the daughter are conflicted with the wishes and demands of their fathers, as both daughters witness or experience violence from their fathers, and characters outside

In the two amazing stories “Mending Wall” by Robert Frost and “The Interlopers” by Saki there are many ideas and examples that show things about feuds. These stories had me on the edge of my seat, wondering what would happen next. Frost and Saki use conflict and metaphors to convey the theme that feuds can be created because of prideful traditions which can hurt people mentally or physically. The following paragraphs will be showing how the literary devices of metaphor and conflict can give ideas of what feuds do.

The unethical treatment has awarded Tess a desired position in the story and the audience will support her through the challenge of getting her voice heard. Through her first job in the film and her position under Katharine, Tess knew she was not being treated fairly and was losing hope. Her view of “hard work and a better life [was] more difficult to see when [she worked] for other people, because in doing so [she gives] up control” (Ciula 70). Tess found her motivation to do what needed to be done, she took control of her own route up the

“A few nights later, however, Hans Hubermann came home with a box of eggs. ‘Sorry Mama.’ He placed them on the table. ‘They were all out of shoes.’ Mama didn’t complain.”

She realizes that this is an unpleasurable and outdated tradition and should be forgotten only because she got chosen. However, if her family’s name wasn’t drawn, she would have blindly followed the ritual, thrilled to have escaped a gruesome, sacrificial death. As a reader it is easy to empathize for Tessie since she or others don’t have a voice in their community or are even able to look at the bigger picture and see that the lottery is unnecessary. Not only does the dramatic irony of the lottery allow the reader to understand Tessie’s view, it creates a similar feeling towards Bill Hutchinson. For example, “Bill Hutchinson went over to his wife and forced the slip of paper out of her hand.

Both women are victims of their societies, however, Tessie’s perspective on her situation differs greatly from that of Jane’s. Tessie appears to be compliant with the yearly ritual until she is the one who draws the damning slip of paper, provoking her to argue that her situation is unfair. “Suddenly, Tessie Hutchinson shouted to Mr. Summers. “You didn’t give him time enough to take any paper he wanted. I saw you.

The mother was sitting at the table in the open dinning room that was connected to the kitchen. The child was in her high chair and the grandmother was in the kitchen making breakfast. The child was eating a banana as the grandmother approached her and said, “What do you want to eat mija?” The child looked at her and said, “Sopa” (translated in English it means soup). The grandmother looked at her and said, “Sopa?

Thus he takes advantage of her. Alec Stoke-d’Urberville rapes Tess in The Chase. His rape of Tess and his lack of remorse thereafter prove his evil

The theme of the story is the family trouble at Thanksgiving. It is told by the family's daughter called “Melli” and starts at their home at Thanksgiving. Her mother, a very engaged businesswoman running her own store, tries to cook a Thanksgiving turkey like every year. Meanwhile are the other family members whether in her way or passive. After some store emergencies she leaves so that the father has to try out himself as a cook.

Tess’ problems prolong throughout the novel. Angel favors Tess out of the other women, and wants to marry out. In Tess’ opinion she feels inferior and not compatible. “Driven to subterfuge, she stammered, “Your father is a parson and your mother wouldn’t like you to marry such as me (187). As the text shows, Tess’ refusal is based off of guilt from her past life.

It was a definition, always touched with emphasis, with reproach and disappointment. Also it was a joke on me(142)”. The main character does not take into account how her mother might want someone to bond with until she is older. Because of her immaturity she has a bad relationship with her parents and her brother even though her thoughts are justifiable. The story is split between the parents versus the children on the relationship they all have and how they contribute to each other’s character.

Three weeks later Sally comes home from school laughing and her mom asks her what happened. “Well, i hate admitting this, but mamaw Sammy was right. I’ve been eating home-cooking twice a week and i’m feeling amazing, and i have lost weight! Please let her know that i thank her for her help in realizing what i missed!”

Tess- a victim of church/religion Tess is a victim of religion as according to society norms. Probably the most obvious and the most discussed mistakes Tess makes in her life, are her “sins against society”. The first is quite obvious, she gives birth to an illegitimate child and is resolved to keep living her life and raise her child as well as she can in spite of the society’s contempt: “The baby’s offence against society in coming into the world was forgotten by the girl-mother; her soul’s desire was to continue that offence by preserving the life of the child”. (112)