… Porter Voices and visions, imagined and real, mingle and merge throughout Katherine Porter’s short story “The Jilting of Granny Weatherall” as this hardy woman, one who has weathered so much, lives out her final moments. It is better to read the…

… by Katherine Porter, Granny Weatherall is a character of depth. Her name is synomonous with her character. Three main qualities of her character are her strength, her endurance, and her vulnerability. Her strength is not so much physical…

… especially when they are ill. No matter what the situations is, when someone tries to control the lives of those who are not well, how can they expect them to get better if they don’t really understand what the problem is? This is the common…

… American literature. The novel “To Kill A Mockingbird” by Harper Lee is a piece of literature that addresses the theme of the journey (though it is more of a psychological and emotional journey than a physical one). In “To Kill a Mockingbird”, the…

… written by Homer and translated by Richard Lattimore, several themes are made evident, conceived by the nature of the time period, and customs of the Greek people. These molded and shaped the actual flow of events and outcomes of the poem. Beliefs…

… Systems in Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club "Concentrate your will. Hear not with your ears but with your mind; not with your mind, but with your spirit . . . blank, passively responsive to externals. In such open receptivity only can Tao abide. And…

… is much different then the American ways of society today. To contrast these two countries and lifestyles, examples from the book 'The Joy Luck Club' written by Amy Tan describes the Chinese society and my own experiences of living in America…

… people into who they presently are. A person's identity and way of thinking are influenced greatly due to their family's surroundings, and relationships they are involved in. In the novel, The Joy Luck Club, the characters are generic, in the sense…

… is much different then the American ways of society today. To contrast these two countries and lifestyles, examples from the book 'The Joy Luck Club' written by Amy Tan describes the Chinese society and my own experiences of living in America…

… from eight different women and their lives. The stories are based on their Chinese culture and their mother/daughter relationships. In the novel and in the film production, the women go through many obstacles in life and must overcome them in…