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Growing Up Native Analysis

The author provides an insight into her native upbringing in a small community and the future discrimination she would face throughout her life in chronological order. During the narration, Carole uses a lot of imagery. The author compares the warm feeling she felt in her community to the cold feeling of being surrounded by a large white population. Carole talks about her firsthand experience of discrimination after moving to Whitehorse, she talks about the time she urinated herself due to the intimidation she felt from the white students and teachers. She explains how she dropped out in the ninth grade, until her encounter with a friend that changed her life forever.

Growing Up Native

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The narrative essay by author Carol Geddes, who tells us about her recollection of how she grew up as a native in Canada and the discrimination she faced. It is written in the chronological order of the events that took place in her life. The thesis of the essay is that natives are equal to everyone else, so they should not be a subject to any form of discrimination.

Quotes from Suitcase Lady

"With her words she spins herself a cocoon. She talks about drapes and carpets, castles, and kings." The allegory is effective in this statement, it makes the statement easy to understand that she is trying to block out the negative things(cocoon) that are happening to her and she creates a cocoon by talking about drapes, carpets, castles, and kings. "Her suitcase is full of dreams." A metaphor is used in this statement. It is used to apply the word dreams to the suitcase in order to properly explain how valuable the things in the suitcase are to her.

Suitcase Lady

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The descriptive essay by Christine McLaren introduces the rhetorical device of an allegory. This device is displayed when the narrator says, "With her words, she spins herself a cocoon". The allegory is effective because it makes the statement easy to understand that she is trying to block out the negative things that are happening to her and wraps herself in an illusion by talking about drapes, carpets, castles, and kings.

True Love

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Love Quotes

THESEUS "Hippolyta, I woo'd thee with my sword And won thy love doing thee injuries, But I will wed thee in another key, With pomp, with triumph, and with reveling." (1.1.17-20). This quote symbolizes the conquering love between Theseus and Hippolyta because he is winning her hand in marriage through fighting other men who were also fighting for her hand in marriage. Theseus views love as a price that can be won through sheer force. EGEUS "Full of vexation come I, with complaint Against my child, my daughter Hermia.—  Stand forth, Demetrius.—My noble lord, This man hath my consent to marry her.—  Stand forth, Lysander.—And my gracious duke, This man hath bewitch'd the bosom of my child.—  Thou, thou, Lysander," (1.1.23-29). In this quote, we learn that Hermia is in love with Lysander but their love will never be because her dad chose Demetrius for her and  in the Athenian  laws her Egeus' decision is final. These quotes are a few of many that dis...

Love Struck Characters

Forbidden Love: This love is exhibited by Hermia, Lysander, Pyramus, and Thisbe. Hermia and Lysander are exibitors because Hermia's father wants her to marry Demetrius but she is in love with Lysander but they can not be together because of the Athenian law that gives her father Egeus the right to chose her husband. Pyramus and Thisbe are character from the play inside a play, they love each other dearly but they cannot be together because of their families and they both end up dead at the end of the play. Unrequited Love: This love was exemplified by the characters Helena and Demetrius. Helena is in love with Demetrius but he loves Hermia and so she decides to help him with Hermia so that she could still be close to him. This is Helena's sad attempt to later on win his affection. Conquering Love: The Duke of Athens, Theseus wins the hand of his wife Hippolyta through battle rather than having actual affections for her, this means that it did not have to be Theseus but r...