Abortion is a widely debated issue. However, those who are for and against abortions agree on one thing, the decision to have an abortion may be the most difficult decision a woman may have to make. In Gwendolyn Brooks' poem "The Mother" the speaker directly address her dead childre...

Way Down East D.W. Griffith's great film, Way Down East, is a silent melodramatic film with many different stories within one great plot. The movie opens with a mother and a daughter sitting at their quiet countryside house laughing and talking. The daughter is Anna Moore, the main charac...

My mother is always very good to me and so valuable that sometimes I feel like I have no words to describe her. I have been told by many of my friends that I never really say what I feel, and the reason for this is because it is very hard for me to express my feelings. Every time I'm in a situa...

Abortion is a very touchy subject for most people. It is a political fight that has extremes from both sides of the issue. While most stories are told from the aborted child\'s side, Gwendolyn Brooks\' \"the mother,\" comes from a woman\'s portrayal of the situation. The mother\'s portrayal is very ...

Hester Prynne, goes through many changes throughout the novel. When we first see Hester she is standing before the community on the scaffold. Although she is being punished Hester holds her head up high and proud. Hester is beautiful and graceful. She appears as if nothing wrong, as if she we chose...

At first glance the poem "To my Mother", by George Barker is about his mothers strong and character and the type of woman she was, and sadly how she would handle things if he was killed at war. The tone of this poem is somber and respectful. This leads me to believe the author had a deep...

What is a hero? A definition of hero, out of many, would be a person noted for feats of courage or nobility of purpose, especially one who has risked or sacrificed his or her life for a great cause. That is the definition that you would get out of a dictionary. My definition of a hero would be clos...

Artsy Perspectives Alice Walker's In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens describes the life of her African American ancestor, a woman who lived on American soil, as art. She portrays their difficult lifestyle as a form of art, created continuously as their days went by. I think tha...

My mom is a mother type. She is very protective of me, when I want to go somewhere for the day or the weekend. She always wants to know: who I'm going with, where I'm going, is my boyfriend, James, going to. She does like him at all. I tell her I'm 17 almost out of high school, I need...

The two items I will be comparing for my response are; 1) The play \"My mother said I never should\" 2) A scene from the TV soap, Eastenders. We have chosen to compare these two pieces because there is an uncanny the resemblance between the characters on both pieces; also the story lines are extreme...

My beeper goes off and I\'m called to the school office. I\'m told that I\'m supposed to be taken to St. Louis in a helicopter as fast as possible. This was the day that would change my life forever and I didn\'t even know it. I was the only child in the Jr. High who wore a beeper - some kids tho...

Personal Response: I Stand Here Ironing In this story, the narrator tells the reader her first major struggle in life, dealing with a newborn baby at the age of nineteen. I cannot say that I can compare to the struggle Olsen is writing about but I can relate to the struggle of "getting b...

John Keats once said "A thing of beauty is a joy forever." One thing beautiful that keeps on giving me joy is the miata. The miata is a beautiful car, from its smooth body on the outside to the sound of its roaring little engine. The miata is a compact car making it capable of getting into...

Inner Turmoil As Shown By, "As I Stand Here Ironing" "As I Stand Here Ironing," by Tillie Olsen is a story about inner angst and rationalization. The main character is both the mother and the narrator of the story. The mother has been asked by a counselor to come and talk ...

Courageous, relentless, unselfish and caring are only a few of the many powerful words I can use to describe my mentor, and friend, Wanda S. She has inspired me, believed in me and cared for me. When I consider all I have, not just materials things, and the proud young lady I have become, her influ...

I Stand Here Ironing", by Tillie Olsen is a short story portraying the life and regret of a young mother struggling to raise her oldest daughter. The mother- daughter relationship is the major part of the story and the attitude of the mother toward her daughter, Emily, and the actual character of th...

"I Stand Here Ironing", by Tillie Olsen is a short story portraying the life and regret of a young mother struggling to raise her oldest daughter. The mother- daughter relationship is the major part of the story and the attitude of the mother toward her daughter, Emily, and the actual character of t...

"Girl" depicts the mother-daughter relationship that appears when the daughter reaches adolescence, a time of great change in the relationship. The girl is hardly able to squeeze in a word, having only two brief sentences in the entire work. This is not even one speech by the mother, but a co...

"I hate life." I casually said to her roommate. "Clarissa, why would you say something like that?" Keryn said. "Life has been so hard for me. All my life, I have been the outcast white chick, my mother clearly hates me, my sister is crazy, and life sucks." I di...

My favorite relatice is my mother. She means the world to me. She has been there for me since day one. My mother is a loving, caring, beautiful, and funny person. She has to have the characterictics because mothers are supposed to be that way. My mother is a teacher at a junior high schoo...

Tillie Olsen's last line of the story, "I Stand Here Ironing," seems like a prayer of hope that the narrator has for her daughter. After a call from someone concerned about Emily's behavior in school, the narrator, while ironing, focuses on her relationship with her daughter....

My Oedipus Complex The story "My Oedipus Complex" by Frank O'Connor deals exclusively with a little boy named Larry and his feelings towards his father. When his father returns home from World War II, Larry is resentful and jealous of losing his mother's undivided attention,...

Whom I Admire There are a lot of people in this world that sit very high with me. I like almost all the people I know and many people inspire me. The person whom I admire most would have to be my mother. The reason for this is that she had a tough life at the start of her adult years, and she...

When asked who has had the most extraordinary influence on my life, the most obvious answer would be my mother. It took me all of eighteen years to realize that it is her influence that has moulded me to become what I am today. Being a housewife, she has never failed to look after us well. She is th...

Tillie Olsen captures the overwhelming love a mother has for her child in I Stand Here Ironing. The story is an example of the struggle of unconditional love and guilt, which go hand-in-hand in motherhood. The narrator in this story is a middle aged mother who has an inner dialogue rehashing the ev...