This picture reminded me of the piece, “A Rose For Emily”, because of the main character Emily and the motif of the flower throughout the story. In this piece, Emily was the main character she was single all throughout her life because of her father’s overprotection. Once Rose’s father died, she was in denial and […]

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This specific image reminds me of Pecola and the theme of, “The Bluest Eye”.Throughout the novel, blue eyes are a prominent symbol that signifies beauty and happiness, especially to Pecola. Pecola forms an obsession with having blue eyes. The beauty standards of the time, during gaining these blue eyes was the main focus, that would […]

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The painting, “A Clinical Lesson at the Salpêtrière”,  is an interesting art piece created by Andre Bouillet. The art depicts a room full of post-graduate students and before them, giving a lecture, is Charcot a neurologist. On the left side of Charcot is a woman presumed to be one of his patients, in what seems […]

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Beauty Is in The Eyes of The Beholder Throughout the history of the United States, racism has been an ongoing atrocity that wreaks havoc on the lives of colored people, mainly African Americans. Racism deprives colored people of feeling beautiful in their own skin. Colored people were and felt inferior to whites in the 1950’s, […]

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Me, Myself, & I The story, “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been”, is about a fifteen-year-old girl named Connie who is fixated on herself image due to her mother’s criticism. Her mother is constantly judging her by her appearance and comparing Connie to her sister June. Although Connie believes that she is pretty, […]

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