In the chapter “A walk to the Jetty” the narrator, who is also the main character, Annie John, narrates the day in which she is going out of her country to Europe to study to be a nurse. She tells all the details from that day, how were the things in the house, her parents’ and everybody’s attitudes, her wishes, thoughts and expectations for do and be something different, something else.
Some themes that are presented in that chapter are:
· The Love- it is presented in what feel her parents about her and her about her parents although she didn’t want to express it. Sometimes she said that she want not to see her mother again and the things that she had seen all the time she was there, “But as I was lying there my heart could have burst open with joy at the thought of never having to see any of it again”, but at the end of the chapter she express that she feel those nostalgic and melancholic feelings that you have when you are saying goodbye to something that you love: “But then, just as quickly, my heart shriveled up and the words “I shall never see this again” stabbed at me. I don’t know what stopped me from falling in a heap at my parent’s feet.” (145)
· Feminism, express that a woman could study, work and live without being with a man. We can see it in how Annie saw and described her parents relation, and when she said answering to her parents to the idea that she could came married: “How absurd!”
· The expectations of change and be different- It is presented in Annie’s wishes to go out. We can see it when she said: “but I would have chosen off to live in a cavern and keeping house for seven unruly men rather than go on with my life as it stood.”
“But as I was lying there my heart could have burst open with joy at the thought of never having to see any of it again”
“When I turned away I didn’t look back.”- trying to forget the past. It can express those feelings that every people have about searching something more, something different and maybe something better.
This story remember me before enter in the university and go to live alone in another town with most of the people and things different from what I know. I was happy to go out my home before I did, and then, after go out, I could realize how I like to be in my home and how I love my family and live with them.
I feel identified with the character in some of her feelings because I am always looking for more, to change. I really like what I am and the things I have, it is just that many times I think that I need something different to my life.
Some themes that are presented in that chapter are:
· The Love- it is presented in what feel her parents about her and her about her parents although she didn’t want to express it. Sometimes she said that she want not to see her mother again and the things that she had seen all the time she was there, “But as I was lying there my heart could have burst open with joy at the thought of never having to see any of it again”, but at the end of the chapter she express that she feel those nostalgic and melancholic feelings that you have when you are saying goodbye to something that you love: “But then, just as quickly, my heart shriveled up and the words “I shall never see this again” stabbed at me. I don’t know what stopped me from falling in a heap at my parent’s feet.” (145)
· Feminism, express that a woman could study, work and live without being with a man. We can see it in how Annie saw and described her parents relation, and when she said answering to her parents to the idea that she could came married: “How absurd!”
· The expectations of change and be different- It is presented in Annie’s wishes to go out. We can see it when she said: “but I would have chosen off to live in a cavern and keeping house for seven unruly men rather than go on with my life as it stood.”
“But as I was lying there my heart could have burst open with joy at the thought of never having to see any of it again”
“When I turned away I didn’t look back.”- trying to forget the past. It can express those feelings that every people have about searching something more, something different and maybe something better.
This story remember me before enter in the university and go to live alone in another town with most of the people and things different from what I know. I was happy to go out my home before I did, and then, after go out, I could realize how I like to be in my home and how I love my family and live with them.
I feel identified with the character in some of her feelings because I am always looking for more, to change. I really like what I am and the things I have, it is just that many times I think that I need something different to my life.
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