Essay On Poems

Essay on 3 Things

The three sources I have selected are all based on females.   They are all of change and transformation.   Two of my   selections, "The Friday Everything Changed" by Anne Hart, and "Women and World War II " By Dr. Sharon, are about women’s rites of passage.   The third choice, "The sun is Burning Gases (Loss of a Good Friend)" by Cathleen McFarland is about a girl growing up.
The first selection of mine was a short story called "The Friday Everything Changed" by Anne Hart.   The changes in this story are good in a woman’s point of view.   The author Anne Hart talks about her school years in this short story.   She talks about how a girl in her class asked a question that changed their lives forever.   The question her friend Niles asked was "Why can’t girls go for the water, too?"1.   In those days getting the water for the class was a boy’s job.   To go out every Friday, to fill the bucket up with water, and bring it back to class.   This showed that you were strong, and you also got to have some fun missing half an hour of class.   Because the boy’s felt threatened by this question, they started bugging and picking on the girls to make them change their minds.   But the girls didn’t, and that is what changed their lives.   At the end the teacher did let the girls go for the water, and that was a big change for the girls in those days.   To show that they can do what the boys can do.   Now the girls also get to miss class getting the water and not only the boys.   This short story had a humorous tone to it. For example when the author say’s "are you trying to be saucy , alma?"2 and "Alma threw a bombshell of her own,"3 etc.  
The second selection of mine was an essay named "Women and World War II " by Dr. Sharon.   There were two different changes in this essay that the war created for the women of America, there was a bad change and a good change.   The bad change in this essay is that most of the women were...