love & loss in the time traveler’s wife, the awakening, & the bluest eye
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Love & Loss In The Time Traveler’s Wife, The
Awakening, & The Bluest Eye
Audrey Niffenegger
June 13, 1963
Graphic novelist
The Time Traveler’s Wife, The Three Incestuous Sisters, Her Fearful Symmetry
Professor in the Interdisciplinary Book Arts MFA Program
Founding member of text 3
Kate Chopin
More than 100 short stories
Katherine O’Flaherty
1850-1904
Published in Vogue
The Awakening, At Fault, “A Point At Issue!”, “A No Account Creole
Toni Morrison
February 18, 1931
Howard University graduate
The Bluest Eye, Sula, Songs of Solomon
1988 Pulizter Prize (Beloved)
1993 Nobel Peace Prize
The Time Traveler’s Wife
Main Characters Claire Abshire, Henry DeTamble, Alba, Grandma Meagram,
Richard & Annette DeTamble
Main Events “first” meeting with Henry, birth of Alba, Henry’s death,
Henry & Claire’s wedding,
Themes In TTTW
Destiny/fate
Marriage
Family
time
The past
Video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=USUDlMBR-dQ&ob=av3e
The Awakening Main Characters
Edna Pontellier, Robert Lebrun, Léonce Pontellier, Adèle Ratignolle, Alcèe Arobin,
Main Events Robert going to Mexico,
Edna moving out,
Edna’s affair witg Alcee,
Edna’s relationship with Robert, &
Edna’s suicide
Edna Pontellier, Robert Lebrun, Léonce Pontellier, Adèle Ratignolle, Alcèe Arobin,
Themes in TA
Independence
loss, infidelity
freedom of the sea
motherhood
The Bluest Eye
Main Characters Pecola, Cholly, & Polly Breedlove, Claudia, Frieda &
Mrs.Macteer,
Main Events , Pecola moving in with Claudia & Frieda, Pecola’s rape,
meeting with Soaphead Church, Cholly’s death
Themes in TBE
Abuse
Tough love
Perception of Beauty
Artwork
Video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wIeymNTYdI&feature=fvsr
Love & Loss The Time Traveler’s Wife
Death of Henry’s mother
Henry’s death
Claire’s fight for Henry
The birth of Alba
Marriage
The Bluest Eye
Relationships with parents
Pecola’s rape
Insanity
“tough love”
The Awakening
Edna’s family
Edna’s death
Affair with Alcee & Robert
Identity
Marriage with Leonce
Work Cited
http://www.biography.com/people/kate-chopin-9247211
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wIeymNTYdI&feature=fvsr
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iB8UAuGBJGM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=USUDlMBR-dQ&ob=av3e
http://www.katechopin.org/biography.shtml#career