Girl with a Pearl Earring
The main theme in this painting is well, a girl wearing a pearl earring. This explains why it is named Girl with a Pearl Earring. Since Vermeer painted it in about 1660-1665, it is debatable who the painting is of, but is thought to have been his youngest daughter, Maria.
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Girl With A Pearl Earring
In Tracey Chevaliers, Girl with a Pearl Earring, Griet is teenage girl who is living in the seventeenth century when class and gender would determine your rights and how you were seen by others. She is not only misused and mistreated by people around her but she is judged by her class and the situ....
Girl With a Pearl Earring
You start tomorrow as their maid. If you do well, you will be paid eight stuivers a day. You will live with them.
I pressed my lips together.
Dont look at me like that, Griet, my mother said. We have to, now that your father has lost his trade.
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girl with a pearl earring
The Girl With a Pearl Earring written By Tracy Chevalier explores the coming of age and inner struggle of Griet, a 17-year-old girl from the small town of Delft. It is a novel that entails many different themes and issues. Two of these themes including love and art. From the beginning of the novel C....
Girl With a Pearl Earring - Could You Make The Sacrafice?
Many teenagers make sacrifices for their parents; the sacrifices they make now-a-day are usually small, simple things like missing a television show so their parents can watch something, or help them out around the house instead of going out on the weekend. Imagine what would happen to that teenager....
Girl with a pearl earring, is Griet the master of manipulation
Chevaliers enthralling novel, Girl with a pearl Earring ingeniously fuses historical fact and fiction, inviting the reader into the volatile Vermeer household of seventeenth century Delft. Through Chevaliers dutiful protagonist, Griet, the novel presents a gradual progression in her character, f....
The Girl With No Identity
In a dark room, with a meager portion of light
Lies a girl hiding in the corner, clutching herself tight
With her head buried in her arms, deep thoughts run through
Confusion tortures her head, she does not know what to do
Trying to find a way out, searching for that escape
But her past always ....