This man treats his wife like the scum of the earth but at the end justice will be served. Delia, a skinny, nice hardworking lady, who has been washing clothes all her life, is fed up with the way her husband treats her. She has to have the clothes washed at a certain time for the white people she washes for. Every time Sykes comes home he criticizes how she keeps washing white people’s clothes as a result they argue about it constantly. He threatens to put his hands on her if she doesn’t stop washing the clothes in the house.
First, he felt abandoned by Alice, the girl at the orphanage. A couple years later, he felt threatened by the dietician. After the toothpaste incident, “It never occurred to her that he believed that he was the one who had been taken in sin and was being tortured with punishment deferred and that he was putting himself in her way in order to get it over with, get his whipping and strike the balance and write it off” (123). He had a hatred for Mrs. McEachern because she tried to help him and he did not want help from anyone. She fixed him supper one night and he completely refused it, “While she watched him he rose from the bed and took the tray and carried it to the corner and turned it upside down, dumping the dishes and food and all onto the floor” (154-155).
Her parents never realized that after every meal Rachel would secretly go to the bathroom upstairs and throw up everything she had eaten. Her father would beat her up and treat her like trash and her mother would just stand there and not say a word because she was weak and always did as Rachel’s dad said. In her kindergarten class, Rachel treated all the other little girls with rudeness, anger, and jealousy towards anyone who was better than her. She often spent her days in the principal’s office because of her strong character and misbehaviors. Rachel grew up, went through her dating stage, and then finally met a wonderful man that she could not picture herself without; a caring, positive, supportive husband that goes by the name of Tim.
Rose is first introduced in the novel while she is collecting Dolly at a pub, at the age of 14 she refuses to do it anymore. Roses sense of strength starts to manifest at this ripe age as well as a growing hate for Dolly. Rose however tries to accept her metrical roles because of her Father, Sam. Rose loves her father dearly and takes up the cleaning and cooking of the household, ‘but she would always burnt the chops’. When Rose meets Oriel Lamb she senses the fierce strength inside her and Rose starts to demonstrate the same qualities and stands up for herself.
Maria’s mother acts fast and hides Maria and Alberto in the hole her father made for their safety. Maria’s mother scarifies herself for the safety of her children. If Maria’s mother went into the hole with them the Contras would of notice the untouched breakfast on the table and would search for them and kill them all. By Maria’s mother staying behind the Contras thought they got everyone in the house and would not search for Maria and Alberto. Trauma begins when Maria hears everything from the hole and the torturing and screaming of her mother.
You asked for it, God damn it.” Holden layed there on the floor, yelling at Stardlater, calling him a “moron sonuvabitch”. Stardlater interrupted him , telling him to go wash his face and Holden childishly replied telling him to go wash his own face and while he was at it, give Mrs. Schmidt the time, who is the janitor’s wife. And while holden was saying this to Stradlater, he walked out of the room into the corridor. After the fight we talked to Stradlater and all he had to say about the fight was ``Holden deserved it, but I worried that he may have fractured his skull or something when he hit the floor after I had smocked him
For my reward I receive breakfast-leftovers from one of my brother’s cereal bowls. By dinner, Mother would “forget” to feed him. Poor David, had no other choice but to fantasize about food. Soon after this, he started stealing food at school. He would steal lunches from his classmates in
Your head is as full of fights as an egg is full of yolk, but your head has been beaten like scrambled eggs from so much fighting. You started a fight with a man who coughed in the street because he woke up a dog that was sleeping in the sun. Didn’t you argue it out with your tailor for wearing one of his new suits before the right season? And with another for tying the new shoes he made with old laces? And yet you’re the one who wants to teach me about restraint!
Sixty-six hungry environmentalists. I pointed to a stack of menus remembering my personal Waitress Rule Number One: Never let a customer see that you’re out of control.’ (Anthology page 215) She was overwhelmed until her ex-boyfriend and his mom came to help. She then realizes that it is necessary to ask for help. On the other hand, Madame Loisel knows that she needs help at the beginning of her situation. She loses Madame Forestier’s necklace, and asks her husband to help return the necklace without Madame Forestier knowing.
After that, they would slide a tube down their throat and on the end their was a funnel in which they poured a raw egg mixture in. This torturous procedure ruined morale for many of the women in the prison, but some still pressed on with their hunger strike. News of the horrendous treatment the women were receiving leaked out. This caused the public to be appalled and they