While in her mother’s eyes, she only supported her daughter and craved the absolute best for her child. Schwind-Pawlak presents this argument poorly due to her change of heart towards the end of the essay. She does not stick to her beginning argument which causes the opposition to lack stability. The two authors support their arguments by providing evidence. The supporting evidence of the two essay’s help reveal the hardships teenagers face while dealing with their parents.
She goes on a life changing excursion to make sense of her difficult predicament. She matures and becomes the woman she is at the end of the novel through her relationship with T. Ray, experiences with racism, and internal struggles. Due to her loathsome relationship with her father T. Ray, the protagonist Lily drastically changed into a more independent and confident woman. Lily has finally built up the courage to leave her abusive father when she thought, "I knew exactly what I had to do-leave. I had to get away from T. Ray" (Kidd 41).
There were three types of characters in this story; Dee was the static character who remained unchanged throughout the story, Mama was the dynamic character who caused a change in others, while Maggie was the dynamic character who changed during the story. The fact that Mama knows the inner thoughts of her daughters makes her a limited omniscient narrator. She begins telling the readers that she and Maggie will wait in their comfortable clean yard for “Her” to come. By using the word her to describe the character before stating her name, Mama makes her larger than life; someone other worldly of a higher status. Mama then goes on to describe how nervous Maggie will be until her sister leaves, “standing hopelessly in corners”, “eyeing her sister with a mixture of envy and awe.” She then goes onto reminisce about a dream she had in which she and her daughter Dee, were reunited on a talk show.
Kate’s journey is a physical and emotional journey of her experiences between the ages of twelve to her suicidal death. Kate started off as a sweet, carefree girl growing up in a criminal family watched carefully but the corrupt police. Throughout her emotional and physical journey Bedford shows Kate’s growth and development through a number of themes, issues and writing techniques. Bedford metaphorically links Kate to the seasons. On page seven Bedford writes; “It was a time of muddled feelings, at one moment part of the strong rhythms of the seasons and at another, at odds with everything natural and blooming” – Kate.
At home her mother would always be very distant and would constantly talk about her past as a teenager and how popularity is very important which would get even worse later in the book to the point where she totally isolates herself from people and gets sent to an institution. Geri started to drink more and stopped talking to her two best and only friends Carolyn and BJ to join another group of friends who were “cooler” and would always drink and throw partys. Geri eventually became an alcoholic and would be drinking every single day which was a choice of hers. Nobody forced Geri to drink and after everytime a terrible event would happen she would always promise herself she’d never do it again but then when she felt low she would just start small and go back up. The point of this is that the events such as her families situation could have been solved if she had put effort into it but instead she began drinking which was her choice and she had total control over
“Describe and discuss the political, social and economic long term impacts that hosting the 2012 Olympic Games will have on the city of London in relation to the sport industry” “Olympism is a philosophy of life, exalting and combining in a balanced whole the qualities of body, will, and mind” (Olympic Charter, n.d.). Introduction The Olympic Games are a major international event, that in 2012 are taking place in London. The earliest records of the Olympic Games date back to 776 BC in ancient Greece (About, n.d.). London was chosen to host the 2012 Olympic Games, and since then preparations have been underway in Stratford, “one of the capital’s most diverse and economically deprived areas” (Citymayors, 2008), as well as in other locations in London. The Olympic Games is a “mega-event” with potential significant impacts and benefits on the host city (Blake, 2005).
Connie had a psychological dream vision and imagined all the events that had taken place. The dream vision is as psychological way of leaving her adolecents behind, and being thrown into the realization of the dangers of the real world. Connie, in the short story, is an adolecent in the midsts of rebellion trying to prove to she is no longer a girl, but instead a young, independent woman. Connie is always being compared to her older, placid sister, obedeient sister, June by her mother. Connie, desperate to seperate herself from her sister June, does her best to make herself appear older and more mature than she really is.
After the incident of her mother taken away from her she drastically became a whole another person. At her new foster home Antonia wasn't as nice as she once was. Antonia was rather rude to her foster parents Tillie and Luis. She was open minded and caring before but once she was brought into the new foster family it was as if she had lost these character traits. She still showed love to her mother and brothers but she still boxed out the foster parents who have treating her as a princess.
Domestic Violence is sickening and while most victims feel they lack the appropriate support to enable them to positively alter their situation, there is always someone to help. The book that I will be speaking about today is called Indigo Blue, by Cathy Cassidy. The genre is drama and realistic fiction because of the violence, and real life situations that could relate to this. I would suggest this book to pre- teens and teenagers. Indigo is a responsible kid, who loves to daydream, with an unstable mother who is sick of putting up with her boyfriend, Max, and his abusive behaviour.
Monica Mills Mrs. Gibson English 1101 3 December 2010 Learned Helplessness and Abused Women The Color Purple has several scenes where the women in the movie are showing exactly what learned helplessness is(1985). Anybody who is in a situation and will not stand up for their self, because of previous situations or what they have been taught from their parents, is learned helplessness. Spielberg down played a lot of what Alice Walker, the author, wrote in her book. Walker speaks directly to the audience by using very powerful literary elements such as attitude, detail, and point of view. Alice Walker, being an abused child herself, brings to the table a whole different aspect to the novel.