Matthew McHale 301 Assessment. Task B Case study You are a social care worker and a service user, Hannah, tells you that she is unhappy taking her new medication. She thinks she does not need it and so she is throwing it away. You know from her care plan that Hannah does need to take the medication regularly and gets confused. Hannah begs you to keep this confidential and not tell anyone especially her daughter, who she sees regularly, as her daughter will be very angry.
For example, in this passage we understand that Norah is struggling with the grief of her lost daughter and doesn't want to let go of her memory, "Phoebe she would keep alive in her heart." (88) It helps us understand the reasoning behind her actions of drunk driving, dreams of lost things, and escalated emotion at random as well as other actions the character demonstrates through out the novel. The deception of her daughter effects Norah and explains why she bought the camera,"...So he'd capture every moment, so he'd never forget. "(88) Norah doesn't want her husband, sister and not even neighbours to dismiss her daughter as unimportant. Norah's great pain because of the "death" of her child causes her to be scared of change, she wishes she could capture a happy moment, and stay in that moment-perhaps forever. "
Charleena Hendly is an actress who performed in many hit movies until she decides to move back to Culpepper her hometown for a little break. She was very tired of making movies and also recovering from her heartbreak of her husband cheated on her for a model and left her. After all that she has her little helper Macon who cleans the house and does many of her errands around the town, So Macon friend of Foster introduces her to Miss. Charleena and one day Macon is so sick with a fever he cannot go at her house so he sends foster to substitute for him while he is sick. That’s when Foster gets a paper with many chores for her to do around the house given by Miss.
‘Cream Cracker Under the Settee’ is a monologue about a seventy five year old woman named Doris in which we have more of an insight into her true thoughts and feelings. The monologue was was written in 1977 and first performed in 1978 and explores many different themes and ideas which are seen through the eyes of Doris. Doris loves cleaning, she links everything to cleanliness. But she can’t maintain her cleanliness because of her failing health. Instead, a cleaner named Zulema from the social services comes to her house every week to clean for her.
Cassie has been trying to locate her, but had no luck. She also goes around with a lot of men; she really puts herself out there in the wrong ways. Aunt Cassie faces a huge challenge, when she is trying to let go of her past, let go MIA (her daughter), to move on. She tried to find MIA but didn’t succeed, so she finally just let her go. She did it for herself, not only because it is good for her well-being, might she have another baby on the way (as hints were thrown in the book).
but these nervous troubles are dreadfully depressing” (Gilman 2). The author is using a semi-autobiographical technique to show that the narrator was being left in the house for the whole day and she was not supposed to do anything. However when John was out for work for the whole day, she could write how much ever she wants because no one was there to stop her. When the narrator explains that she writes when her husband is not at home that shows gender role because she is hiding it from her husband. She is hiding it from her husband because he didn’t let her write anything or do anything, because in Victorian times, women had less opportunity than men.
This is illustrated when the narrator said “she washed us in a river of make.believe, burned us with a lot of knowl edge we didn’t necessarily need to know” (24). The mother resents the education, sophistication, and air of superiority that Dee has acquired over the years. She fantasizes about reuniting with her daughter on a television talk show and about Dee expressing gratitude for what the mother has done for her. This brief fantasy reveals the distance between the two and how underappreciate the mother feels, this is the beginning of conflict in the story. The mother doesn’t understand the daughter’s life, and this failure to understand leads to her to distrust her daughter.
She does not understand what the presence of a mother would really be like, but she feels her mother’s absence constantly. Though Lily fantasizes about a replacement mother in Rosaleen, she still yearns for the real thing. Lily eventually leaves Sylvan because T. Ray tells her that her mother left her as a child. Lily has kept her mother in such a high regard and the news from T. Ray is devastating to her, she will not believe it. Lily chooses to travels to Tiburon, South Carolina after reading the name of this city on the black Mary picture that belonged to her mother.
As a new mother you want to do everything right, she followed the advise of books. Emily was 8 months old when her father left and her mother found work, so she was watch by the lady down stairs. The mother wasn't happy about leaving Emily with anyone. “I would start running as soon as I got off the streetcar, running up the stairs, the place smelling sour, and awake or asleep to startle awake, when she saw me she would break into clogged weeping that could not be comforted, a weeping I can hear yet. (291) Mother was working days at her job and decided to start on night so that she could spend the day with Emily.
In chapter 18, she decides to remove the letter and her daughter, Pearl, becomes very upset. She wouldn’t come near her mother until she put it back on. Hester is not ashamed to wear the scarlet letter because she knows that her daughter, Pearl is a blessing, as well as a reminder of her sin. Her past sin is a part of who she is. To pretend it never happened would be denying apart of herself.