You know how cruel others can be when you are not perfect. The problem she was having was not that she was blind but that she looked different. There is now a big white “blob” in the middle of her eye and “prays every night for beauty not sight” (Reid, 2011, p. 98). Just before her accident her family had moved to a new town. She was doing so poorly in the new school that her parents decided to let her go stay with her grandmother that way she can go back to her old school where her friends were.
When the pig became fat he was to bring madam Zeroni up the mountain and have her drink from the stream and sing the song to her but he had forgotten and went to live in America. Never did the Stanley’s family believe in the curse, but one day Stanley was hit by a pair of sneakers falling from the highway above, Soon Stanley was accused of stealing the pair of sneaker’s because the sneakers belonged to sweet feet (someone famous) and he was sent to Camp Green Lake to dig holes that where five feet deep and five feet wide, as it was believed to build character. At the beginning of the novel, we find out early that Stanley is overweight, because it is mentioned that, "He was overweight and the kids at school often teased him about his size." Because of this, he is very sensitive and self-conscious. Later on in the book we discover that Stanley has lost a lot of weight we know this because Louis Sachar writes, "A couple of months ago, He would never have been able to fit through the door”.
The black people around the community come and steal and eat the grapes. In order to make them stop stealing the grapes, he hires a conjure woman named Aunt Peggie to bewitch the grapes so that if anyone tries to eat them, they will die within a year. The following year, one of Mars’ slaves dies and he buys Henry, one of Mars slaves, who is old and weak. Henry does not know that the grapes are goophered. He eats some of the grapes and then finds out about the curse put on them.
9. Scout disliked Walter she kept on bothering him and putting him down, but the opposite of that behavior was Jem. He invited Walter over for dinner and was very respectful to him. 10. Buris Ewell is the student in Scout’s class that a rat came out of his head and Miss Caroline got very scared.
Tensions arise from the very beginning. The biggest shocker to the family was Wednesday’s apparel, after 18 years of wearing black, Wednesday appears in a bright yellow dress. Pugsley is worried that he will lose Wednesday, that would mean no more torturing. He steals a potion from his grandmother, who may not be, that will show a person’s evil nature. He plans to slip the potion into Wednesdays drink at dinner (“What If?”).
These insecurities make it tough for Maya to meet people. When Maya goes to school other students make fun of her appearance and call her stuck up and arrogant. Throughout the whole book, Maya only has one friend; Louise Kendrick’s showing that no one wanted to be her friend. This starts the beginning of Maya's depression. After the rape Maya feels even more lost and insure because she feel insignificant and useless.
This is portrayed clearly in all three of the novels. In Harriet the Spy, In Matilda, neglect from her parents stems from pure greed, allowing them to overlook the briliance of their young daughter. This is a clear point made in the story, emphasized by the author's introduction of the parents when he says "Occasionally one comes across parents... who show no interest at all in their children... the parents looked upon Matilda in particular as nothing more than a scab" (6). He also mentions how parents who neglect their kids in such a way are "far worse than the doting ones" (6). As the author mentions, the parent's neglect for their daughter stems from pure greed.
Rayann and Cookie come from opposite ends of the social ladder, and they see that it’s not really okay for them to be friends. The carefree girls had to live in a world of violence and anger, because of the racial problems around them. 2. Is the plot believable in “real life”? Why or why not?
Her family had not gotten her gloves so her hands were cold and she was unable to keep up with the other girl with the jump ropes, therefore they made remarks on her being too skinny and on certain foods she did or did not eat (Schakel, P. & Ridl, J., 2008). They were words that were meant to be mean. She had also faced this when she went to her friend Eugene’s house and was turned away by his mother. Eugene’s mother was rude and mean to the little girl and told her that he didn’t want to be friends with her anymore. The words are one thing, but in the matter of tone in which they were said was mean and angry and she had done nothing wrong except knock on the door and try to befriend a
Lennie was very isolated also from the ranch workers because he wasn't normal and acted very childish, this mustn't of been nice for Lennie and that is how the ranch is unpleasent for him. Carlson made Candy's life on the ranch very hard because he depised Candy's smelly old dog, in the book Carlson kills the dog because it was old and it stank but he never cared about how Candy felt about the dog he just cared about himself. Carlson killed the dog eventhough he knew how much Candy loved it, when Carlson suggested killing the dog “Candy looked for help from face to face” but nobody helped him. The reason why Candy couldn't stop Carlson from killing his dog was because he was a very brittle old man and was mainly over powered by people stronger than him. This event was very unpleasent for Candy.