One side for when she’s home, and one side for when she’s out with her friends. Because of these two sides to Connie, she comes face to face with the evil side of danger, “Arnold Friend.” Coming face to face with Arnold Friend, causes Connie to have an epiphany. Connie is always looking at herself in the mirror every chance she got. Her mother was always scolding her about it, “Stop gawking at yourself, who are you? You think you’re so pretty?” she would say to her.
p67-68). She does not have enough self- confidence to meet anyone. Moreover, Bella has been taught for so long by her mother not to feel, and this creates a barrier forcing her to fail at
Rosaleen believes that Lily should just leave the topic alone and that she may discover something she just does not want to know. Rosaleen fears that Lily will be more hurt by her discoveries in finding her past that happy and relieved, “ ‘Maybe she was. I can’t say. I just know some things are better left alone.’ ‘What do you mean? That I shouldn’t find out what I can about my own mother?’ ‘What if—’ She paused and rubbed the back of her neck, ‘What if you find out something you don’t wanna know?’ " (Kidd, 100) Another controversial view studied by Emanuel states that Lily must confront the hardship of her mother’s death head on and that it may have a
When these traits did not surface, Jing-Mei began to realize she did not have these traits and started to feel internally inferior. She slowly started to resent her mother’s continual control over her decisions and went in a different direction than her mother wanted her too. In Amy Tan’s short story, “Two Kinds”, the dialogue Tan includes within Jing-Mei’s flashback demonstrates that conflict and resentment can occur when not allowing your child to take his/her own path. In the beginning of the flashback, Jing-Mei’s mother is shown to be trying to control and dominate her daughter’s life. When she moved away from China, Jing-Mei’s mother had a vision that in America, you could be anything that you wanted to be.
A reader may think that Lindsey is just a strong independent woman who does not have a soft spot to her. But after a while of reading this novel a reader will notice that she is actually very caring. Lindsey falls for her partner Chris Raleigh, but she does not want to tell him because she does not want to hurt him. Lindsey discovers that she has Negli's aplastic anemia, which is fatal so she does not try to get close with him so he will not be hurt when she dies. Lindsey does not tell him that she is sick so when he asks why she does not want to have a relationship, she says, “I’m feeling things, too.
4. Josephine expresses a concern to her sister about her welfare, fearing that Louise’s bereavement will make her ill. In this passage from “The Story of an Hour,” the reader is aware of some information of which the character Josephine remains unaware. Provide the quotation that is an example of this dramatic irony. 5.
Rayona hates it more than anything that when she goes anywhere, people poke fun at her and make racial remarks to her which makes her feel insecure about herself. When Ray meets Foxy for the first time, Father Tom introduces her and Foxy says, “Your Christine’s kid…The one whose father is a nigger” (Dorris 44). Not only does Rayona have to deal with racism her mother is always putting her in bad situations. There has been quite a few times where Christine has attempted to leave Ray and told her that she wanted to commit suicide. One time in the very beginning of the story Elgin goes to visit Christine in the hospital, Rayona had not seen him in 5 months and Christine did not want to tell him about her sickness.
The mother of the Fitzgerald family, Sara, she and her husband Brian decided to create Anna, as a savior sibling for her older sister Kate who is suffering from leukemia. Although Anna is supportive to save Kate’s life seems like Sara’s decision to have Anna as a savior sibling justified. However, Anna feels isolated from her family and feels unsure about herself, and she is used as her commodities and also, she was forced to be matured more than her actual age with heavy responsibility for her family duty shows that Sara’s decision to create savior sibling is not justified. People who think it is justified to create a designer child as a savior sibling would argue that creating a savior sibling is necessary and they support this idea with the assumption that the benefit that savior sibling will provide perfect match with the patient. This will save the waiting time for a donor to be found and save the risk of a wrong match.
Society dictates Mrs. Ross’ life. Her daughter is never seen because of her Hydrocephalic disability. She is hidden from society’s judgemental gazes. Looking at Robert, Mrs. Ross feels guilt and regret which creates a tense relationship with Robert. “I’m not responsible.
When Ray’s mother, Christine, sneaks out of the hospital, she plans to drive to Tacoma to kill herself and leave Rayona behind. Only because the car runs out of gas does she change her mind. Christine’s plan B is to go to Aunt Ida’s on the reservation in Montana. After being coldly “welcomed” by Ida, Christine runs away leaving Rayona with someone she has not seen for eight years. According to Rayona, “Mom is gone and Aunt Ida barely pays attention to me.