The cause of someone to be unable to move or walk properly is called a cripple. In the essay written by Nancy Mairs, On Being a Cripple, she describes her feelings about word choices used to describe “cripple”. The author’s purpose is to identify herself as a confident and tough person capable of using the word “cripple” and able to rise above her disability. She wants to inform the audience about her life as a “cripple.” Mair’s adopts a confident tone by using strong diction, figurative language, and syntactical features to encourage readers to understand her opinions toward wanting to be called “cripple” as a way of expressing her acceptance towards being a “cripple.” Mairs uses denotative and connotative diction through the use of specific word choice to describe tone. By identifying herself as “tough”, she characterizes herself as a person capable of withstanding hardship instead of using “strong” which implies being able to withstand pressure.
In “A Sorrowful Woman” Godwin’s unnamed wife character, starts off in depression and only worsens as the story progresses. Faye is upset because she does not have a child and desperately wants to give one to Kai; Godwin’s unnamed wife is upset and is desperately trying to escape from the child and husband and her mother duties that she already has. Faye’s attitude towards her family is making everyone in contact with her unbearable. As Van Der Zee states “She was making life unbearable for everyone around her.” (5). It was because “Everybody worried about her.
In The Yellow Wallpaper, a short story by Charlotte Gilman, the symbol of the yellow wallpaper itself portrays a role into the main characters spiral into madness. To the main character, Jane, the wallpaper is at first a nuisance, then an obsession, and finally salvation. Jane becomes overwhelmed from the confided space with the wallpaper and begins to spiral into a deeper depression than what she started with and eventually loses her mind. The material of the paper itself represents Jane's everyday life, the illogical pattern that comes about in it, reflects the absence of logic in her mind and the very colour of the paper depicts the illness that yellows her sight and imprisons her within an unpredictable life, these things all playing a role in Jane's insanity. The wallpaper is at first a great annoyance to Jane as she claims that it is confusing and contradicting.
She felt as if her past attributes and personal accolades would be an opening gateway and assured acceptance ticket to virtually almost anything that she felt she wanted to go after. She craftfully uses the technique of reflecting back on her own self to attempt to have the reader undergo or at least be cognizant of a self-evaluation of themselves. By portraying and emitting her personal denial, she is able to help put others on notice before they actually fall victim to this dead end mindset. The miserable and bleak fact of this is that one’s personal assessment may and are likely to not amount up to those of the generally putative ways of others. Joan seems to be using the writing style of that of a memoir and by delving the reader in her personal life, the reader is able to also question and look over themselves in the same manner that the author has done which would –in turn –help to substantiate the theme of this work.
I’ve witnessed their infidelities…Not a man exists who hasn’t disappointed me” (Cisneros 171). Wyden states that abandoned children also develop low self-esteem and experience confusion and sometimes are left wondering if they are loveable. This is probably a small part of Clemencia’s thoughts and feelings after her mother abandoned her and her family, along with the feelings of hatred and disappointment towards her mother for what she did to them. Clemencia never found it in herself
While the reason is not known, it is not normal for a healthy middle-aged woman to lose her teeth, therefore it must have been her sickness. Zeena is constantly victimized by her own illness, and also her husband’s lack of sympathy for it. Another way Zeena can be considered a victim is in the way her husband, Ethan, does not care for her.
We also learn from Scout's observations that Mayella has no social life, instead she spends her time helping her father around the house. This is evident when Atticus questions her on the issue of her friends, she "frowns (at this question) as if puzzled" (p202). In the court case Mayella seems uncertain about her story, constantly sobbing and repeating denials in a guilty manner. At the start Mayella is clearly troubled by something, she is angry with Atticus and does not cooperate fully to his defense. Several times when referring to Tom, she is unspecific and does not say his full name.
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.
Being a child in a dysfunctional family has made growing up more difficult because even though my sister pointed out to me that our parents cared for us deeply, she convinced me that they unintentionally neglected us and our emotional needs—according to a study she came across. She shared with me that this study was explained to her that over 7,000 parents in dysfunctional families neglect their children. I was overwhelmed at the fact that my siblings and I all fell under this statistic and our social life was paying the price. Growing up in a dysfunctional family causes children to struggle with their social life. My definition of a dysfunctional family is one when there is malfunction; when the parents don’t meet the basic emotional needs for their children.
53). Many illiterates cannot read or understood documents well, and tend to often sign things without fully understanding what they have signed. The author discussed how illiterates have a hard time teaching Their child and often do not go to their child’s school afraid of embarrassing their child and themselves. Their children face hard times as well because they cannot rely on their parents for guidance or help in solving certain problems or homework assignments. One woman describes what it is like to be illiterate in today’s society.