This is a case regarding a mother named Barbara Atkinson and the mental state in which she was in at the time of her arrest. Barbara was arrested for locking her daughter in a closet for close to six years, where she endured sexual abuse, starvation, and complete isolation from the outside world (ABC News, 2002). Barbara herself had been an abused child and by the age of three years old was given up for adoption (Press, 2002). Barbara lived with her husband in the State of Texas and four children which only three children were from her husband. While their three children played none ever uttered a word about the secret that was inside their home for almost six years.
Instead she would just lay with her daughter until she was finally able to throw the baby overboard but “quickly after that she jumped in too” (Danticat 26). Célianne seemed to feel that if she couldn’t have her daughter, she shouldn’t live either. This shows that as a mother the bond with your child is so strong that you would do anything for them. In Nineteen Thirty-Seven, Josephine and her mother Manman’s relationship is strained because her mother is in prison for allegedly killing an infant. Ever since the day her mother was put in prison, she has not said a word to her mother.
After all of that personal trauma Malcolm’s mother suffered a nervous breakdown, and was committed to an institution; which forced her children into foster care. While attending middle school, Malcolm had dreams of becoming a lawyer, but his teacher told him there was no such thing as a black
Mayella Ewell is the raped 19 year-old daughter of Bob Ewell. Mayella was very unhappy, and had a sad life. If Mayella really got raped by tom Robison why didn’t Mayella scream for help? Why did Mayella lose her composure in the courtroom, once Atticus questioned her? Why wouldn’t Mayella tell the real truth about what really happened?
Marian was 11 years old and her parents forced her to marry a blind, 41 years old. Her price was $1,200. When she was living with her husband and his mother, they began to beat her when she failed to conceived a child. After 2 years of abuse, she sought help at police station in Kabul after the police delivered her to a residential neighborhood " Women's shelters", something that was unknown in Afghanistan before 2003. Marian said she felt fortunate to have found refuge.
Jason Gallardo Analysis on “Precious” The movie starts off with Ms. Jones getting kicked out of school for being pregnant a second time at the age of 16 by her father. She goes back home and forgets to buy her mom cigarettes and gets knocked out by something that is thrown at her and hits her in the head. Flashbacks came to her and she was getting raped by her father. Her mom is a poverty stricken woman who abuses her daughter physically, verbally, and mentally. One day one of her teachers comes to her home and tells Precious about an alternative school that she could attend that can better suit her situation.
They wake her up early and help her stretch her legs in hope that they will one day be straight/normal. They showed the compassion that her birth mother would never give to her child. Linda later recalls, “I must have been held so much that the sensation became a part of me”(65). Fifty years later when Linda and her mother Nancy finally meet for dinner, they don’t hug or even shake hands. The mother may be the birth mother and be related by blood but she sure doesn’t show any love toward her handicapped daughter that she abandoned.
Working With Survivors of Sexual Abuse and Trauma: The case of Brenna Marissa Bowman Walden University In the case of Brenna social and economic injustice was present in the areas of housing, education and healthcare. Brenna became a victim of sexual assault at the age of 15 by her mother’s boyfriend. When she disclosed to her mother about the sexual assault Brenna was asked to move out. There was an immediate lack of concern for Brenna’s well-being by her mother virtually kicking her out with no regard to how she would survive or continue going to school. Freud’s theory regarding the ego and psychosexual development states that: “perceiving welfare recipients as victims of psychologically abusive histories can result in character disorders
Maggie’s mother was also older and better suited to be a mother because she was older and more experienced however, Maggie’s father also left the family. Maggie turned out to be shy and refrained from social life since she did not leave the house after being burned. “She stoops down quickly and lines up picture after picture of me sitting in front of the house with Maggie cowering behind me” (Walker 746). Too much attention leads to Maggie clinging to her mother and not enough attention drives Emily to not seek out a close relationship with her mother. Both mothers are concerned with the status of their daughters.
At an early age Angelou was raped by a friend of her mother’s while visiting her mother in St. Louis. This violent act left the young girl traumatized. When her uncle’s heard about what happen they killed the man who raped her. She felt as though his death was her fault and she did not speak for five years. When Angelou was 12 years old an educated black woman from Stamps by the name of Bertha Flowers helped her to break this silence.