She never asked her what was wrong. Joe thought he knew all about Amanda seeing that they grew up together, but he didn’t feel that way anymore. Amanda often went to Joe when she was upset, had a problem or just needed someone to talk to. One night she admitted to Joe that her life was a mess. She said school is shit and home is shit but she didn’t explain why and Joe never asked.
Maggie starts off in the story as having very low self-esteem, Walker describes her as, “Walking with chin on her chest, eyes on ground, feet in shuffle, ever since the fire that burned the house to the ground.” This has caused her to feel unattractive and not as confident compared to her sister. Being the younger sister, I feel she is looked down upon and not respected for who she really is. Maggie has not experienced as much of life as Dee, Yet, she seems to value it more. Maggie does not have any wishes to change her way of life, she has simply remained uneducated like her mother, but remains proud of who she is and what she stands for. Maggie has a close relationship with her mom; they seem to share a lot of the same views.
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.
She decided to go to her manage and ask when she would be getting paid, but the only thing her manager could tell her was “next week”. She grew tired of contently hearing “next week”, after this she decided that she wasn’t going to work any longer until she was given her pay from the pervious month. But the more time wasted, without pay, the sicker her daughter became. That was something she couldn’t bare. She had no one to help her.
The Day They Set Out Response Brandon Moreira In the short story “The Day They Set Out” by Beverly Harris, the protagonist, Jean is stuck in a life in which she does the same predictable routine. This makes her feel empty inside, and that she needs to try something new. The causes for her emptiness and difficulties are that, because of her lack of social skills, she has almost no friends. Her husband, Ross does not love her anymore, so he looks at other women to satisfy himself. Also, her lack of intelligence has left her with no job and an inability to get a job.
In this story a girl named Jesse is used to living alone but one day her uncle and cousins move in but she likes living alone. I choose this theme because even though things are changing in Jesse’s life, she doesn't need to change how she feels about it all. For example in line 43 Rene, Jesse’s cousin, asks Jesse how she feels about everyone moving in. Jesse responds by saying, “Rene, I’ve spent a lot of days, nights, too, wishin’ that things weren’t the way they are. But yeah.
I think there were other reasons also, but the story points to this one in many places. First of all, Connie was not happy at home. To me Connie felt ignored by her dad and the other family members because they could give her the attention she wanted. This sort of relates to John Hughes movie "Sixteen Candles" Sam Baker struggles to get through the day on her 16th birthday because her entire family has forgotten about it and gave there attention elsewhere, to her sister wedding. Her father was most of the time at work and when he was home he didn't bother talking much to Connie.
Like when Tara, Kristen and Keesha were looking at the magazines, Keesha didn’t understand why skin and bones were attractive to Kristen. Kessha also didn’t understand why Tara could never walk with her to or from school, Keesha just thought that her friends were weird until their conditions got out of hand and she got worried about them. *Donna’s influence on Tara was surprisingly good. Considering that Donna is more of a “wild child” and Tara is a “goody-good” I think they balance each other out. While Donna was smoking, stealing or having sex Tara was getting “lost in her mind”.
Marisa on the other hand isn’t as independent as the European Cinderella but more like the American one in that sense. For example, Marisa isn’t able to make her own decisions in the movie; and despite her standing up to her mother and taking care of her son, she still relies on most of the hotel staff to see Chris. Marisa, like the American Cinderella, is also not much of an activist in the movie. Though she may speak her mind, she doesn’t get things done. For example, in the movie she tells her friend how much she wants to be assistant manager, but never sends in the application.
It seemed to free her of a responsibility which she had blindly assumed and for which Fate had not fitted her” (Chopin, 33). In an attempt to explain her level of sacrifice to Madame Ratignolle she says, “I would give up the unessential; I would give my money, I would give my life for my children; but I wouldn’t give myself” (Chopin, 189). The children are often in the care of a quadroon or other caretaker and do not interact much with either parent during the course of the novel. The narrator says little about Etienne and Raoul, themselves. Their names are seldom mentioned.