Later on Christine gets married and just when everything seemed to be going good for her she finds out that her husband, Elgin starts cheating on her and this is when she starts hating herself and making up excuses on why he would do something like that to her. Christine is so mad she tells Ray that after fifteen going on sixteen years of marriage, her father thinks he’s in love. She says it as if it is a spoiled fish to her (Dorris 11). Christine expresses to her frustration with her husband “with some twenty two year old bubblehead doper named Arletta. Arletta!” (Dorris 11).
What if my dad didn’t stick with her? What if he left her? She didn’t want me growing up without both her parents. As time went by, her pregnancy was more noticeable. She ended up telling my grandma she was pregnant, who was very upset about it, and eventually my grandpa found out.
It was her mistake, so she is going to take on her responsibility, and be a great parent for her unborn child. She said, “If it was my choice i would have got pregnant after college” (Duval). Luckily, her boyfriend, her family and friends were unexpectedly supportive of this major change in Harley’s life. Everyone preached to Harley about how tough it would be with having a baby, she didn’t think anything of it. The only worry in their minds was Harley and her junior year of high school; hoping and expecting she would finish
This meant again that child A had no dominant male role model in her life and reinforced the grandmother’s matriarchal role. To conclude, it can be clearly seen that from a functionalist stand point child A has come from a very dysfunctional family and that her personality has been greatly affected through a lack of emotional security and her primary care givers not fulfilling their appropriate social
Her choice was never based on how school made her feel but on how she felt. Having a baby had always been a dream of hers. “Holding your baby for the first time is an indescribable feeling that you wouldn’t change for the world”, this was her response to me when I asked her if she regretted becoming a young mom and not continuing in her
In the book Be All Right by David Hill the character Liddy and Justin shocked me by getting pregnant. This was important because Liddy believed that she would never get pregnant even though she did. A Situation that shocked me was where Liddy got pregnant. Liddy and Justin had been going out buy even they said they wouldn’t get pregnant they did. When Liddy fell pregnant I was shocked.
He ain’t a nice fella” (Steinbeck 89). This conversation she had with Lennie affected her life because she did not feel so alone anymore since she told Lennie her secrets. Secondly, a tragedy that Curley’s wife faced is that she gets suffocated by Lennie and dies. As Lennie held his big paws to her face, ”her body flopped like a fish. And then she was still, for Lennie had broken her neck” (Steinbeck 91).
She now bares the weight of her mother’s misfortune and ill-doing. Those strong puritan influences, civil obedience and harsh consequences molded her into the very woman she is today. Thirteen years have passed since the Scarlet Letter and Pearl lives happily ever after. The Scarlet Letter scenario should be a draining factor to Pearl, having to relive her mother’s pain and her inadequate childhood. She may feel as if her birth was a curse to her mother, and that it’s all her fault she lived with such disgrace.
Now that’s growing up without a childhood. Jane Smiley seems like a great parent who cares about her children but to allow her daughters to put on makeup even entering their teenage years just isn’t right. Her girls where prematurely growing up, where behaving beyond their age, and with their only priority being beautiful at all times it seem to help them in the long run. As they burned off the “Barbie stage” and grew into more important things down their lives. Like for example Smiley talks about her older daughter, “Now she is planning to graduate school and law school and become an expert on woman’s health issues, perhaps adolescent health issues like anorexia and bulimia” (377).
Hopewell and her daughter Joy, or Hulga as she insists to be called after legally changing her name ten years ago, always had their differences as mother and daughter seem to do. The majority of the times, Mrs. Hopewell excused her daughter’s actions and words, believing that the loss of Joy’s leg when she was ten years old contributed to her daughter’s temper and withdraw from everyone. “There are plenty of mothers and daughters who enjoy harmonious relationships. But there are also daughters who complain: Why can't my mother treat me like an adult? She should stop meddling and get a life of her own.