Lily runs away from home and is on a journey to find the secrets behind her mother’s life. Lily arrives in Tiburon and see a picture on a jar that she had back home of her mothers. Lily goes to the Boatwright’s house and she did not tell really why she is really there. She keeps her identity to herself and is not ready to tell August Boatwright the truth and keeps it a secret. Lily says, “See my mother had died when I was little, and then my father died in a tractor accident last month on our farm in Spartanburg country…” (73).
It started off in 1955, while visiting her sister in Boston; Valerie O'Connor met and fell in love with Jack Marsh, the friend of her brother in law's brother. They saw each other every day until she returned home to her parents in Portland; Jack followed. Shortly after he asked her parents for their permission to marry Valerie and although they had some doubts about the man's character, they gave their blessing. Their wedding night was a disaster as Jack was only interested in satisfying his needs and as a result, Valerie had a lifelong regret. She started to notice Jack’s demanding behavior but thought nothing of it.
The pub did well even during the beginning of the depression, but soon suffered because patrons could not pay their bills that they had run up. The family then began to work harder, as they had to lay off employees to keep running. (“Mary Higgins Clark”) When Mary was 11, she came home to find that her father had died in his sleep. This further complicated the family’s finances, as Nora was now a widow, and a mother of three young children. Nora had tried to find work, but she had been a homemaker for fourteen years, so it was had to get back into the job market.
Her brother was indeed very ill .Due to the fact her brother was very ill, her mother quit her job, and decides to stay home to care for him, and her father was never always home. In fact to all this, Callie has addiction she can't let go. She cuts herself whenever no one is in site. She turns almost everything, she can find into weapons in order to cut herself. Her parents later finds out and send her to a facility for girls, a place called Sea Pines.
There dad gave them a lot of freedom and bought them everything they wanted but they had to behave well. Suddenly there mom died because of heart attack. There dad always goes to work so sometimes they had to make their own breakfast, lunch, and dinner. They were always upset when they see their mother’s pictures and think of the old memories of their mother. This conflict is person vs. herself because those girls are suffering without their mother.
The book that I read is called, “The Secret Life of Bees”, by Sue Monk Kidd. The main character and point of view the story is told from is 14 years old Lily Owens. She lives in Sylvan, South Carolina on her families peach farm. When Lily was very young her mother was shot and killed and now Lily taken care of by her African American nanny and housekeeper Rosaleen. Lily also lives with her father and she says in the book that it never felt right to call him dad so she just settled on T. Ray.
As the novel opens, Allison’s narrator, Ruth Anne “Bone” Boatwright, recounts her illegitimate birth to her fifteen-year-old mother, Anney Boatwright, and her mother’s annual humiliating attempts to get her child a birth certificate without “Illegitimate” stamped across the bottom (4). In Bone’s narration of Anney’s quest for a new birth certificate without the dehumanizing stamp, Allison indicates that the category “white trash” is an ideological construct--one of the enabling myths of a bourgeois society that relies upon the exploited labor of the class it stigmatizes in order to secure its own wealth: “Mama hated to be called trash, hated the memory of every day she’d ever spent bent over other people’s peanuts and strawberry plants while they stood tall and looked at her like she was a rock on the ground” (3-4). Allison reverses the qualities associated with the privileged class--hard-working, honest, civil--and those associated with the underclass--lazy, shiftless, uncivilized. In Allison’s analysis, Anney’s employers appear inhumane, unjust, and uncivil as they objectify her body stooped in labor for their benefit; she appears hard-working and purposeful while they appear lazy and self-indulgent in their exploitation of her work. Thus the qualities ascribed to the underclass and the elite cannot embody metaphysical essences constituting the nature of each class since the allegedly defining qualities of each are interchangeable.
Kwameisha Edwards English 2001 Assignment #7 Sweat is a short story which was written by Zora Neale Hurston, it was published in 1926. It is about an abusive marriage between Delia and Sykes Jones. They were married for 15 years, but Sykes verbally and physically abused Delia. Judging from the story, Delia was a Christian woman who worked hard for a living because her worthless husband didn’t contributed anything to the house. Sykes was very ungrateful and didn’t appreciate his wife, he tried to get her out of the way so he can be with his mistress Bertha.
Granny Weatherall is a woman in denial about the basic truths of her life and character. She refuses to believe that she is dying and that she never got over the man who jilted her at the altar. Granny tends to think of herself as a gritty survivor. After the death of her husband, John, Granny became both mother and father to her children. When reliving moments in her life she speaks of both matronly task ‘When she thought of all the food she had cooked, and all the clothes she had cut and sewed’ (pg 81) and masculine jobs ‘She had fenced in a hundred acres once, digging the post holes and clamping the wires’ (pg 81).
Ida leaves the house at an age of seventeen to “spend the next three years as a guerilla soldier for the Tamil Tigers” (Briggs 82). Ida never dies “because of a battlefield wound but because of a [gang-rape in her own living room]”. Ida is not the only girl who went through this but “thousands of other girls in Sir Lanka who are forcibly recruited or who join to protect themselves against economic hardship and rape”. (Briggs 83). Women in Northern Uganda are constantly raped but they are never allowed to do an abortion when they became pregnant.