As the trip is under way she believes she is in another state, and mistakes a road for another one. She tells her family how there is a large house, with pillars on the front porch and how she’d love to visit it once more. As they head to the house, the cat she had snuck into the car, leapt from the basket and into the front seat causing the wreck. If she would have either not gone, or just left the cat at the house, nothing would have happened. “…she was hiding a basket with Pitty Sing, the cat, in it.” (O’Connor 368).
In the poem, the speaker states the girlchild has “wee lipsticks the color of cherry candy” (4), showing that she already wants to alter her appearance. As children grow into young adults, they become aware of outside judgments; as the girlchild was made aware in the poem. “Then in the magic of puberty, a classmate said:/ You have a great big nose and fat legs” (5-6). Girls are pressured into looking the way media portrays beauty. Unfortunately, outward appearances take on a more important role than other characteristics to teenage girls.
There, Ashputtle asks the hazel tree for a dress, “to throw her down silver and gold”. (Grimm 630). The doves give her a dress laced with silver and gold. Ashputtle puts on the dress and she is off to the wedding at the castle. There she meets the prince and he does not let her go until she sneaks away.
ABC Analysis Chart and Behavior Change Chart Unit 6 CE300-Observation and Assessment in Early Childhood Part I ABC Analysis Child:__Emily___________________ Observer:___________________ Date Time Antecedent Behavior Consequence Possible Function November 25, 2013 Early morning Emily is playing with a doll and Janesta takes it from her. When Janesta takes the doll Emily bites her. Emily is corrected and told that biting is not allowed and she is held for a few minutes. I believe Emily bit Janesta because Janesta took the doll and Emily did not know how to tell her she had it first. I also believe that Emily is used to playing alone.
She smiled while walking around her house holding on to Vivian’s hand. I was observing her from a distance while her aunt was talking to her in the family room. Ashley was showing her all her favorite toys and other objects around them; Ashley pointed with her little finger at items she noticed such as "there is a ball by window" she said, "Really?" Vivian answered, "What else is there?” Ashley kept showing her the toys in the room and would carelessly hop with excitement when Vivian asked to tell her about the toys and what they did. I hadn’t even noticed the cat coming in until I hear Ashley shout "Mine black cat, Stacy.” Vivian later told me that the cats name is Stacy.
Many events in the book were very sad and touching when Foster the main girl in the story keeps a pillow case just with her dads stuff in there after he died in the army, she lives with her mom and her boyfriend named Huck who isn’t as nice to Foster at most times making her call him Elvis thinking of himself as a really good singer making Fosters mom the backstage singer and some days he even hits her mom at times and finally one day they get into a fight making Huck break into their house and hitting her mom so badly that they have to run away from their house very fast finding a safe place with Huck coming behind them with his car chasing them and soon they outrun him and arrive to West Virginia. Foster a 12 year old girl with a huge love for baking can bake almost anything possible to bake but she only has one problem she can’t read at all when she starts “it’s like my brain starts to close
It shows how she is ignorant about real friendship. Following this further, the young character wants to be like Luciana, to live in a beautiful palace. She helps the magician and he calls her ‘’my little countess’’ (13) to thank her with the monkey. Everyone compliments Rosaura like she’s important; it gives her pride and then she thinks she’s closer to her goals. Besides, the young Rosaura sees an importance of what money can bring to her.
Even the hardest of people need somebody to talk to every once in a while. Over the next few paragraphs of the letter, the writer indirectly indicates her loneliness; personifying her cat and going over her day and her work routine and her daily surroundings with extraordinary details. “I, too, walk to work, through the fudgy air and over clumps of moss. The first month we were here I couldn't walk without stopping to touch the fallen clumps. They looked like wig hair, damaged and knotted, but felt like duck feathers.” It is typical for a fiction story to describe surroundings with such detail, but since this was written as a letter to someone, the use of detail is used to emphasize the loneliness of the writer, since she probably has nobody else to listen to what she has to say.
Once upon a Time… Once upon a time, in a land far, far away lived a sixteen-year-old girl typing on her computer about whether she was a romanticist or a realist. Unable to decide, she let her writing choose for her. She thought about wishes and faeries and unicorns and rainbows, but then the clock struck twelve and the dream was gone. She awoke with such ferocity at the shattered dream that she sat and wept. Her only consolation was her cat, who in the dream could talk, offered only a “meow” as she shed the tears of mourning for her lost dream.
Bailey reluctantly agrees to stop at the home, but as soon as the vehicle turns on the road the grandmother quickly realizes the home was in Tennessee. The grandmother jumps from being startled by her mistake. Pitty Sing, her cat, jumps on Bailey's shoulder causing him to lose control of their vehicle. O'Connor seems to have written this story to suggest that, if human nature is flawed, than what is God's mercy? She demonstrates through the grandmother's tactics of psychological manipulation, dialogue, and characterization that not every person is good as she appears to be, but through God's mercy any person can have a change