The tone that she uses in her piece seems to be sarcasm and this sarcasm is what leads me to the assumptions I make and the way I read her essay. She obviously wants to go to school and become economically independent and be able to support herself. I think that she is not happy with her current situation of being a mom and a wife and feels unappreciated. She stays home and does all the things she lists for her husband, but she resents this role in society that she is in. I assume that she wants a divorce from her husband but because of the role that society has placed on her, but she is unable to get one because she is very dependent on him.
For example, her parents were racists because they did not allow their daughter to date Indians while he comes from an open-minded family who loved him dearly. For instance, Junior’s parents transferred him to Reardon because they want the best for him, but they also warn him that change will be hard. In conclusion, even though there are extreme differences between Penelope and Junior, both feel lonely
Moreover, because of their selfishness, they are rude and disregard the traditions and cultures of the villagers around the school. Hearing of her husband’s promotion, Obi’s wife, instead of thinking more about the improvement and good she and her husband can do for the school, is more concerned over how popular and above she would become compared to the other wives. “She began to see herself already as the admired wife of the young headmaster, the queen of the school” (176). When she is described to have “…become completely infected by his passion for…his denigration of ‘these old and superannuated people in the teaching field who would be better employed as traders in the Onitsha market” (176), this proves Obi’s rude personality and disregard for the villagers. Instead of learning from the wisdom that these “old people” may give him, he looks down on them because he believes his knowledge is far beyond theirs.
However, she still debates with the headmaster about the boy’s well-being. She is very much loved by her students. Despite her loving nature towards the boys, Mrs. Lintott lets out very little about her personal life and keeps it completely separated from her career - maintaining her professional status. Interestingly, Mrs Lintott is presented as the only female influence in The History Boys and is presented by Bennett as yet another type of teacher which is constantly explored throughout the play. Bennett, throughout the play, presents Mrs Lintott – as the only female influence to boys – as a motherly figure who is always there to comfort or encourage the boys despite her own battle with the boys, Hector and Irwin on the importance of women and women’s influence on history.
One important theme of the play “The Crucible”, written by Arthur Miller, is revenge, as is shown in the jealousy and hatred that turn people in the Puritanical township of Salem against each other, resulting in the deaths of many innocent lives. For such an idea to be made effective to the audience, the playwright chiefly relies on the characterizations of Abigail Williams, the Putnams as well as Reverend Paris, who manipulate the prevalent superstition as well as people’s ignorance to successfully carry out her malicious revenge. Abigail Williams, a strong-minded young woman, is committed to her personal vendetta as she has a strong physical desire for John Procter. She is a vindictive and ruthless character, and will not hesitate to put anyone to death if they stand in her way of revenge. This vindictive hatred from Abigail soon prompts a witch hunt involving many innocent people: “Twelve have already hanged for the same crime.” While many panics, John Procter knows this from the start ; “this is a whore’s vengeance”.
Mrs. Garvin taught English to the honor students, and she treated them very different than her mainstream students. Finally, Mrs. Garvin was so mean and impatient with her class. She would teach the matter and scream if someone stopped her to ask a question. She lacked patience and consideration for her students. I always thought a good teacher was one who wanted their students to progress.
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. The dull and tasteless tone/style of the story express the love between Linda and her adopted and birth family. The tone never really changes; it always stays in a slightly sad and depressing language. Through out the whole paper there is very little description. When Linda is talking about how clean her mother Betty tried the kids and how dirty the dad always got them, she just says exactly that and nothing more; “Betty was always trying to keep us clean, and Albert was always getting us
Since Janet couldn’t make it to meetings they gave her what was “left over” and didn’t even keep her in mind. Janet was a hard worker and wanted to contribute to the group, but since she had been pre classified by her group she couldn’t fit in the way she wanted to. Life was basically a struggle for Janet and being in a group that did not consider her struggle made her feel more alone than ever. She finally snapped over the cafeteria incident. She stopped to get something to eat and saw her whole group meeting without her, she felt extremely unappreciated and knew the group members didn’t respect her contributions.
She doesn’t think much of herself. She doesn’t like the fact that she’s pregnant. The child’s father called her a trashy whore. She looked at herself that way too since the view of the child at the scanning made her feel like she wasn’t a trashy whore. She is well aware of the fact that she hasn’t done anything with her life, and that her dreams will not come true.
Since her mother spends her greater part of her time on Stan instead of using some of her off-duty hours on Annabelle, Annabelle lacks her mother’s attention. She just wants acceptance for actions. At home she feels overlooked and in the school she fades in the crowd. She is just an ordinary girl nobody really notices. Annabelle is having a hard time accepting the fact that her father and mother aren’t together anymore and her father has been replaced with Stan.