I honestly think his intensions are good, but the people around him are not. He is being pressured into being this horrible person because he feels like an outsider and he is trying to fit in. Even though Lindo did sell her baby and neglected to tell her, I think he was just trying to find someone that wouldn’t judge him for someone that someone else was making him. Later on in the story when Lindo and Appleby try to claim ownership of Aminata, he was trying his hardest to save her from going back to Appleby’s plantation. “You came all this way to manumit your slave?
This shows that she is doing something that she is not suppose to do, or something her husband doesn’t want her to do. So for her to have to check where her husband is after doing something, means that you are trying to be sneaky and thats a bit immature. And then we hear Mr. Torvald calling Nora names such as “ lark”, “squirrel”. To me to be calling your adult wife pet names, and for her to answer and then call yourself the same pet names is a sign of child like features. Torvald clearly knows that Nora has bought multiple gifts, for he says, “Has my little spendthrift been wasting money again?” There we go with the name calling again, even in the talk of financial business.
Tom is criticizing the fact that he is not allowed to smoke under Widow Douglas but she herself is. Twain is attacking a problem in our society that exists today. Twain’s thoughts on the “snuff” are irrelevant, but his thoughts on an elder disapproving of something and then doing it themselves are strong. Parents know what is right and wrong. It is their job to make sure they’re kid is under good influence.
Through Flyboy, Bambara shows what happens when society ignores people leaving in poverty. In conclusion, “The Lesson” is a trip of obligation and discovery. The children face generational poverty; Mercedes however, will find a way out because she has parents who care about her while Sylvia learns of the unfairness in the distribution of wealth. Because of Miss Moore though, she will move beyond the social restraints set before her. By end of the story, she says herself in a moment of epiphany “ain’t nobody gonna beat me at nuthin” (Bambara 350).
Until Esme stopped him, he almost embarrassed the boy. The children call Esme “Madame Esme.” The principle has a problem with this, and she explains that she is not everybody else, so she should not be called by something she isn’t. In December, Madame Esme says that she doesn’t know “how such poor unprivileged children can be such spoiled
More than four out of five Americans who were spanked by their parents as children say that it was an effective form of discipline" (Mattox 1). "Folly is bound up in the heart of a child, but the rod of discipline will drive it far from him" Proverbs 22:15. Spanking is not something a parent does against the child, but for the child. It teaches children to be respectful and obedient to their parents. Dr. Kenneth Schonberg a pediatric doctor says, "There's no evidence that a child who is spanked moderately is going to grow up to be a criminal or anti-social or violent" (Rosellini 2).
After being teased mercilessly, Elsie concocted a plan to fool the adults. 'Elsie got tired of the joking and one night suggested to me that she would copy the dancing figures of fairies from one of my most precious possessions, my Princess Mary's Gift book... 'That will shake them!' she said. 'They'll have to stop making fun of us then.'' The next time that the two girls were teased by their parents, Elsie challenged her father, telling him that if he lent them his camera, a Midg quarter plate, the two girls would try to take a photograph of one of the fairies.
Anne herself has experienced these acts of racism with Mrs. Burke when she becomes good friends with her son Wayne and her brother is accused of stealing. Yet the Claiborne family encouraged her studies and was so humble that they would even invite her to have dinner with them. Demonstrating, that not all families were taught that the color of your skin or your religious beliefs make you less of a human than they are. In the book Anne Moody says “they were Negroes and we were also Negroes. I just didn’t see Negroes hating each other so much”.
Anne Tyler’s story, “Teenage Wasteland”, focuses on the complex relationships between parents and their adolescent children. Donny is going through a confusing time – his adolescent phrase, which is the most difficult time for both parents and children. Instead of taking responsibility for their child, Donny’s parents followed the school principal’s advice and hired the professional tutor, Cal, who carelessly took the parenting burden on himself. Donny’s mother, Daisy, had difficulty understanding what Donny’s problem was, whereas Danny felt pressure from his parents, teachers, and peers. Donny’s mother lacked self- confidence and cared more about what other people thought about her as a parent.
She also described her learning Chinese like the most boring thing in the word by using some words as: “kowtow”, “chant”, “sing-san-ho” and ideographs letters. When she became ten years old, Wong “had better things to learn”, she started to study American culture, learn science subjects and read American literature. Her regard that was better than Chinese culture. She considered Chinese was “source of embarrassment”, that sounds “pedestrian”, “chaotic” and “frenzied” and that’s the reason she tried to separate herself from the family members when she “nearby American super marker outside the Chinatown”. Moreover, her brother exasperated her Chinese learning by mocking it with a pidgin speech.