Helen replied saying, “No” and adding on that she sings instead with a touch of prideness in her voice. Immediately Kath got and jealous and said there are no singing clubs in this school followed by saying, “guess you’re out of luck”. In this topic, Kath’s arrogance once again is illustrated as she embarrasses Helen. Kath’s arrogance goes hand in hand with her selfishness throughout the story. Secondly, Kath has a selfish characteristic where she tends to change things so that things seem more suitable for her.
When Evyn first saw Eleni, with her red lipstick, black pants, and high heels, she thought Eleni looked nothing like a college professor and a mother. Evyn made the assumption that she went partying every night. That is an example of her being judgemental. After her father, Birdie, reminded Evyn that her new combination lock was 5, 10, 15; she forgot, making her forgetful. An example of Evyn being unintelligent was when her so-called friends, Andrea’s group, calls her Evelyn and doesn’t talk to her unless it’s to ask about updates with Ajax, she doesn’t realize that they’re just using her.
Esmeralda doesn’t fit into suburbia also she is obsessive which makes her neighbour think that she is a freak. In the scene when Edward is talking to peg, Esmeralda interrupts them and stars perching her thoughts about Edward and saying that he is ‘the devil incarnate.’ Esmeralda is a good example of personal suffering because she is excluded and marginalized by her suburban community. Pegs
She didn’t enjoy her time spent there so why she was so willing to come back. Some people never get enough of the life they live even if it‘s bad . Its just like a women who is in a abusive relationship and we wonder why the never leave. Its because once someone adapted to a certain life style the desire for change is slim to none. The narrative made it clear that she didn’t fit in with the people in her town but feared leaving because that lifestyle was all she ever known.
She lost all her friends and has no one to talk to and share her feelings to, besides Heather. Heather is a girl who comes from Ohio and moved to Syracuse New York. She is a student from a different middle school and is unaware of the incident that just took place. Heather becomes her friend, but she soon backs off from being Melinda’s friend because she thinks that Melinda is the most depressed girl she ever met and she is not so cool so she goes and hangs out with the cool girls. Leaving, Melinda everyone turns there back on Melinda, but her lab partner who tells her and encourages her to speak up and not to remain silent.
The Corrupting Power of Women The portrayal of women in Of Mice and Men is limited and unflattering. We learn early on that Lennie and George are on the run from the previous ranch where they worked, due to encountering trouble there with a woman. Misunderstanding Lennie’s love of soft things, a woman accused him of rape for touching her dress. George berates Lennie for his behavior, but is convinced that women are always the cause of such trouble. Their enticing sexuality, he believes, tempts men to behave in ways they would otherwise not.
May feels like she doesn’t belong at Paradise Parade in the same way the girl in ‘The Red Tree’ doesn’t feel like she belongs at her home either. They both go out and try and search for a new and better life. A nameless young girl appears in every picture, a stand-in for ourselves; she passes helplessly through many dark moments, a symbol of her disconnection to place, yet ultimately finds something hopeful at the end of her journey allowing her to find where she belongs. Images such as ‘Darkness overcomes you’ portrays a fish-like monster symbolising how the little girl feels like a monster is lurking where she lives and she needs to get away from it. Colour is used as Tan’s way of presenting to us the little girl’s progression in her feeling of belonging.
Belonging "To belong is to feel secure and safe and to know ones place in the world." All people want to belong. That want to belong has many degrees and many ambiguous meanings. The wish to belong reflects each person and their situation differently, yet that one desire is still felt similarly by all human beings and even non-sentient creatures. This is the case for Emily Dickinson and her poetry, as well as two very different texts, ‘Walking Naked’ by Alyssa Brugman and the play ‘Stolen’ by Jane Harrison.
Curley's wife was treated with injustice due to the fact that she was the only female on the ranch and because she had no one to converse with. Curley's wife has no female friends to share with so naturally she would want to go talk to the men on the ranch. Most often she would go talk to someone who she really did not need to talk to. An example of one of these instances would be when she enters Crooks house and starts talking to Lennie, Candy, and Crooks (77). She is portrayed as a 'tart' (28) and as a flirtatious lady who is going to cause the men trouble (32).
The Late Great Me was a book about a teenage girl named Geri that was an average looking girl that did not really excel in anything. She had a brother that got all the attention at home and at school she was one of the “freaks” and only had two friends. One day Geri met a boy named Dave who later got her into drinking alcohol with him. She really enjoyed it and thought it made her feel very good as it would be an escape for her from her sad reality. At home her mother would always be very distant and would constantly talk about her past as a teenager and how popularity is very important which would get even worse later in the book to the point where she totally isolates herself from people and gets sent to an institution.