Despite her being lonely with only Pearl by her side, Hester somehow finds her inner strength to defy not only the local people in her town but also the local government. Her strength becomes stronger and shows throughout the story, specifically when she interviews with Roger Chillingworth and Governor Bellingham. Her determination and confidence are repeated again when she confronts Governor Bellingham about custody of her daughter Pearl. When Governor Bellingham tells her that he is going to take Pearl away from her, she says, “God gave me the child. He gave her, in requital of all things else, which ye had taken from me.
But as she walked her final twenty paces, she could not help but wish for more of it” (Pg. 370) This Quote represents that life had been in fact unkind to her, but she never gave up. Through all the beatings, all the death and destruction around her, she had persevered through it all. She was a tough women that sacrificed all she had for the freedom and safety of Laila, Aziza, and Zalmai, The only true family she ever really had. Rasheed- “You try this again and I will find you… and, when I do, there isn’t a court in this godforsaken country that will hold me accountable for what I will do.” (Pg.
While reading the novel My Sister’s Keeper it took me back to the year my mom died, just like Kate she too needed a kidney but wasn’t as fortunate to live long enough for it to happen. More depth into the book I began to put myself in all of the characters shoes, Kate and Anna were both brave. Anna was brave because she kept undergoing surgery for her sister donating stem cells, bone marrow, and blood which were all not easily done. Kate is also brave because she never once complained; she loved her sister more than herself and she already knew her fate was decided. ”My sister’s the one who’s always had to imagine life without me”.
She is a woman whom one can look upon in sickness and woe. She is held in the highest regard as an ultimate symbol of feminine grace that is reflected through her way of talking and speaking and even through the feelings and sentiments she expresses. Indeed, grace glows with her beauty. The reticent Shakuntala on the other hand serves as an icon of limpidness, unselfishness, simplicity and diffidence. She is decent in all her words.
Could some of the expressed hostility actually be repressed fear? A fear that women can really be independent, keep a stable home environment, maintain a career, have an active social life and raise children that are well adjusted all on their own. There are a TON of hard working, self-sufficient, smart, wonderful single moms, because a TON of us have stepped up. You hear more and more success stories, so many women that are raising their kids alone and doing great at it. There are so many of us with educations, careers, money and homes.
In the end, Qamrah is a single parent living a life of a pariah with her parents. Michelle is successful professional and lives on her own terms. Sadeem after being dejected in love twice opens her own bridal store and eventually marries her cousin. Lamees is the only one of the four girls who finds both professional as well as personal happiness and marries the man she loves. MY EMOTIONAL CONNECT WHILE READING THE BOOK The main reason why I loved reading this book and why to this date I remember the story is that I was able to emotionally connect with the story.
The resident my grandmother spent the most time with was a woman wheel chair bound with cerebral palsy named Nancy. As I grew up with my grandmother bringing me with her to visit at this place, Nancy taught me how beautiful life is and how lucky I am to be able to embrace even the smallest of pleasures that many cannot. My grandmother also volunteered teaching religious education. As soon as I made my First Communion she
While many single mothers worry too much or regret decisions during their children childhood they are satisfied with the result and the out come of there children by the actions their children make after they grown out of their childhood In “I stand here ironing” a mother depicts her first child to have a bad early childhood by making the wrong decision not by choice but simply what got handed to them in a urban world. “She was a miracle to me but when she was eight months old I had to leave her daytimes with the woman downstairs to whom she was no miracle at all, for I worked or looked for work and for Emily’s father who “could no longer endure sharing want with us.”” Narrator did not want leave her child with the downstairs neighbor, but to provide the little she could to her child she made scarifies due to been a one parent family. She did all she could even with the father figure leaving to irrelevant discussion on his part. When she sees the development of her child thru the years she gets warmth never felt. “Now suddenly she was Somebody, and as imprisoned in her difference as she had in anonymity.” In the narrators point of view her child was an outcast, a nobody, but when she got the call from her daughter it seem the sun finally started to shine in her daughter path, she was free.
She states, “She had a fine person, many brilliant attainments; but her mind was poor, her heart barren by nature” (Brontë 1.239). She describes Miss Ingram as beautiful but a shallow person with no depth. Along with Jane, Mr. Rochester seems to see this and her true aspiration of only marrying him for his money. On the other hand, Jane’s wittiness and sharp responses to Mr. Rochester confusing comments enraptures Mr. Rochester. Mrs. Reed and her children had always treated Jane with disrespect; but when Mrs. Reed is dying Jane forgets her harsh treatment and stays with her until she died.
Dorothy and her mother had a great relationship, they where always making fun of aunt Lucy and how she was the ideal mother and wife. One day, when Dorothy is a grown woman, her mother dies. Meanwhile, aunt Lucy had lost her husband and has turned 75, so she is an old lonely woman. Of gratitude for all the summer holidays Dorothy had spend at aunt Lucy’s, she invites her to stay at her place for a couple of days, so she doesn’t have to be alone while she is grieving over her sisters death. At first Dorothy can’t even recognize aunt Lucy, she has always pictured her as this kind chatty woman, but now she is cold and quiet.