Katniss never fully came into her own in Mockingjay. In Hunger Games, she was a floundering yet passionate girl desperate to protect her family and stay alive. While she made a lot of mistakes, we loved her even more for them, because we saw her struggle, we believed her desperation and her motives, and we wanted her to succeed. We saw her near-double-suicide not as the easy way out, but the final spit in the face of the Capitol that had pulled the strings for so long. In Catching Fire, the story was fast-paced and intense, Katniss still struggling but really maturing as a fighter and a person.
With no father figure or even a biological mother to help her in her adolescent years, Beli depended on La Inca to look to as a teen. In school Beli was an outcast to her schoolmates until she developed her womanly body, which helped her to attract the guys of her choice. As a woman her feminine curves attracted the likes of the Gangster, signifying the beginning of her tango with the curse. Becoming pregnant with the Gangsters child quickly alerted the attention of Trujillo’s sister causing Beli to be brutally beaten in the cane field, representing the violence of the “fuku” due to the dysfunctional love between Beli and the Gangster. “How she survived I’ll never know.
The foster mother of the second home was a very mean, cruel and verbally abusive to April. They would say things to April and she started to believe that they were true, like her parents been drunks and not wanting her or her sister anymore, telling her that First Nations people were dirty and thief’s. April graduates from school and had good grades in her classes. She then marries and moves away to start her life with her husband. After been married for some time she ends up having issues in her marriage.
Maxim de Winter hates his wife very much as she was a profligate woman. Rebecca had secret relationships with many other men including ger cousin. She threatened de Winter and forced him to accept the situation and promised to play as a perfect wife. When she was diagnosed as cancer, she cheated de Winter by saying that she had a child with her cousin and almost made de Winter kill her. She was finally died of an accident, but continued to bother him even after he had married the heroin.
Beli later messes around with a Gangster, who gets her pregnant while married with Trujillos sister, causing much havoc around Beli’s life, including near death. La Inca had used much of her strength praying for Beli, and ultimately saving her life. Beli never became the “typical” Dominican women, and remained sort of angry her whole
She tells her father "I know the clouds have already rained" as if to say that it happened and there's nothing anyone can do. Although she does accept it, she takes a lot of her anger out on Trujillo and that's just another way her family influence her into rebellion. Minerva's family completely influenced her to become the person she was. Her great values, dad's arrest, and dad's cheating all got her more involved in the rebellion against Trujillo's evil regime. Minerva Mirabal taught the world something.
Feeling successful, Sara returns home to find her mother fatally ill. After her mother's death, her father remarries only to find his new wife, Mrs. Feinstein, is a gold-digger after his late wife's lodge money. Sara and her sisters, still angry over their father's treatment of them, become enraged at his quick marriage after their mother's death and refuse to help him when his new wife spends all his money and refuses to work. Sara goes back to New York and finds a teaching job. Mrs. Feinstein is not satisfied with Reb's money and wants more from his daughters. She is angry that Sara is avoiding her father, so she writes a nasty letter to the principal of the school where Sara is teaching, Hugo Seelig, in an effort to give her a bad reputation.
I have chosen to research Frida Kahlo and Georgia O’Keefe because they are very inspiring women artists. Frida Kahlo pushed the boundaries of what was expected from a traditional Latin American female artist. She led a life full of emotional and physical pain. From an early diagnosis of polio, to a life altering bus accident, to a marriage riddled with infidelities, Frida's often-difficult life was the inspiration for her art. Her exploration of herself and the world she lived in broke social norms, artistically, and politically, causing both outrage and awe from those who viewed her paintings.
Throughout the play, Miller portrays her as someone who will go to extreme measures to get her own way. From her speech to stage directions it is clear that Abigail is someone who is very confident and relies on the world to revolve around her. She has not however had a very easy life. She saw the murder of her parents and has to live with her greedy uncle, which some would argue could be the reason
A cult grows in America chapter really talked about how the cult is taking over the American society. Society, family and friends pressure women to look a certain way which leads to extreme disorders. Hesse-Biber interviewed young women who were in the cult and you are able to get a point of view from a past cult member. One person really stood out the most to me that Hasse-Biber mentioned was Delia. Delia came from an easy life where she got everything she wanted but the pressure to maintain a certain look was pushed down on her by her parents especially her mother.