Eddie felt humiliated about where she was raised, she didn't want to be associated with the "scandals" that belonged to the shacks north of the creek. She believed that, since she grew up in the shacks, she was worth less than the next person. Edith was embarrassed by her drunken father, even though none of his actions were ever her fault. Her mother, a "hallelujah-shouting fool" who preached, but never actually went to church, was also a huge contributor to the way Eddie felt. With people tormenting her about her cousins who were teen moms, or her father who made a fool of his drunken self in public, the poor girl felt like nothing more than dirt, and she wanted to be thought of as flawless and beautiful.
After Tracy’s death when she was subject of name calling, it was not warranted as she had done nothing wrong to deserve being named as of the event where the three boys had raped her, she had done nothing wrong as she was just weakly trying to fend for herself. 1. The issues that had contributed to Jarrod's decision of not telling the police about what he knew was the depression of not being
When the cop looks in the vehicle and sees the Latina woman, he is then convinced she is “illegal” by looks alone, he demands her documents. Sandra (Latina woman) gets very upset and the cop never learns she was born and raised in the San Fernando Valley; she has a college degree and doesn’t even speak Spanish. To blend in with gringo classmates, she also changes her name to “Sandy.” and tells the cop she does not have to show any “stinking badges!” then calls out her boyfriend (Will) who is actually an “illegal” from Canada and did not have his visa. Will then tell Sandra to calm down and starts making excuses for her behavior so she does not end up in jail, which was a fail because we next see her in an orange jumpsuit and a prison cell. Good thing the cop did not check him; otherwise he would have ended up behind bars as did Sandra.
Her only solution at this moment is to be alone. Bullying does not only happens to Melinda but other people. It was the day of the pep rally; Melinda was not so exited as her only friend Heather, she was scared someone gets next to her and claims her about what happened in the summer party, .and it happened, to girls got next to her and claim her about it. “The girl pokes me harder. “Aren’t you the one who called the cops at Kyle Rodger’s party at the end of the summer?” .
Both of Ashley’s parents were normally austere. Unlike her friends’ parents, her parents never let her do anything. Ashley was an autonomous person while her friends were not. Most of the time Ashley would even think that her so called friends did not even like her. Ashley was banal and benign while the girls had a reputation of ruining people’s reputation.
Se habla Espanol The most important part in this essay was when Ms.Barrientos was scared to be herself and scared to acknowledge her Spanish background because when she came to America, it was frowned upon. When she and her family came to America when she was three, her parents automatically started teaching her and her sibling English and never spoke Spanish to them. Ms. Barrientos didn’t like to be called Mexican. She felt it was an insult because all she wanted to be was white. She said that when she spoke her native language to help her friends and other people it didn’t matter if she messed up because they didn’t look at her differently, but as soon as she stumbled over a word while speaking to a Spanish person in Spanish she was looked down on.
Character: The most important character in the novel, The Other Side of Dark, is Stacy McAdams, who is a confused 17 year old. She has just come out of a 4 year coma and is suffering the loss of her mother. Stacy was shot at the age of 13. One day she woke up in a new body and in a bed and room that’s not hers. When her best friend Jan comes to visit; she is a totally different person.
Spilled Salt: By Barbara Neely The short story “spilled salt”, by Barbara Neely is about a single mother, Myrna, who raised her son alone since he was six. The son, Kenny, convinced a crime. Because he raped a girl, he spent four years in prison and the story starts when he released from prison and came back home where his mother doesn’t want to live with him anymore. She doesn’t want to lose her sweet memories of the little and funny boy. She loves the boy who was four years ago and not the man who is now standing in front of her.
She really liked that sex! Little did your mom know colossal amounts of promiscuous, unprotected sex do have consequences. After her sixth through eighth grade years in middle school your mom had already acquired 17 different S.T.D. 's, including three that were previously unknown. At the end of her eighth grade year your mom, broke from the free clinic fees, noticed an alarming lack of menstruation in her usually opulent cycles.
In “Shiloh” by Bobbie Ann Mason, we are introduced to 34-year-old Norma Jean and Leroy Moffit, A married couple since the age of 18. The story portrays a dysfunctional marriage, caused by the death of their newborn infant Randy. Now 16 years later, Norma is finally going through changes that enable her to find herself. Which inevitably causes the end of her marriage. We observe these changes in her, as she tries to improve herself, her unhappiness with Leroy’s constant presence, and her inability to communicate with Leroy.