His aunt and the congregation want him to go up and get saved, be obedient and step up to the pulpit. What is the meaning of being “saved” in a young Langston mind? He state’s “So I decided that maybe to save further trouble, I’d better lie, too, and say that Jesus Had come, and get up and be saved”. (198) Can we say that young Langston, at this moment, over looks his own beliefs, so he can meet the expectations of the congregation. Langston loses his faith because of how Auntie Reed tells him that “when you were saved you saw a light, and something happened to you inside” (197).
He then met a woman named Pauline and they married after Hemingway converted to be a Catholic. During his marriage to Pauline, he had an affair with a women he met named Jane. Jane was only his girl friend. He ended his affair with Jane and his marriage with Pauline and he met Martha Gellhorn and moved to Cuba. Martha was his third wife but that marriage ended fast and soon after, he met his fourth wife Mary Welch.
While Cammie is there, she, Macey and Preston, who is the son of the presidential candidate, are attacked on a rooftop. Cammie blacks out, and all she could remember is that one of the attackers had on a ring that she had seen before, but couldn’t remember whose it was. When Macey returns to her school, Gallagher Academy, everyone notices that she is injured badly with a big yellow bruise and a broken arm. Cammie wasn’t hurt as bad. A Secret Service agent is placed with Macey for her protection actually turns out to be Cammie’s Aunt Abby.
Mrs. Wang began to lay off staff demoting Adam to the less dignified and remunerated job of gatekeeper while Ahmed was promoted to running the pool. This created a rift between the two, and in a scene shot in the film Mariam, the mother of the family, can be seen trying to keep the peace. While Adam's professional life was falling apart, his personal life was starting to become even worse. The country was in the middle of a civil war and rebel forces were now attacking the government. The authorities demanded that the population contribute to the "war effort" giving money or volunteers old enough to fight off the attackers.
When Ji-Li Jiang was 12, kids attacked her with retorts, her family were humiliated, and finds out she was born in a landlord family. Because of the detention of her father, Ji-Li Jiang had to make the most dreadful decision in her life; break with her family, follow Chairman Mao or follow her landlord parents and have a bad future. Read the book to find more. Afterwards, Ji-li-Jiang graduated from Shanghai University and from Shanghai Teacher's College (this happened when the Cultural Revolution was finished and Chairman Mao was already dead) and became a science teacher. She came to the United States in 1984 and graduated again from the University of Hawaii.
Goodman Brown replied, “Faith kept me back awhile” with a scared tremor in his voice. This can be related to how Faith as his belief and Faith as his wife can be used in the same connotation. • Evaluation: Goodman Brown should not have ever gone against his faith or tested his faith. He should not have stepped out on his wife Faith either. After his journey was over he started to question everything around that he once believed in.
In “No Name Woman” Maxine Hong Kingston learns from her mother that she once had an aunt who became pregnant, but killed herself and the baby in the family’s well. The aunt’s husband was gone for years-- like most of the men in the village, he was trying his luck elsewhere because the village crops were suffering from drought—and the baby was illegitimate. On the night the baby was born, the villagers raided the house. It was nearly destroyed. The family cursed the aunt; she became a “ghost” as if she was never born.
But then everyone sees the woman's husband. They find he has committed suicide because he couldn't take his wife's screaming. Dr. Adams tells Uncle George to take Nick out of the hut. The doc feels bad that he brought his young son and his son had to see the bloody pregnancy and the guy's suicide. On the way back, Nick is curious and asks a lot of questions about the childbirth and the suicide.
I think that she could've left for three reasons; Her childhood was not good, her father was an alcoholic and treated both Eveline and her mother with disrespect and cruelty, as well as her being forced to take care of the family when her mother died. My first reason that Eveline could've left was because of her terrible childhood. In the story Eveline is described as poor and probably does not have a very comfortable life. Eveline's struggle for money is constantly mentioned in the story. There are very specific details that show how miserable her life is.
His wives, especially the youngest, lived in perpetual fear of his fiery temper, and so did his little children.” This demonstrates the fear his family feels towards him. Later in chapter three his anger gets him in trouble when he disobeys the village and beats his wife during the week of peace. This is demonstrated in the book when it states, “And when she returned he beat her very heavily. In his anger he had forgotten that it was the Week of Peace.” After this event his fellow clansmen began to think less of him. Additionally, the novel continues to tell the story of Okonkwo and his family.