Writing allowed Anne to maintain her sanity and spirit while in hiding. It also gives people the opportunity to re-live her story today. Anne Frank “ hoped to confide everything” (to her diary) and hoped it would be “a great source of comfort and support”. Not only was Anne’s diary extraordinary because of the remarkable events she described, but she was also an excellent storyteller. She would let her imagination run wild and this kept her spirit alive.
Anthony Socci 3 White 11/28/08 Biography: Final Draft Da’dooch Socci “A day without laughter is a day wasted” This was John Michael Socci’s favorite philosophy that he lived by on an everyday basis. My interview with his sister Jenifer Socci, was a great privilege for myself. She is very wise, a remarkable memory and the smartest woman I know. This interview turned out to be more informative than I could’ve hoped for. Da’dooch was always fond of telling stories or explaining those who have passed.
Now that’s growing up without a childhood. Jane Smiley seems like a great parent who cares about her children but to allow her daughters to put on makeup even entering their teenage years just isn’t right. Her girls where prematurely growing up, where behaving beyond their age, and with their only priority being beautiful at all times it seem to help them in the long run. As they burned off the “Barbie stage” and grew into more important things down their lives. Like for example Smiley talks about her older daughter, “Now she is planning to graduate school and law school and become an expert on woman’s health issues, perhaps adolescent health issues like anorexia and bulimia” (377).
My second oldest sister was never a big fan of school. She believed she was not smart enough and that school was way too hard for her. She got pregnant by the age of 19 years old; she became a young, and happy mother. Her decision of starting a family at a young age was always part of her plans; she had wanted this all along. Her choice was never based on how school made her feel but on how she felt.
So, she left Athens and went to New York with her two children, Nene and Anthony, with only a few dollars and support from her family. But eventually because of her lack of financial resources, she was unable to take care of her children. She sent them back to Athens to live with her sister and her sister’s husband. As a young child, Nene was an uber-confident young lady, but on the inside she was a timid, insecure little girl. Her aunt made her life really easy and nobody would ever know if her family was suffering from financial difficulties or if there was a
Summary and Personal Response “Se Hablo Espanol” is a personal memoir written by Guatemalan-born Tanya Barrientos, whose family, in 1963, relocated to the United States with the intent of providing the best life possible for her. She was only three years of age at the time – a time considered to be the most formative years of a child’s life. They stopped speaking Spanish immediately and insisted that she fully assimilate into the American culture. As a result, an adult Barrientos found herself struggling to identify with her native language. Early on, Barrientos recognized the intolerance for differences in her new land.
If she were a "kind" child, by the eyes of Mrs. Reed, she would never go to Lockwood school; she were able to grow up in terms of knowledge in the school, because she had the need of being liked by others and was strong enough to improve herself in many ways; she, by herself, took a chance when announcing to be a governess. Charlotte Brontë Persuasion (Jane Austen) Anne Elliot is the oldest female heroine and one of the most solid characters in Jane Austen's novels. She is level-headed in difficult situations and constant in her affections. Such qualities make her the desirable sister to marry: she is always the first choice (for Mr. Musgrove, Mr. Elliot and Mr. Wentworth). Jane Austen Comparing both novels Women Both characters are strong, vivid, self-confident and, in some way, a rupture to the normal behavior on that time.
Isabella Walters Mrs. Freeland English II 23 September 2011 The Epic Quest of Jenna Starfire Jenna Starfire never compared herself to teens her age. In fact, Jenna always knew she was different. She was adopted into a supportive, loving family that cared about her just as if she was their own. Jenna loved them very much yet, thought of her birth parents often. She only knew that her parents were not like most, she had a feeling they were much more than ordinary.
She grew up with her aunt – Mrs. Reed, along with her 3 cousins – John, Eliza, and Georgina. Jane never was shown any affection by any of the Reed family members; they all hated her. Eventually Jane expressed her need for love to Mrs. Reed, “You think that I have no feelings, and that I can do without one bit of kindness; but I cannot live so: and you have no pity” (Bronte 41). Jane was forced to be independent since she was a child. Her strength only grew as she was locked in the Red Room by her aunt.
One of the main characters in this story is Nicky, and he is the youngest of 4 brothers. Before he was born he was wanted as a girl, especially his mother really hoped it would be a girl. When it turned out that the girl she had been waiting for turned out to be a boy she was disappointed. Because everyone knew she wanted a girl, she wanted to proof to everyone, including herself, that she was not disappointed. That made her love Nicky very strongly, and she accepted he did a lot of things that the three older sons never were allowed to.