The way he said this to Tasha makes her have this sense of false hope in that her parents are not separated, they are just “living apart.” This quickly unfolds at school when one of the girls loses a game to Tasha and says “I just let you win because my mother told me that everyone is suppost to be nice to you because your parents are getting separated and everything.” (p.7) This confuses Tasha, and makes her question what her father and mother said to her and if they were telling her the truth or not. In the second part of the book the lies are not as apparent as the lies are in part one and in part three. In part two the lies are more a cove up of what is really happening in this family’s life. Such as Rodney’s mother, who feels that lying to herself about her family’s social class makes her look better as a person. This is evident when Rodney says “Never mind that the shoe box she chose to make your sister’s diorama conspicuously bears the label of her only Italian pumps.”(p.88) She is trying to make herself feel better
Scene 2 is when Mary and Mrs Adams are shown into Mary’s accommodation, they are both shocked at how dirty and unpleasant the room is. Towards the end of scene 2 Mrs Adams does not want to leave her little girl in a place like this, but has no option. The last scene I was in was Scene 4, this is where Mary speaks to the Matron about having a day off work in order to go to an interview. Matron does not want Mary to apply, this is because the job Mary wanted was in Eastbourne and this is where Mary’s boyfriend lived, Matron is very reluctant to even let Mary ring the employer but realises its Mary’s life and she has to make her own decisions for herself. The acting style of my piece was Naturalism, and the presentation style was Realism.
She was still 429 points away from grand master status. One day when Waverly was doing shopping with her mom , her mom said to whoever looked her way “this is my daughter Waverly Jong” for this Waverly felt her mom was using her to show off which she felt embarrassed about, this made her mother very angry and when Waverly went back home at the dinner table her mother said we are not concerned about this girl when she is not concerned about us to this Waverly got angry and shut herself inside her room later she came out and said I’m not going to play chess anymore and for many days she did not, one day she comes up to her mom and says I think I will start playing chess again and, her mother says you think it is so easy again. When Waverly starts playing she is not confident as before and losses the game. Tan,Amy.”Rules of the Game”. The Norton Anthology of short Fiction Ed.
Without any money Blanche’s life wasn’t glamorous anymore. When Blanche went to visit Stella, her illusion began. She tried to hide the truth about who she really was in Laurel, a teacher who was fired for sleeping with a student and a women known for sleeping around with many men. Blanche’s fantasy began as she made she made herself out to be an old-fashioned woman who was proper and modest, which was not true at all. Stanley exposed Blanche’s illusion when he confronted Blanche’s lie about staying at the the Flamingo by saying, “ She moved to the Flamingo!
Heather never stands up for Mel when people show negative attitudes toward her. One day, she hurts Melinda by saying they should not be friends anymore. However, that broken friendship makes Melinda’s new skin finally grafted. She becomes tougher when she responds to the request for help from Heather, “No, I won’t help you” (179). Then she thinks, “Does she want to know the truth, that she’s self-centered and cold?” (179).
Salem Zeglin ENG 102- 1518 Professor Hooker February 21, 2012 Essay 2 People of society become overwhelmed with the pressure of meeting high expectations everyday, though it’s not everyday that suicide is the outcome of being overwhelmed. The poem, Suicide Note by Janice Mirikitani, describes just this: an Asian-American girl in college apologizes “to her parents for having received less than a perfect four point grade average” (Intro Paragraph) in a suicide note before she takes the fall to end her life. The speaker felt she was never good enough for her parent’s approval. High expectations are not always attainable is the theme of the poem. She apologizes with words put into simile, metaphors, and symbolism.
Another situation is When the mother feels that her son terry got suspended for drinking because he was suppose to play a male figure in the house since they have no father and he disappointed the family by getting drunk. Throughout the novel Eileen discusses her school experiences and you can analyze situations in which they portray how the males ruled the schools and the women were just
Momma feels that she is an uneducated person, she says "I never had an education myself," (157) this creates barriers between her and her daughter Dee who has a college education. She describes herself as "big-boned woman with rough, man-working hands" (157) that wears overalls by day and flannel gowns by night. From momma's point of view we can tell that she favors her relationship with her daughter Maggie more than the relationship she has with her daughter Dee. I think it’s because Dee went off to college so it created a new perspective on life for her, and Maggie on the other hand stayed home, with burned body and no education, so she learned the simple things in life like quilting and farming from her ancestors. Reading this story from momma's point of view creates the feeling that the story is told from a genuine point of view with no biased feeling toward anyone, just the truth.
In Girl Interrupted, Susanna Kaysen was the new patient at the institution diagnosed with BPD. She shows that she possesses borderline personality disorder through her self-mutilation, identity disturbance, mood swings, chronic emptiness and boredom, and impulsive behavior. Susanna is very confused as to who she is as a person, which is a clear implication of borderline personality disorder. In fact, when she kisses her peer Lisa, she shows us her unsure state of her sexual identity; whether she is straight, bisexual, or homosexual. Another way her uncertainty of her identity is shown is when it is revealed that she had no friends in high school.
The narrator states the mother’s resentment of Connie’s beauty because “her looks were gone and that was why she was always after Connie.”[451]. Connie doesn’t make the situation between the two any better by instigating her mother with curt answers and rude responses. “Her parents and her sister were going to a barbecue at an aunt’s house and Connie said ‘no’, she wasn’t interested, rolling her eyes to let her mother know exactly what she thought.”[453]. the only time Connie fully admits that she truly did love her mother was when she was crying in the phone for her. Connie’s father is a quiet bystander when it came to his wife and daughter heated arguments.