The DeRosier’s were also the ones who shattered her dreams of a perfect family by saying “We take you in because your parents don’t want you"(35). The DeRosier’s left April with a shame of her background and an even deeper shame for her parents. Even though the DeRosier’s did so much bad for April and her identity, they still did some good for her. They made such an horrible environment but April stayed strong and grew as a person. She even said “I could let the DeRosier’s suck out my dignity for now and I could pretend they had me where they wanted me.
Women have always been thought of as the weaker sex and Sociologists such as Heidensohn argue that men see the need to protect women. Police are more likely to caution a woman for shop lifting than they are a man. Flood-Page et al found that one in eleven female offenders had been cautioned and prosecuted in comparison to one in seven males. Women are also less likely to be prosecuted for an offence and found guilty of offences by juries. This is because women (especially when they have children) are seen first and foremost in the expressive role (mothering and caring).
Minerva is the most involved in fighting Trujillo because of her family's influence through her being raised to know whats right, her dad almost being murdered, and her dad's cheating. Minerva is raised well. She knows what's right, she knows what's wrong,
Child of The Dark Paper Carolina has made some bad decisions in her life, but so has everyone else. To me she represents the everyday woman struggling to keep her family alive and well. All she wants is the best for her children and herself. Carolina is a strong woman and she is very independent. As Audalio Dantas, I will publish the Diary of Carolina Maria de Jesus because I want to show the people how Carolina’s pride in her own independence is the vital importance that determines both her identity and the way she reacts with other favelados.
Fitting In In many families, growing up means making mistakes, learning from them, and moving on. Olivia Castellano in, “Canto, Locura Y Poesia,” makes it clear that being able to make mistakes and learn from them can be very difficult especially for Chicanos to be able to succeed in life when they are already looked down at for their culture. Sometimes you wonder if a degree would change anything. If having and education would make every stereotype of chicanos go away. Catellanos argues that her culture has been looked down on for a long time even by her own family and how she “needed to sabotage society in a major way, intellectually radical way” (342).
She describes America as an ``incredible but dangerous ' culture. She believes her children have as much or more opportunities than she had but is constantly worried about the ``terrible influences ' she sees around her children. Although she describes herself as ``lucky ' to be able to afford private Catholic schooling for her children, she is still worried about his children ``getting the wrong messages ' from friends, films and music .Ms. wolf believes she is, by American and Italian standards, very successful and believes she is an ``important ' person in his community .She laughingly says she must be important ``for all the damn taxes I pay. She is active in her neighborhood organization, Scouting, various charities and the Republican Party.
She has been through hardship in her life that most people can only imagine. Having your house burn down and your little girl hurt from the fire would make anyone tough (7). Not everyone can have that happen to them and then put it in the past and move on like Ms. Johnson. Ms. Johnson even tells us that she has “rough, man working hands” (6). Most of the time people think of rough working hands to only be men, but having the life that Ms. Johnson has lived, working as hard as she has, and doing those things so well she has gain the hands of a man, which is a big testament to her
In the Gupta society, the women also were forced to be much more trapped than in any other societies. Families who preserved their families honor by protecting the girls virginity, ultimately would ensure a good husband, from a better family then their own. Girls were also kept confined and unsocial which Clay explains when she writes, " ... it was perceived that young brides could be more easily socialized to remain docile and loyal to their husbands and in-laws, even in abusive situations"(Clay 71). This trend of women now being kept away only for her husband seems unfathomable, but for many young girls it was their
The major critical article “Critical Analysis of the Scarlet Letter Analyzing Strength and Passion” analyzed Hester after being punished of her sin. The author talks about Hester’s strength and compassion. It states that Hester in the puritan eye’s, has committed the worse crime possible at the time. She was looked down on as a criminal in town although she maintained a job as a seamstress and was a good mother. Living with that every day isn’t an easy task but she remained strong and did what she had to
There are numerous reasons why and they are because though she committed a terrible sin doesn’t mean she’s a bad person, Hester could have giving up on pearl but she pleaded to keep her, and pearl is Hester’s only prize possession Hester Prynne committed a crime and sin that is very extreme in the puritan society. She is an adulterer and had a baby out of wedlock but this doesn’t mean Hester is a bad person. Years after Pearls birth Hester became more active in the society she brings food to the doors of poor people, she nurses the sick, and she is a source of aid in times of trouble. Hester also starts interpreting the scarlet A as her being “able” rather than “adulterer”. According to chapter 13 Hester became more speculative thinking about what it means to become a woman of her society.