This is an evidence of assimilation in cognitive development [lecture slide 10-11 “more on adaptation”]. I asked her mom later the know that she and her husband never actually correct her that the juice’s name is not “snow snow”. Because of this, she never has a chance to change her to change her scheme and adapt [lecture slide 10-11 “Adaptation:
My mother told me to talk to her and invite her to play. My mother also helped me think differently, since the little girl wore the same cloths almost every day and her hair wasn’t always combed. My mother said, “She might not have water on at her house and maybe she doesn’t have a comb. She could even be homeless and never had a friend.” She said, “If you talk to her, you never know
On my first day of kindergarten my mom took me to school. She walked me to class and stayed with me for a few minutes then she had to leave to go to work. I was okay for a little while then I started crying. I did not have my mom around and I did not have my grandmother around. My teacher let me call my mom and my mom told me “I was a big boy, I have to go to school and that everything would be ok, stop crying and that she loved me”.
Reflection Question # 7 1- Personally, I had never experience any kind of abuse or neglect in my house, however; I had seen some people abusing from their kids. One time I remember when I went to the store, and the little boy was crying because he wanted to buy a toy, his mom get very mad and she yelled to the child and slapped. 2- The only thing that I did when I looked at the lady by hitting the child was that I approached her and told her not beat his child because he does not understand, he is a child and he doesn’t know that there is no money to buy toys. I was very upset because I hate child abuse. I think that the outcome of this confrontation was that she understood that it is wrong to hit the child in public places.
Characterization - Young Miss Tilling’s Issues In the short story we meet Annabelle Tilling, who is a bashful 15-year-old girl there lives in London alone with her mother. Her mother’s friend Stan lives more or less with them. One day at a morning assembly Annabelle takes all of her clothing off in front of her entire school. Later she tells the Head that she doesn’t know why she did it she just wanted the attention as follows. When Annabelle is in the Head’s office, she seems insensitive towards the Head and the issue.
Adeline Yen Mah calls herself ‘Chinese Cinderella’ because so much of her life was like the life in the fairy tale. Like Cinderella, Adeline has to live by very strict ground rules; Adeline is not allowed to have friends over, or go to her friend’s houses as her stepmother clearly states on page27 “You are not allowed to invite any of your friends home, or to visit them in their houses.” This is similar to the fairy tale because Cinderella was not allowed to leave the kitchen. As stated before this quote clearly states, Adeline is not allowed to do much when it comes to friends. As you can see this is just one of the many ground rules Adeline and her siblings must live by. Throughout the book Adeline's stepmother is very unfair and cruel to her and her siblings.
Soon after, the mother hears the sound of a bomb explode and rushes out to make sure her child is ok. She goes to the church that is now “bits of glass and brick” and does not find her child, but finds her little girl’s shoe. The first thought that occurred when reading this poem was how dedicated even little children were to free their own people and how life was like in the sixties. The little girl wanted to march the streets of Birmingham instead of going out to play. The little girl had no fear even when her mother said there would be guns and jails, clubs and hoses, and dogs that were fierce and wild. She went on saying she wanted to make our country free.
“Yeah, I’m fine,” Sierra says as she wipes away the tears from her cheeks, “just tired.” “Okay, well dinner will be ready soon. Do you want me to fix you up a plate?” her mother asked anxiously. “I’m not hungry” “Okay, I’ll put the left overs in the fridge if you want some later,” says her mother sounding concerned. “Okay mom” she says hoping her mom would go back down stairs and leave her alone so she could sneak off into the bathroom without being caught by her mom so she doesn’t have to explain why her face is all puffy and red like she has just been crying for 3 hours, even though she had been. She hurries off to the bathroom and closes the door very quietly so no one can hear her, not even her dog.
Jessica is describing how she was not fond of waking up early in the morning to help the chores on the farm before having to attend school. As Jessica explains “As we dress…”I hate this!” (pg.83) She wants us to know that her siblings as well hated that they had to participate in the house hold chores. She explains how she was never able to participate in any school activities with her friends. She also explains how depressing her conversations would be at lunch because she wasn’t relevant to the conversations. After years of sacrifice and pleading with her parents, they finally allowed her to join the basketball team as long as she continued to help with the chores around the house.
Maggie selflessly insists that her sister can have the quilts (128). Maggie is also not a very strong character; instead she stays in the background most every situation that she can. For example, Dee and her friend rapidly approached the house in their car. “Maggie attempts to make a dash for the house…” but her mother quickly takes hold of her, making sure that she does not escape. Maggie was very uneasy around her sister; her mother tells her anxiousness in regard to Dee’s visitation: “Maggie will be nervous until after her sister goes: she will stand hopelessly in corners, homely and ashamed of the burn scars down her arms and legs, eyeing her sister with a mixture of envy and awe” (119).