Matt now has a son, a good wife, and an ordinary life; he still has a good family life without going to university. In contrast with Kate, although she has good education and job, she doesn’t have her own family and in fact, she says, “I had never thought I would really love anyone.” (89) From another perspective, she seems to be the one that is going to have a sad life. Similar with Luke, when he rejects Sally it is due to his responsibility as a caregiver. He is happy with his decision since it is for his family. If Matt chooses to go to university instead and leaves Marie, he will most likely lose his happiness and truly be an emotionless “nerd” and suffers like Kate who does not truly knows the meaning of love.
The book is the story of Enrique, a Honduran boy whose mother, Lourdes, was abandoned by her children’s father and who made the difficult choice to leave her eight-year-old daughter and five-year old son to come north. Nazario gives us a view inside the most difficult choice a mother can make: whether to abandon her children to the care of relatives in order to be able to provide a better life for him. The powerful economic forces of globalization in the developing world boil down, for Lourdes, to the simple choice of whether she can continue to tell her children to lay on their stomachs, because that way they can fall asleep in spite of their hunger pangs. And yet, Nazario gets us to fully appreciate the human costs of the decision to come North for the family members left behind. While Enrique has shoes and the ability to attend school, which his mother could not have afforded to give him if she had stayed, he feels the constant loneliness for his mother’s love and is shuttled from relative to relative as he begins to act out, drops of school, and turns to glue-sniffing.
They loved each other; she made him feel better even though his mother died which was the reason why he married her; because she made him feel less lonely after his mother’s death. But later on in their marriage, Zeena became sick right before Ethan was about to start a new life with her outside the town of Starkfield. Her illness made their lives miserable. Ethan was bound to stay with her and in the town for a long time. Mattie, Zeena’s relative and had just moved to Starkfield with Zeena and Ethan to help Zeena out while Ethan goes and works during the day.
She was being unfair because ray had taken some time for her to work, while he watched the kids. This is an example of supportive behavior and defensive. Defensive because Ray made an accusation about her putting her career before the family and she came back with your are just jealous, which she tried to defend her reasons why she needed to meet with her client. Supportive because at the end Shawna supported her partner by realizing she was being unfair to her partner and
In the beginning of the book, when Dave talks about when the family was once good, he calls his mom, “Mom”. He later on calls her “Mother” when she becomes abusive. He does this because he became distant from her when the abusive started. He didn’t feel safe referring to her as mom anymore because she wasn’t the nurturing mother that she once was. Before the abuse, Mother would’ve done anything for her family.
Novalee's childhood was filled with a tremendous amount of sadness that a child should never have to go through. Her mother deserted her when she was young and thereafter, she bounced between foster homes until she met Willy Jack. In Willy Jack, Novalee believes she finds love. To her disappointment though, she does not. However, she finds happiness the baby that they have created together.
I believe that when they first got married there was some kind of love in their relationship, but when they realized they could not conceive a child Don Elias blamed his wife. Even though it was most likely he was the infertile one, he treated her as if all she was good for was to take care of him like a maid. This is what made her a hard, bitter old woman. Dona Matilida believes it was her fault, and feels guilty about not being able to provide him with a child he so greatly desired. This caused her to turn a blind eye to what he was doing around town with other women.
Edna Pontellier, often reflects on her role of mother-of-two who is married to a well-off and often traveling brokerage-business husband Leonce Pontellier. The community views Leonce as the ideal husband, for Leonce he adores and provides for wife and children, he is quite consistently concerned about the welfare and happiness of his household. Yet Edna does not look at Leonce as her choice of husband, she says their marriage was accidental, that as she was growing up there are particular men that came around her that she would have wished to take her hand. Leonce is disciplined, insistent and low-toned, often dissatisfied about Edna's attention to the children and other household issues, more so because he is often away on business and Edna
She was the princess of the house and that is how everyone treated her. I tried to make Adele help me to raise the children while I took care of their father since his condition started to deteriorate. My cousins, Diana and Mary moved into our new house along with their husbands and children. By that time Edward grew sicker and blinder while Adele never found time to care for Edward Jr. and Mary
“Changing of Times”: A Good Man Is Hard to Find “A Good Man Is Hard to Find,” by (Mary) Flannery O’Conner is a sad tail of how a family’s vacation ends before it even starts. The story is told by the grandmother who is not happy with her son’s choice where to vacation. Even though she is not happy, she is thankful to be going, and accompanies her son with his wife and three young children. The story shows many forms of irony that are quite amusing. The story starts out with the family sitting around, going about their everyday life, paying the poor grandmother no mind whatsoever.