This short story has reminded me of what my own mother is currently going through right now. She has lost everything from bankruptcy all the way to losing my step father to his affair with alcoholism. The feelings of loneliness and desperateness that I feel for my mother is what I experienced while reading this story. I feel as though my mother feels like there is no way out and could totally relate to Jennie and Jeff. I would love to fix everything for her but I know the only way is to keep going to school.
”My sister’s the one who’s always had to imagine life without me”. Kate was selfless to come up with a plan so that her sister could live a normal life. Sara Fitzgerald is also brave because she never gave up with everything going wrong in her life she continued on strong. I agree with her decision throughout the book; I too would have done anything to keep my loved one alive. “My daughter has leukemia and needs a bone marrow transplant; the hospital explained that our insurance company needs to sign off on coverage.” Sara is desperately trying to get her daughter the help she needs but no one is trying to help her.
Her Vietnamese memoir seems to be focused around the themes of survival, coming of age, the nature of war and the importance of tradition. Le Ly tells the story of many of the village people including herself and her mom with most choosing to continue fighting for the right to live long after it seems human endurance would have been exhausted. Le Ly and her mother are examples of this will to survive. Le Ly speaks a lot on her childhood. When she was born, Le Ly is a tiny infant weighing only two pounds at birth and her mother is told that the merciful thing to do would be to suffocate the baby.
Another sentence ‘certainly I never had you as you still have me, Caroline.’ proved that the poet was conveying the message that her daughter never belonged to her instead, she belonged to her daughter. The question ‘why does a mother need a daughter?’ was powerful because indeed, there shouldn’t be a need for a daughter if the parents aren’t going to be the ones owning their own child. As shown in stanza two, ‘heart’s needle’ signifies the heart which is delicate, fragile, life and love and the needle, so small but painful. The pain is not just an ordinary pain, the pain that comes from the needle is piercingly sharp which causes great damage to the heart. Every time the child does something wrong, the mother feels the heartache.
With words that she spoke which hit a nerve of many American women, she wrote, "The problem lay buried, unspoken, for many years in the minds of American women. It was a strange stirring, a sense of dissatisfaction, a yearning [that is, a longing] that women suffered in the middle of the 20th century in the United States. Each suburban wife struggled with it alone. As she made the beds, shopped for groceries … she was afraid to ask even of herself the silent question—'Is this all?'" Is this written in her book?
When Granny speaks and thinks of her life, she identifies herself as a strong woman, Granny mentions many of the things she had to do on her own when she was younger due to the fact that her husband, John, died at such an early age. From the reader’s point of view, it is clear to see that even though Granny is ill in bed, she still gives the reader the impression that she feels her illness is “nothing serious” and something temporary. Granny feels like it is something she will be able to get up and walk away from soon enough. Towards the end of the story, however, we start to sense a change in Granny and notice how her illness is finally starting to affect and weaken her. She starts becoming aware of her surroundings and the
When analysing a poem of Plath's one may automatically associate it with depression, melancholy etc. even before reading the piece itself and fairly so. Mental illness was a major part of her adolescent and adult life and is clearly present in many of her writings. When first going over Morning Song, it is surprising to find nothing lachrymose or dark about this piece. Instead we are given a rare insight into Plath's mind of being a first time mother, something she never thought that she would be.
The yard is a place which everyone can come and sit and look up into the elm tree and wait for the breezes that never come to inside the house. They wait Dee in the yard. Her another daughter which called Maggie will be jealous of Dee’s much easier life and nervous until after her sister goes. Because she does not study, just stays at home. She will stand hopelessly in the corners, plain and sheepish, ashamed of the burn scars down her arms and legs.
Running head: Abortion without parental consent for adolescents Abortion: Making the ultimate choice! Minnisha S. Johnson D’Youville College Professor Krista Hoare Introduction to Professional Nursing/NUR 100INT August 3, 2010 Abstract Individuals make choices every day. They choose what to put on, what to consume, what movie to look at and who to interact with. These decisions are normal and often voluntary. When faced with an unexpected pregnancy, how does one make a decision to terminate the baby or not?
Anna quotes "I thought that she could teach me much about how to manage alone as a woman in the world." Anna here is talking about Anys and she hopes that she could learn her ways of her life for her own benefit. Before Tom dies Aphra tells Anna, ‘why do you let yourself love and infant so? I warned you, did I not, to school your heart against this?’ Aphra tells anna this to make a point that she told her so, that not to get too close to her children before they grow up because of the circumstances and how Aphra had lost all her children. This shows how the power of love can affect people, even tho Aphra wasn’t a big fan of Anna she still made a point out with some sense of caring.