It makes you think about what some kids go through everyday.This book was a definite eye opener to abuse. Dave Pelzer is the main character in this book. This book is an autobiographical account about him being brutally beaten and starved by his emotionally unstable, alcoholic mother, Catherine Roerva. Besides being horribly beaten, Dave was forced to eat his own vomit, swallow soap, ammonia, and Clorox. She was a mother who played tortuous, unpredictable games that left him nearly dead.
Yates had mental instability during the time she killed her children, and after the birth of her fifth child is when she experienced postpartum depression. After she was in prison, professionals diagnosed her with insanity and postpartum depression. Genetics also played a part since there was a history of mental illness in her family. After the death of her father, she stopped doing everything she normally would do that would take care of her and her kids and Yates had become even more depressed. Yates had not realized how much mental illness there was in her
He physically and mentally abuses Delia, takes her income while failing to make his own, and has an affair on the side. Despite being out of work, for three months he has paid his mistress Bertha's rent. Sykes brings negativity to his relationship with Delia, and tries to poison her with a rattlesnake. Tired of Delia and seeking out freedom with his "portly" mistress Bertha, Sykes hatches a plan to poison Delia by planting a rattlesnake in her washing clothes, but the plan backfires after he is fatally bitten in the neck. After Sykes is bitten in the neck by the rattlesnake, Delia sits under a chinaberry tree while hearing the distant moaning and wailing of Sykes.
"White Oleander," by Janet Fitch is a book that viciously grabs my mind and emotions and plays with both my intellectual and emotional comfort. It is a heartbreaking story of a young, twelve year old girl, who is taken away from her mother whom she is deeply attached to and placed in a series of abusive and harsh foster homes. This is because her mother is sent to a life-sentence in prison for first-degree murder of her boyfriend. Having grown up in a loving, caring household, I cannot imagine having to endure the suffering the main character, Astrid, did. Throughout her foster homes, she was forced into child labor, starved, and even shot at with a gun by one of her foster mothers.
Marie and her son were moved in the Conciergerie, where she suffered from internal bleeding and a dramatic loss of weight. Her trial was held on October 14 and she was charged incest, and treason to the State. Even the charges were ridiculous, she never said a word, and was convicted with the verdict of guilty. Her execution date was October 16, 1793, where she was given a piece of paper to write to her sister and to her loved ones. Not only was her arms tied and hair cut, she was also paraded around town around Paris where she was openly discriminated along her way to be executed via the guillotine.
Page one (1), line thirteen, states “Harlem is not an easy place to grow old” – and this is very much backed up throughout the story in her case. Junice first explains to us how her life became turned upside down, her mother (a current drug dealer), had been caught on the corner “holding”, and was placed in jail. And, to ice the “big happy family cake” her father was “non-existent, and that is how it had always been. Thus, Junice and her sister Melissa were taken from their home and went to stay with a woman by the name of Miss Ruby for the time being. In addition, following Junice’s mothers conviction, Junice became acquainted with a young (well rounded) man, by the
From reading the book and comparing it to class lectures, we are able to learn multiple things about slavery. Like many slaves, Celia was treated like an inanimate object. She was bought and sold, raped and impregnated just when she was a young teenage girl. There was only a certain amount of abuse she could take until she started to resist. First claiming to be sick and pregnant, Celia eventually full on rebelled and killed her aging master, Robert Newsom.
Wuornos's background was extremely troubled. Born in 1956, she was abandoned by her mother at the age of four and never knew her father, who was in prison for raping a child. Wuornos was taken in by her grandparents, who looked after her until she was fifteen, when they threw her out of the house for reasons that are not clear but seem to have involved her alcohol and drug use. Homeless, she turned to prostitution and began to rack up a series of felonies including DUI's, car theft, disorderly conduct and firearms offences. She was now in a relationship with a woman named Tyria Moore.
At the start of 1692, two adolescent girls from Salem village started to ail from mysterious fits. Seventeen months afterwards, after lawful action was taken on 144 individuals, with 20 of them being sentenced to death, the humiliating Salem witchcraft court proceedings ended at long last. (Norton, 2003 pg. 3 -4) During those times, the magistrates who headed court cases paid no attention to women as well as girls who were aged below twenty five years old but in that witch case, things took a different turn as women were the prevalent accusers and the magistrate gave them opportunity to air their views (Norton, 2003 p.7). Norton's supposition regarding the 1692 hunt for witches at Salem village support a clash of traditions thesis and some
“If that fella’ll work for thirty cents, I’ll work for twenty-five” (Steinbeck) this quote shows how desperate people are to get work and how the owner don’t care about the. An example of modern slavery and modern disposable people in our world today is Siri, a child slave from Thailand. At the age of only fourteen years old she was sold by her parents, because they needed money, to a brothel. After one year Siri’s “desire to escape the brothel are breaking down and acceptance and resignation are taking their place.” (Kevin Bales 1). Siri is mistreated and forced into prostitution.