In the midst of her character flaws, she faces an identity crisis with her own heritage. As Mama and Maggie prepare for Dee to visit from school, Mama mind wonders. She compares her current life with the life her daughter Dee would want her to have. “In real life, I am a large big boned woman, with man working hands… But of course all of this does not show on television. I am the way my daughter wants me to be, a hundred pounds lighter, my skin like an uncooked barely pancake.
Scout is grilled for lack of empathy for the first time in the novel, when during the meal Walter drowns his plate in syrup and Scout strongly reacts. Calpurnia, the housekeeper, pulls Scout aside, explaining that Walter is company and must not embarrass him, as for Scout’s opinion “It don’t count for nothing, you’re disgracing them.” (Page 25). From this point on, Scout develops and understands this concept better. A second example involving the children in the novel concerns the interaction between Jem and a neighbour. Mrs. Dubose is “Plain hell” (page 6) to Jem.
This is hard for Autumn because they were the only family she had left. Autumn goes into shock and forgets about the real world and because of this she misses her appointment. An important idea in “No More Sad Goodbyes” is that life is full of hardship and grief. This is shown by Autumn’s father and grandmother dying and being left with nothing but a few friends. This is hard for Autumn as she has also just found out that she is pregnant from that one night with Jason and has to make a decision on what to do.
Dunstan Ramsay, the novel’s protagonist exhibits the issue of how a rough childhood can impede on relationships later on in life. Dunstan’s relationship with his mother leads him to develop three problems that arise in his dating life. The first problem is Dunstan’s trust issues; he can never fully trust a woman due to his betrayal of trust with his mother. The second problem is Dunstan’s negative depiction of sexual relations. Due to his mother’s stern moral beliefs, he does not have much interest in sexual relations and has negative views on it.
Exercise: Discussion/Composition 1 Page: 114 The Love in “Yolanda” In the excerpt “Yolanda” from the novel “How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents” by Julia Alvarez, the love of Yolanda’s mother for her daughter is shown throughout the story. It is true that there is no mother who does not love her children. So does Yolanda’s mother. First of all, she remembered every little detail when Yolanda was “three years old”. She told the lover what exactly happened, why she took Yolanda to New York – “that one was losing all her hair”, how crowded the bus was – “It was more sardines in a can than you could shake sticks at”, and how she worried when Yolanda got lost – “we broke into a run like two crazy people!” Second, Yolanda’s mother put so much expectancy on her daughter – “of course, she became a poet” – that she was “disappointed” because “she had always meant for her Yo to be the famous [poet].” And she tried to “convince her daughter”.
The book talks about how desperate she was and the state of panic that she was experiencing because she thought that there would be no way that she would be able to financially and emotionally support this child at her very young age of 21. When Mrs. MacAfee decided that she wanted this child aborted she went to the doctor’s office and asked if there was anything that he could do because there was no way that she would be able to make
Not even the children are happy in the “ideal house.” Later the poem says: “I saw her yesterday at forty-three, her children gone, her husband one year dead, toying with plots to kill time and re-wed illusions of lost opportunity." She realizes that it is too late to go back and choose a different path, but she wonders what her life would have been like if she had chosen differently. The man with real pearl cufflinks is not there for her anymore; her children are not living at home. She is lonely and lonely is a feeling that she is not used to. She is no longer satisfied with her life because everything that she wanted and had is gone.
Her family is livings life where they cannot control what could happen to them because they don’t have money to fix these problems nor do they have the power to stop them. “The strife has lasted too young and had been too painful for me to call him back to continue it.” (pg. 100) This quote is fulfilled with grief and sorrow because Nathan and Rukmani’s last child, Kuti dies. At this point in the story, death is being caused because they don’t have enough money to support their children or feed them. Markandaya is showing fear by Rukmani not being able to support her children therefore they will die off if nothing is done.
The play ‘All my Sons” by Arthur Miller focuses on the themes of loss, guilt and the past revealing itself in the present. In this scene, Miller reveals that Kate and Ann feel very differently about Larry. Kate, as Larry’s mother, refuses to believe that he has died and needs other people around her to feel the same to give her feeling credibility, whereas Ann has come to terms with his death and, although expresses sadness and has a nostalgic attitude, feels ready to move forward with her life. Kate is driven by emotions regarding her feelings for Larry and Chris is determined for her to face up to reality. However, her sons death is something she won’t accept due to the implications it might have, displaying that she is trapped in the past.
She does not allow writing as “he hates to have me write a word” (Gilman, 2), and has to stay away from her relatives and son. Her life is controlled by her husband. She points out that “I have a schedule prescription for each hour in the day” (Gilman, 2). She forces to live in a room, which she really hates because of the animated wallpaper. She wants to move out of this house and gets back her own life or thought.