Loyalty is a valuable human characteristic that defines who a person is in each relationship that they encounter throughout their life. From childhood to adulthood, we learn to be loyal to our family. That is realizing and seeing that each family member is there for the other no matter what. The fact that your parents married and decided to have children is showing a loyalty to each other and their relationship. We watch our family around us and see the importance of being loyal to ourselves and our families.
Sarah, a woman from England with a quiet family and an affair on the side, and Little Bee, a Nigerian refugee seeking asylum in Sarah. During their first encounter, Sarah cut off her own finger when her husband, Andrew, would not, to save Little Bee’s life. Despite everything that happened in Nigeria, Sarah didn’t end her affair with Lawrence and this caused Andrew to spiral into a depression leading to his demise. Being an illegal refugee fresh out of detention camp, Little Bee fled to Sarah’s house to find a safe haven. Throughout this story, difficult choices were made by Sarah, Andrew, and Lawrence all revolving around Little Bee; some made selfless choices and some made selfish, morally wrong choices.
Commentary on The Bean Trees "The Bean Trees" is a story written by Barbara Kingsolver. The story is describing the trip of the protagonist and the ideas she has. In this specific passage we find the aim of the main character to accomplish two promises she made to her self: changing her name and arriving to her destination. In her trip she finds out she did not even know about her self and about where she comes from. She is the narrator of the story and it is written in first person.
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.
Although free will plays into some aspects of the lives of the characters, it is chance and especially inopportune deaths in the novel that dictate a life’s trajectory. Some may argue that the death of Mercy Goodwill and the motherless life of Daisy was a result of free will suggesting, that Mercy willingly chose not to investigate her ailments with Dr. Spears. Although this opposition offers valuable consideration, one must consider who Mercy Stone-Goodwill really was. Brought up in an orphanage from the time she was a baby, “[Mercy] grew up, cloistered as any nun” (28), she was a woman who lacked common knowledge on the issues of womanhood, conception and intimate marital relations. Secondly, Mercy was obese, “by age ten she
Nanny felt by marrying Janie off to Logan, Janie would live to be free and Nanny would not have to worry so much and knew she would be well taken care of. Nanny is protecting Janie from getting a reputation like her mother, Leafy. Nanny goes on to explain what happened to Leafy: “Dat school teacher had done hid her in de woods all night long, and he had done raped mah baby and run on off just before day” (Hurston 19). Leafy became a drinker and would be out all hours of the night after Janie was born; therefore, Nanny is trying to keep Janie safe. Furthermore, Logan Killicks was also trying to protect Janie by listening to Nanny and wanted Janie to be happy and have a good reputation with what he had to offer.
Able to adjust to new conditions. 2. Able to be modified for a new use or purpose. The novel provides great examples of how some humans cannot adapt well in situations in their lives and move on. Hagar avoided dealing with the death of her loved ones, a divorce, moving across the country, and the disownment of her father, and remained same proud and stubborn lady that she always was, even as a small child.
Mother-Daughter Relationships A mother-daughter relationship can take many forms. Some women experience closeness with their mothers, and other find distance. In Olsen’s “I stand her ironing.” Emily is not close to her mother; whereas, in walker’s “Everyday Use,” Maggie and her mother are inseparable. Both mothers care about their daughters extensively. It is other factors such as age and location that contribute to the relationship and determine the level of closeness.
What exactly makes up a strong family that possesses good family values? A strong family is one that sustains its members "" that supports and nourishes the members throughout the span of that family . What exactly makes up a strong family that possesses good family values? A family that sustains its members "" that supports and nourishes the members throughout the span of that family. A strong family unit creates a safe, positive and supportive place for all members to thrive.
While on the surface a simple story about the four March girls’ journeys from childhood to adulthood, Little Women centers on the conflict between two emphases in a young woman’s life—that which she places on herself, and that which she places on her family. In the novel, an emphasis on domestic duties and family detracts from various women’s abilities to attend to their own personal growth. For Jo and, in some cases, Amy, the problem of being both a professional artist and a dutiful woman creates conflict and pushes the boundaries set by nineteenth-century American society. At the time when Alcott composed the novel, women’s status in society was slowly increasing. As with any change in social norms, however, progress toward gender equality was made slowly.