She was 33 years old and did not speak perfect English, but her community had a large Spanish speaking population, so she got by just fine. When Maribel’s husband died five years ago, she went to live with her youngest daughter in Pennsylvania, but began to feel like she was intruding. Even though she said her daughter never said anything to make her feel this way, she asked her family to help her move in somewhere where she can be with people her age. She says that she is still close with her children who come to see her very often. She has seven grandchildren between her three kids and they also come to visit quite a lot.
She had good relationships with her mother, father, and brother, but the relationship with her sister was more estranged. When she was a teenager, her father left the Air force and took a job in California. She was not only placed in a setting with types of people she had hardly encountered beforehand, but she left a world where she knew comfort and acceptance and moved to a more fast-paced and less personal one. She found friends and stayed in California at UCLA for college. During her high school years, she experienced mania and depression for the first time, but only mildly compared to what she would later go through.
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
Marla: All I remember from my childhood is hearing my mother yelling through the walls that I shared with them, or seeing her with a black eye or broken arm and not being able to take care of me; while my father takes off for couple of days or a week. I cannot recall ever having a family dinner with my parents that was argument free and heard laughter. Clinician (Dardree): How was the relationship between your parents? Marla: The relationship between my parents was toxic, but my mother loved him a lot. Now that I’m older, I think about it and still cannot understand why she did.
I suffered some serious health issues that kept me off work for a while and ultimately led to the loss of a job. Vivian had graduated high school and wanted to start college in Texas as well. Elizabeth and Joe made the ultimate sacrifice and opened their home to us until I could get back on my feet. Now we were on our way home and to meet our beautiful Emily Jane. We had skyped before, so we had seen her over the computer, but now in just a very short amount of time, we would finally be seeing and holding her at last!
Yes, this would cause a serious impact on any families. The impact with me was I never though it would happen to me. I had to learned and read about this and went to program to get myself a better mind frame of drugs and how to cope with my husband. I try to put him in rehab and the three weeks my husband it wasn't enough. I realized that individual needs to want to help themselves.
Because they were both blood brothers, they decided that was good enough, and ended up living together with Derek’s mother and sister. At the start it was very hard for Derek and Morso. Derek’s mother did not readily accept morso into her home, nor did she treat him as an equal. She essentially neglect Morso and made it so much harder for him to settle in. She was very rude to him and would not even speak to him.
Before the abuse, Mother would’ve done anything for her family. When the abuse started, mother thought of Dave as nothing. She treated Dave like an “It”. Dave’s relationship with his father was also weird. I don’t understand how father didn’t try to protect his son no matter what could’ve happened.
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.
Family is one of the most important things in life. Family is the one thing that a person can rely on no matter what. The ruling power is intentionally breaking down family relationships in both of these books. Both main characters in the end of Fahrenheit 451 and The Giver are unhappy with their family. Montag is because he realizes that his wife doesn’t really love him or appreciate him.