Despite Beli’s past with an adoptive family, living with La Inca should have been great. Like the typical Dominican teenage girl, beli is boy crazy, but even more so than the others. She is defensive and overreacts, cause no one around school seems to like her. Even though she lives what one would call a fortunate life in an upper-class family, Beli does not want to live within these standards and yearns to escape from the Dominican Republic. Beli has taken her rebellion so far as to have sex with Jack Pujols, something everyone shunned her for especially La Inca.
S Z Connie’s Bad Decisions In the short-story “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?” by Joyce Carol Oates, the author writes about a young girl named Connie who is really into herself and only cares about her looks or about how beautiful she is. Connie doesn’t care who she brings down, and does everything possible to impress boys but due to her bad choices she ends up getting herself in trouble with the wrong boy. In Reinout E. Vries, Anita De Vries, Annebel De Hoogh, Jan Feij, article, “More Than the Big Five: Egoism and the HEXACO Model of Personality.” The researchers states, “Egoism is a personality trait that is associated with self-enriching and self-centered behaviors” (635). Throughout the story the character Connie makes many bad decisions by living a double life that have led her egoistical self into high risk situations and even excluding herself from her own family. The author Joyce Oates writes, “Connie knew she was good-looking and for her that meant all” (563).
She kept me in a positive mind. I decided to go Michigan to visit them in September 2012, after my kid’s mother mom was caught. I did not want to miss my daughter’s birthday again either. I stayed in Michigan for a month and brought my kid’s back with me. I brought them back with me because they were moving back to the Middletown area because my kid’s mother was not going to be able to leave the state when she got out jail.
In the House on Mango Street written by Sandra Cisneros, a unique style of writing is used to show various themes throughout the book. The abrupt and disconnected way Cisneros writes conveys a child-like mindset which contrasts the adult issues being discussed in order to show the theme of growing up too fast. Throughout the book, examples are presented to the readers of growing up too fast. Esperanza sees Sire and his girlfriend Lois. Often, she hears them “laughing late” with “beer cans” and such, and is warned by her momma, “Those girls are the ones that go into alleys”.
Sandra Cisernos's The House on Mango Street portrays the story of a young Latino girl growing up in Chicago. She has a vision of what her dream home should look like. She dreams of a house with a large beautiful backyard, real staircase, more than one bathroom, and just a house that she is overall proud to live in. Her house on Mango Street is the complete opposite to her dreams. It was a small red house, with just one washroom, no private backyard or lush green lawns.
She knows that he is going to be flirting with girls all night, so she allows it while she sneaks away to do a little flirting of her own with Mr. Gatsby. Daisy’s worst quality would be her snobby attitude. Daisy thinks she is so much better than anyone else. She focuses on the opinions of others before anything else. d. Daisy is a wife and mother.
The article “Raunch Culture” by Ariel Levy discusses how life in the twenty first century has become very raunchy and erotic. She talks about how easy it is to blame the males of our culture for objectifying women. However, it is the women who are volunteering to have these pornographic or racy photographs and videos taken of themselves. Even women athletes are posing for scantily clad pictures, and they are getting more attention for that than their specialized sporting events. This article discusses that women taking control of their sexuality and objectifying themselves are not, in fact, the same thing.
Like when Tara, Kristen and Keesha were looking at the magazines, Keesha didn’t understand why skin and bones were attractive to Kristen. Kessha also didn’t understand why Tara could never walk with her to or from school, Keesha just thought that her friends were weird until their conditions got out of hand and she got worried about them. *Donna’s influence on Tara was surprisingly good. Considering that Donna is more of a “wild child” and Tara is a “goody-good” I think they balance each other out. While Donna was smoking, stealing or having sex Tara was getting “lost in her mind”.
And then Eric Birling was threatening her as if she didn’t matter leading to the violence, pregnancy and ultimately her death. Eva Smith because of her gender and social status was used as a sexual toy. Gerald Croft used her until she wasn’t needed, “she lived economically on what I allowed her” until like a toy she was discarded. Eric used her on a drunken night out when he was looking for a bit of fun “I was in that state when a chap can easily turn nasty”. Because of her gender she had no choice but to give in which caused her pregnancy.
The Freak is a ‘‘bad girl’’ who gains male attention through an overt sexual persona. She appears sexually liberated, empowered, and seeks sex solely for physical satisfaction, not for a relationship. A debate rages over weather the Freak reflects a true persona of sexual empowerment, or if she is simply reinforcing and falling victim to male desires about female sexuality. In contrast, women who choose not engage in sexual acts with men and enter relationships exclusively with women are referred to as Dykes. Within this frame, heterosexuality is viewed as the natural emotional and sexual inclination for women, and those who go against this are seen as deviant, pathological or as emotionally and sensually deprived (Lorde 1984; Pharr and Raymond 1997).