The months passed by slow as molasses. They were running out of food. The pioneers ended up eating hides from their cattle that they boiled for hours. Mr. Reed, Patty’s father almost died and Patty, herself, saw angels in the snow. The Reed family made it, but unfortunately, Mr. and Mrs. Donner died.
Maycomb is a small town and every family has their own social status depending on where they live, who their parents are, and how long their family have lived in the town (Lee, 5-7). A Time To Kill is a book about the life of a ten year old girl, Tonya Hailey, and how her life is ruined by two drunken young men that rape and beat her. The town of Clanton in Ford County, Mississippi is a mostly white town and reacts very badly to the crime that was done to the ten year old girl. Tonya Hailey along with her father are one of the few black families living in the neighborhood. (Grisham, 2-3) In the two books To Kill A Mockingbird and A Time To Kill there are many characters that are similar to one another and also different.
There’s the ordinary kind like us and the neighbors, there’s the kind like the Cunninghams out in the woods, the kind like the Ewells down at the dump, and the Negroes.” The way things are in Maycomb is the way things have always been. The way things have always been is racially segregated. Racism, as Atticus says after he loses the Tom Robinson case, is “just as much Maycomb county as missionary teas”, and it’s displayed even in the geography of the town. The African-Americans have their own settlement, their own church, and their own cemetery. At Tom’s trial, the colored people sit on one side of the town square, and the whites on the other.
Jackson describes Miss Strangeworth as the perfect person in the community that cared for this town the most. “She sometimes found herself thinking that the town belongs to her.” This shows that it is her duty to keep the town peaceful and safe from all kinds of evil. Jackson makes Miss Strangeworth seem to be a friendly person and a representative for the town. “No one in the town would dare to disturb Strangeworth during her afternoon nap.” This describes
What was an eight year old supposed to do, I’d rather play with my Bratz dolls than clean my bedroom. That’s when it hit me: I needed to change. Its hard to believe that was only eight years ago. Being neat and organized has changed my life in many ways. Having my mom see my bedroom a complete mess made me feel terrible about myself.
But what choices she made, turned her into a perpetrator. “It came to me that Mayella Ewell must have been the loneliest person in the world.” Upon hearing this, I thought of Mayella as a victim. She had eight other people in her house with her, but no one ever helped her with chores or shown any affection for her. When asked if she had friends, she seemed completely confused by the idea of having friends. She wasn’t accepted into society because of who her family was.
She is not a good example for him; she spends her days sitting around the house, drinking muscatel, talking to Santa Battaglia on the phone, and going bowling. Mrs. Reilly expresses disappointment that he is not measuring up to the model of success, which she and her peers prefer. She is right; he is far from meeting his potential. However she seems to be embodying the stereotype of the parent who is never satisfied. Even though in the Chapter 11 readers find out that Ignatius's birth does not appear to
Miss Hilly is Minny’s boss and she treats her worst than most white people have treated their maids. She had set up a toilet system that forces most black maids to have a private toilet, which system attempts to further divide the two races. The toilet is outside the house and one day it was in a powerful storm. So Minny disobeys Miss Hilly and attempts to use the house’s toilet, but she is caught after she enters the bathroom. In that moment, she has a choice to leave the bathroom and keep her job, however she chooses to flush the toilet, thus her job, force her to go home in the storm.
-SHORT INTRO OF THE MOVIE ON A WHOLE- The main difference between Songlian (the fourth wife of a rich landowner) and the three other spouses was that she was educated and had been married against her will. After that marriage, her whole world is reduced to one small compound, and the only people she sees are her husband, his family, and their servants. Though she is given a maid named Yaner, she doesn't get along with her. She finds her new home to be a cheerless place, despite all the bright colors that paint the inside walls. It is the master's tradition to light lanterns outside the house of the wife he intends to join each night.
For the most part they stay inside the house because of the way Nora and Joanna act reflects how people view Torvald and Ted. Their work made them oblivious to their wife's ambitions to possibly starting their own career instead of being a stay at home mother. They were so caught up in working and obtaining personal wealth that they had detached relationships with their families,