Secrets In Sue Monk Kidd’s novel The Secret Life of Bees Lily Owens is seeking to find the truth behind her mother Deborah Owens’s death. Since her mother’s death Lily’s life is incomplete, she hears stories from her father (who she calls T-Ray) about her mother but does not believe them. She has been living with guilt since that one night after killing her mother. T-Ray tells Lily that her mother ran away and left her behind, Lily believes he is just saying to punish her, and does not believe what he says. She says, “What if my mother leaving wasn’t true?
The Mysterious and Complex Life of Abigail Williams Abigail Williams was only about 11 years old when she and her friends went into the woods at the dark of night with an African slave named Tituba. Reverend Samuel Parris, Abigail’s uncle, caught the girls dancing “naked” and that was considered a sin in their religion. Parris, the minister of the village, questioned Abigail about this twisted behavior and that’s where all the trouble began. Abigail and Betty Parris were the first two girls to start accusing people of being witches. The girls did this to keep the attention off of them and avoid punishment.
They are literally killing their neighbor over a feud which contain no memorable cause. All this is hypocritical enough, but the families takes hypocrisy to the next level. They do this by taking their guns to Church. Their stubbornness to back down from a fight will not allow them to leave their guns at home while they listen to sermons on brotherly love. Beside the protest of Christians, Twain uses Huck’s adventures to illuminate the evils of society.
Because of their sins, the townsfolk have guilt and blame others to free themselves of it. People call out names for the witch-hunt on behalf of God; but in reality, they blame others to avoid dealing with their guilt. These accusations make the townspeople turn on their neighbors and friends, ultimately adding to the intensity of the witch trials. In contrast to the townsfolk, Giles deals with his guilt. He asks Reverend Hale to resolve his curiosity about what his wife Martha might be reading behind his back, but instead rouses the town’s suspicion of Martha being a witch.
When Abigail was just a child, she witnessed her parents' brutal murders. "I saw Indians smash my dear parent's heads on the pillow next to mine..." (page 20) Afterwards, she was raised by her uncle, Reverend Parris. In the play it was written, "He (Parris) was a widower with no interest in children, or talent with them." (Page 3) Parris regarded children as young adults who should be "thankful for being permitted to walk straight, eyes slightly lowered, arms at the
Lily also lives with her father and she says in the book that it never felt right to call him dad so she just settled on T. Ray. T. Ray is abusive and convinces Lily that her mother’s death is all her fault by telling her that she picked up the gun and it went off in her hands and killed her mother and that her mother didn’t care about her at all and left her. The date is 1964 and President Johnson has just signed the Civil Rights Act. Rosaleen decides that she wants to register to vote and Lily walks with her into town. As they reach the outskirts of town Rosaleen and Lily come across three white men who harass Rosaleen.
Miss Caroline unfairly punishes her when she tells Scout she’s not allowed to be taught to read anymore. Scout proceeds to tell Miss Caroline that Atticus hasn't taught her to read ever. Scout wants to be able to read and write without being told that she can’t. Scout’s point of view isn’t often believed or even allowed to be told. When Atticus, Jem and Scout go to the family plantation for Christmas, she gets in trouble for beating up her cousin.
Comparison of the film Penelope and book The Giver (Penelope) The movie Penelope was all about a young girl named Penelope who was searching for a man who can break the spell casted to her great grandfather but was generated on her. Her grandfather had impregnated a woman who was a servant in their mansion and was forced not to marry her because their life status doesn’t match in any way. As revenge to the Wilhern family, the mother of the woman impregnated by her grandfather casted a spell on their family that the next girl born in their family line would have the aspect of a pig and so when Penelope was born, she was sent far from their mansion and was hidden by her parents. The only way to break the spell was to find a one of her own and learns to truly love her, which was interpreted by her parents to mean a man of noble birth. To break the spell, her mom had taught her everything a lady should be in order to find a noble man who would fall in love with her.
Settings Most of The Memory Keeper's Daughter takes place in Lexington, Kentucky. There is no real significance to selection of Kentucky as a setting. Plot The story starts snowy winter night in 1964, Dr. David Henry rushes his pregnant wife Norah to the hospital. David and the nurse Caroline Gill, delivers twins, Paul and Phoebe. Shortly after Phoebe's birth, he finds that she has Down Syndrome, and hands her over to Nurse Caroline, explaining that the death of his ill sister nearly destroyed their mother and he doesn't want Norah to go through that.
Witch Child Essay Witch Child by Celia Rees. Tells an adventurous story about a girl named Mary Newbury who suffered a horrible late part of her childhood. The story starts when the townspeople charge Mary’s grandmother with witchcraft and execute her. Surviving that traumatic event, she is shipped to the New World by her mother, who she met only once. Mary’s reason for the departure is to protect her from the strict Puritans.