By the time Anna returns, Maggie has suffered another stroke, now completely unable to control her body and is in some sort of coma. She dies before midnight. People involved: Anna: Anna’s emotional strength is again referenced here as she offers instantly to care for Maggie, even willing to face the men at the tavern in order to
Esperanza is shocked and hates him. N. Esperanza’s mom does not agree and the later in the night, Tio Luis burns down her ranch home and now they have to make a choice. Abuelita hurts her ankle and can’t
Simultaneously, the Plague is killing many people each day in the town, and Anna is doing her best to help everyone. Geraldine Brooks uses symbolism to show the inner workings of Anna’s mind as she attempts to survive in the isolated town by sending Anna into a similar situation as she enters the mine. “The air was already still and stale, just a few feet in from the shaft, and as I sat there in the muck I could feel the panic rise.” (178) The mine—cold, dangerous, and the unknown to Anna—is something Anna goes into without warning. She only learns a few hours that she will have to go in before she can deal with her fear and must gather the courage and strength to look past herself and help others. Comparatively, she is unexpectedly thrown into the unknown when her family dies and she is left to help the community and forget about her needs.
Hulga, now having only one leg, manages to crawl her way to a window in the barn loft, to see Manley run away with her precious leg. Hulga feels horrible, losing both her leg and lover. She begins to yell for help, hoping someone, anyone, might hear her calls. After a while, she begins to realize that there’s no hope that someone might come to save her. Depression sets in on Hulga, she begins to cry, to think of her family.
Her 2 sons and Mr. Vicars are shortly affected by the plague and as an outcome of the plague they die. As Anna loses her two young sons and the Mr. Vicars that was renting her spare room she starts to build up her ego in order to fight through
Charleena Hendly is an actress who performed in many hit movies until she decides to move back to Culpepper her hometown for a little break. She was very tired of making movies and also recovering from her heartbreak of her husband cheated on her for a model and left her. After all that she has her little helper Macon who cleans the house and does many of her errands around the town, So Macon friend of Foster introduces her to Miss. Charleena and one day Macon is so sick with a fever he cannot go at her house so he sends foster to substitute for him while he is sick. That’s when Foster gets a paper with many chores for her to do around the house given by Miss.
Ruthie, who is the youngest daughter of the Joad family told one of the girls in the cam that her brother (Tom) has killed two men and his currently hiding near. After Ma Joad finds this out she tells Tom to really leave, because she is fearful for the rest of the family and is scared that they are in danger. Tom then leaves to do the same that that Jim was doing which was gathering migrant workers. There was word out that there wouldn't be a job open for anybody, because cotton season was finishing up. The land becomes flooded from the rain that was set in and Rose of Sharon has her baby, they all go to a dry barn for safety from the
Richard says “But they’re coming after me”. His mother then says “You just stay right where you are-- I’m going to teach you this night to stand up and fight for yourself.” Richard’s mother went inside the house and came back with a stick and then said to him “Take this money, this note, and this stick,” “Go to the store and buy those groceries. If those boys bother you , then fight.” After arguing with his mother and begging her to not let him go down there once more she said “Go now! If you come back into this house without those groceries, I’ll whip you!” Richard was frightened but he did as told. When he went down towards the grocery store he saw the boys once again, as they charged to go and attack him Richard says “I’ll kill you.” Within seconds Richard grappled on to the stick and
The welfare state people tried getting more of the children to leave the house also. At this point, Malcolm’s mother had a complete mental breakdown. Resulting in her being sentenced to a mental institution in Kalamazoo. She remained in the institution for twenty-six years until Malcolm and his siblings got her out. Institutional racism picked apart Malcolm’s family piece by piece because of the color of their skin and because of his father’s involvement in the
David’s mother also starts changing in this part of the story because of how she starts doing more gruesome things than she usually does. She also gets any excuse to hurt David. You can also see how David relies on his dad for protection but his dad shows no empathy. “A few days later, Mother packed Father’s clothes on a boxes, and drove with my brothers and me to a place a few blocks from the fire station. There, in front of a dingy motel, Father waited.