You could tell Lily was afraid of her father, seeing how she hesitated to tell him about events such as her birthday. Lily was also born and raised in rags, since her mother died when Lily was at a young age. After her mother died, Lily was stranded with a confused and angry father, and had to sew her own clothes, since it is all she had. These two stories already look the same, and both are only a fraction of the way in. Huck’s life was extremely terrible until he starting living with the Widow Douglas, which is the equivalent of when Lily went to live with the Boatwright sisters.
Carl is often shifted to his Auntie Beryl’s house which she doesn’t treat him with respect or kindness. “Who would love you if your own mother doesn’t?” Therefore Carl has a very low self-esteem and he feels very abandoned and lonely. He also feels that his mother did not love him and that he is in her way of doing what she wants to do. He is a very sad, lonely and confused fifteen year old teenager. Slowly we see Carl standing up for himself and his brother Harley.
JOSIAH BONT by Jeremy Anderson Josiah Bont, in the novel “Year of Wonders” is a complex character that has a huge negative influence on his family and the people that come in contact with him throughout his village. Josiah’s love and respect for his family was diminutive for the majority of his existence in the novel, and his death suits that of a bully, who is violet to his family both physically and psychologically. His daughter Anna Frith sums up Josiah quite nicely “My father loved a pot better then he loved his children”. Josiah’s feeling towards Anna was a sense of un-accomplishment, but then opportunities for young, illiterate women in those times were scarce. He would often physically abuse her, and put her down in front of others.
The Hero by Siegfried Sassoon (Sassoon) 1 'Jack fell as he'd have wished,' the mother said, 2 And folded up the letter that she'd read. 3 'The Colonel writes so nicely.' Something broke 4 In the tired voice that quavered to a choke. 5 She half looked up. 'We mothers are so proud 6 Of our dead soldiers.'
His father was a fireman and, according to Dave, his mother was originally a loving, kind and wonderful person. Her attitude changed all of a sudden. The worst part was Dave was the only one being abused, not including his other siblings. He writes about his struggle to stay alive in a home where he is treated like a slave and an animal. The book begins with the people at Dave's school finally report Dave and his condition to the authorities.
The unstable Grandmother in A Good Man is Hard to Find Flannery O’Connor’s A Good Man is Hard to Find is a short story of a grandmother that fits into the Southern Gothic tradition. The grandmother touched him on the shoulder. The Misfit jumped back as if a snake had bitten him and shot her three times through the chest. This is a story of a family’s vacation that was tragically ended by a murderer and his gang after an interfering Mother/Mother-In-Law/Grandmother tries to insist that the family not to go to Florida but go to Tennessee instead. It was in fact her own reinforcement that prompted the family to stray from the main path in search of some false Misfit.
She looks after every one of her children and even begs to feed them. Angela’s Ashes,depicts that despite having a “miserable Irish Catholic childhood” which cannot be compared to any other childhood due to “the poverty; the shiftless loquacious alcoholic father; the pious defeated mother moaning by the fire; pompous priests; bullying school masters; the English and the terrible things they did to us for eight hundred long years (Angela’s Ashes Chapter I). McCourt manages to rise above his problems, and make something amazing with his life. The story begins with a description of Frank’s parents and how he came into the world, he was conceived, as he says in the following way: “With Angela drawn to the hangdog look and Malachy lonely after three months in jail, there was bound to be a knee-trembler. A knee trembler is the act itself done up against a wall, man and woman up on their toes, straining so hard their knees treble with the excitement that’s in it.” His poor parent’s lived for a time in
Un-fortune things don’t work out the way she wants it to. Susie watches her family and friends fall apart in her heaven. She watches her father struggle to nail the man he suspects who killed his daughter, her mother commit adultery and leave the family, and the man who murdered her skip town and feel the guilt catch up with him where ever he goes.Jack Salmon was a father of three. Susie 14, Lindsay 13, and Buckley 5. Jack also had a lovely wife, Abigail.
Good Night, Mister Tom is written in omniscient third person point of view. The main character is a thin young boy named William who is physically and emotionally abused by his violent mother. Everyone calls him Willie with the exception of Willie's friend Zacharias Wrench who chooses to call him 'Will' because he thinks it's more dignified. He is also friends with other village children:George an remember. He arrives at Mr Tom's house thinly clad, underfed and covered with painful bruises, and believing he is full of sin, as he has been brought up by a mother who regularly lashed him with a belt and was extremely religious, with strong opinions such as that people who copy go to hell when they die.
Charlie describes how much he misses Michael, and how much he misses his other friend, Susan, who constantly blows Charlie off after middle school. Charlie describes his family. His family consists of himself, his mom, dad, brother, and sister. He also mentions the outspread relatives that he only sees on holidays including his Aunt Helen. Charlie’s Aunt Helen was his “favorite person in the whole world.” However, she died after a terrible car accident.