Her style is always a bit more indirect. How does she try to get Bailey not to go to Florida? Not by saying, "Well I want to go to Tennessee," but by trying to scare him with reports of a criminal on the loose, called The Misfit, and guilt trip him about taking his children there. Through the rest of the story we see the grandmother using the same tactics again to get her way. Such as when her son Bailey does not want her to bring her cat Pitty Sing on the trip.
Misfit • "But it wold've been better for all of you, if you hadn't of reckernized me" • "I call myself the Misfit because I can't make what al I done wrong fit what all I gone through in punishment" • "She would have been a good woman, if there was somebody there to shoot her every minute of her life" Grandmother • "You're the misfit! I recognized you at once!" • "I just know you're a good man" • "Pray Pray" 2. Give an example of dramatic, situational, and verbal irony from the story. Be sure to label your examples.
Also that she needs to stop trying to be who she is not. Her mother chose this advice because Birdy is always saying that she wants to be something that she's not. For example, What page is when she says the hobbies she wants to do? What page did she say the she wants to be lower class? Her mother also told her this advice because she has to get married but she is rejecting every guy and is always complaining about it.
Miss Schwartz only thinks about making other people happy, because she is afraid of them becoming angry, or leaving. The first line of the story says, “For fifteen years Miss Schwartz had waited for Sam Hilton to get a job so they could get married. “ Lena wanted to get married before, but she would not rush Sam into finding a job. She wasted away her youth waiting for her fiancé to stop being lazy , and now Miss Schwartz is viewed as an old maid at the age of thirty-two. Even with complete strangers Miss Schwartz is being taken advantage of.
Secondly, there's Nirmala, Nandana's grandmother, who was binged back to reality. The hole story made of Nirmala a strong and courageous woman. As well as Nandana, Nirmala had also lived an illusion more than a real life. The character believed in the big power of god and idols that's why she prayed instantly when she did not know what to do. The woman also followed strictly the script by being afraid of her mother-in-low and by accepting everything her husband wonted.
They wake her up early and help her stretch her legs in hope that they will one day be straight/normal. They showed the compassion that her birth mother would never give to her child. Linda later recalls, “I must have been held so much that the sensation became a part of me”(65). Fifty years later when Linda and her mother Nancy finally meet for dinner, they don’t hug or even shake hands. The mother may be the birth mother and be related by blood but she sure doesn’t show any love toward her handicapped daughter that she abandoned.
It is interesting that she spends a lot of time in the prologue going over written authority in the same way the clerks she criticizes do. She believes her five marriages are justified because no one can give her a good enough reason to make her think otherwise. Even though the church looks down upon her life, she is very proud of it. Her prologue sounds like a confession without remorse. The only thing she regrets in her life is her old age which is consuming her beauty.
After the grandma is unable to persuade the family not to go to Florida, they do so anyways. Still in fear of the misfit, the grandma says: “I wouldn’t take my children in any direction with a criminal like that a loose in it. I couldn’t answer to my conscience if I did” (2). Ironically, the family ends up meeting the Misfit later in the story because of the grandma’s lack of knowledge of directions to a house with a “secret panel.” The reader is able to identify from the beginning that the grandma is one to not stick by her word and also thinks of herself more highly than she really is. She portrays herself as a “lady;” however, she does not know the true definition of
Nobody listens to her and the trip will end up in tragedy. The writer uses a simple story to show how simple events can have dramatic effects on our life. On the road to Florida they take a side road to look at an old house that the grandmother wanted to see. The father had initially refused to take that side road but he gave up after the children insisted. To gain their support, the grandmother had mentioned the existence of “secret panels” in the house.
Crude death rate: the total number of deaths in a year for every 1000 people alive in the society. Crude birth rate: total number of live births in a year for every 1000 people alive in the society. Demographic equation: The formula that calculates population change. The increase (or decrease) in population is births minus deaths plus (or minus) net migration. Demographic transition: a process with several stages, every country is in one of them.