Likewise, both Hedvig and Cassandra share common consequences, torture (not just physically but mentally) and in the end both walk hopelessly toward death. In The Wild Duck, Hedvig is perhaps the most suffered yet most innocent character in the play. As a thirteen year old child, she has to endure the neglected feelings received from her father, Hjalmar due to the uncertainty of her parentage belonging. As Hjalmar angrily said to Gina, “ Just answer me this: does hedvig belong to me— or [Werle]?” (Ibsen 195). Gina replied saying that she does not know, he was furiously left the house.
Over the summer, incoming high school freshmen were required to read Sue Monk Kidd’s The Secret Life of Bees. Set in South Carolina in 1964, fourteen year-old Lily Owens lives with her abusive and vulgar father, T. Ray, plagued with the blurred memory of the afternoon her mother, Deborah, died. When Rosaleen, T. Ray’s housekeeper and Lily’s lovable “stand-in mother” (2), gets in deep trouble with the meanest racists in town, consequentially going to jail, Lily busts Rosaleen out, freeing her, and together they run from Sylvan, away from Lily’s mentally and physically violent father and away from Rosaleen’s troubles. She and Rosaleen make their way to Tiburon in hopes to shed light on her mother’s past, guided only by a few of her mother’s
Daniel was orphaned as a result of Roman oppression. His father, in an attempt to save his brother from imprisonment for failure to pay harsh Roman taxes, was caught and crucified. His mother died from grief. His younger sister, once sweet and open, is thereafter terrorized by fears and demons. Daniel and his sister are left in the fate of their poverty stricken grandmother, who apprentices Daniel to the local blacksmith.
This differs from “sea Oak” which is about a young male stripper who plays the male role in the family, they live in poor projects where there is a lot of turmoil. The happy go lucky narrator is “haunted” by his aunt, who when alive worked double shifts and never complained, she never even got married because she had to work, however when she came back to haunt the narrator she was very nasty “You , mister, are going to start showing your cock. You go up to a lady, if she’ll pay to see it, I’ll make a thumbprint on the forehead. I’ll try to get you five a day, at twenty bucks a pop. So a hundred bucks a day.” (Saunders, 112).
An example of some of the things that George Henderson says in his paper about poverty is, “Poverty is staying up all night on' cold nights to watch the fire knowing one spark on the newspaper covering the walls means you’re sleeping child dies in flames. In summer poverty is watching gnats and flies devour your baby's tears when he cries.” In the novel Enrique’s Journey, by Sonia Nazario poverty is everywhere, some places are just worse than others like families living in shacks, only being able to eat one meal a day. These authors and others are pointing out an indisputable fact. Poverty is everywhere and everyone needs to be doing something about it. Sonia Nazario describes a very graphic picture of children without one or any parents, food, shelter, and clothing, which many Americans choose to ignore and go about their business like it doesn’t happen here and around the world.
“D”: Roger Chillingworth Roger Chillingworth, Hester Prynne’s, deformed husband, slowly transforms into what many call the Black Man. Chillingworth’s transformation, ultimately detrimental to Reverend Dimmesdale’s health, began once he questioned the reverend about sin, and his obsession did not, “set him free again until he had done all” of his searching (117). He leeched info out of poor Dimmesdale every day until, “there was a fiend at his elbow” his own self (155)! Chill., hired to help nurse Dimm. back to health, actually took more years off his life.
But then, one day, it ended.” (52). Alice loses her confidence when she is shot in the eye with a BB; the injury leaves “a glob of whitish scar tissue, a hideous cataract” (53). Readers realize Alice’s parents’ oblivion to the impact of her injury. Christine Kerr elaborates on this aspect in Bloom’s Literary Reference. Kerr states, “...Walker’s parents are unable to get their child to a doctor until a week after the ‘accident’.
Sara is Chanda’s half-sister. She’s only one and a half years old; she died from a terrible disease yet unknown. Jonah, Sara’s father has not much of a difference between dead or alive. He goes to the Shebeen all the time. He gets drunk and cheats on his wife Mrs. Kabelo.
This statement, which was said about George and slim after Lennie’s death shows how little Lennie’s life was worth to the other people in the book. Lennie’s death is only one of two mercy killings that are going to be talked about. Kay Gilderdale gave her suffering daughter Lynn a cocktail that would end her life in December of 2008. Lynn was suffering from ME for 17 years and wanted out. “Her daughter called her for help when her own attempts at suicide failed” (Laville1).
Foster 1 Sidney Foster Mr. Jackson Period 1 30 January 2015 As I Lay Dying: A Novel Abstract Synopsis Addie Bundren, the wife of Anse Bundren, was sickly, and was expected to die soon. Cash, her oldest son has prepared a coffin for her. Vardaman her other son couldn’t bare to think that his mother was nailed shut in a wooden box so he made large holes in her coffin. While doing so he drilled through his mothers face. Addie’s daughter, Dewey Dell, has recently become pregnant because she fooled around with a farmhand (Lafe).