The tree of heaven represents the strength and the ability to thrive living insider all of the immigrants that inhabit this neighborhood. They have the amazing ability to survive with very little food and money for necessities. Just as the tree the narrator decribes, the residents of Francie’s neighborhood in Williamsburg must survive eating inadequate food, working the hardest jobs with the worst pay, and waering thin, worn clothing that did little to keep out the bitter cold. These people strive solely on the hope that in the next day, week, or month of their lives, things wills tart to get better. No matter how hard things get, they continue to have the will to keep the hope alive.
Throughout 38 years of living, being a single mother, working the same career for 17 years, and fighting breast cancer still has not strangled the liveliness from Daphne’s spirits. In the beginning, Daphne got pregnant with her first child at the age of 15. She and her son lived with her mother who offered little to no help with caring for her child. Daphne having received little assistance with raising her son, got her to her first job. Burger King, a minimum wage job, paid for daycare and everything her son needed.
Nat noticed that the birds act strangely when he notes that “always in autumn {the birds} followed the plow, but not in great flocks like these, nor with such clamour” (pg.47). He even notices that the winter came from autumn just overnight. As Nat was watching the birds, he thinks to h imself “on December the third the wind changed and it was winter” (pg.47). This sudden change, since the season turns to winter, represents death. Nat and his family also go without sun for a while.
Of Mice and Men By Jamie Clarke Chapter 7: Page 1 George stared down at the grave, it read , “here lies lennie a caring friend.” The guilt he felt was unbearable, it was like a huge boulder crushing down on him and he was doing his best to hold it up and stop it from crushing him. It was dark and the graveyard was dimly lit with only a few slow burning lanterns hung up around the graveyard. George would visit this place once every week because he just couldn’t stay away! Sometimes he would speak to lennie, he missed him so much but he knew he couldn’t change what had happened, He some how knew he had done the right thing but he also knew that Curly would be onto him soon.
At first, Robert was a wonderful husband and showered his wife with gifts and attention but this eventually faded and the happy couple divorced Ben grew up in inner-city Detroit with his mom and older brother, Curtis, and his family was not the wealthiest either. Sonya Carson raised both of her sons by herself and many times she took on two or three jobs to support her family. Even from his childhood, Ben thought towards a
In one instance, the forbidding weather alludes to the pessimist attitudes that will come; “But on the 21st of December, the snow began to fall. The flakes came down so thickly that from the sitting-room windows I could not see beyond the windmill- its frame looked dim and gray, unsubstantial like a shadow” (52). This quote symbolizes how Jim does not know what will become of him or his new friends. The uncertainties of how families will get by in the winter. Later in the novel, the Shimerda’s find it difficult to gather enough food to feed the family.
“Leaving alien miles unleashed and unrestrained. Watching the hurricane of writhing snow rage past the little house” (234). She was overpowered by the storm which left her planted in the freezing drifts in which Steven arrived. Now Ann can relax as there is someone to do the chores and keep her company, but in a short amount of time this changes. Steven turns into a awful man who knows he has the advantage of Ann for the night, “but in a storm like this you are not expecting john?” (236).
"I talked to a young mom at a native friendship centre outside of Victoria with her three kids. She was there because there was a free lunch that day," Crozier said. "A woman who is disabled and she's living on one meal a day, that's all she can afford... A working dad. All of these people have such dignity about them, and they are trying to live lives of grace and richness, and yet with so very, very little." Crozier feels strongly about revealing the faces -- and stories -- behind the statistics on poverty.
Elena carries out motherly duties despite the incredibly difficult circumstances of surviving in Altai labour camp. The family had been in the labour camp for months, they were all weak and hungry. It was Lina’s birthday and Lina thought that her mother had forgotten because of their horrific situation. But really Elena had organized a surprise ‘party’ in the bald man’s hut. Even though their situation seemed bleak, Elena felt that she should still carry out simple motherly duties, like celebrating her daughter’s birthday, to make Lina feel more secure.
To her its all about staying alive and helping family no one else matters. To begin with, the setting is crazy at first because there was thunder, lightning and lots of rain in Springfield. After a while things start to be a little more normal until it was December that’s when they first started to get snow and it was freezing so everyone had to move together in the sunroom where it was a little bit more warmer so none of them had privacy. In addition, the main characters are Miranda, Matt, Jonny, and their mom. Two special traits they exhibit are that they all love eat other and are willing to do anything for one another.