Olsen tells of her Daughter’s quiet and backward demeanor, “She was not glib or quick in a world where glibness and quickness were easily confused with ability to learn” (293). Throughout this story there are insinuations that Emily is damaged goods. However, Emily eventually proves everyone is wrong when Emily performs her comedy routine and receives a standing ovation. The main theme of the story is parents must make sacrifices and often those sacrifices come at a price. It is also important to realize that even though the events that she endured as child has shaped her personality she is not incapable of possessing a gift.
Her sense of not belonging makes her feel rejected by her own peers. Marguerite’s only way to escape from the torture she lives with day after day is to imagine her life as a “... sweet little white girl who [is] everybody’s dream of what [is] right in the world” (). Although Maya’s childhood is filled with embarrassment and shame, she learns from her grandmother that a strong woman should never settle for less. Though Marguerite has difficulties in her childhood, she considers her Momma a role model in her life. Her grandmother is constantly faced with racism and because of that she has learned that dignity is more valuable than anything.
Aibileen's only son had been killed in an accident where a white man had basically left him to die. This has made Aibileen hurt a lot inside, but also made her quite tough. She is the first maid who opened up to Skeeter and helped her with the book “The Help”. In the film Aibileen goes from having (what I would say) quite low self confidence, to a woman who is willing to fight for herself and for her people's rights. Sadly in the end Aibileen is punished for helping Skeeter with her book and is fired by Elizabeth(under the influence of her friend Hilly).
Another reason that Scout is so interesting is because she is smart. Second example is that she been reading longer than other classmates but her teacher gets mad because she’s more advance at reading then any other students in her class. Jem said to Charles Baker Harris “’ Scout yonder’s been reading ever since she was born, and she aint even started to school yet”(7). This quote shows that she is smart because she’s already reading and getting prepare for school so she can be just like her dad. This trait is interesting because she is going to be really intelligent and have a great future for her dill and there children’s and maybe moved out of Maycomb and live in a nicer city like Hollywood or New York City.
Like the ranch-hands, she is desperately lonely and has broken dreams of a better life. Curley’s wife: Of Mice and Menis not kind in its portrayal of women. In fact, women are treated with contempt throughout the course of the book. Steinbeck generally depicts women as troublemakers who bring ruin on men and drive them mad. Curley’s wife, who walks the ranch as a temptress, seems to be a prime example of this destructive tendency—Curley’s already bad temper has only worsened since their wedding.
She constantly made herself useful towards the other people, and used the talents and gifts that were given to change the meaning of her punishment into her becoming he legend of her Puritan Age. Hester Prynne also is protective person in this novel, because she protects Reverend Dimmesdale's name when she was asked who was the father. As well as Hester Prynne always tried to protect her daughter “Pearl”, so she never told her the what really happened and what the “A” meant for Pearl’s benefit. This showed Hester as a protective mother of her child. Hester Prynne’s core quest in this novel was after she had left prison and punished for the sin she had committed.
Scout did mature throughout the book through standing up for what she knew what was right, becoming a young lady, and not to judge people. In the beginning of the book Scouts solution for solving a problem was with violence to teach that person a lesson. Although, Atticus did not agree with her actions and told her she needs to stop. “I drew a bead on him, remembered what Atticus had said, then dropped my fists and walked away, ‘Scout's a cow-ward!’ ringing in my ears. It was the first time I ever walked away from a fight.
I found myself infuriated and judging this woman I had never met, blaming her for her actions. In my opinion she was using the insanity plea to save her own skin. After doing some extensive research I found myself touched, even moved and full of compassion for a woman that was lead down such a self destructive path by an overbearing, controlling, rigid conservative religious nut named Randy Yates. Most mothers who kill their children are younger and generally start out as teen-age moms. Andrea Yates doesn’t fit the profile of a mother who would kill her children.
This is not an isolated situation, but a constant and recognizably unchanging event that was part of life for a black person during the 1950's. This kind of racism became such a common occurrence that soon the victims began to believe that the insults were true. Geraldine's family is an example of such hatred, as she shapes her life, family, and son to reject their heritage; the color of their skin and accept inferiority. Geraldine molds her son's views by telling him only to play with "White kids; his mother did not like him to play with niggers. She had explained to him the difference between colored people and niggers.
The black cant do anything because they are afraid and there are not any hope left, but in the end of the movie, you can see We can relate this to the poem about strange fruit And the other one called “if we must die” – you can see that at the end, where the black people are fed up, and if they must die, then die nobly. The reactions: black people: demonstrations, speeches, mostly, they are afraid, don’t think things will chance. They go around making riots. In USA nowadays 12% of the population is black. That’s approximately 34million black.