In neither the book nor the movie did Janie want to marry the old stranger, and she ended up leaving him for another guy, Jody Starks. Because of Jody's constriction, Janie never felt as though she was living her life to her fullest. Both the book and the movie note Janies love and conection with nature. Unlike in the book, the movie missed out on alot of details that the book had had. For one, in the book Janie tells Phobe her story from when she found out she was colored, the movie did not have that in it.
When George and Lennie are loading up the truck with the bags of grains together she comes and tries to impress someone and notices something “Why can’t I talk to you? I never get to talk to nobody… I get awful lonely…” she says (pg.87) this shows she gets lonely when she doesn’t talk to all other people and have new people to talk to. This also relates to the theme of loneliness since she even says she is in it and also she has nothing to do really. In this part of the scene however they did have a good ending point since they sat and talked but she just goes around with no thoughts about anything. This goes back to character versus character since there are two people talking or acting with each other and it is conflict.
And the only place left for Mary Alice is her not-so-ladylike grandma, in her not-so-sleepy Illinois town. She doesn’t adjust very well because, like all schools there are bullies, popular kids, and just-plain-weird kids. Except she knows it is not Chicago, but she finds that hard to get used to. But Grandma took care of Mary Alice’s bullying problem by tricking the bully. Mary Alice was also very unhappy when Grandma told her about buttering Bootsie’s paws.
An example of Evyn being unintelligent was when her so-called friends, Andrea’s group, calls her Evelyn and doesn’t talk to her unless it’s to ask about updates with Ajax, she doesn’t realize that they’re just using her. Evyn was also, very inconsiderate and selfish. She didn’t seem to notice how happy her father, Birdie was after he had proposed to Eleni. Evyn doesn’t seem to care what his father felt and made it harder for him. “Bounce” was an interesting book that showed problems that actually happen to 13 year olds.
Orenstein has gotten accustomed to adults assuming her daughter likes pink and princesses. For example, at Longs Drugs, the woman gives Orenstein’s daughter a pink balloon rather than letting her choose the color she wants, and Orenstein lets it slide. At the dentist, Orenstein is so fed up, when the dentist asks her daughter to “sit in the princess throne” so she can “sparkle her teeth,” she finally snaps (326). Her daughter, surprised by Orenstein’s reaction, wonders what is wrong with princesses. Orenstein then sets out to explore the possible answers to her daughter’s question.
Connie’s Escape Connie is fifteen and is always worried about how her appearance looks. Her mother don't like the fact she spends more time looking her self herself in the mirror then being neat and responsible like June, her older sister. Connie seems to ignores her mother’s criticisms most of the time. In order to escape her reality she opens the screen door to get away for from her family and be in some kind of fantasy. I think there were other reasons also, but the story points to this one in many places.
Mama notes how nice and wavy the ground looks, intentionally to impress Dee. Reflecting her own thoughts as Maggie’s, she tells how Maggie will be nervous until her sister leaves. Mama says, “she will stand hopelessly in the corners and shamed…She thinks her sister has always held life in the palm of one hand, that no is a word the world would never say to her.” (Walker). Leaving the reader to not know how Maggie really feels about Dee at all. Mama daydreams of meeting on a T.V.
Like when Tara, Kristen and Keesha were looking at the magazines, Keesha didn’t understand why skin and bones were attractive to Kristen. Kessha also didn’t understand why Tara could never walk with her to or from school, Keesha just thought that her friends were weird until their conditions got out of hand and she got worried about them. *Donna’s influence on Tara was surprisingly good. Considering that Donna is more of a “wild child” and Tara is a “goody-good” I think they balance each other out. While Donna was smoking, stealing or having sex Tara was getting “lost in her mind”.
The narrator in “Eleven” is a small guinea pig who experiences a terrible day on her eleventh birthday at the pet store: her teacher forces her run on a hamster wheel even though she is not a hamster. It was humiliating. However, as the little girl is putting on the sweater she “wishes she had gadgerts and jizmos”. The example proves that the theme in “Eleven” is that people can be cruel for very trivial reasons because the only reason that the teacher and the narrator’s classmates made her put on the sweater was because she was different than her other
I. Intro / Summary of the Novel Growing Wings by Laurel Winter Linnet, an eleven-year-old doesn’t know why her shoulder started to ache and itch. And every night, her mother──Sarah McKenzie, touches her shoulder rather than give her a kiss. Many things about her mother made no sense. Like why she told the school Linnet had a heart murmur, even if she really didn’t and why she wouldn’t let Linnet cut her hair.