Mammy, Laila’s mother, has the upper hand over her father, Babi, who just listens as he is getting “fussed” at. The two show that their marriage is no longer good and mammy shows he dislike for him. Laila is held at gunpoint. Chapter 17 The gun turns out to be a water gun. Laila describes the sometimey relationship she has with her mother; Laila expresses her emotions about Mammy and how she truly feels when it comes to living in the house and Mammy’s opinion of her.
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.
His mother is obviously not happy that Henry will no longer be there with her because he has enlisted, but she accepts the fact that she can do nothing. She sheds some tears and tells Henry that if he gets any holes in his clothes to send them right back to her to fix. Having longed for the glory and adventure battle brings since childhood, Henry couldn't wait to find himself in the heat of combat in the battles to come. After the first few chapters, Henry's courageous, heroic side begins to fade away and cowardly side quickly takes over. After Henry left his home, he comes to the regiment he was assigned to.
The next stage that greatly influences Idgie’s life is when Ruth is asked to come and stay at Idgie’s home by her mother. Idgie is cautious and reluctant to Ruth in the beginning. Idgie blames her for Buddy’s death and tragedy was all she saw when she saw Ruth. Idgie taunts Ruth’s proper ways by incessantly challenging her to a battle of the wills. The moment of truth comes when Idgie dares Ruth to jump off a moving train.
Jenna and her sister are close, her sister plans on attending college at the end of her senior year and wants to study to become a doctor. Jenna wants her sister to be successful, but is jealous of her because she has nothing holding her back from achieving her goals. Jenna feels that her son and recent arrest will jeopardize her future plans because if she is found guilty it will impact her ability to receive finical aid for school. Jenna had begun to feel sorry for herself and started smoking marijuana with her boyfriend. She feels trapped in her town and feels her future plans of becoming a teacher or being with the father of her son will ever
Both girls did very bad things to one another, but it is best to see the evidence from the opposing side first so a decision can be made on who is more of a victim. Elaine was a huge target for Lysandra’s anger to be disposed upon. Elaine won the poetry contest fairly by a meritocratic poem about a “shipwreck.” (128) In return, Lysandra ignored Elaine ever since she lost. Elaine tried to be to a good sport about winning, but even Lysandra’s family does not respect her anymore. Her father said “You!” and shut the door right in her face.
The nurse informs him how distraught Medea is and warns the tutor to keep the boys away from her, as Medea seems to hate them and the nurse isn’t sure what Medea will do to them when she is in this state. As this is going on, Medea is heard from off stage, screaming and crying, not at all coping with the current situation she is in. There is then a chorale ode where they talk about what Jason has done to Medea and how they are siding with her in all the drama. Medea then gives a speech where she asks Artemis and Themis to help her get revenge on Jason for what he has done to her. She then exits the palace and comes on stage.
Some of these illusions are about her, and some are of her children, but all are detrimental to the family’s’ stability. One of Amanda’s illusions is that Laura will start receiving gentleman callers, even though Laura says she is not expecting any. Amanda tells her, “It’s almost time for our gentleman callers to start arriving. How many do you suppose we’re going to entertain this afternoon” (1288). Finding a gentleman caller for Laura becomes Amanda’s driving force because she places too much importance on it “It’s terrible, dreadful, disgraceful that poor little sister has never received a gentleman caller” (1305).
Nora behaves childishly and he enjoys treating her like a child to be instructed and indulged. Soon an old friend of Nora's, Christine Linde, arrives. She is a childless widow who is moving back to the city. Her husband left her no money, so she has tried different kinds of work, and now hopes to find some work that is not too strenuous. Nora confides to Christine that she once secretly borrowed money from a disgraced lawyer, Nils Krogstad, to save Torvald's life when he was very ill, but she has not told him in order to protect his pride.
For instance, she is looking forward to the moment when the narrator can be fending for himself, and when she realize its Saturday she quickly tells him he can’t be in the house because Dan is coming. Dan is Kay’s boyfriend, and Dan surely doesn’t like the narrator, since he has to leave the house every time he comes over, yet another sign that his mother doesn’t care about him, because reasonable parents would never date a person, who hate their kids. We also get an insight where the narrator called his mother a whore and she hit him with a bottle. Later in the story, Kay realizes what an effect Dan had on the narrator and decided to end it with Dan, she also finds sketches of the graffiti the narrator has been working on, and realized it was her son, who was the one committing crime in the city. Still Kay takes all the blame for misdirection of their