Who’s Really to Blame? In the story, “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?”, Connie the main character is considered as a self centered person who only cares about herself. She only has concerns about her looks and flirting with the older boys she meets. Connie knows about her looks and always make sure she looks her best. She prefers to spend more time with herself than with her family because of this she has a weak relationship with her parents.
Tibi has really low self esteem, and she doesn’t laugh and have fun anymore. She is addicted to not eating, and she’s obsessed with losing her weight. 2. It can be social problems or something like that. If you have a bad relationship to your parents or somone you care about.
Instead most people blame the fast food companies. In the article “Its Portion Distortion” by Shannon Brownlee it is portion sizes and the lack of nutritional guides that are the cause of obesity. While some people may believe that is true I have no idea how to read a nutritional guide and I was taught as I was growing up that fast food is bad for your health. For example the movie “Super Size me” was made to warn people about the dangers of eating nothing but fast food. My family eats out only once or twice a week and the other days we eat home cooked meals.
Like Crooks, Curly’s wife is slowly losing her mind. She confides to Lennie, “I never get to talk to nobody. I get awful lonely”(86). All of the trouble she causes stems from her craving for human contact. Candy isn’t necessarily as lonely as Crooks, or Curly’s wife, but he does experience a certain kind of alienation.
Ascher brought up memories from her own past, The Box Car Childrean. Those children were, like The Box Man, slowly approaching their loneliness. As For Barbara she had no peers in her life, and spent most of her life dragging on a coffee at the coffee shop, just to be surrounded by people B.) Purpose and Audience: “The Box Man” was written in 1986 by Barbara Lazear Ascher and it took place in Manhattan, NY two-hundred east forty-Fifth Street which is in right front of where she lived. Ascher’s purpose for writing this essay was to help her audience(s) see the difference between chosen and unchosen loneliness.
During their annual trip to Grandma's, Joe and Mary Alice go down to the Coffee Pot Cafe one day to enjoy some Nehi sodas. Mary Alice befriends Vandalia Eubanks, a skinny, pale seventeen-year-old who works there... Chapter 6: "Things With Wings—1934" Grandma is at the depot when Joe and Mary Alice arrive this year, but she has not come to meet them. Instead, she is seeing somebody off. Mrs. Effie Wilcox, her "sworn enemy," is moving away because the bank has foreclosed on her house. That day at noon dinner, the children regale their grandmother with the exciting news about the killing of the notorious John Dillinger back in Chicago.
Because the elderly have a stereotypical image that they are useless they become a focus point as they have negative attitudes towards things and become more dependent on friends, family and social care services. This theory is like the disengagement and activity theory. The social creation of dependency theory is both sociological and psychological theory. An example of this theory is of a woman that use to participate in a hobby but can no longer do so because she is retired and has a low pension. Now she feels vulnerable and like she can’t enjoy life as she can’t take part.
Curley’s wife lived not only through the sexiest society which rejected her but her husband did not love her at all making her become “… a tart… with the eye,”(Steinbeck14). That is the image that the men have of Curley’s wife because they are ignorant and do not understand that all she is searching for is to have someone to talk to. Curley’s wife’s loneliness led her to have a bad image with the men on the ranch but also made her seek for attention in anybody she did not matter who. For example she would talk to Candy, and old lifeless man, Crooks who is a Negro that is physically disabled, and Lennie who is a huge man that is mentally retarded. She became mean too since she was lonely and the men rejected her.
Myrtle believes she's not fit for her social class, considering she's a expansive woman. '"All I kept thinking about, over and over was "You can't live forever; you can't live forever! "'Since Myrtle is quite obviously below the Buchanan’s class (yet another reason she goes for Tom), Fitzgerald (through Nick) ridicules her for insisting that she is above her husband. He didn't have a lot of positive to say about
I did begin loosing weight, which generated in me the greatest appeasement, but I would always recoup that weight, and because of that my mother never managed to perceive anything. I was consumed with the visualization of being tiny and being just like other young girls my age. I was in love with the concept of being “perfect.” At this point in my life, I thought my weight was the most insoluble thing I would have to tackle, but little did I know how early I had spoken. In fourth grade, I noticed drastic alterations in my personal life. My father became more and more withdrawn from my mother, sister, brother, and I. I was naïve and ingenuous at the time, and didn’t