Lina had almost given up her hopes of survival as everyone in the huts they made to survive caught diseases such as dysentery, typhus, and lice; but Lina’s mother had befriended one of the USSR guards before she died and he sent for a doctor to save the prisoners from disease. The story ends with Lina’s hope to return home to her boyfriend and to restore her nation of Lithuania. Elena does not bargain or take risks when her children’s safety is in jeopardy. As the Vilkas family is being sorted by the Soviet soldiers onto trains headed for the labour camps Jonas Vilkas is pulled away from his mother to be transported in the men’s train. Elena begged with the Soviet officer to let him stay with her and then “ripped the amber pendant right from her neck and pressed it into the NKVD’s hand” as a bribe.
Rose is first introduced in the novel while she is collecting Dolly at a pub, at the age of 14 she refuses to do it anymore. Roses sense of strength starts to manifest at this ripe age as well as a growing hate for Dolly. Rose however tries to accept her metrical roles because of her Father, Sam. Rose loves her father dearly and takes up the cleaning and cooking of the household, ‘but she would always burnt the chops’. When Rose meets Oriel Lamb she senses the fierce strength inside her and Rose starts to demonstrate the same qualities and stands up for herself.
Kristina and her boyfriend finally get an apartment together and the also move in Kristina’s son, against her mother’s wishes. Things are very tense in the tiny apartment due to a shortage of meth and the lack of income and it finally peaks one night when Kristina and Trey are especially irritable and it ends in a physical confrontation and Kristina calls her mother to take the baby back home with
Although he is introduced as a loving father trying to care for his daughter, he does not want anyone bothering him and seems like an unfriendly person. With his powerful position in the village he is worried about what may be the cause of Betty’s illness, whilst many are assuming it is the cause of witchcraft, which he refuses to discuss. Abigail, Parris’ niece, enters the room and starts arguing with her uncle – however our first impression of this girl is that she may be truthful whilst Parris is unnecessarily angry at her, wanting her to confess all that happened in the woods. He says ‘I cannot go before the congregation when I know you have not opened with me’; he does not trust her and cannot lie to the village about the events that night. This makes us sympathise with him more.
She told him that a certain amount is for him, and the other certain amount is for Beneathas education. No matter how much mama did not like the idea of him opening up the liquor store, she couldn’t see her own son in the condition he was in. Walter being caught up on his liquor store, he did not listen to what mama had told him, and gave all the insurance money to his partners for the liquor store. The following day, one of the partners came to his house and told Walter that the other partner had run away with all the
Another example is “Mildred stopped screaming as soon as she started.” Mildred found out that Guy held books in their house. This showed that Mildred did not want to held accountable for what Guy did. She was scared, wanted to run away, and turn him in to Beatty. The American marriage relates to this because each person is in it for
Also, when Curley’s wife is talking to Lennie, Candy, and Crooks in Crooks bunk she states “I think I know where they all went even Curley”(37). Curley’s wife knows that her husband is unloyal to her when he goes with the workers to a cathouse. Because no other character in the novel shows jealousy and deceitful, Curley is a bad to be a good husband to his wife it makes her talk even with Lennie. Because Curley ignores his wife and does not let her talk to anybody, he takes part of the responsibility for his wife’s
When the family’s tenants see Gregor, they declare that they will not be paying for the time they were living in the apartment. Noticing this Grete tells her family that Gregor needs to leave their home, and if he really loved them he would of done this voluntarily. Hearing this Gregor realizes that all he has is love and respect for his family so he goes to him room and waits to die. As readers we feel a chill to see the authoritarian control over Gregor and how the story seems to end. Seeing how Gregor just wants to be loved is a very relatable subject, and when the reader sees him being shunned away it make you root for him.
Along with her telling him that he should not call himself “The Misfit” because he is a good man at heart. Both of those are attempts to save her life, which is what most people would do in real- life in such a situation. Bailey is a typical father, not directing any attention when he feels his mother is talking non-sense about “The Misfit’s” escape from prison while reading the sports section of the newspaper. Bailey did not want to detour to look for the old house in the first place. However, it was pressure from his mother and his children that lead him to detour off-road to look for this old house that his mother so much wanted to see and that his children were pestering him about.
When George realizes that Curley is going to kill l Lennie but not in an unpainful way and slow way, George realizes that the only way to stop Curley from brutally killing Lennie is to steal Carlson's luger and kill Lennie Himself, George knew he was going to die anyway. 15. Curleys wife is not an evil person, she is just trying to get people to notice her. She is lonely because she is forced to stay in the house alone. Curley does not want her to talk to any of the guys working on the farm.