xxx xxx 4-18-12 Essay #6 A Victim of Fame and Fortune In the film Mommie Dearest Christina lives a life under the shadow of the success, fame and fortune of her mother Joan Crawford. Although privileged, this lifestyle is easily followed by many hardships often times unpredictable. Many times the hardships which Christina’s mom experiences were felt by her adopted children through their interactions in family life. Christina's mother Joan victimized her children, especially Christina through her emotional insanity as if she were taking out her stress on her. In the shadow of her mother’s fame and success, Christina grew up in an unpredictable family environment.
The foster mother of the second home was a very mean, cruel and verbally abusive to April. They would say things to April and she started to believe that they were true, like her parents been drunks and not wanting her or her sister anymore, telling her that First Nations people were dirty and thief’s. April graduates from school and had good grades in her classes. She then marries and moves away to start her life with her husband. After been married for some time she ends up having issues in her marriage.
Several events varying from late babysitting checks to rumors of Sylvia’s promiscuous sex life brought Gertrude to despise Sylvia and punish her. This punishment started getting more and more severe resulting in on-going torture. Gertrude’s children and their friends, following in her footsteps, began torturing Sylvia as well. Sylvia could expect being burned by cigarettes, being thrown down stairs, getting bathed in boiling water, beaten, cut, having objects inserted into her vagina, and being forced to eat her own feces on a day to day basis not only from Gertrude but also her children and other neighborhood teenagers. This torture lasted for months.
The unfortunate part is that they are still there when the parents arrive home early to discover their, still very drunk, babysitter with some extra people in their home. The rumours about the girl that ensue after this unintended night of debauchery cause the girl to get a reputation as a bad girl and as a result she loses her social status and all of her babysitting clients. In the story “All the years of her life” by Morely Callahan, the narrator tells us about an incident in which Alfred Higgins is caught stealing goods from his employer’s store. His employer, Mr. Carr then calls Alfred’s mother who rushes down to the store to bail him out of the sticky situation. Thanks to Alfred’s mother’s simple earnestness and humility when talking to Mr. Carr, the worst he gets is to lose his job.
To her parents she is an unlucky child because her mother died giving birth to her. She is treated differently to her other siblings. Niag is Fathers new wife. She is an evil, mean stepmother who always makes sure Adeline is treated badly. Father is Adeline’s dad who always goes along with what Niag says.
Her whole world went black and gloomy that day, and after her son’s death she just didn’t feel as if her life had meaning anymore. Aibileen has a quite strong dislike for whites now because when her son was severely injured at work, his fellow white coworkers did very little to help him; resulting in his death. Her bitterness emerges throughout the book, specifically when Mrs. Leefolt suggests that blacks were dirty. In response to this comment she said “I feel that bitter seed growing inside a me, the one planted after Treelore died. I want to yell so loud that Baby Girl can hear me that dirty isn’t a color, disease ain’t the Negro side a town.” Her son is her main motivation to keep pressing on through life no matter what.
Her mother seems to be constantly taking up for her sister, Stella-Rondo. Stella –Rondo is always antagonizing Sister and lying on her to cause problems within the family. Also, Uncle Rondo seems to be the family drunk. Last but not least, Papa-Daddy seems to be an old and cranky gentleman. Her dealing with these individuals has caused her to become very resentful, bitter and jealous.
Jule was a poor orphan from early on in her life. Also unlike most feminine main characters Jule is very strong and independent. Her parents died while she was very young leaving her to fend for herself. Luckily Jule is a fighter, and learns how to take care of herself. Jule becomes a social chameleon and learns how to deceive everyone.
When he has his very first trip to Miss Havisham's home he meets her adopted daughter Estella. From the beginning of their meeting Estella is cruel, treating Pip like he is not worth her time or even anyones. Even with the way that Estella treats Pip he's drawn to her from the start, thinking she is very beautiful and very callous at the same time. Pip thinks that “She seemed much older than I, of course, being a girl, and beautiful and self-possessed; and she was as scornful of me as if she had been one-and-twenty, and a queen.” (45) Pip has to spend time with Estella, playing whatever games that Miss Havisham request of them, he is okay with this because even with all the insults she gives him, he simply enjoys her company. Though he very much so is
Reality Television Critique After suffering a brutal hour of ridiculously cheesy, and fake commercials, as well as a tedious television program, I have learned more than ever how much I despise reality television shows and all that go with them. I used up my hour watching the Maury Povich show on KTVU. The theme of this particular program was young women who were particularly unattractive as children, and then smoking hot, sexy ten’s, as they grew older. These “ugly” young women were all ditched on their childhood dates or proms for other more attractive girls. These girls talked about being teased continuously, as well as not having many friends because of their apparent hideousness.