In “Country Lovers” Thebedi’s family is salves to Paulus family. The whit children go to school and get an education and are taught they are superior to the black children that are their salves. In “the Welcome Table” the little old lady wants to go to church but is told this is not your church and is thrown out of the church. We as Americans fought in the Civil War for equal rights for all races. For example: “And finally we fight a bloody Civil War, we get these three constitutional amendments, which say the law must treat everyone equally, must be race-neutral.
“Mom, I really don’t want to talk about it.” Throughout the night her mom checked up on her to see if she was ok. Tears began to fall down her eyes onto her cheeks, when she decided to call Jordan for comfort. Jordan gave Mariah advice just to leave him alone and focus on school. Mariah couldn’t understand why this was happening to her. The next morning, Mariah gets up for school and gets 3 missed calls from Daniel. Her heart almost jumped out of her chest.
Trauma begins when Maria hears everything from the hole and the torturing and screaming of her mother. Maria being 14 wants to go and help her mother but doesn’t cause of the safety of Alberto. Maria makes sure that Alberto does not hear anything and covers his ears. After all the screaming from Maria’s mother she hears gun shots and then silence. Knowing the horror she was going to find when she came out of the hole she tears a piece of her dress that her mother made for her and blindfolds
When she goes to the leader of the group Ann Putnam to ask about joining the group she is rejected. She wants to go back to ask again but she does not want to act desperate and be made fun of. While delivering goods to the poor of Salem for her parents shop she visits a reverend’s slave, Tituba. She visits Tituba to learn more about what the other girls have been discussing. She asks Tituba if she knows what the girls have been up to and all she says is that the girls have been doing devil worshiping.
Hester calls to Pearl to join her and Dimmesdale. From the other side of the brook, Pearl eyes her parents with suspicion. She refuses to come to her mother, pointing at the empty place on Hester’s chest where the scarlet letter used to be. Hester has to pin the letter back on and effect a transformation back into her old, sad self before Pearl will cross the creek. In her mother’s arms, Pearl kisses Hester and, seemingly out of spite, also kisses the scarlet letter.
As Nomi’s older sister Natasha begins to question their faith, Nomi lives in perpetual terror that her sister is going to hell. Their father is a strong believer; the church is what glues his soul together. And although their mother grew up in the community, she had always been an independent thinker, and could not watch her oldest daughter suffer for a lifetime in a place she hated, following a religion she could no longer identify with. After Nomi’s mother and Natasha leave East Village, Nomi is faced with living in a broken family, and begins to question her faith as well. While trying to avoid the sad existence that seems inevitable if she stays in the community, Nomi dreams of a life in the real world, but can’t seem to get up the courage it will take to leave.
When Lily was collecting honey from the bees she didn’t want the bees to sting her so she tried to say I love you as many ways as she could.” I love you!” I said “I love you!” I tried to say it 32 ways. After a bee bumped Lily’s forehead she got scared but august told her it’s a way of saying am watching you, send him love so they don’t sting you. Send them love and they will send it back to you. It also means that Lily needs to be grate full for all the love that was given to them. Lily told all her secrets to august on Mary day she new she had to tell her, she even told her how she accidently killed her mom.
Elizabeth is always asking her family how well they are and always telling her parents to say hi to her neighbours, friends, and acquaintances. Any immigrant coming by themselves will always be home sick until they start getting use to their new lifestyle in that new country. So for Elizabeth, she keeps God in mind and tells her parents to pray and that she’ll be praying for them as well. Elizabeth also talks about how she wishes all her family would come and join her in Canada, but she knows that that will never happen, so she tells her family, “if we never meet in this world I hope we will meet in the next”. This shows that money is a big issue and that not everyone can afford a ticket to go to Canada to be with their
Our school is surrounded by sharp wire so we don’t runaway. My friend was taken away from her family from Rosebud reservation to come to school. She cries all the time because her heart hurts for her mom. The teachers would beat me and my friends if we spoke our native Lakota language. Forced to convert to be Christians, not practice old ways.
They appeal to the emotions of the audience by evoking the love a parent and child have. They sing “A lonely mother gazing out of the window staring at her son that she just can't touch” and, “If at any time he's in a jam she'll be by his side, but he doesn't realize he hurts her so much” (Waterfalls Lyrics). TLC then plays on every parent’s worst fear of losing their child “another body layin’ cold in the gutter” (Waterfalls Lyrics). TLC gives these examples everyone can relate to in order to capture the attention of young people. This story of a child’s corrupt choices and the heart wrenching emotions a mother feels, pulls the audience into their song.