He ain't a nice fella”(97).By saying this, she told Lennie that Curley does not care what she’s suffering through. .In this scene, Curleys wife let Lennie touch her hair and he started to pull it and he ended up killing her “And she continued to struggle, and her eyes were in terror. He shook her then he was angry with her. Don't you go yellin’ he said and he continued to shake her and her body flopped like a fish. And then she was still, for Lennie had broken her neck”(100).
Sandra Cisneros uses a variety of literary techniques to portray the character of eleven-year-old Rachel. The most notable of these are the similes which are used throughout the excerpt. They are used to help the reader feel specific moods, visualize different perspectives and describe Rachel’s actions and thinking. Rachel starts out explaining that she doesn’t feel as if she is eleven, she simply feels like every other age she has ever been all rolled into one. This is illustrated perfectly by her comparisons of age to onions, tree rings, and wooden dolls as if each age fits into the next as she states “when you’re eleven, you’re also ten, nine eight, seven, six, five, four, three, two and one.”(Cisneros 1) These items also show readers her child-like perspective combined with adult insights.
She mashed so hard that the bottom of the jar broke and all the mashed turnips fell to the floor. After three years of going to school she returned home because she felt unhappy and alienated. Eventually she decides to go back to college to get a career, which it displeases her mother. While in college she joins oratorical contests and undoubtedly wins some of those contest. In this one particular victory, while she was giving her oratory speeches, in the audiences she spots a man waving a white flag depicting an Indian Girl making a racist gesture.
We get insight to the girls growing up years. When she gets older you see that she starts to care about what everyone thinks. “She was healthy, tested intelligent, possessed strong arms and back, abundant sexual drive and manual dexterity,” (7-9). She possessed so many qualities that would have driven her to great things in the world. All of these positive things about her, and yet one negative thing is said and of course that is what is going to stick in her mind.
Lotus screams and curses the children because she is frightened by the approach of the poor fool. As Wang Lung’s anger awakens he roughly tells Lotus:
The mother starts drinking and it’s now Dave’s hell begins. Following the drinking the mother becomes very aggressive and hostile. She announces Dave as the family’s source to unhappiness and punishes him. At first Dave’s brothers tries to protect their brother which results in more punishments both for Dave and the brothers so they stop with this. By time the mother teaches the brothers to hate Dave.
she gets bored she feels lonely, she would like to return to school. the child has made her crazy, the child cries all the time no matter what she do she can not get someone to stop it. He scratches himself until it begins to bleed she gives him gloves on so he does not scratch himself. you can read on page 9 column 45 that she said inside herself How could she love a crature like this? How did people find it in themselves to love such a thing?
Scout is a feisty, emotional, and very impulsive person which may be viewed by some as weakness. For example, Scout puts herself in danger by running to Atticus at the jail house, after her older brother, Jem, tells her not to because the angry mob was to dangerous. Also, she got into a fight defending her father against Walter Cunningham ‘s derogatory comments about her father. Her strengths include an ability to recall the
Nujood Ali Married at just 10 years old Nujood Ali's childhood was tough and unlike anything the typical American experiences. In a tiny village in Yemen "Omma gave birth to (Nujood) the way she delivered all her children:at home...and begging God to protect her newborn"(Ali 24). Life in Ali’s village was tremendously difficult especially for the women, the village also lacked many of the basic needs that the average person should not have to live without. When finally allowed to attend school Ali was one of “Seventy pupils--all girls--crammed into the classroom”(Ali 37). In the United States most children take for granite going to school, but when Ali was able to go to school she was thrilled for the opportunity to learn.
Anne was a bright and lovely thirteen-year-old girl who loved to learn. Even in the two years she went into hiding, she managed to keep herself and everyone else with her entertained. She was a gifted girl who also had a very deep, emotional side, and was able to portray all of this down in her diary. She was going through normal adolescent things, such as her budding relationship with Peter Van Daan, who was staying with her in the “secret annexe.” She explains how much she detests being compared to her older sister, Margot. Anne ended up dying at Belsen concentration camp shortly after Margot did.