The obsession of the color pink, the non-athletic abilities, and the simple things like how women walk or hold their books. In Chapter 9 of To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee also approaches the stereotypical expectations of females. "I could not possibly hope to be a lady if I wore breeches; when I said I could do nothing in a dress, she said I wasn’t supposed to be doing things that required pants. "(Lee 81). Aunt Alexandra was horrified with the fact that Scout did not live up to the standards society had of women.
She also did not care to be like anyone, “She didn’t want to know how a thing was done, but how” said Beatty (Bradbury, 60). Clarisse was a curious girl and hurt for knowledge. But all of these traits noted her as anti- social, and was banned from school. But she knew she was not anti-social, she was really kicked out cause she was a threat. She didn’t fall into the governments trap and become
In paragraph four, Esperanza used a synecdoche to show that even though she inherited her great grandmother name, she did not want to follow the same path as her. Esperanza stated, “I have inherited her name, but I don’t want to inherit her place by the window “ (110). Her great grandmother was trapped in a compulsory marriage and longed for an escape. Esperanza was also teased at school she said, “At school they say my name funny as if the syllables were made out of tin and hurt the roof of your mouth” (110). Meaning the kids at school had a difficult time pronouncing her
Secondly, Kath has a selfish characteristic where she tends to change things so that things seem more suitable for her. Kath thought she was the queen of the school and acted very selfish. Kath’s selfishness is shown towards her interaction with her brother. Kath has a twin brother, Kevin, whom she never hangs out with and did not want to be seen with. In school, there was a girl named Christine who Kath made fun of just once, specifically about her ears.
In fact, she seems very disgusted. She goes on to say in her mind, “You think because I am her mother I have a key, or that in some way you could use me as a key?” (536). She questions the reason of her even attempting to do so because she feels as if it is no good because Emily is already nineteen years old. Therefore, anything that could have happened to Emily to shape her personality and character- good or bad- has probably already happened and is out of her control This foreshadowing leaves readers to believe that something happened to Emily during her upbringing. The fact that the mother seems upset or disgusted with the counselor’s request suggests that
When these traits did not surface, Jing-Mei began to realize she did not have these traits and started to feel internally inferior. She slowly started to resent her mother’s continual control over her decisions and went in a different direction than her mother wanted her too. In Amy Tan’s short story, “Two Kinds”, the dialogue Tan includes within Jing-Mei’s flashback demonstrates that conflict and resentment can occur when not allowing your child to take his/her own path. In the beginning of the flashback, Jing-Mei’s mother is shown to be trying to control and dominate her daughter’s life. When she moved away from China, Jing-Mei’s mother had a vision that in America, you could be anything that you wanted to be.
They were almost treating women like children. When Jane was a child at Gateshead, she is described as ‘disobedient and passionate’. From this I can tell that she is already rejecting the way in which women are supposed to behave at that time. This shows the appearance of Jane, as being a disobedient child who should be treated badly. Although in reality, she is just standing up for herself, due to the Reed’s mistreatment of her.
There are running themes throughout the movie which expose Salem’s fundamental weaknesses, the first being intolerance. This meant that there was no room for deviating from social norms; subsequently these suppressed girls felt they needed to release their frustration through dancing wildly in the woods. The first scene was quite shocking, it could be perceived as an outburst. However, the Puritans could not simply brush this aside as an outburst or as child’s play because that would reflect badly upon their parenting methods and their society as a whole. At one point, Governor Danforth proclaims, "But you must understand, sir, that a person is either with this court or he must be counted against it, there be no road between.
They’re cases where females are bullied to the point where they resort to drugs and alcohol to make the pain go away, drop out of school because they can’t face their tormentors, causing some type of physical harm to their bodies, and or even resort to taking their own lives. Bullying begins at an early age whether we know it or not, for example not being invited or allowed to play with certain kids at recess. You can point out bullies on the elementary school playground or by the lockers at middle or high school; groups of girls tightly hanging together, the all-powerful cliques. Perhaps they’re whispering or looking down their noses at other girls. Or their madly sending nasty text messages or leaving anonymous commentaries on social websites like MySpace or Facebook.
Procrastination Many stories have been told that the word procrastination was a harmful thing.One said that it can hurt your school grades because people aren’t getting enough study time.I was one of those victims.For some reason,my mind hates english classes.Every time when we have to write an essay or a story,my mind goes to Dreamland.Yes,my mind randomly day dreams.Everything else is just normal.Doing the things that it’s suppose to do.Like one time for a test we had to write a story about violence.My brain doesn’t do anything i want it to do.I would get out of my chair,grab a tissue blow my nose.Then when I get back to my chair,I try to think what i want to write about violence.Then suddenly my brain froze.I drop my pencil down and stand and go blow my nose.I do this repeatly for about 4 to 6 times every class.Its not like i want to.But my mind is telling me that it doesn’t want to do it.Even at home.Atleast get some work done.And at class and when the essay is due at the end class I quickly rush the essay.I always will complete it. My mind goes into overdrive.People can’t stop it.When people try to talk to my .I pull out my finger and shh them.Its like a six sense.It just happens.Or maybe its a speical talent.But my procrastination doesn’t end there.It also happens to me at home.When my mom tells me to take out the trash.I would walk downstairs with the trash in my hands,and then see the T.V.I drop the trash and watch the show.Then my mom sees me and starts yelling at me.Then I get grounded.I guess my mind doesn’t want to take out trash either.Peoples minds are different.Some don’t even procrastinate.Even on this paper i procrastinated till the