Although Lindsey seems like a tough girl she is also very caring. Lindsey cares for all of her friends and the people she is close with. While reading the novel 1st to Die, a reader will notice that the main character Lindsey is brave, determined and caring. First of all, a main trait in Lindsey is that she is brave. Lindsey is not afraid of what might happen to her as long as she is helping someone else.
Konstantina couldn't understand why their father was sendning them away with her sisters needed constant medical attention. She herself had been learning from the town's doctors and nurses how to take care of them on her own. She didn't know nearly enough to Birth Akantha's child if she went into labor on the ship, or how to sooth Nickoleta's sore bones when her sickness decided to attack. But her father didn't want to here it. The girls were to be on the boat in a week.
Rayona hates it more than anything that when she goes anywhere, people poke fun at her and make racial remarks to her which makes her feel insecure about herself. When Ray meets Foxy for the first time, Father Tom introduces her and Foxy says, “Your Christine’s kid…The one whose father is a nigger” (Dorris 44). Not only does Rayona have to deal with racism her mother is always putting her in bad situations. There has been quite a few times where Christine has attempted to leave Ray and told her that she wanted to commit suicide. One time in the very beginning of the story Elgin goes to visit Christine in the hospital, Rayona had not seen him in 5 months and Christine did not want to tell him about her sickness.
He ain’t a nice fella” (Steinbeck 89). This conversation she had with Lennie affected her life because she did not feel so alone anymore since she told Lennie her secrets. Secondly, a tragedy that Curley’s wife faced is that she gets suffocated by Lennie and dies. As Lennie held his big paws to her face, ”her body flopped like a fish. And then she was still, for Lennie had broken her neck” (Steinbeck 91).
Playing with Pestilence Imagine waking up in the morning knowing that this may be the last time you ever wake up. Your whole family has died except for your precious daughter, whom you isolate in a room to prevent her from getting sick. The Black Death is not all to blame, as the typhoid fever is also making a hit. Your daughter hollers that she is thirsty, so you run to the water pump to appeal to her need. Little do you know that you just gave her the water that would soon kill her.
Soham Murders A crime shook Britain and put the name of Soham, the quiet, market village in Cambridgeshire, in history. Schoolgirls Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman left a family barbecue to go and buy sweets and were never seen again. The hunt for the missing 10-year-olds, left the nation gripped for nearly two weeks, ended in tragedy when their bodies were found in shallow graves near an RAF base in Suffolk. Local school caretaker Ian Huntley was arrested and charged with their abduction and murder. The then-28-year-old claimed Holly had accidentally drowned after falling into the bath at his rented cottage as he tried to treat her nosebleed.
It's musky rank smell reminded her of things dying”(Kaplan 45). Andy is comparing the ocean to becoming a woman. The author is saying that just like being an adult in the world, the ocean is big and unexpected and that death can come at any time. Andy doesn't like the ocean because she wants to be a man. She is scared of the ocean and doesn't understand how her parents can be so comfortable in it.
Even when her sister Gretrudis was forced to good labour work and when she ran naked and made love to Juan, Tita could do nothing but reveal her loneliness in form of tears, ‘like silent spectators to a movie, Pedro and Tita began to cry watching the stars act out the love that was denied to them’ she wanted to shout and tell Pedro to run away with her but all the fight of words just took place in her mind and like lumps of food traveled through her throat she again felt like a foreigner in this cruel world as the author quotes’ She felt so lost and lonely’ She was the best cook but no one dared to praise her like an animal she performed her chores with no one to notice her, injustice was taking place and no one to save her. How would a person feel in such a situation but to be deprived’ How alone Tita felt during this period. How she missed Nacha! She hated them
Josie questioned Nonna; how could my mother be conceived while Nonno was up north? Nonna responded by saying that Christina was premature. Josie was saying that her mother always told her how she was such a fat baby when she was born, nine and a half pounds. Nonna started crying and said that it was all true and she did sleep with Marcus Sandford due to the loneliness and unhappiness of her life. Josie could not forgive Nonna because she was always mentioning Christina’s mistake of sleeping with Micheal Andretti.
One of the episodes that I watched recently, the family was going on a vocation and like all of the other vocations Timmy’s father always gets lost, but he never admits to it. The family ended up in an island and the father said he is going to build a boat and save his family. The father also said if he doesn’t succeed he will called himself a woman named Linda. I feel like genders are presented in a way that serves to reinforce traditional stereotypes. For example, when Timmy’s father refers to himself as Linda, he puts on lipstick and says Linda broke her nails.