Jenna and her sister are close, her sister plans on attending college at the end of her senior year and wants to study to become a doctor. Jenna wants her sister to be successful, but is jealous of her because she has nothing holding her back from achieving her goals. Jenna feels that her son and recent arrest will jeopardize her future plans because if she is found guilty it will impact her ability to receive finical aid for school. Jenna had begun to feel sorry for herself and started smoking marijuana with her boyfriend. She feels trapped in her town and feels her future plans of becoming a teacher or being with the father of her son will ever
Patient was an abused child who as an adult, didn’t know of any other way to earn a living. After patient became pregnant when she was a young teen aged girl, she told many people that her brother Keith was the father of her child. The child whom she gave up for adoption immediately after the baby boy was born. Aileen went hitch-hiking across America working as a call girl or a prostitute. It was said that she was married to a man named Lewis Fell, but she later started dating a woman named Tyria Moore.
Marla stated that there is a history of mental illness in her family citing that both of her parents suffered from depression. Marla also indicated that she had some problems growing up. She stated that she witnessed her parents fight a lot and as a result spent much time alone in her bedroom. When asked about important events that she can remember from her childhood she states that at the age of 10 she experienced the death of a sibling, after which her parents moved to a new city where she felt she did not fit in. She was often taunted and teased by her fellow classmates.
Lily’s mother died when she was just four years old. Her father is very abusive and does not treat Lily with any respect. She has a very rough life and eventually runs away. Section B: The main characters in this story are Lily, Rosaleen and August Boatwright. Lily is a fourteen year old girl who was born on July 4, 1950.
Even though Ismene didn’t help out with the crime she still wanted to risk her life for Antigone, but she wouldn’t let her because she didn’t do the work. Antigone wants to die for the right reason, that she did something right for someone else. But since Ismene didn’t do any of the crime she didn’t want her to die because she did something wrong. Antigone wanted Ismene to live and she descried to live she didn’t do anything wrong. I think Ismene changed her mid because Antigone is her sister and you always stand up for family.
Harriet didn’t like to work indoors, and her masters always whipped her. By her early teen years, Harriet was not allowed to work inside and was forced to work outside in the fields. She was a hard worker but was considered hardhead and rebellious. When she was 15 years old, Harriet tried to help a runaway slave. The overseer hit her in the head with a heavyweight rock, which put Harriet in a coma.
Because of the malnourishment and poverty they lived in, Richard was not able to have a happy, bright, normal life as that of a child born during the 21st century. Not only did Richard not have a normal life, his life revolved around getting a job to help maintain his family at a very young age. When Richard was less than five years old, his father left him and his brother in his sick mother’s care. Although Richard’s mother looked after them, she needed her husband’s help financially. “You ought to be ashamed…Giving your son a nickel when he is hungry.
-M.Reisz choice of life to not get married and support her ownself was a decision that Edna wanted to live. When Edna develops the relationship with M.R she is intrugied by M.R decision to have her own indpendence. M.R way of life brought out a different side of Edna. A side that Edna knew was the missing part that she kept wondering about until now. Edna wanted this lifestyle to be her ownself and not live as someone she did not want to be such as M.Rag the way that society intended on her living.
As a women stated in the film, “The strong and tightly knit families I had grew up around had begun to shatter and it was one of the most tragic things I had seen”(Pruitt-Igoe). Kids struggled in school and in social settings without that reinforcement of a father figure. It broke down the image of what a true family really consisted of and started a generational outbreak of black fathers not being a round that is still present amongst African Americans
Most prople would call her family dysfunctional and chaotic. Her dad was a raging alcoholic, and Angie had not seen her mother in years. Angie;s sisters played the mother roll in her life, but as her sisters got older they went their there separate ways leaving angie to fend for herself. As the years went by Angie and her dad would have their good days and their bad days, and her school life was about the same. Angies father who worked as a construction worker who hardly went to work because he would have so many sick days from the alcholol, so Angie didn’t