History has shown us repetitive patterns; along with repetitive themes, ideas, and most of all, attitudes. This is thoroughly demonstrated through Ruth Klugars past experiences, and Amara’s similar knowledge of more current battles with religion, gender struggles, social class discriminations and/or advantages, ideas of belonging or lack there of , and the relationship these women have had to the people in power. Although these women experienced two completely separate historical hardships that shaped the core of their personality and views of the world, they share almost identical experiences in religious discrimination, adolescent confusions of identity, struggles with personal loss, cold shoulders and lack of faith in authority, and battles
Catellanos argues that her culture has been looked down on for a long time even by her own family and how she “needed to sabotage society in a major way, intellectually radical way” (342). Trying to fit in and still be your self is very difficult, however exploring ones culture
The Glass Castle is a stirring account of Walls’s childhood, her relationships with her family, and her ability to overcome all the hardships she was faced with. While Walls was a child, she wasn’t totally aware of how negatively most people would view her environment. Even as a young child, however, she could sense how unstable her home was; as she states, “…what I did know was that I lived in a world that at any moment could erupt into fire. It was the sort of knowledge that kept you on your toes” (page 34). Her parents were children themselves, in many ways: they could not stick to a budget, keep a job or stay in one place for long, and even though they inherited a large house and land worth up to a million dollars, along with, among other things, “…a hand-carved upright piano, sideboards with antique silver serving sets, and glass-fronted cabinets filled with Grandma’s bone china…” (page 94), they could not even provide their children with two square meals a day.
First of all, in Hana’s Suitcase, Hana is being stereotyped because of her religious, cultural and ethnical background. Hana’s Suitcase, written by Karen Levine, is a non-fiction novel that has story of a Jewish girl surviving from the concentration camp during the World War II, and 50 years later, a Japanese curator traces her news. During this period, however, many Jewish people were tortured by the Nazis, and forced to be in the concentration camps. This is because the Germans were taught that Jewish people are evil and unnecessary race: “The Nazis declared that Jews
She was very rude to him and would not even speak to him. It was not until Derek finally cracked and had told his mother that Morso was the only reason he was still alive and he was the one person that was always there for him and he was like family to Derek, that she realised there was nothing bad about Morso. The thing that made it the hardest was when his mother sent them to school almost as soon as they had returned. They were not ready for school or anything like that, it was even hard for them to try and socialise with new people. Derek and Morso’s lives had been so unstructed, that the common school setting was not appropriate for them.
She must figure out by herself how to obtain food, clothing, and shelter; yet this is extremely common within young campesinos for they are often found to be homeless and malnourished. Many Honduran women adjust their lives according to the wishes of a man by working in the home, and tending to their every need. They are viewed as inferior to men and have more difficulty finding a source of income. With no money and her academic knowledge only stretching as far as the second grade, Elvia lacks the basic resources necessary to obtain a financially stable life. Unaware of the physical natural process of young females and the ideas of contraception, Elvia becomes pregnant at the age of 15 and must find a way to provide a life for her and her unborn child.
Personality is characterized and shaped by the relationship that he or she had with their parents as a child and to present day. It is evident that Allison’s behavior is influenced by her relationship with her parents. Since she is ignored largely by her parents, Allison’s needs were not met by nurturing parents and this results in Allison experiencing extreme feelings of uselessness, self doubt, and hesitancy. Therefore, Allison suffers from basic anxiety, as she has feelings of helplessness and insecurity. As a child (and even now when Allison is a teenager,) Allison feels alone and isolated in a hostile environment because her parents and (and even her peers,) are not caring towards her, hence the reason why she is so reserved and sensitive.
I Comparison/Contrast Essay As kids, different situations and values learned shape us differently. As shown in the autobiography excerpts “Always Running” by Luis Rodriguez and “An American Childhood” by Ann Dillard, there are similarities and differences in which the kids in the stories grow up to remember passionately due to the situation they had found themselves in. Both kids are running from either an older figure or an authority figure. The essays contrast in that one has a negative ending leaving the character with a bad memory and the other story has a lighter happier ending despite the struggle while running away and to figure out what was going to happen to her, which at the end she finds herself happy and exhilarated. Different locations, different social status.
It is obvious that Lizabeth is miserable and despises her own hometown. Never once throughout the story does she speak of Maryland in a positive manner. It is apparent that Lizabeth longs and desperately desires better: “there must have been lush green lawns” (135). Poverty holds the minds of the children of her community captive, and they feel trapped. The children in Lizabeth’s dusty community do not even comprehend that there is an entire world outside of rural Maryland.
Just like children abused by their parents that in fact grow up to be abusive themselves. Kass says that children of divorce “have had no successful models to imitate” (229) and in fact “enter into relationships guardedly and tentatively” (230). Children of divorce enter a relationship looking for red flags up front and when things get difficult they never had anything in which to compare their situation. “When the going gets tough, the tough gets going;”…LITERALLY! Divorce is tragic on many levels and all too often the impact on children is more then just the shock of their parents living in two different places.