Most importantly, I want to do things in my life that I can be proud of and know that I was a good role model for my children. Without getting my Diploma/GED there is no way I can avoid the regret, gain financial stability, or feel like I can be proud of the things I have achieved. First of all, I was young when I had my first child and regret on not receving my High school diploma. I am already beating myself up about coming so close to getting it that till this day I should have stayed in school. This was all just because of feeling the embarestment of being pregnant at such a young age .
Janie’s grandmother is the first person who belittles Janie. Even though she has good intentions, Nanny is the reason it took so long for Janie to finally become independent. Janie fails to rise against her grandmother, and is forced to marry Logan. Each of her three husbands treats her in a way that forces her to grow, and she becomes stronger because of them. Logan is Janie’s first stop to becoming a strong, independent woman.
As the mother of two daughters I always want for my daughters what I feel was lacking in my life. It makes sense to me that Nanny’s idea of success and freedom is being wealthy and idle. That was what was literally beaten into Nanny. I think in real life, as with Nanny, mothers can get so blinded by their own agenda and their attempt to fulfill their own dreams through their daughter that they don’t stop to ask what their child wants. While I understand that this may not be the ideal way to handle a situation, I believe that Nanny did the best she could considering her experiences.
“Now it was getting really late. I began to be ashamed of myself holding everything up so long.” Langston’s tone is shame and embarrassment in this particular quote. He said this at age twelve. Langston has tone different voices in this particular story, narrative as an adult and his preteen voice. “I was saved when I was going on thirteen but not really saved.” He states as a narrator.
According to Paul, Paul and his friends are, “forlorn like children, and experienced like old men, we are crude and sorrowful and superficial - [I believe we are lost]” (123). Being drafted in the war at the age of eighteen has changed the mental thoughts of Paul as the transitions from a teenager to adult is quickly hastened and heavily weighted on him due to the war. The physical age of Paul is disconnected to how he mentally is, which is having the mind like old men, and in the struggle of how old Paul actually is versus how old he mentally is demonstrates how Paul has been mentally affected by the war. While Paul is in the hospital, he reflects how he is, “[I] am young, [I] am twenty years old; yet [I] know nothing of life but despair, death, fear, and fatuous superficiality cast over an abyss of sorrow” (263). For Paul to think that he only knows what “despair, death, fear, and fatuous superficiality” is at the age of twenty demonstrates how Paul is mentality affected by the war, as most teenagers do not think about such things.
America has been the home for numerous people and they feel the need to represent “their” country in many ways as possible. However, as they grow up they observe that they are limited to certain things including going to college. It is not because they are not intelligent or committed to education, it is simply because they do not have a legal status that provides the opportunity to apply for financial aid and in some cases college. During high school everyone starts planning their future, and one of the main focuses is getting into college. How would you feel if you find out that you cannot attend college?
When my father died I was too young to grasp the concept of death, so it didn’t effect me mentally until I was around ten. Before then I was very talkative, friendly, and open; afterwards I didn’t like conversing with people, I became very angry with everyone, and it became harder to show emotions like sadness and affection. Now that I’m older I can control my emotions much better but It’s still hard for me to trust people, even my family members. Even though Jordan was an infant when his father died, he will most likely display some of these symptoms as he ages. Many people don’t know that children grieve just as well as a teenager or an adult might.
At that time women where expected to be married before having sex. Birth control was not a option for many women, they where expected to get married and to produced children. Women where taking control over the decision if they should have children. Not only was the decision to have children changing but the choice about marriage was also becoming an issue. There was some suggestion that the institution
She knew that if she had accepted Mr. Collins proposal it would bring unhappiness to both “you couldn’t make me happy, and I am convince that I am the last women in the world to make you so” (73). Even though this marriage would secure her inheritance when Mr. Bennet would pass away, she knew that she couldn’t
I felt school was not for me because I have dyslexic and, I feel people just don’t want to help me. I had to get off the self-pity and do something about my life. Returning to school should not mean you should give up your life it means you are giving your life a new outlook. Improving the things in life to make your future more brighter is priceless. I always wonder why I seem to leak learning things.