Relationship between Aunt Alexandra and Scout in ‘To kill a mockingbird’ "Aunt Alexandra fitted into the world of Maycomb like a hand in a glove, but never into the world of Jem and me." Aunt Alexandra has been brought up with strict ideals of ‘being a lady’. She would have been brought up with restrictive behaviour and dress codes. Her world was one of black slaves serving her family. It is abhorrent to her personal values that Scout should be allowed to behave in her free-spirited ways dressing in boys clothing.
This was told to the lawyer by Joanna, and she saw that it seriously gave her the advantage of the case. After the session was dismissed, Joanna sees Ted and says, “Ted I am really sorry, I never thought he would say that”(NPAG Benton). Here, she is revealing that she is on Ted’s side and truly believes Billy is better with Ted. After custody of Billy was given to Joanna and she went to pick her son up, she also mentions this to Ted saying, “I woke up this morning and kept thinking about Billy... I came here to take my son home and realized he already is home..I’m not going to take him with me”(NPAG Benton).
‘I’m not hungry and I don’t want it wasted.’” (Pg. 16) She also helped her neighbor, Weaver’s mama, to look after Emmie the widowed mother as well. “I packed Tommy and Jenny off to school, hoping that by the time I got to the Hubbards’, Weaver’s mamma would already be there. She was better at getting Emmie out from under the bed than I was.” (Pg. 18) Jennifer Donnelly is showing that no matter how unpleasant the task may be that neighbors look after each
Direct characterization is when the narrator, in this case ‘Mama’, tells the reader what the character’s traits are. For instance, when Dee wants the quilts Mama says “I didn’t want to bring up how I had offered Dee (Wangero) a quilt when she went away to college. Then she had told me they were old-fashioned, out of style” (114). Dee leads Mama to think that she [Dee] is self-centered and judgmental of their heritage, represented by the quilts. By rejecting the quilts the first time Dee rejected their culture.
"I think we all have empathy, we may not have enough courage to display it." This is a quote from American Author Maya Angelou. In the book "To Kill a Mockingbird," Harper Lee demonstrates how Scout learns to show empathy. She learns from Calpurnia, their maid, who is a mother figure to Scout. Her father Atticus, a lawyer in the town of Maycomb, is an example of courage and empathy to her.
This theme can be related to Aunt Alexandra and her racial views. To Aunt Alexandra, family is super important and she tries to teach Jem and Scout her views on family. At first Scout does not quite understand her aunts thoughts on family, but Jem does when he explains to Scout that, "There are four kinds of folk in the world" This is a great example of Jem starting to mature and realize his Aunts perspective on family. He goes on to explain that these four kinds of folk are. There is The Finch family (representing the white-middle class), the Cunningham family (poor class) the Ewell family (lowest of the whites) and the Robinson family (representing the black community).
Jubilee by Margret walker is a novel on the story of vyry a slave who since a child went through many struggles starting with the death of het mother and beging her life journey when forced to move into the " bug house" with her biological father. Miss Salina, Master Dutton’s wife, doesn’t like Vyry because since Vyry is also Dutton’s daughter, Vyry looks as if she could be twins with Lillian, who is Salina’s daughter. Dutton isn’t that hateful towards his slaves. He has conversations with them and everything and there’s this occasion where Vyry forgets to throw out something that Lillian used to pee during the night so Salina throws it on Vyry and another times Vyry is being punished by being hanged by her thumbs in a closet and John Dutton comes and he takes Vyry out of there and he gets mad at Salina. While Vyry is in the Big House, she works with Aunt Sally in the kitchen.
Critique of “Cinderella: Not So Morally Superior” In the article “Cinderella: Not So Morally Superior,” Elisabeth Panttaja states, a not so obvious but true point, that Cinderella is not the innocent orphaned girl we would expect. She also makes it clear that Cinderella’s mother plays a vital role in Cinderella’s life. She plays a role by doing what she had promised Cinderella on her death bed. She told Cinderella “Dear child be good and pious. Then the dear Lord shall always assist you, and I shall look down from heaven and take care of you.” (Panttaja 659).
Nanny believed that her decision, which was to have Janie marry Logan Killicks, was out of love. Since Nanny was born, lived in the period of slavery, and was a slave herself, she wanted protection for Janie from being used and abused. Nanny supports her feeling by stating, “‘Tain’t Logan Killicks Ah wants you to have, baby, its protection” (Hurston 15). Nanny was making sure that Janie had a future set in stone without any kind of heartache or discrepancies. Nanny felt by marrying Janie off to Logan, Janie would live to be free and Nanny would not have to worry so much and knew she would be well taken care of.
They wake her up early and help her stretch her legs in hope that they will one day be straight/normal. They showed the compassion that her birth mother would never give to her child. Linda later recalls, “I must have been held so much that the sensation became a part of me”(65). Fifty years later when Linda and her mother Nancy finally meet for dinner, they don’t hug or even shake hands. The mother may be the birth mother and be related by blood but she sure doesn’t show any love toward her handicapped daughter that she abandoned.