She said school is shit and home is shit but she didn’t explain why and Joe never asked. In the novel Joe looked at a photo of Amanda, he had known her all his life. But now it was like he was looking at a total stranger. Joe didn’t really have any secrets but he felt like he didn’t really know his friends at all. These guys never caught up with Amanda to find out to find out what the
This place, this house doesn’t hold good memories for me. Constant order and ruling, my father governing every dimension of my life, until it’s the way he sees fit. In that aspect, leaving the house behind is of no worry to me, but it’s the town itself that I am afraid to leave behind. I am familiar with every inch of this place and I am intrigued by it, even though my father says it’s a ‘dead end town for dead end people’. Saying that before my mother passed would get him nothing but grief from her, but that time has long faded from his memory.
Ian loved not knowing a single soul when he was there. “What had struck him most forcibly was the fact that when he walked down the street he hadn’t known anyone.” Pg 20. He found it liberating. His mother must have too, because she decided she wanted to leave Struan with Ian’s geography teacher, Robert Patterson. Ian’s mother had never really been there for him.
I don’t like this place.’’ (Giaspell 744). This is clear evidence that the house had a weird vibe. Miss Emily was also isolated from the town she lived in. ‘’ set on what once had been our most selected street. But garages and cotton gins had encroached and obliterated even the august names of that neighborhood; only Miss Emily’s house was left’’ (Faulkner 865).
His neglect is still being felt because he has her living in the past. He has caused her to find it extremely hard to deal with change. A simple example is “When the town got free postal delivery Miss Emily alone refused to let them fasten the metal numbers above her door and attach a mailbox to it” (708). Her not being able to deal with change all dates back to the neglect from her father. The free postal delivery had a harmless effect, but when it came time for Homer Barron to leave to go back North, this did not settle well with Emily.
I can’t imagine being seventeen or eighteen and thinking about how to bring something you have created from the dead. Some things weren’t as socially acceptable in the 1700s, like the teenager creating life or the electrical heart stimulation. Now, these things aren’t as taboo as they once were. Why does Shelley let the weather reflect Victor’s moods in Frankenstein? When the creature was telling Victor about his life and asking for a female counterpart, it was cold outside and the subject was a little cold and harsh as well.
While Michael and Mama are walking in a real nasty part of town Michael says, “ I got your back.” it is a simple phrase, however, Mama knows he won’t let anything bad happen to her. Another character Michael can be compared to is Travis. They are both young and innocent and have never had a bed to their own. It is a small connection but it its and excellent example of the horrible poverty they have in common. In The Blindside, Mama shows Michael his room and he says he has never had one before, she asks him if he is talking about a room to himself and Michael says, “No, a
Equality For All It’s the 21st century and our nation consists of many different cultures, race and religions. However, racial discrimination still lives on amongst every ethnicity. When my grandma left the Philippines for San Francisco in 1956, white Americans instructed she were to have no aspirations beyond being a good wife and mother. She came to America not knowing one word of English, therefore people assumed she was dumb. She was never given the privilege to work hard and become successful, all because she didn’t speak English.
From the start of John and Kathy’s relationship, Kathy is a main contributor to the communication issues the couple has throughout their marriage. Even though Kathy knows about his horrifying past, she never does anything to help John cope with his issues, but instead makes them worse during their life together. In John and Kathy’s marriage, they do not talk about the issues they are having, nor do they put any effort in to try and fix it. When John is in Vietnam, their relationship only starts to fail even more than it already has. John attempts to communicate with Kathy while he is away, but Kathy for the most part lets him down through some of her degrading letters.
The conservative town has Krebs begging for something different, something that doesn’t feel like a “pattern” of a never ending circle. He has outcast “[girls]” from his life with the excuse that “you do not need a girl,” Krebs doesn’t want to continue this legacy of a picture perfect family, in which he has to be the best son, brother and boyfriend. Krebs doesn’t rely on others to full fill this legacy; he is his own person with peculiar ideals of standing alone. He wants to create his own life with a variety of distinct outcomes; he wants to fabricate his life style with things that will spark up his