Bella’s guilt caused by her mother’s fear of loneliness has left her short of any male relations. She cannot escape the wrath of her mother, and continually surrenders to her mother's will. Also, Bella has felt she cannot start her own relationship because her mother, in an effort to protect her living children, she has trained them not to feel by hardening them with punishments such as locking them in a closet or beating them with her cane” (Bloom, Harold. “List of characters in Lost in Yonkers. p67-68).
According to Erik Erikson's theory Trust vs Mistrust a person thinks that you can trust someone but they really cant. For example Carmen comes home feeling hurt, betrayal, anger and shame by her father as he now has a new family and she turns immediately to Tibby for comfort and advice. Tibby's friendship with Bailey, a young girl with leukemia, reinforces the feelings she has for the Sisterhood, because her death shows Tibby how important the small pleasures she gave to others while alive can be emulated when she is within the Sisterhood. Bridget learned when Lena organized the girls to come to her aid even when she was in Greece that no matter how big the problem may seem, there is always someone you love to catch you when you fall. Lena learned that she could give her heart within the fear of rejection, and then be the one who comforts when others like Bridget, feel rejection as well.
Norah's great pain because of the "death" of her child causes her to be scared of change, she wishes she could capture a happy moment, and stay in that moment-perhaps forever. " Don't breathe, she thought. Don't move. But there was no stopping anything." (89) She sees time as an enemy that might take away all that she loves.
She does not deliver edicts and punishment like an Old Testament god or T. Ray; instead, she lets Lily find her own way in her own time to the facts of her mother’s death”. (Emanuel) August acts as a stand in mother to Lily. She takes care of her in times of need, for example when she is crying or needs to express her emotions, but she allows Lily to be independent and discover the truth of her past by herself. Lily is surrounded by people who really care about her provides comfort and a “get-away” for Lily. The last person that really needs to be mentioned in relation to this topic is Rosaleen, Lily’s nanny.
The mother starts weaving with gray, brown and neutral shades, “all the shades of her life”, to express her depression. To further emphasize the mothers’ sadness, the mother uses “the subdued, muted colours she liked”. Diction in “muted” is interesting, as throughout the extract, the mother never says anything, which seems to suggest that the mother expresses her emotions through weaving. The colors the mother weaves with symbolizes the mothers’ life, and the use of these monotonous colors depicts that it is dull without her daughters, and without her daughters, she has no purpose in life as they no longer need her anymore. However, later throughout the passage, the narrator mentions that the mother could weave “a flash of color” that would not be “picked up” until the fabric was turned over.
Rochester. Even though gothic elements would not stand our right away by reading this ending, I definitely want to show how I used them. One of the gothic elements I have used is the women in distress. Jane seemed to be lonely when Edward died and even terrified as of what could happen next in her life. She knew that her children will soon leave and have their time in life and spend less and less time with her and that she would just simply stay inside and be alone.
Within the occupation of Hitler in Nazi Germany, author Susan Bartoletti recalls, “Though Sophie knew the correct National Socialistic answer to every question, she soon found herself unwilling to give her teachers the answers they wanted but she felt were wrong” (Bartoletti). Soon realizing that the national socialist views conflicted with her own, Sophie did her best to stay committed to her own morals, which overall benefited her mental health by strengthening her resolve. Sophie was also able to healthily cope by confiding her brother, Hans, which aided her in the struggle. The results based on a study done in 2004 in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology showed, “Greater feelings of authenticity were also shown to
“The picture of that girl, the fact that she had lived neighbor to that girl for twenty years, and had let her die for lack of life, was suddenly more than [Mrs. Hale] could bear” (194). She feels responsible and blames herself for what has happened to Minnie. She believes that the reason that she stayed away - “because it weren’t cheerful” (192) was the very reason she should have gone to see Minnie. She reacts to her refusal to visit Minnie as a crime in itself. “Oh, I wish I’d come over here once in a while!” she cried.
He watched his mother change everyday and go through stages of her depression. He was so afraid that his mother would die and he felt responsible for his mothers illness. His mother always talked about death and as if it were her last day so he thought that she would die soon. Gates developed certain “ rituals” to help his mother. The reader can conclude that Gates really loved his mother and admired her.
The questions are: 1. Identify some of the micro-operations to be found at the garden centre. For each one: (a) Identify the transforming and transformed resources. (b) State which is the predominant transformed resource. (c) Describe the output of each micro-operation and say who you think its customers are.