Delia being very anxious about being in the house and not knowing where the snake is, she knows if she does not start on the laundry she will be behind for the week. It is not until she starts sorting laundry that she sees the snake and drops everything and runs out of the house where she falls asleep in the hayloft. Not long after falling asleep, she is awoken by the sound of Sykes in his drunken stupor. Banging around in the house, Sykes aware the snake is loose tries to light the lamp so that he can see. As Delia states, “whatever goes over the Devil’s back, is got to come under his belly.” Maybe if Sykes were a faithful man and not so abusive, he would not be in the mess he is in now.
Amish Culture compared to American Culture The Amish culture is very different from the American culture. In the Amish country, they base their society on religion. The men teach the boys how to farm, build furniture, and make their own wagons. The women teach their daughters how to do cook, clean, and other house hold chores. Schooling isn't that important to the Amish because they aren't going to go to college.
I literally didn't even know things like that existed till I got to intermediate school. So much of my personality and ethics come from my parents. One of the most important things I think my parents did was to not force religion into my life. Moreover, they did not equate being a moral person with being a religious one. This way, when my religion began to wane at times I never once felt like that meant I could just be a bad person.
My ancestors emigrated from England and my heritage is that of Scottish, English, and aboriginality. My father is the oldest from a family of 2 boys, since my father was the oldest he was like a second father, he was always out his father with the farm and at the age of 12 was sent out to work at a chook farm. My mother being the middle child of seven brothers and sisters, my mother had to take her place in the care of the house work. Both grew in the same type of family and both knew what it took to work hard to get what they wanted in life. When I was growing up I was never given all the things that I wanted, my parents taught me that I had to work had if I wanted anything, that I only got what I needed not what I wanted.
She was the princess of the house and that is how everyone treated her. I tried to make Adele help me to raise the children while I took care of their father since his condition started to deteriorate. My cousins, Diana and Mary moved into our new house along with their husbands and children. By that time Edward grew sicker and blinder while Adele never found time to care for Edward Jr. and Mary
Mattie was left to help her father with farm work and other chores around the house, including taking care of her three younger sisters. Also after needing money, her father sent her to work at a hotel,
Bill was name after his father. Due to his Father’s death his Mother Virginia left Bill to live with his Grandparents while she went to nursing school in New Orleans. His Grandparents were Eldridge and Edith Cassidy. His Grandparents owned a small store outside of Hope. They let all Race of all Colors got to purchase things on credit in his grandparents store even with the laws back then.
Clara immersed herself in church work to “keep busy” and help the community around her but never had “deep religious feelings” towards Universalism. She had trouble in the idea of the joy there should be in life with the amount of grief that was present in the lives of those around her. Although Barton never claimed to have no faith, she described herself as being more of a “well-disposed pagan”. By Barton’s own standards of living up to her religious morals, I believe that she did as she thought was right. The words of her father while on his deathbed seems to be what I felt Barton lived by in her life; “As a Patriot he bade serve my country with all I had, even my life if need be; as the daughter of an accepted Mason, he bad me seek and comfort the afflicted everywhere, and as a Christian he charged me to honor God and love mankind”.
“From the numerous stories I was told growing up, mostly by my grandparents, I came to understand that my mother built the house during her pregnancy with me, motivated by the idea of having her first baby in her own home”(5-6). Kien Nguyen states this in the first chapter of his memoir, The Unwanted, when he is remembering his first memory, which is the happiest one from his childhood. Most of Kien’s childhood in Saigon after the fall to the communists is far from happy. Kien is known as a half-breed, to everyone but a selective few, during the Vietnam War. Kien and his family go through many difficult problems that most families never would have to worry about.
I’m still expected to do the cooking and cleaning, wearing anything other than a dress to church would be unacceptable. Religion is a major value in my life. Sunday is my family’s day of rest and remembrance, we all gather around the table as a family. I make church attendance a must for my children, and my daughter is always in a dress during attendance. Respect and obedience is also a major value in my family.