Destroying Avalon By: Kate McCaffrey (Spoilers included) Destroying Avalon is about an ordinary country girl named Avalon whose parents decide to move to the city. Avalon didn’t have a good feeling about this, but eventually her mother convinced her that city life will be a good change for her. Avalon trusted in her mother’s words and was looking forward to meeting new friends and starting a new life. Avalon meets a few friends on the first day, but not everyone is accepting. Avalon was a pretty, smart and kind girl so she was a definite threat to the popular girls.
Have children? What’s wrong with a little love? Instead of death and fighting, and war you’re always talking about.” This illustrates the passion of Kate’s dreams of doing in the future has been all gone to waste in her life time still a young, innocent girl. The emotional thought of Kate’s quote expresses the emotions of to the audience with imagery affecting them to the heart, as the
Using this approach to analyze The Girl Who Left Her Sock on the Floor sends the reader into a deep understanding of character, and yet at the same time results in confusion as well. Sexual inclinations are common interests for psychoanalysis, and as readers we can find an example from Francie’s room mate, Jessica, who warns Francie that she should, “Stop calling Mr. Klemper ‘Sex Machine’”. This played out the fact that Francie most likely had a crush on this teacher, and this could easily lead to unhealthy relations and suggestive comments and behaviors. Being that she was already worried about being kicked out of her school, having someone find out about such thoughts could surface more problems for her. Later on in the story, teacher-student relationship issues were mentioned once more when Francie was on the bus in New York City.
Luckily, two social outcasts, Janice and Damien, showed her around and warned her of all the other social cliques in the school. It is not long until the most popular girl group in the school, the “Plastics”, noticed Cady and invited her to join their group. Turning to her new friends Janice and Damien, Cady is convinced to pretend to be the Plastics’ friend in a plan to overthrow the leader of the group, Regina, and take away the group’s power over the school. Gaining instant popularity, Cady soon found herself sucked into the mean girl lifestyle and wanting to sabotage Regina for her own personal gain. It was not until Cady has
the girl recited the words, in a perfect imitation of her mother. 'You may play around with them as long as you like, use them however you wish. If you want to make mama happy do nice things, good things; be a bad girl and mama will be angry.' that's what she told me,' Persephone finished turning her head proudly upwards. Leuce laughed a little, catching herself in time not to encourage the girl's impertinent impersonation of Demeter.
Bethan don’tbehave well. Lucy feels secure and safe in Bethans Company; she doesn’t like being a geek. Deepinside Lucy knows that it’s wrong hanging out with Bethan, but she ignores her thoughts totally.Even though she is very ashamed she is lying to her teacher about her friendship to Bethan due toher embarrassment of hanging out with her. Because Bethan is the popular and though girl at theschool. Everyone looks up to her in some kind, maybe because they don’t dare anything else.
At this point she has sunken to Stanley’s level and it is clear that she develops her morals in accordance to his. “Mean Girls” addresses the issue of a constant hunger for popularity and status. However the trends we see in “Mean Girls” certainly apply not only to high school students, but to our society. Our protagonist builds an identity that fits into the narrow mould of how a girl “should” behave. She alters her fashion sense, her style, and slowly loses herself in a world of fakery.
She even endured some ridicule from kids at school. Being the big sister I felt compelled to fix things but she would have no part of it. She would just shrug it off and get back at them the most effective way she knew, make them laugh and befriend them. Since being a mother I have had this very
Most people believe fairy tales to be harmless to a girl’s development, unable to comprehend the reality of the situation: the gender stereotyping involved in these stories can be influential in several ways (Bonds-Raake 232). Although fairy tales are only a portion of a girl’s environment growing up, there is still potential for damage to the development of that girl. According to Parsons, although fairy
Nora loved her children, it was clearly shown when she played hide and seek with them merrily, and that is why she left them. She did not want to poison them as she said in the play, because she is a liar and hypocrite. She did not want the children to be mistakenly led by her. Moreover she wanted the children to be as free as she was when she left the house, and she knew that the nanny, Anne-Marie, would take care of them. Nora is the most admirable character in the whole play.