Zoli is emotionally scarred as a child with the death of her family and the struggles of always being on the move. However, her grandfather is the positive affect in her life. She
Aibileen works for Elizabeth, so Aibileen has to take care of her daughter, Mae Mobley. Aibileen and Mae Mobley have a different relationship than other babies she has taken care of. It is a different relationship because Aibileen has a seed of bitterness planted inside her after Treelore, her son, died. In an article by Jackie Crosby, it mentions the love Aibileen had for her babies, “There's Aibileen, the wise and gentle soul whose heart breaks every time one of the white babies she loves so much grows up to ‘become just like they mama’” (Crosby). So she teaches Mae Mobley something she has never taught any of her other children because she wants to avoid Mae Mobley turning out like her mother, Elizabeth.
Motherhood Raising a child is not easy especially when a mother is subjected to racial discrimination, poor socioeconomic conditions, daily scrutiny or ethical questions. Two well-known authors, Langston Hughes and Gwendolyn Brooks, poetically express some of these struggles that surround the theme of motherhood. Langston Hughes’ “Mother to Son” reveals that this mother (Mother 1) is a caring individual who has to gently remind her son that “Life…ain’t…no crystal stair” (Pg.1254). Life is not going to be easy for the mother or child, but having the gift and opportunity of life is something that many people take for granted. In contrast, Gwendolyn Brooks’ “the mother” exposes the reality and un-motherly act of abortion.
I would have to read the bible and do book reports on what I read when I found myself in trouble. If my parents did not think that I gave it my all, I would have to redo it again until they thought I truly understood what I was reading and writing about. As a child, I hated the Bible. At the time I did not understand the reason why my parents pushed the Bible on me. I believed one of the reasons why I chose to run from church at an older age was because of the parenting styles of my parents.
It often leaves them feeling ashamed of your family. Later in the years I grew up and married my high school sweetheart and we produced two children within 3 years of marriage. After almost 15 years of marriage, I realized my marital problems was affecting the children. My marriage was just as unhappy as my mothers. I found myself wanting to stay together for the sake of the children.
She thinks that anyone that could find her dead on the side of the road will know that she lived a long life and was a lady. She told stories about her meeting southern gentlemen wanting to be with her. The grandmother is a woman who believes in God, but seems that when she comes into counter with the misfits her faith seems to disappear just a little bit. This story seems to want to teach a lot of different lessons. One of them being that people in today’s world are misleading, young, and religiously misguided.
She is a bit stubborn because of her leg, never wanting to take the walk’s with her mother. She liked to be ‘ugly’ for the soul purpose of annoying her mother. Hulga did this in the way she changed her name and the way she walked. Hulga is also very negative. She recieved her Ph.
Mrs. Freeman is quite the opposite, having to work on a farm for other owners and not having a free or open mindset towards people. Mrs. Hopewell isn’t very hopeful with her daughter and of her becoming successful with her knowledge and is very pessimistic with Hulga. Hulga, the dual dimension main character that goes through a complete change throughout the story. She changes her name to Hulga, an unusual and rather ugly name, to reflect her feelings about her injured body and self-esteem and to forget about her given name Joy. The significance of Joy remaining conscious even though terribly injured as a child when her leg was blasted off indicates that Joy seems to have rejected her own body by choosing a life of intelligence and of the mind.
It is other factors such as age and location that contribute to the relationship and determine the level of closeness. Emily’s lack of emotion towards her mother can be attributed to a number of issues in her youth. Since Emily was born, her mother had been working diligently to support the family. To make matters worse, she was only nineteen when Emily was born. Her husband left early on in Emily’s life and her mother was forced to leave her with friends or send her to day care.
Kids grades begin to drop, they become more violent and are less trusting of people. Some kids start to think that the divorce was their fault and if they did something to cause the divorce. Even though divorce is between the parents it always has a huge effect on their children, which changes how kids live and grow up. Divorce has a great effect on the emotions of children and adolescents. In children they get the feelings of being rejected.