Also that she needs to stop trying to be who she is not. Her mother chose this advice because Birdy is always saying that she wants to be something that she's not. For example, What page is when she says the hobbies she wants to do? What page did she say the she wants to be lower class? Her mother also told her this advice because she has to get married but she is rejecting every guy and is always complaining about it.
Knowing that Hulga/Joy disposition toward those girls was unfavorable and she ignored daughter’s need to be accepted. Mrs. Hopewell does not accept Hulga/Hulga/Joy and do not see her daughter as a highly educated thirty-two year old woman she is. She sees her as a young child coming of age who loses her leg in a hunting accident. She pities Hulga/Joy and defends her attitude due to her disability. Mrs. Hopewell think that Hulga/Joy has missed out on the best things in life and “who had never danced a step or had any normal good time” when she was younger (52).
From the beginning when we were first introduced to Dee, we find that she has changed her name to Wangero saying that Dee is “dead” because she didn’t think her name, Dicie, had any cultural significance and so she choice a name she felt suited her more. She says she couldn’t bear being named after people who oppress her. She has no connection or respect with her family. This is sad because she doesn’t like who she once was. Although she has learned a lot from her schooling and has a better knowledge than her mom & sister, I feel she possesses this know-it-all attitude about what heritage really is.
Mrs. Hopewell * Hulga: Does not regard her with the level of education earned in the field of philosophy – thinks sense & reason is lacking compared to her knowledge of philosophical matters * Thinks Hulga is deprived because she had never “danced a step or had any normal good times” (274) * Would like to brag about her like she can brag about Mrs. Freeman’s daughters – finds it difficult because of the profession that Hulga took: “You could not say, “My daughter is a philosopher” (276) * Hulga’s deeper knowledge of philosophy draws a parallel with Mrs. Hopewell’s willingness to accept & trust people as good – hence the term “Good Country People” * Adores Mrs. Freeman’s daughters & tells people about them constantly – ashamed of Hulga’s name change from Joy, attitude, behaviour, etc; does not address Hulga’s desire for acceptance: “If you want me, here I am – LIKE I AM” (274) Hulga * Displays of rebellion, possibly because of the declaration that she will not live past forty because of her heart – studies in philosophy borders on atheism, which contradicts Mrs. Hopewell’s views * Aggravated by Mrs. Freeman, who chooses to focus on the grotesque aspects of people * Because of the stock that she put into her prosthetic leg, it has become her source of dependency/anchor to sanity – like her philosophical understandings, her state of being unique makes her who she is and how she behaves * Previous to her encounters with Pointer, she has always relied on her intellectual superiority as leverage over others, but once he asks her to prove her love by showing him her leg, she loses control of herself and transfers it over to Pointer through her leg * This intellectual superiority is punctured when he reveals that he is not the “Good Country Person” that she thought him to be – the sides have now shifted to Pointer holding
By taking charge, Artemisia was forced to distance herself from her childish life to take care of her reptile family. This put her mental state at risk considering the fact that she had to give up everything in her old life to become this new person. At times she would repeat the phrase “At school I sit alone” (pg.15), by being alone the author creates a mood of insecurity, the need for someone to talk to her is present although secrets about her family force her to keep quiet. Due to the lack of friends and sudden change of normal life, her inability to discuss her feelings creates yet another obstacle since the constant reminder of sadness prevents her from coping with the situation altogether. Reptiles are known as cold blooded creatures, their scales are
Although, Hulga is not a very pretty girl, she uses her Ph.D. to place her beyond anyone else. Hulga claims she does not trust or believe in anything. Ultimately, she does have total faith in her education and wooden leg. Second, Mrs. Hopewell first appears to readers as an optimistic woman, having a weakness for who she believes in as “good country people.” In the result of Hulga’s deformity, Mrs. Hopewell fails to accept Hulga for who she truly is. This reveals to readers that Mrs. Hopewell is self-fish, deceptive and
She only thinks about her children and their future which brought her in the path of seeking for help. However, going from person to another person makes her feel ashamed. She illustrated pathos when she was “spilling the whole shame” of her poverty from one person to another as she was seeking for help. As readers read this, they feel as ashamed as Parker is. The revelation of her poverty to the people she meets, who doesn’t exactly give her the things she needs, makes her feel mortified.
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.
I believe in god. Human’s beliefs in god have been time tasted as religion has existed for millions of years. It's all well and good to present a picture of an atheist who loves his family, lives by a moral code, and enjoys life, but that's hardly a logical argument for atheism to be superior than theism. People do not need to be atheist to be a good person. Penn states, “Believing there's no God [allows me to] read ideas from all different people from all different cultures."
Maggie was very uneasy around her sister; her mother tells her anxiousness in regard to Dee’s visitation: “Maggie will be nervous until after her sister goes: she will stand hopelessly in corners, homely and ashamed of the burn scars down her arms and legs, eyeing her sister with a mixture of envy and awe” (119). Dee undermines her sister, not always knowing what type of impact she impresses upon Maggie. Dee does not appreciate her sister or her mother, both of which is barely educated and lives in a poor, dilapidated home. In fact, Dee had her own way of making this noticeable in one instance when she stood off in the distance while their first home burned down with her mother and sister inside (121). She does not feel comfortable taking on the old fashioned lifestyle her mother and sister do.