The Boys get advice from Dora, the local madam and owner of the Bear Flag Restaurant in order to make a party, that Doc can actually attend. Subdued by their first attempt, the Boys are much more careful this time. The party is a success and the novel ends with Doc the next morning after the event fixing the lab as it was, and reflecting on his life. 2. Lee Chong - The Chinese grocer in the Row.
Without fresh stories of Mrs. Torrens he is bored and unexcited. Like the Geraniums Kathleen Torrens has flair, and personality. They poke fun at her but secretly wished their wives were more like her, “seizing their wives for love-making held onto the visions of Mrs. Torrens.. As she walked the fence.” The towns opinion is that she is crazy, which we can tell she clearly is. “momma can’t drive properly when you do that” is an indication the children also know. She is also in many way superior to the other men’s wives.
She even changed her name to Hulga because it was the ugliest name she could think of. One day, a bible salesman, Manley Pointer, comes to her house and her mother invites him to stay for dinner. While Manley is at dinner, he becomes fascinated with Hulga. Manley asks Hulga if they could go on a picnic the following day. That night, Hulga imagined that she seduced Manley.
Lily says, “See my mother had died when I was little, and then my father died in a tractor accident last month on our farm in Spartanburg country…” (73). She lies so she can stay there and slowly learn about her mother. Lily is living a secret life just like the bees, “Bees have a secret life we don’t know anything about.” (148). Just like Lily the bees also have a secret life. She realizes that she needs to tell August Boatwright about her mother soon.
She loves her son but frequently complains that after all the money she spent on his education, he has not made anything of himself. She is addicted to alcohol, particularly to muscatel. Mrs. Reilly may herself be a primary cause of Ignatius’ problems. Rather than playing the role of the doting, supportive mother, Mrs. Reilly repeatedly emphasizes that he is a failure and disgrace for having wasted his education. She is not a good example for him; she spends her days sitting around the house, drinking muscatel, talking to Santa Battaglia on the phone, and going bowling.
In 1870, Harriet married Nelson Davis, who she had met at a South Carolina army base. They were happily married for 18 years until Davis' death. In 1896, Harriet bought property to build a home for sick and needy blacks. However, she was unable to raise enough money to build the house and had to give the land to the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church. The church completed the home in 1908, and Harriet moved there several years later.
His true beliefs, represented by the interior of the valise, control him. Once in the house Pointer’s manipulative smile which “came in succession like waves breaking on the surface of a little lake” (O’Connor 197) got him dinner for the evening. After dinner Hulga was to “meet the Bible salesman at ten o’clock at the gate” (O’Connor 196). The young atheist that did not approve of her mother “keeping the Bible in the parlor” (O’Connor 194) was going out with a Bible salesman. When Hulga and Pointer meet the next day her was
She basically has the feeling that there is no purpose in life. This affects her greatly in every aspect of her life and shows in each act of the story. Her mother is the unsuspecting, easy going country lady that will gladly give trust to a “a good Christian man”. This ever- trusting, “happy-go lucky” mindset is the type of person Manly Pointer is looking to target. Pointer is the traveling bible salesman/ rapist who opens the eyes of the atheistic Hulga and makes her let go of a beliefs for a second then she realizes basically that both of their respective beliefs are baseless that they are just external covers for the real internal self.
Unlike the girls in Salem, Abigail is not submissive which is why her uncle is suspicious and even more because she’s rebellious. That alone was considered filthy and impure. In Act one, Abigail states these words, alluding about her past affair with Proctor. “I look for John Proctor that took me from my sleep and put knowledge in my heart! I never knew what pretense Salem was, I never knew the lying lessons I was taught by all these Christian women and their covenanted men!
This is not true: Michael Jordan has a bad gambling problem, has gone through many divorces and does not live a happy and healthy lifestyle. “Over the past twenty years, I have asked hundreds of college students who Helen Keller was and what she did. All know that she was a blind and deaf girl. Most remember that she was befriended by a teacher, Anne Sullivan, and learned to read and write and event to speak. Some can recall rather minute details of Keller’s early life: that she lived in Alabama, that she was unruly and without manners before Sullivan came along and so forth.” (Lies my Teacher Told Me, 13) Heroification has made people such as Helen Keller heroes for learning how to speak.