| Driving in First Gear | 1969/17 | At dinner, the whole family discusses Lil Bit's breast size and her Grandfather says she doesn't need college. Lil Bit gets upset and Peck consoles her. | Shifting Forward from First to Second Gear | 1970/18 | Lil Bit confides in the audience that the real reason she got kicked out of college is because she had a constant companion in her room. | You and the Reverse Gear | 1968/16 | Lil Bit and Peck are at a celebration dinner and Lil Bit gets drunk. | Vehicle Failure | 1968/16 | Peck takes Lil Bit to the car.
She tells her sister that she know that Gene is cheating on her, and sometimes, she just like to her his lame explains and excuses every time he comes home. At work, Gene stops a car that is driven by a
When Montag gets to his house he discovers that his wife named Mildred took the whole bottle of sleeping pills and calls 911. Mildred wakes up denying everything she’s accused of. Over a period of time, Clarisse and Montag consistently meet after Montag gets off work. She talks to him about her interests and how they make her seem strange to others and the world around her. Clarisse grows on Montag and he enjoys seeing her, but once he gets used to seeing her, she is nowhere to be seen.
She acted as if nothing had happened & the next day took David to the hospital, trying to convince the doctor he has fallen off the top bunk of the bed. David declared, “But my fear kept the accident our secret. I knew if I ever told anyone, the next “accident” would be worse.” Once, David was dropped off at his Aunt Josie’s house & tried to escape. Mother found out about this & she smacked, punched, & kicked him until he crumpled to the floor. She also crammed a bar of soap down his throat & to think David attempted to escape his aunt’s house, because he actually missed her.
By 7 p.m., Brenda’s eyes are red from the drinking, and dark and dead from stress. She hasn’t been out of the house for two weeks. Not since her husband, Larry Raines, went to jail on a charge of incest. The green towel in her hand is covered with rust-colored stains, and droplets from a nosebleed trickle like a line of angry ants down the front of her once-white nightgown. Sitting on the couch, she swings from happy to sappy to angry as if someone
Rayona hates it more than anything that when she goes anywhere, people poke fun at her and make racial remarks to her which makes her feel insecure about herself. When Ray meets Foxy for the first time, Father Tom introduces her and Foxy says, “Your Christine’s kid…The one whose father is a nigger” (Dorris 44). Not only does Rayona have to deal with racism her mother is always putting her in bad situations. There has been quite a few times where Christine has attempted to leave Ray and told her that she wanted to commit suicide. One time in the very beginning of the story Elgin goes to visit Christine in the hospital, Rayona had not seen him in 5 months and Christine did not want to tell him about her sickness.
Many events in the book were very sad and touching when Foster the main girl in the story keeps a pillow case just with her dads stuff in there after he died in the army, she lives with her mom and her boyfriend named Huck who isn’t as nice to Foster at most times making her call him Elvis thinking of himself as a really good singer making Fosters mom the backstage singer and some days he even hits her mom at times and finally one day they get into a fight making Huck break into their house and hitting her mom so badly that they have to run away from their house very fast finding a safe place with Huck coming behind them with his car chasing them and soon they outrun him and arrive to West Virginia. Foster a 12 year old girl with a huge love for baking can bake almost anything possible to bake but she only has one problem she can’t read at all when she starts “it’s like my brain starts to close
Near the beginning of the film where she is just a naïve child who is in fear of Boo, she has heard that he is a ‘A malevolent phantom’ who is ‘chained to the bed’ as well as many other nasty rumours about him. Scout, Dil and Jem often run past his house to tease him. But when gifts start appearing for Boo Scout starts to stop believing that he is a horrible monster but just a nice man. Her most important experience that leads her to an understanding about prejudice and the world was her ‘longest night’ which began as they left the school hall to go home with Scout still in her ham suit. They began to sense that someone was following them.
Yunior's knowledge is revealed in small flashback vignettes that interrupt the party scenes. He remembers his father taking him to the "other woman's" home, where, after Yunior has vomited in the van, the other woman cleans him and treats him affectionately. She then disappears upstairs with his father for an hour, during which time Yunior sits, "ashamed, expecting something big and fiery to crash down on our heads" (36). He quickly realizes, however, that this potentially devastating event is actually normalized within his father's life; his father begins to take Yunior and his brother Rafa to the woman's house repeatedly, with Yunior becoming a silent collaborator in the
She may have felt guilty as she thought the norms would find out that she killed the man and then they would kill her. David and Petra are the ringleaders in the escape. “If we were to survive, we must keep our true self hidden…” When Petra was drowning, David and Rosalind heard her cries through their minds, which then made them fear more, as people were being suspicious as no-one else heard her. Then they had to fear Petra, as they realized her powers were much too strong for her and she was too young to fully understand it.