Within the short story "The Painted Door" Ann shows that she experiences feelings of depression, and isolation. Ann's negative mood is apparent through the story and can be seen at any time during the story. Ann's husband is named John and through the story she says many sarcastic and condescending comments, "plenty of wood to keep me warm - what more could a women ask for" (Ross 288). It is clear that Ann is unhappy with John and not satisfied with him. She does not want John to go to his father's house to check on him because she does not want to be left alone in the house when there is a snowstorm is taking place outside.
Growing up, he always felt as if his mother was purposely embarrassing him and very strange compared to other mothers. He was embarrassed to have a white mother and having this “antique” bike makes it even worse. Plus she was the only white women in the neighborhood which would draw attention in the black community. This grasped the theme because every place Ruth went, she never truly felt at home but always lost. In this neighborhood, she didn’t feel at home because she wasn’t accepted by the entire community.
The house was just too old. That was the house on Loomis before that was Keeler and Paulina was before that. She could not remember the houses before that. The house on Mango Street was nothing like she had expected. Their parents had told her and the other children which someday they would move into a house that would be their own.
Maybe she was ashamed. Maybe she was embarrassed it took so many years. The kids who wanted to be kids instead of doing dishes and ironing papa’s shirts, and the husband who wanted a wife again.” This shows she’s beginning to realize wrong from right, is beginning to feel guilty for what she had done, and is growing up and taking responsibility. Tone is another literary device that shows the theme of the story. In the vignette “Mango says goodbye sometimes” Esperanza writes “I put it down on paper so the ghost doesn’t ache so much.
The parents Rex and Rose Mary both are unemployed most of the book and can’t provide for their children. In the book, Rex spends the money that he could be using to support his family on alcohol. Also Rose Mary proclaims many of times that he is done being a parent and wants people to take care of her from now on. This shows that Rose Mary is giving up on the children and wants the children to take of her instead. In this case, If parent licenses were implemented by now, Rose Mary would not pass because she shows lack of commitment throughout the book.
While it was necessary for her to work in order to contribute to the meager family finances. She became concerned as she noticed how young people behaved in the neighborhood when their mothers worked outside the home. She talked about “la poca verguenza”, (the lack of shame), of teenagers who would not go to school to have parties. (BB Centro journals Issue on Chicago: Puerto Rican Grandmothers Share and Relive Their Memorias; Irma M.
She has recently started hanging around more with hr 'black friends family and stays the night sometimes to avoid going home to her dad and brothers. Recently she started getting in touch with hr real dad who seems to have an influence over her too. There is now conflict in th house as Shanna started smoking weed and is now constantly mimicking her friends as a means to fit in which does not reflect the way she was brought up by hr step dad. She is falling behind with hr school work and sometimes truants. She is spending more time at hr real dad’s house and only goes home 2-3 a wk for a change of clothing.
Maggie’s mother was also older and better suited to be a mother because she was older and more experienced however, Maggie’s father also left the family. Maggie turned out to be shy and refrained from social life since she did not leave the house after being burned. “She stoops down quickly and lines up picture after picture of me sitting in front of the house with Maggie cowering behind me” (Walker 746). Too much attention leads to Maggie clinging to her mother and not enough attention drives Emily to not seek out a close relationship with her mother. Both mothers are concerned with the status of their daughters.
Some may live and some may die but a lot of the victims in my neighborhood are children who don’t have anything to do with what is going on just in the wrong place at the wrong time. My question to that is where is the right place to be for a child when gangs are shooting everywhere in parks, stores, malls, and schools, and who get caught up in the cross fire young children. We are losing our future! Second, we lose our sense of security. I know that I could let my 10 year old daughter walk to school by herself, but with shooting all the time I walk her to school.
In order to break free from your social background you have to be a strong character and try not to go with the flow. In this story we meet Kim who are dealing with many of those problems. We don’t get to know much about Kim’s background, besides that she is from London, where she worked at a home for deprived children, until she got kicked out because she caught Hep B and a nasty venereal disease off some random guy she had sex with. Kim is much more articulate than Andrea and Di. For example although Kim repeatingly corrects them when they mention her audition as “your thing”, Andrea and Di are not affected by it.