Similarly, Lairds sister also felt her mother was not trustworthy: “ My mother I felt was not to be trusted.”(Munro 50) Lairds sister was unwillingly forced by her mother, to stay in the house all day and fill countless jars with various fruits, instead of being outside in the fields with her father doing the work she loved. Narrators having trouble with their mother is one of the three comparable conflicts which appear in both short stories. Secondly, in both short stories the narrators are unwilling to pursue their given career. In the story
“when she finally came , I hardly knew her, walking quick and nervous like her father, looking like her father, thin,and dressed in a shoddy red that yellowed her skin and glared at the pockmarkes. (291) The mother was worried about Emily because she was so thin, frail, and sickly. As time went on the mother took advise and sent emily away again, this time to a convelesent home. The mother was advised that Emily would receive the care she needed. Sending a child away would only convince them that they are not wanted.
Many children suffer from bad parenting and lack of care throughout the world. Due to this many people ask the question “ Should parenting require certification or a license”. Many people think that this will brighten the future for many children around the world and give the ones who live a rough lifestyle due to their parents a better life. In the story “ The Glass Castle” the three children Jeanette, Maureen, and Brian all suffer from lack of resources and neglect. The parents Rex and Rose Mary both are unemployed most of the book and can’t provide for their children.
In turn this event began to eat at her father’s ability to stay present for his daughters, leaving only Tana to be there for Pearl. Years later, Tana has been given the Cold and Pearl is now left with no one there for her. This character is easy to sympathize with because she has gone through many hardships at a young age, and is left with no family to care for her Next, the author makes it so that the reader can easily sympathize with Tana. This is because Tana is used and attacked by her mother, who was unable to control her temptations. The Cold makes you thirsty for human blood and Tana’s mother manipulated her and appealed to her naivety by saying that she changed and was better.
When she became poor Esperanza still felt that she was above all of the poor people she was now living and working with. It took time for Esperanza to realize that she was also poor; a changing moment in the novel was when she held hands with Sylvia. Although Sylvia was dirty, Esperanza held hands with her because she remembered the day on the train when Mama became upset with her when she would not let the little girl play her doll. She became
She lives alone with her father, Terrance Ray, and their black housekeeper and nanny, Rosaleen. Lily cannot bring herself to call her cruel, aloof father “Daddy,” so she calls him T. Ray instead. Rosaleen warns her to watch out, because “bees swarm before death.” Lily insists on telling T. Ray about the bees, so she wakes him up, even though she suspects it will only anger him. It does. Lily reminisces about her mother, who died when she was four years old.
Albert Lamorisse, director of the movie, The Red Balloon, wants to highlight the sense of innocence that we have as kids. The film takes place in Paris during a gloomy, rainy season, which emphasizes the hardships of growing up. When the young boy befriends this balloon, we see that this symbolizes his innocence. Innocence is represented as a balloon because as children, we love balloon, and because balloons are delicate things, much like our innocence. The relationship between the boy and his balloon is shown through multiple instances, but one in particular helps us understand their relationship the most.
They cross a tunnel and her parents smell tasty food. They don’t care that the owner is not there, they just eat. Chihiro cannot stop her parents from eating and feels uncomfortable. She meets a strange boy who tells her that she must leave before nightfall or she’ll be trapped. When she is back at the restaurant, she finds her parents have been transformed into extremely fat pigs.
Then my final story is “Mrs Chundle” a lonely, death lady who lives next to a parish and the vicar persuades her to go to church, although she is death. The vicar is horrified to discover that Mrs Chundle has bad breath and asks her not to come to church any more because of it. Life in Victorian times was very restricted because the women were not allowed to vote or visit public events, also they had to find a husband and were expected to dress well and look nice. The women in Victorian times were not very clever and were made to stay at home and learn how to nit and cook. Firstly we learn how Victorian society had double standards when considering behaviour of men and women.
However, because reader are learning all of the information from her, reader never truly understand why the mother is pushing her daughter so hard to be something she clearly does not want to be. Readers are given very little information about her life or culture in China before she came to the United States. Therefore, the mother comes across as harsh and cruel. When the mother says, "Only one kind of daughter can live in this house. Obedient daughter," the mother seems inflexible, stubborn and even a bit abusive.