He hasn't eaten since breakfast and late at night while he waits for Corley to return with money, he orders a meal of peas and vinegar with a bottle of ginger beer for his dinner. He simply doesn't have the money for a proper meal. And, his future looks dismal: it will only get worse. By showing this detail, readers are not as quick to judge Joyce's character, and while we certainly can't like this leech, we can perhaps understand and view him in a sympathetic light. In "Clay," the older unmarried character Maria lives a life of diligent sacrifice for a pittance.
The couple is not satisfied until the bus driver verifies himself that it is indeed a baby. After the conformation, they sat there after targeting a mother “self-satisfied, bland, and all puffed up like a plate of rice.” (85, Bayoumi.) After exiting the bus, all Yasmin wants do to make them like the woman on the bus “powerless”, “discriminated against”, and like “a source of irrational fear.” (86) The author views how she feels depraved, because she was not doing more for the woman. This makes the reader empathize with her. When Yasmin enters high school, she runs for freshman secretary winning by a landslide.
Esperanza’s first encounter with sexual violation ended her trust with people. To Esperanza, this job is not what she dreams of doing. On her first day she felt alone and uncomfortable. She says, “when lunchtime came, I was scared to eat alone in the company lunchroom with all those men and ladies looking” (54). She felt as if she did not belong there.
He cooperates with Deputy Vain Gurie, because he had been running an errand for a teacher, Mr. Nuckles, and is not involved in the massacre. The perception of Vernon's innocence weakens, when Doris Little's best friend, the food-obsessed Palmyra (Pam,) arrives and, against Vernon's better judgment, whisks him off to Bar-B-Chew Barn, allowing the police to claim he is a flight risk. Eulalio ("Lally") Ledesma, supposedly a CNN reporter, ingratiates himself to Mom and promises to help Vernon "shift the paradigm" of his story. Instead, Lally betrays Vernon, who is returned to jail pending a psychiatric analysis. Vernon's jailhouse dream is beautiful but unattainable Taylor Figueroa living on the beach with him in Mexico.
Ms. Caroline asked him what’s wrong and eventually he mumbled that he doesn’t have lunch. So Ms. Caroline offered to give him 50 cent to go eat lunch downtown and pay her back later. Ms.Caroline found it to be very mysterious that he didn’t accept the 50 cent., she had no idea that he was one of the Cunninghams. Everybody looked at Scout as she stood up for him and here Scout shows real courage, having known that she had already conferred with Ms.Caroline two times today she still speaks up for Walter and tells Ms.Caroline who the Cunninghams are. Therefore this shows that Scout is the most couragest character in the book because she was the only person in the whole class who dared to tell Ms.Caroline about the Cunninghams and tell her about how she was shaming
Her plans to impress fail when she defends a poor classmate, Walter Cunningham, from their teacher, Miss Caroline, who insisted on buying Walter a lunch. Ms. Caroline thinks Scout is just trying to be smart, and scolds her. Scout
For instance, during the “Week of Peace” Okonkwo came home to find that his second wife had not returned from her friend’s house in time to cook dinner. “When she returned he beat her very heavily. In his anger he had forgotten that it was the Week of Peace” (Achebe29). Beating your wife during the Week of Peace was a huge sin to the clan. Okonkwo let his anger get the best of him and violated the code of the Ibo people.
Being an honor student Hope looks down at her father, ”a seventh-grade dropout from a country school”, underestimating him. She is critical of him and nags him ”about his table manners, his taste in television programs, his lack of a 'political conscience'”. Mr. Brunty, however, is proud of his daughter: she is different from the other girls her age and has a unique personality. ”He is grateful his own daughter bears so little resemblance to them [other teenage girls]”. He seems to know a lot about her, including small details not every father would notice: ”It's like her, Mr. Brunty thinks, not to have a comb.
The revelation of her poverty to the people she meets, who doesn’t exactly give her the things she needs, makes her feel mortified. There are countless needs for an individual in poverty, which they do not receive. When Parker sought for help she got it but it was barely enough for the necessities she and her children need. She uses logos to explain the cause and effect of the seventy-eight dollars she gets every month. She pays twenty dollars rent and the “rest goes for food.” This is the reason why she and her children can’t get the other necessities they need, including the children’s education.
Sandra Lee is asked to do some household tasks as always, but when her mother asks her how her day went and who she had lunch with, Sandra Lee breaks down after and says she wants to change school. The three older ladies gets mad, but not only do they manage to convince Sandra Lee to stay in the same school, they also make it feel like the question wasn’t ever asked. The short story is told through a third person narrator, who isn’t present in the text, but is still omniscient because he/she can see everything and feel the feelings of the people who actually appear in the story. It’s a common way of writing a fictional story, but it still always gives a mysterious feeling to the reader, especially at the points when Grau uses quick and short sentences. There is a lot of dialogue throughout the text, which makes the narrator more reliable.