“He hit me agin an agin… He chunked me on the floor an choked me ‘n took advantage of me.” Mayella is saying what happened when Tom Robinson raped her. She’s saying Tom hurt her multiple times, threw her on the floor, choked her, and raped her. Mayella Ewell during the trial was hostile towards the lawyers. Atticus Finch, Tom Robinson’s lawyer, had Tom Robinson as his witness to give his testimony. “ She says she never kissed a grown man before a she might as well kiss a nigger.
One became a nun; another turned to prostitution; two went to jail; and the last died at age seven when a raged Jack threw her off the roof when he was in an uncontrollable rage. The anger that Valerie tried to keep in check for years finally explodes when Jack started to abuse one of their grandchildren. Valerie grabbed the nearest item which was a heavy cast iron skillet … and hit him as hard as she could on Jack’s head, making him die. I think the theme is love, fear, rage, regret, and the patterns of brutality and silence can haunt generations of one family. The mom, Valerie, gets damaged emotionally and physically-changing her
So while the girl detective was trying to talk to her, she said that she knows that she’s hiding is because the only time she came out is when she got beaten and raped. (US=being raped, UR=fear from being raped, CS=the rapist, CR=fear of the rapist). This probably caused her to be traumatized by the guy she was raped by so now that when she sees that guy or any other guy she will fear that she will probably be raped or beaten. C. 1. (Take away US, while still performing CS to get rid of the UR and the CR).
How does Martin portray the character of Manon and her attitudes up until the time of her Mother’s death? In the opening pages, Manon repeatedly refers to her husband as “him”, which is shown in the 3rd person pronoun which gives the impression that he has no respect and she has no respect for him, therefore he has not been given a name. This shows that Manon has a negative attitude towards her husband as she believes he does not deserve a name as he is unworthy due to the treatment he has given Manon. As a result, this leads people to believe that there is no love between Manon and her husband because if he was given a name it would show a loving connection. Therefore, I believe Manon hates her husband.
What she finds is evidence that the man she knows as Brandon is really a woman named Teena Brandon. Candice is distraught but doesn’t say anything. Then she gets drunk and tells John, who has resented Brandon/Teena all this time because of he loves Lana. He confronts Brandon/Teena at Lana’s. Tom and John end up taking Brandon/Teena to the bathroom and pulling her pants down to prove she’s not a “man.” They force Lana to look.
Cold-hearted, mind-blowing physical abuse is unconscionable. It’s unfortunate that alcohol played a big role with the abuse. It got so bad David barely had the strength to crawl away, even if it meant saving his life; not to mention, the verbal abuse being spouted on a daily basis right along with the physical abuse. The first time his mother got physical with him he was four years old. His mother ran up to him and started punching all over his body.
Mrs. Davis, Jared Davis’s wife submitted to her husband’s cruelty, drunkenness, lies, scandalous behavior and indolence. She went on about how she was not treated right by Mr. Davis. He had no compassion and no humanity towards her. He also degraded her because, he did something that all puritans thought was something dangerous, something you just don’t do, he tried and “insisted” that they have sex during her pregnancy. Mr. Davis to me had no heart and wanted his wife whenever he felt like it, to make her go through so much.
It seems very sad to me that men in this country believe that they own or have the right to tell women or even another individual what they have to do or how they have to behave. Women were given the right to vote in the United States in 1920 when the 19th Amendment was passed and ratified into the constitution. This right for women to vote became known as the women’s suffrage right. Women did not even have equal rights to men in the United States until 1972 when an Equal Rights Amendments was passed into law. Women had been fighting for equals to men since 1923 and continue to fight to this day to have the Equal Rights Amendment ratified into the constitution.
Yet, I quickly realized the government tries to control everything, especially what a woman does with her body. Ironic, isn’t it? Every day women are being stripped of their personal choices. By some uneducated men who can’t even begin understand a female body. Recently the Republican representative from Missouri stated that the female anatomy can resist unwanted impregnation.
When the Knight finally does find out what it is that women want, he is told that it’s power over the husbands, that’s a pretty feminist statement for a time when women were still considered property. But as feminist as that may seem, is the Wife of Bath really a depiction of early feminism, or a crazy lady? While some might see the Wife as a feminist, she really is just an over-controlling woman, in her 6 times being married, reprimanding her husband