1/30/12 English II "Future Home of the Living GOD" I believe the story " Future Home of the Living GOD " is about Mary Potts . She was givenup by her mom when she was an infent, living with a foster family ( Alan & Sera ). They are a wealthy family that Loves and has high expectations for Mary Potts. Mary Potts is pregnant and believes theres an illness going on with her baby. She finds the letter her moms writes her and calls the number she left on it.
In the novel, In the Time of the Butterflies, Maria Teresa Mirabal, the youngest of the four sisters, matures from a little, naïve girl into a young woman, who takes part in a revolutionary movement. By the end of the passage, Patria stands in awe, wondering when her little sister had grown up so quickly. While everyone believes in her growth – and indeed she has grown as she is working – the reality remains that Maria Teresa’s work restrains her from fully becoming independent as she is literally in the home, doing traditional women’s work. At first, Maria Teresa does not understand why her sister, Minerva, would ever want to force anyone out of power, even if he is a dictator. The way she speaks displays her childishness.
Now that’s growing up without a childhood. Jane Smiley seems like a great parent who cares about her children but to allow her daughters to put on makeup even entering their teenage years just isn’t right. Her girls where prematurely growing up, where behaving beyond their age, and with their only priority being beautiful at all times it seem to help them in the long run. As they burned off the “Barbie stage” and grew into more important things down their lives. Like for example Smiley talks about her older daughter, “Now she is planning to graduate school and law school and become an expert on woman’s health issues, perhaps adolescent health issues like anorexia and bulimia” (377).
A sister for two brothers along with a step brother, Eleanor was abided in a rich household. She had a really dreadful childhood, which turned her into an insecure kid. Her mother dubbed Eleanor as “Granny”;
She often portrays herself to be overbearing with her disconcerting ramblings over her children, but we know that it is out of love for them. She clings to her past with such desperation: “Possess your soul in patience-you will see! Something I’ve resurrected from that old trunk! Styles haven’t changed so terribly much after all…Now just look at your mother This is the dress in which I led the cotillion….See how I sashayed around the ballroom Laura?” (Williams 1987). Her fading youth only makes her more desperate for attention for herself and her daughter.
Her strength only grew as she was locked in the Red Room by her aunt. Her aunt’s lack of care led Jane to be happy when she was sent away from their home in Gateshead, and to the school Lowood Academy, where she could begin her quest for love. Jane was sent to the Lowood Institution, a school for orphans. Here at Lowood Jane found kindness and acceptance from Helen Burns, another student a few years older than Jane. Jane soon shows to Helen how much love truly means to her by telling her: If others don’t love me, I would rather die than live– I cannot bear to be solitary and hated, Helen.
Sommers is a static character. In the beginning, she is a caring and loving mother. During the climax, her id conquers her superego and she becomes self-centered, but at the end of the story, she is back to where she was, being a devoted mother and wife to her family. Mrs. Sommers represents a woman who has been oppressed by the world of marriage. She is forced to fit in the social norm of being a proper mother and ‘woman’ that she has no time to explore her individuality because she lives in a patriarchal society.
Christine says “I had to find my own way and I started out in the hole, the bastard daughter of a woman who wouldn’t even admit she was my mother and the fat sister of the prettiest boy that ever lived” (Dorris141). Christine provides insight on the way she views herself from the very beginning of being a teenager. As Christine gets older she is very promiscuous, this is her way of showing that she wants to be accepted and loved for once in her life. Christine did not take precautions on using birth control and gets pregnant with Rayona. Later on Christine gets married and just when everything seemed to be going good for her she finds out that her husband, Elgin starts cheating on her and this is when she starts hating herself and making up excuses on why he would do something like that to her.
In the book Bread Givers we are given an insight of a father and daughter relationship that starts deteriorating because of the similarities and differences they possess. Azia Yezierska writes this novel in order to empower women and to give the reader an insider’s look of what it was to be an immigrant during the 1920’s. The main character of this novel, Sara Smolinsky, is a young girl in the beginning of the book, from an early age she shows her drive to gain more from life instead of moping around for charities. Even when she is the youngest in the Smolinsky family she shows great courage and never fails to give people her piece of mind. Later on in the book she discovers that in order for her to feel like a fulfilled person she needs to
If she were a "kind" child, by the eyes of Mrs. Reed, she would never go to Lockwood school; she were able to grow up in terms of knowledge in the school, because she had the need of being liked by others and was strong enough to improve herself in many ways; she, by herself, took a chance when announcing to be a governess. Charlotte Brontë Persuasion (Jane Austen) Anne Elliot is the oldest female heroine and one of the most solid characters in Jane Austen's novels. She is level-headed in difficult situations and constant in her affections. Such qualities make her the desirable sister to marry: she is always the first choice (for Mr. Musgrove, Mr. Elliot and Mr. Wentworth). Jane Austen Comparing both novels Women Both characters are strong, vivid, self-confident and, in some way, a rupture to the normal behavior on that time.