Why not try and make something for a change?” Lilo and Stitch’s relatable characters speak to many kids struggling with making friends, broken homes, and being misunderstood. Lilo feels misunderstood, like a burden, and lonely. She is desperate for friends and tries her best to connect with others. However, “People treat me differently,” she confesses to her sister Ninna. As Lilo and her sister struggle to keep their already broken family together they argue and fight, but still love one another.
Most workaholics are in marriages that have been going on for many years, and this lack of attention has been hurting their wife for majority of the relationship. Women claim that they have to raise their children alone. Emotional connections are lost when fathers work too much. “My husband works too much and it used to bother my child as he was growing up. He understands now because he is a little older, but just as I was, he was always worried that something happened to his father.
As a three years old toddler, she boiled her own hotdogs. She grew up trying to safety pin torn shoe soles together and invent her own braces to fix her bucked teeth. Even her fun activities were from a source of imagination: “When Dad wasn’t there we invented our own games” (Walls 54). From family time games to feeding empty stomachs, the Walls children were forced into situations to make them rely on themselves. Although the situations the children were forced into to that enabled them to be self-sufficient were less than ideal-such as when Jeannette suffered severe burns from cooking her own food at such a young age-without those dire moments she may have grown up to be more like her sister, Maureen.
Parents are available to listen and to play any time that he/she wants. Immediately after another newborn comes home, everything changes. The children change their attitude, and do not want to listen; they do that because they are trying to get their parents’ attention. The loss of being the center of attention after a newborn is at home causes the older children to feel sad, angry, and jealous. Sibling rivalry usually continues throughout childhood and it can be very frustrating and stressful to parents.
Central Conflict The main conflict is character versus character. This conflict is between the members of the Goodman family. The reason why that is the parents are divorced and it brings so much stress on the children. So when the mother sends the children, Sally, Hugh and Bethan, to spend their first proper holiday with their estranged archaeologist father, they are happy and uncomfortable to be with him, due to the fact that they don’t see him that often.. The conflict is resolved in favour of the protagonist, the Goodman children, because all they really wanted was for their family to be together and that is what happens at the end of the story.
The short story “Two kinds” by Amy Tan is a personal heartbreaking story. It exhibits the conflicts in personalities, and the struggle between the child and parents. One now and then comes across many stories even in real life where he/she sees the sense of failure of expectation that the parents show, and there are cases where the parents try to live vicariously through their children. The parents believe that this is in the best interest of their children, and that causes them to be so motivated. Yes, of course the issue of family values, and morals should be taught to children at an early age.
One child felt like the mother didn’t really care what she did. The child new that her mother was just tired. She’s always tired. But the child understands that her mom is trying to make a living, to support her and her other siblings. They never have time to bond or talk because there are two other kids that have to split her attention with.
The Influence of Grandparents In the stories “Inspired Eccentricities” and “Spirit,” both by Bell Hooks, the main characters really take after their grandparent(s) and learn a lot from them despite what their parents might think. In “Inspired Eccentricities,” the daughter really looks up to Baba and Daddy Gus even though her mother tells her to ignore most everything that they say because she doesn’t want her daughter to end up like them. In “Spirit,” the daughter gets all of the spirit that she has from her grandmother, and since the dad does not like his kids having any spirit, he tries to break her of her spirit whenever she or any of her siblings does something wrong. “Inspired Eccentricities” is about a child who really looks up to her grandparents. She explains everything about her grandparents to us and how odd they are compared to normal people, but how much she loves them for that.
Throughout “Long Day’s Journey into Night” by Eugene O’Neill, the issue of the past is one that is brought up quite often, by the entire Tyrone family. Mary; the mother; resents that she has never been able to feel at home, while also battling her addiction to morphine because her husband was too stingy to pay for a real doctor. As well as the men of the family’s addiction to alcohol. The children hate their father for his cheap ways and for the way they were brought up. And lastly, Tyrone resents taking on a family, because it kept him from making his “big break” as an actor.
These negative feelings are due to dads not regularly seeing and interacting with their kids. Comparably, couples without kids experienced barely any change in their sense of family well-being. Consequently this creates a since of detachment between all the parties involved. For moms who usually are the primary care taker of kids after the split it usually is an economic stress trying to raise kids on her own. Alas at she would jump at the very opportunity at a new relationship whether it’s healthy or not, and quickly sign herself up for another relationship that will end on bad terms, just for the help.