Mayella’s decision to lie on stand after she swore to tell the truth, was well justified by the loneliness in her life, the fear in telling the truth, and her harsh family and background life. Mayella cares for her unprivileged family while her unemployed father, Bob Ewell, the only adult-like figure in the household, spends the little money their family owns on alcohol, the reason for his abusive behavior towards his daughter. Mayella is secluded from the world because of her status as a Ewell, is constantly afraid due to the abuse she endures from her father, and influenced and hindered due to her family history and background. In a town full of prejudice, Mayella is quickly overlooked as a dirty Ewell, however, looking at the whole picture, it is apparent that Mayella’s actions and family life lead her to be a character worthy of
In these lines, Blake speaks about the unfaithfulness of men, who at the time often contracted syphilis from prostitutes and spread the disease to their wives. Children born to mothers with syphilis often went blind due to the unknown effects of this disease. The suffering of an innocent child strikes close to the heart, and truly shows corruption in marriage. Mehta also uses children in her film to send a strong message about the corruption of marriage. By using Chuyia as a main character, Mehta strikes the heart of viewers when this young girl is stripped of her childhood.
A perfect example of this is when Mrs. Auld is told that if Douglass learns he will no longer be useful as a slave, at this time in the book she began to turn very mean and cruel towards her slaves and treating them more like property instead of being somewhat generous as before. Frederick’s family was forced to struggle through the hard times, and had to live a very unusual life, for example: Frederick’s mother was sold to another slave family so it was very hard for Frederick to see his mother, and eventually she passed away when Frederick was seven, although he didn’t seem very effected. Frederick also ends up proving that Covey was extremely two faced by bring up a very valid point, which was owning slaves was unnatural and unchristian like. As for Frederick’s Grandmother, that truly opened his eyes as to how these slave owners really feel about you, regardless as for what you do. She served her masters for years and then when she grew too old to serve them they just tossed her out like a piece of trash and left her for dead.
To begin with, Dickens develops this theme through Therese Defarge’s dialogue. This is evident when Defarge responds to Lucie Manette’s pleas: “All our lives, we have seen our sister-women suffer in themselves and in their children, poverty, nakedness, hunger, thirst, sickness, misery, oppression and neglect of all kinds... Is it likely that the trouble of one wife and mother would be much to us now?” (Dickens 250). This shows that Madame Defarge lacks sympathy for Darnay Evrémonde and his family because she has already seen so many families suffer under the aristocracy. Considering Defarge’s very own family was destroyed by the Evrémondes, Lucie’s pleas mean nothing to her because having Darnay executed will help her avenge her dead relatives. In this way Dickens shows how painful memories can arouse hatred in a person.
I think that she could've left for three reasons; Her childhood was not good, her father was an alcoholic and treated both Eveline and her mother with disrespect and cruelty, as well as her being forced to take care of the family when her mother died. My first reason that Eveline could've left was because of her terrible childhood. In the story Eveline is described as poor and probably does not have a very comfortable life. Eveline's struggle for money is constantly mentioned in the story. There are very specific details that show how miserable her life is.
Scheller, growing up extremely poor herself, explains that spending your childhood in incessant, unflinching poverty can replace normal self-esteem with a feeling of shame (356). She also speaks of her financial situation being her “shameful secret,” stating that she preferred having no friends to having anyone find out (356). Some impoverished children are in such terrible conditions that they “think that only rich people have their own bedrooms” (Quindlen 359). Another mental side-effect of poverty on children is the creation of prejudice - the undesired conditions of people must be explained somehow, perhaps by blame. Groups form and some “are united by nothing more – and nothing less – than a hatred of the white world and all its works” (Baldwin 364).
The story is about a young girl called Adeline Yen Mah who has a hard life. Her mother died while giving birth to her so she is considered an unlucky child. She is always treated unequally to her six other siblings. After her mother died her father married a woman called Niag. When the family moved to Shanghai to live with her the children found out that she was an evil wicked stepmother.
This sad circumstance affects the poor youngest child and sets her up for failure. In most other Cinderella stories, like in Perrault’s Cinderella the mother dies and leaves a young girl with her widowed father. Soon after the mother’s death the father remarries to a horrible stepmother who mistreats poor little Ashputtle (Perrault 624). These cultures are very different but each has an incident that occurs that lowers the characters circumstance. As in all cultures unfortunate incidents happen, but this leaves room for a great transformation to occur.
One may claim that Toni Morrison espoused a paradoxical view of the family in The Bluest Eye, yet this incredible novel perpetuates the effect of self-loathing caused by an anguish-laden family to a child. Throughout the entirety of the novel, Morrison elaborates an extensive plot in which Pecola, the main character, is attributed with vast tragedies. She is beaten, abused, harassed, and is the victim of incest. This is clearly the result of an unfortunate, vagabond family, which is unable to provide her with essential family values. Moreover, Pecola’s misery is forced upon her through the corruption of her family.
The first thing I noticed while reading the story was how the two girls differed in appearance. with the way the mother describes Maggie she says of how Maggie is vary skinny like a small child, dark skinned and has burn scars down her arms and legs, from when her home had caught on fire and she had to be pulled out as her mother had explained, causing her to be ashamed of her looks. Her mother says “she will stand hopelessly in corners, homely and ashamed of the burn scars down her arms and legs, eyeing her sister with a mixture of envy and awe.” Maggie’s scars have really affected the way she carries herself. She walks like a dog run over by a car as her mother describes it. Maggie is not only physically but mentally scarred.