Sal felt guilty and responsible for her mother’s miscarriage. Sal believed her mother lost her baby because she carried her. On many occasions, Sal was the only one that could see Mrs. Winterbloom’s unhappiness in her family, since then she wondered if her mother was also unhappy in her life like Mrs. Winterbottom. She blamed herself for not paying attention to her mother’s feelings. The second main effect of abandonment that Sal experienced was confusion.
Curley’s Wife Essay Loneliness paragraph quotes: “Ain’t I got a right to talk to nobody?” –p.99 “Think I don’t like to talk to somebody ever’ once in a while” –p.88 “Sullenness” used to describe her face when talking about her husband suggests that that is irritated and gloomy that the only person in the world she can talk to is a horrible husband. Shows her underlying irritation and gloom. –p.88 “Wire” is used to describe Curley’s hair by his wife. The fact that his hair is like wire as a posed to Curley’s Wife’s hair which is soft makes us feel that the two are polar opposites as in that Curley’s wife’s hair is an example of her warm welcoming presence where as curley’s hair is like wire as a metaphor of being a closed off place. Death Paragraph quotes: “Writhed” gives the reader the image that she is helplessly struggling like a small animal and compares her to the mouse and dog that Lennie has killed.
"If you had not been born Mama would still be alive she died because of you. You are bad luck." This quote is about the death of her mother due to her birth and all her siblings blame her for the death. This example is showing a significant event of the theme 'family relationships' because now all her siblings hate and treat Adeline unfairly because they blame her for the death when it wasn't even her fault. Also since this incident now all of her siblings pick on her and call her 'bad luck'.
He believes the marriage of his mother and uncle is not one of love and compassion but one of lust. She could not wait to “post with such dexterity to incestuous sheets.” At the funeral she had followed his father’s body like “Niobie” a vision of grief, a woman who had lost everything yet she remarried before the shoes she had worn had gone old.
In 1904 Horney’s mother divorced her father and left him with Karen and young Berndt. She began Medical school in 1906 where she met her husband Oscar Horney and married him in 1909. Just before her mother passed away, she had the first of three daughters in 1910. In 1911 her stepmother Sonni died and this brought more depression into her life. After her mother passed away she decided to study psychoanalysis.
But now Kate’s condition is becoming worse. Her kidneys are failing. Her mother wants Anna to donate one her kidneys to her sister, and gives proxy consent for it. But Anna refuses to oblige. What follows is a complex story of human emotions, relations, freedom and frustrations.
/ That we our largest bounty may extend/ Where nature doth with merit challenge. Goneril, / Our eldest born, speak first” (1.1.51-54). Lear’s older daughters, Goneril and Regan, responded to his test with immense flattery, over-dramatizing every word that came out of their mouths. On the other hand, Cordelia, the king’s youngest and favorite daughter, refused to use flattery to “win” the largest share of the kingdom. Even though Cordelia refused to speak, she possessed the most integrity out of the three daughters, while Goneril had the least, leading Regan to also betray Lear.
Activity 13 1. Direct Quotation: bell hooks says, “There is nothing that creates more confusion about love in the minds and hearts of children than unkind and/ or cruel punishments meted out by grownups they have been taught to love and respect” ( hooks, 27). Paraphrase: According to bell hooks, children are often confused between the difference of love and respect. It is the parent’s job to explain this difference in a loving way (27). Summary: In “Justice: Childhood Love Lessons”, bell hooks notes that grownups, with their ways of discipline; often confuse children about the concept of love.
Dunstan Ramsay, the novel’s protagonist exhibits the issue of how a rough childhood can impede on relationships later on in life. Dunstan’s relationship with his mother leads him to develop three problems that arise in his dating life. The first problem is Dunstan’s trust issues; he can never fully trust a woman due to his betrayal of trust with his mother. The second problem is Dunstan’s negative depiction of sexual relations. Due to his mother’s stern moral beliefs, he does not have much interest in sexual relations and has negative views on it.
(Barnet, Burman, Burto, and Cain, 2007, p. 566). The way she talks about her father creates a sense of fear and a strong feeling of military authority. Her suicide attempt didn't work so she "made a model" of her father by marrying a man who reminded her of him and filled the hole he had left in her life when he died. She notes how, at the age of twenty, she attempted suicide in order to be with her father again. "At twenty I tried to die And get back, back, back to you."