The Elements of “Snapping Beans” In Lisa Parker’s “Snapping Beans”, there are many elements at work that contribute to the appeal of the poem. The poem is about a girl from the South that comes home from a college in the North for a weekend. The college girl snaps beans into a bowl with her grandmother and is overcome with emotion as she contemplates the differences between her life at home and her life at college. In “Snapping Beans”, Lisa Parker uses the characters and their actions and thoughts as a way to evoke emotion from the audience and to create a story throughout her poem. For example, the young girl returning home has underwent great changes during her time at college.
The movie Mean Girls is a perfect example of in-group and out-groups, self-concept, and social identity. Cady who has been homeschooled her whole life has become forced to learn the social norms of high school. At the beginning of the movie Cady meets two friends, Damien and Janis. These two students were seen as the outcast crowd or the out-group, but Cady has no idea. As they enter the cafeteria Janis says “Here’s a map of North Shore…Where you sit in the cafeteria is crucial”, leaving Cady anxious when she is trying to find a seat at lunch.
Even she had a part and came every Sunday.”(9) She even enjoyed of being an invisible person by eavesdropping in other’s lives. “She had become really quite expert, she thought, at listening as though she didn’t listen, at sitting in other people’s lives just for a minute while they talked round her.”(3) However, because of her present at the park, the girl refused her boyfriend’s inappropriate request, the girl’s reaction made the boy angry at Miss Brill. At that moment, the young people made some rude remarks towards Miss Brill. These remarks changed her life at this early fall sunny afternoon. “It’s her fur-ur which is so funny,” giggled the girl.
This is where Janis had stated that they were friends and Cady stayed with them. During this moment, Cady is then introduced to the ‘Plastics’. According to Janis and Ian, the Plastics contain three girls in the group which includes: Karen, the dumb one; Gretchen Wieners, the one who spreads rumours and lies; and last but not least, Regina George, the manipulative Queen Bee. During lunch on her second day, Janis and Ian passes Cady a map of the cafeteria seating plans with all the groups and cliques. Some of them include: Freshman’s, ROTC guys, Preps, J.V Jocks, Asian Nerds, Cool Asians, Varsity Jocks, Unfriendly black hotties, Girls who eat their feelings, Girls who don’t eat anything, Art Freaks, Desperate wannabes, Burnouts, Sexually active band geeks and The plastics.
Part 1 At one point in high school my grades were below par which didn’t really make my parents happy. They decided to enroll me into a tuition center where may other kids take tuitions during the school holiday. One week in, I didn’t have a single friend, probably because I’ve always been a really shy person. I sat outside reading before my morning class. I looked up and noticed this girl was moving towards me, she engaged into conversation with me and then told me she thought I was real good looking and that definitely was an ego booster, she then suddenly left and I never saw her again because that was my last summer school class.
When dinner was ready I tried to sit and talk to her but she stood up with her plate and gone she went to her room. I could not believe this atrocity was happening to me. Eventually, we had to go together to family reunions but this didn’t stop her from not talking to me. Sometimes my mother would not wait for me to come out of school and she would leave me home alone to go eat lunch with her sisters. This looked like revenge to me against what I had said before when I was sixteen.
After that day Jarrett decided to make a comic book for lunch ladies and how they saved the day using fish stick nunchuks and captured bad guys with their hairnets. That comic alone changed the minds of children about how important the lunch lady is. Jeannie, the inspiration of the whole comic, was invited
She wasn’t crying all the time anymore she was just always alone and Marcus felt like he had to take care of her but since he had school he couldn’t be there all the time. He then decides to call Will and set him and his mom up on a date so that Will can help take care of her. Argument #2: Poor and inattentive parenting styles teach children to learn by themselves and to be more independent. i) “I was on fire… I was only three years old… I was wearing the dress to cook hot dogs,” (Walls 9) ii) “Our apartment was bigger than the entire house on Little Hobart Street, and way fancier… we also had a kitchen with a working refrigerator and a gas stove… a toilet that flushed… and hot water that never ran out.” (Walls 247) iii) Marcus shows he is independent by signing up for the school rock concert after he notices his mother crying again. He is told many times that if he sings all the kids will tear him apart, but he doesn’t care.
It is time for school. You are going to be late. Kate: (coming downstairs) Gosh Mom, do you really need shout? We are in the same house after all. Jessica: I’m sorry honey, it is just that Emily wont eat her breakfast and I have to be at work in 45 minutes, take her to her school and the traffic is insane downtown.
Chapter 11 is a crucial point in Ruth’s life it’s about what every girl wants and searches for in life to find true love and even love from family. Ruth finds out that her family dinners are very different from others and she realizes things about her own family that she never knew. Ruth uses food to bring her and her boyfriend together(Doug) and her family more close to one another and even close to Doug and shows how different their families are from one another. Ruth starts this chapter in a state of as being lonely and highlights on the end Ruth’s college career and how her mom wants her to move home but Ruth really wants to finish graduate school but her parents refuse to pay because they don’t want her to. She gets a job to pay for