Brijitte Jean-Philippe English Ms. Cinnater Ordinary People Beth is the matriarch in the book “Ordinary People”. Beth rebels against the role to not be a perfectionist. She faces several problem with her son Conrad and Husband Calvin. Also the two of them have no expectations of Beth to be perfect, but Beth puts it upon herself to be that way. Conrad and Calvin want Beth to be a “normal mom”, a mother that’s going to talk about feelings and help with the family’s emotions, but Beth refuses to change her ways.
In contrast to Cindy’s new found self esteem, her mother seemed to uphold a strong lack of confidence in her daughter and in herself as well. By the same token, in the second article “The Thrill of Victory … The Agony of Parents”, the author presents the opposition through her mother. Jennifer Schwind’s mother appeared as an embarrassment to her publicly and emotionally. “In a voice so screeching that it rivaled fingernails on a blackboard, she told him that he was a disgraceful coach and that he should be ashamed of himself” (Pawlak 3). While in her mother’s eyes, she only supported her daughter and craved the absolute best for her child.
The mother doesn’t understand the daughter’s life, and this failure to understand leads to her to distrust her daughter. Dee sees her new persona as liberating, whereas the mother sees it as a rejection of her family and her origins. Dee indeed rejects her family by changing her name to “Wangero”, “she’s dead”, she responded when asked “what happen to Dee” (28). Later, Dee tried to get stuff from the house like the bench, the butter chunk, just as decorative objects but her mother sees those “objects” as a symbol, as a living proof of her family, her tradition. The mother wants her daughter to see those precious objects that way too.
Yvette went to Catechism twice a week.” This means that Mildred attended a Jewish school where Jewish people went to practice their religion and Yvette attended a Catholic church to practice and learn about her Catholic beliefs. Due to their different religions, the school didn’t allow them to eat in the same section, but Mildred and Yvette didn’t care about their differences and still sat together. The story tells us Mildred and Yvette have a strong relationship. According to the story, “they stood close to each other and held hands. Every once in a while one would squeeze the other’s hand in a gesture of reassurance, and they would giggle softly.” That means that they are close friends and they support each other.
Laurel’s Brownie Troop focuses on the church and Christian values; but her fellow Brownies do not live the kind words they preach when they attend Camp Crescendo. In ZZ Packers, Brownies, Laurel, who is quiet, nonviolent, and positive, grows from an innocent and naïve fourth grader to a young girl who comes to understand there is bad in the world that she could never fix like bullying and racism. Laurel is a quiet individual who mostly keeps to herself which results in her not quite getting along with the other girls in her troop. Laurel finds herself to relate the most to one girl, Daphne. Daphne is also quiet like Laurel but she expresses herself through poetry.
Lily as a dynamic character changes a lot. She is not spiritual at the beginning but she starts getting close to the Mother of Jesus, ‘Mary’. When Lily sees a picture of Mary from her mother’s belonging, she starts wondering about Mary. While Lily is praying to the statue of mother Mar she says, “I live in a hive of darkness, and you are my mother, I told her. You are the mother of thousands’’ (Kidd, 164).
First off, go away and don’t whisper” (Abcarian, 1169) Granny said this because she thought that Cornelia and Dr.Harry were talking about her behind her back. Although jilted at the altar, granny Weatherall still held the love she felt for George this was shown with her first child who she named George. From this past experience granny Weatherall never allowed herself to love someone with such profundity as she once did. “Love was denied Granny the day she was jilted and she herself never dared to love. But without love Granny’s radically human hurt was never healed.”(Unre, 108) At the age of forty, Granny Weatherall suffered of a second life changing jilting when her husband John died.
While Dimmsdale had his congregation and duty to God to follow His word. Both sides of the relationship are shown through Pearl. She has an extreme habit of being disobedient to her father and her mother, something that both Hester and Dimmsdale composed when they were disobedient to God, but she is also beautiful and loving just like the passion that her mother and father felt for each other. Pearl, is a highly ambiguous character in The Scarlet Letter. She is not only a disobedient and untamed elf, but also a beautiful, flower like child.
The Grandmother tried to convince the Misfit he was a good man in order to save herself (O'Connor). When she could not achieve this task, she began to question Jesus herself, “Maybe He didn’t raise the dead,” the old lady mumbled, not knowing what she was saying and feeling so dizzy that she sank down in the ditch with her legs twisted under her.” (O'Connor). It’s unclear why she said what she said next. She reached out and touched the Misfit and told him, “Why you’re one of my babies. You’re one of my own children!” Upon this action, the Misfit shot
"Sure." Unfortunately Krebs is too caught up in his own world to be his sister’s older brother and to show her why this mindset she has is wrong. There comes a point where both of Krebs’s parents are fed up with his laziness and his unwillingness to do anything with his life that his mother sits him down and tries to approach him in a more of a religious way. She speaks of God and how much they love him and want the best for him. "I'm your mother," she said.