When Evyn first saw Eleni, with her red lipstick, black pants, and high heels, she thought Eleni looked nothing like a college professor and a mother. Evyn made the assumption that she went partying every night. That is an example of her being judgemental. After her father, Birdie, reminded Evyn that her new combination lock was 5, 10, 15; she forgot, making her forgetful. An example of Evyn being unintelligent was when her so-called friends, Andrea’s group, calls her Evelyn and doesn’t talk to her unless it’s to ask about updates with Ajax, she doesn’t realize that they’re just using her.
Carolina was very independent. When she was done working she would come home and write and do things by herself while others in the favelas gossiped and drank. She describes couples fighting and she never wanted to deal with that so she never got married. Her children were more important than worrying about finding a husband. She was independent in this way, where she could support her kids by herself; deal with their problems by herself and write spending time with herself and getting to know who she really was.
Her mother brings home a piano, but there is no room for it in the house. She sees through her mother’s optimism “Most pianists never get the chance to play in the out-of-doors” (Walls 53). Her mother is showing optimism. What the problem really is, their living conditions are not the best. This long term traumatizing effect plays a minor difference in the
Sophie is kept in silence by her parent’s image of her, so she can't really express any of her thoughts that differ from theirs. Furthermore, when Ken takes Sophie into the library, Sophie describes the books as having “no room to breathe” (6). Like the books, Sophie is suffocated by her parent’s expectations leaving her with no space to “breathe” and be herself. She cannot do anything without acknowledging their wants and expectations of her. Sometimes the simple fact that Sophie is a seven-year-old child is
Also, Rex and Rosemary constantly throw their kids into situations that most average children could never handle. Such as forcing them to live in “cat houses” and constantly packing up in the middle of the night and moving. During this part of the book I begin to feel for Jeanette, because I was given the luxury of inflatable water wings and she is forced to drown to learn to swim. Jeannette Walls, The Glass Castle, wrote, “Mom frowned at me, ‘you’d be destroying what makes it special.’ She said, ‘it’s the Joshua trees struggle that gives it its beauty’” (38). I enjoy the mother’s outlook of the Joshua tree in this quote, it’s very positive, and reminded me of someone I know.
Whitney Mims English Comp. 1102 Instructor: Robert Stiles Research Paper October 11, 2012 A Rose for Emily Emily Grierson, in this short story was a lonely child it doesn’t mention anything about siblings and it was very ironic that her mother was never mentioned throughout the story. Emily is considered “impervious” from what Shmoop Editorial Team states in their review on who Emily was; meaning that the things that would go on in the outside world or just in her town between the people there, it never affected her and the way she went about doing things. The Narrator emphasizes on how much she was her father’s daughter, from all evidence in the short story he controlled her ultimately until the day he died and it continued on even
This is fitting as the movie’s story line centres around Ada’s love for her piano. The piece by Michael Nyman is played in the movie scene where Ada finds out that she cannot take her piano with her to her new home and instead she has to leave it on the beach, where it could be ruined by the waves and elements. Michael Nyman used the piano as the main instrument to characterise the dramatic theme, the wild and unforgiving nature of the place where the movie was set and the raw and intense emotions of the characters, particularly Ada. The use of thematic material throughout the movie was used to create and define emotion and provide description of Ada. This was particularly important as Ada does not speak, and therefore the music was in effect advising the audience of her feelings and moods.
Astrid’s life begins with her mother Ingrid, Astrid’s greatest “fear” (pg. 11) is her mom leaving her and never coming back. As we know more about Astrid’s mother we learn that Astrid does not have a husband and her father is “irrelevant” (pg. 26) Ingrid has all this rules about not letting men stay over at night but once Ingrid meets this man named Barry all her rules go down the thrash and Astrid begins to notice every single little thing about her mother. Ingrid keeps on having dates with Barry until Barry starts putting Ingrid into this oblivious road and soon Barry is nowhere to be found.
Also, when Curley’s wife is talking to Lennie, Candy, and Crooks in Crooks bunk she states “I think I know where they all went even Curley”(37). Curley’s wife knows that her husband is unloyal to her when he goes with the workers to a cathouse. Because no other character in the novel shows jealousy and deceitful, Curley is a bad to be a good husband to his wife it makes her talk even with Lennie. Because Curley ignores his wife and does not let her talk to anybody, he takes part of the responsibility for his wife’s
During the trial of Tom Robinson, Scout notices that even if Mayella was lying in court during her testimony, “she must have been the loneliest person in the world” (191). Mayella always asked Tom Robinson to come over to her house and help her fix things or chop things down just because she wanted a friend. She was always lonely in the house since her siblings were too young to be her friend and no one in Maycomb wanted to be her friend since the Ewells had a bad reputation. Furthermore, Scout got to literally put herself in Boo Radley’s shoes; a man who stayed in his “haunted” home all day. When she was leaving Boo Radley’s house from walking him home because he had saved her life, she noticed “to her left of the brown door was a long shuttered window.