After reading the book I have realized just because you don’t have that new LG slide phone or that bright fluorescent I-pod you have always dreamed about. Doesn’t mean it’s the end of the world. What I do have is a loving family and friends. Perdita had none of those things. She was adopted when she was only young, her foster parents always fight and on top of that the whole school classifies her as a freak!
Lisa Rowe in the film Girl Interrupted is by far the most powerful, seductive, and unpredictable patient in the ward. Her personality is completely independent and her blatant disregard for any and all authority makes her an idol figure in the other girls’ eyes. Despite her utter callousness towards each and every patient in the ward, the girls as well as the staff can’t help but be entertained, but are often frustrated, by her audaciousness. Whether it be running away from the hospital only to be brought back a week later, or pulling pranks on the staff and patients, Lisa ensures that she never loses any attention or leaves the ward peaceful for long. She often remarks that she is proud of her diagnosis as a sociopath, and the other girls feel somehow fearless when in her company.
Testing the limits of moral values and self awareness. Many women had given up all hope in their religious beliefs and had to come to terms that they were alone and had no one to rely on but themselves which led to many women’s hopes and dreams to be a forgotten memory. Others stayed true to their colors and kept fighting and believing that one day they will survive the madness and yet again see light of freedom. Today, women have grown since then to become powerful and independent individuals, not let anything bring them down. Over the years, women played the role as the housewife and most women were never involved with war and political issues.
When the hard clay is swept clean as a floor and the fine sand around the edge lined with tiny, irregular grooves, anyone can come and sit and look up into the elm tree and wait for the breezes that never come inside the house. Maggie will be nervous until after her sister goes: 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. She thinks her sister has held life always in the palm of one hand, that “no” is a word the world never learned to say to her (p279). We find very early in the story that this a simple and humble family, by the way the narrator explains in detail the front yard. A significant detail is the way the narrator slightly describes the differences between her two daughters:” Maggie will be nervous until after her sister goes: she will stand hopelessly in corners, homely and ashamed of the burn scars down her
She doesn’t understand why she was born like this and she feared she would be damned to hell because of it. | 306 | "The wonder to me now is that I thought myself worth saving. But I did ... And if they chanced to look down and see me struggling underneath them, they saw that even the crooked girl believed her own life was precious" | She never thought of herself a burden to her family, but now she felt as if no one truly loved her. Even her own mother, she thought, didn’t bother to rescue her. She thought herself worthless after this and questioned her family’s love for her.
“Never let anybody guess that you have a mind of your own. Above all, be pure (Woolf, 458).” Women of this time period were supposed to be seen and not heard, homemakers, and mothers. Woolf wanted absolutely no part of it. She was her own woman and nothing would hold her back from that. Woolf’s only choice was to kill the voice in her head, “… It was she who bothered me and wasted my time and so tormented me that
All of these sources have fair arguments and are not just ridiculous notion without any support. However, no one is arguing to increase the legal age of an adult. Those kids that are too immature and inexperienced to drink are going into the military, risking their lives. They are ruining their credit score making it impossible to buy a car or get a new house. These kids are getting married and divorced all before they are even “allowed” to drink.
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.
This has a lot of importance to the storyline because during this time, there wasn’t any man figure in any of Mama Elena’s children’s life so Mama Elena expected more out of them and put a lot of weight on their shoulders by giving them responsibilities. Tita being not only the youngest, but also being a female puts her in a position to be expected to take care of her mother, never having the opportunity to marry, and never seeking a life of her own. One of her sisters although, Gretrudis, breaks all of her gender roles put in place for her and goes to fight in the Revolution. So in addition, their work had to be perfect, and the daughter’s room for discussion or debate as young women, in the eyes of Mama Elena, did not have an opinion or say so and under no circumstances were they to go against her wishes. If they did, then she disowned them as that is later discussed in the story.
When the inspector tells Sheila about Eva Smith she showed a lot of emotion and felt that she had to tell the inspector everything that happened. She showed sympathy for Eva and now regrets what she has done. She is nothing like her mother; she thinks a lot more for herself and will stand up for herself for example when she questioned Birling about him knowing Eva Smith- Mrs Birling would never question Mr Birling. Before the inspector came Sheila knew nothing about the outer world and the different classes, her parents kept her away from it all. Sheila is already showing change as a person even though it is very early on in the