She says to her enemy, Gretchen, “I win cause I’m the best” (23). This shows that she is arrogant and rude to others. She also challenges Gretchen and her sidekicks by saying, “That’s right, Fatso. And the next word out of anybody and I’ll be their mother too” (20). Here she shows that she truly is tough and she is not just talk.
She puts up with this day-to-day and seems not to get mad that often. Before Dona Rosa made that comment to Carolina, Carolina saw Dona Rosa chasing Carolina’s son with a stick and Carolina says, “A woman of 48 years is fighting with a child!” (De Jesus, p.7) This gives us the chance to see how much more mature Carolina is than the rest of the women. “Dona Silvia came to complain about my children. She said they were poorly educated.” (De Jesus, p. 7-8) Carolina has to deal with these comments made
Some of the names that were appearing on the top of the charts surprised me. Who knew that the president of the math club had such a strong throwing arm? Is that my lab partner from freshman year passing every other player in sprints? These girls were working harder than any sports team I had been apart of. Amazingly, girls who had little history with each other were gathering together during breaks, laughing and encouraging teammates.
Ignoring that, Nancy Lee still raises her head up and smiles, “This won’t keep me down. But when I’m a woman, I’ll fight to see that these things don’t happen to other girls as this happened to me” (Hughes). Even though Nancy Lee is disqualified to receive the scholarship, she still accepts it and lets it pass. Nancy chooses to face her own struggle by using it as her own advances instead of letting it paralyze her. Moreover, because of her decision, Nancy Lee becomes more mature and responsible.
This book is about a girl named Maleeka. She is bullied because of her very dark skin. Maleeka soon becomes ashamed of her own self. She is also teased about the clothes her mom makes for her, since her father died and they now are poor. So Maleeka turns to Charlese Jones, a girl who you don't mess with and who always wants to be in control.
I want to yell so loud that Baby Girl can hear me that dirty isn’t a color, disease ain’t the Negro side a town.” Her son is her main motivation to keep pressing on through life no matter what. But despite that setback, Aibileen manages to be sweet to little Mae Mobley. She gives the baby the love and affection that her mother won’t give her because she doesn’t feel she is pretty enough. Aibileen always makes sure to tell Mae Mobley that she is a very unique and special in her own way. She constantly tells Baby Girl to never forget “you is kind, you is smart, you is important.” But as the story comes to an end, her hate for whites begin to diminish.
Juggling four children, cooking, cleaning and adjusting to a new society puts pressure on Alice’s mother. Since both mother and grandmother are such strong personalities, arguments between the two of them are not uncommon. They both attempt to entice information about one another out of young, unsuspecting Alice, so that they have something to use against each other during future conflicts. Alice describes their ways of deceit as, “Constantly sighing and lying and dying – that is what being a Chinese woman means, and I want nothing to do with it.” (-Part 1, page
To this day women are still expected to keep the house up and in order, take care of the family, and have a job and provide for the family. Women who are beat are so scared of their spouse that they cannot speak out against them. Most men threaten the life of the mother’s kids or their wife’s own life if they seek out for help. Women in the world today are better about asking for help then women back then. Women who are beat in a relationship need to know they are one of many they are not alone.
She often portrays herself to be overbearing with her disconcerting ramblings over her children, but we know that it is out of love for them. She clings to her past with such desperation: “Possess your soul in patience-you will see! Something I’ve resurrected from that old trunk! Styles haven’t changed so terribly much after all…Now just look at your mother This is the dress in which I led the cotillion….See how I sashayed around the ballroom Laura?” (Williams 1987). Her fading youth only makes her more desperate for attention for herself and her daughter.
All these themes or can we call them questions or problems, are what the author tries to show us and maybe answer us trough the short story “The Sin Bin or Lucy’s Heart”. I’ve got the feeling, when I read the text that Lucy truly is a well behaviour girl; she’s a Grade A student and most of the times listen to her mother. But she’s weak and naive, she wants to be liked and to be cool, or maybe she’s just an easy target for group pressure. Her mother tells her not to smoke because it’s bad for her organs etc. Although she know it’s true she does it, because Bethan her popular but bad mannered best friend does it, and had told her that it keeps you skinny.