She discovers some dysfunctional traits in her family (primarily caused by her father), and observes how her family deals with these issues in order to learn. Eve Batiste, the young girl, is the daughter of a beautiful mother, Roz, and a successful and prominent doctor, Louis. Her father is a skirt-chaser, albeit a good breadwinner for the family. Eve discovers this unfortunate truth one night at a party when she encounters her father fornicating with another woman, to which Louis unconvincingly explains that he was not participating in anything improper. She shares the information of what she has just seen with Cisely, her sister who is at a mid point in her adolescence and is not aware of how to cope with her feelings.
No matter how Bobby prays and his family supporting him all the way all comes to no avail, he becomes dejected over his experiences in the church. He eventually decides to move out of the family home, hoping that his mother will in time accept him for who he is. Mary is adamant as she pesters her son about the evil of being gay. Ultimately Bobby realizes that he’ll never live up to his mother’s expectations he throws himself to an oncoming traffic taking his own life. Devastated Mary begins a journey of liberating herself, and the society at large.
Eleanor tries to hide from Richie, her awful step dad at Park’s house but Park’s mother doesn’t seem to accept Eleanor until she learns about her home life and from then on Park’s parents are supportive and caring to Eleanor. After an amazing first formal date together, Eleanor comes home hoping Richie doesn’t know about Park. This is her worst nightmare, Richie found out and to top that Eleanor finds out that Richie was the one writing the obscene, sexual comments on her textbooks. Scared for her life, Eleanor runs to Park’s house and he drives her to her uncle in Minnesota. Once they arrive to her uncle’s, they come to the fact that they have to say goodbye.
Ali Ahmadi Dec 8th, 2011 “ I’ll Never Drink and Drive Again” Summary: Alcohol can change the lives of teens. There are more than 2000 teens killed in alcohol-related crashes every year. Kimberley Bowers, a young lady who was involved in a deadly car accident shares her story. According to the article, one night after a party, at which Kimberley drank about 6 beers, she drove drunk and killed Alex, a 26-year-old bicyclist. Kimberley was a student at the time of the accident.
“It came into my head that I cannot run away. I am who I am wherever I am”. Catherine, Called Birdy by Karen Cushman is about a 14 year old girl who's father, the lord, wants to marry her off to a rich old man with lots of land. Catherine wants to just get away from the lady life and escape, but is always held in place by her pregnant mother, and her always nagging nurse/maid Morwenna. In Catherine, Called Birdy, many women gave Birdy advice but she never really listenened to them, but when she did, she made a decision that changed her life forever.
He married Isabella to place himself an heir of Thrushcross Grange. This made Catherine being seriously ill with jealousy and died giving birth to Cathy junior. In part one of The Reader, Michael Berg was a hepatitis-struck teen and Hanna came into the story as a woman assisting him home. Months later when he came back to thank her, he became attracted to her and they began an erotic affair, despite their age difference. Hanna asked Michael to read aloud to him.
But she breaks up with him because she thinks he is a nerd and only thinks about himself. He goes home to the university and gets drunk and writes on the computer about the girl so everyone can see it. In the night he makes a website about the girls on the university, where you can choose who you like the most on their beauty. The network breaks down and they found out that it is Mark´s fault. Two brothers named Cameron and Taylor Winklevoss have a idea about a network where you can talk with people and friends.
Then my final story is “Mrs Chundle” a lonely, death lady who lives next to a parish and the vicar persuades her to go to church, although she is death. The vicar is horrified to discover that Mrs Chundle has bad breath and asks her not to come to church any more because of it. Life in Victorian times was very restricted because the women were not allowed to vote or visit public events, also they had to find a husband and were expected to dress well and look nice. The women in Victorian times were not very clever and were made to stay at home and learn how to nit and cook. Firstly we learn how Victorian society had double standards when considering behaviour of men and women.
Her home gave off a horrid smell and the town’s people were not happy that she wasn’t paying taxes. These facts gave rise to many complaints. The people of the town didn’t want to confront Emily at first; therefore they would secretly sprinkle lime to neutralize the smell. Emily could occasionally be noticed sitting in a window behind her jalousies with a bright light shining about her. Soon after her fathers death Emily starts to date a much younger man who is in town to work on the sidewalks.
For instance, during the “Week of Peace” Okonkwo came home to find that his second wife had not returned from her friend’s house in time to cook dinner. “When she returned he beat her very heavily. In his anger he had forgotten that it was the Week of Peace” (Achebe29). Beating your wife during the Week of Peace was a huge sin to the clan. Okonkwo let his anger get the best of him and violated the code of the Ibo people.