Curleys wife obsession with herself lead to her death The connection between Curley’s wife and Lennie is that when curley’s wife walked into the barn but George said that Lennie is not aloud to talk to her like men on the ranch Curley’s wife also suffers from lack of attention and love also having to sacrifice her plans for Curley Lennie starts to talk about the farm and the rabbits and says that he like to pet soft thing then there is a connection between Curley’s wife ends in tragedy just as he kills Curley’s wife and his dreams Curley’s wife has also got a strong connection to Slim because she was the only girl on the ranch and she never saw Curley so she gave the other men the eye flirtation but the ranch men but the flirt back if they did( 1) they would be fired(2)they would suffer because of Curley temper so yes they all try and keep away from her but Slim talks to her everyone looks up to him even Curley looks up to him he’s like the boss he is an expert in his job so everyone admired
mother regrets leaving house because she wants to settle down but she is also getting sick moving around and has given up hope starting new life. * at start blackberries represent new hope but at end reflect mothers mood and life, as if it was wasted * depersonalisation major theme drifters. it mainly affects mother. she lacks identity in poem and continuously referred to as "she". tom, father, only person who has identity in poem.
Curley's wife is an insecure, misunderstood and lonely woman caught in a tragic situation. She is already resentful of the fact that she could be a movie star in Hollywood with people at her beck and call but is instead stuck on a ranch, which isn't her ideal situation; this is shown when she is talking to Lennie in the stables and says, "I live right in Salinas. Come there when I was a kid. Well, a show come through, an' I met one of the actors. He says I could go with that show.
Waiting Between the Trees is about Ying-ying who was a wild girl when she was young. She was raised in a wealthy family and her mother always told her that she would bring shame to their family. After her first husband left her for an opera singer she went to America to start a new life. She met a man named St. Clair and knew that she would marry him but could not love him. She eventually learned that she must let go of her past and love this new man.
“She watches me, I can feel her eyes. I have seen it before in women. Seen them drive from the room them coming with sympathy and pity, with actual help, and clinging to some trifling animal to whom they never were more than pack horses.” Being a woman in the 1920s, Addie is expected to do nothing but give birth to her husband’s children. Because of this Addie became an aggressive person. Addie wants to be a strong, independent woman but society prevents her from doing so.
After losing a lot of their money, she was traveling to the United States and a little peasant girl asked if she can play with Esperanza’s doll which was from her father, when the little girl asked, Esperanza began yelling and saying no to her. Mama said she was sorry, and made the little peasant girl a doll in return. Another person Esperanza is very different from is Miguel. Miguel was Esperanza’s family servant. He and Esperanza were in love with each other but could not marry because of the different classes.
When a child responds in an uncontrollable manner, it usually means that he or she is uncomfortable and want to return to his or her comfort zone. When Rosaura has Esperanza in her care, she does not have the same feeling she has when she’s with Tita. When she’s out of Tita’s hands, the narrator says “the child had outshone herself, she sensed her aunt was thinking of getting married and departing the ranch, leaving her behind all adrift, for all say long she never stopped crying” (148). The sense Esperanza feels when she knows that she is drifting apart from her mother makes her cry uncontrollably. Esperanza will never feel comfortable around Rosaura because she is always with Tita.
I can point out several books that immediately influence my life upon reading them but the most consequential would have to be a child hood favorite… Black Beauty. Black Beauty portrays the story of a horse’s life through none other but the horse himself. Written by Anna Swells, she depicts a tail beginning with a fortunate horse who lives his carefree days as a colt on an English farm with his mother to the hardship and austerity he faces while a cart horse in London to his tranquil and gratified retirement in the country. Upon reading this compelling and dynamic novel I came to the realization that Black Beauty's life contains a lessons and morals typically related to the kindness, sympathy, and understanding treatment of horses. There is such a great deal of Verisimilitude or resemblance of truth and reality contained with in the novel which makes for the
In O’Connor’s story the grandmother is trying to make peace with the misfit with the grace of God. “The Misfit has an opportunity to accept grace but recoils in horror at the Grandmother’s gesture” (Piedmont-Marton). In Laurence’s story the mother is constantly trying to get her daughter to be more of a “girl” instead of working with the father on the farm, “For years she has helped out her father, but that winter she realizes that her mother is expecting her to become more of a “girl” — working in the house, for instance, instead of in the fox
Near the end of the book, Holden begins to realize he is growing older. Phoebe, Holden’s young sister, is asked by Holden to ride the carousel. But when she wants him to ride with her, he replies he is too old. "Standing on the precipice that separates the rye field of childhood from the cliff of adulthood, Holden wants to protect childhood innocence from the fall into disillusionment that necessarily accompanies childhood" (Hart).Holden concludes that you have to let children make their own mistakes. "If they fall off, they fall off, but it's bad if you say anything to them."