Jackie has a good combination of the all the ingredients a good mother needs. Jackie Flaherty is a mother of two and can be seen as a typical Jersey mom because she is a “bad ass” and she has so much love in her heart that she would do anything for anyone. Kyle is a kid she just met and she agreed to take him in under her roof knowing nothing about him. Jackie even states multiple times that she is going to punch Kyle mom when she gets the chance. This shows the immediate and infinite love that Jackie shows towards people.
Hitchcock understood this desire and re-defined how America watched movies. (Thomson, 2009 p. 14) From the illicit opening scene in the seedy hotel room between Marian Crane and Sam Loomis, there is already a sense of disorder. After Marian crosses the line from illicit to illegal by stealing $40,000 from her employer and fleeing Arizona by driving to Sam, she is assailed by guilt and paranoia. Marian’s theft is a crime of opportunity born of desperation. The $40,000 was conveniently left in her care to be banked, her sister is away from home for the weekend, she is already upset, and disturbed that her lover’s dismal financial state has kept him from being able to openly declare their relationship.
Told from a clear perspective, the story follows her experiences through bars around Limuru and also in Ilmorog. She is a school dropout because her parents lacked money. As a naive young rural woman desperate for employment, she falls prey to the deceit of an exploiter who promises to find her a job but, instead, dumps her after a one-night stand. Consequently, she finds herself trapped in a situation completely out to her experience leading to prostitution, a profession that is dehumanizing to womanhood. Differently from Wanjiru, “Mommy”, how her son calls her on “Night Women” feels trapped in between the day and night women from Ville Rose, taking men home and fulfilling her job around her sleeping son with only a curtain in between.
And the next word out of anybody and I’ll be their mother too” (Bambara 77). Here she shows that she truly is tough and she is not just talk. The girls back away in fear, too intimidated to respond to her challenge. This story is narrated by Squeaky, whose main responsibility in her family is taking care of Raymond, her mentally disabled older brother. She explains that many people insult Raymond, referring to him as her “little brother,” but she tries to hold herself above the taunts (Bambara 75).
To add to this, the Elliot family is struggling financially and 50 pence every week is too much money if Billy does not want to take boxing seriously. Lastly, he is able to forget about his mum’s death and move on from it. So it can be said that the only time Billy forgets his troubles at home and be free, is when he dancers. As the film progresses, Billy realizes that he can release his emotions through dancing. We see this when Mrs. Wilkonson (Julie Walters) visits and argues about Billy's dancing with Tony and Jackie, we see him run away and there is a montage of him dancing in his courtyard.
But still, his mother is displeased. She asks for it all upfront because she is in debt. The voices in his house became more and more intense and so does his obsession to have more money. Two nights before the Derby (a big horse race event), his mother returning from a party, discovered her son madly riding his rocking-horse and screaming the winning horse’s name. Paul fell unconscious in front of her and when he woke up he heard that his prediction came true and he won eighty thousand pounds.
Throughout the novels, Frank McCourt, the protagonist in Angela’s Ashes and Paul Morel, the protagonist in Sons and Lovers face many similar family issues. In the novel Sons and Lovers, Paul grows up living with an alcoholic father. Paul’s father, Walter Morel, is does not support his family and is never home because he is always out wasting away his money on alcohol. Walter is also a violent drunk who comes home from the bar and fights with his wife every night due to her endless nagging. “She tried to force him to face things.
Does her inner power stem from her horrible situation in childhood? Because she was an orphan and she had to take care of herself to survive the aggression from her cousin and her relatives always bullied her? Her aunt couldn’t stand her, she behaved unjustly and prioritized own children. She couldn’t understand why Jane is so savage and rebellious, but she wanted only better treatment and her independent soul couldn’t deal with it. However at the time Jane was ten years old, she opposed her evil aunt Reed and she told her what she thought about her despotic upbringing.
His wives, especially the youngest, lived in perpetual fear of his fiery temper, and so did his little children.” This demonstrates the fear his family feels towards him. Later in chapter three his anger gets him in trouble when he disobeys the village and beats his wife during the week of peace. This is demonstrated in the book when it states, “And when she returned he beat her very heavily. In his anger he had forgotten that it was the Week of Peace.” After this event his fellow clansmen began to think less of him. Additionally, the novel continues to tell the story of Okonkwo and his family.
She finds a deep down strength and courage in herself that leads her to want to find out what type of person she really is, and what she wants out of her life. Nora Helmer is a delicate character that had been pampered all of her life, by her father and by her husband. In every sense she is typical housewife. She is financially dependent on her father earlier and on her husband later. She never leaves her house, mostly because her husband is afraid of the way people talk.