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.
As a reader, I connected with all three girls in some personal level because the comparisons of our lifestyles and choices. For example, page 5 through 9, when Adjoua lies and goes to Bintou with the excuse of studying and there is that one person, Albert in this case, that goes and says “I know you are sneaking out to chase boys.” Adjoua has very over-protective parents, her father especially. But I thought it was hypocritical when he accused Koffi of ‘cradle-robbing’ with a younger girl when he himself was doing the same with Bintou, his daughter’s best friend and Koffi’s daughter on pages 23 through 26. I thought Bintou envy’s Adjoua and Aya. Aya for her intelligence, with focus to bigger things and Adjoua for her protective parents who constantly worry about every day and night.
Diaz describes her brother as the leader of "dirty breasted women" who feed him "crushed diamonds and fire" metaphors for hookers and smoking Meth (Diaz 12). Her parents crying, watch from their window as her brother deals drugs from their front yard. She describes him like a king, "and like all bad kings he wore a crown, a green baseball cap turned backwards" an indication that he had "all the jewels [meth]/ a king could eat or smoke or shoot" (Diaz 30, 34-34). In the last stanza she describes her parents as helpless victims without legs ,arms or fingers to pray with or "to climb out of whatever dark belly my brother , the Aztec, their son, had fed them to" (Diaz 45-46). This last stanza depicts the depth of their pain and despair through metaphors.
Leafy was raped by her school teacher and she became pregnant with Janie. After Janie’s birth Leafy begins to drink and stay out all night. Eventually, she runs away leaving Janie with her mother. When Janie is sixteen nanny sees Janie kissing a boy
Charleena Hendly is an actress who performed in many hit movies until she decides to move back to Culpepper her hometown for a little break. She was very tired of making movies and also recovering from her heartbreak of her husband cheated on her for a model and left her. After all that she has her little helper Macon who cleans the house and does many of her errands around the town, So Macon friend of Foster introduces her to Miss. Charleena and one day Macon is so sick with a fever he cannot go at her house so he sends foster to substitute for him while he is sick. That’s when Foster gets a paper with many chores for her to do around the house given by Miss.
Rayona hates it more than anything that when she goes anywhere, people poke fun at her and make racial remarks to her which makes her feel insecure about herself. When Ray meets Foxy for the first time, Father Tom introduces her and Foxy says, “Your Christine’s kid…The one whose father is a nigger” (Dorris 44). Not only does Rayona have to deal with racism her mother is always putting her in bad situations. There has been quite a few times where Christine has attempted to leave Ray and told her that she wanted to commit suicide. One time in the very beginning of the story Elgin goes to visit Christine in the hospital, Rayona had not seen him in 5 months and Christine did not want to tell him about her sickness.
When the white master is sent off to war, his jealous wife threatens to whip Nanny and to sell off her baby. Nanny flees in the night with her child and stays in hiding until slavery ends. At that point she becomes a nanny for a white family and desires to be like them. She strives to raise her daughter properly but that backfires when her child is raped by her white teacher. Nanny’s daughter gives birth to Janie and then disappears forever leaving Nanny to raise her granddaughter.
One example of her harassment is displayed when she meets George and Lennie on the first day of their arrival. Curley’s wife flirts with the two new men (Steinbeck, 64). Next, Steinbeck uses foreshadowing once more to show that Curley’s wife is not yet done with Lennie. While George and some of the other workers are down at the whorehouse, Curley’s wife flirts with Lennie in the barn in front of Candy and Crooks. One example of harassment is the mental attack on Lennie.
The Brownie’s plan of attacking the other troop falls through. It’s on the way home from camp that the girls are discussing the things that happened on the duration of their stay. They are poking fun at the girls who were different from them, making wise cracks and poor imitations of Troop 909. After her fellow Brownies bore of the subject of Troop 909, Snot tells the story of a Mennonite family who once did work for her father. She remembers her father saying “it was the only time he’d have a white man on his knees doing something for a black man for free.” Though she doesn’t agree with what her father did, she begins to understand his reasoning behind it.
When living on his own he has been going to bars and getting drunk, calling stripper, and has thoughts of committing suicide. After living alone for a while, Holden goes and visits his sister at her school. When Holden gets to his sisters school he picks her up and takes her to the zoo. After talking with his sister he decides to go home and tell the whole story to his parents. This book relates to the quote because Holden tried going out and living on his own after getting kick out of school and with all the stuff that happened to him like getting robbed and beaten up by a strippers body guard, and getting drunk Holden has had enough and wanted to go home and tell his parents.