Even though, inside, Birdie is shouting in protest, Jesse stays silent while her friends criticize and make fun of black people. She stays silent because she wants to stay anonymous and is afraid of people finding out that she is black. Jesse also wants to be accepted by her new friends. This is what really tears the two girls apart. Jesse who acts the part that hates blacks and Birdi who sees herself as black.
Hester, a woman that has been criticized by the community, a scarlet letter put upon her bosom, and put on a pedestal for the whole town to shame. She stands there and looks into the crowd sees the father, is told to say who the father is and refuses, which brands her with the letter and shame till the end of the novel, if this isn’t a sign of courage I don’t know what is. Her daughter steers her strait and keeps Hester on the road to God. Hester thinks in more than one level depending on the spot in the book, she never thinks in level one mainly because she doesn’t give up the name of the father of the child so doesn’t say yes or no to avoid pain, but she does think in level four though because telling of whom the real father is would be against natures and God’s law, but not telling is against mans law. In the situation she also thinks in level five because it would be against her ethics to tell, and get the man she loves arrested or worse hanged.
As she suffers from finding a stable income and house for her family, Moody’s mother Toosweet encourages Moody to do well in school. However, her push to ensure Moody to succeed in school is only to prove to her husband Raymond’s family that her daughter is as smart as his family, not encourage Moody to attend college and fight for her rights. As a child, Moody was unaware of the oppression and inequality that African Americans had suffered. As she constantly questioned her concerns to her mother about the incidents that occurred, her mother always told her, “Just do your work like you don’t know anything” (Moody, 123). She realizes that her mother ignores the racial acts against her community and becomes alienated within her family as well as her community when she fights for her rights.
Hannah begs you to keep this confidential and not tell anyone especially her daughter, who she sees regularly, as her daughter will be very angry. Bi) How would you explain the term ‘confidentiality’ to Hannah? I would explain to Hannah that I do respect her wish to keep this information ‘confidential’, however due to the nature of the information she has divulged, I would have to inform management as she is putting herself at risk by throwing her medication away. This is not following her careplans and the medication has been prescribed to her for a reason and due to her regularly becoming ‘confused’ we cannot be sure that she is fully aware on what the medication is for. I would explain that we can keep certain things confidential such as opinions and beliefs but if information effects their received care or personal wellbeing/health then I have a duty of care to act upon this but only on a ‘needs to know’ basis.
Eddie felt humiliated about where she was raised, she didn't want to be associated with the "scandals" that belonged to the shacks north of the creek. She believed that, since she grew up in the shacks, she was worth less than the next person. Edith was embarrassed by her drunken father, even though none of his actions were ever her fault. Her mother, a "hallelujah-shouting fool" who preached, but never actually went to church, was also a huge contributor to the way Eddie felt. With people tormenting her about her cousins who were teen moms, or her father who made a fool of his drunken self in public, the poor girl felt like nothing more than dirt, and she wanted to be thought of as flawless and beautiful.
The strong effect of her silence proves to show that actions can be much greater than words. The aunt refuses to reveal the name of her baby’s father, protecting him with her silence, but as a complement she is persecuted and shunned from her society. She “may have gone to the pigsty as a last act of responsibility: she would protect the child as she had protected its father.” (15) This “No Name Woman” fled her home and chose to give birth to her child in a pigsty where no one would be able to neither hear her nor see her, thus abstaining from having a voice and remaining in silence. However, in writing about this incident, Kingston is allowing this woman to have a potential voice by sharing her experiences with the reader(s) and expressing the position this woman was forced to go in to and by doing so, she is backing up this woman with a “community” in a sense, which portrays the greater strength a community has versus the minimal a lone individual is capable of doing. In addition, the author says that “the real punishment [of the aunt] was not the raid swiftly inflicted by the villagers, but the family’s deliberately forgetting her.” (16) Since a group of individuals, especially those that were relatively close
She also put him at risk when she had Louis living with her and she did not call the police when Louis physically abused Andy while Hope was at work. Louis beat Andy with an electrical cord on his back and buttock. The opinion is that Hope did try to protect Andy from many things. She would tell him to stay with her, she made sure she held his hand when they went somewhere, but that was not enough. The thing that Hope was protecting Andy from was the voices in her head.
However, it was pressure from his mother and his children that lead him to detour off-road to look for this old house that his mother so much wanted to see and that his children were pestering him about. Like most men he did what he thought was necessary to get them to stop pestering him. June Star leaning over her mother’s shoulder in the car and whining about how they never got to do anything that they wanted to do is a common trait of a small child. “I don’t want to hold hands with him he reminds me of a pig” she says about Hiram, and
Ruth, in The Color of Water, exemplifies this quote because she completely disregards her own self-esteem. Instead, she ignores what other people, including her own her family, think of her as long as she can accomplish succumbing to her values. Both her black acquaintances and white acquaintances do not understand her association with blacks and decide to ridicule her. Despite this ridicule, she continues to live independently so that she can support her children. Rachel also decides to keep up the church that her husband started despite the death of her husband.
Our school is surrounded by sharp wire so we don’t runaway. My friend was taken away from her family from Rosebud reservation to come to school. She cries all the time because her heart hurts for her mom. The teachers would beat me and my friends if we spoke our native Lakota language. Forced to convert to be Christians, not practice old ways.