The book says that a cuff button of his suit was more expensive than the entire house where Marsha and her family lived. Because of their obligation to family, both Bessie and Masha lose the people they want be with. However, on Masha’s side after enduring years of her father’s mistreatment, Bessie nearly works up the courage to escape, only to be held back by the feeling that she is the only person truly willing to take care of the
However, there is more statistics indicating that families are in decline. First, the “traditional” family, which used to be defined as, the husband being the breadwinner and the wife being a full-time “homemaker”, has declined from 66 percent to 29 percent in 1972-2007 (Benokraitis, n.d, 3). This could be because of the changing dynamics of a family. For example, the rates of single parenthood are rising and each single parent has to be the breadwinner and “homemaker” of the family. Also, some adults do not end up getting married, almost 19 million Americans (Benokraitis, n.d., 3).
Here is a spoon for you to use.” The girl lets the old man sample from the store. And later she wants to buy him a pudding; it would give her such pleasure. The man samples not just one The man samples every pudding in the store, but he never buys anything, and he has done it for years. He says he is never satisfied with the plum puddings therefore he gets to sample the next one. (E.g.)
Jurgis struggled to make the kind of money he needed to maintain his family. “And, for this, at the end of the week, he will carry home three dollars to his family, being his pay at the rate of five cents per hour-just about his proper share of the million and three quarters of children who are now engaged in earning their living in the United States.” (Pg. 6) The kind of money these people made was absolutely ridiculous, such low wages should not be acceptable for the kind of work they due daily. “They were beaten; they had lost the game, they were swept aside. It was not less tragic because it was so sordid, because that it had to do with wages and grocery bills and rents.
She also crammed a bar of soap down his throat & to think David attempted to escape his aunt’s house, because he actually missed her. Mother only feeds David breakfast, when he finished all of his morning chores. His reward was cereal leftovers from his brothers. “I finish the dishes, then my other chores. For my reward I receive breakfast-leftovers from one of my brother’s cereal bowls.
Not only does this make finding a job next to impossible it also gets him a great deal of disrespect from the community, especially from Angela’s sister and mother. This even pushes Angela to a depressed state for a while where all she can do is smoke woodbine cigarettes and drink lemonade, neglecting her own children. Frequently, throughout the book, she must go to the St. Vincent de Paul Society in order to receive welfare for her family. This remains the only source of money for the McCourts due to the fact that when Malachy actually does get a job he ends up losing it or using his wages on alcohol. Angela’s Ashes shows the reader how an addiction can wreak havoc on a family, especially when that family has little to begin with.
Mama finally got the check in the mail for the $10,000. Instead of her giving the money to Walter she puts a down payment on a house for them, in a white neighborhood across town. When Walter finds out about what Mama did this badly upsets him. Now Walter has no hope, he thinks everything is going downhill. This caused Walter to stop going to work and go on a three-day drinking binge.
He would skip work, and instead was drunk all the time. He gave up everything, and just sat home. From Walters behavior, mama had felt so hurt that her son was going through this. One day she gave him the check to test him of to what he would do with the money. She told him that a certain amount is for him, and the other certain amount is for Beneathas education.
They include having many failures, not having any close friends, and the loss of his younger brother Allie. Since his many failures at school, Holden has been in a downward spiral that will eventually lead to his mental break down. Not being able to talk to any close friends makes Holden’s depression much worse. Holden thinks that he should be dead instead of his brother Allie which does not help with his depression. If Holden’s parents had let him go to a school near his apartment he might have been able to establish a few long term relationships.
It condemns George to living the life of every other hired hand, which is working for a month for fifty bucks, then just blowing it on whiskey and a whore, then repeating the process. Candy is also affected by the death of Lennie, the hope and plans that had materialised in front of him, were taken away equally as