Lucia’s oldest child is her daughter Octavia, and as much as her mother is a product of her country, Italy, Octavia strives to be American. The two women appear at first to be complete opposites, showing the clash of the old world versus the new, but as the novel progresses the similarities between the two women unfold and their dependence on one another helps them to hold their family together. Lucia Santa first appears on the scene as “a small, round, handsome woman” (8). Her dress is that of a matronly Italian mother with “heavy jet-black hair coming into a bun, [and] wearing a clean black dress” (6). Lucia is like many of the women of the time and neighborhood.
The central theme of “Nikki-Rosa” by Nikki Giovanni is the true riches in life is family. First, the mother-daughter bond between Nikki-Rosa and her mother shows that her biographers don’t understand that she cares more for her family than money. In lines six and seven, then line fifteen and eighteen through nineteen, Nikki describes some of the hardships she faced in her childhood. “They never talk about how happy you were to have your mother all to yourself” (lines 6 and 7). These lines prove that her biographers didn’t talk about her love for her mother, or basically her family.
Because Genie never formed attachment, her level of speech was very low and even now, has not recovered as upon discovery she was kept in the care of many different psychologists and then was restored to her original home and kept under the care of her mother. Another case study which looks at privation is the study of the Czech twins. The Czech twins were kept in an unheated closest and discovered at age 7. Because of their lack of attachment, they were unable to walk or have a grasp of basic speech. Unlike Genie, the twins were fostered in to a loving home and therefore, recovered and now live normal lives.
However, Bechdel's clean, distinctive illustration style with its wry observations and amusing details is fun to read and examine, and drew this reader into her story quickly. Indeed, it's regrettable that this review can only include quotations and not excerpts of Bechdel's drawings. Several delightful and revealing images are included, such as her grandmother chasing a "piss-ant," her early identification with Wednesday Addams, the summer of the locusts, her teenaged diary entries, and several aspects of her own adolescent self-discoveries. One cannot help but identify with Bechdel. However, despite the pain and struggle Bechdel has had facing her father's life and death, the book is neither morose nor depressing.
The supporting details stated, “I watched reruns of “Three’s Company’ in an attempt to learn English” (Kim, 2004). She stated “More brutal than learning English was facing poverty, with a rich girl’s habits and memory”. She live in Queens where most or all of the families were poor and so was she. At 13, she took public transportation to school to school for the first time in her life. She had to adjust to her new life.
Family and relationships ‘My mother and I have a pretty good relationship, if a bit erratic. One minute we love each other to bits and spend hours in deep and meaningful conversation and the next minute we’ll be screeching at each other...’ pg. 5 Marchetta raises the issue of family and questions traditional ideas of what constitutes an ideal home life. The text presents us with many versions of family relationship and while some are healthy (although still passionate like that of Josie and Christina) there are many fractured relationships in the novel. Josie is at first embarrassed by her illegitimacy and her Italian Nonna, but as the text progresses her preconceptions are challenged and she has to rethink ideas about her own family
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini displays many themes throughout the novel. One of which being the diversity in education for women in Afghanistan. Mariam is born under the guidance of a women where education is seen as unimportant whereas Laila is raised with the understanding that education is the most important asset to an Afghanistan women’s life, but they both come together to raise a girl who learns the educational values from both perspectives. Mariam, tutored by Mullah Faizullah, becomes fluent in the Koran at a very early age. Yet, when she begs her mother to go to school her mother replies, “Only one skill.
Unfortunately, in the process of obtaining an education Dee abandons her family heritage replacing it with a new “modern” way of life. Mama tells the story of Dee’s visit to the family home from college. In “Everyday Use” the narrator, Mama, characterizes herself and her younger daughter, Maggie, as uneducated and ignorant; however, one will find although they did not obtain a college education like Mama’s older daughter Dee, Mama and Maggie are far more knowledgeable of their own heritage than Dee. Despite Dee’s college education, it becomes obvious that when it comes to family heritage she is the one who is ignorant not Mama and Maggie. As the narrator, Mama, describes herself it is evident she has low self esteem.
The stories told in this novel revolve around the Joy Luck Club women and their daughters. Eventually, Jing-mei gets to meet her long lost half-sisters and though out the book, each of the eight women gets to tell the story of their life. Scene #1: One of the scenes from this novel that I found really interesting was when Jing-mei Woo looks back at her life. I like it so much because I can relate to it so much. As a little girl, Jing-mei’s mom was beyond convinced that Jing-mei was a child prodigy just waiting to be discovered.
06-05-13 Mean Girls Essay Teenagers get so involved with fitting in that they themselves forget who they really are and lose their own personalities for bits and pieces of others. The film “Mean Girls” is about a teenage girl trying too hard to fit in, instead of just being herself and she gets lost in the personalities and characteristics of being popular. She changes herself for others and discovers new things good and bad. She eventually learns the lessons of just being herself. Cady is a 15 year old girl who has just moved from Africa and she’s about to start her first year in an American high school.