Kristina's parents had separated when she was quite young and her father moved far away after the divorce. Her mother, because of her hate towards her ex-husband, rarely gives him the chance to see his daughter. However, Kristina goes to visit him for three weeks and soon realizes her and her father barely know each other anymore. This greatly troubles her, and she finds it difficult to be around him. She is also upset with her mother, who is dating a new man and as a result seems to be a completely new person all together.
5/27/13 Patriarchy with Rosaries Why is God instantly assumed a male in our and previous societies? The novel “Across a hundred mountains” by Reyna Grande consists of tragedy surrounding the Garcia family. Juana Garcia along with her mother must endure the absence of her Father that left to the United States to support them. As time passes by, the father fails to return leaving Juana and her mother vulnerable to poverty, abuse, and loss of faith. Juana impatient for the return of her father ventures to the Tijuana, and then the United States in search for her father, evidently taking dual identities of a fallen friend that at the cost of her life, allowed Juana to push forward the search for her father.
Afraid of people, and brought to the wilderness by her grandmother, she escapes the crowded manufacturing town she had lived in the previous eight years of her life. Everyone notices an improvement in her well-being but “as for Sylvia herself, it seemed as if she never had been alive at all before she came to live at the farm” (Jewett 1588). Sylvia had been unable to embrace society or make friends with her peers, and she still remembers with fear a boy, “the great red-faced boy who used to chase and frighten her” (Jewett 1589), from the crowded town in which she used to live. She befriends animals; not humans, and it is therefore when she initially hears a whistle on her walk home she sees it “not a bird’s whistle which would have a sort of friendliness, but a boy’s whistle, determined, and somewhat aggressive” (Jewett 1589). This whistle represents Sylvia’s fear of people in general, and the man who made it represents a part of the crowded town she had left as a child of eight.
The author is a loving wife and parent who experiences complications in her family relationships because of her husband, John, who is spending less time with her and spending more time at work. As a child, Hope Edelman grew up in suburban New York where her father was always preoccupied with work, thus never spending time with the family just like her husband. The author was seventeen when her mother died of breast cancer causing Edelman great pain. Her mother did everything around the house when she was alive, so her passing caused a lack of discipline with the children and there were no more chores for any of the siblings. Nannies were suddenly walking in through the front door daily.
Nora had tried to find work, but she had been a homemaker for fourteen years, so it was had to get back into the job market. Her mother decided to rent out Mary’s bedroom to help pay the bills. During this tough time, Mary’s older brother became ill and needed blood transfusions which put more stress on the family. Her brother survived the harrowing ordeal. (“Mary Higgins Clark”) Mary continued to write.
“ I was nine when I discovered a man in an abandoned farm-lot near my house” (1). That day changed the kids lives forever. Nobody knew about the man in the well except the children. Why didn’t they help him? This is just the beginning of how the human condition unravels throughout the story.
There is an internal conflict, as "the old lady," the grandmother, who lives with her married son, his wife and their three children. The theme is that age doesn't determine wisdom and persistence does not always get you what you want. The irony of the story is the outcome, and irony courses through the events and characters, especially with the grandmother and her granddaughter, June Star. Grandmother had to go everywhere the family went and wouldn't stay home to be queen for a day or for a million dollars, which implies she wasn't wanted but she couldn't be gotten rid of. Grandmother is the first one in the car, as not to be left behind.
He stayed in the forest for more than a month hiding from the rebels. Moreover, finding food was very tough for Beah. He says, “We were so hungry that it hurt to drink water and we felt cramps in our guts” (32). The war took away his childhood and made children like Beah became a hunger because they didn’t have food to eat. One time Beah had to chase a little boy to steal two boiled ears of corn to eat.
If the grandmother stopped preaching about how the new world has fallen from the Christian faith, and opened her eyes to her real life, she would have saved the whole family from the misfit. Garo 2 The grandmother’s son, Bailey, seemed exhausted of having to take care of his own mother. He doesn’t bother raising his head when his mother is trying to get him to read the paper about “the misfit.” This creates Foreshadowing and a bit of irony to the story because in the end the misfit is what brings him and his family to his demise. Not only does he ignore his mother, but when she wants to take the children to see the old plantation, he sighs, gets aggravated and didn’t want to be bothered. Although her tired son may have a good soul, he is not a good man in the sense he seems tired and lifeless in the story.
In foreign countries it’s also extremely difficult to get an education. In some countries it’s even more difficult and most times impossible for women to further or even get any education. Parents risk their lives for a better future. In the article “My Life in the Shadows” by Reyna Wences she tells the story of how she and her family illegally crossed the border to meet up with her father in Chicago. The whole goal was to cross the border undetected to give her children the opportunity to be apart of the DREAM act when of the right age.