Money was this least concern to her, yet she used it as a security blanket from time to time. My father provided the best for her, so in return she was foremost the best wife and mother he could
She seems like the doting wife, who loves taking care of her children and her husband. We also see she has a childish air about her, that most things do not concern her. The pattern between the three women is they all have been living off someone usually a father figure, and have never been independent for themselves. Every other conversation has her laughing off or shaking her hand like what ever trifle at the time does not mean anything. Because she has a carefree manner, she uses her feminism to attract things that she wants or to get out of trouble.
Those few years were very hard, especially on my own. Finally, I realized in the end all you can really count on is your family and now we are closer than ever. My mother once told me the best thing she ever did was not listen to her parents and get her degree and I intend to do the
“All winter she’d clucked and rambled across their yard, a friendly sight to Franchette, and to Ramer a sign of one more thing he couldn’t control,” (63). Ramer is a very controlling husband and forces his chauvinistic personality onto his pregnant wife. After Ramer lost his job he took his wife’s high school diploma off the wall since it was a constant reminder he didn’t finish high school. Ramer also took Franchette of birth control because he said “they caused cancer,” even though they had a great plan to save up for a baby and for her to get a great job, but that all changed. The story implies that he wanted to get her pregnant so that she could not work.
I stayed up late to finish reading “Dancing on Broken Glass” by Ka Hancock. This book was an excellent read. This book tells the story of a couple whose love is unconventional but amazingly strong. Lucy is one of the main characters, and she has a family history of breast cancer. After losing her mother to it as well as most women in her family Lucy is unfortunate enough to be diagnosed.
For five years this girl held this secret because of the uncle threatening her family. This secret began to affect her behavior at home, to the point where her mother could no longer deal with her behavior. Her mom is taking her to a detention center; but before they get to the center her mother asks her again “what is wrong; did someone touch you or hurt you?” Amanda begins sobbing and told her mother what had happen five years ago about her uncle raping her. In 2003 Amanda’s mother, Kim calmly brings her daughter home, then drives to where the uncle worked and called him out into the parking lot. Kim is hoping he will deny the accusations, but instead he laughed at her asking “what are you going to do about it”.
Only his Grandma Brice made him feel loved even more then his own mother. Tanner is now 21 has a girlfriend Bianca. He is about to graduate from automobile technical school and will move out of the house he doesn’t feel welcome in. One morning Tanner over hears his Mother and Floyd talking about how they known each other for 18 years. This doesn’t make sense, since it’s only been 16 years since his Father’s accident.
In the end, she was abandoned by a local boy but she already had a child. “But my woman is got such a warm heart.”(283). It shows that Antonia still got a good husband at last and had a good family. The Hired Girls is the second longest section of the novel. It covers Jim's time in town, when he spends time with Antonia and the other country girls who work in town.
The second section describes Emily’s life after her father’s death. She actually tried to deny her father’s death by keeping her father's dead body unburied. However the terrible smell make the town people crazy: “Just as they were about to resort to law and force, she broke down, and they buried her father quickly.” The third section begins with Emily’s sicking. The narrator notes that a foreman named Homer who comes from North with a crew of men to build sidewalks in Jefferson. After Emily and Homer are seen driving out on Sunday afternoons, Emily visits a druggist.
At the very same time Lady Capulet had given birth to her beautiful daughter, Juliet. Lady Capulet knew how upset I was over the loss of Susan and offered me to be the nurse of Juliet. Gladly, I said yes. Ever since, Juliet and I have had a deep connection, almost as if she was my own daughter. In fact, she was the daughter I never had.