Now that’s growing up without a childhood. Jane Smiley seems like a great parent who cares about her children but to allow her daughters to put on makeup even entering their teenage years just isn’t right. Her girls where prematurely growing up, where behaving beyond their age, and with their only priority being beautiful at all times it seem to help them in the long run. As they burned off the “Barbie stage” and grew into more important things down their lives. Like for example Smiley talks about her older daughter, “Now she is planning to graduate school and law school and become an expert on woman’s health issues, perhaps adolescent health issues like anorexia and bulimia” (377).
The truth may comfort the person or drive him or her insane. In the Secret Life of Bees Lily desires to know her past in relation to her mother. She knows her mother has been to Tiburon, South Carolina and is curious if her mother has been to Augusts’ house before, “Had my mother been there and bought this picture? I always promised myself one day, when I was old enough, I would take the bus over there. I wanted to go every place she had ever been”.
Unfortunately, outward appearances take on a more important role than other characteristics to teenage girls. The girlchild “... was healthy, tested intelligent,/ [and] possessed strong arms and back” (7-8); yet, she was still judged:“Everyone saw a fat nose on thick legs” (11). Finally, as the natural process of aging sets in, women become more aware of their flaws. Adult women are more prone to alter their appearance, whether
Da-Duh considers her culture to be the only way to live, the right way to live. When her granddaughter shed light on a new lifestyle, Da-Duh became stubborn as a result of an internal conflict with change. Her defense mechanism automatically triggered anger because she is in a position where she has the option of going along with her granddaughter or retreating back to the comfort of her old life and customs. When Da-Duh asked her granddaughter if she had anything quite as tall as the palm trees in New York, she responds that there are much taller skyscrapers. Da-Duh is extremely vexed because her previous conceptions of her culture’s superiority were just proven wrong.
With Abuelita having cancer and not having many days left to live the young girl wants to take care of her. For all the time Abuelita was there for the young girl, the young girl thought it was just the right thing to do, to be there for her. No matter what the young girl still looks after Abuelita and takes care of her. For instance she would help with Abuelita when she needed help. She would always go over to Abuelitas house and help her with different things such as, planting wild lilies or different types of spices like cilantro (Viramontes 1176).
Piercy analyzes the girl from birth and uses a detached, expecting tone to portray her normality. In lines two through five Piercy creates a bitter tone when talking about the toys her parents presented her as a child. Piercy's tone can also seem as if she is disgusted because she talks about the “dolls that did pee pee” and uses a sarcastic alliteration when she said “lipsticks the color of cherry candy” (2-4). At this point it is clear the child is a toddler or in adolescence since she plays with these toys that little girls are expected to pay with at that age. The first stanza abruptly ends with “You have a great big nose and fat legs.” (6).
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn “Someday you will remember what I said and you will thank me for it” (Smith throughout the whole book) Francie doesn’t really enjoy when people say this to her and wished that they would stop. All these people advise Francie to listen to what they have to say because they know it will help her in future problems. Her mother would say it to her often when she was lecturing her. I always was told this when I was younger and growing up thought it was stupid advice, but now I realize that I really did use their advice in troubling situations. My parents would always tell me this, and still do sometimes.
So Waverly was about to cry and her mother said “Bite back your tong”. Waverly was way younger so this showed that she was knowledgeable because not many young kids can do that and listen to their mother. Ms Jong shows she is
Since Liz doesn’t remember her past life, she can make better decisions than she did before , based on pure judgment. She will also learn to love her new family as well because she no longer knows her parents, Alvy, or Lucy. To conclude, if she’s careful Liz will get to live her life after fifteen like she’s always wanted. Liz will be able to go to prom like she’s always wanted, but with different friends because Zooey will be much older now and the two of them don’t know each other anymore. Liz will also get to go to college and live her life, and have a great career.
Growing up Dee was the one that got to attend school in Augusta because Mama and the community raised the money for her to go. Maggie barely has an education because she was not chosen to go to school Dee was though. Maggie is not resentful toward them about it she has simply moved on. As Dee is ransacking through the trunk Maggie gets upset. Maggie knows she deserves the quilts made by her grandmother and aunt far more than Dee does but of course Dee thinks that everything is about her and that she should have what she wants.