‘“You can’t just live like this”, I said. “Why not?” Mom said. “Being homeless is an adventure”.’ Even though Walls knows her parents made the decisions that led them to where they are today, she feels unhappy for them. Walls began to realize that her parent’s decisions weren’t the best for her family, and she began to have mixed feelings for what she needed to do. ‘“Mom, you have to leave Dad”, I said’.
One observation that I made about Faye, from A Secret Sorrow, is that she is always thinking of her family members before herself. Instead of feeling sorry for herself, she is more concerned about how her condition will make Kai react. Then once the two of them adopt their three children, she takes advantage of the time she has with her them that she thought she would never have. On the other hand, the woman from A Sorrowful Woman hides herself from her family even though she knows the time she has with them will be cut short. She did not take advantage of precious time that she
The ranch girl should considered her self lucky that she was an outsider because the people that she wanted to fit in with lives changed in the worst ways. Andy died, Rick is paralyzed, Carla has a baby and now stay back home with her father, and her parent now needs her to care after
Instead, a cleaner named Zulema from the social services comes to her house every week to clean for her. Zulema always tries to persuade Doris to move to Stafford house which is an old people’s home, but Doris despises the thought of Stafford house, ‘I don’t want to be stuck with a lot of old lasses’, this is humorous as she is an aged old aged lady herself, just like the people in Stafford house. She doesn’t consider herself as one of those ‘old lasses’. It’s as if throughout the play she is making gradual steps in deciding to die. She regrets not having children because her husband has died and now she feels isolated and lonely, as she doesn’t know many people anymore.
Lena’s mother is dead and Marie’s left the family when she was a child. Despite the fact that Marie’s friends and father don’t approve, Lena and Marie become friends. They provide each other with an outlet to discuss issues and feelings they haven’t been able to express before. Lena has a secret about her home life and Marie can’t help her no matter how much she wants to. The author, Jacqueline Woodson, does a tremendous job at flipping stereotypes and allowing others to walk in someone else’s shoes.
Cathy saw her mother as someone who views the world in a negative way and chose to distance herself from her. “When Cathy went off down the canyon by herself, Marion realized, in a vaguely disturbing way, that the child had politely but firmly rejected her mother’s company.” (Hamilton 188). Helen on the other hand had two men that cared a great deal for her. One offered her a way out of her community into a beautiful home by the beach. The other offered her stability and prestige in her own community.
The Awakening During the time in which “The Awakening” was written, the expectations of women and the limitations of law allowed them little or no independence. Women were expected to perform the social role of a doting wife and mother. As one of these women, Edna has little or no opportunity to express herself in the ways that she wanted to. It’s as though she is trapped in world where she doesn’t belong and can’t find any escape. She feels obligated to her husband and children.
Belonging- A change in a person’s values can precipitate a decision to repudiate the values of the group to which they belong. This repudiation can lead to the person’s alienation from this group. This is explicitly shown in Arthur Miller’s ‘The Crucible’ and the film ‘A Walk To Remember,’ where the protagonists undergo certain obstacles and challenges throughout their journey eventuating in their reprobation of their group. In Arthur Miller’s ‘The Crucible,’ John Proctor’s decision to have an affair with Abigail Williams alienated him from his wife and family, resulting in him becoming a stranger in his own home. Initially, Proctor’s affair was continuing to have a negative influence on his relationship with Elizabeth.
Bella’s guilt caused by her mother’s fear of loneliness has left her short of any male relations. She cannot escape the wrath of her mother, and continually surrenders to her mother's will. Also, Bella has felt she cannot start her own relationship because her mother, in an effort to protect her living children, she has trained them not to feel by hardening them with punishments such as locking them in a closet or beating them with her cane” (Bloom, Harold. “List of characters in Lost in Yonkers. p67-68).
Ashlee Williams November 4, 2012 Creative Writing Response Paper In Alice Sebold’s novel “The Lovely Bones”, it’s apparent that her main focus is to show the significance between life and death and how the love for someone forms a bridge between the two. Aside from her goal in showing the relationship between those two elements, she also strives to show the reader the story in a different perspective unlike any other and does so in a spectacular way. Throughout the story, Sebold does a wonderful job of narrating the story in a first person point of view. We learn from the text that it’s being told by Susie Salmon, the story’s main character who is just an innocent 14-year old girl who is victim to rape and murder after heading from school one day. You can easily draw from the voice of the character that she is still very young and has yet to reach the age of great maturity.