The narrator explains that the "grandmother didn't want to go to Florida" (320). Although a major conflict could result from her dislike of the family's choice of vacation spots, it does not. When the grandmother first speaks she asks Bailey to read a newspaper article that she has found. She attempts to change his mind about not going to Florida, by saying, "Here this fellow that calls himself The Misfit is aloose from the Federal Pen and headed toward Florida and you read here what it says he did to these people..." (320). Bailey does not make eye contact with her.
She suggests they go and the more she talks about it the more she wants to go. Bailey says no, but the grandma beguiles him into going anyways. The grandmother tells him that the road leading to the plantation is a mile back and he turns the car around. It is a dirt road that twists and turns
In their younger years, they were told they would never fit in due to the color of their skin. In Helga's case because she was bi-racial she was always told. "If you couldn't prove your ancestry and connections, you were tolerated, but you didn't 'belong'." (Q.43). Even when Helga tries to get help from Uncle Peter she is rejected by his wife, Mrs. Nilssen, who tells her directly "Well, he isn't exactly your uncle, is he?
I view the grandmother in this story as a southern “lady” with the best of intentions for her family; but, she is also self-righteous and self-serving. The first line of the story tells us the grandmother wants to go to Tennessee to visit friends. She then uses the news article about The Misfit as a reason to not to go to Florida and states that she could not answer to her conscience if she did. In addition, the grandmother knows her son Bailey does not like to travel with the cat, Pitty Sing. The grandmother proceeds to hide Pitty Sing in a basket and brings her along anyway.
In addition, the grandmother talks about Jesus with The Misfit when she hopes that it might help save her life. However, her first appeal is not religious because she never brings it up in the rest of the story. Moreover, she mumbles “Maybe he didn’t raise the dead” (28) affirming with the Misfit that Jesus must not have existed and all that religious magic was all just an illusion. Lastly, the grandmother lies again to herself and to The Misfit when she says, “‘you shouldn’t call yourself The Misfit because I know you’re a good man at heart’” (O’ Connor 23). The only reason she says this is in an attempt to save her
They no longer qualify because his daughter has just turned nineteen. It’s ironic they are not considered a traditional family on paper buy in (582,3) some find them rather traditional. The author’s attitude seems to be frustrated but also in a relaxed tone. He doesn’t seem so angry that his youngest daughter is making him unqualified. It’s hilarious how he did everything in his power to keep her from turning her age.
For many years authors have brilliantly incorporated the theme of sorrow and disempowerment as a consequence of the actions of others. Authors depict the reality of others doubt in people, even their family members, through their brutal and trust lacking actions. Through the short stories “Boys and Girls” by Alice Munro, “Brother Dear” by Bernice Friensen and “A Cap for Steve” written by Morley Callaghan the aspirations and desires of the main characters are not accepted by their fathers and also rejected by a more powerful authority. Not only are the characters not accepted but also relatives are thought to be more advantageous than then the key characters and although one character does not have a sibling, money overpowered his importance. Lastly, the fathers expectations of two characters does not align with the mothers, yet in one piece of literature the mother expected exactly what the father wished.
In a slight way with Jack as he makes sure she doesn’t have to go to juvie, but it’s truly shown on pages 258-259 when Vivian pays it forward to Molly and saves her. In this portion of the book Molly has been kicked out of the foster home she was in for the duration of the book. She doesn’t really have anywhere to go and if she went back into the system she would have to move and leave her life behind. Her boyfriend, her last year of high school in a familiar place, and many other things forcing her to start over, a difficult thing to do, especially at her age. Thankfully though Vivian comes through and gives Molly a room in her house.
Later in the novel, as Jeanette gets older, her faith dies, as she realises the Glass Castle will never be built. The metaphor of the glass castle and the significance it has for her and her father is that of hope, as is shown on the first page of the memoir, before her story begins, where she quotes Dylan Thomas, “dark is a way and light is a place”. Jeanette is referring to the Glass Castle when she talks of light, and this is what instils her persistent love in her father. p.238 Just before Jeanette leaves for New York, Jeanette tells her father she doesn’t believe he will ever build the Glass Castle. Their relationship is tainted by this Monument of glass castle was a symbol for a better life.
"To Kill a Mockingbird" is an all-time classic novel which discusses family in a prejudice and discriminating way. Throughout the entire text, family values and morals is often brought up in a different way whether through direct wording or even under a saying. Many main characters show us the way families work but sometimes it is somewhat minor characters, much like that of Aunt Alexandra, that can bring up some issues among not only direct families, but sometimes how that family affects the town of Maycomb. Family is more often than not an individual's biggest influence as they are their main social group whilst growing up. Many of the families traits from past generations will arise in the children as that is more often than not all they know.