How would you feel if you are set apart from others and put by yourself? And that also by your very own mother who kept you safe in her womb for nine months where in isolation you grow in stages and when your time comes to enter the world you are hated by her and she is unhappy to see you there. You being fragile and weak are victimized….and you suffer loneliness because even the world is not ready to except you in a friendly manner. You are like a beautiful flower grown in the wild with no one to care. In the novel Like Water for Chocolates After two days of her birth her father died and her life is cursed by her mother, who is no more able to breast feed her and is busy mourning and worried about her responsibility to run the ranch rather than bother for her baby.
The Crucible is set in Salem, Massachusetts in 1692 where God and hard work consumes the people. At the beginning of the play, Reverend Parris is lying next to the bed of his ten year old daughter Betty who is unmoving and unresponsive. Hysteria is running through Salem because of the rumor that Betty is bewitched and she and several other girls where dancing in the forest with Parris’s slave Tituba. Solely afraid of losing his job, Parris questions Abigail. Even though Abigail denies that she and the girls participate in witchcraft, Parris does not believe her because Abigail has been out of work since Elizabeth Proctor abruptly fired her.
Jessica Armstrong ENG 2D Mrs. Martin 26 September 2013 Cuba 15 Violet Paz, a 15 year old half Cuban half Polish girl is forced to celebrate a quinceanero by her grandmother. Violet is completely set on not having a quince because she is definitely not comfortable standing in front of a crowd and proclaiming her womanhood. Besides she doesn’t like wearing huge, poofy, pink dresses. Cuba is a very hushed topic in the Paz household; no one will tell Violet what it’s like. On top of all this, Violet has to deal with her two best friends; Leda, a vegetarian activist who isn’t afraid to voice her opinion; and Janell, a dancer who has no shame in saying whatever is on her mind.
Agnes did not write to Catherine to emphasize her disappointment in her sin. Catherine stayed in touch with her father by writing him long letters and sending them to his office. Her father always wrote back. Catherine expressed her fears of giving birth to a “monster” baby as a consequence to her sin of getting pregnant before marriage. Sister Mary Margaret reminded her that God is not mean; which eased Catherine’s fears.
Then, in result to confiding in the salesman Elisa betrays her husband by opening herself up, and confiding to a complete stranger things which she couldn’t reveal to her own husband. Finally, we see Elisa betraying herself by not allowing herself to fully express her true emotions, and by being too afraid to step out of societies norms for woman during this time. Elisa Allen is a thirty-five-year-old woman who lives on a ranch in the Salinas Valley with her husband Henry. She is “lean and strong,” and wears shapeless, functional clothes (Steinbeck 203). The couple has no children, no pets, no near neighbors, and Henry is busy doing chores on the ranch throughout the day.
Secret Life of Bees Sue Monk Kidd Section A: Lily Owens is fourteen years old and lives alone with her father, a peach farmer, in Sylvan, South Carolina. Her father is very abusive and does not believe her stories about the bees in the walls of her bedroom. Rosaleen, Lily’s nanny, believes Lily but also thinks that is acting foolish trying to catch the bees. The mood of the story is very sad. Lily’s mother died when she was just four years old.
Clarisse’s death shows the ignorance and the inhumane cruelty in the society. The ignorance in the book can e portrayed through Guy Montag’s wife, Mildred. Mildred fits perfectly into the society, because she is just like everybody else. She watches T.V. all day long, hates books, and doesn’t have one bit of curiosity towards knowledge, unlike Clarisse.
It starts off with a little girl named Isis. She’s sitting on a fence when her grandmother tells her to get down, and she doesn’t seem to be very pleased with Isis. Throughout the story she seems to be a troublemaker. She doesn’t listen to her grandmother and does whatever she pleases. Her first act of troublemaking was when she shaved her grandmother’s facial hair.
The fact that Powell states that the old woman has lost her husband and both her sons in a war; her house is her ‘only asset’ influences the audience to raise sympathy for her. Not only is she left with nothing apart from the seven-roomed house, she has only £2 pounds per week. This further highlights her helplessness and solitude. Through the use of semantic fields and passive verbs, the old woman is perceived as a frail victim. She is “abused”, “feared” and “would have been attacked” demonstrates her powerlessness in contrast to the violent image of the immigrants.
CC will visit her aunt every evening after school to learn her english, Niang was not really happy with CC seeing her aunt everyday . Therefore CC ran away because of Niang while her father side her stepmother and scolded CC ,After CC spent a night at her Big Aunt's flat without her cruel stepmother's permission before Aunt Baba left to Nan Tian Island. CC was thrown out of her home on to the dangerous streets of Shanghai. Nevertheless, her father did not know Big Aunt left for Nan Tian Island early in the morning. Her father thought that CC would come back to him again if she had no where to go.