Both having their similarities and differences, they play huge roles in the books “The Hunger games” and “To Kill a Mockingbird”. One could easily see that Scout is the mature girl she is because of her wise father, Atticus Finch. Atticus taught her to be open minded, and to treat every human at the same level. Katniss’ father also played a huge role in the maturity level of Katniss. Since her passed away in a mine explosion, she was forced to look over the family.
Marshall was grateful the bullies had loosened up on Avalon because he was madly in love with her ever since the first day he laid eyes on her, but on the other hand, he was also devastated he was getting all this undeserved hate. Avalon wasn’t aware how much all of this bullying was harming Marshall, she didn’t realise that all this bullying was slowly and painfully killing Marshall on the inside. Avalon was blind towards Marshall’s feelings for her because she had always had the impression that he was homosexual because he was more in touch with his feminine side. Marshall
For example, when she was conceived with Kevin, she had undying hatred for the fetus but at the same time she marvels at the miracle of life and prepares herself to take are of the child. However when she is faced with the stress of taking care of a newborn psychopath who hates her to his guts she is extremely angry and even whilst that she tries to appeal her love for him. In one part, when Kevin was approximately two years old in his crib, Eva came and told him in a joyous voice, " before Kevin came along, mommy was happy and in Paris". However in another scene, she says, " Kevin is a good boy who loves his mommy!" and Kevin responds with cold silence.
He is in an awkward position in this short story. Daisy is a brown girl who is neighbours with Ben. She is eager to play with him, “…Darted across Finchley Row,” but Ben does not treat her the way he should he speaks to her rudely, “… In a muffled voice,” and is racist to her, “…You’re a nigger.” Daisy gets really hurt by the way Ben acts towards her, Ben says this to Daisy because of his mother and what she has taught him. However, Ben starts feeling sorry for her and lets her play with him, his feelings change because he realises he is wrong by treating her like that, his personality shines through. This leads Ben feeling paranoid as he keeps glancing toward his house just in case his mother sees them as his mother does not like Daisy.
Thus, Pearl’s existence gives her mother reason to live, bolstering her spirits when she is tempted to give up; acting as a hero who constantly saves her mother from the tortures of Puritan society. However, Pearl also acts as a constant remaindered to her mother of her inescapable sin, and therefore can also be seen as a non-heroic character. Throughout the novel Pearl constantly defends her mother when people of their community are threatening her. When Hester and Pearl are attacked by a group of children, who try to fling mud at them Pearl becomes angry. She frightens the children off and she throws rocks at them.
While being around Rose-Johnny, georgeann becomes so attached to Rose-Johnny; she gets into a fight with her classmate. Hearing the youngest Mattox boy call Rose-Johnny a pervert is the last thing georgeann wants to hear. She becomes so emotional that Georgeann and the mattox boy begin to call each other names and punches are being thrown. Eventually blood begins to gush out of Georgeann’s lip. Georgeann begins to cry and explains to her teacher that she is defending Rose-Johnny’s honor.
She often takes out her frustration on her chattering, sometimes irritating, younger daughter, Anne. She also criticizes Anne for talking too much and being too moody and uncooperative. Under the trying circumstances, it is not surprising that Anne thinks Mrs. Frank is far less than an ideal mother, and Anne does not want to grow up and be like her. However, when Mrs. Otto died, Anne stated that she feels ashamed for her past bitterness to her mom. Also, Anne said that Mrs. Frank landed in so many unpleasant situations because of her, and was irritable because of worries and difficulties.
There were times where Bone recalls “afterward, Mama would cry and wash my face and tell me not to be so stubborn, not to make him so mad” (Allison 110) which places the blame completely on Bone. I think the biggest factor into engagement was Anney’s refusal to leave Glen even after she knew, Bone’s lack of identity, the pre-existing idea that the family was trash, and her constant desire to please her mother even telling her mother “I could never hate you” after she witnesses the abuse. As Bone gets older she finds even more reason to blame herself for the abuse. She even blames her looks saying that her ugliness explains why Daddy Glen is
That didn't stop her though, because the next day she scared Lennie while he was sadly petting his dead puppy. He tried to ignore her at first but ended up talking, and shared about his love for soft things. She then let Lennie stroke her hair a bit; but when he started petting her hair harder she started to complain. Soon she was screaming and moving around trying to get him to undo his harsh grip. He panicked and was yelling at her to stop squirming; he didn't want to get in trouble with George.
I think this is true in many cases. Everyone, most of the time, believes they are right in their ways no matter how wrong they might actually be. In the text, the grandmother says, “ ‘In my time…People did right…’” (O’Connor, 1202). This is a perfect of example of the grandmother thinking the way she was raised, and the things she was taught, is the best method of being a “good man.” In order for the grandma to make herself believe she was in fact a perfect Christian, she had to convince herself that she was the ideal