mother regrets leaving house because she wants to settle down but she is also getting sick moving around and has given up hope starting new life. * at start blackberries represent new hope but at end reflect mothers mood and life, as if it was wasted * depersonalisation major theme drifters. it mainly affects mother. she lacks identity in poem and continuously referred to as "she". tom, father, only person who has identity in poem.
In the poem “Diary of a Piano-Tuner’s wife” I believe the wife is suffering from a life of loneliness and lack of attention she does not receive from her husband while he is out “keeping the world in tune”. The wife is trying to teach her husband a lesson by throwing chaos into his well-organized life by digging the bed-row stones away, therefore throwing his garden out of order. She is ultimately trying to seek his attention and cause him to acknowledge her in any way. This is evident in the verse, “So only meanness every now and then is strong enough to make him stop and feel”. Perhaps his neglect is related to his own feelings of trauma during and after the war.
The family having lived in America during the American Great Depression, it is clear that the family was ravaging in poverty and poor education. In fact, Nicole had to be assisted on how to write the letter to his father by the wife because he had no knowledge of how to write one (Mazer, 1993). In abundance desire to share his memories, Nicole found it valuable to invite some of his friends who could dine and share memories together with is his family (Mazer, 1993). Nicole valued his friends as his family, which helps the story buttress the importance of family (Mazer, 1993). According to the story, it is unfortunate that the dog found the goatskin and ate it up making it hard to build the ciramella (Mazer, 1993).
Nyle’s Grandma allowed two evacuees, a mother and her very sick son, to settle in her house until the boy got better. The boy’s name was Ezra, and in the beginning Nyle was not happy with him staying at her house. She was sure he was going to die, so she swore she would not let herself get too close to him, she was to afraid she would lose him. Pity overcomes her and they become great friends. Towards the end of the novel Leukemia overcomes Ezra and Nyle is forced to live with the thought that Ezra might be dead.
Feeling successful, Sara returns home to find her mother fatally ill. After her mother's death, her father remarries only to find his new wife, Mrs. Feinstein, is a gold-digger after his late wife's lodge money. Sara and her sisters, still angry over their father's treatment of them, become enraged at his quick marriage after their mother's death and refuse to help him when his new wife spends all his money and refuses to work. Sara goes back to New York and finds a teaching job. Mrs. Feinstein is not satisfied with Reb's money and wants more from his daughters. She is angry that Sara is avoiding her father, so she writes a nasty letter to the principal of the school where Sara is teaching, Hugo Seelig, in an effort to give her a bad reputation.
Rose is first introduced in the novel while she is collecting Dolly at a pub, at the age of 14 she refuses to do it anymore. Roses sense of strength starts to manifest at this ripe age as well as a growing hate for Dolly. Rose however tries to accept her metrical roles because of her Father, Sam. Rose loves her father dearly and takes up the cleaning and cooking of the household, ‘but she would always burnt the chops’. When Rose meets Oriel Lamb she senses the fierce strength inside her and Rose starts to demonstrate the same qualities and stands up for herself.
Chapter 11 is a crucial point in Ruth’s life it’s about what every girl wants and searches for in life to find true love and even love from family. Ruth finds out that her family dinners are very different from others and she realizes things about her own family that she never knew. Ruth uses food to bring her and her boyfriend together(Doug) and her family more close to one another and even close to Doug and shows how different their families are from one another. Ruth starts this chapter in a state of as being lonely and highlights on the end Ruth’s college career and how her mom wants her to move home but Ruth really wants to finish graduate school but her parents refuse to pay because they don’t want her to. She gets a job to pay for
In the story “The Lamp at Noon,” Ross talks about the different hardships that Ellen and Paul go through with their relationship. Ross explains how sometimes Ellen and Paul feel hopelessness and emptiness surrounds the ill-fated couple. These are the feelings that surrounded many farm families in the depression, so it is quite believable that this farm couple would be going through this turmoil. Paul tries to convince his wife that there was still hope for him. Dustin S. Jussila explains in his article about the atmosphere in “The Lamp at Noon” that, “He wants to assure his wife, as well as convince himself.
In this story, Hester is convicted of committing adultery with the Reverend in her town, and is left to raise her new offspring by herself in the outskirts of her town. When Hester married Roger Chillingworth, she told him that she does not love him, but he still marries her because he loves her. The author of this work uses imagery in light of George Chbosky’s quote. Another example, is when Hester decides to stay close to her town where she committed adultery instead of leaving to another town to start over again. She makes this decision to remain close to her secret lover, Reverend Dimmesdale.
As Mary’s brother Laurie ran way from home after the clash with their father Calvin Pye, their mother got sick. Since Calvin was very irritated with his children, life was somewhat lonely for Mary which eventually forced her to get close to Matt. An excerpt from novel as narrated by Kat can exemplify how solitude contributed in fabricating the bond between Kate and Matt: “Mrs Pye was in a really serious state that summer, and that worry about her, coming on top of everything else, was more than Marie could bear alone. So she turned for comfort to matt. If she’d had more friends, or if her mother had had family living near, or if Calvin hadn’t alienated the whole community … then maybe Marie would not have needed to turn so hard, so appealingly to Matt.