AIDS is like a curse in Bonang. Whoever affected by AIDS in Bonang society, they scared to share with others like Chanda’s mother , Jonah, Sara, Esther, Esther’s parents and Emmanuel among of everyone know they have AIDS, but they didn’t share. Esther said “So live in silence, hiding behind the curtain. Not just protect yourself, to protect the ones you love, and the good name of tour ancestors. Dying is awful.
When she meets up with Adam near the beginning, you'd never even begin to predict what would happen throughout the entire book. What makes it sad though, is toward the end it seems like she can't find anyone to rely on because she's disconnected herself from her family and friends, and instead takes refuge beneath the wings of 'the monster', letting it guide her through, knowing she's strongly addicted. Ellen leaves you with the knowledge that she may never get off her addiction, and partially with the moral of the story: drugs are addictive and harmful. They can really mess you up. The book actually makes you learn a lesson, without knowing anything at all.
Silence becomes ordinary when courage is forgotten. The courage to speak up and the courage to live life the way one wants for him/herself is what breaks the silence. Most of the time, silence is learned and passed on by following the footsteps of a role model. From the stories we have read in class, every protagonist fights a battle of how to live their life outside the norms of their society. The character of Isobel in “Precious,” by Nalo Hopkinson, loses her voice, one of the most valuable treasures in her life, because she never stood up for herself.
Their sin not only affects their own lives, but the lives of Hester’s child, Pearl, and husband Roger Chillingworth. It was discovered that Hester had been with another man when she became pregnant in the absence of her husband. She was put in jail and eventually sentenced to hours on the scaffold and a lifetime of wearing the scarlet letter to remind her of her sin. On the scaffold, Hester, feels cut off from everyone else in the community and is given time to think about her life. At first she tries to hide the scarlet letter but she soon realizes that she can hide it all she wants but the pain will always be in her heart(Hawthorne 2.6).
With such spiritual views, the mother’s life is in grave danger. Should the mother recuperate from the ectopic pregnancy, it will be essential for the couple to disown the opinions of those who offer medical practice. Instead they should see that the same entity who asked that we do not take life, gave us the ability to apply medical knowledge and save people from what could otherwise be certain death. They should recognize that two lives are at risk, and that it is wise to save one and lose one compared to losing both. In this case, the fetus does not have a chance to live outside of the mother, but the mother will be able to try again, if she allows the Doctor to save
I told her to stop whining. She would not get nuggets if she was going to whine. CI explained crying is for when you hurt yourself. I gave her nuggets after they cooled down and she seemed calmer bc I don't want to deny her food. She's in crib now bc I felt maybe she needed extra nap.
It spoke to me as a teacher. So often we have rules and policies imposed on us by administration, or even other teachers; departments, and senior teacher of the ways that they have always done things. I have felt as a younger teacher and a female, amongst male teachers, that I was too scared to challenge the ideas or be rejected of my new ideas. Your piece really gave me the confidence to be ok to stand up for what I believe in and it reassured me that I will always win when I follow my own ethics, even if I just do it silently, without protest. This holds lesson too for teachers.
Emily's Isolation Having to deal with someone who is in their own world, their own different state of mind rather than the regular thoughts people have is difficult. Emily Grierson seems to be a woman who keeps to herself, and those who are closest to her such as her father, Tobe, and at one point Homer Barron; once those ones who are close to her vanish she resorts to closing off her life in eventual complete isolation from the outside world until her death. Emily being the way she is, it makes the townspeople want to have an understanding for her situation, but they cannot seem ti find a way to put up with the consequences from the way she acts around the people of the town ans also how she treats them. The townspeople all come a census of something they don't like of Emily and go to the Board of Aldermen and ask them to do something about the problem that she is
Lisa also showed poor behavioral control and impulsive behavior. Her rage makes most people in the ward scared of her, they don’t want to make her mad so they will act as a friend to her or do certain things for her such as light her cigarettes. Lisa has controlling relationships with other people, and will kick and scream at the nurses. She also was very manipulative and conning. For example, she told Daisy another patient that she would rat her out if she didn’t give up her valium pills.
In “A Sorrowful Woman” Godwin’s unnamed wife character, starts off in depression and only worsens as the story progresses. Faye is upset because she does not have a child and desperately wants to give one to Kai; Godwin’s unnamed wife is upset and is desperately trying to escape from the child and husband and her mother duties that she already has. Faye’s attitude towards her family is making everyone in contact with her unbearable. As Van Der Zee states “She was making life unbearable for everyone around her.” (5). It was because “Everybody worried about her.