He understands the sacrifices that Darry has made to raise him and his brother. Even though Ponyboy sees that his brother works hard to provide for them, he still thinks Darry just doesn't care for him at all. He thinks Darry is always nagging him to use his head and to be good. This changes when Soda and Darry come to the hospital to visit Ponyboy after he has been hurt in the church fire. Ponyboy has a revelation.
Also, her lack of intelligence has left her with no job and an inability to get a job. In the story, there are many reasons contributing to Jean’s feeling of emptiness and difficulty in her life. To begin, her husband, Ross feels as though he has married beneath himself, and he does not love her anymore. Their marriage was most likely caused by Jean getting pregnant with their son, which made Ross feel like he had to marry her out of force. In the story, Ross specifically tells their son, Kevin that he should try not to marry beneath himself because he will end up stuck in the same situation as him.
Andy loved his child and doubted he would kill anyone, but was afraid his father and grandfather’s killer instincts had been passed to him. The relationship between Andy and his mom was completely ruined. After the case was over Laurie and Andy had to find a school for Jacob. Doubting any school would accept “bloody Jacob Barber”. One day Jacob went with his mom to a school to see if they had luck this time.
Hally’s father is an onerous man, because he drinks instead of standing up and taking care of his responsibilities. All these problems at home leads to the very agonizing conversations that Hally and his mother have over the phone. Hally knows to be respectful to his mother, but he takes out his frustration on other people. He is a kind and caring person, but when the phone rings and Hally realizes it’s his mother, everything goes downhill. In the tearoom, at the table, Hally was having a nice conversation with Sam, and then the phone rang, and Sam goes up to get it.
In the compelling movie of “What’s eating Gilbert Grape” directed by Lasse Hallström, Gilbert Grape is introduced as an attentive, caring brother in particular to Arnie, who has a disability and needs extra care and attention. This is especially because their father is no longer around after hanging himself in the basement and Mama is to big to even take care of herself. This puts a lot more strain and responsibility onto his whole family but Gilbert in particular. The movie demonstrates the many ways in which Gilbert shows his love, shoulders responsibility and deals with frustration as a result of his relationships with his family. Gilbert’s feels stuck in the dull town of Endora.
He snarled. He dispised the trivialization of higher education…”(Pg.522) His parents lack of understanding caused frustration in Rodriguez at first, but throughout the story, he found himself becoming more and more like them. “I thought as I watched my mother one night… I gestured and laughed like my mother. Another time I saw for myself: my father’s eyes were much like my own, constantly watchful.”(pg531) This realization was a revelation for Rodriguez; all this time throughout his schooling career, he had thought he was so different from his parents, him being an Americanized “scholarship boy” and them being working class immigrants, but he had learned a lot from them, and his realization of their differences, combined with his education is what ultimately drove his
Cept he don’t never hardly beat them.” (P. 22) Bromden: Psychologically abused by Nurse Ratched and the mental hospital. He lives in fear of ‘The Combine’ and is convinced that she runs the hospital. He has been affected by shock therapy treatment and decides to be ‘cagy’ and pretend to be deaf and dumb. Point 2 (Isolation): Celie: Isolated from the rest of society and forced to work all day and tend to the children. Albert does not allow Celie to see Shug Avery sing at the Juke Joint, and forces her to stay home.
The narration by James makes clear statement that his mother wishes him to be the mature man in the house. His mother pushes him to be the example for his siblings. For example, the eight-year-old James wishes his mother’s hug, but his inner voice stops him when he knows that his mother will not like the “crybaby” behavior. “She say that’s weakness and that’s crybaby stuff, and she don’t want no crybaby around her.”(paragraph 1) Not wanting to be a “crybaby” and knowing well that his mother cannot afford a trip to the dentist, James disguises and tries to conceal his pain from the rest of the family. The courage to suffer during difficulty that brings James up is from the exemplar of his mother.
This poem explain the feelings of, the docter, who seems immune to what’s happened, and speaks formally, the father who speaks less formally than the doctor, the mother who is clearly scarred because after the abortion she doesn’t want to have children anymore and is scared about what her father would say if he knew, the porter who seems to be more worried what would have happened if the boiler man had placed the foetus in the fire and they then later found out it was alive when they put the foetus in the fire, the boiler man who speaks the least formal out of the five, but he is also scarred about the incident as he has nightmares for nights afterwards. ‘Unto us...’ is about a foetus who is wishing to be alive, the further the poem gets, the more the foetus expresses its love for the mother and as its love grows it’s suddenly aborted and is dropped in a sterile bin, and at the end of the poem the foetus believes its mother is not a real woman. ‘Stobhill’ uses the form of dramatic monologue which I prefare to the first person narrative technique used by Spike Milligan. Some quotations in ‘Stobhill’ are: ‘Her career would be jeopardized ... fear of her father’ This is said by the doctor, this expresses how the doctor doesn’t care about the foetus’ welfare this only shows he doesn’t care much about the mother, but still cares enough to contemplate the fact her career would be jeopardized. ‘I have sometimes wondered how he got over conceiving me, or
The ‘disease’ causes him great embarrassment and discomfort when he is around people and his Mother’s attitude towards it doesn’t help him. Her voice repeatedly interrupts the narrative of the story. While on holiday with his friend Michael and his family, Neil feels like he has to hide his condition. Instead of having fun, Neil finds refuge with homeowner Mrs Wan (a former duchess) who encourages him to feel better about himself and he finally gains enough confidence to go with Michael and do the things that normal boys of his age do. In the opening paragraph of the story, the author makes it clear how much Neil depends on his mother.