‘“You can’t just live like this”, I said. “Why not?” Mom said. “Being homeless is an adventure”.’ Even though Walls knows her parents made the decisions that led them to where they are today, she feels unhappy for them. Walls began to realize that her parent’s decisions weren’t the best for her family, and she began to have mixed feelings for what she needed to do. ‘“Mom, you have to leave Dad”, I said’.
A friend of mine reminds me of Tom because she always puts other things before her family. I can relate to Tom's character at the end of the story because I see the value in putting family first. In the beginning of the story, Tom is shown as a man who would rather work than spend quality time with his wife. “Got to get this done though” (111), is Tom’s response to his wife when she asks him to go to the movies with her. This shows how selfish Tom is because he decides to spend time working on research for a promotion rather than spending quality time with his wife.
Willy always loves Biff and wants him to have a better life. In the end, when Biff kneels and tells as he is crying that he loves Willy, Willy is then willing to sacrifice himself for Biff to have the money to pursue his dream. Willy had made Biff to abandon the dream of going into college; he doesn’t want to make the same mistake again. His love to Biff reveals to him that Biff’s future is worth much more than his life. Troy from Fences also tries his best to educate his sons Lyon and Cory.
There are numerous reasons why and they are because though she committed a terrible sin doesn’t mean she’s a bad person, Hester could have giving up on pearl but she pleaded to keep her, and pearl is Hester’s only prize possession Hester Prynne committed a crime and sin that is very extreme in the puritan society. She is an adulterer and had a baby out of wedlock but this doesn’t mean Hester is a bad person. Years after Pearls birth Hester became more active in the society she brings food to the doors of poor people, she nurses the sick, and she is a source of aid in times of trouble. Hester also starts interpreting the scarlet A as her being “able” rather than “adulterer”. According to chapter 13 Hester became more speculative thinking about what it means to become a woman of her society.
Now she develops the family by making Walter feel proud about being able to run the family the way he wants it. She shows sacrifice in giving up not only her insurance money, but also her ability to run the family. Another example of Mama developing the family is when Ruth and Beneatha are talking in the house. Beneatha rambles on about how she doesn't believe in God and there is no such thing as God. Ruth and Mama try to calm her down and tell her not say such things, but Beneatha still talks about the silly idea of God.
Kite Runner Questions 1) On page 316, Rahim Khan sends a letter to Amir that says the following: “that, I believe is what true redemption is, Amir jan, when guilt leads to good”. This is very true for both Amir and Baba. They both committed very selfish acts and needed to redeem themselves. Baba was always trying to redeem himself by always giving money to people on the streets, treating Hassan as his son and not a “Hazara” and building the orphanage. Baba stated, “I wish Hassan had been with us today” showing how he really cared about both Hassan and Amir.
In the book both sisters had to deal with their spouse cheating on them but they both just wanted revenge on their husband and boyfriend at first but that wasn’t the right way to go about it. One of my favorite lines in the book is in the chapter where the spiritual counselors tell Vanessa and Thomas that just because god says its okay to divorce and adulterer doesn’t mean you should. I think that in this day and age, we are so quick to throw in the towel and sometimes god really wants us to look at the “for better or for worse” part. I think that if your husband or wife was to make a mistake we shouldn’t be so quick to get a divorce and try to work things out. This book taught me that divorce isn’t the way to solve your problems all though time.
In The Bluest Eyes by Toni Morrison shows how Pecola, a poor black girl who believes she is ugly because she and her community base their ideals of beauty on "whiteness" giving up and not trying hard for her wish of the bluest eyes. Love is as good as you make it. The quote that relates to this is “Love is never any better than the lover. Wicked people love wickedly, violent people love violently, weak people love weakly, and stupid people love stupidly” (Pg.47, Morrison). This quote is significant because Cholly Pocola’s abusive father, an alcoholic man who rapes his daughter at the end of the novel which is the climax of the book.
I am pro-choice but I have to say, abortion is a wide topic and it surprises me how women use abortion. I have heard of cases of women that use abortion as a birth control or just because having a less than a perfect child or just because a new baby doesn’t fit in their family. I always thought that abortion was an option because the life of a child would be miserable, for example, a teenager that was raped and she is unable to properly take care of her child; or a fetus diagnosed with a disease that would make the child suffering and the chances of survival are
How does Hill convey relationships in the novel King of the Castle? Hill is describing Kingshaw’s relationship with his mother as not a good one. We see this as Kingshaw is thinking back to his past experiences with his mother, “He wished she were dead instead of his father”. Here Hill is trying to portray that Kingshaw’s mother is an extremely unlikable person and a terrible parent. Here, Kingshaw’s mother is trying to treat both the boys with equal respect.“I shall not make a favourite of my own child”, which is conveyed to the reader constantly as throughout the novel as her respect for her own child declines as her feelings for Mr Hooper increases .