Ellie Linton’s character is tested when she comes home to find the family pets dead. She must choose between right and wrong in her follow-up actions, battling through trauma and distress. Then her best friend, Corrie, witnesses her home being destroyed. It is in the group’s human spirit and empathy for each that keeps them strong. Ellie again questions herself and her actions when she blows up a lawnmower to save her friends.
Idgie experiences a terrible heartbreak during her young developmental stage. She, along with Ruth witness Buddy’s tragic death. This will forever change Idgie, as she becomes even more rebellious and revolutionary. A example of her mischievous ways was when she can road past the church during a sermon and compared the preacher to a snake. The next stage that greatly influences Idgie’s life is when Ruth is asked to come and stay at Idgie’s home by her mother.
Even more restricting than economic rights were the social and political rights of women. They were expected to be silent observers, submissive to their husbands. Women who attempted to claim their views were seen as a threat to social order. This is significant in that the conservation of social order was a very important aspect of the Elizabethan society. Gender roles during the Elizabethan era were clearly defined, with men reigning superior over women.
Throughout history, religion has expected a lot from women. Since colonial times, religion and culture never asked, but expected, women to be well-mannered wives and mothers. Obedience to their husbands, along with the suppression of anger has always been the ‘role’ of the woman. Their job also consisted of leading their families to church as well as convincing their loved ones to live a good, Christian life in the eyes of God. As Elizabeth Fox-Genovese stated in the text Religion and Women in America, they were expected to “live a Christian life in what clearly was not a Christian world.” However, at this time, women viewed all of these duties as a religious “calling.” The Puritans of the 1600s strongly believed each person held responsibility for their own souls, but since worshipping occurred to a male God, the role of natural leaders of the churches belonged to men.
They only see the future. The death of Emily’s father is a traumatic experience for her. She refuses to accept his death. She locks herself in her house with his dead body trying to keep him with her. She is trying to control him in death as he controlled her in life.
Immediately, both the aunt and the children find it challenging to cooperate under the tough circumstances the war has inflicted, such as being forced to cope with food being drastically rationed. Soon, Seita and Setsuko are living in an abandoned hillside shelter where food becomes even harder to find. Both try to live off of stolen vegetables and other food they have scavenged, but to no avail… The film tells a simple story of endurance. It opens with a scene of Seita’s frail and starved body hunched over in a busy underground train station; a voiceover then announces the date of his death. From the beginning, the character’s fate was determined and it was apparent to the film’s viewers.
Anja is the mother of Art and the Wife of Vladek. Being a fragile character right from the beginning, when Anja was in the Holocaust, she became increasingly ill, both physically and emotionally. Hence, even if Anja survived through all the insanity in the concentration camps, the depressions and breakdowns might have made her commit suicide. In Maus I, Spiegelman showed the reader that Vladek and Anja already developed a strong bond and this was evident throughout their time together in World War II. The couple hid in a cellar house where there was no food, Vladek said “Here Anja, chew on this.
In Mabel’s mind she has nothing to live for and has no reason to continue her depressed life. Mabel can also be with her mother in a sense because spiritually Mabel is already dead. The next major symbol in the story is the pond. The pond represents death, when Lawrence describes the pond when Doctor Fergusson goes in to save Mabel, he says it is “deep”, and “dead cold”, he could ‘smell the cold rotten clay that fouled up the water.” These could also be ways to describe death. The pond is where Mabel dies but is also where things between Mabel and Dr. Fergusson change.
In the beginning of The Female Marine Brewer feels forced to leave her home, family, and friends behind in order to protect them of her shameful and humiliating acts. She leaves to Boston to reinvent herself, however, mobility was not represented as an easy process. She found herself confronted with obstacles she has not prepared herself for physically or mentally. As she reaches her destination she starts to question her life choices and future. She is faced with “ a miserable fugitive wanderer among strangers; cold; hungry, and without fortitude to solicit a shelter for the approaching night,” clearly she mourns leaving home right away.
Malik becomes frustrated because he can’t help the sick in the village. Malik's secretary says that Malik's boss is dead and the reason he died was because he got an injection of a female doctor. Malik and the female doctor is running out to find some food and some medicine, but while they are running Malik says that the storm might be last forever. 2. Characterize Malik.