Sommers is trying to teach her daughters that there is more out there and that they can be optimistic, despite what may be going on in our lives. I agree with the writer because I believe that as long as you have life there is hope. Sommers wanted to teach her daughter that they can use their mother and grandparents as examples to better themselves and learn from it all. “To learn a personal eloquence I could never learn at home”. The writer was not able to learn how to speak articulacy because she had inherited a language from her parents.
The Pursuit and Comprising Happiness of Taylor Greer What is happiness, and when should we compromise it? That is a very common question that people always ask themselves. Well in this novel, Taylor Greer, who is a small-town girl for Kentucky was the victim of sacrificing her happiness in order to give her and her daughter Turtle a better chance at life, but as the story progressed and she became more comfortable, Taylor started pursuing her happiness. In the novel, “The Bean Trees” by Barbra Kingsolver, Taylor Greer chooses keep a child, which was not what she had originally planned to do. This choice was a compromise to her original idea of personal happiness; however, as she comes to love and be loved by Turtle, she finds that true happiness lies in having meaningful relationships with others.
Scout starts to think of things critically and when other people go over the top she “tried to climb into Jem’s skin and walk around in it” (77). But even through her growing maturity, Scout still feels many pressures to become a lady, even from her own family. But Scout persists, even through
Unfortunately, as life would have it after she graduated high school with a 4.0 gpa she quickly learned that it was all in vain, she was not able to attend a university because of her citizen status. My mother was forced to play the hand that god gave her. As life pummeled her with obstacles she continue to be carried on by her ambition. She now has earned a real estate license and a cosmetology license, all earned while working 2 jobs and raising 2 children. My mother raised me with the same mentality.
For the little girl in our story both sides of it effected her. Using care based ethics, she was given the chance to live in a caring home where she grew to know them as her parents. When we used rules based ethics, it helped her in the beginning and one could say hurt her in the end. She was forced to move back in with her birth parents after 9 years of not knowing them. The “parents” that she did know had no choice in keeping her or not.
Jody Starks’s Domineering Force Against Janie Written by Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God is a story about Janie Mae Crawford, a young African-American woman who searches for self-identity as she ventures through womanhood. Being raised by a grandmother who lived through slavery and other harsh circumstances, Janie is taught to value social status and wealth, as they are the key to an enjoyable life. However, unlike her Grandma, Janie does not find comfort in materialistic possessions and searches for what is missing in her life, her missing part at the end of the ‘horizon.’ In her journey to complete herself, Janie meets three men, Logan Killicks, Jody Starks, and Tea Cake, all of which make a separate but significant impact on her life. In particular, Jody Starks, is the individual Janie is with when she makes some of the biggest transitions in her attitude, based on the way he treated her as an inferior. As a result, an important concept in Their Eyes Were Watching God to understand is how Jody Starks tries to mold Janie’s character into something she is not by exerting control, manipulation, and power.
She said, “In your company, I often feel blind, groping for firm objects, hesitant lest I collide with some obstacle I cannot characterize, let alone surmount” (Maraire 4). Zenzele has this burning desire for knowledge that her mother could not fathom and this desire was forged during the time between Shiri’s and Zenzele’s generation. Shiri often thought to herself, “It was as if I had skipped through some critical developmental milestone in the metamorphoses from precolonial clone
When Da-Duh’s granddaughter talks about the tall buildings, she brings up a postcard. Da-Duh’s granddaughter asked Da-Duh if she wanted her to send a postcard with a picture of the tall skyscrapers. That postcard could have been a slight step towards living in the moment but her life in Barbados restricted her from the step because she was internally attached to Barbados and could not let go. Da-Duh has lived in Barbados her entire life, and change in her attitude would have made little to no difference now because her culture has become her life. In the end though, Da-Duh did ask for the postcard.
“Given Circumstances” By: Shawna Betancourt Most parents at some point wish that they could have done some things differently and wonder what would have happened if they did. A single parent, bearing the burden of trying to raise their children, and maintain their household, face this to a greater degree. In the story “I Stand Here Ironing” written by Tillie Olsen, one mother’s struggle to raise her daughter the best she can is brought to life. She fought to stay afloat financially while trying to maintain raising her daughter to the best of her abilities. During this process her daughter’s destiny goes astray from what she had envisioned for her and blamed herself for the outcome.
She held the quilts securely in her arm, stroking them” (748) Dee (Wangero) can feel the love of her Grandmother through these quilts. Mama has already promised them to Maggie now, knowing that Dee had no use for them before she went away to college. Now she would like to hang them up and show off her heritage. Walker uses the quilts to also show a little personality in Mama as she is angered by the fact that Dee thinks all Maggie would do with the quilts is use them every day and not realize the history and heritage behind them. Even though Maggie is portrayed as a frail, quiet, shy child, she reveals her thoughts when Dee is told no by Mama for the quilts.