Lincoln used to be a hustler, but then he turned into a circus attraction where he sits dressed as Abraham Lincoln. Eventually, Booth tries to imitate Lincoln’s technique which creates tension between the two brothers. Finally, Booth ends up killing his brother. A Raisin in the Sun talks about the struggle of an African-American family that lives in the Washington Park subdivision of Chicago’s Woodlawn neighborhood. Problems start when Lena receives money from the death of her husband, and the family doesn’t know what to do with the money.
Troy’s childhood was turbulent to say the least. His mother left when he was eight and he saw his father rape a friend of his when he was 14. He ran away at 14, and became a thief in order to survive. He was doing 15 years on a murder charge when he met Bono. As a father now, he carries this baggage with him into the marriage and mostly in matters concerning his son Cory.
Brought up by her grandparents, she found herself the victim of rampant childhood sexual abuse at the hands of her grandfather. She never knew any normal familial relations and became pregnant as a result of rape when she was just 14—she claimed that her brother was the father of her child. Exposed to sexual activities at a very tender age she began providing sexual favors in exchange for food, drugs, and cigarettes when she was nine years old. Thrown out of her grandparents’ home as a teenager she began eking out a life as a prostitute. She later started robbing and killing men sequentially earning the notoriety of being the first female American serial killer.
Before he died in 1954, without even acknowledging his son, Scott defaulted on the judgment. In 1939, Kathleen and her brother were sentenced to five years of imprisonment for the robbery of a West Virginia gas station; Charles went to live with a maternal aunt and a sadistic uncle. This uncle often spoke of him as a “sissy” and gave him girls’ school clothes to assist him in “acting like a man”. Charlie’s strictly religious aunt believed all pleasures were sinful. On the other hand, his alcoholic tramp for a mother let him go about as he wished, so this put him in between some very different disciplinary approaches.
His father was so evil he ran off Troy’s mother when Troy was “about eight” (Wilson, 852). Troy’s father also tried to take his girlfriend from him and beat him really bad. After his father beat him merciless Troy realized that it was time for him to be a man and take care
Because of his addiction, he is thrown out of his home by his parents. His father smacks him in the face, calls him trash and throws him out on the street. Not long after Lucky finds Dove. Dove is a drug dealer who decides to help Lucky and takes him into his home, where Lucky is to be his runner. Lucky seems happy to be working for Dove as well as living with him and there seem to be a light ahead for him.
In Mr. Copsons version, I learned of Sutpens marriage disaster, his immediate family,his illegitimate child with a slave, and a previous marriage to a woman who was 1/8 black, who bears Sutpen a son, which is his dream, but also his downfall. He also explains, how Charles Bon, Sutpen’s abandoned 1/8 negro child comes home with Henry Sutpen from college. Later he is killed by Henry, which is not
The children soon become obsessed with their mysterious, reclusive neighbor, Boo Radley. While they unsuccessfully try to get Boo out of his house, Boo has a series of anonymous encounters with Jem and Scout. Meanwhile, Atticus, a distinguished lawyer, agrees to defend Tom Robinson, a black man accused of raping a white woman named Mayella Ewell. This decision turns his children into targets of abuse from their friends and relatives. Despite Atticus’s powerful arguments for Tom’s innocence, the all-white jury convicts the black man.
His father, Unoka, is cowardly and spendthrift person, who died in disrepute, leaving many unsettled debts. For the fear of being like his father, Okonkwo becomes a rich and respectable man, and be able to take care of his three wives and eight children. But, unfortunately, tragedy happens. Once, at a large funeral, Okonkwo’s gun explodes and kills one powerful clansman’s sixteen-year-old son by accident. Because killing a clansman is a crime against believes in the clan, Okonkwo must take his family into exile for seven years in order to atone.
An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser CHARACTER LIST Some Characters Clyde Griffiths A young man who aspires to rise out of poverty but commits murder to pursue this goal. Asa Griffiths Clyde’s spiritually dedicated but otherwise dissolute father. Elvira Griffiths Clyde’s spiritually dedicated and psychologically strong mother. Hester “Esta” Griffiths Clyde’s older sister, who becomes pregnant out of wedlock. Samuel Griffiths Clyde’s uncle and Asa's brother, a successful businessman who owns a collar factory in Lycurgus, New York.