As a child when my parents divorced I felt as if it was my fault. Maybe I made it hard for them or, I wasn’t a good girl, sometimes I even felt like I just wasn’t what they wanted especially since I kept being passed back and forth from parent to parent. This of course leads to both of the children searching for the love of a mother figure and father figure, and varying degrees of success in soothing their feelings of being unwanted. Once a child is born they form an attachment to the person raising them whether it’s a positive or negative attachment. In the book Maya felt abandoned but I feel like her and her brother handled the situation a lot better than most children.
Clayton Poole, who is established as the clumsy single male who can’t even care for himself, becomes the carer for Carla’s babies as she resumes her career. As time progresses, Sandy persists that Clayton will need to get married if he wants to keep the babies. “You’re not married Clayton…they’re not going to let a bachelor raise three little girls.” “They’ll put them with married couples”. Whilst Clayton is willing to learn how to care for the babies the way a mother would, he is still challenged by the court, a case which came about due to the dismay and the gossiping of the townspeople. As time progresses, Clayton is seen dressed in more pink and soft colours to accentuate his feminine sort of parenting.
5/27/13 Patriarchy with Rosaries Why is God instantly assumed a male in our and previous societies? The novel “Across a hundred mountains” by Reyna Grande consists of tragedy surrounding the Garcia family. Juana Garcia along with her mother must endure the absence of her Father that left to the United States to support them. As time passes by, the father fails to return leaving Juana and her mother vulnerable to poverty, abuse, and loss of faith. Juana impatient for the return of her father ventures to the Tijuana, and then the United States in search for her father, evidently taking dual identities of a fallen friend that at the cost of her life, allowed Juana to push forward the search for her father.
If the grandmother stopped preaching about how the new world has fallen from the Christian faith, and opened her eyes to her real life, she would have saved the whole family from the misfit. Garo 2 The grandmother’s son, Bailey, seemed exhausted of having to take care of his own mother. He doesn’t bother raising his head when his mother is trying to get him to read the paper about “the misfit.” This creates Foreshadowing and a bit of irony to the story because in the end the misfit is what brings him and his family to his demise. Not only does he ignore his mother, but when she wants to take the children to see the old plantation, he sighs, gets aggravated and didn’t want to be bothered. Although her tired son may have a good soul, he is not a good man in the sense he seems tired and lifeless in the story.
Scenario- Jenny and Mark have been rowing constantly since Emma was born six weeks ago. Mark was uncertain about being a father but hoped he would feel better when the baby arrived. He really wanted a son, Jenny had a long and difficult labour, and has been physically weak and weepy since she came out of hospital. Mark has left and gone to live with his mother. Both Jenny and Mark want to make the marriage work, but they are hardly on speaking terms.
Both parents wanted to see their children become successful, but they took different routes to achieve this. Mark was given the expectations of attending school and trying his hardest to succeed in life. He was a rebellious young man who believed schooling was pointless. His mom finally forced him to attend school by tying him up and carrying him there. Mark’s mom did this because she couldn’t stand thinking about Mark becoming like his father.
After many hard and lonely winters Ethan’s mother becomes depressed and there enters Zeena to take care of his mother. After she passed away, Ethan did not want to end up all alone like his mother, so he asked Zeena to marry him. Even though it wasn’t based on love they ended up getting married as he did not want to remain as a lonely
The little brother is under stress because he cannot see his famous brother or that Munez knows of his poor family. The little brother’s mom forbids him from doing a lot of things to a point where the brother does outrageous and self-inflicting things in order to see his brother. Munez’s girlfriend, Roz Harmison, is under the stress that she is losing her boyfriend. She sees all the potential girlfriends he can have and that they do not live together. The pressure of her nursing exams forces her to stay in New Castle while her boyfriend is in Madrid.
To a Sad Daughter A poem by Michael Ondaatje To a sad daughter is a poem in which the father is trying to create a steady relationship and find a common ground with his daughter through a variety of different ways. The daughter is growing up, therefore is ignorant towards her father and is more focussed on how she feels personally. The father doesn’t understand the feelings of his daughter although he tries his best to maintain it. Eventually the daughters feelings run to deep as she decides too take her own life. Some insights and ideas that I have are that while there have been countless father-daughter poems written over the decades, not many include hockey goalies, purple moods, and Creatures From the Black Lagoon.
The Walls children learned from a very young age to depend on each other for their most basic needs because both their parents were self-absorbed and distracted by their own interest. Jeanette’s father, Rex, was a chronic alcoholic and her mother, Rose-Mary, was over-focused on herself; painting, reading, and writing. Both parent although they severely neglected their children, really loved them, and the children were happy despite their day to day struggles with poverty, neglect, and troubling times. The Walls’ children adapted to their environment and circumstances of having dysfunctional adults as parents by reversing places with them. The children joined together to help their parents to function outside the home.