A Day With Eutopia. "Can You Imagine, Loving A Man So Greatly,

Despite knowing that they are "nicer, brighter," they cannot ignore "the honey voices of parents and aunts and the obedience in the eyes of [their] peers, the slippery light in the eyes of [their] teachers" when Maureen is around or the topic of conversation (74). The way Maureen dresses and behaves in front of adults is not the only way she affects Claudia and Frieda. With racist comments such as, "What do I care about her old black daddy...[and] you ugly! Black and ugly black e mos. I am cute," she infuriates the girls, for in their eyes Maureen is black too. Racist attitudes like Maureen's affect the poorer, darker blacks and can eventually lead them to think racist thoughts of their own.

The following plot of the novel introduces Twyla’s in-laws; Morrison informs the reader that the family is big and loud. The family’s description fits an African American family further assuming Twyla’s racial identity as black. The loudness and mal-functioning reflection in modern television shows, portrays that African- American families are depicted as loud, while White families are calm and collected. Also, the ethnic stereotype of the neighborhood she lives in is a lower class neighborhood not an upper-class neighborhood. Both of these stereotypes depict an African American family, hence Twyla’s black race. Furthermore, Twyla and Roberta, meet once more, Twyla implores about her slick dressing, expensive jewelry and her appearance as rich. Besides she is driven around by a big car (Morrison 1180). The description mirrors Roberta both as a white and African-American woman. From a readers stereotypical view, she appears as black showing off her wealth, also, her now slick hair denotes an African-American woman who has treated her hair for easy management. On the contrary, the well-dressed image of a woman being chauffeured around implies a white woman.

The authors describe values as “a system of ideas, attitudes, and beliefs about the worth of an entity or concept that consciously and unconsciously bind together the members of a family in a common culture” (Friedman, Bowden, & Jones, 2003, p.353). The story of The Notebook shows the enduring power of love. There were many setbacks that got into Noah and Allie’s way, but despite of it all, they still ended up together. Even when Allie was diagnosed with dementia and couldn’t recognized her family and Noah, that did not stop Noah from loving her.

Taylor is raised in a non-traditional setting; her mother, Alice Greer, is a single mother takes care of Taylor by herself. Alice had been married before, but her husband told her not to get pregnant and so when she did he left, and she tells Taylor that this was the best deal she ever made. She is extremely supportive of Taylor, in all that she does, but also expects the very best from her. Taylor knows this saying “then no matter what I did, whatever I came home with, she acted like it was the moon I had just hung up in the sky and plugged in all the stars. Like I was that good” (Kingsolver 10). Alice takes on both the

Due to the difference in Taylor’s children’s behaviors, her parenting skills would have been divergent as well. In Arizona, Taylor had to move at a much slower pace with Turtle because of the trepidation she was filled with from her previous home life. After months of being together, three-year-old Turtle finally utters her first word to Taylor “‘Bean,’ Turtle said. ‘Humbean’” (Kingsolver 97). This reveals how much more effort it took Taylor to reach out to her daughter. In Arizona she had a much more abrupt maturing into a woman and mother than if she had stayed in her hometown. Taylor had to grow up significantly faster than if she had gone through the process of pregnancy in Pittman. There, Taylor would be able to become more mentally and physically prepared for being a mother.

On her way to anywhere far from Kentucky, Taylor ends up with something she had been avoiding all her life: a child. Taylor stops to get coffee and leaves with a little Indian baby girl. A strange Indian woman appears from the middle of nowhere, "She opened up the blanket and took out something alive. It was a child. She wrapped her blanket around and around it until it became a round bundle with a head. Then she set this bundle down on the seat of my car. 'Take this baby,' she said" (17). Taylor is a strong and independent woman. But she did not know how to react in the occasion. Taylor uses dry, sarcastic, humor when she does not

It was only five at night so I had a while and I knew we were going to be in Manhattan for around a week but I was just so excited that I packed in around one hour. It had been years since I had last seen Lexie face to face but we did call a lot after I moved to New Jersey. I was in such a rush I almost forgot to grab a necklace with my fathers ashes in it from when he died. The necklace looked like a heart with gold around it, a ruby read heart in the middle, and a silver chain was used to put it on your neck.

Taylor was born in Pitman County, and she dislikes her birth place because of the attitude and lifestyle of those who live there. Pitman County was small, poor and isolated.Nobody ever really left Pitman to explore elsewhere. Taylor does not want to live such kind of life like everyone else at her hometown. She steps outside of the gender norms, and challenges the terrible Pitman tradition of teenage pregnancies. She decides to pursue a better life, driving out of the state in search for a more preferable place to reside at. However, she struggles to find a place to stay or a sound job to support herself. Furthermore, she is burdened by a baby that is suddenly thrust upon her by a stranger. She once said “‘If I had wanted a baby I would have stayed in Kentucky… I could have babies growing out of my ear by now’” (18), which tells us that she is not at all keen on having a baby at all. Ultimately Taylor chooses to take in the child, despite the fact that this decision would adds further burden onto her existing

A mere five and a half years after she graduates from high school, she is already “helping Mama out with the rent and the bills”(11). Taylor is only in her early twenties when she is already contributing to her household bills in addition to a few hundred dollars of pocket money she saves to buy a car. Traditionally, the male of the household assumes the responsibility of rent and bills, but as their family comprises of just Taylor and her mother, the two must handle the task. When she moves in with Lou Ann, a single mother, she complains that “the idea of Lou Ann reading magazines for child-raising tips and recipes and [her] coming home grouchy after a hard day’s work” (88) bothers her. Although she did not consider Lou Ann and Dwayne Ray as family at the time, Taylor still cared for them.

When she finally leaves, I get up. I find a small bag and pack a couple shirts and all the father’s day cards I’ve collected over the years. Finally, I pack my glasses. I can’t see without them.

She was the perfect 10. Nice frame, nice smile and the nicest hair I’ve ever seen on a black woman I was nearly convinced that she was biracial. I had to get this girl’s attention. My pride had to get on the back burner for this one. There was no way I was leaving this party without her.”

She may have had hideous cousins (most of them), but in her case, she looked more like a twelve-year-old girl, with long chestnut colored hair and green eyes. She was tall and thin, but was very lean. She had blisters on her hands from work

How does love govern a family? It governs husbands to return to their wives, to go on a journey to home. We have all been on a journey. A journey, however, does not usually include coming home. The Odyssey is Odysseus’s journey home to his family. Home is where the family is. While the relationship in a healthy family is communication, there are some instances in the Odyssey where there is an unhealthy relationship. In the Odyssey, are the families that are portrayed ‘rooted and grounded in love?” The loving relationship of family had valuable impact on Odysseus, that he made the journey home, while other families became scattered.

Like most characters in the novel, Geraldine displays her desire to conform to society’s standards of beauty by trying to be as respectable and white as possible. Geraldine is a “sugar-brown girl” who is a respected, well mannered, educated woman. Morrison describes these sugar-brown girls as, “thin brown girls…[who] live in quiet black

It was 2:00pm, I spent almost the whole day roaming around the house doing nothing, just thinking about everyone else. How come everyone was busy today? I assumed half of my friends forgot it was my birthday. At 3:45pm our door bell rang. Out of curiosity I ran downstairs to check and it was my childhood friend Trisha. While wishing me happy birthday, she gave me a friendly hug. Then we went to my room. There she took out pictures from when we were young, candy jewelry we played with when we were young. It was basically a reminder to me that no matter how old any of us get, we’ll always be stupid little kids at heart and will stick together. It was a wonderful and a thoughtful gift, but that was not it. She went outside to her car to get something, and when she returned it was another gift, a beautiful blue dress with a design coming out from the left side and a slight cut on both sides.