A Short Story : The Story Of Monee King

Coming from a lonely and abusive home Mary had to find happiness outside of her house. Her mom made a friend from their church and she happened to have a three month year old baby. Mary always occupied the Richardson’s by helping with baby Alyssa, while also distracting herself from reality. Meeting the Richardson’s ended up being Mary’s worst nightmare. One night the Richardson’s went out and asked Mary and her mother to watch Alyssa.

One night a young girl named Lily Foster is left alone for the night in her very large country house, while her parents drove out of town for a party. This was fine with Lily especially since she had her faithful dog, Scout, and her cell phone. Finally, her parents said, ‘’Be safe and don’t go outside.’’ Lily gave them a hug and said, ‘’Of course and have fun!’’ Once her parents drove off in their car, she made herself something to eat and sat down at the kitchen table.

Many families were broken apart during the civil war, where the father had to leave his spouse and children behind; forcing them to take care of themselves in his absence. In the novel Little Women, Marmee is the ideal representative of a motherly role model in a transcendentalist family during the eighteen hundreds. She continually guided her daughters to find joy in the most menial tasks. She stood strong in the presence of her daughters, although she had to raise them alone in the absence of their father, who has left to volunteer as a Chaplin during the Civil War. Her girls made it clear how they aspired to be as good hearted as she was. A mother’s hard work is seen through her children’s actions.

A mother’s words are the ones that ring loudest in a child’s ear, are passed down from generation to generation, and the one’s that hold a special place in a child’s memory and heart forever. Expectations and guidelines are set at a young age. Morals and values are learned throughout the years, and life lessons are taught through the wisdom passed down from a mother to a daughter. Every mother has a wish for their daughter to be the best they can be. But at what point does instruction and wisdom become simply words that have been said one too many times? The short story “Girl,” written by Jamaica Kincaid is presented to the reader as a list of instructions from a mother to a daughter on how to live life to the

Although the daughter’s shame in her mother is evident, she is also prideful of her as well. The strong love that the mother and daughter share is pervasive throughout the story. The story is being told by the daughter after she is all grown up. The fact that Jones uses such vivid detail on the mother’s preparation for her daughters first day of school shows that the daughter loved her mom and all that she did for her. The daughter recalls that her mother spent a lot of time preparing her when she says, “My mother has uncharacteristically spent nearly an hour on my hair that morning, plaiting and replaiting so that now my scalp tingles.” (Jones) She also remembers that her “pale green slip and underwear are new, the underwear having come three to a plastic package with a little girl on the front who appears to be dancing.” (Jones) The daughter having remembered details like these illustrate that she has an immense love and takes pride

Although single parenthood is on the rise in homes today, children still often have a father role in their life. It does not matter who the part is filled by: a father, uncle, older brother, grandfather, etc...; in almost all cases, those relationships between the father (figure) and child have lasting impacts on the youth the rest of their lives. In “I Wanted to Share My Father’s World,” Jimmy Carter tells the audience no matter the situation with a father, hold onto every moment.

Jeanette talks about the many creative ways that their parents tried to make things better, but many times the children would go hungry. The kids would sleep in cardboard boxes as beds, and they did this because their parents made it sound

Jeannette Walls was in a taxi wondering if she had been overdressed for the evening.She was stuck in traffic when she saw her mother Rose 15 feet away. Her mother had tied rags around her shoulder while a black and white terrier mix was beside her. When Rose looked up, Jeannette panicked and thought her mother would see her and shout her name and that someone from the party would spot them together. Jeannette immediately turned her taxi around and went home. She felt ashamed of herself because she was living this nice life,living in Park Avenue and wearing pearls.While her parents were probably huddled on a sidewalk keeping warm and finding something to eat. Jeannette called her mother's friend and left a message, this was the way she would

Readers grow more sympathetic for Ellen as the story progresses, as her mama's mama immediately sends Ellen to work the fields with her grandma's black staff or, "help", on the farms she owns in the scorching summer heat. Through this, we see how cold-hearted her mama's mama is, and grow only more empathetic for Ellen, as all she wants and deserves is a nice family, but instead gets an almost soulless grandmother. When her mama's mama dies from illness, readers finally believe Ellen may get that happy ending. But, instead she is sent to her Aunt Nadine's and her obnoxious daughter, Dora. We find out how cold and vain Dora is, as she only wants her mother to herself, and finds sharing futile. At church, Ellen constantly sees a woman with many children. A foster mother. Ellen sees how well she treats them, wishing that she might find a happy ending with her. Hope has been tough for Ellen to keep, as she has juggled many challenges that destroyed whatever chance she had for being happy. But, maybe this woman could be that chance. On Christmas, Ellen finds out the truth when Nadine kicks her out and she tells Ellen that she never wanted her, and nobody ever did, which not only made readers have sympathy for her, but also gives Ellen the courage to seek out her own happy ending. Ellen goes to the foster lady's house, and bribes her to just let her stay there until high school, then she'll be on her way. The lady declines the bribe, but agrees to take her in and give her

After the death of her husband, Mother struggles to keep her family together by providing the support and guidance they need, and encouraging them to use good judgment and think of the family as a whole before making their decisions. As the family faces various obstacles, each seemingly more severe than the last, Mother begins

The dreams of the Younger family have all been derferred. Mama,s dream is to have her own home and move out of the ghetto. She and her husabnd have been working for years but could not scrape enough to ever purchase a hme. When her husband dies , she is at first devasted but then she gets the innsyrrance money and her dream is realized. Now she can have that garden she always wanted, ahaome for her family and a backtard for her grandson to plat in.

Two parents, with a beautiful daughter, well-paying jobs, and a dream house, have a crumbling marriage. Tony Jordan, the husband, flirts with temptation, as his wife, Elizabeth, is at the point of emotional breakdown under the strain. The two fight constantly, as Daneille, their daughter, doesn’t feel loved. Circumstances change for the better, when Elizabeth meets Miss Clara, an older, wiser woman, during work. Clara mentors Elizabeth and shows her the true power of prayer.

Mama wanted a big garden and house with her family but her dream can never fully happen because her husband passed away before they could get a house together. Together the Younger family shows what happens when a dream is

These constant beatings in Maggie Johnson’s home, furniture thrown from parent to parent, and every aspect of her family life as being negative, her family situation is not an extremly healthy one. But, despite her hardships, Maggie grows up to become a beautiful young lady whose romantic hopes for a more desirable life remain untarnished.

In 1991 at the age 11, Jaycee Lee Dugard was kidnapped on her way to the bus and held captive for 18 long years until August 26, 2009 when she was finally found and reunited with her mother. She bore two children to her captors, Phillip and Nancy Garrido. Phillip raped her multiple times and at the age 14 jaycee gave birth to her first child. Three years later she gave birth to her second. She was kept in a backyard shack with prohibited her contact with the outside world. She became very lonely and depressed and had learned to cherish any form of human interaction she could receive.