Affair To Remember

“I told you sweetie, she is in a better place right now. She won’t be coming home.” She looks up at me with tears in her eyes. “That’s not fair! Why would he leave us?” “It wasn’t her fault baby girl,” I say tearing up. “I WANT TO SEE HER NOW!” Amelia starts screaming. “You can’t see her!” I shout back.

What is social expectation and how does it affects one’s life? In the short stories – “A Pair of Silk Stockings”, “A Shameful Affair”, and “The Story of Hour” – by Kate Chopin from the novel The Awakening and Selected Stories of Kate Chopin, they uncover the expected roles and responsibilities of women in the early 1900s. Through imagery and diction, Chopin reveals that people tend to fall into others’ expectations upon their marriage and even before it, which leads to lose their personal freedom and gain desires in conflict with social expectations.

Because of this big trouble, the grandmother has to move out in order to avoid her daughter’s divorce. Natalie loves her mother, but she cannot afford to lose her husband. Finally, the grandmother moves in with Natalie’s mother in-law, Bess. Natalie doesn’t bring Sophie when she visit her mom, and she seems busy than ever before, just come and leave.

They ride on a wagon to the country, but they are mistaken for fever victims. As a result, they get kicked off of the wagon which leaves them with no food or water. Mattie’s grandfather falls ill, and Mattie has to try to find ways to help him survive. She has to find food and water sources. When she goes to a nearby river, she becomes dizzy and faints. As Mattie awakes, she finds herself in Bush Hill hospital. The hospital is staffed with French physicians who do not believe in bleeding, but instead to let the patients rest and hydrate. Eventually, Mattie recovers from the yellow fever. Mattie and her grandfather return to Philadelphia, and they find the coffeehouse has been robbed. Once again, Mattie has to find food for her grandfather and herself. One night, Mattie left a window open. Thieves enter the coffeehouse to try to find money or goods. Then, the thieves attack Mattie and ask her where the money is. Her grandfather wakes up, and he tries to kill the thieves. One of the thieves kills him, and Mattie is all alone. Mattie takes him to be buried, and then, she walks around the city. While walking around, she finds an orphan named Nell. Matties takes Nell with her, and

Soon after being deserted on the road, grandfather comes down with a summer grippe and becomes helpless. Mattie then needs to take care of them both by finding food and water. This shows responsibility because she not only had to take care of herself, but of her grandfather too with no help from anyone, and no one to tell her what to do.

Mattie had so many traumatizing events occur in just a few months, yet she stayed strong and fought through the pain day by day. One of these events were when she tried to leave Philadelphia. Her and her grandfather were on a cart leaving Philadelphia, When they got thrown off because they thought that Mattie’s grandpa had Yellow Fever. All of their belongings were on that cart. Now Mattie and her grandfather faced starvation in the middle of nowhere.

William, Rachel’s three year old son is crying standing over her as she is slowly regaining consciousness. Her boyfriend, Daniel, was gone; their bedroom door was left cracked open and Rachel was on the couch in their room. Pained around her neck from where he choked her, she tries to wrap her head around how she got to this point. Why does Daniel hate her? What did she do this time? Can she, should she, just leave with William? Rachel realizes she has to get out of the house before Daniel gets back. When she arrives at her mother’s house, her mom is alarmed. Rachel has bruises around her neck and marks around her hairline. Rachel’s mother tells her “You come here every week and you go back to that monster every week. I see these bruises but you must not feel they are a problem since you keep going back to him.” Rachel’s mom walks out of the room frustrated.

After Maria got the abortion, she has given a different perspective and a different view about herself. This constant unbalance of emotions have been projected since the abortion. When she goes to the steakhouse with Les Goodwin, she orders a huge meal that same exact night. Little by little Maria begins to remember about her mother and silver wells. She wants to go back to her mother specifically the last day Maria saw her. Then Maria proceeds to bleed again. Maria goes to the doctor and receives a check up. Again, Maria then wants her mother their with her. As Maria is working, she beings to feel some pains. By midnight she bleeds so much that it was out of control. Later on, Maria and kate have three days to spend in December. They both

In this marriage, Janie is viewed more as a possession to Jody rather than his wife. Janie’s freedom of speech and expression is suppressed by Jody (Hurtson 77-85). Due to this marriage, Janie’s hopes of love were shattered once again.

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks Henrietta Lacks was a woman who found out she had cancer. She went to John Hopkins Hospital where they cut out her cells to examine them and her cells did something weird. Henrietta’s cells were able to reproduce so the hospital sold them in order to help with science. No one knew the real donor of the cells since they went by the name HeLa which is the first letters of her first and last name.

Barely moving through the decline of his life, Ethan finds kindness and love in the young Mattie, who happens to be Zeena's cousin. Mattie moved in with Ethan and Zeena to serve as an extra hand around the household and farm. Taken by Mattie's young looks and sweet personality, Ethan fell for Mattie. He wouldn't do so much as touch her hand, but that did not stop him from feeling overtaking with her and the idea of being with Mattie. "“He had not even touched the tip of her fingers or looked her full in the eyes. But their evening together had given him a vision of what life at her side might be, and he was glad now that he had done

Taylor could not afford the new tires she needed for her car so Mattie allowed Taylor to store her car at the shop. She eventually gave Taylor a job, so she could save money to pay for the tires. This showed that Mattie had a caring heart and was happy to help those in need. She taught Taylor many useful lessons, such as teaching Taylor to be a confident mother for Turtle. She told Taylor that raising a kid could be challenging but worth it if you were willing to try. Even through the bad times, Mattie was willing to give Taylor the love and support she needed, the whole way through. Mattie started off as being a good friend to Taylor, but due to her big, gentle heart, she was more like family. Through thick and thin, family is always there no matter

In Fever, Mattie was trying to help her mom get better from the fever but at first they wouldn't let her near her mom because her Mother was trying to get her away from her because of the fever. Mattie did a lot for her Mother when they let her near her Mother to take care of her. Mattie would wash, her feed, and etc for Mother. Then her Grandfather and Mattie were going to go to the Ludingtons but never made it. Near the end of the book Mattie was running the Coffee House while her Mother was away. Mattie's Mother came back to the Coffee House really weak. Mattie helped her Mother with the Coffee

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.

People utilize many different words to describe, define and even attempt to dismiss adultery; unfaithfulness, infidelity, playing the field, extramarital relations, having an affair are just a few. The net result of this choice however is the destruction of a personal reputation, trust and respect, while at the same time laying waste to spouse and children alike. Even in the earliest days of civilization adultery was understood to be destructive, thus earning its own “Thou Shalt Not”, in addition to, at least 40 other less than positive references and assorted stories in the Bible. Many societies, including our own, have gone so far as to outlaw this practice; in some cultures penalties range up to death. So why do we allow