Althea's Definition

approval. In describing her years of baring her children and raising them, the reader can see just

She cascades the words to show feeling, compassion and how much she wanted her to speak up, using words to make a meaning.

Chencha had brought Tita ox-tail soup, its scent brought back Tita’s memories “With the first sip Nacha was there at her...There were all the times with Nacha. As always throughout her life, with a whiff of onion, the tears began. She cried as she hadn’t cried since the day she was born. How good it was to have a long talk with Nacha” (Esquivel 124). The mood created by this imagery here is relief. It is expressed through Tita’s memories. Tita recalls Nacha stroking her hair when she was young and ill, through it, we feel our own mothers’ stroke our hair with our memories. With the mention of familiar scents, the reader could also smell the tortillas and the atole. This sensory imagery enhances this moment to its full splendor. The imagery has the ability to bring us to tears as well as we recall all of those heartfelt moments with her. This augments the mood of relief in the passage when she cries. Her crying now is compared to how she had cried at her birth. Esquivel uses a hyperbole and describes Tita’s tears as a stream. The mood builds the purpose because, with Tita as the example, once you do find yourself you feel immense relief and can be comfortable without the tension of holding it in

|Birth |to find nipple to feed. Will grasp any object |carer’s (usually mother) voice and will also be|be hunger or feeling

she was crying but she seemed to feel overwhelmed with her life. Her husband had come home

Also realising in her study the importance of a “safe base” to infants, as in the observation research carried out on the Uganda families “if the mothers were unresponsive and emotionally detached, their infants seem to cry a lot more and often seemed clingy or insecure”(Discovering psychology, p.216,2010).

She continues her cries for a couple of days until those around her are fed

Shereflected on her family especially her younger brother. She discussed about her wish to look after him and provide support and guidance. At the same time, she expressed a sense of struggle with a feeling that she is not able to provide everything that her brother needs. She noticed that her brother reminds her of her own needs growing up.

I have baby cousin who is three years old right now and talks like a young adult. She likes to read books a lot. One hot summer afternoon, my aunt and me took her to a park. There were animal sculptures in the entire park. When she saw the sculptures of a horse, cat, dog, tiger and lion, she was not like any other kids that want to get on the sculpture and take a picture with it. Instead, she started to describe the feature of a real horse, cat, dog, tiger and lion. I was very surprised by that because I did not think a three-year-old could describe an animal like that. Therefore, I asked my aunt where did my little cousin learned it from. My aunt told me she learned it from the books that she got for her. After we got back from the park to home, my aunt and I were busy talking so nobody could play with her. She took a piece of chalk and write down a lot of names of the animals. And of course, that shocked me again. My aunt told me that two years ago, she got her a small blackboard and a box of chalk. She did not know if my cousin like them since one day, my aunt saw her was writing something on the board. When she got closer to the blackboard, she was surprised because my little cousin was writing the words that she saw on the children’s book. I asked my cousin whether she could memorize what she was writing on the board, she responded yes and asked me to test her. I was thinking

For example, when she was playing with a little girl at Chic-Fil-A, the little girl kept calling her “girl.” Aaliyah would respond “no, I Liyah.” I did not observe, at this time, what Aaliyah self-esteem is like. The only emotions I can remember she showed was happiness, excitement, frustration and sympathy. For example, she likes to do things on her own and gets frustrated if someone tries to help her. The way she handle her anger, sadness, and aggression is by pouting and going into her own little corner. Her least favorite thing is being told no. For example, while observing her I’ve notice she doesn’t like to be told no, and her patient level is low. Her most favorite thing is anything that’s fun. For example, when I was observing her at the carnival. It was time to leave her mother asked her “did you have fun?” She replied saying “yes, thank you mommy.” She does go to church, but doesn’t understand. Aalyiah knows the concept of right and wrong in the home. For example, when I was observing her she knew that the empty bag of skittles belong in the trash can and not on the floor.

“My heart was pounding and blood was rushing to my temples and ears, beating over me in waves. A voice inside my head kept repeating, ‘Be careful! Be careful!’ ” This quote proves how Adeline was worried about how she was treated when approaching Niang. Words like ‘pounding’ and ‘beating are used to build up the sensation of nervousness and apprehension. Adeline shares her life events in order to evoke sympathy from the reader and to inspire other unwanted children. “To those who were neglected and unloved as children, I have a particular message. In spite of what your abusers would have you believe, please be convinced that each of you has within you something precious and unique.” Adeline believes that every child is unique and should be encouraged to do anything. She uses a wide variety of graphic content throughout the book to capture the reader’s sympathy and action towards her. This graphic content shapes the audience’s thoughts, opinions and their

From the moment Claire Limye Lanme opened her eyes for the first time she blinked without seeing her mother. Maybe those baby tears and her deep cry was her mourning the death of her mother. Perhaps she knew at that moment when her mother told her to “vini” (Danticat 218), to come to her, but was too late because “her mother was already gone” (Danticat 218). Unlike most babies when their first cry kick-start their lungs, for Claire Limye Lanme it was knowing that she’ll never see her mother again.

There were many different disabilities that her children had. She willingly brought these children into her family; however, she more than likely went through each stage. Shock and disruption, the anxiety and fear, and finally the adaption of taking care of a child with different disability than one she had already been adapted to are likely some of the things she went through.

Observations of the earliest experiences of a healthy toddler are expressed by its relationship with its first possession which is always a transitional object. Transitional objects also belong to the realm of illusion which is the basis of initiating development. This stage is made possible by the capacity of a mother to let the toddler have the illusion that what it creates really exists (Winncott, 1953).

In our everyday lives, the origin of our ability to communicate is usually not often taken into consideration. One doesn't think about how every person has, or rather had at one time, an innate ability to learn a language to total fluency without a conscious effort – a feat that is seen by the scientific community "as one of the many utterly unexplainable mysteries that beset us in our daily lives" (3).. Other such mysteries include our body's ability to pump blood and take in oxygen constantly seemingly without thought, and a new mother's ability to unconsciously raise her body temperature when her infant is placed on her chest. But a child's first language acquisition is different from these