Amanda From The Glass Menagerie

As a wife she and her husband have gone from understanding and having easy communication between each other; to having problems with her husband understanding her and her communication with him slowly deteriorating. Alice was a mother who took care of her children and was involved with them understanding their work life and their private life. Alice changes as a mother throughout the movie she slowly progresses into the role of her children having to take care of her and her not being able to understand them or even recognize them. Alice was a teacher that when students picked her class they were excited and heard amazing reviews on her, but as her disease progresses, students find her lessons to be all over the place with most of the material being hard to understand. Alice was a scholar who loved talking in front of people and conducting research, but she eventually had to highlight every word she reads when giving a speech. The role most important to her is the role of a mother, because she gives up the little time she has to spend with her family. Alice no longer teachers or try to conduct research on last time she gives that up so that the little time she has, she can watch her daughter in a play or meet her two grandchildren. Ultimately Alice’s roles as a wife, teacher, mother, and scholar change drastically with her having

Anna is Alice’s oldest daughter; she’s a successful lawyer and is married to Charles, also a lawyer. Anna is strong and fiercely independent just like her mother. Anna deals with her mother’s disease by suggesting that if her mom “thinks for a second” then maybe she’ll be able to remember things (p. 173). Anna, however still makes time to care for her mom when her dad is away.

She does this by explaining how, like everyone else, she too gets frustrated or depressed. “Fatigued and infuriated, I bellowed, “Iʼm so sick of being crippled!”(Mairs, 16)”

Thank you for sharing your on-site issue. I am expressive with my facial expressions quite often and until your post, I am not sure if I viewed this as a major problem. You are spot on with being concerned with. Anyone that has been on the received end of a disapproving facial expression understands how it can sting. I was thinking about how Thelma from Love’s Executioner and she would have reacted to Dr. Yalom (1989) if he lost that poker face. There were times we can infer that he might have let his face communicate a judgement and it impacted the session. Navarro (2011) states, “...there are over 215 behaviors associated with psychological discomfort and most of those are not in the face (para.14).” Yikes!!! I would

This greatly affects Billie Jo, and she is constantly embarrassed by her hands, being the “cripple”. For example, Billie Jo realizes, “Coach Albright didn’t say anything to me about basketball this year. I

For the majority of her life, Adah believed she suffered from hemiplegia: a physical disability in which Adah explains, it is “the cessation of motion” (34). While she is under the belief that she suffers from this, Adah considers herself to be a “cripple” and goes as far as saying that her twin sister Leah is “perfect”. Adah further delves into her imbalanced mindset by assuming she is not “normal” and ignorantly believes she will always be this way, with no possibility of having the hemiplegia being reversed. She constantly refers to herself as “dumb Adah” or “crooked Adah”, revealing the negative connotations that are associated with her supposed disorder. It is not until she is in medical school when her journey to achieve true balance comes to a conclusion. In medical school, Adah meets a neurologist, who believes Adah never had hemiplegia to begin with, to which she admits that “I was unprepared to accept that my whole sense of Adah was founded on a misunderstanding between my body and brain”

seeing herself as a lesser being due to her handicap, to a blossoming young woman who

In the short story “Scarlet Ibis” James Hurst uses indirect characterization to reveal the narrator’s inner selfishness and embarrassment towards his medically disabled brother by the use of dialogue and thoughts of the narrator which advises readers to accept who others are disregarding their physical features and abilities. For example, the narrator states that “it was bad enough having an invalid brother, but having [a brother] who possible was not all there was unbearable” (Hurst 2). The narrator expresses his selfishness by stating how having a disabled brother was horrible and how “it was bad enough.” However, he goes on saying having Doodle, his disabled brother, is better than not having a brother at all. Because of the embarrassment from Doodle’s disability, he sets out to find a way to get out of the shadow.

As a result of her extensive impairments in several senses, she became frustrated and began to frequently have temper tantrums. By seven-years-old, she had to be physically overpowered in order to be controlled. She obeyed her father and no one else in her family. Despite the tantrums, Laura was taught by her mother how to do things mostly by touch. Her mother taught her how to sew and perform other functions by following her mother’s

The Others is a suspense horror film which is set in Jersey, Channel Islands immediately after WWII in 1945. Grace Stewart, a loving and a formidable mother of two photosensitive children; Anne and Nicholas, lives together with her children in a huge mansion. One day, all of Grace's servants mysteriously "vanish" overnight, so she hires three new servants to take their places. The entry of these new servants triggers a series of strange and supernatural events, which force Grace to confront and accept the truth.

Mairs acceptance seems to have come easier than Walker’s. Mairs is surrounded by a profoundly supportive group of friends and family. Mairs writes, “I may find it easier than other cripples to amuse myself because I live propped by the acceptance and the assistance, and, sometimes the amusement of others around me.” However, much like Walker, Mairs wonders if people only accept her because she is a cripple and sometimes she questions if they even like her or not. This shows that she is not one hundred percent confident in herself. Walker’s story is very relatable to this, she did not fully accept herself for nineteen years. At the age of twenty seven Walker is putting her three year old daughter down for a nap when she notices that her daughter is looking straight at her scar. Walker becomes nervous when her daughter does not break her gaze. Eventually her daughter asks, “Mommy, where did you get that world in your eye?” Immediately Walker feels liberated as if all the pain had been washed away. On this day Walker realizes that it is possible to love her

A smile is a little thing that goes a long way. In the book Out of My Mind by Sharon M. Draper, the main character Melody Brooks is a disabled bodied person diagnosed with Cerebral Palsy. Her body is challenged, but her mind is not. Even though she can’t speak, write, or walk, she is the smartest girl in her school. All she wants is for other kids and adults to treat her like a normal kid.

Secondly, there is Isabelle. This character is a combination of the archetypical beauty – which gives the viewer a sense of familiarity, and a nerd- her point of difference to challenge the perspective of the audience. She is consistently fighting an internal battle between these contrasting dimension, which adds interest and creates an even more relatable aspect of the show. Like the other characters, she is a 22-year-old university student, however; she is studying a double degree of bachelor of fashion and design and a bachelor of neuroscience. Like her personality, these degrees contrast each other. Throughout the series, the audience will find out the reason why, she hides her intelligent but dorky side, and covers it up with a charade

It’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s just a random guy in tights with a non human ability. While some powers are used for good and saving lives by superheroes, everyone seems to forget that villains can have powers too, theirs are just used for destruction and mass chaos, but they’re powers nonetheless. Without superpowers the Fantastic 4, nor the Avengers would never have made their alliances, Mario wouldn’t have saved Princess Peach from Bowser, and the Mermalair would be useless.

In the book, Maniac Magee, Jerry Spinelli uses descriptive details, dialogue, actions, and thoughts to develop one of the main characters, Amanda Beale. I think Amanda is a bookworm because in grade school she had a whole suitcase crammed full of books. I think she would be a good librarian because she has great people skills and she’s also very organized. Amanda is a very sweet girl and will talk nicely to people if they talk to her.