Amanda From The Glass Menagerie

The novel Out of My Mind, is written in the prospective of an 11-year-old girl named Melody Brooks. Ever since Melody was born, Cerebral Palsy has affected her life by leaving her unable to walk, talk, use the bathroom, or even feed herself. Although totally nonverbal, this eleven-year-old happens to be immensely intelligent and has a photographic memory. Throughout Melody’s life, people have quickly written her off as “profoundly retarded”, stupid, and brain-damaged, but from beginning to end Melody has shown her ability to overcome her struggles and prove everyone wrong. (Draper 22). In the novel Out of My Mind by Sharon M Draper, Melody Brooks teaches the reader to always have hope and determination, that physical disabilities do not mean

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

Regina George is a character in the comedy movie, "Mean Girls". She is the most unpredictable, selfish, sarcastic, manipulative, lying villain, oh and not to mention the most stylish one too! That being some of the reasons why she is one of the best/worst villains. All the girls either hated her or wanted to be her and, the boys well, they loved her! In the movie this character is the leader of a group called, " The plastics", in the high school of, North Shore. The group of the "plastics" was known as teen royalty. This group was made of Regina George and her two side kicks.

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

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

            On the exterior Nicole Diver?s childhood fits all the requirements of a perfect upbringing as well, however, like the American Dream, it, too, was imperfect.  Nicole was born into an affluent family and she was ?a perfectly normal, bright, happy child? (Tender is the Night 126).  However, after the death of Nicole?s mother, her father began to have an incestuous relationship with her.  Nicole maintained the appearance of being ?normal?, but she eventually began to suffer from mental illness because of her past abuse.  ?She had a fit or something-the things she said got crazier and crazier . . . Almost always about men going to attack her, men she knew or men on the street ? anybody ?? (Tender is the Night 127).  Nicole was diagnosed as having a ?divided personality?(Tender is the Night 128) and she underwent many years of therapy to rehabilitate her from her past sexual abuse.  Both Nicole and Daisy?s childhood have the outward appearance of being perfect, however only Daisy?s childhood truly was.

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

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

Walker had to deal with the fact of having an eye that everyone could see and would ask questions. For a while, when she was still in school, she kept her head down and away from view so nobody would see her imperfection. However, Mairs’ disability was unhideable from sight because it had affected her walking making it noticeable to everyone that saw her move, making her feel unattractive. They both had self-conscious thoughts about being unattractive and unwanted because they didn’t feel like the ideal woman.

There were times that her Cerebral Palsy caused great heartaches. Heather attended school just like other children her age but often times she would go home from school with great heartache. Heather would get off of the bus to meet her Grandmother in tears because a fellow

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.

At the beginning of the scene, Laura is told to go out to purchase butter, and in the process of leaving, she trips and falls down the fire escape steps. Amanda, being completely blind to Laura’s being crippled, merely states that the landlord should not have made the steps such as they were, and that they should sue the landlord in the event that someone breaks a leg. It becomes clear in this section that Amanda’s main weakness is her tendency to delude herself of the true nature of things, and this makes her blind to the state of life in her

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.