An Analysis Of Heather Booth's Life

The second chapter begins with a “celebration” lunch between Barbara and Jack. During the lunch, Barbara shares a story with Jack about an experience she had with a former manager of theirs named Stan. She told Jack that Stan had been rude with her in the past and described a time when she felt she was sexually harassed by him at the office. Jack was surprised to learn this had happened, but was impressed with the way Barbara handled herself in response to the incident. Barbara sharing this story with Jack showed that she trusted him, and considered him a friend. This story brings to attention one of the problems women may encounter while in the industry and gives an example of how it was handled in this particular instance. The chapter ends with Jack returning home and discussing the pros and cons of being a partner with his wife, Libby. Jack is looking forward to many of the perks, such as private golf club memberships, but is worried that the extra hours and responsibilities may affect his family life.

The story also explains how Jacqueline’s life was changed forever. The story is extremely effective because it gets its point across by appealing to the compassionate side of the audience.

It talks about how these successful people became successful. There are many aspects that contribute to the identity and success of someone. The development of one’s identity plays an important role in one’s future and determines who someone is; their identity is based off their skills, talents, and the background that they

She is extremely effective in supporting her main idea by supplying the reader with descriptive detail on how she grew up and how certain things took place in rural North Carolina during the 1960’s. These details grasp the reader’s attention immediately by implementing such detail that while reading the words on each page, a visual picture can be envisioned by the reader.

She realizes that others opinions do not matter as much as her own. For example, “I internalized their ideas and added my own” (para.7). What this represent is that Diane took the ideas of other people and blended them with her own to conquer this intense feeling that she had about her name. Additionally, “As I remember this time of life, I see that my identity had formed as an individual.”(para.13). she sees that identity was mostly built on her life as an individual. Therefore, Diane learned to beat the negative internal emotion that she had regarding her name. her self-worth gave her a positive outlook and a positive internal

(12) shows Tom?s authority and the how gender roles affected everyone back in the 1920?s. Tom?s overpowering demeanor hides his actual self, he has a strong aura around him which suggests his authority on everyone around him, making him a kill joy. ¬

For the final element I'm analyzing in the story I'm going to discuss the mood. In the story the mood actually changes up a bit. In the beginning the author is describing how Annie’s husband left her and how she'll have to raise her sons on her own with almost no money so it is quite somber. But as the story progresses on and Annie begins to make a name for herself and have a successful career by preserving on her own the story ends by leaving the reader feeling optimistic and hopeful because the courage Annie had throughout the entire story worked off and made her a happy successful woman.

4. What do you see as the strengths of the paper, and what would you try to do if you were to revise it some more? The strength of this paper was my ability to write the essay focusing on points that I thought the author stressed in the novel. If given more time to revise, I would more in-depth details of Ruth McBride’s life.

Using these strategies may connect the story to the lives of the readers, as it has mine, by showing that we all must grow up and become

3. The new experiences have given Janie a new voice. Find the sentence on page 128 that describes her change.

In The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls, Jeannette to most people is considered successful, while her parents are not. The odd thing is that it is all perspective and the parents find themselves successful. This is a difference in how people constitute success. There is no set definition to success but many people’s definitions are somewhat the same but others can be very different. Success can vary in many different fields as well, like family, money, fame, religion, sports and anything else your mind can think of. The Glass Castle can be seen as a success story even though she went through a lot of adversity to achieve it; this is why I ask, what constitutes as success?

Heather Wells lives a calm and uneventful life, living with a detective, and working as an assistant residence hall director in New York. But things weren't always like this. Before her life began crashing down on her, she was a famous teen popstar, living wealthily and engaged. She then had to let all that go when she lost her money, recording contract, slim waistline and fiancé. She claims to be perfectly happy with her new, plain lifestyle and size twelve body, (the average size of the American woman) yet still hides her past as best as she can muster.

She lost another love by the name of Oluf, could not find much work, and lost hard-earned money through a bad business investment. After all this peril she took Russell and Doris and moved to Baltimore. Another move equaled more stress, less money, and more struggling to get by. With what seemed to be the world against her, she made it. She remarried, bought a house, and became the success she demanded of herself. Every step of the way Russell was exposed to all the ups and downs. His mother’s life during those times shaped and influenced his own.

This gives the reader a real look into the lives of those unfortunate, which also delivers the theme of the story. The theme is American Dream versus American reality. Jim is able to do whatever he wants in life, however Antonia has only few limited opportunities due to her circumstances and heritage. Cather is able to show the substantial social differences between characters, which enables readers to understand the different paths laid out for them in the

The reporter states that Heather was a runaway. Heather states while in the home of Marty, there were a number of people living in the home, other that Ms. Johnson. Drugs were also being used at the home. Heather saw more than one person in the home with track marks on their arm. Heather saw Ms. Johnson son shoot up in the shed, along with his girlfriend. She also saw person talking about the drug Opano. She told Marty about the drugs use, but Marty knew about it. Marty’s two granddaughters were in the home, and they would be transferred back and forth to school. Heather did not have a bed, and had to sleep with Ms. Johnson. One morning Bobbi (a friend to Marty) was in the bed with them. Amy went to the home on last week to speak with Rigo.