Arnetta is the weakest character, and Daphne is the strongest in the short story, “Brownies.” Arnetta does nothing but mock and criticize to be little the others. “Emboldened Arnetta made a gesture to mock pride toward an imaginary sash, the way the girl in full uniform had done.” (Pg. 298 paragraph 1) One must be pretty pathetically weak to mimic a girl with learning disabilities, trying to show pride and make fun shows how spineless Arnetta is. However, Daphne is the exact opposite of Arnetta, she shows indomitable strength with and without using words. Daphne goes her own way unless nudge into misjudgement of the rest of the group. “Daphne shrugged her shoulders at first, then slowly nodded her head when Arnetta gave her a hard look.”
Mirabella was a difficult girl to teach in that school. She was lazy and act lazy in front of her own sisters. “In the first paragraph page 244 stage last paragraph 2 she told her sister to lick her own wounds”. Mirabella wanted her sisters to do everything for her. She didn’t learn how to walk or talk, and she was always begging for scraps. Her sisters would only be the one trying
In the book The Acorn People by Ron Jones has many intricate and interesting characters. Benny B. is an upbeat kid that is enjoyable to be around and Spider is a child that despite his handicaps, is still able to make the best out of things. There is also Martin who is blind but doesn’t let that get in the way of him and his goals.
She is an acquaintance of Edna’s; they spend time together sewing and visiting. She is the antithesis of Edna: she is openly affectionate with her children, lavishing both her children and her husband with total love. She has three children and is planning for a fourth.
Later on in the novel, Edna speaks about how Mademoiselle Reisz checks her shoulder blades for strength because “the bird that would soar above the level plain of tradition and prejudice must have strong wings” (Chopin 79). While many characters shut Reisz off because of how strange she is, Edna visits her because of their unspoken, mutual understanding of the significance of the potential power and precedence that her true, inner identity could hold if she let it fly free. At the end of the novel, Chopin describes a “bird with a broken wing” who circles “disabled down, down to the water” (108) to reflect how the strength of Edna’s inner identity breaks her because her spirit is too weak to maintain her desires alongside her realization that she could never be truly happy again in this time of unbreaking oppression and possession. Elz notes that if Edna continues to live that she will always be moving from relationship to relationship to satisfy her true desires, even though - in contrast - she wishes for her existence to not be defined by her relationships with men. “Like the mockingbird,” Elz continues, Edna “insists on her way” and therefore refuses to accept the roles society pushes on her and, in result, commits suicide as her inner identity wins and proves that she can not be controlled (20).
Nora finds strength in realizing her failure, resolving to find herself as a human being and not in what society expects of her. Nora’s recognition comes when Torvald so
Many times however, her rebellion is seen as selfish childishness to others. Breaking the rules and finding her true happiness is what awakens Edna Pontellier and makes her different from the rest. She rebels against society by thinking differently, finding independence, doing what she wants without obeying her husband, moving out to her new "pigeon-house", and taking part in two adulterous affairs. Her climatic finale, her suicide, is her ultimate act of rebellion, not giving the ways of the world, her decision to finally be free. ‘‘She went on and on. She remembered the night she swam far out, and recalled the terror that seized her at the fear of being unable to regain the shore. She did not look back now, but went on and on, thinking of the blue-grass meadow that she had traversed when a little child, believing that it had no beginning and no end.’’ (Chopin, 120) All her rebellious actions are what make Edna such a controversial, yet influential woman till this
Although not a thematic stereotype reinforced throughout this whole film, it is typical of a disabled character to be represented as a victim or object of violence (Safran, 2000). At the climax of the film, Gilbert’s overwhelming frustration and anger of his life situation overflows into a violent episode directed at Arnie. On occasions throughout the film, Arnie is portrayed as an innocent a victim or object of violence from his
In our society it is seen that way that the strong ones are always the ones that survive and the weaks are left behind and they think that they aren't capable of doing anything that the strong ones do. Also the weak ones are alway made fun of or treated badly because they aren't as strong as other people. it helped me explain these themes because in the story Lennie has always been the weak one and he would suffer because they wouldn't let him work in the ranch he was always left behind
This story entertains many concepts and ideas. Most prominent of all was the idea of equality. I feel that the author was, in some ways, trying to convey that absolute equality is and can only ever be an illusion. “-and pretty soon, we’d be right back to the dark ages, with everyone competing against everyone else.” I feel that the actual handicaps themselves had opportunity to be a competition: Those with more handicaps could argue that they were better because they required more handicaps to make them equal. It seemed too, that they knew this, as it was hinted by the narrator; “She must have been extraordinarily beautiful, because the mask she wore was hideous.” If not for Harrison, this, along with other things, might have
She is seen to be weak due to her isolation causing Leonce to be worried of her because she is not the same submissive woman she was before. As a woman, Edna does not have the rights to express her emotions due to the societal restrictions against her. Additionally, Edna’s abnormal choices against Leonce cause her father, The Colonel, to give advice to Leonce about taking charge in the relationship. This is evident during a conversation between The Colonel and Leonce when he says “You are too lenient, too lenient by far…Authority and coercion are is what is needed. Put your foot down good and hard; the only way to manage a wife” (109).
Daphne finished instructing Mom in everything I needed to “fix” while I changed out of the appallingly mismatched outfit. I hadn’t expected to win the contest, but such a harsh, personal attack left me wishing that I had never even entered. Angry, humiliated, sacred, and upset, I spent most of the two-hour car ride home sobbing. I had put my outfit
ZZ Parker’s short story, Brownies, is set in the suburban area of Atlanta at an all-girls camp (Camp Crescendo). Parker chose to narrate the story through one of the girls from the all black brownies troop, Laurel, who seems to be a lot more mature than her friends. The story is not like our usual discussion of racism, instead it is reverse racism in which a group of black girls racial hate and prejudice towards a group of white girls (Brownies troop 909). Throughout the story, one of the major theme recurring is irony-contradiction between what is meant and what is said. ZZ Parker uses irony to illustrate to the reader the hypocrisy of human nature always wanting from others what
Perhaps because they had “learned so much from life, from poverty, from their mothers and grandmothers” and because they had “been early awakened and made observant by coming at a tender age from an old country to a new” (Cather 127). These girls show the readers how beneficial hard work and poverty can be to a person. They were made strong because of the obstacles that they had overcome, and they were beautiful for this. Jim is able to put their abstract pleasantness into words by equating them with poetry. Somehow, the unique environment that these girls grew up under has made them into the poetry that they are.
The main antagonist in the book is Alice’s youngest daughter Lydia Howland. She defies the family’s educational tradition and chooses to take acting classes in Los Angeles in hopes of becoming an actor. Lydia’s decision causes a lot of conflict between her parents. She’s the only one that refuses to participate in the Alzheimer’s genetic testing. However, as Alice’s condition deteriorates, Lydia becomes the most valuable player of the family; she becomes Alice’s number one advocate. She doesn’t try to “test” Alice’s memory but is there for her when she needs her (p. 162). The relationship between Alice and Lydia improves. Lydia eventually listens to her mother’s advice and enrolls at Brandies University to study theater (p. 258).
The author does an excellent job writing about disabilities, getting bullied for being different, and most importantly, overcoming the bullying. The main character Auggie knew that giving up home schooling and starting 5th grade would mean getting stared at and teased for his severe facial deformity. The kids pointed, laughed, looked away, teased, but eventually, they began to see Auggie as a boy with a great sense of humor who was smart and not so different from many of them.