Blue Eyes Chapter Summary

In chapter 1 and 2 of The Blue Sweater, there were many problems that drew my attention, but there is one problem in particular that I would like to discuss: The African women showed Jacqueline that she was not present welcomed in Africa.

Jacqueline Novogratz has spent countless hours working on finding ways to help women in poverty create sustainable jobs. These women are from countries where they are the ones who are expected to stay home and take care of their families and do work around the house while their husbands are out working trying to make enough money to support their family. But in some cases, the husband has left his wife or he has passed away, leaving the wife to provide on her own. It is a struggle for women to make enough money for their family, and some nights the family will go hungry because not enough money was made to provide food. With the help of Novogratz and the companies that she worked for, women learned how to make enough money

In Jill Lepore’s book, The Whites of their Eyes, she argues that the American Revolution has become twisted to fit the role that the Tea Party wants it to fill, instead of the Tea Party realizing that the men of the American revolution were only men and not the heroic figures that they are thought of today. Lepore makes a very reasonable argument using sources from the Founding Fathers as well as interviews with Tea Party members to draw connections between the two and show that the Tea Party is twisting history for their own good and sometimes taking the past out of context. In the book, Lepore switches back and forth from the 1700s to the present day to draw connections between the two. This provides an immediate connection for the reader

She felt like a loner. She was fighting her mum a lot, and said to her mother "maybe there's something else you'd like to find wrong with me while you're at it!" She didn't think about what other people felt. She was a

As stated before, it is based or should one say inspired by the life of the slave Margaret Garner, who was an African American slave . She attempts to escape in 1856 Kentucky by fleeing to Ohio, which was a free state. A mob of slave owners, planters and overseers arrived to repossess her and her children under the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850, which gave slave owners the right to pursue

She is a very pessimistic person throughout the novel, Tangerine. “You told them i’m handicapped! You told them i’m visually impaired!” “Darling, you are. I just told them the truth.”

When the European settlers arrived on the east coast of North America they believed that the Indians who occupied the land live a primitive life style. The Settlers felt it was up to them to develop this land and create a civilized world. From the time European colonists first arrived in North America and throughout the 1800s it was a constant battle between colonists and Indians over culture, land, and religion. The book “Red Eyes” suggest that natives understood that war would be detrimental to their existence.

She always thought that her mother was jealous of her beauty because her mother was not as gorgeous looking as she was earlier. Also, she was forced by her mother to be simple like her elder sister, who was not only an overweight sibling, but also an obedient daughter of her parents. Connie was totally opposite to her sister. She did not like to stay at home. She would listen to songs and daydream all the time.

Moreover, she is expressively agitated when Andrew says that everyone's home life is unsatisfying and Brian starts analyzing what she means by the word choice. The first statement likely made her feel invalidated. The analysis troubled her because she probably doesn't want to truly face her problems, and she doesn't want others fleshing them out right in front of her. Perhaps she enjoys the upper-hand feeling over others that can be felt by remaining mysterious. There's no way she could ever feel superior while at home, because her parents ignore her.

Throughout the story she shows signs of being self centered and a liar when she brings the cat after being told not to, tries to get her son to go to Tennessee instead of Florida so that she can visit some people, and her efforts not to get herself shot and killed despite her family

As she interacted with other children, paranoia had grew, as she thought that any type of comment amount them is aimed towards her and the way she looked. Of course some of it was true, as some of the the children did stare and laughed. She later blames it on the lack of money that her family had. It was the root of all the unhappiness that surrounds her. It didn’t help that she was diagnosed with cancer, an expensive illness, which of course Grealy saw the bills and causing her parents to fight. She blamed it on herself. She was envious of rich and healthy children, she was hurt by their parents that saw them as danger. She ends the story with her being photographed for examination, and how she would’ve have liked an alternative photo of her and a pony just like the other

She is facing powerlessness every day by not being able to openly be herself and who she knows she is. Violence comes into play from the innocent motherly traits to being physical. It seems as though

She is not the perfect image of what her own parents expected of her and instead of accepting her for being an intellect, black woman, with imperfections, like we all have, they instead remind her that she is different and not

She has very long dreams and always tells a lengthy description at breakfast. Since she is only eight, she says she is looking forward to getting a bicycle when she turns nine. She bickers occasionally with Jonas because they are siblings, but they always make up, because they live in a perfect world. When the family starts taking care of Gabriel, she becomes attached to him and it is clear she would be a good nurturer, just like her father. She also has a stuffed “comfort object” that is an elephant.

Claudia is presented with two different mental capacities. Claudia is shown to have a very complex mind, understanding the world around her. However, Claudia is also shown having the mind of a naïve nine-year-old. Why does Claudia have this double personality in this story?