Claudette's Interaction Paper

In addition, she includes how Mirabella, her younger sister, has not changed from the first two stages. For instance, Claudette describes Mirabella as an unchanging wolf-girl when she says, “The nuns were worried about Mirabella, too. To correct a failing, you must first be aware of it as a failing. And there was Mirabella, shucking her plaid jumper in full view of the visiting cardinal” (Russell 236). Here, the reader can infer that an unchanging wolf-girl like Mirabella does not advance in school or different areas because of how animalistic he or she is.

Once Claudette is in the spotlight, she forgets everything she learned at St. Lucy’s. She states, “…a howl clawing its way up my throat” (Russell, 250). Claudette adapts to human culture in this stage by ignoring Jeanette, she only worries about herself, refuses to thank Mirabella to get approval from the nuns, she does not want to face Mirabella, she looks like a human at the dance, and she tries to mask her feral scent by rubbing a pumpkin muffin all over her body. In the animal kingdom, members of the pack usually do not ignore each other, they look out for each other, they do not look human, and they do not try to mask their scent. Claudette has not adapted to human culture in this stage because she had not learned party vocabulary, she gets nervous when she sees Kyle, she flattens her ears, she narrows her eyes, she forgets everything she has learned once she is under the spotlight, and she pumps instead of dancing the Sausalito. Humans do not flatten their

The pack’s parents were “ostracized by the local farmers” and wanted “something better for [them]” (227) through becoming human. They want to improve their children’s lives by having them integrate into the same society that is chauvinistic towards themselves. However, the after long, exhausting days of adapting to a foreign culture, Claudette dreams of home. She fantasizes of “rivers and meat” and “full-moon nights” (229). “The whole pack was irritated, bewildered, depressed” (229) from the difficulties of changing to a civilization they feel no connection to. The process separates the once tightly bound pack. Claudette shows the human idea of exclusion when she describes hating her sister Mirabella because she is unable to fit in. They “began to avoid her” (233) and “couldn’t show Mirabella the slightest kindness anymore” (236). After months away from her family, Claudette has reached the furthest stage in her acclimation to human society but still can’t

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Without question Jeannette loves her parents very much. Even so, the way they choose to raise their children in poverty and constant relocation took a toll on her. She learns many lessons through these uprootings but she also experiences many struggles. One of the first struggles Jeannette encounters, is leaving her cat, Quixote, behind on their way out of town. “Anyone who didn't like to travel wasn't invited on our adventure, Dad said. He stopped the car, grabbed Quixote by the scruff of the neck, and tossed him out the window. Quixote landed with a screeching meow and a thud, Dad accelerated up the road, and I burst into tears.” (Jeannette 18) Traumatized, Jeannette learns to quickly disregard her resentment due to the love she has for her dad. Nevertheless, she does not forget this memory as it is now a part of the many struggles she is yet to face. Another struggle the family faces is the poverty that follows them from town to town, city to city. Many years they could not afford a Christmas until everything was marked way down. “Mom and Dad would give us a bag of marbles or a doll or a sling-shot that had been marked way down in an after-Christmas sale. Dad lost his job at the gypsum mine after getting in an argument with the foreman, and when Christmas came that year, we had no money at all.” (Jeannette 39) Jeanette and her

While her father’s dismisses his destructive nature, Jeannette becomes conscious of his actions which motivates her to make amends in hopes of leaving their desolate life. Instead of getting help for his childhood trauma, Rex immerses himself in alcohol causing him to become

Jeannette’s self-reliant behavior is frequently shown through her refusal of help from others. On one trip to retrieve her father from a bar, Jeannette’s father is so drunk that he can no longer walk. Another man offers to drive them home, and

Fantine goes through many obstacles in order to provide for the illegitimate daughter, Cosette. Cosette is constantly abused by the Thenardiers despite the monthly charge Fantine paying them to be taken care of. Through the use of Fantine, Hugo is able to familiarise the reader with Cosette while sympathising for her. One day, Jean rescues Cosette from the Thenardiers. The author then continues to explain to the readers the life of Cosette after the rescue.

And despite everything, her love for her father only accumulates for him. Throughout the story Jeannette at times has given up on her father but she somehow always rationalizes his actions and continues to see him as everything but a bad influence. For example, when Rex purposely throws Jeannette into the water forcing her to learn how to swim and saying, “If you don’t want to sink you better learn how to swim.” (Walls 66) Again this just proves that despite how reckless and inconsiderate her parents were at times eventually it taught her to be independent and survive. And in the end they needed this because living in poverty its almost difficult to make sure you will survive the next day. Regardless of Rex’s weaknesses in raising Jeannette soon enough it proved that Jeannette’s love and admiration for her father was impeccable and only proved that Rex played a huge role in her

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Because of this, Emilie was able to get an education and have access to well known

Emilie du Chatelet born in an aristocratic family in France, Paris, unbeknownst to most who lived during the 18th century, became consequential to one of the most famous theories in physics; Einstein's Theory of Relativity. She constantly questioned the things around her and even went so far to question Isaac Newton's work. She stated that the energy of an object is the function of the squared of its speed, and consequently sparked an onslaught of criticism of going back to the “old ways”. For being a woman in a man's world, Emilie fought every step of the way by standing up to those who said that she could not contribute to the world of science and in the end of her life, her only fault was being a woman.

The symbolic interactionist perspective (being subjective) about education primarily centers on the concept of labeling (Little, et al., 2014, p. 500). The interactions between perhaps one’s grade scores and one’s socio-economic level can be attributed to a ‘labeling’ effect on the student. Once marked ‘a poor student’ or some other such identifying tag, the student may come to identify himself/herself with that label and become limited to it (Little, et al., 2014, p.500). In essence as I understand it, once a student reaches the limit of the label he/she is identified by he/she may lose motivation to achieve beyond it. He/she is thus being locked at that level. This ‘labeling’ effect may work to motivate a student to achieve when he/she is told he/she is a winner, achiever or intelligent and capable of high grades.

The girl is eager to marry the marquis so she can transform into a woman and develop a strong identity as her mother has. The girl admiringly notices that her mother is “eagle-featured, indomitable,” which illustrates a fierce and tough exterior that correlates to her personality (Carter 2). Boasting that her mother “outfaced a junkful of Chinese pirates, nursed a village through a visitation of the plague, shot a man-eating tiger with her own hand,” as this depicts the girl’s mother as a strong independent character who stands tall in the face of adversity (Carter 2). Her beastliness is evident as we are now aware that the mother has killed a tiger with her very own hands and she would not mind doing it again. After the father died, the mother was distraught but prevailed through her misery able to grow into an even stronger woman and mother for her daughter. As the girl reflects on such a difficult period in their lives we are able to see how much her mother's growth also affected her as she states, “my mother… had gladly, scandalously, defiantly, beggared herself for love… grown magnificently eccentric in hardship” which illustrates her mother did not allow her grief to control her or inhibit her abilities to be a mom (Carter 2). Being a single parent helped her flourish as a mother and as a person. The mother is already portrayed as a strong female figure before this information is introduced but after the audience gains this knowledge about her, it is clear that the mother is