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Next, briefly introduced is the relationship with her grandmother Tootsie. Not much is known about Tootsie other than she cares for Precious’s daughter Mongo who suffers with down syndrome. Looking at the way Tootsie reacts to Mary one can say she does not agree with how she is raising Claireece. (Magness et al, 2009) Unfortunately, her grandmother never reported any abuse or lying that Mary had been doing. Although she tries to inconspicuously let the social worker know there is no food, Tootsie never says anything. This single act could have changed Precious’s life often by not saying anything, we allow problems to continue to happen.

One must read this piece multiple times before its true genius can be seen; this story is much like peeling an onion, tear-jerking hard work included. It is revealed in this story that she does not fit the common portrayal of the protagonized woman, as “[she is] thirty-four years old after all…” (Jackson 1), which clearly puts her as an outlier for her nativity and rash decisions.

In Maxine Hong Kingston’s essay “No Name Woman,” Kingston speculates the life of her deceased aunt from an anecdote her mother tells her. Kingston’s aunt is never discussed and is essentially dead to the family and village since she was impregnated by a man other than her husband. As a result, the village raided the family’s home, killed their livestock, and destroyed dinnerware to show Kingston’s aunt a fraction of the betrayal she had caused the town. Kingston’s version of the story retells her aunt being coerced to pursue a new man other than her husband that ends in an unplanned pregnancy. Killing herself, Kingston’s aunt tries to end the consistent bombardment of rejection and humiliation that her sins have caused her by jumping into the village well. To conclude, Kingston states she is haunted by her aunt’s ghost and the Chinese people fear being dragged into the well as a substitute.

Megan is older than Shanae and is portrayed as disobedient and characterized as the throwaway. Unlike Shanae she does not have a support system, rather she is a ward of the state, from which she has ran away from ten times. Megan was incarcerated at Waxter for assaulting another foster child with a box cutter. Megan’s actions during her stay at Wexter seemed unpredictable, articulate, and greatly needy, making it seem that she was destined for failure. Though Waxter personnel really tried to help her, they never seemed to be able to keep up with her demanding personality. Upon further viewing, we begin to understand the reason for her misbehavior. Megan boils with bitterness, anger, and resentment because she felt as though her mother, Vernessa, had abandoned her.We learn that Vernessa is addicted heroin which has led her to prostitution. Ultimately we learn that Vernessa had spent many years incarcerated and comparatively less in Megan’s

What Janie’s grandma experienced was not warm, caring love. Getting love was the worst thing to ever happen to Nanny. The child conceived by the horrific effects of the rape, Leafy, was also sexually assaulted at a young age. One day Nanny explains to Janie, “But one day she didn’t come home at de usual time and Ah waited and waited, but she never come home all dat night… De next mornin’ she came crawlin’ in her hands and knees… Dat school teacher had done hid her in the woods all night long, and he had donerped muhbaby and run on off just before day” (Hurston 18). This shows that someone as sensitive as your first love and virginity can be the worst thing to ever happen to a little girl. Leafy gave birth to Janie and left the newborn with her mother, Nanny, to live the rest of her life drinking away the pain. When Nanny explains how Janie’s mother left it further highlights the idea of love being the worst tragedy in one’s life. The rape left Janie’s mother absolutely broken, to the point she could not raise the child. Janie never met her mother and never got the love she wanted from her maternal mom. The love and sexual interest the Crawford women hoped to get wasn’t what they

She took on the life of a Comanche woman doing the hard work of setting up tepees and helping dry meat and hides. She also went on many buffalo hunts where she and many other women dried the meat and skins. Parker loved her husband and three children, two boys and one girl, her life in white civilization was forgotten as she now had deep admiration for her Indian life, and never wanted to leave. On one unfortunate day Parker and her daughter were captured and taken away to white settlements. She was given new clothes, a soft bed, and fed food that she sometimes rejected. Parker missed chewing on her carefully made pemmican and her soft antelope hide dress, and she couldn’t get used to the soft bed they had given her to sleep on. During her time in white settlement she was given news of both her husband and second son dieing which brought great sorrow upon her. Another great sorrow brought upon her was the death of her young daughter by a white man’s disease. Life to Cynthia Ann was worthless now that she had lost her beloved daughter. After her daughter's death Cynthia Ann moved to her brother-in-law's home where she died shortly after her arrival. Her first son had not yet forgotten about his beloved mother and went on a search for her. When he found her body he had it place in a new casket with his sister at her side where he was later buried beside them after his

As a young mom, Mary had days in which she felt overwhelmed she enjoyed “partying, dancing, and being noticed by men-and noticing them back - much to the chagrin of her family, friends who ended watching the boys so many nights”(Moore 19). This contrasts Joy’s choice to leave her children with family and friends because she on the other hand had to work. Her absence in her children’s life did not transmit nurture, but absent mindedness instead. Joy also “knew what her older son was into but didn’t think there was anything she could do for him now. She hoped that Wes would be different” (Moore 71).

The Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act (EMTALA) was enacted in 1986 as a part of the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act (COBRA) of 1985. EMTALA was enacted to prevent hospitals with Emergency Departments from refusing to treat or transferring patients with emergency medical conditions (EMC) due to an inability to pay for their services. This act also applies to satellite locations whom advertise titles such as “Immediate Care” or “Urgent Care,” and all other facilities where one-third of their patient intake are walk-ins. Several rules and regulations to this act have been established and it has become a very serious piece of legislation and health

These years of oppression by the husbands left their wives longing for freedom and independence. In “The Yellow Wallpaper” it seems that the narrator wants her husband out of her life, saying, “John is away all day, and even some nights when his cases are serious. I am glad my case is not serious!” (Gilman 12). She is in her highest spirits when her husband is away from home because it allows her some solidity. Her intense desire for freedom leads her to purposely try and drive her husband away. “There comes John, and I must put this away, -- he hates to have me write a word” (Gilman 12). She acts out in spite of John, hoping it will earn her a few more precious hours alone. The burning desire for freedom is also evident in the apt titled “The Story of an Hour”. When the supposedly heart-frail Mrs. Mallard learns of her husband’s death, she is initially grief stricken. However, as she gazes through her window into the busy streets, a slow realization comes over her. With her husband’s death, she is granted that freedom she has always wanted; but it is all taken away from her quickly. “When the doctor came they said she had died of

The narrator’s varying stately yet fervent tone illustrates her obligatory feelings as well as her true emotions regarding her husband and lifestyle through her descriptions of the “nursery” where she is confined (Gilman, 648). John, since he is both her husband and doctor, “hardly lets [her] stir without special direction,” characteristic of patriarchs of the family; he also “laughs at [her], of course, but one one expects that in marriage.” (Gilman, 648 and 647). Since the narrator feels

Victoria Roubideaux is a seventeen year old girl, who finds out that she is pregnant. She and her mother had a fight in the morning and in the evening, after work, she starts to walk home. “The evening wasn’t cold yet when the girl left the café. But the air was turning sharp with a fall feeling of loneliness coming. Something unaccountable pending in the air.” (31). In that line we see the foreshadowing of her feelings and her mother throwing her out of the house.

As a young woman, Denver is lonely and terrified. She knows that, "her mother had secrets -- things she wouldn't tell; things she halfway told" (38). These secrets, she understands, are

The character of the mother executes the tell-tale signs of counterfeit happiness when she tells the murderous story of the narrator’s father’s brother. “‘Oh honey,’ she said, ‘there’s a lot that you don’t know. But you are going to find out’” (36).

       As the tale begins we immediately can sympathize with the repressive plight of the protagonist.  Her romantic imagination is obvious as she describes the "hereditary estate" (Gilman, Wallpaper 170) or the "haunted house" (170) as she would like it to be.  She tells us of her husband, John, who "scoffs" (170) at her romantic sentiments and is "practical to the extreme" (170).  However, in a time

Finally, the reader is introduced to the character around whom the story is centered, the accursed murderess, Mrs. Wright. She is depicted to be a person of great life and vitality in her younger years, yet her life as Mrs. Wright is portrayed as one of grim sameness, maintaining a humorless daily grind, devoid of life as one regards it in a normal social sense. Although it is clear to the reader that Mrs. Wright is indeed the culprit, she is portrayed sympathetically because of that very lack of normalcy in her daily routine. Where she was once a girl of fun and laughter, it is clear that over the years she has been forced into a reclusive shell by a marriage to a man who has been singularly oppressive. It is equally clear that she finally was brought to her personal breaking point, dealing with her situation in a manner that was at once final and yet inconclusive, depending on the outcome of the legal investigation. It is notable that regardless of the outcome, Mrs. Wright had finally realized a state of peace within herself, a state which had been denied her for the duration of her relationship with the deceased.