Comparing Pussy And The Monkey Trainer

She was the only one who understood. She listened without judgement, held her when she cried, and was there for her when she was at her loneliest. It was hard without her being there. She felt as if she had no one to talk to. Steven was too young, Garnet was not the talking type, and Pearl? Well, they just didn't get along. Actually never got along. She was the reject gem; the product of a Homeworld experiment that none of the "real" gems wanted to speak of. It was almost sacrilegious.

As a female, she is vulnerable to rape and has little power to stop the rape by her father. The people of Maycomb believe women are helpless, fragile, and only fit to be housewives. Being a woman makes Mayella appear weak and easy to take advantage of. However, she ultimately uses what appears to be a weakness to her benefit in making the case against Tom and getting away from her father.

Mayelle stays home to take care of her younger siblings. She has high standards for herself with desires to bright and joyful in her dull world. However she never has a chance to express her goals to the reader and is not only struggling through poverty but also going through a trial for rape. With all of those events taking place Mayella plays innocent though she really just wants to better her life. Living in poverty is a social normality to most children in the town of Maycomb. In Scout Finch’s first grade class some children will appear one day and be absent the next couple of weeks. For some families they are too poor to provide their children with an education while others cannot afford to have no one watching over the younger siblings. The children face the same unfortunate fate as Jairo

The W.W. Jacobs version, and the Simpson’s version of The Monkey’s Paw were both similar and different. For example, one difference is, in The Monkey’s Paw story by W.W. Jacobs, the wishes made all had bad outcomes. Specifically, In the W.W. Jacobs version, a man comes to their house and tells them Herbert died and they would be given, “[t]wo hundred pounds...” (Jacobs 174). This evidence proves, how the White family wished for two hundred pounds, then the received the two hundred pounds, at the cost of their son’s life. On the other hand, in The Simpson’s version, they became rich and famous from their wish. Overall, In the W.W. Jacobs version of The Monkey’s paw, the wishes all had very bad outcomes; but the Simpson’s version had fairly good

This affects how Jeannette views her life, and as a result, she wants to have a better life than

She really wasn't fine because she had killed herself. Lily seems really worried about May and what is happening to her because she has been gone for a while: “I’ll go with you said August. May spoke over her shoulder. No, please, August, just me.” (188). In this it starts to sound like something is really wrong with May because she wants to be alone. After a while everyone in the house starts to worry about her because she is usually back by now. Lily is also coming of age because she is starting to realize more things that are happening: “After 20 minutes she said that’s it let's go get her” (189). Everyone starts to worry that something is wrong. When the Boatwright’s all find May they all seem shocked about why she would do this to herself and not say anything: “ May lay in 2 feet of water with a huge river stone on top of her chest” (192). They all see her and just stand there, speechless, May should have told them what was going on because they might have been able to help. It relates to the thesis because Lily is starting to realize that lying isn’t good and bad things might happen if the truth isn’t

The lesson to take out of both of these stories is honesty and courage. “Oh. My poor Mathilde! But mine was imitation. It was worth at the very most five hundred francs!...”(85). If she had been honest from the very beginning about loosing the necklace, they never would’ve ended up in poverty. It was courageous in a way that the ladies sacrificed and preformed a crime in order to help their friend. Sometimes we have to do things that are difficult, like admitting that she misplaced the necklace, but if we do the right thing to begin with the consequences are easier to

On the other hand Mayella’s gender also made her powerless. As a woman in a low class she got abused, for example “Tom Robinson shut his eyes tight. ‘He says you goddamn whore, i’ll kill ya. (Doc. B).” is an example of both verbal and physical abuse. An example of emotional abuse would be “long’s he keep callin’ me ma’am (Doc. C).” One last example on how mayella is abused is

Newland fears that May wont be able to see any of the world even if she opens her eyes. Just like the cavefish isn’t able to see after living in darkness for years, May might not be able to see after living in the shadow of society. Newland is attempting to draw May away from her innocent personality and open her eyes to the world. He fears that May will end up like a copy of her mother, who perfectly portrays the role of a wife in society. Newland wants more out of May, not just the perfect housewife.

One consequence, for example, showed Walls's parents trying so hard to separate themselves from society itself, that they didn't focus their attention on what's most important: their children, which in return showed the Walls family to be dysfunctional. They were constantly running away, always having problems with finances, which eventually resulted in scarce food and no working electricity. Although Jeannette Walls's parents earned

Continuing from above, May is once again compared to Diana. Before the archery competition, May’s entrance is described, “In her white dress, with a pale green ribbon about the waist and a wreath of ivy on her hat, she had the same Diana-like aloofness as when she had entered the Beaufort ball-room on the night of her engagement” (173). May is once again compared to Diana in the same sentence where she is depicted wearing white, further implying the innocence the entire society believes she has. However, this quotation introduces a new concept: May’s aloofness. By depicting her as a goddess who is also distant, Wharton is able to add more of this untouchable nature of perfection. At this point in the novel, May suspects an affair between Newland and Ellen, however, she is sticks with

She did not find the west as glamorous as she hoped it would be. She worked as a cafe cook to supplement her income. Even though the west wasn’t all glitz and glam, she stayed, and eventually had her abusive husband caught up with her. He begged Pearl to come back with him after promising to get a real job, and she decided to go and the couple reunited. The couple gave birth to their daughter, and had an on and off relationship.

17. a.)Pearl is given the most wonderful gift from her new found father. It is a life that is filled with happiness and love. When her father who has finally publicly acknowledges her as his daughter, she kisses him and weeps an actual tear. 18.

It is difficult for a woman in the 1930’s to get any kind of respect or power. No woman in this time period could get respect easily without first proving and earning it. Women weren’t given the opportunities to earn their respect. Mayelle has little to no power, whether regarding where she lives, the lack of respect from her father, or the fact that she can’t tell when she is being respected.

Her husband is the source of her emotional despair. He leaves her drowning in a storm of indifference and lack of affection. When she goes back to the room she begins to look at herself in the mirror studying her profile feeling unwomanly with short hair. She feels this causes the lack of physical and emotional attention from her husband. When she tells him of all the things she desires, he merely tells her to "shut up." He really doesn’t care about her concerns. She doesn’t defend herself from her husband’s verbal abuse but rather begins to pout like a little girl saying, "I want a cat, I want a cat now. If I cant have long hair or any fun, I can have a cat."(pg57) Suggesting that her husband will not allow her to have long hair or any fun. She wants this cat so bad, in order to hold it, pet it, and love it, symbolizing what she wants physically, to be held and touched, and emotionally, to be loved and cared for.