Comparison Of Eleanor And Park

Whatever Theodora did or told Eleanor to do, she obeyed and at all times puts effort into pleasing her. For example, when all four of them are in the parlor, “Eleanor thought, She moves like an animal, nervous and alert; se can’t sit still while there is any scent of disturbance in the air; we are all uneasy … Theodora came, moving with grace, circling to a resting spot … how lovely she is, Eleanor thought, how thoughtlessly, luckily lovely” (Jackson 125). Eleanor looks up to Theodora and admires her as a motherly figure in her life; however, these feelings of admiration and lovingness fail to endure the entirety of the novel. Eleanor begins to feel hatred towards Theodora and starts to have thoughts, such as “she is wicked, Eleanor thought, beastly and soiled and dirty… I would like to hit her with a stick, Eleanor thought, looking down on Theodora’s head beside her chair; I would like to batter her with rocks” (Jackson 158). Eleanor begins to have these feelings of hatred towards Theodora because Theodora can be portrayed as a better version of

The book “Eleanor & Park” was written by Rainbow Rowell and was published in February 2013 by St. Martin’s Press. Rainbow Rowell is an American author who writes young adult novels. It is a romance novel between two misfit students in 1986. The novel is portrayed from two different viewpoints, from Eleanor’s and Park’s who live in Omaha, Nebraska. Eleanor was a 16-year-old girl with big red curly hair and big body, she has pale skin with dark eyes. Park was a 16-year-old boy who is half Korean with nice black hair and had an average body, not ripped nor skinny. The love story was unusual because not only the main characters have contrast look but their social and family life is different too. This essay will provide summary of the book “Eleanor & Park” and provide the response focusing primarily on bullying, domestic abuse, and child abuse from all the chapters in the book.

Through her life at home Anne Moody experienced poverty and understood the differences between the lives of blacks and whites. Anne spent a large majority of her child in extreme poverty, having to work after school to help provide for her family her mother was a maid for white women, but her income was not enough to buy food and clothes for Anne and her sister. Food in the book was a key distinction in status of whites and blacks. On most days they would only eat bread and beans and on a good day they thrived off of milk, peanut butter or table scraps from the white families they worked for. White families didn’t know how to cook good food or prepare food hygienically. Moody realizes this while working for Miss Ola. Moody states, “After eating the food Miss Ola I could see how Mama had to do the cooking because white women didn’t know how” (Moody 37). Anne follows up with a detailed description of mucus dripping out of Miss Ola’s nose right into the soup she is about to feed them. Whites compared blacks to animals. Anne’s mother used to buy milk from the white lady on the hill until Anne discovered the lady would leave the milk out and let her cats drink out of it and then sell that same milk to the African Americans in the community for twenty-five cents. Housing was another aspect of life

Jackson portrays the car that Eleanor takes to Hill House as a symbol of the first step to obtaining her long awaited freedom. When Eleanor’s sister, Carrie, refuses to let her take the vehicle to Hill House, she becomes restless and makes the impulsive decision to steal it. With this unlikely act, Eleanor feels that she has, “finally taken a step” (Jackson 10). In her first true taste of independence, Jackson reveals the truth of Eleanor’s hidden nature and makes it easy for people to emphasize with her internal struggle of obtaining freedom. From being

In the short story, “The Veldt” the parents died in the hands of their children’s imagination. The story in not just full of irony, it is full of hints and meanings. In the short story the parents were concerned because of “Africa” in the nursery. The parents later asked David McClean who is a psychologist to look at the nursery, David McClean was also concerned and suggested them to close down the nursery and send the children to him everyday for the next year. George allowed the children to play in the nursery for one last time before closing it down, but that decision caused both George and Lydia’s death.

Eleanor also became extremely self-conscience due to her mother’s stunning beauty. Her mother nick named her granny because of the way that she looked and this took a toll on little Eleanor. Then, in 1892 her mother passed and Eleanor became more attached to her father. Elliott wasn’t exactly focused on Eleanor at the time and what she can remember of him wasn’t love and affection. Everything changed in 1894 when Eleanor’s father died. She became an orphan and her grandmother (Mary Hall) took care of her. But Eleanor was always lonely while living with her grandmother (www.gwu.edu).

Eleanor & Park gives us interesting concept of two entirely different kinds of families: Park's loving, solid family life is in dissimilarity to Eleanor's desperate, poorly broken home. Not only that, we learn a lot about our two main characters because of the way they fit in or don' with their own families. Eleanor's been abandoned by her family, leaving her as an outsider even in her own house, and Park doesn't always share the same interests with his dad. Families make all the difference in the world in this book; Park's family brings Eleanor and Park together, but Eleanor's family tears them

This novel is full of chance and hope. Eleanor and Park is not your typical love story. For starters, Eleanor likes to wear baggy men's shirts and too big mommy jeans. Eleanor has crazy, out of control, fire red, curly hair and is always bullied because of her appearance. Being covered in freckles from head to toe doesn't exactly help the situation either.

Eleanor was raised without her parents, and was also left to voyage life under her grandmother. She lived with other relatives of jarring personalities, absorbed in their own life. She lived in a world within a world, finding difficulty conforming confidently

Everyone needs a home and a family to get by, but Eleanor seems unable to function in any situation outside of a home. She is unable to go out and make her own home, and like a child, she needs the home of another person to give her shelter and to protect her from the terrors that really get under her skin, such as the real world. And even when Eleanor thinks she has found a home with her newfound “cousin” Theodora, that is also ripped away.

In Eleanor and Park, Eleanor is in a bad environment at home. She doesn’t know how to get help, or what she should do about the whole situation, so she stays. It wasn’t until she met Park, that they fell in love, and she realised he could help her. The harassment from her step-dad got so bad that she knew she had to leave, and Park steps in as a hero helping her and changing her life for the better. Page 294, paragraph 10 is a note Park left for his parents after feeling the need to take Eleanor to her uncle's out in Minnesota.

As a child, Eleanor felt she was the ugly duckling. Insecure and shy, she lost both of her parents as a young girl. Her mother, Anna Hall, died of diphtheria along with her brother Elliot Jr. Two years later her father died. Elliot Roosevelt died of illness, alcohol, and despair. He missed his family. Eleanor was shipped to stay with her strict and proper grandmother. Despite the family trying to make Eleanor feel at home, she continued to feel lonely and empty. It wasn't until she was sent to boarding school in England at the age of fifteen when she established a since of self confidence among other girls with the help of a mentor Mlle Marrie Souvestre. Her marriage to her fifth cousin Franklin Roosevelt increased her insecurities and

Anna and Elliott Roosevelt was equally attractive and set to be married with each other. During their engagement, Elliot had doubts that he would provide Anna with a suitable lifestyle for someone of her nature. Anna wrote a letter to eased her fiancé’s doubts, that no matter how they lived that she would love him forever and married him. The young couple attended parties during the social season, for they were belong in the high society in New York, but Elliot knew he could not host a parties in his home since he knew it would never be matched with their wealthier friends. Elliot grew more depressed for he could not engaged at work. On the other hand, Anna became pregnant with their first child, and Elliot was worried of losing his wife or child during labor. After the Anna went into labor later Elliot got the news that both his wife and his newly born daughter, Eleanor, was doing well.

Eleanor & Park is a young adult novel by Rainbow Rowell. This story is praised and loved by all ages because of it’s ability to relate to the reader with it’s varied issues and themes that anyone can relate to. From romance, to bullying and violence, it has a little something for everyone. Overall themes are an important asset to this young adult novel, since they are the ideas that Rainbow Rowell explores, and helps the story take shape. It all goes back into the “coming of age” theme. The protagonists, Eleanor and Park, are two 16 year olds facing life’s obstacles, such as bullying, abuse, and even romance. This book teaches many lessons that one reader might relate to; although taking place in 1986, the lessons still relate to this day, from relationships, to issues at home. Eleanor & Park is an exceptional book that even the most hardened reader can relate to, this book handles a lot of issues and themes that anyone can relate to, and dishes out life lessons that will impact the reader, it’s written in such a realistic way, that it feels like a real story, and that is not in any way fictional. This book is a great piece of fiction that blends in pop culture, issues, and romance all in one that anyone can read.

In addition to the summer of hard labor, Ellen is able to compare the dysfunctional and hateful relationship she has with her grandmother to the behavior of Mavis and her family. Her grandmother blames Ellen for her mother’s death, even going so far as to accuse Ellen of colluding with her father to force her mother to overdose on heart medication when she says, “You and your daddy let her take them pills or more than likely drove her to it and then you let her die” (Gibbons 78). She then adds insult to injury by accusing Ellen of having slept with her father’s friends and the surprise that she isn’t pregnant or has “some little nigger baby hanging off your titty.” Ellen silently endures the physical abuse of working in the fields and her grandmother’s verbal abuse, wrapped in racist slurs, while taking care of her as she dies of a respiratory disorder. In contrast, Ellen finds herself walking up the road sometimes to where Mavis and her family live in what could pass for slave quarters, in a rundown shack. Instead of verbal abuse and hatred, she sees a loving family sitting on the porch each night talking and picking with one another. The family has very little money and lives in meager accommodations, but they are happy compared to the toxic environment of her grandmother’s pristine and wealthy mansion full of treasures. This goes a long way to persuade Ellen to change her mind about her ingrained stereotypes of race and family. She begins to make a list in her mind of