Cupcake Brown Quotes

For her, everyday acts seem much more enjoyable when on drugs. She goes out of their way to experience something new and exciting. She is a creative writer and uses drugs as a way to get back to her child-like imaginative state. Suddenly, with the drugs back in her life, she seems to have much more insight and a wilder imagination. "And the afternoon was absinthe yellow and almond, burnt orange and chrysanthemum. And in the abstract sky, a litany of kites"(93). She longs to feel this way all of the time, but she knows the consequences. She sees doing drugs like going to a carnival. It is an escape from the boring life she is leading now. Even though she has a daughter, she still feels like there is something she is missing out on. The idea of motherhood takes backseat to her lust for drugs.

If Phillip Malloy had sued the schools the school would have won. There were plenty of witnesses telling of what Philip did, and plenty of examples of why Philip was wrong.

The phrase “Why fit in when you’re born to stand out?” (Jerry Spinelli, Stargirl) is false in the context of how Stargirl acts. Throughout the novel, Stargirl acts differently from her classmates, which has negative effect on her classmates. During the novel Stargirl cheers for the opposing team- encouraging others to do so as well- and acts in a manner that other students see as desirable. The way that her actions affect the Mica High students is discouraging and competition and causing students to abandon their self-identity, respectively.

Miss Strangeworth Lots of people turn out to be something they aren’t. Shirley Jackson short story, “ The Possibility of Evil is an example that age don’t change the way you act and treat others. Miss Strangeworth is an old woman who is mean and judgemental to people. Miss Strangeworth can be analyzed by considering what does, what the narrator says about her, and how other characters interact with her.

However, with her alcoholic dad who rarely kept a job and her mother who suffered mood swings, they had to find food from her school garbage or eat expired food they had previously when they had the slightest bit of money. In addition, when bills and mortgage piled up, they would pack their bags and look for a new home to live in, if they could even call it a stable home, since they would be on the move so often. Jeanette needed a dad who wouldn’t disappear for days at a time, and a mom that was emotionally stable, but because she didn’t have that, she grew up in an environment where she would get teased or harassed for it. Jeanette suffered so much, that even at one point, she tried convincing her mother to leave her father because of the trouble he had caused the family already. A child should be able to depend on their parents for food and to be there for them when they need it, and when that part of a child’s security is taken away, it leaves them lost and on their own, free and confused about what to do next.

Hurston utilizes Teacake as a trickster figure through his erratic behavior that oppresses Janie in her pursuit of developing an identity due to her dependability on him in order to show the solution for Africans to overcome a system of injustice through finding happiness and security within themselves. In Their Eyes Were Watching God Janie, the female protagonist, undergoes a journey to freedom, which she first believes she can find through marriage. However, even arguably the best of her three marriages, she finds to be inherently oppressive. This concept becomes ever prevalent within her union with Teacake. Hurston uses Teacake as a trickster figure through first making the reader believe that Janie is freed from her oppressive past when she is with him. Upon meeting Teacake

A Scottish Proverb once said, “Do not judge by appearances; a rich heart may be under a poor coat.” This quote applies to the theme of the novel,“The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle” by Avi. The theme is don’t judge a book by its cover and in the quote, it says to not judge someone by appearances because they might be different than what you think. The first example is shown on page 24, “One always needs a final friend.”

Flashbacks, lightning, and sinkholes is some things Paul experiences in his new life in Florida. Paul, the main character, in the book, Tangerine, by Edward Bloor, faces three major consequences in his life that will affect him in the future. Paul is a seventh grade boy, who moves to Tangerine County, Florida, and loves to play soccer. His family believes he has an issue with his eyesight, but Paul thinks otherwise. Paul choices lead to a variety of consequences, good and bad. Moving schools, sticking up to his brother before he murders him, and telling the truth are just some of the situations. Paul’s choices and the consequences of the choices, affects the development of his character.

Lizzie Borden is a citizen that lived in Fall River, Massachusetts who was infamous for being accused of the murder of her step-mother and father, a popular rhyme of this incident does exist and goes as followed: “Lizzie Borden took an axe and gave her mother forty whacks, when she saw what she had done, she gave her father forty-one”. What happened was an unknown person murdered her parents and the maid with an axe and gave them 12 Whacks to the head. Now the person who did the murder of her step-mother and father is unknown even to this day, people speculate that Lizzie Borden did the murder because of her poor relations with her step-mother, and she burned a dress because it had a quote on quote, ”Stain” on it while she was painting a

Hannibal - granto landing, MO (Chp 1-6) - Huck and Tom sneak into the Widows Garden. They later go to a cave with a group of men and tom says that they are the new gang. Miss Watson tries to explain prayer,to Huck. - Miss Watson is someone who wants to help Huck. She wants to teach him right from wrong.

Both girls obtain their own jobs to make their own money, but their fathers respond negatively towards their independence. When Jeanette works, her father “[slashes their piggybank] apart with a knife and [steals] all the money” (250). When Miranda works, her father is unappreciative and doesn’t understand why she needs a job. In addition, Jeanette's father tells many stories where he is always portrayed as the hero. However, time after time, he isn’t there for his children, and yet he still asks, “Have I ever let you down?” (248). Sadly, Jeanette never has the heart to tell her father that he has indeed let her down, several times. Her father makes many empty promises, like the glass castle for example. Her father told her he would build her a big, beautiful castle made of glass, but Jeannette’s hard work on the foundation ended up becoming a trash pile. Jeanette’s father also came home drunk many nights, where he would “[break] windows and [smash] dishes and furniture...then he’d look around at the mess and at [the] kids standing there.”

For example, when she mentions that her father keeps getting fired from jobs over and over again on top of page 110. Her father continually gets fired from jobs and he can’t maintain the household with food if he doesn’t receive money. This is one of the reasons why her family lives in poverty because both her parents at times don’t receive income because they don’t have jobs. The second reason her family lives in poverty is her father’s addiction with alcohol. Her dad spends the money that should be used for the household food with drinks, Brian mentions, that “’He spends more than he earns on booze’” (Walls 78). Brian even knows that their father wastes his money on his addiction instead for the family. This shows why their poverty keeps continuing because her father can’t keep a job and when he has money it’s only for his

Still, from how often Mrs.Simpson and the king’s affair is referenced in the novella to Betsy Deever’s parents getting divorced compared to “somebody died in [the] family”, the whole family can see that the Schroeder’s marriage is beginning to shake. Mrs.Schroeder was mad, “and when Mrs. Schroeder got mad she sometimes said [...] terrible things”(4) leading to constant fights, which are forgotten the next day. It was their “unspoken family law”(1). They take out their rage and frustrations on each other, yet never try to solve any of their issues. It doesn’t help that Mrs.Schroeder keeps putting pressure on her husband to find a job while dismissing his problems. “Mr. Schroeder sometimes talked about how depressed he felt, and Mrs. Schroeder would say that if he thought he felt depressed, someday he should try feeling how she felt” (3). She even confesses to Mr.McFarland that doesn’t know “how much longer [she] can take it”(35) and calls him Mac, affirming they are close. Mr.Schroeder is afraid that she’ll leave him for a wealthier man who can give her what she desires, like Mr.McFarland. To keep Mrs.Schroeder from leaving, he allows her to spend all their money on new dresses and other materialistic items. Even Grandma Schroeder believes that Mrs.Schroeder thinks she must be “married to a millionaire”(18) to spend all this money. Mr.Schroeder doesn’t even try to control her ridiculous spending, in fact he doesn’t want to stop her, because that would mean they have to face the reality that they can’t afford to spend money on nonessential items. Sticking to the family law, he believes as long as Mrs.Schroeder has a fancy new dress every week, everything is

The sunset came forward as Young Goodman Brown arrived at Salem Village. There he saw his wife, Faith, whom he had only being married to for three months. Faith and Goodman Brown watched as the villagers tied up a so called “witch” to the stick. The villagers had accused the Indian woman of being a witch when she was seen dancing around. They had planned to get rid of the evil by burning her next morning. Tragically, in the old times this was a common practice. The people of the village considered themselves pure Christians. At least that is what Young Goodman Brown believed, till one night it he thought otherwise.

Astonishingly, she turned it around. With the help of a cobbled together family of eccentric fellow addicts and "angels"--a series of friends and strangers who came to her aid at pivotalmoments--she slowly transformed her life from the inside out. A Piece of Cake is unlike any memoir you'll ever read. Moving and almost transgressive in its frankness, it is a relentlessly gripping tale of a resilient spirit who took on the worst of contem-porary urban life and survived it with a furious wit and unyielding determination. Cupcake Brown is a dynamic and utterly original storyteller who will guide you on the most satisfying, startlingly funny, and genuinely affecting tour through hell you'll ever take. When it came time for me to talk, I wasn't sure which parts of my past to tell, which to keep secret, and which to pretend never happened. Uncle Jr. had already seen the welts on my back, so he wasn't too surprised when I told them about some of the physical abuse I endured at Diane's. Everyone else hit the roof, except Daddy. He got really quiet and started balling and unballing his