Delphine Research Paper

The short story, “Treasure State” by Tin House, is full of reflection, guilt, and loneliness. Mainly, the story entails the journey of two brothers fleeing their hometown after their incarcerated father, Old Man, is granted mercy due to his terminal cancer to return home. The brothers, John and Daniel, would rather leave town than to live with the Old Man so they set their eyes on the “treasure state,” Montana. The story details their journey to wild destinations and fleeing their past while making it by any means necessary. Along the way, readers are introduced to a few minor female characters: Gwen, the mother of the boys, and “the lady on the bed.” The importance of these minor characters is grossly underappreciated. This is because while the main themes of this story are readily apparent, there are some equally important themes driven by this group of more underrepresented female characters.

To resist this neglection, Miranda's bluntness and dark humor enables for an early-generation California Indian, Vicenta, and a modern-day California Indian descendant, Miranda, to find strength in each other's experiences of violence, even if the world fails to properly acknowledge the horrors that California Indians have experienced. As Miranda directly addresses Vicenta when she states: “‘I’m sorry, because I don’t know what to tell you. I could try and be funny and say, ‘Hey, guess that priest gave up celibacy for Lent, huh?’ Or I could go for a crude wink...That’s how I’ve learned to deal with it…”(23), Miranda’s coarse humor and direct words of apology, create the effect of resistance. The violence that was perpetrated by Father Real to Vicenta and to all the other women who have suffered violence on the hands of non-Indians, was intended to deteriorate the California Indians. Instead, Miranda transforms this perception into a story of strength. Vicenta’s assault is told bluntly in order to unveil the truth of violence and and suffering encountered. While California Indians continue to be victims of violence from non-Indians, Miranda’s letter reminds the community that the presence of violence will be there, but that they must take control of their experiences and make them stories to be shared truthfully and unforgotten.

The story is set in 1968 in Oakland, California three young girls Delphine, Vonetta, and Fern who leave their father in Brooklyn to go Oakland to meet their mother who abandoned them. Oakland at this time is a boiling pot with political and racial turmoil, with the Black Panthers at the head of a movement fighting for civil rights. In a historical context many readers at this age level have not been exposed to the many freedom fighter organizations like The Black Panthers, middle school students are usually only exposed to a limited number of figures in the civil rights movement like Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X.

To begin with, the narrator’s emotional bond that grew with her grandmother was slow but impactful. One day she was sick and her grandmother had taken care of her, using homemade balm she describes as “sun shining through the darkness of your eyelids” (Viramontes 33). As a result of this feeling of care and warmth she became fond of her time with her grandmother. Out of all her sibling, she was the one that chose to visit her and help with chores. On the contrary to the beliefs of her sisters, the

When Alma and her family move to America, they begin their new life in a place that is strange and confusing, one that is unaccommodating, and causes Alma’s misery and guilt to almost overwhelm her. After the Rivera’s first day in America, they find their appartment and try to go to sleep. Arturo and her daughter Maribel fall asleep right away, but Alma lays awake in bed, wondering to herself if they ”had... done the right thing, coming here?” (6). In the morning, they wake up, confused, “bewildered, and disorientated, glancing at one another, darting [their] gazes from wall to wall. And then we remembered. Delaware. Over three thousand kilometers from our home in Pátzuco. Three thousand kilometers and a world away” (6). Alma and Arturo left their home, not because they wanted to come to America, but because they wanted to be able to help their daughter, Maribel. She had an accident that caused a traumatic brain injury, and Alma feels that the accident is her fault, and has been consumed with grief ever since. Although the Riveras came to America to help Maribel, Alma still wonders to herself if it was the

Rayona and her mother Christine grew up in different worlds but they are very similar in many ways. Christine faced various problems as a young child that are now being passed down to Rayona and she is now seeing how they are being affected by them. The novel “A Yellow Raft in Blue Water” walks us through Rayona’s coming of age story and the three perspectives that it is being told in, Rayona’s, Christine’s, and Ida’s. Although Rayona and Christine are very different, they both seem to be facing similar problems; they end up helping one another find their self identity and both are finally able to appreciate and understand one another.

Mildred Taylor, author of The Gold Cadillac, wrote about a 1950’s African American family’s battle with society. During the 1950’s, a group of laws known as Jim Crow laws made segregation legal in many states. In the family’s African American neighborhood, the purchase of a “golden” Cadillac gave them social status but also tears them apart. The same Cadillac invited danger, as the family drives through Mississippi, a state where segregation was legal. The purpose of this writing was and is to explain how ‘lois' character traits affected how she dealt with the situation in Mississippi. Of the three main characters, I will be focusing on lois' character trait and how she dealt with ordeal in Mississippi.

Thank you for writing this book, it shows many satisfaction and concentration throughout the whole story. My opinion about this book is hard work, Delphine is always trying to understand the truth about her mother Cecile but, also taking good care of her two sisters. This is hard work but, Delphine is ready and knowing what to do next. In this book, there are many characters but, my favorite character is Hirohito, he is caring and always trying to act like a brother to Delphine, Fern, and Vonetta. Hirohito knows the feeling when someone in your family is arrested, For example, when Delphine mom got arrested, Hirohito went to their house and playing with them to get them out of sadness. The best part of the book was when Delphine drives on

All drugs have been created to help people assist with their body’s needs, control symptoms of a diagnosis, and improve the quality of life. Unfortunately, all drugs come with adverse events that cannot be demolished. Gratefully, the majority of adverse events have been discovered and there are ways to help eliminate some of these. All medical professionals educate themselves with adverse events, in an attempt to help our patients.

After Bailey witnesses, a group of white men with the dead body of their black victim he and Maya are sent out of the South to live with their mother in San Francisco. “To describe my mother would be to write about a hurricane in it’s perfect power,” (59) Vivian Baxter Bailey was the beautiful, exciting,

At the beach house, intruders, wearing the ritual masks, surround the house. The women fight for their survival and escape to Mark and Elaine’s house, but to their horror they find them dead. The sheriff shows up, but pulls a gun on the girls. Then a MAN walks out, it’s Rhiannon’s grandfather, RUPERT ASHLEY; he’s not dead. He reveals the secret of the Island. The Lost Colony killed the Indians that saved them. In order to survive they inbred and killed, whoever threatened their society. It was about survival and preservation. The girls have a choice: join their preservation society forever or die.

The primary theme is the impact of child neglecting. Coraline’s parents are pre-occupied with their daily chores and rarely have time for her. This opens up a window of opportunity by the dark powers that take advantage of the situation to lure Coraline into their world by providing her with what she had been missing in her real world. The other mother in the new world says to Coraline: “You know... I love you…” and Coraline Jones responds: “You have a very funny way of showing it…” (Jennings, Gaiman, & Selick, 2009). Additionally, loneliness is the governing emotion at the beginning of the motion picture. After moving from Michigan to Oregon in their big pink Victorian house, the inadequacy of her parents becomes apparent, and she ends up being stressed-out. When Coraline is in the room, the parents are glued to their computers and rarely pay attention to her. Lack of parental attention opens up an avenue for her to explore the surroundings, with which she intertwines the odds of reality and

The opening scene of the story introduces an dysfunctional family, a self obsessed and manipulative grandmother, her son Bailey, his wife and baby, and their children June Star and John Wesley. The family has planned to go on a vacation to from Georgia where they live to Florida. When they find out that there is an escaped convict, the grandmother tried to convince the family to

Lydia is 17 years old and has been at Calliculla, a slave camp in Alaska, for three hard years. She has been plotting to overthrow the overseers since the moment she got there. Now was finally her chance. The slave camp was in turmoil. She threw off her chains, and ran. She ran, and ran, and ran, as far from the turmoil behind her as she could. On her way out, she couldn’t resist stealing something rather valuable, as an act of spite and revenge. She had stolen the Crown Diamond of the Pacific. This alone should grant her enough money to get as far away from this awful place as she could, enough money to buy her own ship and crew, and sail completely out of the Pacific Ocean. She ran through the forest towards the town of Ketchikan by the ocean coast. Lydia sold the diamond to a local jeweler, and stole back the diamond the next day, and, using the money she got in the exchange, she bought her own ship, a ship called Vengeance. On the way out she also bought herself a crew, of all women like herself, who were previously working for the British Navy, but were now employed by her. Her first mate was a woman named Akira, a woman of curious origins, but who was utterly and completely loyal to her. Her quartermaster was a teen, who was 16 years old, one year younger than her, whose name was Alana, whose piercing eyes could see through the mist, often coating the sky in the morning. The rest of the crew manned the oars and sails.

Soon after Papa’s arrest, Mama relocated the family to the Japanese immigrant ghetto on Terminal Island. For Mama this was a comfort in the company of other Japanese but for Jeanne it was a frightening experience. It was the first time she had lived around other people of Japanese heritage and this fear was also reinforced by the threat that her father would sell her to the “Chinaman” if she behaved badly. In this ghetto Jeanne and he ten year old brother were teased and harassed by the other