Descriptive Essay About Aunt Petunia

A lot of wood and books, that’s what made up most of Aunt Elizabeth’s office. Books stacked in bookcases, but also books on desks, on the hardwood floor, everywhere. Books and folders and computer terminals. Aunt Elizabeth was a hustler, as much businesswoman as attorney. She had short-ish brown hair and deep blue eyes that shown she’d done a lot of thinking. Yes, she was always busy, but she’d always made time for him

In this chapter we see how Aunt Alexandra quickly becomes friends with everybody. "Aunt Alexandra fitted into the world of Maycomb like a hand into a glove" (Lee 75). She is very prejudice and has a strong belief in her heritage. This is very different from Jem and Scout as they do not know the importance of their background. When Aunt Alexranda asked Scout to speak to Cousin Lily; Scout had know idea who she was. Aunt Alexandra tried teaching the children about how amazing Cousin Joshua is and Jem immediately states that he was in jail.

My eyes open. A crisp, cold wind blows through my my window and hits my face.The whistle of the fall air flows through one ear and out the other. It was quiet. The sound of nothingness was fiercely stopped by the blaring on my alarm clock. October 13, 2015, at 9:30 AM, I roll over and hit my alarm clock, The repetitive sound disappears. I throw my sheets to the side and step onto the cold wooden floor. I grab a pair of

Imagine, if you will, a brisk night wind coming fast across a lake carrying a pungent smell, something you can’t quite identify, but is nonetheless familiar enough to send a shiver up your spine. As it hits the trees, they creak out a somber call in the still night air. Or was that groan something more…human? You notice, for the first time, the absence of tires humming on pavement and you wonder if it’s that late, or maybe just a slow night. The soft tapping of your shoes on the sidewalk is the only accompaniment your slow breathing has as you move towards the warmth of your home, holding thoughts of a warm bed in the palm of your hand to keep the chill away. You don’t notice at first, perhaps because the reality of what you’re hearing is

aunt in an enormously respectful way that was considered widely acceptable at the time. However, in

Aunt Charlotte is a religious, sympathetic, and dramatic woman whose main focus in life is to love and care for Jackson. She is a Christian woman that goes to church every weekend and thanks God that Jackson has finally returned home for good, or so she thinks. She enjoys having him back home and does not want to

state. She owned a bright green square Buick kept in an unhealthy state of tidiness and refused to hire chauffeur, but today it was nowhere to be seen.

Aunt Abby is one of the few people who actually treat Frado with kindness, and Aunt Abigail also treats Cocoa very kindly. Unlike Aunt Abby, however, Aunt Abigail does not have a rude sister-in-law, as Abigail’s sister, Miranda, is just as nice as her. Although they have some differences, Abby and Abigail are very much alike, and an example of this is seen on page twenty-two of Our Nig when Aunt Abby shows Frado kindness: “Aunt Abby had a glimpse of Nig as she passed out of the yard; but to arrest her, or shew her that SHE would shelter her, in Mrs. Bellmont’s presence, would only bring reserved wrath on her defenceless head.” The kindness that Aunt Abby shows also resonates in Aunt Abigail of Mama Day, along with other characters of the same novel.\

Aunt Alexandra had very strong ideas on how the children should behave and dress. She thought that the children should dress like little ladies and gentlemen, and be very proud of their family. She thinks they should “act like Finches” and be proud of being a Finch.

Aunt Alexandra on the other hand is

Aunt Alexandra has many character traits and one of them is strict. In the story To Kill A Mockingbird, Aunt Alexandra lives in Finch’s Landing with her husband and son, Francis. She doesn’t have any daughters, so when Atticus and his family come around, she tries her hardest to make Scout a lady. “ I can see you could have used a little help dressing for the occasion, young lady.”( Lee). Aunt Alexandra also hates the fact that Atticus isn’t married, she feels that if he was married Scout wouldn’t be the way she is now or talk the way she talks with her friends to her family. “Don’t talk like that, Dill,” said Aunt Alexandra. “It’s not becoming to a child. It’s – cynical.” (― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird).

Aunt Alexandra is inimical towards people such as Walter Cunningham as well, who are less fortunate and therefore perceived as repugnant and unfit to be her niece’s playmate.

Aunt Alexandra’s stubborn ways are often commented upon by others. During a conversation Scout has with her father about her aunt, Alexandra, Scout pretends to welcome her aunt into their household. After the conversation, Scout describes her aunt by stating that “Aunt Alexandra was one of the last of her kind” (172). Similar people to Aunt Alexandra are hard to come across. Times have changed and so have people, but not Aunt Alexandra. She sticks to what she knows, and what she knows is behind the times and distant from common doings. The Finch’s are aware of Alexandra’s unfamiliar ways, her actions are blatant.

Aside from Jean being the contradictory southern lady, Aunt Alexandra is a picture-perfect Southern lady. She wears dresses, organizes tea parties, and gossips, she is everything a southern women is supposed to be. She believes that old, white families are the only ones of importance, and that every family has a streak, whether it was incestuous behavior or alcoholism. She held grudges against everyone and tried to fool everyone into believing she was perfect, but

It was said that Aunt Alexandra resembled Atticus, He and Aunty looked alike, but Uncle Jack made better use of his face: we were never wary of his sharp nose and chin. She was not overweight nor was she underweight, she was in between, She was not fat, but solid, and she chose protective garments that drew up her bosom to giddy heights, pinched in her waist, flared out her rear, and managed to suggest that Aunt Alexandra’s was once an hour-glass figure. While her brother Jack and Atticus Finch went to college to medical and law school Alexandra remain at their landing, she kept things back home in order.