Difficult People

The mother started the story not wanting her children or even really caring for them, they had a full time nanny and the mother had no interest in them. "She had bonny children, yet she felt they had been thrust upon her, and she could not love them. They looked at her coldly, as if they were finding fault with her. And hurriedly she felt she must cover up some fault in herself." She was dull to the way she felt and was negative towards and about her husband because she believed him to be unlucky and the reason for all the money problems they were having. She was negative and dark the whole time. She hardly had anything positive to say and it stayed that way until she finally received a great deal of money and that made her feel adequate again as a family. She changed her way of being and started to care more about her son and what was happening with him. She wanted to leave places to check on him and concer herself with how he was and if he was okay."Two nights before the Derby, she was at a big party in town, when one of her rushes of anxiety about her boy, her first-born, gripped her heart till she could hardly speak. She fought with the feeling, might and main, for she believed in common sense. But it was too strong. She had to leave the dance and go downstairs to telephone to the country." Her mood only changed after she got money and felt that she was good enough again, she valued herself on the outside look not what was really important. This just goes to

The theme of this book is that the human capacity to adapt to and find happiness in the most difficult circumstances. Each character in the novel shows this in their way. For instance, their family is randomly taken from their home and forced to

“How Far She Went” – The themes in this story are generational shortcomings or “curses,” how families relate to one another including how far we are willing to go for those who love us, and it also touches on what it’s like to be a rebellious teenager. Conflict drives this entire story. At the beginning, the main character has both external conflict with her granddaughter, “They had quarreled all morning, squalled all summer” (the opening line of the story, 281), and internal conflict “she was done with that. And what was it worth anyway?” (on no longer being a mom, 283). The conflict between the two of them ramps up over the course of the story until the end, when we see that, despite their arguments and dissatisfaction with one another,

The mother begins to rebel against tradition by taking an active role in educating and freeing herself. Through her radio, telephone and trips out with her sons she develops her own opinions about the world, the war, and the domination and seclusion of woman. She loses her innocence as a result to her new knowledge and experience.

1.- Well-being: Sara's husband come back from QLD to visit his Sara and the kids with the news that he has found a job. Sara is happy about it, but at the same time very sad because he has left again.

She lost another love by the name of Oluf, could not find much work, and lost hard-earned money through a bad business investment. After all this peril she took Russell and Doris and moved to Baltimore. Another move equaled more stress, less money, and more struggling to get by. With what seemed to be the world against her, she made it. She remarried, bought a house, and became the success she demanded of herself. Every step of the way Russell was exposed to all the ups and downs. His mother’s life during those times shaped and influenced his own.

11) How do particular aspects of this story relate to at least two of the “directives” given in “The Good Wife’s Guide” (1955)? [see Lessons or Resources for “The Good Wife’s Guide” (1955)]

This novel takes place in San Francisco where citizens are living in fear because of the racism happening in the world. Life is expressed throughout multiple characters like Robert Childan, Frank Frink, Tagomi and Juliana Frink. . As so many controversial issues a-rise, the character and spirituality shine through each of these main characters by the actions they take. Robert Childan,

“ My mother had traded housecleaning services for weekly lessons and a piano for me to practice on every day, two hours a day, from four until six” (602). From the consequent events come viscous dispute between the two as we get a deeper look into the mother-daughter relationship they share. “ When my mother told me this, I felt as though I had been sent to hell” (602). The author leaves the interpretations and the judgment of the characters and the condition exclusively up to the reader, not by leaving out detail, reasonably giving enough details to show neither character as fully in the wrong. To breakdown the conflict between the mother and daughter, external conflict arises from her mother “ My mother believed you could be anything you wanted in America.

Therefore, I will be encouraging you to explore some of the ideas presented in the novel as you feel they pertain to you. In class we will focus on the structure of the novel, the symbolic meaning of the novel’s events and the philosophical ideas the novel explores. Your homework assignment will be to consider all of these things through personal response journals.

She is very close to her family because she is a southern girl who moved up to New York for a while but desires to come back to where she is from. In the book, she is traveling back home to visit once again to see how things have changed. However, her southern community has not changed. In some cases, it became worse. Her family are still stuck in their old ways of thinking and things somewhat become crazy because of this. Her life becomes a whirlwind as her current beliefs collide with that of her father’s. This story will surely make you think about family and race relations in this country. It is packed full of wondrous values that everyone can learn from. This book is a reflection of southern

One of the things that confused me is the father. Instead of sitting down with his wife and talked to her about her beliefs, he supported her. Clearly he did not agree with her. He wanted to send money back to their family, he just did not have the balls to stand up to her. He does not comment what anyone does to him. He seems like he as accepted American culture his wife is the one that has not. Hopefully as time goes on in the book he changes.

Francie and Neeley, the main characters, struggled against many opposing forces as children. One of their major problems was poverty. Many times, Francie and Neeley had to drink coffee to sustain themselves on days when there was no food. Many times, Francie and Neeley wished to have nice clothing and shoes, but were never able to afford them. Although they never got the things they wanted, both Francie and Neeley never complained, they still worked hard no matter what, and earned money whenever possible. In addition, because both Francie and Neeley were poor, they were humiliated a lot by people in their society. Francie hated to be humiliated. But, despite all of their problems, they continued to work hard and earn money for the family.

B. Including the fact of a woman being a mother in her story it gives it significance. It tells all the extra effort that she put into her goal and what compromises she had to make at home, with her children, and with her husband without having to state it. It tells a deeper story in an instant and gets the attention of the audience because everyone has a mother and the use of that word will get their attention instantly.

After putting a down payment on the new house, Mama gives the rest of the money to Walter and ultimately gives him the role of the man of the house and to step up to take care of the family. However, Walter goes against Mama and decides to follow through with his dream and invest the money in his potential liquor store business. Although, his plans fall through when Willy, one of the “investors” runs off with the money. Not only Walter, but his whole family lose the chance of a better life and are forced to start back up again. They no longer have the money to put Beneatha through medical school or the money to support themselves. Despite the backfall, the younger family keeps trying. Even though the road ahead may be difficult, the Younger family has each other to support one another and that’s all they need. By picking themselves back up after they have lost everything, it shows that they aren’t ones known to give up at the sight of defeat. They kept trying after they had lost everything because having nothing left to lose means that things can only get better from here on out.