Ellen Hopkins Identical Summary

Marry Karr’s The Liars Club is a haunting memoire, depicting a young Texan girls struggle to survive the trials of adolescence in home that finds stability in chaos and comfort in the abusive habits of her parents. Illustrating both fond and painful memoires from her past, Karr paints a complex image of the relationship she shared with her mother; giving readers everywhere the ability to relate and empathizes with the emotional complexity of their mother daughter relationship. This complexity of relationship can be explored in three main ways: the conflicting views Karr formed of her mother, In Karr’s

Situation : Kat friend Chloe, becomes a key feature in the nightmare, particularly towards the end. This creates more tension as the ultimate choice between Chloe's life and the greater good makes itself gradually more apparent..

The story Jury of Her Peers by Susan Glaspell features Martha and Mrs. Peter as the main characters in the short story. As the author narrates the story, there are key themes and traits which emerge that contribute to the development of the story and the protagonist such as the marriage conflicts, friendship, secrecy, scandals, and male-chauvinism and aggression. In brief, the authors of Two Kinds and Jury of Her Peers aim to show how the main characters have unresolved issues they did not know about their live until they engage in confrontations.

Because of this, she started to miss her friends and teachers at the Moss,’ especially her best friend Mandy, even though she was treated badly. She also started to worry about the new place that she was going because of her past experiences. Being with a better family was so new to her that it was hard to face reality that she actually had people who cared for her. Going

Often, people can be similar through their basic details such as gender or general location, yet they can be vastly different in all other aspects of life, including their personalities. Eudora Welty depicts this in her novel by showing two completely different people put in the same position. Fay and Becky are both married to a high ranking official, move to a new town where they hardly know anyone, and have to overcome death and disease. The novel The Optimist’s Daughter portrays two contrasting characters, Fay and Becky McKelva, through the honor of society, the love of a husband, and the idea of selfishness.

“Ashes”, a short story by Susan Beth Pfeffer, shows that when a child may feel stuck in the middle, they may be more vulnerable to confusion and manipulation. The story is centered around a girl named Ashleigh, whose parents recently separated. She lives with her mom, who is a rather sensible woman, and her father who is, as her mom dictates, “an irresponsible bum”, Although it may not always be his fault, Ashleigh’s father seems to struggle with holding his responsibilities and promises, which later creates conflict. The theme that can be generated from the coming of age story, ‘Ashes’, by Susan Beth Pfeffer is susceptibility to manipulation in a separated family.

This short novel have taught me something important. This mere world of fictional characters, places, and actions have shown me that i've got a wonderful sister (don’t tell her I said that), and two outstanding parents. And that's all you need. Those connections, shared memories, and strong bonds is enough to keep a family together. Not a fancy car, a private island, or an unlimited bank accountant. So I say thank you Cadence, thank you Mirren, Johnny and Gat. Thank you for teaching me a lesson, for showing me that fiction is oh so close to

Everyday she struggles with people calling her the bad person, people not believing her, and people not forgiving her, like her own father. One day when Valerie’s mom texts her telling her she has to work late and to ride the bus home, she decides to walk a few miles to her dads firm. She was kind of skeptical of asking her dad for a ride but she figured it’d be a better alternative to riding the bus. When she arrives at the firm she sees something that made her mouth drop. She saw he dad gently place a hand on his secretary’s shoulder. He called her ‘Sweetheart’ and ‘Baby’, something he hadn’t done to her mom for years. I predicted that he had been having an affair on Valerie’s mom. A few chapters later I found out that my prediction was right. Valeri also found out the ominous truth of her fathers affair. Valerie’s dad told her mom everything and she wanted him out of the house. He told Valerie how much he loved Briley, his twenty-four year old secretary, and then said, “I was set to move in with her over the summer. We’d hoped to have been married been now. But the shooting…” (Brown 294). What made Valerie upset the most was the fact that he hid his anger towards her mom by covering it up with the shooting. He blamed Valerie for his distantness from the family but really he was out having an affair with his

However, the mother also expects that Vanessa will save her from the shame of her divorce by providing status and respect. Given such high demands, Vanessa feels a sense of desperation not only at their poverty but also at her mother’s brand of “emotional terrorism” that seeks to hold her responsible for bringing the family

An unconventional relationship between a grandfather and granddaughter linked with murder, deep strung emotions and change, only briefly describes the different happenings of the book The Third Life of Grange Copeland, by Alice Walker. The novel reads like a soap opera moving from one violent dysfunctional generation of a family to the next. The book comes to show the development of a relationship between Grange Copeland and his granddaughter, Ruth. Through the growth of their relationship it can be seen that people have the ability to change and that they can break free from social constraints. The relationship that Grange and Ruth has is multi-faceted and both of them learn and benefit from

The bond between a mother and child is often spoken of as being unlike any other. Yet there are always exceptions to the rule where this connection isn 't as impenetrable as one might assume. This book is an example of this bond gradually becoming weaker over time. It shows how it affects the child, Bone, and leaves her vulnerable to the abuse of her step-father. Bone’s mother, Anney, had fallen in love with a man who abused her which at first, she’s unaware but eventually comes to realize but still chooses to stay with him. Throughout the book there are instances of Anney’s negligence in recognizing her daughter’s abuse and being of aid to her but wasn 't. In having to deal with her

Before the novel began their was a car crash that was mentioned all throughout the novel we as the reader never actually learned what happened until end. Kaeleigh’s sister Raeanne had been killed in a car crash that the whole family was in. This car crash was the bases of the story and caused everything else that happened to come from that one point. Because of this car crash Kaeleigh developed dissociative identity disorder or split personality disorder. Kaeleigh and Raeanne acted like two completely different characters and they believed that they were two different people. Kaeleigh honestly believed that Raeanne was a different person and was alive all through the story so when Raeanne did something she didn’t think it affected her. When

When Aurora isn't pleased by her daughter's choices, she didn't budge easily to change her mind. This is one of the many examples of struggle between the mother and daughter. Time flies by, and Emma returns home with her three children because she finds out about Flap's secret affair. Even after the years they spent apart from each other, they both came together for support during Emma's crisis. Some more time passes by and Emma finds out about an illness that she will not survive. Aurora and Flap come to Emma’s aid at this dreadful time. Aurora, being as tired and devastated that she is about her daughter, spends all her time to make sure Emma has everything she needs. Watching Emma's illness progress, Flap and Emma decide that the best place for their children is with Aurora. Emma shortly dies and the all is left is Aurora and the children (Terms of Endearment, movie). This movie is what we started this class off with and I feel that for this paper it’s a perfect example of how maternal melodrama is shown in

This summer she meets two kids, but their conversations have an ¨elephant in the room¨. It is not long until she realizes that she has to protect them because their father plays the role of a nice neighbor, but really abuses them by screaming, throwing

Alaric and Naia Underwood both live in an old Victorian house in a small village. They both have dark hair and the same nose and the same parents. They even have the same bedroom. But Alaric and Naia have never met they don’t even live in the same world. Things have been difficult for Alaric since his mother died in a train accident two years ago, after being given a fifty/fifty chance of survival. When Alaric travels to an alternate timeline, he meets Naia who is the female version of himself. But the bigger difference between Naia’s world and his own is that Naia’s mother lived and his didn’t. Naia has been living the perfect life that Alaric could only dream of until he saw it for himself. Together, Alaric and Naia try to understand how