Emma Donoghue Hate List

Further, the narrator describes deceit and exposure to infidelity at a young age while his father has an affair on his mother; “…we both knew Papi had been with that Puerto Rican woman he was seeing and wanted to wash off the evidence quick (Diaz, 23). I met the Puerto Rican woman right after Papi had gotten the van (Diaz, 34). I don’t remember being out of sorts after I met the Puerto Rican woman, but I must have been because Mami only asked me questions when she thought something was wrong in my life (Diaz, 42). I didn’t say anything to Mami either…Later I would think, maybe if I had told her, she would have confronted him, would have done something, but who can know these things” (Diaz, 43).

Over the first five years of Jack’s life, the room is where he finds safety and comfort. Jack was born in that room and lived with his mother there for the first five years of his life. He got accustomed to it and knew everything about it. Furthermore, you can see Jack showing his childish love to his basic belongings in the following quote. “‘Jack, it’s all frayed and stained from seven years…I can smell it from here. I had to watch you learn to crawl on that rug, to walk on it. You pooed on it once, the soup spilled, I could never get it clean.’ ‘Yeah I was born on her and I was dead in her too.’ ‘Yeah, so what I’d really like to do is throw it in the incinerator.’ ‘No!’” (Donoghue, 305). Some of the very few belongings from the room mean a lot to him and are memorable. For example, a rug is utilized in many different ways in his life. He was born on it and escaped from the room in it. It signifies the beginning and the end of his life in the room. Altogether, Jack finds out who he is by forming personal attachments to the room.

In addition to the issues within the family, the crime committed against mother has cause inner turmoil for Joe. He is faced with the feelings of obligation to avenge his mother. He sees her sheltering herself every day in her bedroom, slowly becoming just a shell of the woman she used to be. “The damned carcass had stolen from her. Some warm part of her was gone and might not return. This new formidable woman would take getting to know, and I was thirteen. I didn’t have the time” (Erdrich 193), says Joe. Feeling more and more alone, Joe is forced into

Jeannette’s parents did many things to her as a child that damaged her, but forgave them for what they imposed on her. She had the knowledge that they still loved her, no matter the choices that they made. he reason that she chose to forgive her father for everything would be because she still loved him and if Jeannette had not forgiven him, then their relationship would grow apart. This can be manifested in the statement, “‘ But, you always loved your old man, didn’t you?’ ‘I did dad,’ I said, ‘And you loved me’” (Walls 279). It was all because of Jeannette’s love for her father and the good heart she has that gave her the ability to let go of what he did, and to go further, the ability to be optimistic about it. Furthermore, Jeannette had also forgiven her mother for the mistakes she made when Jeannette was a child. For example, Rose Mary Walls had been depicted as extremely selfish throughout the

Lastly, her family betrayed her by not listening to her side of the story after her sister told lies about her, and they betrayed her when they acted as if they did not care if she moved out of the house. In all of these actions, the family itself and certain members of the family are portrayed as uncaring, unsupportive, disrespectful, conniving, deceitful, and hateful to Sister. Through every action of the family, Sister is treated harshly, and she tries to not let this bother her. Yet, anger and bitterness build up inside of her until she cannot take it anymore. Consequently, it built up so much inside of her that it severely affected Sister so profoundly that she moved away from her home to get away from her family.

When Valerie finally returns to school, she has to face both victims

Jeannette and her dad started to grow apart. He was always leaving and not really there for Jeannette and his family. He would leave for days and wasn’t really working. Jeannette started to learn that his dad’s actions weren’t really smart. She started to see his lack of responsibility and what his actions are doing and what they lead to. She knew that her father had a drinking problem and would always go to the bar. Jeannette realizes that Rex keeps letting her down because he still continued to drink and gets drunk. Jeannette was at a breaking point and she asked her mom to leave her father. But her father still has his moments when they would still bond together when she is older .Every birthday he would give her a star and she would love it. But at the end of the day, Jeannette loved her

Victoria Roubideaux is a seventeen year old girl, who finds out that she is pregnant. She and her mother had a fight in the morning and in the evening, after work, she starts to walk home. “The evening wasn’t cold yet when the girl left the café. But the air was turning sharp with a fall feeling of loneliness coming. Something unaccountable pending in the air.” (31). In that line we see the foreshadowing of her feelings and her mother throwing her out of the house.

Piddy’s mother had chosen never to speak of her father, only making Piddy's curiosity grow, along with her anger and questioning. Once Piddy was exposed to this information, her mother gave her the reassurance she was always searching for. Piddy finally knew that she was wanted, maybe not by her father, but by her

“Other faces peered in from the sides of her eyes−her father and mother, and Charles, and Adam, and Samuel Hamilton, and then Aron, and she could see Cal smiling at her. He didn’t have to speak. The glint of his eyes said, ‘You missed something. They had something and you missed it.’” (554) Upon Aron’s visit to the brothel, Cathy is horrified after seeing his disgust of what she has become. Everything hurt more than it ever had, and she, in turn, plots to end her miserable life. Before she kills herself, Cathy decides to write her will stating that Aron will inherit everything she owns, and tells the sheriff to check Joe Valery’s fingerprints. Although Joe is an extremely minor character, Cal’s decision to show Aron their mother ultimately leads to his death as well. Cathy then commits suicide using the small bottle of poison that always hung from her neck. Lee works up the courage to open the envelope, and discovers that Aron was killed in the army. He is completely distraught and is sure that it is not his right to tell Adam his son is dead. (593) The first major event that occurs as a direct result of Cal taking Aron to see their mother is Aron enrolling in the Army. After being so disgusted that his mother is a prostitute Aron simply no longer has the will to live. This ultimately leads to

I am reading Reconstructing Amelia by Kimberly McCreight, and I finished the book. This book was about a girl who supposedly killed herself and about how her mother did everything possible to find the real truth to her daughter's death. I am also reading Mystery Mark by Angela Elwell Hunt, and I finished the book. This book is about a girl name Nicki and her four best friends who are trying to solve the mystery of a mark that appear every time something goes wrong. They are also trying to find Corrin which is the girl responsible for causing so much trouble. In this journal I will be interviewing one of main character from the book.

Conversely, instead of seeking retribution, she may have endeavored to fall in love with Beauplaisir. If such is the case, she falls out of love, as she reads his letters to Mrs. Bloomer and Fantomina. She calls him, “Traitor!” and realizes he only says what women desire to hear. After her epiphany, her actions border on obsession. She becomes possessive of a man who she knows is unfaithful, but makes no plans to break off her escapades. Her going into labor is the only reason she must stop. The irony of her lack of sexual resistance as she changes from character to character makes the protagonist appear damaged and misguided. No matter what her objective is, she approaches it poorly and ends up causing even more emotional damage to herself.

Becca struggles to forgive her father after the incident. Becca debates everyday whether or not she should contact him. She has anger for what he did and how he ‘sabotaged’ their family. She hates how his actions have affected her this much. She is mad because he ruined everything in her life.

Vivie and Mrs. Warren have an undeniable connection, as a daughter and mother their bond should be unbreakable. Vivie has a kind heart and she forgives Mrs. Warren, when she learns about her profession. However, deeper emotional disappointments provoke her to leave and break the bond. Vivie’s side is much more justifiable, because her reactions are provoked by

The idea of marrying a widow seems atrocious because he is expecting an unmarried woman. Leo understands that a widow is no different from any other woman, yet, the marriage destroys his image of an ideal wife. He does not want Sophie since she has been with another man and she has had other relationships. Although Salzman tries to convince him that a widow is one of the best to be with, Leo is still in firm position against meeting her. Disappointed by Leo’s choice, Salzman moves on to the next woman; Lily H., a thirty-two year old teacher. She has a stable job and life, but because of her age, she seems “a little too old” (311). Leo wants someone younger than him. No matter how accomplished a woman is, dating someone older than him is against his norm. Salzman tries to talk Leo into dating someone older, but it is futile. Eventually, Salzman moves onto Ruth K., the daughter of a stomach specialist. After Salzman talks about her, Leo is more interested in the father. He is not pleased with her because he despises “stomach specialist” (313). Although Salzman only says a few sentences about her father, he focuses on the Ruth’s father rather