Gilmore Girl : A Short Story : Gilmore Girl

Coming from a lonely and abusive home Mary had to find happiness outside of her house. Her mom made a friend from their church and she happened to have a three month year old baby. Mary always occupied the Richardson’s by helping with baby Alyssa, while also distracting herself from reality. Meeting the Richardson’s ended up being Mary’s worst nightmare. One night the Richardson’s went out and asked Mary and her mother to watch Alyssa.

“What the….,” she started to laugh. Standing up while dusting herself off, a look of curiosity

There are a variety of distractions within Montag’s society that take away the opportunity for everyone to unite as a community. Montag’s wife, Mildred, is among many of the people who distract herself. She distracts herself by listening to seashells and watching TV shows in her TV parlor to entertain herself and take her mind off of anything provocative or unpleasant. The TV shows create a fantasy for her and she would rather watch them than have a conversation with Montag.

For the better part of her childhood, until they moved to Welch, the Walls family had been migrants and even after they had lived in Welch for many years it took one trip to remind Walls “how easy it was to pick up and move on when the urge struck. Once you’d resolved to go, there was nothing to it at all” (Walls 225). This is ironic because one would assume that after moving constantly for so long, staying still would be a welcomed comfort, but this is not the case. After her father died, she once again reverted back to what she knew, feeling most comfortable when she was “on the move, going someplace rather than being there” (Walls 280). His effects on her stretched further than just her behavior into her love life. She married a man not because he made her happy, but because “he would never try to steal [her] paycheck or throw [her] out the window… [she’d] always been terrified [she’d] fall for a hard-drinking, hell-raising, charismatic, scoundrel” like her dad (Walls 268). This is ironic because Walls had previously thought her dad was “perfect” and he is the very person that drove her to hate people like him (Walls

Lila lay on her bed staring at the ceiling thinking over the events of the evening. The more she recalled, the more she was mortified for acting like a love sick, slobbering idiot in front of not only the most beautiful man she’d ever met, but he was her best friends cousin of all things! Lila groaned, burying her head into her pillow. She tried to console herself by thinking she would never see him again. She could avoid him by simply not going back there. It wouldn’t be too difficult to do. She would never have the guts to venture to a club like that on her own. This is exactly the reason that Rachael had taken her there. Lila was trying to convince herself he was charming to all the ladies. He worked at a night club. Of course he would

The journey that Janie embarks on is to find herself. She learns that she can be happy with or without a man, and with or without riches and superficial items. It is also a quest for love and fulfillment. In her marriage to Joe, Janie has all of the worldly possessions one could dream of having, but she does not love Joe. She is not happy in that marriage because even though she has every tangible item she could want, she does not have love, and that is an essential part of life. With Tea Cake, however, she does not have expensive items galore, but she does have love. Her marriage to Tea Cake shows that you do not need what money can buy to make you happy, you need love. The contrast between the two places also shows that individual freedom is necessary to be happy. Living with limited expression is harmful to a person. No one desires to live a life, having their ideas suppressed by another. Janie’s need to be free and for expression is one that every person in the world can relate to. The contrast between Eatonville and the Everglades highlights the meaning of the

“That’s why they were only taking a few things at a time; they weren 't really coming for ivory and paintings. They wanted me!” Even when she wasn’t in her room she was always afraid of something. “I always dreaded that my parents would divorce. It was my third biggest fear, right next to the fear that one of them would get abducted by heartmen on the road to Sugar Beach, or my first fear, that I would get sucked into the lagoon by neegee.” Out of all three fears only one seemed to happen. Her parents relationship finally came to an end after a lot of fighting, disagreement, and cheating. “Daddy, I hold your foot, don’t leave us. Daddy, please, I beg you” she cried that day. From then on, except the servants and cook, “it was only women at Sugar Beach.” Even after dealing with something so hard in her life that wasn’t even what affected her the most.

She eats by herself for the first time in her life, and afterwards remarks on how she feels about it: “How strong, how full of life and hope I felt as I walked out of that bakery. I opened my arms, burning to hug the new day. The strength of a million people was struggling up in me” (157). The words “strong,” “life,” and “hope” epitomize Sara’s newfound freedom she feels after breaking ties with her family. She relates her feelings within to that of “a million people struggling up in me” and these people-filled descriptions of loneliness show that even though she is physically alone, her individuality is such a success to her life that being only with herself is still a triumph. Sara continues, “I, alone with myself, was enjoying myself for the first time as with the grandest company” (157). She mentions that she is finally “alone with [herself],” but starkly contrasts this isolated description with the feeling of “the grandest company.” Sara celebrates her individuality another time when she leaves college with enough money to rent a beautiful room. She describes how, “I celebrated it alone with myself. I celebrated it in my room, my first clean, empty room” (241). By saying she is “with” herself even though she is “alone”, Sara demonstrates again that her individuality is a success. She celebrates the luxury of being alone and overcomes the hardships of her past by embracing

After hearing about her father’s lose she was a complete wreck. A year after the star player of the Los Angeles Bullets death, Miranda lost everything. Her mother never had a job and always depended on her husband. Miranda and her mother found it hard to live in Los Angeles because they were not economically stable, so they decided to move to Boston. They got a mini apartment for the two of them. The apartment had two bedrooms, a dining room, a kitchen, and a bathroom. Some

Unable to think clearly, Lelia’s thoughts skipped illogically around her head. In that irrational state of mind a split-second decision flashed through her head. No more chores, no more care of the children, and no more pretending life was okay so that Owen wouldn’t drink so much. No. Today she would simply leave it all, the children, Owen, and the farm.

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

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.

Imagine living a life filled with chronic pain, emotional trauma, and social detachment. All three ideas are difficult to process individually, however, Claire Bennet, a role played by Jennifer Aniston, in Daniel Barnz’s film CAKE suffers from all three of these conditions on a daily basis. The entire movie revolves around the life of one individual, Claire Bennet, and her interactions with people throughout her life. The opening scene of the movie is about a support group who is talking about the suicide of one of their members, Nina Collins. This scene develops on Bennet’s character and her fascination about Nina Collins suicide and the idea of her suffering from social detachment. Bennet lives a very dreary life in which no individual,

Gilmore Girls follows the lives of three women in the Gilmore family. Rory, the youngest, is a teenager at the beginning of the show. She is an only child and was raised by her single mother, Lorelai, in the small town of Stars Hollow, Connecticut. Lorelai is in her thirties throughout the show. She became pregnant with Rory when she was sixteen, and left her wealthy parents’ home to raise Rory alone. Emily, the

At this point, the narrator finally discovers what the realities of life are. She also discovers deep within herself the reason for her feelings toward her parents at the funeral of Steve Gauley.