Glass Menagerie: A Family's First Confessions

Only six months after Jackie was born his father deserted the family. This led to several hardships. The family lived on a sharecropper’s farm until the plantation owner used the father’s leave as an excuse to keep the whole crop the family had raised and to evict the widow and her children (54). Jackie’s mother gathered her young ones about her with bitter feelings and found work as a domestic servant.

Jackie plays a pivotal role in helping Thomas through this gruelling challenge by helping him understand that Charlie’s actions are not intentional and that he would always behave in ways that are considered abnormal. Jackie goes beyond providing simple moral support by taking care of Charlie and standing up against those who try to bully him. She

Although Jack admits that Susie has left, he shifts his attention to another desire, the desire to bring her death to justice through an unlawful path. “‘We’ve just built a tent,” Mr.Harvey said. ‘The neighbors saw us. We’re friends now’ ‘You know something,” my father said. (57). Jack, like everyone else has flaws and his stubbornness leads him to doing something he would not normally do. His unextinguishable passion to find Susie’s murderer leads him to coincidently believe that Mr.Harvey is Susie’s killer. However Mr.Harvey is the murderer of Susie, the evidence shown to Jack and the police show no evidence that Mr.Harvey committed the murder, which further proves that Jack is chasing a blank slate. Jack needs a scapegoat for his grief and chooses to find revenge in unproven subjects. “‘A father’s suspicion’ she began. ‘Is as powerful as a mother’s intuition” (87) says Jack. Once again Jack is trying to find a reason to make his illogical suspicion logical. Jack refuses to believe that Susie’s death occurred without a killer. He puts himself in denial and by doing so he will grieve forever. Jack’s perpetual grief will go on as long he finds things to place guilt on. Furthermore Sebold shows that rage and denial can be used to deal with the death of a loved one.

Bobby, a young troubled man, Was raised by his father, a professional con artist after the death of his mother. From a very young age Bobby was exposed to the criminal acts of his father and was taught to lead the same path. When he turns seventeen years old, Bobby meets and falls in love with a girl called Gwen. She gives him a sense of identity and belonging he missed his entire life. During the same time he learns

The grandmother hid her cat in a basket, which she puts in the car with her on the day of the trip. The grandmother wears a floral hat and dress, because if she were to get into a car accident people would know she is “a lady”. The two kids June Star and John Wesley clearly dislike their grandmother, it is very clear because they often make remarks to suggest this. The family makes their way through Georgia and they Grandma reminisces about an old suitor she had back in the day when the family passes

From the time they all got in the car to the time they got out, all the grandmother did was talk. She was trying to talk her way to Tennessee and she talked her way into them detouring to go see some house that the grandmother

Jackie Craig is seen as nice character in the book “Whale Talk”, but something about him is that he doesn’t speak, you may get a word here or there. He is seen as a minor character. Jackie is seen as being a loyal teammate to the team. For Jackie Craig a physical description is easy. He would blend in with everyone because of his plain characteristics.

After riding along a little further, the family is involved in a car accident. The main reason that the family is involved in the car accident is due to the grandmother. The grandmother remembers a mansion that she visits as a young girl. She is eager to go, because she wants the children to see how she grew up. This further states how the grandmother social class, because she lived in a mansion. During the time of the grandmother’s life, only plantation owners and their family lived in mansions. This also stressed the social class of the grandmother, because you can tell from this that the

Jack is afraid Melanie’s marriage can end up in failure and that she will eventually stay lonely like him. At this point in his life Jack feels lonely because he is about to go through a divorce with his wife. Then, he finds out that his daughter is pregnant and is getting married; consequently, this worries him because he doesn’t want Melanie’s marriage to end up like his. He feels that by Melanie marrying a man older than her the relationship isn’t going

History is defined as the study of the science of humanity in the past. It's a broad subject that spans over countless people groups throughout the years that the world has been around. Even before the times we have written word history was still being made, and it is still extremely important. We tend to forget that in our average day to day lives we are still making history. That all over the globe everyone is taking part in what might be in a history book someday.

Carrie’s aunt Susan, the driver of the car, tried but failed to mask the concern in her voice. Carrie’s father wasn’t exactly communicative at the best of times, and at the worst of times people said he was antisocial. The last time Susan and John had actually talked was before the move.

Jackie is at a place of vulnerability and needs a place to turn, however instead of a warm shoulder to cry on, he gets his sister. His sister saw through his fake sickness and decided to bide her time and take him to confession the next day. With all joy in her devious little heart she spat curses and wove her spider web of deception about confession until she had pitiable Jackie under her palm. Then with great haste she dragged Jackie to confession to face his impending doom. Nora, Jackie’s sister, ensues with more torment in saying: “There you are...

The brother (Tony) and the father (Jackie) are both miners on strike. Also, because of their economic situation, Jackie put all his hopes on his son by sending him to school and box classes because of their poor financial situation. In both films, the family of the main characters want their child to follow the traditions of their family. Furthermore, the dream of the main characters are both opposite to their

The family stops at a restaurant to get a bite to eat, and we find out that the two parents, Bailey and his wife, do not really care for the Grandmother. The Grandmother asks Bailey to dance, but he just declines and ignores her. Bailey’s wife does not seem to care either. They then continue on the road, and the Grandmother begins to tell the story of a house that she really enjoyed passing. She really wanted to go there, so she persuaded the children to want to go as well. After a long time of complaining, they finally convince their father to head back toward this house. They go down this road when all

In the story, First Confession, Jackie is the antagonist in the story and he is dealing with a lot of negativity around him. Jackie also is living in lies himself and throughout the story he is forced to find out his identity. Jackie’s problems started when his grandfather passed away, and his grandmother came to live with him. Jackie is a young boy who is about to go to his first confession, and he is scared to death and does not want to go and face a priest. His has been somewhat dishonest through the story, so he is contemplating confessing the truth to the priest or not to confess