Julian's Beliefs

This scene supports the theme “You will have to deal with life” because Julian and his family will have to deal with not having a dad and he makes a lot of the money that the family

The drastic changes in Maris’ life forced her to reevaluate the way the thought about everyday existence. The way she goes about living is drastically different than those around her. Mairs commented on her own life saying, “Of late, I have begun to catch myself wondering how people can propel themselves without canes” (Mairs 67). She has become used to her disability and this has created a disconnect between her and the rest of the world. While others are free of even giving a thought to what she handles everyday, she has a adapted into a way of thinking that accommodates to her life. Even the way she perceived others interactions was changed and she feared that any act of kindness from others was out of pity and shame. The author has completely altered the way she interacts with the world because of just one single part of her life. People become used to thinking of their lives in a certain way, not objectively as just a part of society. Throughout her emotional journey, she had to accept who she was.

Julian shows anger and disproof of his mother throughout the whole story, eve though he may be just as judgmental as his mother, but because he thinks he accepts them he still feels better about himself. His mother talks about how she had gotten him through college, and straightened his teeth to make sacrifices for him; but Julian doesn't see that the same way. He's mother see's him as successful, and in all honesty he is not. He sells typewriters so he is just a common worker nothing high and powerful. He continuously imagines himself in his families old mansion, but still more accepting then his family. He mentions that he has a “first rate education at a third rate college” which shows how he clearly wasn't superior due to his schooling. He wasn't a professional at all.

Helen is a young, revolutionary-minded person who feels contained by the walls of her own house. She attempts, at first, to escape in small ways. First, she suddenly quits her job playing piano for the church without explanation. Then she drops out of school claiming “The white man’s education is not for me” (73.) Finally, she gets in a fight with her sister, Rosetta, and leaves the house.

The characterizations of Connie’s family members have great effects on Connie. And onnie’s mother’s characterization is the main motivator for Connie’s rebellion. She always compares Connie with June, who is the “ideal daughter” in her eyes, and blames Connie for some little things, such as improper dressing and not having a tidy room. Oates suggests that the reason for Connie’s mother prohibiting Connie to dress up like an adult is that “ Her mother had been pretty once too” (Oates 1), but now “her looks were gone and that was why she always after Connie” (Oates 1). Therefore, she is jealous about Connie’s beauty and feels uncomfortable when seeing Connie wear beautiful outfits. Meanwhile, she likes June so much because June is obedient and plain, which makes her feel that she is dominant in the relationship. In the short story, Connie’s father is not given much description by the author, but his characterization has an effect on Connie as well. The irresponsible father spends little time with family and seldom has conversations to his daughters. When hearing his wife’s complain about Connie, he just bends his head with saying nothing, which makes Connie feels ignored and lonely. Urbanski states that “The father, who spent most of his time at work, is weak” (Urbanski 200) to reveals the father is not an active figure in his daughter’s life. Therefore, lacking of the company and communication of family members, Connie becomes upset. In addition, Connie’s sister June, who has the opposite characterization, is also one of the reasons for Connie’s rebellion. In Connie’s eyes, June is a

This is represented and forcing all of the ideas of his mother and family out and he wants to forget the mishaps that they encounter.

In a world that cares little for the wellbeing of each individual, it is impossible to survive out in the open. Wealth protect some from society’s demands while others seek refuge in family bonds. The main difference between the Author and the Other Wes Moore is the bubble that they matured in. For the Author, his mother’s love and hard work afforded him an expensive bubble of physical isolation and a regimented lifestyle. For the Other Wes, the sanctuary was of his own making; one of honor bound by ties of drug money and blood.The defining moments for each Wes Moore are when their bubbles are created and when they become a prison.

Jeannette Walls tells a very interesting story in The Glass Castle; few people get the chance to experience such a unique childhood. Jeannette’s father and mother are unlike traditional parents. Her father puts his children in harm’s way and justifies it by claiming that it’s a learning experience and her mother fails to provide comfort because she is preoccupied over her own goals. As an innocent child, Jeannette initially does not mind living such a childhood. In fact she admires her parents, especially her father, despite his frequent drunken outbursts. However, as Jeannette ages, she finds herself disapproving of her father’s way of

betrays him by telling lies about him to their father. He uses ‘incitative’ messages like “idle and

Principle is a complicated matter; while many choose to act upon it, others see to defy it, for some it is their base, for others their crutch, but for however unintelligible it maybe it is unique, undefinable, irregular and variable. So is rare the case where one’s deeply held principles, their ideology and their inner self remain static chiefly in times of crisis and change. Many a mortal let alone metaphysical is immune to the treacheries of time and lapse which is why Janie’s case is so unique; in the framework of Their Eyes Were Watching God, Janie is born a black woman in a time where neither measure meant much. Yet in defiance of this even from the times of her youth Janie remains defiant, jovial, and content throughout her marriages and the hardships endured in each of her marriages.

Rendered to have the intellectual equivalent of that of a child by her mental state, Ree’s mother is incapable of caring for herself — struggling to carry out the most basic of human functionality and only being able to perform the most incrementally tasks such as folding laundry. As the film progresses, viewers begin to recognize that Ree’s duties are not just limited to providing for her siblings, but for her incapacitated mother too. This recognition holds significance because it questions the stereotypical family-dynamic American’s have and how odd it may seem to witness someone from the United States have this kind of family situation in which the teenage daughter is responsible for her ill-mother and younger siblings. Ree stands as her mother’s protector, caregiver and sole-provider. She makes her meals, cares for her children, and even brushes her hair after she’s bathed.

Little is known about Julian of Norwich. She does, however, state that in May 1373, at the age of 30, she became gravely ill and on the brink of death. It was during this illness God granted her a series of 16 visions that were rooted in a vivid awareness of Christ’s passion. These visions were later recorded in two texts, which are commonly known as the Short Text and the Long Text or as A Vision and A Revelation. The former can be dated to 1370-80 and the later composed in 1390-1400.

However, Julian, like many O 'Connor characters, experiences a sudden realization that stems from his flaws. Toward the end of the story, his mother attempts to give a coin to the child of a belligerent black women, who, not coincidentally, has the exact same absurd hat that his mother was wearing at the beginning of the story. He finds this hilarious, thinking, “The vision of the two hats, identical, broke upon him with the radiance of a brilliant sunrise. His face was suddenly lit with joy. He could not believe that Fate had thrust upon his mother such a lesson,” (11). David Leigh, who wrote an essay concerning O’Connor’s short fiction, comments on this particular relationship. He explains, “Only after he experiences the suffering of his mother, who has a stroke at the end of her conflict with a

Junior is affected by the failure of his mother to parent well. Instead she worries about appearance, cleanliness, and her cat which brings separation between her and Junior. Because he is angry and hurt by this, he abuses his mother’s cat who receives all the affection he would like to have from Geraldine.

1. He begins to dislike his father’s naïve provincialism. He felt stupid to not understand why.