Julie Rough Childhood

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.

When Bryce Loski was seven years old, he moved into a new neighborhood. A little girl named Juli Baker lived across the street. She insisted on helping Bryce and his family move in but was a little too pushy and had muddy shoes and Bryce was immediately annoyed by her. Juli was constantly at the door wanting to play; Bryce's dad made many excuses for him for several weeks. Bryce started second grade, Juli Baker constantly pestered him, following him around at school, This went on til seventh grade, when Bryce's grandfather Chet Duncan moves in with the family. Chet finds Juli different, special, kind of girl who's hard to come across. there was this old sycamore tree that Juli loved to climb and no one ever understood why. One day, the

In the story, Richard had mentioned about the loss of his identity, his speaks of language and his family. We can see that when he said, “I did not know that I had a family, a history, a culture, a source of spirituality, a cosmology, or a traditional way of living. I had no awareness that I belonged somewhere. I grew up ashamed of my Native identity and the fact that I knew nothing about it”. This shows he was angry that there was no one tell him about where he belonged and his culture.

Jem and Esperanza lose their innocence through various experiences, which ultimately leads them towards adulthood. However, Jem’s specific development results from his realization of his community’s true colors and his gaining of a greater sense of empathy towards others. His acquirement and understanding of sympathy results from his encounters

Sally is not even eight grades and she gets married. Her husband is a marshmallow salesman that she meets at a school bazaar. She moves to another state where is legal their marriage. Sally tells Esperanza about her house and domestic objects that she owns. Sally says that she is in love, but Esperanza believes that Sally just gets married to escape. Sally 's husband gives her money to buy things, and she enjoys this aspect of being married. Sally claims to be happy, except when sometimes her husband gets angry and one time he kicked a hole through the door. Her husband doesn’t let her go out, talk on the phone, see her friend or even look out the window. Sally spends her day sittings at home, looking around at the pretty things she owns: the towels, the toaster, the alarm clock and the drapes.

Janie’s second home helped her learn that love cannot be bought with gifts. Jody was a successful man; he had become Mayor of Eatonville. Even thought Jody bought many gifts for Janie he was no better than Logan at affection and love. Jody was a sexist and disrespected women. He restricted Janie’s freedom out of jealousy, she would only go out for work or chores. The only reason she stayed with him was that she didn’t have many options. “but he is something in my mouth He’s got tuh be else Ah aint got nothing ‘tun live for. Ah’ll lie and say he is. If ah font, life wont be nothing but uh store and uh house”. She had to lie and fake her love for Jody except when Jody had died, she mourned the loss of him and had mix feelings but she cherished her freedom as a widower. After several months she wanted to go back to her birth home but remembering she had no more family to go to, she didn’t know what to do and that transitions to her final

Summary:This chapter is about jem’s time in first grade.it starts with jem talking about her teacher and how she is mean and nice. but then it talks about how his teacher looks it says that his teacher smells and looks like a peppermint. and how old she looks like they said no older than 21.then at the end the teacher brings jem to back of her decks to talk.

“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.

“I don’t know Richard!” his mother yelled, finally fighting back. “I don’t know, but I cannot live with that wretched girl for a day longer!”

Ever since the age of three, Claireece Precious Jones suffered from sexual abuse from her father. Her mother knew about her husband raping her daughter be did nothing to stop and save her daughter from this man. Rather than taking out her anger on her husband she beats Precious until she is black and blue and accuses her for stealing her man. After the only man in their life leaves, the abuse does not stop it gets worse. Her mother begins to sexually abuse Precious as well and forces her to perform sexual acts on her.

These constant beatings in Maggie Johnson’s home, furniture thrown from parent to parent, and every aspect of her family life as being negative, her family situation is not an extremly healthy one. But, despite her hardships, Maggie grows up to become a beautiful young lady whose romantic hopes for a more desirable life remain untarnished.

It was by pure coincidence and good fortune that Judy’s birthday was the day after Harry’s, giving Tom the perfect excuse (or so he told himself) to visit her after three and a half years of separation. He carried a single red rose in his hand, a simple gift that was all he could afford without asking Booker for money, and he loathed asking Booker for money. It had taken a long time, but he was slowing finding his independence, and he refused to take advantage of the man he loved. He knew it would take many more months of therapy before he had the confidence to re-enter the workforce, but he planned to pull his weight financially as soon as he could. While it was still a long way in the future, he hoped that one day, he could become a youth counselor. It was his dream to help those who were addicted to drugs find a new path in life, and he hoped his stint in prison would not hinder his ambition. He honestly believed he had a role to play in helping those who had lost their way. It was his destiny and if he could prevent one other person from ruining their life the way he had ruined his, then the last three years would have been worth all the pain. Although his transformation had been painfully slow, he finally felt as though he had a purpose in a world full of uncertainty. He had a clear vision for the future, but most importantly, he was slowly but surely, finding Tom Hanson.

Once upon a time there lived a young timid girl named Bonnie living in the fine city of Chicago. One summer evening, while Bonnie was singing to the birds and procrastinating, her alcoholic father came home with someone who looked very familiar. It was not unusual for him to come home with a mistress, but Bonnie found this quite surprising. It was her aunt, Whitney Houston, the sister of her beloved mother. While Bonnie was face-timing her mother, she asked her "Mom....Did you know that aunty is dating daddy?" Her mother instantly began to weep, and as her tears glistened on Bonnie’s iPad, Bonnie began to feel a fire ignite in her heart. She decided to do it, she had to kill her father. She decided to get her best friends help, Dylan Houn.

The black Mercedes pulled up in front of the small humble home, which you could barely see through the thick fog. Anna snatched her umbrella out of her mother’s hand and mumbled out loud, “Why are you bringing me to this dump?” “ I can care less if the nanny’s kids want to go trick or treating.” Anna grabbed her bags and without giving her parents a second glance slammed the car door behind her and walked slowly to her uncle’s poorly decorated door. As she approached she noticed a sign that read, “Anna please make yourself at home we will be home later, love Uncle Craig and Aunt Cindy.” Anna walked in the house it was simple, not at all like the mansion herself and her 2 millionair parents lived in. Her face look disgusted as she dragged her and her bags up the squeaky steps to her small room. Later that night while unpacking Anna found a long white dress in the closet. It was late so Anna finished unpacking and went straight to bed.

The script follows Julie as she comes to learn to respect herself and prove that she’s a capable, smart woman, which she has struggled with all her life. In addition, her family learns to survive without her, and in the end Julie and her family have a newfound appreciation of each other.