Karolina Dugmore : A Short Story Of Adaline

“I told you sweetie, she is in a better place right now. She won’t be coming home.” She looks up at me with tears in her eyes. “That’s not fair! Why would he leave us?” “It wasn’t her fault baby girl,” I say tearing up. “I WANT TO SEE HER NOW!” Amelia starts screaming. “You can’t see her!” I shout back.

She believes deeply in her mission, and because of that is able to escape from the imprisonment of her home. As “she disappears for hours” the parents display concern and disappointment, believing that they “have lost her”

“ Aileen was forced to make her grandfather happy as well as his friends so she did what she knew they wanted because otherwise they got angry and forced her to so to avoid disappointment she did things that in her mind were okay because they were the only thing she knew.

When a parent undergoes a traumatic event, the child will be able to empathize with them and feel the need to express the love that is owed. This leap of maturity allows the child to change the perspective of his or her parent to an actual human being that has feelings just like the child himself. In the midst of his father’s death, while Gogol is living with his mother so that he can care for her, his girlfriend, Maxime, asks him if he still wants to go on the vacation they had planned. Gogol unconfidently rejects her, and Maxime presses on: “’It might do you good,’ she says, tilting her head to one side. She glances around the room. ‘To get away from all this.’

On the other hand, Karr also describes feeling the frustration of an unheard child wanting to “shake [mother] till she begins to weep or scream or what ever would break her loose from that island of quite.”(55).

Elena holds onto the hope that her family can be the same again only if she can “save” Dora from herself. Elena displays grown up thoughts and ideas however the child in her prevents the maturing process to be complete. Elena must realize that her focus should not be on protecting Dora and getting her family back as it was. Instead she is obliged to want the best for her sister’s health and well-being. Elena’s therapist and friends advise against this plan, that this fight is for Dora alone.

She was at her limit. She spent most of her time contemplating on why her son keeps lying to her and what does he gain from it. The mother kept asking herself but she didn’t have the answer. Eventually, she got the courage to tell him that he has to show some respect, but he responded by telling her to kneel down in front of him. The mother was frightened locked herself in her bedroom.

Lori Hart is heading west toward Big Bend, Texas, determined to find a better life. When she'd discovered her boyfriend cheating on her with the new receptionist he'd hired, Lori decided she must break away from that overbearing sneak who refused to let her do anything without checking with him first. Now looking for a new job, she also needs a new place to live.

Despite so, the daughter tries to convince her mother to let her go, “‘But mother, I won’t be alone. Other children will go with me, and march the streets of

Kacy Greer was sitting outside of dance waiting for her mom to pick her up when she didn't see her and tried calling her. Her call went straight to voicemail. She was frightened because she said her mom always answers her phone. Her mom out a tracker on her phone and Kacy's, so she tracked her. Her moms last location was in Portland an hour before then, Kacy said to the reporter "Normally she is in Grey way earlier than when I get out if dance. This was unusual." She soon then called her step dad asking him if he knew where she was, he didn't know either. Where is Kacy's mom since know one knows where she is? Kacy started to freak out, wondering what happened to her mom. Could she have gotten in a car accident? Did someone steal her phone?

To say they knew each other well would be like saying gravity didn’t exist; it was a vast understatement. At times, the twins knew each other better than they knew themselves.

Her smile was soft, she cared for him and he knew she did. Damien’s father looked at him the same. “We’re proud of you, son.” His father said to him. Damien looked out the window once more, and once he looked back to where his parents had been standing, they had vanished.

She goes in what some feel is a sacred place that shouldn’t be conjured up into detail. That is her experiences with and of violence and abuse, living up to expectations, heartbreak and learning how to love herself first. The readers experience her journey step by step and are able to undergo each process of learning and healing with the author. The abuse Kaur experiences eventually and permanently alters the way she thinks of and relates to the world, affecting her relationship with men as a whole but, most importantly, her father.The speaker has been abused and taken advantage of by men starting early in her life which left trauma that sculpted her way of seeing the world. Throughout her bitter and negative life, Kaur was always still searching for some sort of sweetness in things which aided her to surviving what many battle

“I said not right now.” She punctuated each word and turned away from her father. With a heavy sigh he left the room alone. Mia simply turned back to her books and returned studying but couldn 't escape the gnawing feeling at her heart.

“Daddy, daddy, you bastard, I’m through.” Apparent dismissal of her father, however, I find it hard to believe. I feel like having spent the majority of her life living for this man, she will not simply give him up. Even if she kills herself, it is indirectly to go back to him.