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Matthew’s version of the story tells about a woman who has been marginalized by society but overcomes that diversity. She

When she enters the bedroom, her voice changes from present to past tense and she starts to reminisce and begins to talk about her mother and aunts. She seems happy to remember her mother’s room and introduces her aunts to the audiences. Mary delivers her dialogue saying that the dressing table and the small elephant statue figures are all same. When Mary gently touches her mother’s photo, she delivers a sad tone. Her performance conveys to the audiences that she misses her mother. The tone of her voice represents that she is a gentle, innocent and a loving child. Her verbal and non-verbal interactions conveyed the viewers with a message that she is an orphan.

To him, contrary to Mary’s belief, his “old self” is not separated from “his current self”, rather, he is aware of the fact that his history/past is a part of his realities. He regrets that Mary “is trying to separate [him] from [his] history.” (p.84) and identifies and rejects it as an American attitude: “it is so American. The belief that people can be remade from scratch in the promise land, leaving the old self behind.” (p. 84).

The people dehumanize and devalue her as they show her how she is a burden to the able-bodied. For instance, she ceases from being “her” and becomes “it.” The narrator explains that “it saddened [my mother] to have given birth to an item such as myself” (263). Because of the unfair treatment that the society imposes

In the book, Mariam, one of the main characters, has a response to injustice that forms the basis of the novel. Throughout her story, Mariam had an isolated approach to the world. She accepted her mother's statement that all a woman needs is the ability to endure anything. The narrator describes

The women of the story are not treated with the respect, which reflects their social standings. The first image of the women that the reader gets is a typical housewife. They are imaged as “wearing faded house dresses and

She is a person that took every day as it came to her and did what was necessary in order for her to survive. There was no shame in her trying to obtain happiness by keeping her cousin as a lover, nor killing an unborn child to keep herself from being punished. She is attempting to open the eyes of a naive priest who sees nothing but what he has learned from books.

When the mother sends her child off to church, she brushes her hair, bathes her, and puts white shoes and gloves on her. This effort put into creating an image of beauty and peace in her child shows that the mother is trying to forget about the suffering of the people who are fighting for freedom that she is doing nothing to aid. When she sees her child this way, she feels that she has

As frigid snow frosts the sun-licked ice, a glacial wind howls against the trees. As a child, one would sip hot chocolate and watch a movie with their family. However, Jeannette Walls would be sitting on a dirty floor, cold with no food. In The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls, it is revealed that as Jeannette grew up, she endured hardships inflicted upon her by her own parents. However, if Jeannette had not gone through these things, she never would have gained the characteristics that she values present day. Although Jeannette Walls faced destitution and endured anguish during her childhood, these obstacles formed her into a self-reliant woman who proves that just because she did not have as much money as other families, she can still achieve success in her life.

In the beginning of the dystopian novel, the society appears to be stable, organized and with no problems. As the events progress, the ugly face of the society is revealed by a protagonist that begins to question the social and political norms of his/her society. This protagonist begins to understand how the system seeks only power and does not care about the people. Moving towards the climax, he/she starts to think how to get out of the system or change the course of events. Moreover, Devin Ryan suggests “protagonists begin to search for their identities, they realize that the world in which they live is neither perfect nor free’’ (Ryan4). As for the end, Casey Aaron Holliday explains “ Dystopian novels generally end in one of two ways. The

According to Elizabeth Lowell, “Some of us aren't meant to belong. Some of us have to turn the world upside down and shake the hell out of it until we make our own place in it.” Sometimes what every situation needs is an outsider to flip the script and create a new outlook on everything. In Shirley Jackson’s novel, “We Have Always Lived in the Castle,” the speaker, Merricat, is an outsider of society on many levels, such as mental health, gender, and that she is an upper class citizen in a poor area. Although Merricat is mentally unstable, her outsider’s perspective criticizes the social standard for women in the 1960s, indicating that social roles, marriage, and the patriarchy are not necessary aspects in life such as it is not necessary to have the same outlook on life as others.

No one person was responsible for establishing the world’s first juvenile court in Chicago at the end of the 19th century. Yet, as you will see in this chapter, a good case can be made that Lucy Flower has been rightly called the mother of the juvenile court.

Now likes discuss how this novel gives someone an inside look what is was like to live in Europe during the Middle

The movie "I Am Sam" portrays a typical occurrence of whether a sanely crippled parent should have care of a child. Like some other adolescent, Lucy ought to be in a treasuring circumstance that watches out for her each need, and it is needy upon her guards to fathom what those necessities are. Sam's mental point of confinement does not outperform that of an eight year old, where once Lucy outflanks that age, she will fundamentally go up against the piece of the "parent". In spite of the way that Sam may have won guardianship of Lucy in the film, one can't express the movie exactly portrays the predictable parental deeds Sam performed without any other individual's information or in the midst of emergencies. Lucy's future can be gambled if her headway is kept around her father.

The novel opens in the troubled year of 1775, with a comparison of England and pre-Revolutionary France. It conveys the sense of doom and chaos. Both countries go