Mama's Vengeance: A Narrative Fiction

“Mama might be better off dead: The failure of healthcare in urban America”, was written by an investigative reporter Laurie Kaye Abraham in 1993. This is a disturbing and profound look at the human side of the health care and how government health care policies work when they hit the streets. This is a story of an impoverished African-American family dealing with devastating illnesses and how they end up in a miserable dilemma.

That’s why she speaks of flames devouring her…” (25) Later on, she began to stir once again and yelled of the fires, making the people in the train car even more afraid. This time, she was met with a more aggressive response. “…the young men bound and gagged her…he received several blows to the head, blows that could have been lethal. Her son was clinging desperately to her, not uttering a word. He was no longer crying.”

Heroes are not created during hard times, but it is during these hard times that heroes are revealed. Christopher Reeve explains that a hero is an ordinary individual who possesses the strength to persevere and rise above overwhelming obstacles. Meaning no matter your size, your age, or your gender the capabilities of becoming a hero comes from within, as long as you have the determination and will power to triumph over the devastating obstacles that lay in your path. The stories “An Act of Vengeance” and “A Worn Path” by Isabella Allende and Eudora Welty, respectfully, are prefect examples. Allende portrays a young lady overcoming the terrors of her youth as she grows in to a strong woman and avenges her father. Whereas, Welty gives a description of a fragile old woman demonstrating the strength and perseverance to succeed and obtain the medicine that her grandson so desperately needs, even though her body struggles to make the trip. Although both stories depict a tale of what a hero is one has a better description, “An Act of Vengeance” more closely follows the guidelines of Christopher Reeve’s idea of a hero.

Gloria Naylor’s Mama Day, through prefatory documents at the beginning of the novel, is able to further her rewrite of the African experience post-slavery. Naylor published Mama Day in 1988. During that year the term African American had been coined by Jesse Jackson. By using this term today we are able to honor our current place as American while also giving recognition and preserving our African Heritage Through the use of three prefatory documents Naylor is able to rewrite the historical African experience post-slavery.First through the use of the Day family tree to allude to the bible and the depiction of Sapphira Wade as a God-like person. Secondly through the use of the Bill of sale to demonstrate the relationship of slaves with

The short stories “An Act of Vengeance” by Isabel Allende and “The Story of an hour” by Kate Chopin both share a major common theme. The major theme that both of these stories have in share is that they both are about feminine empowerment in a society mostly dominated by males. Both of these short stories contain characters that in some way gain a sense of self worth. The authors of both “An Act of Vengeance” and “The Story of an Hour” most likely used the theme of feminine empowerment in a society mostly dominated by males because at the time, the fact of a woman having independence and freedom was not likely. Also, both of the stories share elements of fiction like foreshadowing, irony, and setting.

The author I chose to write about is Bishop T.D. Jakes who is also an author,pastor and filmmaker. The books that he has written have been very influential to thousands of people and the way he writes his books is mainly because of the way he grew up,his surroundings, and what he was taught. Ever since he was a little boy all he knew was church and as he had gotten older he became a best-selling author, but he wasn't always so successful all the time he had to start from the ground up. The very first church he used to preach at only had ten members that grew to about fifty,but in a few years those fifty members expanded to millions of people and he transformed that small amount of people of fifty to a multi-million dollar ministry. Someone who had a huge impact on him was his father who died when he was sixteen and the cause of that was that he had renal failure by dialysis but the sickness had started when Jakes was only ten years old

The health care system in America has continued to fail many Americans until date. Although the government continues to try and improve it, America still has one of the most expensive yet worst health care systems in the developed world (Hellman, 2014). Health care reform needs to be greatly focused on in order to combat the inequalities within the system. While reading Mama Might Be Better Off Dead: The Failure of Health Care in Urban America, the author described numerous ways in which the health care system failed the Banes’s family.

My mother, Amy Neuzil, has grit because she works hard everyday to get things done. She is the reason the word grit was invented. She stumbles out of bed every day at six a.m. Then she retrieves my sister, Madison, from her sleeping quarters and dresses her in the fanciest get-up you’ve ever seen. While she is completing that task, she also has to dress for work or college. While cramming a turkey sandwich, blueberries, and five or six bulky blocks of frosted plastic ice into a teeny tiny black insulated lunch bag. After she has finished that magic act, she is practically late for whatever she is trying to get to. So, she frantically gathers Madison into the Buick. Then she starts rushing back and forth through the front door, to grab

In 1960, a little girl named Anna was born. She was a victim of sexual abuse starting at age 2 and continuing throughout her childhood. Her parents thought she was mentally ill, so as a response they had her evaluated and put on medications. After coping with the situation on her own until age 13, she hit a breaking point. She then was admitted into the mental health system, in which she remained for 19 years. She was diagnosed with multiple types of illnesses, but schizophrenia was the most blatant. Anna also showed symptoms of anorexia, bulimia, and obsessive-compulsive personality. The mental health physicians treated her mainly with psychotropic drugs. As a coping mechanism, she continuously tried to hurt herself by putting cigarette burns

Just then the mother heard an explosion, and her eyes grew mad and welled up with tears. She ran through the streets of Birmingham, calling her child’s name out.

Revenge is sometimes sweet but, it can also be very bitter. In The Help by Kathryn Stockett, revenge is shown often and in some cases it is sweet and in others it is bitter. In many cases revenge can make a person feel better, when they are the ones giving it. When receiving revenge, it could make a person more upset than what they were before. Revenge is either sweet or bitter depending on who is giving and who is receiving.

A leading detractor from this theory, Daniel Nagin, believes that statistics of past deterrence and the death penalty should be overthrown. With Nagin’s high credential in being a Harvard scholar in Criminology overlooks many studies goes in to say that those several researchers who focus on past statistics should be ignored. Nagin claims, “The evidence does not exist to back them up” (10). Although, he may be correct in some extend, I can agree when he explains his answers. Nagin believes that due to being inconclusive on whether or not the death penalty is deterrent, it still increases crime and makes people skeptical about it still. No one really knows whether to agree or disagree with the capital punishment. Even so with Nagin’s opinion

“You may perhaps ask who these rangers are?...in short they are created Indians, & the only proper troops to oppose them. They are good men, but badly disciplined…. He (Rogers) He is a very resolute clever fellow & has several times, as he terms it, banged the Indians and French heartily”

In the 1950’s through the 1960’s women were not respected in there everyday lives, in the job field or in general. They did not have the rights they deserved, so during this time the “women’s movement” began. Women fought for their rights and fought for the self-respect that they thought they deserved. In the play A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry, the character Mama, expresses her feelings of pushing or extracting a new side for a woman. Her role explains that woman can be independent and can live for themselves. Through her behavior in this play she demonstrates that women can support and guide a family. Mama is in charge of the family, which is unusual, since men are traditionally the “head of a family”. Through Mama’s wisdom

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