Mim's Dilemmas

Kathy Nicolo is upset at the fact that she had lost her home because of unpaid taxes, and tries to reclaim her house from the family who currently has legal possession of the house, which leads to utter chaos instead of compromise.

("Mary realized the letter effectively closed the door on her college aspirations. She had already completed sixteen hours of college credits and would get no closer toward graduation."pg.17) They both are loving and supporting to their kids and wanted the best by trying to get them to avoid the violence they had around their neighborhood. But without their Mothers guide they couldn’t follow the right path growing up. Joy gets married but has to end up leaving Bill due to his drug addiction and violent abuse. Soon after, she meets and marries Westly and has two children with him. Westly dies so Joy ends up moving back in to the Bronx with her family. Marys' husband dies when Moore was young. They were both similar because they lived in Baltimore and had to raise their boys without a father figures. Mary responds cruelly when she discovers that Wes is managing drugs, vindictively flushing a great many dollars of medications that Wes intended to sell down the can. Moore's dismissal of Riverdale and poor scholastic exhibitions puts a critical strain on his association with his mom,

When they pulled up to Mia's house Erik walked her the door and kissed her goodbye. Mia walked into a dark as the house not being able to see anything. As she turned around she saw her mother turn on the lamp. "Mom you frightened me, Mia said." "Where have you been young lady, Sheila asked?" "I was out with dad and the others, she responded. Right then and there Mia saw something different in her mom that she never saw before. She knew that her mom was a different person than who she was

Everyone in Welch doesn’t like newcomers. Jeannette and Brian were enrolled in schools there and Jeannette’s mom didn’t’ have any of their records from Phoenix so they go to the principal to talk and the principal asks them very simple questions to see their intelligence. However, it does not work out very well because of the accent of the principal. After trying to figure out what the principal was saying they end up in classes with other kids that have learning disabilities. The first day of fifth grade for Jeannette was terrible for her. Jeannette got beat up from a girl named Dinitia. Dinitia would bully Jeannette everyday. Jeannette knows that her mom and dad can’t help so she tries to befriend Dinitia. Jeannette then sees the good side of Dinitia, and tries to be friends with her. Jeannette then sees Dinitia scaring a dog away from a kid and Dinitia befriended Jeannette. Jeannette’s parents decide to go to Phoenix to get what they left behind. The first day Jeannette’s parent are gone Erma calls Brian so she can fix his pants. When Jeannette goes to check on them she sees Erma touching Brian’s private parts. Jeannette then screams that Erma is a pervert and Lori, who is now thirteen, starts screaming at her and fighting with her physically. Erma then locks them in the basement, which has a door to go outside, but they can’t go inside the house. When Jeannette’s parents come back Dad found out what happened to Brian. Dad acts very strangely, which made Jeannette wonder if Erma did that to him as a kid. Mom and dad’s car broke down on there way back to Phoenix so they had to take a bus back, and they couldn’t get back the stuff they left in Phoenix. Mom and Dad decide to buy their own house in Welch because of Erma. The house they bought was in the worst part of Welch. It had a leaking roof, three rooms, and no plumbing. After awhile there a bully named Ernie Goad makes fun of Jeannette for living in trash. The

Mia see how to Kim start an argument with her mother, after that Kim leaves her in the waiting room and go to the ICU to see Mia, but she saw Mia´s family and she go to a little chapel while her mother is talking with the family.

The short story Killings was written by Andre Dubus, in 1979. Dubus was born and raised in Lake Charles, Louisiana, where he attended a private school named Christian Brothers; and studied literature and writing. His short story Killings was later adapted into a film called In the Bedroom by Todd Fields. The film was nominated for five academy awards. The setting was a small coastal town of Camden,

Things get hot when Julie’s ex-boyfriend gets paroled early. He’s out to even the score and get Julie back. Teaming up with the abusive

So, she contacted the maternal GM, Maria (same as her daughter) and she was told that it Ok for her to come down to Maria's house and visit Alicia. Julie said that when she arrived there, the maternal GM let her in and went to Alicia's bedroom. Alicia's mother, Maria, then showed up yelling on her asking her to leave the house while Maira was on the phone calling the police. She believes that Eric will deny her application.

While, Lorena's husband and Captain Call have been trying to catch and kill her son, Joey for his immoral crimes. Despite this, she treats them with nothing but absolute kindness and care. In addition, Maria had the perfect opportunity to kill Captain Call, but did not even though she had promised herself she would kill him given the opportunity. Instead, she empathizes with Lorena and has open arms because she knew and understood that they had come a long way, and were exhausted and cold. She takes them in despite not having much.

“Oh I see where we took a wrong turn,” Kelley sighed with relief, “We have to take a right and then go straight all the way to that bridge.” They began walking, all relieved that they found a way out of the sticky situation that they were in. “I see our mom,” Will announced as they walked up towards their mom. Finally they reached Kelley and Will’s mom, “Why do you all look so nervous and sweaty?” Their mom questioned. All four of them laughed, “Just a bit nervous from the rides,” Makayla stuttered with an uneasy look on her face. Kelley and Will’s mom just looked at them and replied with, “Alright well it’s about 3 o’clock now, we have about four to five hours left before we need to leave so when it is 6:30 come and meet me back here and then we can leave.” Kelley nodded in agreement and laughed, “Yes ma'am.” Several hours passed by and it was now time for these four crazy teens to get going, “I’m so glad we found that map,” Kristin stated as her and Will walked out the exit gate. “Me too, I don’t know what we would of done without that map,” he whispered

One day, young Ruthie got into a fight with another child. Ruthie threatened to call her big brother who is hiding because he had killed two men. Ma rushed to tell Tom he must leave for his own safety. Tom agrees and leaves with plans to carry on the social work that Jim Jim has begun. It rains steadily, and the water levels begin to rise. Pa, Uncle John, Al and the rest of the men try to build an embankment to contain the river, but are unsuccessful. Rose of Sharon's baby is stillborn. After a few days, the rain subsides. They find shelter in an old barn already occupied by a boy and his starving father. Rose of Sharon offers him the breast milk no longer needed for her own child. The others leave the barn as she cradles the dying man to her

But while all of this is going on Heather decided she needs help, because the Marthas made her be in charge of the prom decorations. So since Heather needed help she then went to Melinda and asked but finally Mel spoke up, after everything Heather had said about not being friends anymore now she needed Mel’s help and Melinda told her

Masters was thrown into the foster care system early in life. His mother was “the biggest heroin users and dealers in Long Beach, California.”(2) People were always dropping by their house to get their heroine fix. Sometimes his mother would disappear for a few days, leaving Masters and his three siblings to fend for themselves. This eventually got the attention of child services. All four children were put in foster homes and split up. Masters was put in a home with a loving, older husband and wife, Mr. and Mrs. Prockses. They nurtured him, loved him, and made him feel like he could achieve anything. Since they were old, and Mrs. Prockses health was declining, he was sent to a different home. At the new home, Mr. and Mrs. Dupont seemed nice when Jarvis and his caseworker met them. Within hours of being

Mike Adams and Luke Farley are fearful for Mary Jones, their long time friend who is living alone in an old house while she fixes it up. She believes she's safe living alone in the old house. When Mike and Luke realize they want Mary more than any woman they've ever known, they ask her to marry them, but she refuses. Mary wants to stay single so she can work on her fixer-upper house without having a man tell her what she needs to do. Mike can't believe Mary won't marry them and he's afraid for her life with the evil shape-shifter Wra loose. They dare her into going to the lake for a swim and she can't refuse their dares. They're kidnapped by Wra and his gang at the lake. Wra convinces Mike to stay with him by threatening to do away with Luke

Minny Jackson is married to Leroy, and they have 5 children. She is a very strong women, but who doesn’t take anything from anyone but her husband. Leroy often beats her when he is drunk, but she doesn’t want to tell anyone because she is too embarrassed and looks past it because she loves him so much. It all starts out when Minnie is working for Miss Hilly’s Mother, Miss Walters. Minny does nothing wrong until Miss Hilly makes a rumor about her and tells everyone that Minny has been stealing from her mother. She is later fired and jobless. Aibileen is helping Minny by looking for a job, she answers a phone at Leefolts and on the phone is Celia Rae Foote. Celia is a nice, beautiful young lady in her early twenties. She’s looking for a maid, which at this point Aibileen is acting like the person Celia is asking for and she recommends Minny. Celia has never had a maid, and doesn’t know how to act around them. When they meet, Celia is afraid that her house is too much for Minny to clean. Minny thinks that it's absurd