My Mother and Her Sister

They live in a stressful situation, but both hold it firm and lived through it. Their stories had taught a new generation a lesson that life was not easy as thought. Sometime it could be difficult to manage like both characters’ lives happened in the story. They were not crazy, but they were strong enough to live through their stress. Life sometime is unpredictable, but learning how to understand of the change could be a tool helping us to challenge our

Throughout life, many of our journeys leave us feeling despondent and unwanted. It is when we travel with another human soul that we are not left feeling so austere. In John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men, George and Lennie are two wandering souls, both very different in stature and appearance, yet very alike in spirit. It is in this relationship that the true foundation of companionship is expressed.

Greed plays a huge part in some families especially between siblings. Sharing family heirlooms can be the cause great conflict in families, this is one example, through which sibling's greed becomes evident. This and other types of greed tear one family apart in Alice Walker’s “Everyday Use”. In some cases, one may feel as if they would be able to take better care of the desired heirloom instead of their sibling or siblings. This and other forms of greed are destructive to the family in, “Everyday Use”. This small family that includes a mother and her two daughters go through some trying different word times in life. The oldest daughter, Dee, is extremely different than both her mother and her younger sister, Maggie. Dee wants nothing but the best in life and does not seem to care about what she must do to get what she believes she needs. The world has never told Dee no, until her mother refuses to give her their family quilts, but insists on giving them to Maggie. After this conflict, Dee leaves her mother and sister’s home.

The main character Jeanette walls and her older sister Lori walls represent the decision making process the best between the other characters in the memoir. Both of them recognized that living in poverty is not what they wanted. They would have sleepless nights and go days without eating food. As time went on they identified alternatives to try and end their poverty. Their type of poverty was situational because it happened through a situation involving their parents not keeping a steady job. After identifying alternatives they evaluated the alternatives and realized that their father would never stop drinking and change his ways on finding a good job. They later selected and implemented an alternative making a big decision to save up money behind their parents back and to leave their parents to move to new york, and start a new and successful life after leaving. In New York City, Jeannette was able to quickly s as a reporter, which has always been her life time goal. She and Lori began eating very well and enjoyed the fact that they finally had a roof over their head. They eventually ask their siblings Brian and Maureen to move in with them.When they come to live with their sisters they enjoy having each others company and were

The daughter had a life plan. She wants to be successful even though people will alienate her for the fact that she has the qualities of someone from a low income family. “In pottery class I’m making a jar with a lid. If it comes out all right I think I’ll use it for a jewel box as we don’t ever eat marmalade. Jolley demonstrates that the sister knows she does not have a lot of things that people high up on the social status would normally have. The author uses characterization to provide the reader with an insight of how each individual lives in a low income family.

Laura, the sister’s mother, has a hard time accepting that they are no longer rich but middle class. Once the girl’s begin to adjust to their newfound freedom in the states, they start to get into trouble. Laura, the mother, finds

Blanche was a school teacher in Mississippi, but when she got fired for having intimate relationships with underaged boys, she moved in with her sister. Her sister, Stella is married to Stanley, who abuses her and yet she still does not leave him. Stella and Stanley have a toxic relationship, where they both have a mutual dislike for each other, but because of societal norms at the time, were unable to leave each other. Both female characters are victims to Stanley’s abuse and hurt ego. I personally do not like any of the characters, I do not get a good “feel” about them. They are all hurt in one way or another and do not know the correct way to express themselves. However, these character do remind me of how the society in third world countries expect families to be. In third world countries, men are the head of the households, and any women living under the roof is expected to follow their orders.

“To get the full value of joy you must have someone to divide it with.” ― Mark Twain. Twain's words relate to Lennie and George in Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck, who divide their happiness and joy with each other. In the story Lennie and George are companions very close though they have their ups and downs. Lennie and George find a ranch to work on where they meet many people like Candy, who is an old man who lost his dog, Curley--the boss's son and his wife. At the ranch they get into many different things- good, bad, involving other characters and more. In Of Mice and Men Steinbeck shows that companionship is beneficial in many ways.

They are tired of scrimping for little amounts of money. Her dad, strong and courageous, starts to cry. Lizabeth hears her dad’s long and mournful sobs, and she cannot get to sleep. She is so upset, that she wakes up her brother, and they sneak out of the house. Lizabeth is so worked up over her family’s poverty, she goes to the only place she can think of, Miss Lottie’s front yard.

She learns to value her family, not be ashamed of them or herself, and not to wish to change her life. Only by the end of the story, did she realize how truly blessed she was. She felt so disappointed with her family after her mother began to work. She thought that it was dishonorable that her mother was being forced to work, so she attempted to hide it as best she could. At school, someone carried a pure white umbrella. She pictured it as everything she wished for that she could not have, whether it was beauty, good grades, or even wealth. Only after she received one of her own did she see how lucky she really

She realized it was beautiful and how it was made from the beautiful tree in the backyard of where her sister Big Dee and her first husband Stash used to live (Par 54). Through first person narration we connect to Mama’s deep, inner feelings as Mama is in the process of understanding the value of these objects in which carry historical significance to her family. Only through first person narrative can we as the readers get an immediate sense of what Mama is feeling and how her character is developing.

When she went into crooks while the guys were in town looking for curly but was told he wasn't there, only Lennie and him. She knew curley wasn't there, but instead wanted to talk to them, however got denied. Afterwards she told them about how she wanted to talk,they just responded with "we don’t want no trouble"'(77) but she then say how she has no one to talk to and has to stay in the house all the time. Succeeding she started talking about how she could have been in the pitchers but instead she has to be here talking to "a bunch of bindle stiffs"(78) because there is no one else around. Later when she an Lennie were talking in the barn, She begins talking about how she gets awfully lonely when she has only curley to talk too. She then continues by saying how the other guys can talk to others, but she can't because curley gets mad. Next she starts talking about her life before she married curley and finished with saying "I don’t like curley. He isn't a nice fella"(89) which helps prove she is just living a miserable life with curly. This is the most important reason for her suffering because it makes her think that no one likes her and reminds her of the life she could have had if she didn’t marry curley.

The narrator is insecure about his wife’s relationship with Robert, and the deep connection between them is a completely understandable part. He is isolated from his wife, and even her name is not mentioned in the story. Without support of her husband this woman has developed a strong bond with Robert.

In the novel Little Women by: Louisa May Alcott, a common theme is expressed throughout. To the family in this story, each other is the only thing that matters, therefore, displaying the message family is the most important thing you can have in your life. The four sisters, Jo, Meg, Beth, and Amy, belong to a very poor family in which the father is away at the military, leaving their mother alone to care for the children. The mother works very hard, but still can not manage to create a solid income for their family. The four sisters understand how hard their mother works

In the novel “Of Mice and Men” by John Steinbeck is a novella about two migrant workers who are dropped off near a Salinas farm for work. The two men are named Lennie and George, Lennie is like a giant baby who does not know his own strength. This drags Lennie and George into heaps of trouble throughout the story. The two ranch hands are working to make money so they can buy their own land. Steinbeck wants us to understand that companionship is very important in someone's life because all of the other men were lonely and this turned them selfish and cruel.. Steinbeck foreshadows the importance of companionship by showing us the friendship between the two characters.