Olivia Pullman In Wonder

The story begins with young and pure love between Noah and Allie—Noah is a working class individual, while Allie is an upper class privileged girl. Their stories had many ups and downs from the moment it began. Both characters have different social status, as well as different families and therefore parenting styles. Allie’s parents follow more of an authoritarian parenting style. Which means that they are the sole ones who make decisions regarding anything that has to do with her. She does not have a voice when it comes to deciding what she would like to do. Her parents knew Noah was a good boy but he was not for her since he was not high on the economic ladder. On the other hand Noah’s parents were more authoritative, they made him have a word in regards to his life. They respected his decisions and supported him as well as everyone who was in close circle with him. Allie also has social pressures on her placed by her friends. Social pressures are pressures brought on by society, they are so strong that they cause you to take measures that might not be what you would like. In Allie’s case it would be getting forced into leaving Noah, knowing he was her one and only consummate love. Consummate love is the love we all search for in life. It contains intimacy, passion and commitment. After Allie took this big decision of leaving Noah, both of their lives changed

Since her mother expressed her words in an imperfect manner, tan believed that her thoughts were also imperfect (Tan 274). Her perception was also supported by how people in society responded to her mother. Tan states that people in department stores, banks, and restaurants would not take her mother seriously. They would provide her bad service, pretend not to understand her, or act as if they were mute (Tan 274). This further contributed to Tan's feeling of embarrassment and shame towards her mother. Tan also describes an incident in which her mother went to the hospital and was told that the hospital had misplaced her CAT scan. The hospital did not show any remorse for losing the scan, nor did they assure her that they would locate it, that is until her mother had Tan speak to the hospital (Tan 275). As a reader this shows us how language is perceived and the role that it plays in the lives of individuals. For Tan it was imperative that she was able to blend in and be like others, so that she wouldn't be ridiculed. Luckily, she was able to realize the positive influence that her mother's diction bought her.

2. Selena and her brother don 't seem to be as bothered by the difficulties the father describes.  Why do they not share his feelings?

who always been deprived of father-figure, she feels the need to acquire attention from boys in

The relationships between mothers and daughters in both pieces distinctly illustrates that actions result in consequences through the various similarities and differences. Two specific mothers throughout both the novel and the film appear to unconditionally support their daughters in any way feasible. The relationship between Ekwefi and Ezinma emerges as a significant bond that shapes the lives of both Ekwefi and Ezinma as well as other characters in the novel. For instance, when Chielo captures Enzima and takes her to Agbala, Ekwefi becomes concerned and follows them to the caves. Traveling through unbearable conditions, walking and running countless miles and even disobeying her religion to simply confirm her daughter's safety. This shows that Ekwefi and Ezinma have a profound connection and will take perilous actions to ensure safety and happiness for one another. Likewise, Vianne would undertake precarious actions to ensure her daughter's safety and satisfaction. For example, in the situation where the river rats’ boat ignites, Vianne plunges into the river and risks her life to assure she finds Anouk safe. This demonstrates that Vianne and Anouk has a compelling relationship and will take extreme measures to ensure the other’s happiness and safety, similar to that of Ekwefi and Ezinma. The actions taken by Vianne and Ekwefi result in a strong, beneficial relationship with their respective daughters and shape the ensuing lives of each character involved. Clearly, these

In “Mean Girls” by Tina Fey, there are a few characters that stand out because of how interesting they are. One that stands out the most to me is Karen Smith. In the course of the movie, she deals with her friends bringing a new girl into the group and that girl ends up turning into the “Queen” throughout the movie. Karen has to go through with her friends getting into verbal and physical wars. The writer also reveals that Karen is not the smart one of the group. For example, she tries to catch a football with her chest and it just ends up bouncing off. She appears to be dull-minded and clueless. Karen Smith shows that throughout the story she is a static character because she never changes throughout the movie.

Grace Blakely is the main character of All Fall Down. She is very daring and stubborn and she has been through a lot for a girl her age. Her brother and father are both in the military and she is now living with her grandfather in Adria. Grace was thirteen when she watched her mother die in a fire and while everybody says it was an accident, Grace knows it was not. She knows her mother was murdered and she watched it happen with her own two eyes. Everyone except for Noah at the moment, believes Grace is crazy and she was just seeing things because of all the smoke or not wanting to remember the very tragic accident as just that, an accident. Grace has always been daring and that gives her a quality many people look for in a friendship.

Her mother had passed years earlier, and August is found in denial about her death. For many years, she didn’t want to believe it and mentally would convince herself that she was coming back home and was alive. She convinced not only herself, but her brother also. Repeatedly in the novel she would make reference to her mom’s existence. On page 110, August wanted her mom to know that she had made friends with girls, because her mom always told her not to trust them. She explains, “I’d say can you see this Mama? Can you?” (110). She would claim to hear her mother’s voice, and when she asked her mom if she could see the life she was living, she said she hadn’t heard her mother’s voice in years. She wanted her mom to see that the things she taught her to stay clear of weren’t all true, and that she was doing okay. Not having a mother made August feel very different from her peers, and contributed to her insecurities. It wasn’t until her mother’s voice she once always heard began to dwindle when she realized her mother was in fact dead, and her faith of it being a possibility that she was alive vanished. On page 225, August for the first time makes note of this: “Once I came very close to saying for a long time my mother wasn’t dead yet. But Didn’t” (225). Evidently it took a while for August to settle with this and this moment was a turning point for her in the novel. This moment didn’t come until the last chapter of the novel, which goes to show it was a complicated journey for

The second some portion of this book is more centered around how Augusts cherished one feel about him and with him. I welcome the writer for taking from August family and companions point of view since it will help perusers comprehend the story better with more noteworthy profundity and feeling. For example, just August's family can catch superior to anything anybody what he needs to experience. A decent illustration of would be that they generally guard August against open and never dither. To me, creator's message was excessively mindful individuals of how little acknowledgment we have, and how little we bargain? I trust that on the off chance that it was my kin in August spot I would act likewise to August's kin and folks. It is just characteristic that we think more about our blood relations than whatever other relationship.

Via uses the galaxy as a metaphor for her family, with August as the sun and everyone else orbiting around him. She is used to her universe being this way, with August's needs always a priority, therefore, making all of her needs a distant second priority. Via explains the “galaxy” of her life like this, “August is the Sun. Me and Mom and Dad are planets orbiting the Sun.”Via is used to her life, and she claims she does not mind that August is always the center of attention. She has always understood that August’s needs were much greater than her own. When she was little, she knew she had to play quiet games due to the fact that August was taking a nap.

The first evidence behind this is thrown to the reader immediately. Taylor and her mother, Alice, had the type of bond which is rare to find in this day and age. Being a single mother, Alice raised Taylor to not

she was there…feeding me”- Tan 172 Lindo’s loyalty to her parents is powerful to the point where she suffers as a result of it. Lindo had to survive the harsh treatment she received in her arranged marriage from her husband, mother-in-law, and frankly most of her husband's family. The unspeakable tragedies she had to endure epitomizes human cruelty. Lindo is loyal not only to her parents but also to her daughter.

In the other hand, her home is not as suitable starting with her mother who always had something to say or criticized; plus, she is always compared with her older sibling. In addition, her father was just as a painting hanging from the wall, he did not participated a whole lot in Connie’s life. As the story develops, a guy name Arnold Friend, who Connie seen before, asked her to go out, but she soon realized that he was not who he was supposed to be. At the end, the author let the reader to wonder the whereabouts of Connie. Connie was afraid and she didn’t knew better, which took her to make a poor choice, and to go with this scrupulous guy as she felt she didn’t had other choice.

From the beatings her mother gave her to going AWOL after hating foster homes, Olivia’s life was far from perfect. When Olivia was a teenager she was a ward of the county, hopping from one group home to another. Other girls would steal her clothes and chase her around with a hot iron. She went AWOL shortly after that, living in her own apartment, having a crazy work schedule, that was just her life. Whenever she had financial issues she would return to her social worker and yet again be put into a foster home. One time she went AWOL though and couldn’t afford rent anymore, she

Children always looking for a positive role model to have, and many end up choosing superheroes they see in their favorite comic books or ones they have seen in the media. Since children are so easily affected by things they see in their childhood, having discriminatory elements in these influential characters may be problematic. “The Wonder Woman Precedent: Female (Super) Heroism on Trial” written by Julie D. O’Reilly, was published in the Journal of American Culture in 2005. O’Reilly is a professor of communication and women and gender at Heidelberg University. In “The Wonder Woman Precedent”, she writes about the hardships that female superheroes in the media must face that male superheroes do not go