Pauline Hutchinson Life Course Theory

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.

Provide several quotes and page that show clearly how Pauline felit living with her parents.

As she writes this New York Times article, Hope is preparing to move to Europe to start as professor at her fourth university. She provides more insight into her and her father’s relationship, which her memoir’s readers know was strained. As I read her comment on “Midwestern families,” and how they are not close, I felt grateful for the Midwestern half of my own family. I am grateful

First, in order to critically analyze May’s thoughts, one most first consider the foundation on which the book is built. Homeward Bound does a great job of initiating connections between Cold War politics and the American families that stood during the 1940s and 1950s. Throughout the book, subjects that May explore are feminism, consumerism, Cold War, suburbia and gender. After its release in 1988, the book altered what Americans believed the Cold war to be. The author vividly describes family life during the post-war era by giving detailed accounts of early marriages, baby booms, high values of premarital virtue

When ERIN is send to prison, where she is supposed to live for the rest of her life

The first stage that is introduced by Allen and Turner, is cultural assimilation as they explain, “Both English language skills and formal education represent important aspects of cultural assimilation. At the same time, the learning of English and other cultural skills on the part of immigrants and their progeny leads to better jobs, resulting in higher income.” (141) These skills are pressured upon Sara’s transition into American culture. She’s instilled in her mind to archive a college degree as American standards required a higher education for a more successful lifestyle. Sara portrays this cultural assimilation when she’s found adhering to the culture of wealth and appearance to express her education through the image. Yezierska emphasizes the outcome of the achievement of the “American Dream” being an empowering moment for Sara. She asserts, “A triumphant sense of power filled me. Life was before me because my work was before me. I, Sara Smolinsky, had done what I set out to do. I was now a teacher in the public schools. And this was but my first step in the ladder of my new life. I was only at the beginning of things. The world outside was so big and vast. Now I’ll have my leisure and the quiet to go on and on, higher and higher.” (Yezierska

Sally takes a big risk immigrating to Canada. She leaves her relatives, culture, and language behind in China. Sally meets a kind elderly couple, Elizabeth and Joe who invite her to their apartment for a cup of tea and watch the fireworks. They are generous and even offer her a free refurbished vacuum. However, the conversation becomes stressful for Sally when Joe judges single mothers in his apartment building, “ ‘Do they know it’s their responsibility to educate their kids? Especially, some of them don’t even go to work, they live on welfare’ “ (38). Although Sally could have simply ignored Joe’s comments, she “decides to take a chance” (39). This is a significant moment in the text because Sally risks losing her friends and being misunderstood. This is a very fearful situation for an immigrant living in another country because it can make her feel isolated. In response, Sally tells Elizabeth and Joe that she is divorced and single mother. In regards to single mothers in general, “Perhaps the single mothers in your building have circumstances you don’t know about. Perhaps they are struggling against their personal crises. Perhaps they need advice, just as I did with the vacuum cleaner” (42).

Historical events can play an important role in a person's life.  In A Separate Peace, the whole atmosphere at the Devon School changed as World War II progressed.  The boys either eagerly awaited the draft, enlisted in the area of war they wanted, or did not want to go at all.  The students at the school created new activities for enjoyment since the customary past times could not be played due to a lack of materials.  When a friend "returns" from the war, the boys at Devon got a real sense of what the war was like.  The boys learned that going to war was not all fun and games like they had anticipated.  The influence World War II had on the characters in A

I don’t think I could ever handle the silence of the bush in North Queensland. Or of the country. Especially the silence of the people. I hope I never have to live in a country where I can’t communicate with my neighbour.” (p. 117-118) “And for a minute, no, just a second really, I wondered if he was right [John Barton saying that life is shit]… Americans take their accents so much for granted. Every time I hear it on the radio I think they’ve managed to involve us all in another horrible conflict. I wondered if I wanted to raise my children with that fear in their hearts… The terrible thing about it is I find the horrible conflicts

Domestic Manners of Americans is one of the most hard-hitting, successful novels written by Frances Trollope, displaying themes scattered throughout the book about the United States as seen from a different perspective, from the eyes of a tourist. Frances Trollope resides from England, and in 1827 she made the decision to embark on a journey to America, to see if it really was the land of opportunity. She left with her three children and set off leaving her normal life, and her husband, behind her. What she hoped to find in America was a new life, a new experience, and what she found was a country that was struggling to see the incredible number of problems it held. Slavery, social injustice toward women, and the misuse of religion are all addressed in the novel by Frances Trollope, and she refrains from censoring herself to make sure that it is evident that the United States is not the ‘Land of the Free’ that Americans think it is.

On March 25th, 2017, I interviewed Charlotte “Putse” McCarroll who was born on June 3rd, 1935 in Cyrus, Minnesota. I asked her about her life and experiences during WWII. She doesn’t recall much about the actual War. She was a 4-year-old child during the start of the War and was in grade school when the War ended. She didn’t have any family members that she remembers actually being in the War. Putse told me that while the war was occurring she just stayed at home or went to school. She kind of remembers gathering around with her family and just praying for it to end. She said that life was very different because everyone was scared and no one knew what was going to happen. She thought to herself that anything could

“The Bohemian people… had paid him more than it was worth,” (Cather, 12). “No wonder Krajiek got the better of these people, if this was how they behaved,” (Cather, 15). It is assumed that foreigners come to a new country in many cases for their children to have a better life, and to find a spouse. “Most of those who moved did so because they were “pragmatically adjusting their goals and behavior throughout the nineteenth century to meet the changing economic realities,” (Schlereth, 9). The same is the case in “My Antonia”. “But my mama, she want Ambrosch for be rich, with many cattle,” (Cather, 39). says Antonia of her mother’s reason for coming to America. Men are stereotyped as hard workers who are meant to farm, while women are stereotyped as needing to be polite homemakers. “In the afternoons, when grandmother sat upstairs darning, or making husking-gloves… I admired the cheerful zest with which grandmother went about keeping us warm and comfortable and well-fed. She often reminded me, when she was preparing for the return of the hungry men, that this country was not like Virginia; and that here a cook had, as she said, ‘very little to do with.’ On Sundays she gave us as much chicken as we could eat, and on other days we had ham or bacon or sausage

I often wondered if my mother would have chosen to immigrate to the United States of America, after repatriating to Holland, to begin a new life from absolutely nothing but the clothes on our backs for the second time, if my parents had stayed together. Was it their divorce that inspired Mom to lead us on our path to prosperity? Eventually I understood that my Mom’s ultimate motivation was her vision of a brighter future for her family, regardless of her marital status. In Holland, Mom could not bare to watch her mother be the sole breadwinner and living off a Dutch government's subsidized income was equally unacceptable. Following Aasje’s death, Evie observed Oma, overcome with grief, lose her spirit, and she aspired for a better life

“ You want to be the same as American girls on the outside.” (Tan, Amy) Like Tan in her narrative “Fish Cheeks”, everyone has had a time in their lives when they wanted to fit in at school or home. Sometimes it is hard to try to blend into the surroundings. Moving from Boston to Tallahassee has taught me a lot about such things like honor, pride, and self-reliance. Such is related to us in Wilfred Owens’s “Dulce et Decorum est” which is about his experience in World War I. Sometimes experiences such as moving can teach more about life than any long lecture from any adult. As the old saying goes: “Actions speak louder than words.”

After Pauline and Cholly move to Lorain, Ohio, Pauline finds the people unkind and describes her time as 'the lonesomest time of my life." (Morrison, p. 117) She comes to rely heavily on