Quotes From Orphan Train

Orphan trains and Carlisle and the ways people from the past undermined the minorities and children of America. The film "The orphan Trains" tells us the story of children who were taken from the streets of New York City and put on trains to rural America. A traffic in immigrant children were developed and droves of them teamed the streets of New York (A People's History of the United States 1492-present, 260). The streets of NYC were dirty, overcrowded, and dangerous. Just as street gangs had female auxiliaries, they also had farm leagues for children (These are the Good Old Days, 19). During the time of the late 1800's and early 1900's many people were trying to help children. Progressive reformers, often called

Many people use quotes, whether in daily life or writing. People use quotes to emphasize a situation and to support their ideas. Similarly, In Station Eleven, written by Emily St. John Mandel, the traveling symphony uses the quote from Star Trek, "Survival is Insufficient." This quote means that just surviving is not enough, we have to live and enjoy. Dieter, an actor, says that the quote is lousy and a Shakespeare quote would be more profound, but a Shakespearean quote would not be more appropriate. Dieter has a problem with the quote being from star trek because of the lack of literary merit the show holds. However, Shakespeare would not be more appropriate because both Shakespeare and Star Trek are a part of their past, and it doesn't matter

An important quote from Epitaph road is ‘‘I knew you could sweet talk anyone in there.’’ Tia says this when Kellen talks to the guard at the tower. This is a very important time in the book, because if Kellen doesn’t fool the guard into letting them upstairs then they would not be able to send the world wide email. (Page #261). Tia says this because she has never seen someone fool a guard so easily, except for now.

From this, one can infer that Helen would have also been more prone to abuse, and other effects of low self-esteem. Some of the narcissistic characteristics Helen’s mother exhibits are her utter disregard and lack of respect for everything Helen says and the choices she makes, speaking over her, giving Helen her attention only once it applies directly to her “Vice president! His income must be– does he know you’ve got a mother to support?” (Treadwell 17), and an immediate overreaction to any sort of criticism. Many children with narcissistic parents may have grown up in both neglectful and verbally abusive situations, but Helen’s situation would have been compounded beyond that as she appears to have grown-up with only her mother as a parental figure. Helen’s father was revealed in the second act as, seemingly, long dead. The Second character who exhibits the most pressing issue is Helen’s husband, Mr. J, who proves to be a sexual predator. Helen’s physical repulsion, such as when the telephone girl asks her “Why’d you flinch, kid?” (Treadwell 10), and her reactions to Mr. J touching her should have been plenty of notice for him to stop. In the beginning, Mr. J has both status and rank over Helen as her boss, which puts their implied romantic relationship on shaky and inappropriate grounds because of Mr. J’s power over her. That he constantly touches her, treats her differently, and makes her feel

Blanche lost power to control her life. Stella was calling Blanche but she did not turn “ Blanche walks on without turning, followed by the Doctor and the Matron. They go around the corner of the building” (Williams, P. 178). This quote helps audience to understand what is happening with Blanche after being rapped by stanley. Her sister and brother in law sent her to mental hospital when she was going somewhere in her mind she has a thought that she is going with a doctor who will stay with her and love her as she was rejected from everyone and she want someone who wants her and takes care of her but she do not in reality she is going in a place where she won’t be loved. So, this quote shows that she lost a sense of thinking of what is happening

In addition to the focus on her self-esteem, I will be simultaneously helping her to restory and restructure the frame of her abuse. Specifically, helping Diane understand that she does not get to carry the blame of her abuse; and that she has the chose to either let the trauma defeat her or can choose to triumph over it. Helping her realize that she is no longer powerless, but she is powerful and

When Katie was a child, her parents should have taught her how to care for others, but this proves that due to Katie not holding a strong relationship with her parents, she does not understand that it is in rude for a woman not to show compassion to her friends. Being caring to others is an important part of being a good friend. When a friend gets put into a hurtful situation, it is the responsibility as a decent person to show compassion for the given situation. Katie’s lack of compassion for Arthur’s loss is why O’Malley chose to not bring him back till the end of the book. So that Katie could feel how it felt to lose a friend because of her choices. `

Her distressing life, family’s attitude (Ralph went away with their daughter, Bonnie) and inability to understand what was happening to her towards her served as the one and the foremost perpetuating factors in the whole scenario.

In the first third of her book she describes what seems to be a never ending cycle of events meant to destroy her. At age 11, she enters a life characterized by prostitution, abuse, drugs, alcohol and gang activities. The author did a superb job of reiterating how young she was throughout this section of her memoir, signifying her immaturity. Her experiences made her physically mature, however, her way of thinking and processing the world around her was tainted. As a young girl this prevented appropriate judgement on her part because she did not have the proper guidance or knowledge to want better for herself. This sets up an

Her private life and emotions are affected by her feeling like she killed her mom, by her dad’s new girlfriend (Shelly), and raging hormones. She feels as though she killed her mother, because her mother died giving birth to her. She is a hypochondriac who thinks that she is going to catch something from all the deceased people around her. She has an ill grandmother she has to keep an eye on regularly.

Jeannette had moved to New York and got a job, she went to meet her parents that also moved to New York and got an apartment that was very poor. They continued to live poorly even when Rex got a new job. Jeannette describes her graduation,“I graduated from Barnard that spring, Brian came to the ceremony, but Lori and Maureen had to work” (Wall 267).This quote shows how Jeannette graduated from Barnard College in New York and has achieved her life goal. She has grown up poor and in a bad family whose parents don’t take care of here and her siblings and leave them to care for each other. Jeannette has gone through life struggles with bullies and life and death situations, and she has grown up at a young age and has matured to be an adult.

Instead of seeking a solution to her emotional distress, she continues to uses her imagination as a way to control her emotions, in this case the frustrations produced by Vivian's rejection. When Maya is eight years old, she and Bailey visit their mother in St. Louis, where Maya discovers her exquisite beauty: "To describe my mother would be to write about a hurricane in its perfect power. Or the climbing, falling colors of a rainbow.... She was too beautiful to have children" (49). Ironically, this mother "too beautiful to have children" is to a large degree responsible for her own child's brutal rape, causing a critical obstacle that contributes to Marguerite’s shift as a young woman. Vivian's beauty attracts a lover, Mr. Freeman, who is constantly in the house waiting for a woman who is not there, and he "uses Angelou as an extension of her mother" to satisfy his sexual urges (Demetrakopoulos 198). Although Vivian responds in a motherly manner upon discovering Mayas illness as well as sends Maya to a hospital after the rape (bringing her flowers and candy), the sexually violent event that is associated with Vivian begins to hinder Marguerite, contributing to Marguerite coming period of

Lily shot her mother when she was just four years old, but when she had accidentally shot her mother when all she wanted to do was help her. Without the mother Lily should have grown up with she was left with a father who didn’t show her the compassion and love every young girl should receive from their father. She had to make her own clothes, she wasn’t allowed to read, and she didn’t have the chance to celebrate her birthday. When Lily wanted this bracelet that every girl had, she went to ask T.Ray if he would get her one for her birthday, but instead of saying, of course anything for your birthday he ignored her and didn’t even acknowledge her birthday was coming up. Lily missed out on a lot of opportunities because she didn’t have much of a motherly figure in her life. When Lily wanted to join the Women's Club she wasn’t able to because she didn’t have a grandmother, mother, or even an aunt to present her with a white rose at the final ceremony. “The truth is, your sorry mother ran off and left you. The day she died, dhe’d come back to get her things, that’s all. You can hate me all you want, but she’s the one who left you.” (39). T.Ray was hurt and unintentionally wanted to hurt Lily as bad as he was hurt. Lily, hurt and confused left to find answers to the questions but along the way she finds more than the answers, she finds the family she’s always wanted even if she didn’t

To begin, I will focus on Veronica Sawyer. Out of the entire movie Veronica has the most stable family. Born as an only child, her mom and dad were active and involved parents. Veronica attended an Ohio high school where she met “the heathers”. The heathers were three extremely popular teens that ran the school and Veronica wanted nothing more than to be like them. “The looking glass self” has a very prominent role in regards to Veronica. She viewed herself as less because she was not as popular or liked as the Heathers. One night after being harassed by the Heathers at a party, Veronica and J.D (a boy she began seeing) went to Heather Chandler’s house with hopes to be accepted by her. After Heather had embarrassed Veronica in front of J.D Heather asks for a drink. While Veronica was not looking J.D poured laundry detergent into the cup thus killing Heather Chandler. As she died

This acceptance of her fate is contrasted by her Joan Durbeyfield’s anger at her daughters folly “You ought to have been more careful if you didn't mean to get him to make you his wife!"(pp.72). Joan shows a complete lack of regard for Tess’s emotions and the awful ordeal she has been through. Furthermore, the subjective personal pronoun ‘You’ is highly accusing, showing that if even her own Mother blames her for the seduction/rape, society most certainly will. Harold Baker, however questions the nature of Tess’s injustice by asking ‘Is her sexual experience the turning point in her life, as the title suggests? Though it is clearly a crucial event, what actually happened is unclear. Was she raped or seduced?’ (Baker: 2005) Thus, from here it can be questioned to whether her injustice is due to social laws, moral codes or religious constrictions. Morally, it is unfeasible to deny that a rape would not cause psychological damage. However, if Tess’s was seduced and her injustice is dominated by the fact that she broke a religious code, how tangible is her injustice. Surely it depends on how a person deals with its consequences? Therefore it could be argued that Tess herself is the maker of her own downfall. However, and opposing view could be that Tess is a victim of the manipulation brought to her by her lovers and family and her constant alienation from groups.