Rayona’s Growth in A Yellow Raft In Blue Water Essay

Rayona discovers that her mom came to Aunt Ida’s house to pick up her package, “And she had been there. I know because her senior high school yearbook...is gone from the bureau where I had left it” (53.) Rayona believes that she is unimportant to her mother considering Christine did not even wait for her to get home. If Christine could tell her why she did not leave a note, her beliefs would be different. Furthermore, miscommunication is displayed when Rayona states, “I'm not as important as some package she needs from Seattle” (53.)

During the weeks Molly spends with Vivian, she learns a lot from Vivian. Most important, she realizes that Vivian also had a difficult childhood but was able to overcome her bad experiences and lead a happy life. Molly’s realization reflects the theme of the book: learning about the experiences

She is being raised in a world where women are expected to suffer silently and to be at the mercy of their men. However, men were not expected to return this slave-like behavior for the women. This setting of the novel allows the reader to see exactly how treacherous life can be. This suffering is so present in Estrella’s family’s lives, yet she somehow is able to bring the family along no matter how difficult the situation may be. She is still trapped in between two very different worlds: "She tried to remember which side she was on and which side of the wire mesh she was safe in" (59). Her mother may be taken over by a world of suffering, but she is not so beaten that she cannot pass some of her fighting

Reyna felt proud when her friends would see her with Tia Emperatriz, thinking that she was her mother. She took her to the doctor and slept with her when the scorpion stung Reyna. Tia Emperatriz celebrated Reyna’s Birthday with a cake, presents, and food. Elida, Reyna’s cousin, and the neighborhood children called Reyna an orphan many times. Like Reyna, Mago was also left at a very young age by her mother with a huge responsibility to be Reyna’s “little mother” (12). Mago promised to take care of her siblings when her mother decided to leave Iguala, Mexico to join her husband in the United States. She protected Reyna from her cousin Elida and the neighborhood children when she was teased and called “orphan.” Mago was stripped of her childhood and forced to mature up. Mago molded Reyna into who she is today because of the absence of their mother when they were younger. Reyna believed that Mago was a much better mom than her real mom.

Not only that but her questioning of gender role was a concern for her. After her parents were separated, her father’s expectations of her were no longer there and did not speak to one another. After a while, blaming one-self after a separation of the parents is always expected from young children and so Roberta’s feeling that the separation of her mother and father was due to her misbehavior at home allowed her to be not happy. The separation of her parents did not only cause Roberta to feel not happy but also her thinking was shaped in ways that blamed all men to be the exact same way and that on one could be the same. This can be related to what each child feels and thinks if that were to happen to their own family, and unfortunately in our current society there are people that still the same way as Roberta’s father and

Beginning with the complexities of Ida’s family–including her nuclear family with the addition of her aunt Clara–and her social life and later relationships, the eldest-most narrator recalled her perspective of the significant events of the early-to-mid chapter of her lifetime and the outcomes of her relationships within. Almost directly after being introduced to Ida’s point of view, it is revealed that her aunt and best friend, Clara had, through the duration of her sister’s–Ida’s mother–illness, been impregnated with the child of her brother-in-law–Ida’s father. The impending child was to be Rayona’s mother, Christine. Subsequent to the news of

The daughter is bored with her mother's dreams and lets her pride take over. She often questions her self-worth, and she decides that she respects herself as nothing more than the normal girl that she is and always will be. Her mother is trying to mold her into something that she can never be, she believes, and only by her futile attempts to rebel can she hold on to the respect that she has for herself. The daughter is motivated only to fail so that she may continue on her quest to be normal. Her only motivation for success derives from her own vanity; although she cannot admit it to herself or her mother, she wants the audience to see her as that something that she is not, that same something that her mother hopes she could be.

Rayona is in a way lost and can’t seem to find her place in the world. She thinks about herself in the way that she thinks others think of her. She is fifteen years old at the time and does not have a lot of sense of her self. Rayona is half African American and Native American, which makes her think she’s different from others and makes her have a low self esteem. She struggles with her identity and physical appearance. Another thing that makes it difficult for her to find her true self is that she lacks information about her heritage. Her dream is to have a “normal” life, meaning to have a functional happy family and to be able to fit in. Rayona feels like a real family is the opposite of what she has. She goes through a series of events and learns a little about her self in each of them. Rayona is

During the train ride the NKVD gave the prisoner food rations mainly bread and water. Also during the train ride Andrius found a colorful shiny rock. Mrs. Rimas a Liberian holds the rock a say she the queen of the cattle cart, everyone laughed except for the lady who give birth because her baby died. It took weeks to get to the labor camps, but when they finally step off the train Lina met Kretzsky a NKVD officar of the work camp. Once Lina and her family, enter inside their hunt they saw Ulyushka inside who demand debt for saying inside the hunt. Even worst, in the night Lina saw Andrius mother inside a nice comfortable NKVD house putting on makeup. Lina thought Andrius and her mother are part of the NKVD, but his mother is being forced to be a prostitute. After she saw Andrius mother, she run into Andrius she rudely told him he part of the Soviet. Andrius heart-broken told her his mother is a prostitute to earn food ration for him and told her he felt guilty for it. Weeks later Jonas starts getting scurvy from not eating fruits and

A young, married couple, part of this family also, is also struggling because the man is thinking on leaving. His wife is pregnant, but he believes the child is not his. She was rape, and this has drawn them apart. Two more women, are part of this family. They come to the island from the main land on the day the movie describes. One of them is religious; she believes in Jesus Crist. This is another struggle between religious traditions. The other women left the Island long ago to live in the main land. In this day she was coming back to her land to stay, to rediscover herself. However, she got rejected by many women in the family. They consider her a traitor because she left. The younger women accept her because they are more open-minded.

The mother begins to rebel against tradition by taking an active role in educating and freeing herself. Through her radio, telephone and trips out with her sons she develops her own opinions about the world, the war, and the domination and seclusion of woman. She loses her innocence as a result to her new knowledge and experience.

I am writing to inform you about the events that occurred over in China. There has been a great demand in Britain recently for tea and porcelain, but the sellers in China only want to be paid in silver. Instead of using up England’s supply of silver, our merchants are importing opium into China. They are demanding to be paid for it in silver and then they use that silver to buy the Chinese products. Some corrupt Chinese officials keep allowing this exchange to occur, even though the use and sale of opium was banned here in the year 1723.

In The Bad Seed, by William March, Rhoda Penmark is an eight year old girl, who is charming, polite, and intelligent beyond her years. Yet, by the way she portrays herself, making her come a crossed as a sociopath who harms anyone that disturbs her the wrong way. On the other hand, Christine Penmark is quite the opposite she is a beautiful, young, empathetic, well-groomed mother of Rhoda. Throughout William March’s book the relationship between Rhoda Penmark and her mother Christine Penmark is a complicated one. At the beginning, Christine loved her daughter unconditionally as any mother would love their own. Rhoda is seen to be from outsiders looking in, every mother’s dream daughter. She was well-groomed, obedient, compliant, and did well in school. Even her own mother feels this way at first, in this section of the book Christine states “I never deserved

Because of the sexual confidence Hannah Peace has, Sula must disguise her difference, just like her grandmother Eva had too. Eva’s drastic measures were repeated by Sula an act of survival and denial of powerlessness and vulnerability. Nel and Sula are regularly picked on by the same group of boys, causing Sula to take matter into her own hands. At one point, Sula takes out a knife and cuts off part of her finger saying, “ ‘If I can do that to myself, what you suppose I’ll do to you?’ ” (54-55). This severe act if Sula’s moment of self-recognition of her connection to her grandmother Eva. Here, Sula realizes that she has to fight against her own vulnerability, and establish her identity, hereby following her grandmother Eva’s example. Though this moment shows Sula’s inner strength, it can never disguise her enough of being different from the rest of her community. Just as Eva and Hannah, Sula continues the unpreventable, mature line of breaking past the typical gender roles of the time. Eva’s overly independent attitude and removal from caring and mothering a daughter correctly, leaves her daughters with unlearned, societal caretaking skills. This results in Sula’s highly inappropriate and unnecessary act of clumsy caretaking within her relationship with Nel. Yet, it is understandable because Sula has never been taught normal and conventional means for problem solving. The denial of motherly love from

She looks forward to moving away like others in her town. She admits she will not be missed at her job and at nineteen, without the former protection of her older brothers, she is beginning to feel "herself in danger of her father's violence.” This danger she sees is taken away when she meets her suitor, the sailor, Frank who promises her a better life away from these hardships she has faced.