Reconstructing Amelia Character Analysis

The title of the movie is “Something About Amelia.” That something, is the case that a father has been forcing his daughter, Amelia, to have sexual intercourse with him for almost two years. “Something About Amelia” revolves around a typical, middle-class family named the Bennetts. The father, Steven, is your classic white-collar worker and honest-looking man. The mother, Gail, is a working mom. It is apparent in the beginning of the film, that Steven and Gail have reach a standstill in their marriage and a decline in sexual fulfillment.

“We’re not doing so good mom. Can you talk to Amelia? She doesn’t understand why Veronica left and she won’t listen to me.” I ask. “Of course honey.” My mom and I walk into Amelia’s room.

In Ellen Hopkins’ Identical, twins Kaeleigh and Raeanne bring dark secrets to light. After the girls’ daddy, Raymond Gardella - a comely city judge - causes a car accident involving them and their mother, the family begins to fall apart at the seams. The girls’ mother soon after turns frigid, showing little to no emotion towards their daddy, and she eventually leaves them all. The loss of their mother, and their daddy’s loss of his wife, sends all them all into a downward spiral, which is just the start of the family dilemmas. Despite the family’s desperate pleas to have her back, she still refuses, and soon takes up an interest in the city politics. While she is gone, the girls’ daddy does some repugnant things that should have him put in jail, but only Kaeleigh and Raeanne know – and they’re smart enough not to open their mouths about it, or daddy will make it worse.

Imagine that you had to start at a new school, without knowing anybody. You are a talented artist, but you are shy and don't like to share you work. This is what Jade had to do in the book “Piecing Me Together”.

“Ashes” by Susan Beth Pfeffer is about a girl who is caught in a situation in which her father attempts to bribe her to do something immoral. One message suggested in this story is how misdirection and trickery can negatively affect relationships between a parent and their child.

This is evident when Kate had her second round of fits. Once Kate realized that her symptoms could incite talk in the close-knit town, she decided to have another fainting fit. Sarah Bates described Kate as a lifeless corpse when she arrived at the house. However, when Kate overhears that she is about to be bled, she jumps back to life almost immediately (Godbeer 18). This shows that Kate was truly conscious the entire time. She only let go of her act once she believed she was about to be harmed. However, after learning that the pain would be minimal, she agrees to be bled. After she is bled, Kate lets out a scream and her mistress, Abigail Wescot, declares that “She is bewitched” (Godbeer 19). This prompts Kate into a laughing outburst, astonishing Sarah Bates once again. The fact that Kate only laughed after her mistress professed that she was bewitched exposed her guiltiness. She laughed because her acting turned out to be believable. She had successfully fooled her mistress with her false symptoms. Furthermore, her deceiving symptoms of bewitchment are also evident in her accusations, specifically her accusation of Mercy Disborough. When Abigail Wescot believed Kate was “no longer in her right senses,” she proceeded to name Mercy Holbridge, later known as Mercy Disborough, as the woman who she thought was responsible for Kate’s torments (Godbeer 38-39). Before this statement, Kate was unable to name the woman

She just assumed that talking about boys with her mother wasn’t the kind of thing Amelia would do. “Kate wasn’t upset that Amelia had been gay, but she was hurt and shaken that she’d had absolutely no idea” (McCreight 248). Kate fully believed that her and Amelia’s relationship was based upon the truth and talking to each other about everything. So, when Amelia didn’t mention anything about being gay, Kate never thought twice about it. Kate blamed herself for not knowing, because she thought that should be the kind of thing a mother just knew about their child. “Because in some magical, cosmic way, mothers were supposed to know every important thing about their children” (McCreight 248). She took all the responsibility for not knowing Amelia’s sexual orientation, yet Amelia was the one hiding it from Kate; and for no good reason. Amelia made the conscious decision to hide it from Kate, leaving Kate with only her thoughts to contemplate why. Even something as huge as Amelia being gay was hidden by the most important person in her life, showing yet another example that everything is not always as it

Amelia’s war begins in Hagerstown, Maryland in 1862. Readers are introduced to the main character and narrator, Amelia. She lives with her brothers Sky, who is 10, Wes, who is 16, her mother, father, and her Aunt Lou. This family is living in the middle of the civil war, and it is a very dreadful time for them. Sky has suddenly found an interest in soldiers, and Wes wants to become one. This is how the story begins.

The mere concept of a compulsive or pathological liar is often repulsive to most of us, but the truth is, many of us aren’t that far from crossing that bridge. In her essay, “The Ways We Lie”, Stephanie Ericsson analyzes not only the many occasions in which we lie, but also the meaning and consequences of those lies. Although Ericsson’s definitions are well articulated, the evidence she employs to support many of her statements lack depth.

Marry Karr’s The Liars Club is a haunting memoire, depicting a young Texan girls struggle to survive the trials of adolescence in home that finds stability in chaos and comfort in the abusive habits of her parents. Illustrating both fond and painful memoires from her past, Karr paints a complex image of the relationship she shared with her mother; giving readers everywhere the ability to relate and empathizes with the emotional complexity of their mother daughter relationship. This complexity of relationship can be explored in three main ways: the conflicting views Karr formed of her mother, In Karr’s

Would you feel guilty if someone had to die so that you can live? Well, welcome to Amelia's life. She is in desperate need of a heart transplant. Then there is Eagan who is a figure skater. A tragic accident makes Eagan regret all of the times she has been mean, and disrespectful to her mother. Eagan's figure skating accident could be a good thing for Amelia and her family. Loretta Ellsworth, in the paperback In a Heartbeart, uses flashbacks and symbolism to stir empathy in the readers.

The character of the mother executes the tell-tale signs of counterfeit happiness when she tells the murderous story of the narrator’s father’s brother. “‘Oh honey,’ she said, ‘there’s a lot that you don’t know. But you are going to find out’” (36).

In “The Necklace,” Guy De Maupassant describes Mathilde Loisel a middle class woman who desperately wishes to be a part of the luxurious life, one night her dreams come true at a ministerial ball but at a terrible cost that put Mathilde in poverty. Similarly, in “The Ways We Lie,” Stephanie Ericsson explains that we should consider the meaning of our actions, such as deception and lies. The extent of omitting a fact is when there is risky consequences that can harm people. It is wrong when omission of facts is a lie because conflicts arise when the truth is hidden by completely turning a person's life upside. Although the omission of facts is easier than to face the truth, I claim that the omission of facts is wrong because failing to tell the truth leads to painful consequences. Additionally, I believe both Maupassant and Ericsson agree that it is wrong to omit facts as a lie when serious consequences is a result, hence Mathilde is forced to waste ten years of her life because of a lie; similarly when Ericsson describes the omission of facts is a lie when a lie gives a false impression and is purposefully meant to deceive.

Amelia Lost: The Life and Disappearance of Amelia Earhart by Candace Fleming is about a girl by the name of Amelia Mary Earhart who flew solo around the world before she disappeared. It is a good read and if there is anything I could change, I would touch on what had happened after to follow the story. Fleming's biographical account also makes this story sounds straightforward about Amelia’s disappearance. Nonetheless, this book stands out from other nonfiction books mainly because of the figurative language and suspense’s the author use to craft a fascinating message which can sometimes be difficult to do with historical life story about people we know about already. Fleming was able to presents the impossible in an appealing manner to lure

The Scarlet Letter, a novel by Nathaniel Hawthorne, depicts a woman ostracized from her town in Puritan New England after her sin of adultery is revealed, although the father of the illegitimate child remains unknown to the town. In The Tell-Tale Heart, a short story by Edgar Allan Poe, the narrator murders an elderly man in the middle of the night and attempts to cover up his crime. Hawthorne and Poe use the psychological torment and suffering of Arthur Dimmesdale and the narrator in The Tell-Tale Heart to convey that hiding one’s sinful actions from society leads to the strong emotions of pain and guilt, demonstrating that one can only end their misery, leading to freedom, by accepting and exposing their mistakes to society.