Religious Influence on Adolescent Development in Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

Jeanette was thinking this to herself while in her apartment. She had just seen her mom rooting through trash on the street and had hurried home out of fear. This quote is important because it shows that Jeanette has passion for her parents but is too afraid to address them in a realistic manner. It shows that she doesn’t have extreme care for her parents, being embarrassed by them, and ashamed of them but not doing anything to really help them.

Jeanette Walls had a sense of responsibility when her parents didn’t have any. When it came down to Walls’ younger sister she says, “At times I felt like I was failing Maureen, like I wasn’t keeping my promise that I’d protect her.” (Walls 206) Structure. Through misguided trials with the family the children picked up on things they knew or at least felt what a family should be and act like. She strives for protection.

She was attacked, called names, scolded at, ect. Though all of these things happened she never left her father's side when it came to what she believed. She knew that she was in danger but didn’t care. When Jeanette's mother pushes her to give her money she finally stands up to her and tells her no which none of her siblings would ever be able to do, “Jeanette, I haven’t asked you for a lot of favors, but I’m asking you for one now. I wouldn’t if it wasn’t important...

Oranges are not the Only Fruit starts out when Jeanette is seven years old and living with her adoptive parents in England. Jeanette’s mother is very religious, and her father is not around much. She gets pretty lonely; until she is seven years old she has been homeschooled. Her mother is so religious that she even taught Jeanette how to read from the Bible. Because Jeanette’s mother is so religious, she almost brainwashes her daughter to become a missionary. However, once Jeanette begins school things change. When Jeanette is seven years old, she loses her hearing. Her mother and the church think it is something religious when it is really just a sickness, so she is admitted into the hospital. When Jeanette is well again so goes back

Her Mother seemed to be more put together than her father at times, even getting a job at one point helping the family out. Though her mother was a hedonist and did not contain the motherly love and sacrifice for her kids, this job helped Jeanette’s future. She helped grade papers which increased her knowledge of the outside world and “...the world was making a little more sense” as she read the papers and projects of her mother’s students (Walls 205). Her parents had such an opposition to the outside world that she hadn’t gotten every aspect of

The first main parent child conflict is how Leah wants her father’s affection. She mainly wants to be accepted and praised by her father but he continually ignores her when she does as things right, but then is harshly punished when one of the girls does something wrong. “The dreaded Verse is our household punishment. Other lucky children might merely be thrashed for their sins, but we Price girls are castigated with the Holy Bible”, (59). These punishments cause Leah to question her father but also praise him for everything he does. She wants to her father to give her affection for her helping the family, but instead she is given the “Verse” more than her sisters ever do.

In documents 7 it reads “ rigor and an excess of indulgences are both to be avoided…. if they were forced to do so, they will feel the rigors of constraint a hundred times. ”(7) The speaker Jean-Jacques was a philosphe (an intellectual mind during the enlightenment), his reason to raising a kid the root to disobedience is a huge symbol of the time. This is one of the first times the bible was not used but facts and reason which represents the age of enlightenment.

She feels this especially when her father is so consumed in his drinking and her mother is so consumed in her artwork. With the parents worried about other things, they do not have time to worry about the actual concern: the safety and protection of their children. With the poor decisions they make in regards to their children's safety, it seems as though they do not love them which is where Jeanette feels she has to pick up their slack. Towards the end of the novel Jeanette and her new husband, John, invite her mom, brother, and sister to a family Thanksgiving dinner showing love and compassion even after all the pain and suffering her mom caused her, “It had been John’s idea to invite her and Lori and Brian out to the house for Thanksgiving, the first Walls family get- together since Dad’s funeral.” Jeanette’s love and compassion even during the hard times, helped her to gain love in her life. After leaving in poverty fir all her life, she was finally able to be apart of the upper-middle

First of all, with the use of plot and character as dramatic elements, MacLeod is able to depict the main characteristics of the nature of adolescence, mainly the search for identity and the quest for independence. Among the scientific community, adolescence is believed to be the most crucial period in human development. It is a period of “rapid biological, social and psychological change” (Soto, et al. 330). There are the transformations that define puberty, there are changes in the relationships and attitudes towards adults and peers, and many teenagers struggle to form a coherent identity (331). In the process of discovering their identities, most adolescents become self-centered. Having not yet

Another core belief was the family had a ‘social order’. The father was the head of the household, with mother as the helper (as stated in the Bible) and children were the lowest in the hierarchy. Obedience of the children in the home was expected and demanded. A just love of the children was to discipline the children justly. If the children were obedient then the austerity and goodness of the mother were seen to be her saving grace in the hereafter. However, if the mother was too tender loving and not stern with the

Drawing 1: This picture illustrates how important religion is to the young Elizer. But his father doesn’t want Elizer to study the kind of religion called Kabbalah. Then Elizer met this guy named Moshe who knows Kabbalah and Elizer want to know about Kabbalah so bad. So then secretly Moshe teaches Elizer religion behind his father’s back.

According to Pew Research Center, eighty-percent of people on the planet identify with a religion; for many of these people their religion is a prominent part of their lives. In her novel Purple Hibiscus, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie tells the story of Kambili, a young girl raised in an abusive Nigerian household headed by her strict Catholic father. Later in the novel, Kambili goes to visit her Aunty Ifeoma who is a Catholic as well, providing Kambili with an entirely new perspective on the religious forces within her life. Adichie’s use of the character foil of Aunty Ifeoma and Papa Eugene establishes that one’s character can not be defined by one’s religion. Papa Eugene uses his extremist Catholic views to justify his abusive actions towards

One of her influences is her mother. Even the adoption of Jeanette by her mother is related to religion, the images that her

One of the most important reference points for relationships in Jeanette’s life is the marriage of her parents, which she describes at the very beginning of the novel: “my father liked to watch the wrestling, my mother liked to wrestle” (5). Their ”battle for power and domination” is fought on a purely social level; there is no love or intimacy between them. They are not a prime example of a conventional distribution of gender roles either. Stevens (2011) explains that in our culture, relationships serve to form identities “of wife, husband, mother and father”. Jeanette 's father does not seem to have any role in the family, except to work and earn money. He is rarely present throughout the novel. It is Jeanette’s mother who is the 'paterfamilias ' and mother figure to Jeanette at the same time. There is an amount of irony and hypocrisy to this situation, as Christian values – “[w]ives, submit to your husbands as to the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife […]” (the New Testament) – are very important to her. Jeanette 's mother and the church advertise the patriarchal law of the bible, yet many important positions in the church are performed by women. Jeanette is even allowed to preach, until her affair with Katy comes to light and the pastor claims her high position in the church was the cause for her 'unnatural desires ': “The real problem, it seemed, was going against the teaching of St Paul, and allowing woman power in the church. […][H]aving taken on a man

Both homes are presented as something that is full of diversity. Furthermore, they are challenging the boundaries and expectations of how the family is structured and organised. Nervous Conditions presents us with the idea that materialism and financial security are at the centre of the family structure. Tambu’s father being unable to support his children inadvertently results in him relinquishing custody of his children to his wealthier brother. This act of passing children off onto other family members shows the family structure to be ever changing and it appears to be somewhat fickle. Tambu is quick to accept her uncle and aunt as her new primary caregivers. She feels less than connected to her parents and is willing to abandon her biological family and align herself with a new one in order to further herself with education. In contrast to this, Jeanette’s family structure in Orange’s are not the Only Fruit focuses on religious intervention and spirituality rather than support. Jeanette’s mother wishes to make an exception her daughter, trying to continuously influence her with religious activities and constant prayer. The structure of family is based upon piety and when one fails to be less than saintly it disrupts the entire family organization. Such religious harshness hardens Jeanette and encourages her to rebel,