Sandra Cisneros My Lucy Friend Who Smells Like Corn

No one person was responsible for establishing the world’s first juvenile court in Chicago at the end of the 19th century. Yet, as you will see in this chapter, a good case can be made that Lucy Flower has been rightly called the mother of the juvenile court.

Since both the uncle and father were always at a loss for words, she’s developed her own. “I am writing this only because they can't,” (p.26). Her Father and Uncle's inability to express their true feelings is her motivation as a

Through the narrator's retrospective narration, Johnson provides insight into the depth of the narrator's obsession with the girl. The narrator's admission that he loved her "as only a boy loves" highlights the intensity and purity of his emotions. Moreover, his admission of embarrassment when his teacher discovers his love poetry underscores the private nature of his infatuation and his vulnerability. This introspection allows the reader to understand the narrator's internal struggle as he grapples with his burgeoning feelings and the fear of rejection. Additionally, Johnson employs irony to add depth to the narrator's experience.

The Canadian short stories “Brother Dear” by Bernice Friesen and “The Charmer” written by Budge Wilson focus on the struggles and common conflicts between parents and their children during adolescence. Both stories are told in the younger sister’s point of view and show how everyone matures and gains independence throughout and at the end of the story. Friesen and Wilson’s short stories over all focus mainly on the theme of dysfunctional families; which can be represented through the characters, symbolism, and conflict in the stories.

Within this short story, there are three main characters; Tom Shiftlet, Lucynell Carter, and her daughter, who is ironically also named Lucynell Carter. For the sake of this paper, we’ll call the mother, and old lady, Ms. Carter while calling Ms. Carter’s daughter Lucynell. To give you

Introduction: John’s domination over the Narrator is evident from the beginning of the short story. The Narrator remains unknown and takes the identity of John’s wife not an individual human being. This identity, further explored, becomes her personality because she obeys John’s every command.

The narrator was writhing in the misery of the burden of brotherly love. The narrator’s mother, via tasking him with looking after Sonny, asked him to serve as his sibling’s keeper and protector. The narrator was riddled with grief throughout his life right from the burden of brotherly love that was placed upon his shoulder, to the dilapidated living conditions he and Sonny had to endure while shaking up in the projects, to the imprisonment of his younger brother and the death of his own daughter-

The novel brings out the themes of close friendship and family. It teaches the reader the extreme importance of having friends you can rely on when situations

Claudia expresses again and again how marginalized she and her sister perceived themselves to be, "Adults do not talk to us - they give us directions" (10). When Claudia thinks back to a childhood illness she suffered, she remembers her mother's irritation at finding her sick in bed. Claudia questions the reliability of her perceptions of pain and confusion, "But was it really like that? As painful as I remember? Only mildly. Love...eased up into that cracked window" (12). Claudia's mother's irritation is tempered with compassion; she coats Claudia's phlegmy chest with salve and "hands repinned the flannel, readjusted the

Helen was left lonely without Cal. She never thought of staying in her life without Cal. She always acts like she has forgotten Cal but actually with every breath, Helen takes, she remembers Cal. On the other hand, after her husband's death Helen became really protective in terms of her children, the way they act. “The outside was an ugly truth that Helen plane to keep to herself”(Moore 14). In this quote writer tells the way Helen started to change, because of her, she children she started to pretend like there is no outside, it's just an ugly truth which she didn't want to talk about. She pretended very well to be inside with them by making breakfast, helping them in the homework, involving them in other activities. In short, she took care of a mother and father. She wanted her family to stay together and united with each other, they used to eat food together, and no one was allowed to eat it without one another. In the beginning she was looking after her daughter’s behaviour, “she had flicked her slipper at them when they were rude” (Moore 141). While Helen was trying to take care of her children, she was involved in a depression. She started working in a bar and was kicked out because she wasn't working properly, customers were being mad at her. She left the job in the bar but the main point was that she couldn’t survive by not paying bills, eating buns just because they didn’t have any source of income. “Lulu

Sandra Cisneros is a Mexican-American writer who was born in 1954. She was the only daughter out of 7 children. Most of her stories are about the woman’s role in a hispanic culture. “Only Daughter”(1990) is her autobiography where she explains what circumstances helped her become a great writer and her family's point of view in her education.

The story develops two old college friends gathering for a chat, in a week afternoon, talking for hours straight. During this period there is abusive alcohol consumption, a robust evidence of personal problems. The conversation evolves around gossip and complains. It is Eloise, the protagonist, who complains the most throughout the whole story, and about every aspect of her current life. Including her own daughter, which until that moment she barely considers as her descendent: “I need a cocker spaniel or something” (24). Even though the text only brings up the distinct appearances between them, Eloise believes Ramona is so far apart from her that anything would be closer to her – even a dog.

she expresses great love and a great sense of loss, but she does it in

When the narrator first encounters the girl, his friend's older sister, he can only see her silhouette in the “light from the half-opened door”. This is the beginning of his infatuation with the girl. After his discovery, he is plagued by thoughts of the girl which make his daily obligations seem like “ugly, monotonous, child's play”. He has become blinded by the light. The narrator not only fails to learn the name of his “girl”, he does not realize that his infatuation with a woman considerably older than himself is not appropriate. He relishes in his infatuation, feeling “thankful [he] could see so little” while he thinks of the distant “lamp or lighted window” that represents his girl. The narrator is engulfed by the false light that is his futile love.

Josie's perspective of her grandmother changes from viewing her as nagging old women to having a loving, caring, respectful relationship with her. The narrative, which is written in first person, enables the reader to see the stages in which her perspective changes as she gains knowledge about her grandmother and also how it is her own actions that