Summary Of Penelope Landlow's Hold Me Like A Breath

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.

Coming from a lonely and abusive home Mary had to find happiness outside of her house. Her mom made a friend from their church and she happened to have a three month year old baby. Mary always occupied the Richardson’s by helping with baby Alyssa, while also distracting herself from reality. Meeting the Richardson’s ended up being Mary’s worst nightmare. One night the Richardson’s went out and asked Mary and her mother to watch Alyssa.

I feel that Anne Fadiman narrated the story of Lia Lee’s and her family’s life in intimate and tragic detail. The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down is a poignant depiction of the struggle between loving parents, hard-working medical professionals, and a very precious child caught in the middle of a tug-of-war. Ms. Fadiman very distinctly illustrates how the collision of two cultures indirectly led to the demise of a little seven- year old girl.

The movie Precious, is drama-based film that tells the story of a 16-year-old girl named Claireece Jones (Precious). Unfortunately, she is struggling with her family, the school system and with her own internal emotions. Her mother despises her due to Precious having two kids from her father. She was kicked out of her high school had to go to an alternative school to get her GED. Precious also is struggling with her internal emotions and capabilities, she has been raped, verbally and physically abused. Some of the main characters that influenced Precious’s life are Miss. Rain, her English teacher at the alternative school and her mother Mary.

The film, Precious, is a powerfully charged story that delves into the family dynamics of a 16-year-old girl and her struggles to survive an onslaught of treacherous experiences. Throughout the film, the viewer is enveloped in a dramatic web of extreme situations, experienced by the main character, and those to whom she is close. The themes of domestic violence, rape, incest, drug addiction, gambling, poverty, social justice, social services, housing and education are laced together throughout the story. Particularly poignant attention is paid to various systems that help shape the experiences of the characters. The social services industry, and its associated workers, educators and administrators, set the foundation for the social themes that are highlighted by this film.

Love is a dirty four-letter word to truly endure. It is an affection that one can truly suffer, undergo and witness. In her impactful memoir The Glass Castle, Jeannette Walls depicts the naked truth of the strange love in her family's abnormal take on life. The Walls's live life the rough way, by personal choice, scattering town to town, with a father who drinks like a fish   and wanna be Georgia O’keeffe, mother. Raised by Rex and Rose Mary Walls, Brian, Jeannette, Lori, and Maureen live a unusual life with a limited love. Jeannette fights to keep Lori, Brian, and Maureen Walls alive and nourished. Parents are supposed to be loving and nourishing to truly love their children, not be neglectful. Rex and Rose Mary's love for their children is far from unconditional, especially since they choose to neglect their children by being an alcoholic father, and s self-interested mother with restricted love by letting their young children starve in an unsafe environment, with an unstable income.

Eleanor, the protagonist, undergoes a difficult childhood where she had to take care of her ill mother for 11 years, until she died. Taking care of her mother for most of her childhood prohibited her from developing as a person; that affected her tremendously. For example, During Theodora’s supernatural experience, Shirley Jackson displays how Eleanor’s inner child managed to let her grow anger and jealously towards Theodora. Eleanor felt like Hill House was giving Theodora more affection and attention than it was giving her; similar, to the one that a child would have

Brief Plot Summary: Lily Melissa Owens, a fourteen-year-old white girl, lives on a peach farm with her father, T. Ray, who is both neglectful and abusive. Lily has a guilty secret, She believes she shot and killed her mother, Deborah, when she was younger, because of a pesky memory of what she thinks was the day she killed her mother. Lily has a housekeeper named Rosaleen, who has cared for Lily for years. When Rosaleen watches President Johnson sign the Civil Rights Act on television, she decides she will register to vote. On the way to register they run into some trouble that winds Rosaleen in jail. When T. Ray comes to pick Lily up from the police station, he is angry, and yells at her for such stupid behavior. Once home, Lily stands up to her father during an argument, and T. Ray hurts her by saying that ten years ago her mother was only coming back to get her clothes, and that she had planned to abandon Lily. But Lily isn 't sure if she believes her father, and she plans to escape, leaving behind her abusive father and finding a way to free Rosaleen.

The humorous yet intriguing play, “Madea Goes To jail”, by Tyler Perry, is about a silly yet serious woman named Madea who finds herself in jail after refusing to pay for gas in her car. Regardless of the circumstances, she gave her brand advice and wisdom to her friends and family as they learn the importance of letting go, moving on, and forgiveness. The play opens on Vanessa, who is Madea’s deceased sister’s son’s wife(Sonny). Sonny entered the room looking for his work shirt, so he could pay for Vanessa’s child and school. Vanessa refused to help him, claiming on completing her studying and learning. Ella then entered searching for Madea. And tells Vanessa about herself and tells her she not a real woman.

Janie’s second home helped her learn that love cannot be bought with gifts. Jody was a successful man; he had become Mayor of Eatonville. Even thought Jody bought many gifts for Janie he was no better than Logan at affection and love. Jody was a sexist and disrespected women. He restricted Janie’s freedom out of jealousy, she would only go out for work or chores. The only reason she stayed with him was that she didn’t have many options. “but he is something in my mouth He’s got tuh be else Ah aint got nothing ‘tun live for. Ah’ll lie and say he is. If ah font, life wont be nothing but uh store and uh house”. She had to lie and fake her love for Jody except when Jody had died, she mourned the loss of him and had mix feelings but she cherished her freedom as a widower. After several months she wanted to go back to her birth home but remembering she had no more family to go to, she didn’t know what to do and that transitions to her final

Then, we have Robin Stokes, who is a young, beautiful woman but is simultaneously insecure and anxious and looks for her self-confidence through men who abuse her financially, sexually, and emotionally. Her relationship with her family creates another burden her, as her father has Alzheimer’s and her mother is the only one who wants to take care of him. Eventually, they have no choice but to admit him to a nursing home, but it is a decision that is hard for the both of them. Her relationship with men is also a tumultuous one, in which she has an affair with a man named Russell, and even though she finds out he is married to another man, her good sense is pushed away by her attraction for him.

Hannah, a freshman in college, has had a life of asthma, major depression, and epilepsy. While on theatrical stage in her first college debut, Hannah collapses on stage in a seizure. After running tests on Hannah in the hospital, the doctor suggests that her lifelong health issues could possibly be because she is a survivor of abortion. This is the first time Hannah not only learns she’s an abortion survivor, but adopted too. In anguish and searching for answers, Hannah journeys with her friends to Mobile, Alabama in search of her birthmother. When Hannah first reconnects with her birthmother, Cindy, tracking her down at her work office, Cindy rejects her yet as again as she did at her failed abortion. Hannah finds herself asking God what to do in her situation.

These constant beatings in Maggie Johnson’s home, furniture thrown from parent to parent, and every aspect of her family life as being negative, her family situation is not an extremly healthy one. But, despite her hardships, Maggie grows up to become a beautiful young lady whose romantic hopes for a more desirable life remain untarnished.

“At least she has gone to a better place.” Stephanie whispered to herself. As Stephanie wiped a tear of her face, she spotted Lila huddled up in the corner weeping her heart out. Stephanie knew that Amanda was Lila’s cousin, but she was too afraid to say anything. If she was caught talking to someone like Lila, her social status would be ruined! It would make her from the most popular girl to the 37 millionth popular girl. She can’t do that to herself...can she? She had to do what was right. She couldn’t let Lila suffer in silence. She had to be there for her. After all, that is pretty much the only thing they had in common.

her nose in all the wrong business, and an adolescent half-Jamaican girl with self-esteem issues. Over the span of about 30 years, the three families in the book undergo