Sweetie Pie And The Gutter Man

Chayo wanted nothing to do with her. She had explained that her anger was never towards Richard (Marta's son), but towards her sister. During those couple of years that had passed Marta has been regretting the decision she made before Richard was born. Marta said, "'Listen to me. It's been four years. I've paid for what I did. I pay for it everyday'" (Benítez 150). She wanted the love her sister once had for her. Marta knew that there was nothing she could've have done or have said to make her sister forgive her. Marta constantly tried until she finally gave in. On the night of their friend's wedding Tonito (Chayo's son) and Richard had asked Chayo if Richard could stay the night. Chayo agreed with hesitation. In the night a monumental storm had thrashed through. In the morning when Chayo and Cande had woken they searched outside damages. Later on they relieved that they sound they had been hearing was not a storm but the arroyo. They boys woke up soon after them and walked outside. When Chayo was mostly focused on the

In the story “Caviar”, both husband Nathaniel and wife Marie suffer a loss of innocence. It is Nathaniel, however, that goes through the greatest degree of loss. He may have caused his wife's loss of innocence by having an affair with their surrogate, Wendy, but he lost so much himself. Marie though having lost a husband, got the child she had so desperately wanted. Nathaniel was left with nothing as he lost his wife, his mistress, and his new born son.

Daniel has to leave the area and go to live with his Mother in Florida. He decides on his journey that he ca not live without Carla. Daniel hitchhikes back to Carla and finds her at her sister’s wedding. Daniel proposes to Carla in front of the wedding party. Everyone is supportive of Carla and Daniel except for her mother. Carla gets upset with her mother and expresses her frustration with her by saying, “I am sick of you telling me what to do!” Carla plans her wedding with the support of her sisters and father.

After finally have a stable caretaker, Ellenette Brown, she began to have very jealous act and behavior towards other children relationships with adoptive mother. As she grew up she veered off from her mother and began to do her own thing that lead to running away. Cyntoia says “I wasn’t running from; I was running to”. Cyntoia thought the streets of Nashville would give her freedom. As she roamed the streets she meet her pimp and boyfriend “Kutthroat”. Kutthroat was a drug dealer, he would sexually abuse Cyntoia then throw her out to the streets to do prostitution and earn him money for drugs and his wants. With Cyntoia’s adoptive mother knowing all of this know; she wonders why Cyntoia could not just talk to her about the problems going on. Brown says that her adoptive mother would not have listened and also Kutthroat would not let her out of his

When Doris and Wilfred were younger they were said to of had a baby which had died at birth, when the baby had died the nurse had raped it up in newspaper, and in Doris’ eyes she associated this with being “dirty”. This reveals how Doris does not want her child to have anything to do with anything dirty, even though it is dead, showing her

Kenan is one of the few people who are willing to see and believe the good things in others. Even if some of them treat him with no respect. For example, Mrs. Reistovski is a neighbor that treats Kenan rudely, she comes to visit Kenan and his wife Amila without a permission and all she does is complain. She complains about every possible thing and blame it on others without admitting her own faults. One day she came to visit and the baby was sleeping. Keenan told Mrs. Reistovski that the baby is sleeping and if it is possible to lower down her voice while she is speaking. Instead, Mrs. Reistovski continued to speak louder than before and the baby woke up screaming. Mrs. Reistovski left the apartment saying, “I hope you’re better with children than you are with plants.”

Her family also grows with the introductions of new characters who become important parts of Taylor’s life. Two of these characters are her neighbors Edna and Virgie May, who let Taylor and Lou Ann leave “the kids with [them] on their front porch to be looked after... It was awfully convenient” (153). They always cheerfully assisted, and even when the child in her care was being attacked, Edna “saved her” (224). They aid Taylor many times, so she owes much to them. Another pair of characters whom the author acquaints Taylor with is Estevan and Esperanza. Almost immediately after they are introduced, they become great friends with her. Unlike many men she knows, she admits that she “...[likes] Estevan” (150), and he and Esperanza end up helping Taylor a great deal. A significant instance of this assistance is when Taylor is in danger of losing her child, Turtle. When she asks them if they will stay with her to provide “moral support” (264) during her search for a relative of Turtle’s that could help her, they “without hesitation...said they wanted to go with me” (264). Then, when she cannot find anyone, she asks them if they are willing to help her by pretending to be Turtle’s parents. This is a very dangerous task, but “they told [her], then and there, that they wanted to do it” (283). Taylor is indebted to them because they are always willing to support and help her

Unfortunately, her father expected her to go to college and earn a degree like her brother Sheldon and sister Bunny. Toni, unlike her siblings, did poor while she was at UH Manoa and had to move back home to Hilo. Her father Harry was extremely disappointed and no longer had high hopes for her. When she moved back, her sexual encounters with family friends Wyatt and Maverick Santos grew and she became closer with longtime Haole family friend Billy who was six years younger than her. Her relationship with Billy blossomed into mutual feelings for one another; however, Toni refused to take it to the next level due to the fact that Billy was younger than her, a Haole, and was considered as family. As months past, Toni found herself pregnant from either one of the Santos brothers with her family deeply ashamed by her actions. She did not finish college, was not married, and now she was pregnant. When her baby was born, things started to slowly change for Toni. Her baby became the joy of her life and her father’s new found joy and hope that had once died when Toni did not meet his expectations. Toni later became the co-owner of her father’s business and finally felt accepted into her own family and community. Toni’s experiences is indeed also reflective of our highs and lows in life and is something that most, if not all of society can relate to.

Cora Lee had many children. As a child she was obsessed with baby dolls. Every Christmas she would get a new baby doll. Until she was 13, when her father said she was too old. Beginning in her sophomore year of high school, she started having babies one after another. Cora Lee neglects her children as they get older since she can only take care of them while they’re babies. Kiswana catches one of Cora Lee’s children eating out of a trash can and takes him to his mom to tell on him. Kiswana then see how filthy Cora Lee’s apartment is. Kiswana offers her to come and bring the children to a play. So Cora Lee cleans her children up and they all go to the play with Kiswana. Cora Lee is touched by seeing how much her children enjoyed the play and from that day to vowed to be a better mother.

Cal and Aaron are now teenagers and Adam is starting a new business venture. It becomes apparent that Cal is quite the rebel and trouble maker. In contrast Aaron is the picture of perfection, has a beautiful girlfriend Abra, and can do no wrong. Unbeknownst to Adam, Cal has developed a deep jealousy of Aaron believing that their father only has love for him. Cal goes on to find out that his and Aaron’s mother who was thought to be dead is alive. He meets her and begins to wonder if his tendencies to do bad come from her. Time goes on and Adam’s business venture of refrigerated lettuce fails. Because of this he loses fifteen thousand dollars Cal feels badly for his father and comes up with an idea. He sets out to get his father’s

Two weeks later Mrs.Derby has the baby. Mr. Derby is panicked and runs to the next plantation over to get help he also calls for Dr. Hoskins. Mr. Derby leaves Amari and Polly in charge of caring for Mrs.Derby. As a result of this Amari and Polly in the end help deliver the baby. After the baby is delivered everyone is quiet shocked because the baby is a mixed raced. It is later found out that Noah and Mrs.Derby were in love and convinced the baby together. Mrs. Derby, Polly, Amari and Tennie try to keep this a secret but the secret is later uncovered by Clay Derby. His hatred for Mrs.Derby him to find

The focal characters in the short stories On Her Knees by Tim Winton and The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Gilman are two women struggling to overcome emotional and intellectual pain. The mother in On Her Knees is falsely accused of theft, denting her pride and reputation. The narrator in The Yellow Wallpaper experiences post-natal depression and suffers in isolation. However, both characters are patronised by society and the other characters. The two females deal with their grievances very differently, with Winton’s mother’s dignity and morals carrying her through with super human strength, wheres Gilman’s narrator falls down the rabbit hole as her pride and mental health declines. Despite being written eras apart, both On Her Knees and The

"Desiree's Baby" is not a mere tragic short story by which a reader may be entertained by its ironic and catastrophic ending. It is a story of a crime and brutality against women of all generations to come, depicting vividly how a woman may suffer and conceal her anguish for the sake of others. It is a story of innocence slain mercilessly by the unscrupulous power of harshness that directly governs human societies.

Minny Jackson is married to Leroy, and they have 5 children. She is a very strong women, but who doesn’t take anything from anyone but her husband. Leroy often beats her when he is drunk, but she doesn’t want to tell anyone because she is too embarrassed and looks past it because she loves him so much. It all starts out when Minnie is working for Miss Hilly’s Mother, Miss Walters. Minny does nothing wrong until Miss Hilly makes a rumor about her and tells everyone that Minny has been stealing from her mother. She is later fired and jobless. Aibileen is helping Minny by looking for a job, she answers a phone at Leefolts and on the phone is Celia Rae Foote. Celia is a nice, beautiful young lady in her early twenties. She’s looking for a maid, which at this point Aibileen is acting like the person Celia is asking for and she recommends Minny. Celia has never had a maid, and doesn’t know how to act around them. When they meet, Celia is afraid that her house is too much for Minny to clean. Minny thinks that it's absurd

She is building the orphanage as a memorial to her late husband, who was an honored member of the community. The pastor suggests that the orphanage not be insured, because insuring it might make people doubt her trust in God6. Mrs. Alving’s son Oswald, a painter, enters. He shocks the pastor with talk about couples living together and having children in Paris, where he has recently lived. When he steps out, Pastor Manning tells Mrs. Alving that she should be a better mother. He reminds her that she left Chamberlain Alving early in their marriage, but that after the pastor convinced her to return to her husband, Alving turned out to be a fine husband.