The Dynamics of Brice Family

Katie Nolan, Francie’s mother, is the main reason that Francie is able to survive her arduous childhood and succeed in life. Food, heat and protection are always available to the Nolan children even if it means that Katie has to work multiple jobs or even sacrifice some of her own needs. Katie gives all she can to provide for her children and Francie truly values her mother’s hard work. Francie appreciates her mother’s thougtful acts, but still, Francie develops

You see as the day progresses how spoiled Stella Ronda is and how deceitful she can be as she turns everyone in the family again Wetly and in the end causes Wetly to come to the decision to leave. Showing of an example of siblings who did not develop a more independent stance on life and how one can be pushed towards it. It’s been stated that ‘Brothers and sisters develop patterns of love and hate, care and abuse, and loyalty and betrayal. There are power struggles, sexual possibilities, interdependencies, role experiments, and divisions of emotional and instrumental labor. All of these will shape future adult functioning, perceptions, expectations, self-care, and self-worth. In other words, here is where many people directly learn some of the basics about who they are—or dare not to be—as individuals, partners, parents, and peers (Watanabe-Hammond, 1988).’ Again as stated before it seems like you shouldn't trust what Whelty is saying about her self and her family but reading the commentary by her family and their extreme reactions to little things, it is obvisoe that her point of

Stella-Rondo brings out jealousy in Sister that causes tension between them. Sister hates that Stella-Rondo married Mr. Whitaker since Sister supposedly had him first. She feels like Stella-Rondo broke them up by lying. Most likely, Sister is upset because she was not the one to end up with the guy she liked, but she displays her feelings childishly. Sister’s

She also talks about how she meant to be unimportant to the families so that she can to be treated as guest. Eventually when the author and her team get used to within the families they were studying, they have literally got the real life scenarios and

The significant issue of fragmented families is highlighted in this novel due to Busters underprivileged upbringing. Buster has been born into a dysfunctional family and she provides a lot of complications for her parents throughout the novel. When Macauley finds that his wife

At the next psychosocial stage, we find Dolores is in stage four of Erikson’s theory, industry vs. inferiority. This is when a child begins to seek approval for their accomplishments, start to hone their skills and complete goals. At this point, Dolores’s family television has taken over most of the family’s time, mom, dad, and even grandma when she visits watches it. She is not going outside to play and is desperately seeking attention from her parents. Her dad is spending a lot of time with his employer, Mrs. Masicotte. When her and her father’s “meetings” would go too long she would intentionally dare herself to do bad things. Dolores said, “my actions-each of which invited my father’s anger-shocked and pleased me” (Lamb, 10).

Violet Weston is the mother of the Weston girls. Violet plays the role of the addict in this family. She exhibits erratic, irresponsible, anger and abusive behaviors towards her daughters throughout the film. Violet has a tendency to play the victim when addressed about her usage of prescription pills. Violet will use when others aren’t around but her behaviors once overly medicated are apparent that she has a legitimate problem with drugs. Violet has no issues with telling one how it is without any regard to their feelings about what she is say. Violet demonstrates poor communication with her daughters as a result of her usage of prescription pills. As the film progresses, it illustrates how severe Violet’s problem is when he daughters find out she several doctors providing her refills on the pills she was abusing. Violet tied up with her own addiction to secrecy, ultimately pushes away all of her out of the home and her into the arms of the at home housekeeper.

Bean loves living in Byler, Virginia with her uncle. “Mom had me a little worried, but to be honest, I was relieved to be back in Byler.” (Walls 82). Bean was a little worried about her mother, even though she enjoyed living with Uncle Tinsley, but Liz knew that their mom just needed some time for herself. “‘How long do you think it will take mom to get settled in?’ I asked Liz”. “‘There’s getting settled in,’ Liz said, ‘and then there’s getting a grip on things.’” (Walls 82). After a little while Charlotte began calling the girls once a week and talked to them about future plans. “Lots of kids in New York went to private schools, but they way beyond our budget. Liz and I rightly belonged in one of those special public schools for gifted students, she explained, but it was too late to apply this year, so what we needed to do was start the school year in Byler.” (Walls 114). Charlotte seems to still be trying to settle in. The girls just end up staying with Uncle Tinsley for the rest of the time, as their mother tries to “settle

In the book, In the Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler, Claudia undertook the mission of running away from home (but coming back after a short time) along with her brother James. It was one hard journey because of all the planning that Claudia made.In the text it says, ”’ I’ve decided to run away from home, and I’ve chosen you to accompany me.’ said Claudia” (Konigsburg page. 15). Claudia was determined to undertake this mission because she was tired of arguing about whose turn it was to choose the TV show, of injustice, and monotony of everything. She was certain to come back after everyone in her family how to learn a lesson in Claudia’s appreciation.In the text it says, ” A reason that had to do with the same list of each and every week. She was bored with simply being straight A’s Claudia Kincaid. She was tired of arguing about whose turn it was to choose the Sunday night 7:30 television show, of injustice, end of the Monotony of everything.” (Konigsburg page. 13). Claudia was quite successful on her Mission to run away from home. In fact, she even accomplished another bigger problem in the story

Lastly, her family betrayed her by not listening to her side of the story after her sister told lies about her, and they betrayed her when they acted as if they did not care if she moved out of the house. In all of these actions, the family itself and certain members of the family are portrayed as uncaring, unsupportive, disrespectful, conniving, deceitful, and hateful to Sister. Through every action of the family, Sister is treated harshly, and she tries to not let this bother her. Yet, anger and bitterness build up inside of her until she cannot take it anymore. Consequently, it built up so much inside of her that it severely affected Sister so profoundly that she moved away from her home to get away from her family.

When one usually thinks of Gilded Age politics, one usually thinks of the dominance of the relatively new “Grand Old Party”, who won all but two presidential elections between 1860 and 1908. During this time, the Republican Party was backed largely by Northern and Midwestern corporate and business interests, which once in power, crafted largely protectionist policies such as tariffs to secure and expand American enterprises. The Democratic Party of this period, was mainly backed by the interests of immigrant groups like the Irish and Germans, in addition to the “Solid South” which sought to block many of the Republican policies toward higher tariffs and civil rights for

Because she begins recalling her childhood, the attachment that she feels towards her brother causes her to dismiss her brother’s disorderly conduct. So even when her brother was out committing crimes, getting drunk, and more, she did not feel that it was important to brood over, because the image does not fit with the perception that she has of him.

I found it very eye opening that this was just one piece of the larger picture which included more than the initial problem with Claudia and the relation to it was multigenerational.

The mother/daughter relationship between Mrs. MacTeer and her two daughters, Claudia and Frieda, is loving and strong. They are taught their own self-worth through their mother’s strength and example, although this love isn’t fully appreciated by the girls until they are older. During Claudia’s illness, she is treated with a mixture of concern and anger. Although Claudia is scolded and her mother complains of cleaning her vomit, at the same time her mother is nursing her, giving her medicine, and checking on her throughout the night. Claudia discovers later that her mother’s anger is not directed at her, but at the world, as she must raise her black family in a world ruled by white culture. She protects her children and equips them for survival in a hostile environment.

The resentment within the young girl’s family is essential to the novel because one can understand the young girl better as she makes her decision.