The Glue That Makes All The Good Grades

She fears for the lives of her children and worries that harm will come to them. This also represents an aspect of the parent-child relationship. No matter how old children get, their parents still worry about the things they do and the choices they

Connie is a young, immature character, who is incredibly self-conscious about her looks, and how people view her. She has a habit of constantly looking at herself in the mirror, and is often scolded at by her mother. Her mother compares Connie to her older sister, June, who receives all the praise. Her mother favors June because she is grown up and makes contributions to the home, as Connie is just in her own realm, usually daydreaming. This creates resentment towards her mother, and Connie wishes that her mother was dead. This most likely fuels her to gain the independence that she is looking for and become the mature adult she acts like outside the home. Connie had completely different

This play allowed people to visually see the real-life effects of what it would be like to be sexually assaulted. The effects of what happens to the surrounding people within the community is also shown in the play. The play allows people to further understand the universal message of taking the proper steps to prevent sexual assaults from occurring. If proper preventative steps would have been taken, then Chloe would not be living as a sexual assault victim whose sexual assault was filmed and posted on social media for everyone to see. The play allowed people to see the horrible effects of phones and social media by showing how those two things ruined multiple peoples life. The play was worth doing, because if showed the effects of social media and the effects of sexual

For example, “Frank we should totally do this for the kids” (17). This is important because is shows the conflict of the mom constantly wanting to do things that no one else wants to do. This is also important because in the conflict where the mom doesn’t want to do something but the rest of the family does, it turns out in the same situation. For example, "but mom we want to go to the water park” (116). This is important because it shows the conflict where the mom says no when someone else wants to do something. This is also important because she acts like a complete control freak to the rest of the family which compares to the conflict. The mother creates a conflict bye wanting to or not wanting to do things others want to or not want to

One of Pearl’s many trials is the torment from her peers and elders simply for being the daughter of an adulteress, which she was completely out of control of. Peers bullying her is not uncommon throughout the story, “the little Puritans… scorned them [Pearl] in their hearts, and not infrequently reviled them with their tongues”(Hawthorne, 109). Their lack of respect towards her, and willingness to act upon those feelings puts Pearl in constant danger of harassment and shame from every child around her. However, peer harassment is not the only danger Pearl has to worry about, adults are quick to shame her as well, “the talk of neighboring townspeople… had given out that poor little Pearl was a demon offspring” (Hawthorne, 114). While it’s not uncommon for someone to be bullied by a peer, the degradation forced on her by adults was something Pearl had to deal with everyday, on top of her peers. Interactions that should have been benign and helped her feel normal only tore her down.

From the moment Amanda was conceived she was never wanted, meaning that before she even knew what death, love and identity were, she experienced the death of both maternal and paternal love and “identify herself or which [racial] side to take” (Montayj, 2015, p. 56). The lack of love from the people who should love her more than anyone else in the world caused Amanda to never know what it felt like or meant to be loved or wanted. This caused her to fall into her toxic relationship with Desmond.

Amanda Calkins is someone that very few people would consider a role model. A twenty one year old girl in culinary school who doesn’t have much to her name other than a beat up yellow volkswagen beetle, a cat named Dinah, and her weekly pack of marlboro red cigarettes that she carries around in her black leather purse. She is always running late, constantly swearing, and has the most unpredictable temper. Her skin is white as the snow, and her edgy black shaggy hair frames her face giving off a very mysterious look. Tattoos and piercings cover her rawboned and angular body, and her baggy clothes make her look all skin and bones. She is a very independent woman who doesn’t let the thoughts of anyone else interfere with her life and has

To summarize, Amanda is very brave and caring. She cares about other people and is a very interesting character, as depicted by Jerry Spinelli in his writing. He shows that she can be mature, too. Amanda displays this trait due to her actions on page 23. On page 23, Amanda cleans up some glass that her little siblings, Hester and Lester, broke. However, some readers may argue that this is a simple action, not showing maturity, some may declare that this does. Most children would not clean up glass. Many adults can agree that children cleaning up glass is rare, seeing how it could be a hazard.

The characterizations of Connie’s family members have great effects on Connie. And onnie’s mother’s characterization is the main motivator for Connie’s rebellion. She always compares Connie with June, who is the “ideal daughter” in her eyes, and blames Connie for some little things, such as improper dressing and not having a tidy room. Oates suggests that the reason for Connie’s mother prohibiting Connie to dress up like an adult is that “ Her mother had been pretty once too” (Oates 1), but now “her looks were gone and that was why she always after Connie” (Oates 1). Therefore, she is jealous about Connie’s beauty and feels uncomfortable when seeing Connie wear beautiful outfits. Meanwhile, she likes June so much because June is obedient and plain, which makes her feel that she is dominant in the relationship. In the short story, Connie’s father is not given much description by the author, but his characterization has an effect on Connie as well. The irresponsible father spends little time with family and seldom has conversations to his daughters. When hearing his wife’s complain about Connie, he just bends his head with saying nothing, which makes Connie feels ignored and lonely. Urbanski states that “The father, who spent most of his time at work, is weak” (Urbanski 200) to reveals the father is not an active figure in his daughter’s life. Therefore, lacking of the company and communication of family members, Connie becomes upset. In addition, Connie’s sister June, who has the opposite characterization, is also one of the reasons for Connie’s rebellion. In Connie’s eyes, June is a

“We should keep in mind that, as human beings, we have always fought for a right of freedom since the beginning, and should not let “trying to fix a problem” bring in another problem. Parenting licenses take away liberty from humans. We should not go to the extreme extent to which the right to make our own choices would be taken away from us.” (Favole) It’s going to be all about choice, it is only to make sure that as a human being you’re willing and able to give the proper love and care to your child and not end up with a missing child or suicide due to the mistreatment of children by parents. The world isn’t all about you as an individual, others need more love and care then just you, you must be willing to make sacrifices for your kids and keep them happy. In The Glass Castle, the parents, Rex and Rose Mary essentially only thought about themselves, their dad tried to make the kids happy at times, but then again he also came home in a drunken fury from time to time. He would try working to make ends meets, but usually ended up wasting the money on alcohol and the mom became quite selfish when Jeannette was eating the margarine. She thought of her self over her kids, which is understandable when it comes to natural survival, but as

In the play, Hellman utilizes attention to detail for the story to come together. Through these specific descriptions, she provides the reader with context that makes the rest of the story conceivable. At the start of the play, the author gives background, including that the girls were aged “from twelve to fourteen”(Hellman, pg 8). While this detail may seem insignificant, it is impactful as it assists the reader in understanding the immaturity of the girls in the school Although there would be a general understanding of their age because they attend a school, this detail helps narrow the age down, which helps the audience to grasp why the events of the novel transpired, as some of the sophomoric girls catalyze the events that transpire by overhearing a conversation they should not have and passing the information on to Mary. Another piece of background

In this play, Amanda, wants the best for her children, but should realize that they have their own lives.

At the beginning of the play she is yearning for a new life when she says “Let this be the year we both travel”(Athrens 0), the audience gets a glimpse that she is happy Father is leaving, she is hoping she will be able to find more of her independence. However, once Mother is on her own and finds herself in the odd predicament of finding a child she exclaims“Why in Gods name is my husband not here!” (Ahrens 39) and “Where are your instructions, my dear?” (Ahrens 39), we realize she knows nothing of decision making. As the play goes on Mother keeps learning and eventually finds herself doing everything father used to do. She is no longer the exemplary symbol of what a wife with children should be. She is now an empowered woman who realizes she can accomplish a great deal more than what she had originally thought possible of

On the evening of July 27th, I attended a production of “Carrie: The Musical” based on the novel “Carrie” by Stephen King. The musical was performed by Near West Theater in Cleveland and directed by Devon Turchan. The main character who name is Carrie White is an outcast through the entire play and her entire life you learn this when the other students talk about past experiences with Carrie. The main antagonist in the play is her very own mother Margaret White. Ms.White is a very religious woman that wants to protect Carrie from the dangers in the world and even herself, very overprotective women and to what I believe very crazy. The plot is brought to life by supporting characters/actors in the play who names are Sue Nell, Tommy Ross, Chris Hargensen, Billy Nolan, Miss Gardner. The actions of all these people building up and resting on carrier shoulders throughout the play cause her to find out she has powers. The end of Act II is when everything comes together Carrie who was invited to the prom by Tommy Ross in a generous gesture that was purposed by Sue Nell. The prom was going very well and Carrie was becoming carefree and was seeing everything she missed out on. Things took things for the worse when Chris and Tommy pour pigs blood on her when she won prom queen. Carrie took all the frustration and years of bullying and the powers she found out about she burned everyone alive at the prom. When she got home she was covered in blood and was crying her very own mom took

The reader can see from this that Amanda is definitely living in the past. Another way that Amanda hides from reality is that she tries to deny anything that she does not want to accept. She denies that Laura is crippled, saying ‘Nonsense! Laura, I’ve told you never, never to use that word.’ (p 247). Amanda believes that if she denies something so much, that it will not be true. This also occurs when Laura thinks that the gentleman caller will be her high school crush, and Amanda denies that it could be, ‘It won’t be him! It isn’t the least bit likely.’ (p 278). It is in these ways that Amanda Wingfield hides from reality.