The Key Character Mary Tyrone in Long Days Journey into Night by Eugene O´Neill

her father trusted him. It makes her sad and fearful of the power that her father possesses. She is

A major theme in this play would be pain and injuries. This happens many times throughout the play and in each scene either

The social climate in the play is very grim. No matter where you are in the play there are always characters who are suffering. This may be understood as the people in the play are representing the Indian Americans who lived on reservations all over America, and most of them went through suffering. Another social climate is the desire to escape there current situation. Eddie does not want to leave his sister alone, but he is tired of living on the reservation that he would rather be dead. Aunt Thelma tells Eddie how life could have been better if she could have escaped, and had a chance at an education. Mike dreams of leaving and being taken care of by his aunt. Even Katherine dreams of leaving the reservation to find a better place for her kids. There were many other social climates such as pain, depression, destructive habits, and lack of role models. There are no real role models in this play that the kids can look up to. Even Aunt Thelma has lost her child, so it is not the best example to live by.

Faye never took responsibly for her wrong actions. She blambed all her faults on outside sources, such as her Uncle who poisoned the family, and men in general; never herself. If Faye simply spoke of her past, apologized to Anna, and moved onto the future instead of living in the past, than this “poison” would have been stopped. But her family raised her not to speak about her mistakes. Her whole family, starting at the roots was based on secrets and living in the past. She chose to follow the family roots, in doing so she passed on the poison to her daughter Ruby and Jasmine, instilling in them the practice of keeping secrets and blaming outside sourses for bad things in their life.

The play Only Drunks and Children Tell the Truth is a historically influenced tale that focuses on themes of separated families and the mending of broken bonds. Along with author: Drew Taylor’s Ojibwe heritage, the Sixties Scoop was the historical event that inspired the play. The characters in the play are directly influenced by the Sixties Scoop which is the heart of the conflict between Janice(Grace) and Barb. Although unconventional, Grace’s random visit results in various interactions between Janice and the rest of the cast ranging from conflictuous to enlightening. Janice’s struggle to accept her Indigenous heritage and Grace’s bitterness towards Janice was only curable through the intervention of Rodney and Tonto. Tonto’s way of speaking along with his past, was the perfect catalyst for Janice to come to terms with her deceased mother and her heritage . The “Scoop” impacted Janice, Barb, and Tonto just like it impacted real families in Canada during the 60’s.

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.

In the book The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls, she talks about her family's dysfunctional ways of living. How they never stayed in a place for more than a few years. Her dad was a drunk and stole money from the family and her mom was a starving artist who didn’t want to get a job to provide for her family. Although her parents have some very poor qualities, they definitely have good qualities that balance it all out. Her dad Rex Walls; for example, was very caring and loving towards his family always trying to keep them together and make sure they had what they needed to survive. Jeannette’s mom Rose Mary was selfish to her family and though it seems like a bad trait it had taught her children to be self-sufficient. Them together were free-spirited never caring what other people thought and teaching their children to do the same.

Jeannette faced hardships because she had irresponsible parents in her early life. Her dad was a bad alcoholic and her mother was a struggling artist. Jennettes dad Rex was a bad father and we assume he came from a rough household when he was younger. For example in the book Jeannette says “as much ad dad likes to tell story about himself it's almost impossible to get him to talk about his parents or where he grew up”(Walls 26). This shows the hardships that her dad faced when growing up.# This is what we think causes

She even believes that she shares in the blame for her abuse, for she shows an apologetic attitude others (Allison 116). Through her feeling of isolation, she learns to depend on herself, especially on her imagination. She imagines herself with strength enough to fight back against Daddy Glen with “hands…a match for his” (Allison 109). She also visualizes other

A family is the most important and fundamental processes of development in childhood. There are many examples of works that deal with family. In Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, the reader sees how neglection from a family setting can invoke horrible events. In The Fifth Child by Doris Lessing, presents how Isolation and dislike can and will lead to unfortunate events. In Macbeth by Shakespeare, shows the betrayal of a family and how it affects the mind by playing with it in several different ways. Before a person can see effects of isolations, neglection, and betrayal of a family he/she must “climb into his skin and walk around in it.”

To begin with, in this play the author unfolds family conflicts that involve its characters into a series of events that affected their lives and pushed them to unexpected ways.

causing her to develop a major character flaw. Her flaw was her complete dependence on

She worships Mr. Ramsay and has the time appropriate attitude that she is not "good enough to tie his shoe strings".(P.32) As Mr. Ramsay makes demands on her, she always outwardly succumbs to his needs or desires. When he wants sympathy, she is there filling the house for him; when the children have needs, she places there needs ahead of hers. She empathizes when necessary, and does all that she can to be there for them. All this she attributes to her being a woman, as if this were the only role a woman should take, later supported in her conversations with Lily and Paul about marriage. Although she may question this philosophy inwardly, on the surface she sees this as her role, "they came to her, naturally, since she was a woman", and she is there for them.(p.32)

First of all, there was a tragic series of events that caused her to become involved in them by disrespecting her own brother. She

This play deals with a lot many themes. To cite a few: Rewriting the tale of Cinderella and Sleeping beauty, Class, language and phonetics and Independence.