The Transition Of Adulthood : Old Age

When asked about the low point in her life, Florence talked about her first husband’s death. She talked about being a single parent and having four young kids. [frantic voice] “I had two kids who weren’t in full-day school, I didn’t know how I was going to do it emotionally, I was in shock.” She described that she got a call from the hospital in the morning. She got in the car immediately and drove over. “When I got to the hospital, the priest was in the waiting room for me. I knew he was dead.” [crossed arms] “I tried to explain death… and heaven to a five-year-old. I told her

Jane’s childhood struggle of losing her mother prepared her for her future struggles. She constantly had a church family to rely on growing up to strengthen her faith. Jane worked hard and had a good education; it was all preparing her for her later work. God strengthened her love and faith while she worked as a girls’ matron, and she displayed this love in her sacrificial death. God used Jane Haining’s life for His glory, and He prepared her for it through each stage of her life.

She sometimes thought John would no longer recognize her; it had been so long that "he would be a child beside her if she saw him now" (3). She doubts herself; she doesn't think John would recognize her but reassures herself that his love and understanding would require no explanations of her. This pride she derives from John and her children makes her "jiltings" seem more like a blessing: "It made her feel like rolling up her sleeves and putting the whole place to rights again" (3). There were still so many things she could do for her children; she didn't want to be taken yet: "that would have to wait. That was for tomorrow" (3). She was telling death, "tomorrow" not today.

Whenever she is tested with hardship, Patria either turns to her faith and becomes closer to the Lord and Christ or, does the opposite and questions her faith. “And on the third day He rose again. We were already working on the third week. Still, there were moments, like I said—resurrection gathering speed.” (Alvarez Chapter 10). Patria narrates her experience coping with her sister, husband, and son being in jail and her being left behind at home alone. She regularly quotes, “And on the third day He rose again.” (Alvarez Chapter 10), referring to Christ being crucified, dying and resurrected. Jesus was crucified, died and was resurrected in the span of three days, however for Patria, it took much longer for the resurrection to occur since it was a vital key for her family to return in order for her to be resurrected. Being separated from her son feels like death to Patria, so she perseveres as best she can while having faith in God. She has faith that he will return her son, as well as her husband and sister's back to her safely. However, she does have lapses of faith where she questions God and tells him that she has been good and does not deserve to go through such a tragedy. Patria had her family taken away from her so suddenly, it only makes sense for one to be subjected to a period of emotional trauma. The people that were once so near to her in her mentally and physically are no longer

With being a reader of the book I’m very comprehension of how life may have been during this period of time. The second concept Ann Moody strongly supported was her detailed information about her family. Towards the second and third chapter, Ann Moody gives points about her family split up. When Moody explains her family separation, she expresses her feelings on the new life Ann must adapt to. Ann Moody goes into much details on how she had to change her familiar life to one that became unpleasant to live. Ann stories mention on the moving of six different houses over a six-year time period. As the book goes on Ann focuses her story on her life while in the fourth grade and how she didn’t have the typical life as a fourth grader. Moody mentions she passed all her class and even began working at this age in order help keep food on the family table. As the author reveals information about this part of her life, it is brought to my attention while Ann is telling her story she does not show any sorrow of painful lifestyle she had to overcome as a child. I do believe Ann Moody should have

Speculative Essay: The Yellow Wallpaper Supposedly taken place in a large, beautiful, Victorian home, “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman depicts the brain of a mentally unstable human being. The woman in the story speaks to the audience about the nursery/bedroom she is in, and the people continuously come through the door. Because the narrator of the story is mentally unstable, she is an unreliable source for the reader to depend for information on.

“Mother” starts her story rather ferociously telling her husband, “I ain’t goin’ into the house till you tell me what them men are doin’ over there in the field” (Freeman, 10). Unfortunately, Adoniram Penn is building a new barn on the site set aside for her new home 40 years earlier. “Father” tells her he wants her to “go into the house...an’tend to [her] own affairs” (Freeman, 10). Mary Wilkins Freeman purposefully writes Adoniram telling Sarah her place is in the house with the children and he wants her to stay there. Freeman wants her women readers to relate to this situation of male dominance. When Sarah does finally revolt the significance of that revolt will have a deeper meaning for Freeman’s readers, they want Sarah to outwit her husband. Adoniram does not quite recognize the woman he married for who she really is. Sarah Penn was more than willing to take on the role of wife and mother as long as he fulfilled his role as provider for the family and his promise of a new house was still an option. When he went back on his word of building her home Adoniram received a glimpse of the true woman he married. When the reader looks closely at her there is a strength of character Sarah Penn cannot hide forever. Freeman writes that Sarah “looked as if the meekness had been the result of her own will, never the will of another” (Freeman, 10).

A mother’s love for her child compares to no other. Hester Prynne’s mothering abilities were challenged in the chapter, The Elf-Child and the Minister, but she did not let that deter her from fighting for her child. Mr. Wilson, a venerable pastor, cried out to Pearl “…who art thou, and what has ailed thy mother to bedizen thee in this strange fashion? Art thou a Christian child-ha? Dost know thy catechism? Or art thou one of those naughty elfs or fairies whom we thought to have left behind us…”. Mr. Wilson’s interest in the child lead Governor Bellingham, an elderly gentleman, to inquire about her religious upbringing. “Canst thou tell me, my child, who made thee?” said the Governor. Even though the girl had been informed about her heavenly father, Pearl replied that “she had not been made at all, but had been plucked by her mother off the bush of wild roses that grew by the prison door”. The Governor was astonished and quickly implied that the child should be immediately released into the control of the Puritan Magistrate. Hester, a force to be reckoned with, confronted the Governor and yelled, “God gave me the child! He gave her in requital of all things else, which ye had taken from me. She is my happiness…Pearl keeps me here in life! … Ye shall not take her! I will die first!” Her passion for the child seeped through every word spoken by herself and Mr. Dimmesdale who also defended her. Hester faced many difficulties throughout the novel but she remained strong through everything, even when her daughter was threatened to be taken from her. It takes immense strength to continue living somewhere when everything you love is imperiled and you are constantly being

Yet, she is treated poorly by Father and has little autonomy. When Father is gone, Mother finds the buried baby and decides to take responsibility for both it and Sarah, something Father never would have allowed her to do. By recognizing the hardships of others, and then becoming close with Sarah and Coalhouse, Mother simultaneously realizes her own hardships. When Father returns home, Mother stands up for Sarah and Coalhouse and, by extension, herself-the mere act of disagreeing with Father is something Mother never would have done previously. It is through advocating for others, or simply better understanding them, that Mother gains her own

During Rowlandson’s narrative, the mood had multiple shifts such as her shift from grateful and remorseful to a tone of fear and worry. The image of a person being “chopped into the head with a hatchet...lying in their blood” (Rowlandson 2) was etched into Rowlandson’s brain and made her question her commitment to the lord as well as God’s love for her. Her ability to question the bible and test her own faith showed her ideas to be contradictory to other women at this time. The average puritan women believed that women should be seen and not heard and especially not write their own book. Though her hardships caused her to question her faith, in a way, her faith was the only thing she could hang on to when her youngest child died of sickness. Her faith

After hitting rock bottom Margery attempted to commit suicide. She then had had a vision of Jesus Christ where he asked her “Daughter, why have you forsaken me, and I never forsook you (Kempe 426)?”. This changed Margery’s entire perspective and she was once again a sane woman. Getting back in sync with the rest of the world, Margery started a brewing and milling business which eventually failed. As Margery’s devotion to Christ grew, she began making changes to her life such as going to church more often, fasting, and deciding to live chastely.

After May 1693, there was small colonial family, Meredith Pope and Abagail Pope this family had long for a child. Until one day, a child was born and her name become known as Cassandra Pope. When the child was born, her beauty shine with gleaming of the blue oceans. Even the smile of this baby could light a person’s heart on flames. In Abagail Pope’s last breath, she experience the final moments of true happiness with the little baby girl shall never know in this life. Meredith Pope will raise his daughter in the most noble of Christian values to become a good woman. When about four years old, Cassandra Pope began to felt her head start throbbing with agony pain. She could not understand the pain that came upon her frailty

She didn’t get a response but she knew that Susan had heard her and would eventually come out. As Mary sat on her wooden bench waiting for her daughter to bring out next load of laundry, she was distracted by her ashen, blistered hands. It wasn’t uncommon for Mary to lose herself gazing at her hands. The rough, marred skin was the only physical account of all the works she had done over her life. She was making a note to put some balm on her hands after she finished for the day and simultaneously reminiscing about a scar she had gotten from harvesting tobacco as a little girl when she heard a rustling at the gate.

In “I Stand Here Ironing” talks about a young mother experiences the struggle of raising her daughter Emily. In result of being a young mother, she was not there for Emily because of money circumstances to provide for her daughter. As Olsen states,” She was a miracle to me, but when she was eight months old I had to leave her daytimes with the woman downstairs to whom she was no miracle at all, for I worked or looked for work and for Emily’s father, who “could no longer endure” (he wrote in his good‐by note) “sharing want with us.” I was nineteen.” (300) The narrator had no other choice but to leave Emily with a caregiver because she had to work and provide for her. This brings a distance between mother and daughter. This is still an issue today where young mothers can’t bond or be stable with their child for various reasons: being a single mother, financial burdens, because their significant other has left so they become the provider for the

Tracy remembers vividly collapsing into her husband’s arms while weeping at the loss of another child. She began to harbor feelings of inadequacy as a woman and wife and felt as though she was being punished for past sins. In her moments of doubt, Tracy could not understand why God allowed her such agony. She felt she had grown