Remy Star is a bright young lady on her way to college with a very bright future ahead of her, but when things don’t go her way and she finds herself falling in love with some she said she would never even take a second glance at, that’s when she realized she’s changed, and all she can think is it for the better? Having to do all of the dirty work, and deserve no credit isn’t something that Remy Starr liked to do. Remy, the protagonist of “This Lullaby” by Sarah Dessen and I are alike in many ways. We both share the same view of the world, are viewed by the world in similar ways and I would respond in a comparable way to the central conflict of the novel. Therefore, I believe given the chance, we could be friends.
Remy Starr is a very smart and intelligent person, she is finally excited to go on her own to college and explore what the world really has to offer without anyone holding her back. Remy’s views on the world can be harsh sometimes, for example Remy has had to grow up with a mom who’s is about to get married for the fifth time, she has had no real love for the world. She views the world and her mom as a test that she needs to do good by and pass. Remy says “My mother thinks I know everything. But she’s wrong.” (pg 4) This shows that Remy really
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She always has to watch her own back because no one was ever there to do that for her when she was little. After reading “This Lullaby” it’s very clear to me that Remy views the world like she did when she was younger. Yes her mom bosses her around, but she acts like she can’t talk to her or stand up for herself. From the start to the end of the book she just wants to be free already, and she thinks college will help set her free from her mom and when she find out it doesn’t she thinks the world is out to get here. She still follows her mother’s orders like an assistant. But she will soon grow up and realize the world is changing and she needs
She realizes that the person she was as she is growing up is not who she must become as a mature youth and adult. She envisions a good life for herself and accepts that she has every right to live that life she desires. Though the Walls parents have done many wrongs to Jeannette there is one life lesson that they have instilled into her. They have empowered Jeannette with the energy and hunger to have the best education that she can obtain. ” I’ve always believed in the value of a good education” (Walls 265).
In the short story “Lullaby” by Leslie Marmon Silko, nature is an evident theme. Nature is a very important part of Native American culture and it heavily influences their beliefs. “Lullaby” is a story about a Native American woman named Ayah. Ayah goes through many hardships and uses nature to get through these traumatic events. Nature is a significant part of the story because Ayah finds comfort within it, nature is symbolic throughout the story and Ayah receives closure from nature when Chato perishes.
Throughout the novel, the readers have the ability to follow along Jeanette’s life story. She deals with her distracted yet present parents. They remind her of the important lessons in life. One of the most important lessons that Jeannette learns is that life will eventually work in the end and if it still isn't working that just means it is not the end
Whiskey Lullaby is a song sung by Brad Paisley (ft. Alison Krauss) which narrates the story of a soldier coming back from war to find his wife in bed with another man. After this, the man drinks away his life trying to escape the pain until he commits suicide. Then the song continues to talk about how the woman follows down the same path after hearing about his death. In the end of the song they both get buried next to each other which symbolizes how they are finally together. The audience for this country song is those who have served or who have had family members serve. The unexpectedness of how life will figure itself out when the soldiers return. Also, how hard it is for families when their loved ones are out fighting, and they are
Her Mother seemed to be more put together than her father at times, even getting a job at one point helping the family out. Though her mother was a hedonist and did not contain the motherly love and sacrifice for her kids, this job helped Jeanette’s future. She helped grade papers which increased her knowledge of the outside world and “...the world was making a little more sense” as she read the papers and projects of her mother’s students (Walls 205). Her parents had such an opposition to the outside world that she hadn’t gotten every aspect of
Connie does not have any control over what people do to her, however, the criticism she takes from her mother whenever she compares her to her sister June combined with her mother’s insults gives Connie a low self-esteem and insecurity about herself; she thinks she is “less worthy” because of this and makes her think her beauty is everything, that she is nothing without it.
However, with her alcoholic dad who rarely kept a job and her mother who suffered mood swings, they had to find food from her school garbage or eat expired food they had previously when they had the slightest bit of money. In addition, when bills and mortgage piled up, they would pack their bags and look for a new home to live in, if they could even call it a stable home, since they would be on the move so often. Jeanette needed a dad who wouldn’t disappear for days at a time, and a mom that was emotionally stable, but because she didn’t have that, she grew up in an environment where she would get teased or harassed for it. Jeanette suffered so much, that even at one point, she tried convincing her mother to leave her father because of the trouble he had caused the family already. A child should be able to depend on their parents for food and to be there for them when they need it, and when that part of a child’s security is taken away, it leaves them lost and on their own, free and confused about what to do next.
Connie’s parents, who choose to isolate themselves from their daughter, tremendously impact Connie's development. Throughout Connie’s journey she is often isolated. A large part of this is due to Connie's relationship with her mother. Whenever Connie
Lauren, a fifteen-year-old female, who is self-sufficient, influential, and independent. She envisions the future by planning for possible dangers, learns how to survive out of her gated community, takes initiative of her life, creates an emergency pack, and is well-prepared to leave in any circumstances. Lauren is also tremendously mature for her age. She knows how to read and write, cook and sew, able to shoot guns, and is a potential leader.
Marie developed an independent personality early on and rarely relied on her family for help. She was accustomed to collecting her school records from one school and enrolling her-self in the next school. A particular principle stands out in her memory, by looking at her records, which were from Texas, he told her that he was going to hold her back a year as the Texas school system was behind the Pennsylvania school system. This made Marie very angry because she sure didn’t want anyone to think she had failed. So she bargained with the principle, asking him to let her be in the grade she should be in and if she couldn’t do the work
1. In the novel, The Glass Castle, fire plays an important role. Not only does fire play a physical part in Jeannette Walls’ life, but it also plays a mental role. In the way beginning of the novel, Jeannette explains an incident she had as a child.
Going from a small, outdated neighborhood, to a prestigious town seems like the dream. Think about everything you’d get handed over to you. Well, it turns out, that’s a false statement and fifteen-year-old Isabelle Scott expresses this throughout the beginning of her transition. More commonly known as Izzie, Isabelle loves her life by the boardwalk on the supposed wrong side of the tracks in North Carolina. But when tragedy strikes, a social worker sends her to live with a long-lost uncle and his preppy privileged family.
In The Hate U Give, we are introduced to our protagonist Starr who is a 16 year old that is trying to figure out the struggles of high school. She lives in a ‘ghetto’ part of town and goes to private school in another town. She is trying to figure out the struggles of growing up and becoming her own person which include, dating a white man that she hides from her dad, feeling out of place, trying to be friends with the mean girl in school, and isn’t sure who she can trust.
Throughout the story there are several aspects of the Protagonist’s character that play a major role in the shaping of her future. During her childhood she
In the first stanza it is the semantic field of water: ‘waters’ (twice), ‘sea’, ‘drowning’ and ‘being drawn’. As I mentioned earlier, water is often the symbol of life but it also evokes tears, sadness and despair.