Three Time's The Charm

Sandra Cisneros evokes great sympathy for her characters, which added to my favor of the story. In a first few sentences, Sandra has already revealed to the reader the poor social status of the young girls and continues to do so throughout the tale. She particularly points out their pauper way of life by repeating the small amount of toys the young girls have. She mentions all the girls could afford was "one extra outfit apiece" then one paragraph later recalls again "our one outfit apiece". Also, Cisneros touches on the "sock dress" the girls made

In the end, the two boys are faced with the grim reality that the girls have no desire for their company. This is their awakening of themselves. It shows how despair can be both disheartening and uplifting at the same time. The gifts each young man offered his love interest are not well received. No matter their efforts, both young men fail miserably in their attempts to win their respective ladies. Sammy knows what he has done will change his life forever and that nothing can change that now but, is also

All three of the boys in The Pact had the luxury of attending University High, which was a six-year public high school for those who were gifted academically. These three boys faced a deficit when attending here since their middle schools lacked the rigor these boys needed. Additionally, to attending University High, prior knowledge can also come from those who are your first teachers, for example, older siblings and parents. All three of these boys faced complicated family dynamics, but Rameck’s mother, in particular, Arlene Hunt became pregnant at seventeen which resulted in a downward spiral of her life. With that, his grandmother Ellen Bradley was able to take care of him. This experience for many learners would have resulted in following the example his mother set, but Arlene Hunt and Ellen Bradley were focused on the success of her son and grandson respectively and pushed him to do

By using these examples of the early organizing acumen of the four girls, Orleck cleverly shows the reader how their tactics began to (slowly) transcend the boundaries of gender and class

These children can be compared directly to soldiers in a war. Thoughts of uniform packs and gruff speech come to mind; even the shadow-filled courtyard through which teachers pass "quickly, as though he or she couldn't wait to get out" (72) can be imagined as a setting of a quiet war in progress. The students are all at risk for the same fate which befell Sonny's uncle. The hit-and-run incident which killed him was one of the expected casualties of the war unfolding around Sonny. Everyone knows an individual could fall at any given moment, but as was described in the livingroom scene remembered from many years ago, the hardships are not openly spoken of. Therein lies the critical error of insufficient emotional expression, which will be described later by the section dealing with jazz. As it pertains to the war scene, the lack of emotional expression is also demonstrated when Sonny's brother glimpses a barmaid going about her life at work. Sonny's brother, also the narrator of the story, watches "her face as she laughingly responded to something someone said to her, still keeping time to the music. When she smiled one saw the little girl, one sensed the doomed, still-struggling woman beneath the battered face of the semi-whore" (73). Primarily, the term "doomed" stands out most strongly. Viewed through different glasses, she could just as easily be a young soldier, lost in a land of terror, attempting to live up to the strength of a mature

Perhaps because they had “learned so much from life, from poverty, from their mothers and grandmothers” and because they had “been early awakened and made observant by coming at a tender age from an old country to a new” (Cather 127).  These girls show the readers how beneficial hard work and poverty can be to a person.  They were made strong because of the obstacles that they had overcome, and they were beautiful for this.  Jim is able to put their abstract pleasantness into words by equating them with poetry.  Somehow, the unique environment that these girls grew up under has made them into the poetry that they are.

Sammy’s assumption of others is immature and serves only as a distraction from his self-distain. He describes, in great detail, the three girls who enter

What their backgrounds were like that led them to choosing to go to Virginia Tech and what their experiences were. Each of these women appeared to get along, based on the transcripts, although they obviously had polar views about socializing and their reactions to things that stirred up some kind of emotion in them. In spite of their different personalities, they all seemed to go through their college experiences together.

She had three brothers and two sisters. As a young girl, she wasn’t taught the same as boys her own age. Her male teacher refused to teach the girls long division because of their gender. When Susan’s father, Daniel, heard about this he turned part of his home into a school for his daughters. This way, the girls could learn the basic skills the same as boys.

The girls were being in a sense oppressed and forced into a new culture that was very different from their old ways, their old culture was very instinctual and almost masculine, unkempt hair and nails, along with being taught that biting each other was a alright practice. When they were brought to the school, they were forced to wear frilly clothing that looked proper and even in some ways slightly classy, hair neat and kept, dresses or shirts. They learned how to speak properly and be quiet and behaved, as women should be. When they misbehaved they were shown videos of girls with unkempt hair and makeup, sitting at desks working while eating raw meat with onlookers looking with distaste. This being used to frighten the girls into behaving by telling them they if they did not act lady like in this culture, be silent and reserves as ladies should be, They would be rejected not only be the culture they are trying to learn but by their own

When each of the students came into detention, they each had their own identities and their own underlying issues that no one knew about. When they started to open up and grow closer with each other, their identities changed all together. They were beginning to show their real personalities within each other and at the end of the film they all embraced who they really were on the inside and who everyone else was.

In school there are many groups that can be identified within the film. It is interesting to see how five students who are all in different social groups came together at the end despite these differences. In the film, the students all get dropped off at the school to attend a Saturday detention all for various reasons. The characters in the detention were Allison Reynolds, John Bender, Claire Standish, Brian Johnson, and Andrew

Instead these two poor girls are from a mother, who is a washerwoman, and they do not know who and where their father is but rumor is that the father is in jail. So ideally the mothers of the children of middle minds with adult matters, children start thinking like adults.

The movie goes on to compare and contrast the “princess” and the “basketcase”, both seventeen year old girls who endeavor male attention, yet one is the cool crowd prom queen and the other is the loser, burnout crowd weirdo. Brian, the narrating brain, is a

The air is filled with a sweet aroma as another female student walks by. The perfume is strong and people choke and turn their heads when she walks past them. The sound of noisy flip flops coming down the hallway alerts the boy and he rises to greet his friend. When standing, he is about six feet tall and seems to be well muscled. His friend was of much the same description, only the friend is slightly less muscled and his eyes are the color of the sky on a clear day. Girls leaning against the walls and sitting in the chairs in the hallway, stare at the two young men exiting the building in which they wait. The young men pay no attention and