Waking Up Naomi: Chapter Summary Of Chapters

The video, Eyes on the Prize: Awakenings, gives an influential look into the beginning of the civil rights movement. It shared many different events that helped bring about the movement and eventually caused that Black society would have the same or similar rights as the White’s. The main events that took placed happened in the southern states, particularly in Alabama. In the US blacks were segregated and were not allowed the same rights or privileges as the white race. They also were of the poorer class and that made it harder for them to have a voice in specific matters. However, it was very strict in the south and almost everything has either a black or white section. As time passed blacks began to show small acts of courage of standing up for themselves and demanding equality.

In The Awakening, Kate Chopin creates a protagonist that clearly demonstrates a feminist. The protagonist, Edna Pontellier seeks more from life than what she is living and starts to refuse the standards of the society she lives in. Edna has many moments of awakening resulting in creating a new person for herself. She starts to see the life of freedom and individuality she wants to live. The Awakening encourages feminism as a way for women to obtain freedom and choose individuality over conformity. Chopin creates a feminist story that shows a transformation from an obedient “mother-woman” to a woman who is willing to sacrifice her old life to become independent and make an identity for herself.

Rachel, as well as Papa and the Boy, experience many traumatic confrontations that cause them to cherish their loved ones. In The Girl Who Fell from the Sky, Rachel’s parents die causing her to change. She exclaims, “Aunt Loretta brushes my hair each morning... the same way Mor did” (Durrow 11). Rachel refers to her mother as Mor because it is the danish word for mom. She believes Aunt Loretta is like a mom to her and she loves her for it. She compares Loretta to her mother because she is attempting to fill the emotional hole that her mom made when she died. This hole has caused Rachel to appreciate all of the great things in her life such as her extended family as if they were her direct family. In The Road, Papa and the Boy are traversing

Even when her husband passes away, she does not break down into hysteria; she grieves quietly: “The language of her grief is silence... Over the years, silence within her small body has grown large and powerful” (Kogawa, 14). Despite her lack of words, Obasan is a source of love and steadfast support for her niece Naomi and her nephew Stephen. When their parents disappear, Obasan steps in, never hesitating to bear the weight of caring for the abandoned children. She feeds them, clothes them, and ensures their well-being under impossible circumstances. Her commitment to them never falters, even when they neglect her. Stephen repeatedly treats Obasan with impatience and rudeness. Regardless, Obasan constantly puts the needs of others before her own. Her actions are aimed at making the people around her happy. Obasan does everything in her power to ensure that her niece and nephew find a place for themselves in the world and Naomi takes comfort in her gentleness and dependability. Despite her silence, Obasan is a focal point of the narrative and at the center of the main character Naomi’s life.

China and Jeremy with a dream so big and suddenly this huge occurrence disaster in their life made the choice they regret for years to come. “I want to see our daughter’s grave.” That froze him inside. He tried to picture her—her now, China, the love of his life—and he couldn’t. What did she look like? What was her face like, her nose, her hair, her eyes and breasts and the slit between her legs? He drew a blank. There was no way to summon her the way she used to be or even the way she was in court, because all he could remember was the thing that had come out of her, four limbs and the equipment of a female, shoulders rigid and eyes shut tight, as if she were a mummy in a tomb. Jeremy nor China did not want the outcome of the situation. It was unexpected result of in fact this two couple never thought this could happen to them. The fact that they held in their mind a bright future both going to college and finishing what they started at high school, they did not have any alternatives beside

For while the men are looking actively for the "smoking gun," the women are confronted with more subtle clues in spite of themselves and even try to hide from each other what they intuitively know. But they do not fool each other for long, as Glaspell describes, "Their eyes met - something flashed to life, passed between them; then, as if with an effort, they seemed to pull away from each other" (295). However, they cannot pull away, for they are bound by a power they do not even comprehend: "We all go through the same things -  it's all just a different kind of the same thing!...why do you and I understand? Why do we know - what we know this minute?" (303). They do not realize that it is intuition they share, that causes them to "[see] into things, [to see] through a thing to something else...." (294). Though sympathetic to Minnie Wright, the women cannot deny the damning clues that lead them to the inescapable conclusion of her guilt.

Social expectations have haunted people across the timeline, however, have changed as life has progressed. Today, women specifically may be labeled by their body size or the way they speak, being cast out of society and even being subjected to physical and/or emotional abuse. On the contrary, in the nineteenth century women faced harsh discrimination by white men that objectified them and forced them to submit to their husbands and tend to their every need. Today, women would never face to live in such an animalistic way, however many found themselves fulfilling the role without protest and enjoying the simplicity of such a life back in the 1800s. Edna Pontellier, however, refused to be one of these obedient women, deciding to instead

In Chopin’s novel, The Awakening, she writes about a woman’s desire to find and live fully within her true self during the 1890s in Louisiana. The woman, Edna Pontellier, is trying to find herself in the masculine society of Louisiana, leading her to cause friction with friends, family and the Creole society. Edna begins to feel a change; she begins to feel like a whole person with wants, interests and desires. She learns that she is not comfortable with being a wife and mother. The imagery of the parrot in the cage in Chopin’s novel is being compared to Edna because it represents Edna’s unspoken feelings and imprisonment. The sense of unspoken feelings and imprisonment of Edna causes her to put her own needs before her family. As Edna finds herself trying to satisfy the Creole society, she begins to feel isolated and confused. Through Edna’s trace of freedom, she begins to undergo a transformation of self, slowly straying away from society, and taking control over her own actions and beliefs. Through obstacles to Edna’s freedom, she learns that she does have control of her own body. The symbolism of the birds and the sea is used to symbolize Edna’s struggle for independence.

While each proses a serve of justice and determination to do the right thing; the men approach the crime scene emotionless, indifferent and determined to go in and get to the bottom of the mystery as quick as possible, and push aside the little details. Little do they know that the things they are putting off could be very essential to their case? For example, in a conversation between the attorney and Mr. Hale who remarks, “..I said to Harry that I didn’t know as what his wife wanted made such a difference to John..” who was interrupted by the attorney in mid conversation and interjects, “Let’s talk about that later, Mr. Hale. I do want to talk about that, but tell now just what happened when you got to the house.” (1127) Meanwhile, while the men are out on their hunt for clues, the women stay in the kitchen to look through Mrs. Wright’s things and discuss a motive for why she killed her husband. Glaspell proposes a plan that by looking deeper into circumstances, you may in turn fully understand its true meaning; leaving no stone left unturned.

Kate Chopin’s The Awakening is an artfully written romance novel that takes place during the nineteenth century off the coast of Louisiana. The main character- Edna Pontellier- is put into what would be considered typical circumstances: being viewed as property by her husband, fills her empty days with social visits and the arts, and is a mother. Besides these regularities, Edna Pontellier is unique for her time period. Edna does not necessarily love her children, even views them as a hindrance, nor does she truly love her husband. Edna likes to be her own individual as if born in the wrong century, she strives for the freedoms that her society and life situation do not make available to her. Robert Lebrun- a dear friend of Edna- is the one person that she truly loves in her life. Unfortunately, while Robert’s emotions match Edna’s, he does not know how to properly act in response to them. Conflicted, Robert runs away to Mexico in order to avoid confronting his feelings and leaves Edna lost and heartbroken. During Robert’s absence, Edna’s pull to him does not disappear, rather she finds herself leaving her husband and making her own salary by selling her artwork. Robert, however, does return to Edna only to leave once more leaving only a note to say goodbye. Ultimately, Edna kills herself in response to Robert’s actions.

The first time Edna and Madame Reisz met was at a social gathering, the peace that Madame started playing was titled “solitude”. Edna was sobbing after the first note and after the song was over they started talking. This lead to end of summer and then both went back to homes, Madame told Edna to come visit her if she ever wanted to and that she did. Madame Reisz’s apartment is a setting that was kind of a safehouse for Edna. She would go there if the world got to overwhelming to her, Madame was a wise women who Edna idolized. She never married, never had children, she held her beliefs close, and she went against society's role as a woman. Madame Reisz’s place in her life was to be a life mentor to Edna; whenever she had no idea what to do

In the beginning of the book, Arnold started off feeling a bit hopeless in a way. Up to chapter 14 Arnold began to be more confident about his abilities. An example of Arnold feeling hopeless is on page 13 where Arnold says “It sucks to be poor, and it sucks to feel that you somehow deserve to be poor…” In that paragraph he was feeling hopeless about his life on the rez. An example that describes Arnold being more confident is on page 45 when he decides to transfer to Reardan “‘I want to go to Reardan,’ I said”. Even though he knew he was going to be discriminated, he took the chance to a better future. It’s important that he does this because he’s doing what he has to do to achieve his dreams. What helps Arnold make his decision is when his

I think most of the passages reflect the main key in the chapter. The most important point to remember from this chapter is your free to be faithful and belief in whatever you want to believe in. In passage “free to be faithful” page 19, it states “freedom is an important dimension of faith. No one should force us to have faith.” I think this quote is very important from the passage. The second most important passage is “faith and the mind”. Faith makes us question ourselves and things around us. Human beings are naturally curious, we want to know why, what, and how things work. “faith drives us to get at the root of things”. The third important passage is “faith and the heart” page 13, faith isn’t all about what we think, it’s about heart

Through character development, the story also portrays the theme of escaping the past. Sethe’s actions are influenced heavily by her dead child, Beloved. When the “human” form of Beloved arrives while sleeping

In these few chapters, we get to know the true story of what happened to Annabel at the party. She starts to think about it when she hears rumours that Emily slept with Sophie's boyfriend Will Cash. She hears two girls from the model agency while she is preparing for the Fashion Show talk about it. She tries to ignore it but she can’t. She sees Emily when she arrives to the show and she looks terrible everyone starts to look at Emily but Annabel doesn’t say anything. She knows what type of guy Will is and he isn’t a good one. She remembers that summer night when Sophie, Emily and her were still best friends. Emily and Sophie were together almost the whole night because Sophie wasn’t feeling like doing anything because of a fight that she had with Will a couple of nights before.