In the film Girlhood by Liz Garbus we are introduced to two young girl’s named Megan and Shanae, who committed a crime and are getting help through a facility that helps young girls reflect on their actions. Both Megan and Shanae share similar viewpoints for example, they mention that their role model is their mother. They also added that daughters need to be with their mothers. Both girls are following the development of gender roles which states that socialization leads girls to identify with traditional female roles where nurturing and caring are reinforced. Shanae got nurtured and follows everything her mom says because she wants to be just like her as she as growing up. Megan says her mom is her role model, but she doesn’t want to be like her because she wants to be someone in the future and not a drug addict.
This book is a memoir so it is all about Ashley’s life in the foster care program. Each chapter talks about the hardships she went through at all the different foster homes. Ashley was taken into foster care when she was only three years old. She was in 14 different homes in a total of nine years. She had a brother, Luke that was also in the foster care program with her. They were separated multiple times, but always ended up at the same foster home together. It was not until Ashley was adopted that they were separated for good. Ashley’s mom was in prison multiple times, she was also a drug addict. She had visitation rights, but her visitations were always supervised. At these visitations she always promised Ashley that she was going to turn her life around, and get both her and Luke back. It never happened; as a result, Ashley had a lot of trust issues and a hard time believing people actually cared for her. Ashley was adopted and had a tough first couple of years adjusting to having a family. It wasn’t until about the end of the book where she finally got used to having a real family.
Lastly, Haley was extremely patient. Haley would often come home to her house torn apart, her father drunk or doing drugs or news that her father was out of another job. After dealing with all these things Haley never once yelled at him or got upset with him. She would clean up his mess and help him to bed, and sometimes even stay up all night to listen to him talk about what's going on inside his head. She never forced him to tell her anything, she always waited until he was ready for her to know. Patient is one of the most important traits a caregiver could
In conclusion, James McBride laid his story out in a unique way to best show the ups and downs of his mother’s life. He displayed a story from two different points of view, while still keeping an orderly structure in tack. He perfectly showed how his mother evolved as a person through characters with powerful personalities. McBride may not have displayed the same structural organization others would have, but he chose what he thought was best and worked to share an inspiring life
There are many reasons why James’s mother helped the society and her family more than James did. The first one is founding a church. Without this church, her children would not have had the life they had. This church helped them clean up their religion, and clean up the way they have lived. In the book, Mrs. McBride opened up a church on a inferior side of town. She gave hope to the community that God would be there for them even in their darkest moments.
The term "role model" may evoke images of superheroes, celebrities, or famous athletes. Positive role models are needed to give humans some type of direction in life, but what about a negative role model? A negative role model can be just as helpful as a so-called “positive” role model. It can be useful to look at an unpropitious person and use him or her as an example of what you do not want to become. The House on Mango Street, written by Sandra Cisneros, allows the reader to realize what a negative role model can teach. The main character Esperanza has a variety of role models in her life, some favorable and some unfavorable. Many are trapped in abusive relationships, waiting
To begin with, a role model is hardworking. Erin’s dad had to overcome many obstacles in his early life. “He was not from the richest family and had many financial issues. He also had to experience many of his close family members dying. As he grew older, he was able to build himself a career and become
Lastly, having Chris McCandless as a role model to a change in society should be known an honored. If we can get people today not to depend on such dire need of technology sights for people to see will open up to minds that there is a whole other world more then technology can make. McCandless didn’t like how citizens lived with little to no risk, and how one really took a deeper to whats beyond the door to your risk. There are many other portions of the world that are worth seeing. McCandless climbed Mt. McKinley and saw what its like to see the world in a different angle. Learning from McCandless its like being taken back to the Indians where they didn’t have technology to help themselves they did it on their own. McCandless went on a outstanding,
Ellen Foster by Kaye Gibbons is the story of a young white girl, Ellen, who shares her life experiences over the course of two years. In that time, both of Ellen’s parents pass away, she moves multiple times to temporary homes until she finally finds a safe welcoming place in a foster home. Ellen’s story is rich because it is told in first person narrative and the readers are given context not only to what Ellen is experiencing, but context of the environment she is experiencing it in. To better understand and analyze Ellen, we can view Ellen, and everyone and everything in the novel from a biopsychosocial and systems perspective.
It gives a positive message to other foster care children. This book tells them that when they had a sad and devastating life that they need to have faith and trust in the Lord that he will find them a loving and supportive family like Hollis. Apart from her foster care families and God of course, Hollis Woods has no family to love and support her.
They refuse to pamper the kids, and instead teach they love teaching the kids on how to overcome challenges they might face in the adult-world head-on. Another great example of this is when Rose Mary tells Jeannette why they should not feed the animals and how they, “...were actually doing the animals a favor by not allowing them to become dependent,” furthermore, she says that if they, “...ever had to leave, they'd be able to get by on their own." While Jeannette Walls might not have thought anything about what her mom said, this is a perfect example that shows her views on raising her kids. While she may take care of them, she expects them to be independent and not to rely on others, or her. Their parenting reminds me of a book I once read online, on a website called Wattpad. For the life of me, I do not remember the name but the main character’s foster parents were like that. They took care of them for the money, and provided the basic necessities, such as food, a roof over their heads and education. However, they had to either earn their own money and buy whatever else they wanted or
Everyone needs someone to lead them down the right path and to teach them about the “real world”. For example, The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd is about a 14 year old girl named Lily who runs away from home with her black “nanny” Rosaleen. Looking for more information on her mother, Deborah, they end up in Tiburon, South Carolina at the Boatwright sisters’ house. August, May, and June Boatwright allow Lily and Rosaleen to stay so they can earn some money and during their stay May teaches Lily some very important life lessons. May is a pivotal character because she helped Lily’s development by teaching her that the world is an unjust and unpredictable place and that there are always positive outcomes that come out of suffering.
Experiencing further unstable environments, these children are forced to move from one foster home to another. They rarely develop meaningful relationships and constantly endure lack of care and protection by adults. Sabreen, another gifted student, was able to excel in school despite her unstable environments. She, too, became a ward of the county battling to find a stable home, constantly being placed in unstable environments, environments that do not encourage any achievement. When her situation becomes untenable, she goes AWOL, like Olivia, refusing to return to county supervision. Corwin masterfully frames the problem that wards, like Olivia and Sabreen, face when they feel that going back into the system is not an option. The additional struggles can be seen through Olivia and Sabreen accepting jobs with long hours in order to make enough to pay their bills. The responsibility on taking care of themselves financially detracts from their studies, which quickly can become a vicious, never-ending cycle.
However, in most poverty stricken families in America, most of these children give up in life and drop out of school (Brooks-Gunn Jeanne and Duncan 60). In addition, most of them even end becoming street children and later on join gangs in the streets and are introduced to drugs which later on turn them into criminals. A good example from the story is Maureen. She was defiant and only found solace in drugs and running away from home and the ultimate outcome was that she ended up in a mental hospital. What happened to Maureen in the story is what happens to many American children living in poverty. Jeannette and her other siblings endured hunger, bullying and poverty in their family with the hope that they were going to become great in future. The children in the family cared for each other and they strived to be successful, which they did, except for Maureen who never accepted to be
In the memoir Three Little Words by Ashley Rhodes-Courter, Ashley did an outstanding job at showing me the challenges of foster care that I was not aware of. Throughout the whole memoir, Ashley has difficult things thrown at her that a girl her age shouldn’t and wouldn’t have known how to handle on her own. Ashley was taken away from her mother at only 3 years old, spending almost 10 years inside Florida’s foster care and was shuffled between 14 different homes, some quite abusive, before she was adopted at age 12 from a Children’s Home.