Yellow Raft in Blue Water

During the weeks Molly spends with Vivian, she learns a lot from Vivian. Most important, she realizes that Vivian also had a difficult childhood but was able to overcome her bad experiences and lead a happy life. Molly’s realization reflects the theme of the book: learning about the experiences

Furthermore, Amy Tan writes a wonderful short story about the complicated relationship between mothers and daughters, yet one can be enriching. The theme of “Two

The author, Marjane Satrapi, shows the details and complexities of the conflict the protagonist faced during her journey of growing up and evolving. Over all in the story the protagonist does a good job pointing out that it is a struggle before finding one’s true

Rayona is an intelligent girl, but because she moves around so much she never really gets to establish that in schools. With Christine, school played a significant part in her life growing up because of the social aspects of it. Popularity is essential to her because her brother, Lee, is popular and she wanted to be like him. Night Flying Woman was written by Ignatia Broker. The book is about her great-great-grandmother's life.

Beginning with the complexities of Ida’s family–including her nuclear family with the addition of her aunt Clara–and her social life and later relationships, the eldest-most narrator recalled her perspective of the significant events of the early-to-mid chapter of her lifetime and the outcomes of her relationships within. Almost directly after being introduced to Ida’s point of view, it is revealed that her aunt and best friend, Clara had, through the duration of her sister’s–Ida’s mother–illness, been impregnated with the child of her brother-in-law–Ida’s father. The impending child was to be Rayona’s mother, Christine. Subsequent to the news of

In the novel A Yellow Raft in Blue Water by Michael Dorris shows the three different perspectives of Rayona, Christine, and Aunt Ida with the struggle of feeling out of place and trying to belong. Rayona, Christine’s daughter, is a fifteen-year old mixed with Native and African American who is intelligent, self-reserved, and very independent but is quickly judged with her appearance. Christine had always wanted the attention from people that she never received from her mother, Aunt Ida. She tries to look for love in the wrong places which makes her feel empty later in life. Aunt Ida sacrificed her childhood to keep the family’s secret by pretending to be Christine’s mother. At her young age it was uncommon for the girls to have a child so people

The daughter is bored with her mother's dreams and lets her pride take over. She often questions her self-worth, and she decides that she respects herself as nothing more than the normal girl that she is and always will be. Her mother is trying to mold her into something that she can never be, she believes, and only by her futile attempts to rebel can she hold on to the respect that she has for herself. The daughter is motivated only to fail so that she may continue on her quest to be normal. Her only motivation for success derives from her own vanity; although she cannot admit it to herself or her mother, she wants the audience to see her as that something that she is not, that same something that her mother hopes she could be.

Being isolated from one's peers is not an easy thing to handle. Rayona spends her days alone, wondering about her mother and blaming herself for her troubles. This enhances her feelings of inadequacy. Rayona pulls inside herself by keeping her worries private. When others inquire about Ray's condition, she conceals her problems with lies. By lying she dismisses her difficulties; denies their existence to herself. Inside, she is falling apart; the stress she has to deal with brings her near to a mental collapse.

To start off, Jess’s dreams are more important than here culture, because they are who she is as a person. Jess does not simply want to be the traditional Indian girl that her parents want her to be, she wants more. Instead, Jess makes a bold decision that traditional Indian girls wouldn’t do, she chose to

She doen't think she is not a typical everyday girl she is a girl who has to move alot and everytime she moves there would always be another one who came with them so totally there were six in her family, her mom,dad,carlos,kiki,her sister nenny and herself. The house on the mango street is theirs because they don't have to pay rent or anything and everything is theirs except for the garage her dad is trying to get. Her parent lwys dreamed of having their own house where piped were running and nothing was broken and there would be three bathroom with a big yard. But the house on mango street looked small and tight. She didn't expect that but she didn't have a choice. she hopes she has the house that her parents dreamed to live

In both the Dominican Republic and America, the girl’s sexuality is oppressed by men who trick them into thinking they care. While on the Island, Sofia meets a guy who she loves more than anything. When the other sisters arrive, they realize that he is controlling her every action and thought. He tells her what to do and will not let her think for herself. Carla was exposed to a perverted man in a green car. This causes her to think that sexuality is a threat to society and a dangerous thing overall. She can’t figure out who she is because this man stripped her of her identity.

In the book “The Way I Used to Be” a teenage girl, Eden, plays a very important role, being a significant character. This story focuses on Eden’s high school experience and follows her emotions as she grows up. I can see myself in Eden as she copes with each struggle she faces. She acts with a great deal of independence through each hard time. The people Eden is surrounded by motive the way she reacts to each situation.

No one really understood her or could see what she really wanted. This story is about a girl wanting what everyone wants to fit in, but doesn’t know how to truly live.

The mother begins to rebel against tradition by taking an active role in educating and freeing herself. Through her radio, telephone and trips out with her sons she develops her own opinions about the world, the war, and the domination and seclusion of woman. She loses her innocence as a result to her new knowledge and experience.

The girl’s inner characterization resembles a coming of age character. She develops because of the action and her traits as a child are presented in contrast with her traits as a teenager. This contrast is emphasized using the third-person narrator at the beginning of