Ramona and Her Father

desk's surface. Ramona stood arrogantly in Preston's shadow alongside David. She seemed to find his tattling state of affairs somewhat amusing, and yet, the condescending manner in which she postured against David projected a measure of contempt. He stood somberly under the microscope covered in a repugnant dry soil that still emitted the odors of the South Carolinian marshland. Ramona lightly blew her freshly painted fingernails while she peered over them at David. Sensing her unforgiving gaze

Cece Brown was not scared, not even a little. She was a very strong girl, people had often thought, but even now they expected her to be at least a little nervous. Cece was standing at the edge of a group of witches and wizards, her face wiped of any emotion she may feel inside. As the people of the group sometimes neared her, she would glare at them, her eyes piercing into theirs; a silent declaration to say, “I do not like you.” The underground compound of the WWA she was in was decorated

character, MARY3, a talking doll who was programmed to retrieve and recite information from passed experiences that are appropriate for the user’s feelings. MARY3 was first introduced to Ramona, who was a young girl who needed help interacting with people because she was raised in solitude. Stephen Chinn, father to Ramona and known as the computer programmer in Speak. When Stephen Chinn was first mentioned in the

young teenager experienced many challenges. She loses her father, her home, and everything she has ever known even almost her mother! However, following the example of her mother and grandmother, Esperanza is able to adapt to and succeed in the changing world around her. Esperanza and her life can be greatly compared to a rose. At the beginning of the book, esperanza's life was perfect. She had a loving father, a thoughtful grandmother, and her brave mother. She had money and endless land. This can

shift on the midst of describing Moses' memories of Sono: "She went to run the water. He heard her singing as she sprinkled the lilac salts and bubble-bath power. I wonder who's scrubbing her now." (173). In one place the narrator goes so far as to switch to the first person in the middle of a sentence for no immediately clear reason. After he has arrived on Martha's Vineyard, his host Libbie, and her husband Sissler are caring for him, "Sissler was trying to make Moses feel at home - I must seem

away from them. Then one day when he was coming home from school, he saw a note on the table in his kitchen and saw that it was from his mom. She didn’t want to live in a privileged lifestyle that beats on her conscience when other people were suffering. She trashes his dad’s computer as well as hers, giving the chapter its name. And she took Jimmy’s altered skunk Killer, which made him angry because that was the only creature he had ever loved. Then she escaped from the compound without any

assimlation in the Uinted States. Through the eyes of Esmerlda, the reader is taken on a journey of family, conflct, lanuage boundaries, assmilation, dreams and sacfrice, which everyone can relate to in their lives. Summary Esermerlda Santigo, recalls her life in Puerto Rico and

section, we finally learn Snowman’s real name is Jimmy. He starts of recalling memories from the past like that he burnt his hair with his mom’s lighter. The second section is titled Inorganic Farms. In Organic Farms, is where Jimmy’s father worked. Jimmy’s father is an important person because he contributed to the “pigeon project”. The pigeon project was when human organs were used for transplantation. This section ends with Jimmy’s luxurious childhood home being described. The final section of

Viridiana's hesitant visit to her aged uncle, Don Jaime, it becomes apparent that she cannot bring herself to be thankful for her uncle's generosity in sponsoring her education in the convent and does not consider herself indebted to him in any capacity. Her thanklessness, while justified, unequivocally results in the Don Jaime's suicide. The ultimate actions of the supplicants is a clever manifestation of parallelism mirroring Viridiana's own forthcoming gratitude for her uncle. Viridiana's mode of

the woman’s role. The work of Rubin was mainly focused on the “traditional” mothers and hat she handled the MRA from the acceptance point of when women is pregnant to the one month postpartum. Building on the foundation created by Rubin, Ramona Mercer studies revolving around women of all the experiences and the entire age groups developed the practice-oriented theory of MRA (Mercer, 1981, Mercer, 1985). Mercer’s work is an expansion of that of Rubin’s timeframe for the point of view of