The Mamas & the Papas

learning new things and reading books. There was one thing, one person, that Elaine despised about her school. Michael Butler, the boy whose papa was the doctor for the rich people; He had a huge crush on Elaine. Although Elaine did not like him at all. Michael Butler was always bragging about his fancy house and how he could buy

relationships in the Achike family. Papa is the man of the house and shows it through the strict rules he places over his whole family and the punishments he puts down if they are not followed. Consequently, his family fears him, but also loves him deeply as he is the kids father, and Mama’s husband. As a result of this, they try to please Papa by obeying him and following his rule which is rewarded with Papa’s love, but, if someone steps out of line in the slightest way Papa punishes them unproportionately

I woke up to a raging fire on my farm and my Papa gone, and I realized things were about to change. I had all the things I wanted, and I never was grateful for these things. But when my Papa died and all of our riches were taken, we were forced into Mexican working camps. Now we were poor and had almost nothing. All those things were taken away from me. I have come to appreciate everything I have. I thought I would have riches forever, but now I realized that you shouldn't take things for granted

their experiences at Camp Manzanar. Jeanne had a very big family, and the one person who kept them together and in control was Papa. After some of the experiences that the family went through, it made them slowly distance themselves from each other. So here are some key facts to why the family structure disintegrated. Before the Wakatsuki family was moved to Manzanar, Papa was arrested for helping enemy ships off the west coast.

strictness of Papa, the exaggeration of his behavior as the central figure of the family, dominating the rest with misogynistic tendencies. Kambili has several encounters with Papa that are exaggerated in their nature, he is cruel by hurting the people around him. This is a man that sets up schedules for his teenage children, everything is organized to the hour, and if the children do not comply there will be a hurtful punishment. One specific example of his cruelty is when he punishes Mama for not wanting

teacher, at a very difficult time in history. In Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry, there were many admirable people, but this mother was the only one that stood out in particular. That person was Mama, a calm, reasoning person who was easily the most admirable person in the story. One of the qualities that makes Mama so admirable is that she fights for what she believes in no matter what. In the story RoTHMC, she is faced with the fact that a book in which her children were given, denounced their race and

Pearl Harbor, sparking a war between the two countries. While US military fight overseas in Japan for four years, young Tomi is struggling with social and racial tensions. This scene is narrated by Tomi and takes place after the war has ended when Papa and Grandpa come home from the internment camp on the mainland of the USA. I woke up to another day and grabbed my oily rag, the same oily rag grandpa used to oil the family katana, and marched out to the woods. Grandpa oiled the katana every day

The Nuclear Family: His Talk, Her Teeth When your mama was the geek, my dreamlets,” Papa would say, “she made the nipping off of noggins such a crystal mystery that the hens themselves yearned toward her, waltzing around her, hypnotized with longing. ‘Spread your lips, sweet Lil,’ they’d cluck, ‘and show us your choppers!’ ” This same Crystal Lil, our star-haired mama, sitting snug on the built-in sofa that was Arty’s bed at night, would chuckle at the sewing in her lap and shake her head. “Don’t

Pearl Harbor, Papa is arrested and brought to Fort Lincoln. He is accused of supplying oil to Japanese submarines. An unnamed investigator questions as if Papa have contact with his relatives in Japan. When being asked, Papa responde by asking the investigator, “when your mother and your father are having a fight, do you want them to kill each other? Or do you just want them to stop fighting?” After coming back, Papa is like another person. He always gets drunk. He rarely goes outside. Mama has to bring

theme was domestic violence which the Achike family and most families around the world struggle with everyday. In several parts of Purple Hibiscus, Papa attacks his wife and his children. He believes any action that his wife and/or kids enact that is morally wrong should be punished severely. For example, after Papa sees Kambili’s painting of Papa- Nnukwu, she is kicked until hospitalized.