Amy and Desi meet up in a casino for the first time in many years, and through Amy’s reactions with Desi her true intentions with him are revealed. When they first see each other, Amy smiles and hr eyes light up, she seems genuinely happy to see him. However, Amy starts immediately lying to Desi. She goes into an elaborate story about how Nick beat her and killed her unborn baby. She is clearly trying to make Desi pity her, and the fact that she is lying suggests that she is manipulating Desi. She has her hands on her eyes, crying, while she tells her fictitious tale of woe, when Desi reveals that Nick visited him in an attempt to find Amy. When Amy hears that piece of information, she immediately stops her crying and breaks from this facade …show more content…
She snoops around the house, and pays special attention to the cameras in the house. Her fixation on the cameras compounded with the the fact that Amy is known for her incredibly complex, ingenious plans to frame people, serve as signs that she may be creating a new plan involving the cameras. As she continues her diligent observation, Desi walks in the door and catches her off guard. She quickly and violently turns around and barks, “Don’t do that!” to Desi in a tone of voice that she has never been even close to using during her time with him. Throughout her stay, she has talked in a very quiet and meek tone of voice which perfectly match her narrative as an abused wife. However, in this moment, she once again has a momentary lapse and breaks the “character” she is playing because she is caught off guard. Her tone of voice when she yells at Desi is stern, angry, and decisive, all adjectives to describe what Amy is truly like. So, Pike in doing this quick change in voice, she gives evidence that Amy is not who she claims to be, and shows what Amy is truly …show more content…
He says that he has taken himself to the “woodshed” which is a reference to the woodshed that she is using to implicate Nick in her “murder.” When Amy hears this word, she nearly chokes a little on her ice cream and a smile goes across her face. Pike’s acting decision to choke and smile in this scene is way to emphasize how Amy is surprised, but also in a twisted way, happy that Nick says this in the interview. Amy and Nick are a very kinky couple to say the least, and Amy’s reaction to his reference seems to get her off in a strange way. Then, later on in essentially the climax of his interview, Nick puts two fingers on his chin and tells Amy that he loves her. The fingers on the chin is a long time inside joke between Nick and Amy, and again, through Amy’s facial expressions it is clear that these words and gestures by Nick have effected her. Throughout the course of this interview, it is very clear that Nick is just trying to appeal to Amy and get her to come home so he can avoid a jail sentence. Through Amy’s reactions to the interview, it is apparent that she is taking the bait. The last things that happen during this scene is that Desi shuts off the TV after the interview is over. As soon as he does that, Amy proceeds to pick up an Ipad. This is one final emphasis of how much this interview meant to Amy. She picking up an Ipad as soon as the TV was shut
At the beginning of the story, Amy is a gangly and awkward pre-teen, not caring what others think, playing in mud, and painting on her skin with the blue clay from the creek. As summer comes to an end, Amy stops dressing in her grungy t-shirts and cut off jean shorts, and more like her popular preppy friends at school, as it is more important to her that she wears what her friends wear, rather than what she likes to wear. At school, all of her friends’ names end with an “i”, so hers changes to
Ellen just felt a distant sadness. Ellen cried just a little bit. Her grandmother was furious because Ellen showed some emotions. She told her to never cry again. After that Ellen becomes scarred for a long time.
She explains to the community that the current cycle that her father and the adults created is not going to work out forever. While under the current cycle, many outsiders snuck their way inside the community and stole money and food. Not only that, the watchers noticed that the thieves carried guns. She mentions to the crowd about her recurring nightmares where she is levitating and flies toward the door of her room.
He wasn’t happy being with her anymore. He had cheated on Amy with one of his students at a college, and fell in love with her. Amy found out and soon wanted revenge on him. She decided that she would frame Nick for murdering her. “...I began to think of a different story, a better story, that would destroy Nick for doing this to me. A story that would restore my perfection…” (Flynn 234). She had and stole Nick’s money, left presents for him all over town, and staged a “crime scene” in their living room. When Nick went to the police, they were already suspicious. Nick’s sister Margo realizes what she’s doing and states “She’s keeping Nick running in circles, she’s amusing herself. I’m sure she was happy just knowing what a guilt trip it must be for Nick to be reading all these sweet notes…” (Flynn 256). While Amy was hiding out and enjoying herself, “She was gone, yet she was more present than anyone else” (Flynn 214). Nick would’ve never thought she was willing to go to such great lengths to get back at him. He never really knew her at all, it
When she first invites Michael to sleep in her home, she does so instinctively--then later wonders to her husband whether he'll steal something. She tells off her friend for suggesting there's something inappropriate about having a "large, black boy" sleep in a house with her teenage daughter, then goes home and asks her daughter if
This suggests that he would rather die than not be near. Emily. Similarly, Nick speaks like a courtly lover when he woos. Alison. He states ‘lemman, love me al atone, or I wol dyen, also God.
In The After is about a girl named Amy who is surviving in a post-apocalyptic world of Floraes (or as she calls them at the beginning, Them.), throughout the book she is faced with a number of conflicts, with the Floraes, other survivors/people, and even herself at times. Some of those conflicts are having to adapt to living in the After, dealing with the Floraes, how more than likely all her loved ones are dead, keeping herself and Baby alive, etc. These conflicts slowly shape her from how she is at the beginning of the book to the end of the book, and show the ranges of reactions she has to these situations, which can vary from apathetic and stoic to emotional and panicked.
The article starts of on Amy reflecting on how for years the way she approached work was to be a nice thoughtful person to everyone, even when it wasn't necessary. She states how she would always say please and thank you and express concern for other peoples problems, in their work life or in their personal life. She very clearly stated that she was not a boss, but had a mid level position in the company, and implied she never understood why she was stuck there and had not moved up in rank in the company.
Though she Amy successfully fights him off, the impact of the event is severe. Amy is a young Christian who was saving herself for marriage, and feels severe trauma about the event.
When she decides to start a secret journal, she begins to hide her true feelings.
When Amy turned nine years old, her father left the family. This drove Amy to pursue in music, but also hurt her mentally. She attempted suicide att 10. She began to cut her wrists to relieve herself from her troubles. She then took the advice of her grandmother to go to theatre school for a start in her career. Amy begin to train at Susi Earnshaw Theatre school. While attending, she started to write and record music with a neighborhood friend, Juliette Ashby. They created a short-lived music group called “Sweet & Sour”. Music was a way to keep her from thinking about her father, but Amy couldn’t handle the pressure. She began to smoke marijuana and started to get tattoos and care little about what she did anymore. Amy attended Susi for four years, then decided to seek full-time training at Sylvia Young Theatre school. Months later she got to appear in an episode of “The Fast Show” a 1997 tv series. Her disrespe...
...ad at Amy for being so negative toward him. The fact that he buried their child with his own two hands, and goes on each day like nothing ever happened makes Amy very mad. He also stays mad at
He asked her “What is it you see/ From up there always? – for I want to know” (6-7). When Amy recognized that her husband was watching she sat down on the stairs and her face expression changed. She doesn’t want to tell him what she is looking at because she believes that he does not feel the same than her about the loss of their child.
As a mother it’s naturally for a mom to grieve longer than a father would. The husband clearly doesn’t understand why Amy is still crying about the death of their firstborn child. For one thing, the husband buried the baby in the family graveyard, which is visible from an upstairs window of their house. Frost tells us that “She was starting down, looking back over her shoulder at some fear” (Frost 709).
Until a child is eighteen years old, the parents have full responsibility. They provide a stable and loving environment for their children. As the leaders in a household, caring and loving parents also maintain the bonds that hold the family together. However, absence of loving parental guidance can create tension between family members. Anita Desai’s Clear Light of Day shows how war, specifically the partition of India, affects a particular family. The partition of Indian in 1947 created the separate countries of India and Pakistan, consequently ripping families apart. The partition, initiated by India’s independence from Britain, attempted to accommodate irreconcilable religious differences between Muslims and Hindus by forming the Islamic Pakistan. In Clear Light of Day, the Das children’s relationship with their parents causes lasting sibling conflict that mirrors this social and political upheaval of India.