A Not-So-Bright Life Tears threaten to stream down my flushed face. With a huff, I turn from him and rush home, jaw jutting out in defiance. The moment I close the door, the tears give away. My parents rush over to me, concern written all over their faces. My mom hugs me and consoles me, while my dad pulls open the door and charges over to the bully. I smile, because I know that my parents will protect me no matter what. Family support plays an important role in a child’s mental and emotional stability. In Jennifer Niven’s All the Bright Places, family support is a major theme throughout the text when looking at the families of both Finch and Violet. Knowing that you’re loved for and cared for is common knowledge that …show more content…
Finch lacked the support of his family due to his parents’ detrimental marriage and divorce. First and foremost, Finch has a passive mother. She is broken after her husband left her, and she “...blames [the kids’] bad behavior on the divorce and [Finch’s] dad” (40). As a result, his mother doesn’t pay attention to them, allowing young Decca to swear and wild Kate to be out all night. Additionally, Finch’s mom, along with the rest of his family, doesn’t question his long absences. “I try to remember the last time any of them were in my room, and the only thing I can come up with is a time four years ago...Kate was the one who took care of me” (142). This further shows how Finch lacked the care of his family. Another example of neglect would be the fact that his mother doesn’t worry about his health: she just instructs him to take pills …show more content…
Violet has such parents who care for her deeply. To start off, her parents are highly protective of her. When Violet skipped class, they were worried as to where she went. Additionally, when Violet was gone all night with Finch, they became frantic: “...my dad appears, and he looks like he’s aged twenty years overnight. His eyes run over my face, making sure I’m okay” (237). Moving along, Violet’s parents support her passion for writing. They take her to NYU for a trip to campus. Her mom also helps her brainstorm ideas for her new webzine. Lastly, Violet’s parents are close with her. Violet didn’t want her parents to suffer with her death were she to commit suicide. When she had lost all hope in living, Finch reminded her of the good in the world. Furthermore, Violet tells her parents the truth about Finch, and they responded with care: “‘Yes, we’re disappointed in you, but I’m glad you told us’” (308). Moreover, Violet forces the three of them to face the topic of Eleanor’s death, coping together. With the help of her family and Finch, Violet learned to accept herself and live freely once again. As proven above, Violet had her parents’ full support for almost every aspect of her life. Every family has cracks in life, but some cracks run deeper than others. In All the Bright Places, the theme circles around family support, as presented by Jennifer Niven. Finch and
Summary and Response to Barbara Kingsolver’s “Called Home” In “Called Home”, the first chapter of the book Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year in Food Life, Barbara Kingsolver presents her concerns about America's lack of food knowledge, sustainable practices, and food culture. Kingsolver introduces her argument for the benefits of adopting a local food culture by using statistics, witty anecdotal evidence, and logic to appeal to a wide casual reading audience. Her friendly tone and trenchant criticism of America's current food practices combine to deliver a convincing argument that a food culture would improve conditions concerning health and sustainability.
4: what makes Bechdel’s story interesting? What makes Bechdel’s story so fascinating is that she took what would have been an amazing novel and turned it into a comic book. Aside from the author’s lack of celebrity, she created a profound grippy story. Most autobiographies are written by famous people. Bechdal’s creativity as a writer and illustrator led her to capture thousands of satisfying details, with word and images, along with emotional truth and humor to produce this extraordinary first person autobiography herself.
And finally, when Scout doesn’t want Walter Cunningham to come over for dinner because she thinks that he is a disgrace. For all of these reasons, the Finch family must not be racist or prejudiced. Francis is a member of the Finch family, even though he never acts like it. Just because you are in the same blood line does not necessarily make you a family, the people who treat you with respect are your true family. Dill is more of a member of the Finch family than Francis is.
On an ordinary day, Leslie opens the main door of her house, when she walked inside she saw her mom and sister Islla sitting on the coach. Islla was crying, and Leslie ask her “What happened?’ Why you crying?’”. Islla told her that she is pregnant and that she wants to keep the baby even if her boyfriend will be against the baby, but she will need to drop out from her University. In a few minutes of thinking, Leslie decided and told her sister “You don’t need to drop out I will help you to babysit with my nephew.”
Barbara Katz Rothman, professor of sociology, once said "Birth is not only about making babies. Birth is about making mothers strong, competent, capable mothers who trust themselves and know their inner strength." This illustrates clearly the symbol of the mothers in this society. This symbol could also shape people’s thinking about mothers. I totally agree with her assessment. For instance, I believe that everyone is using his or her own symbols during social interaction, such as languages, gestures and other sign language. In another way, this is called symbolic interactionism.
In Jeannette Walls memoir The Glass Castle, the Walls show characteristics of good parents. They are imaginative, very smart, and caring.
The author clearly shows how his childhood effected his adulthood, making in a living example of what he is writing about allowing the audience to more easily trust what he is writing about. Instead of using factually evidence from other dysfunctional family incidences, the author decides to make it more personal, by using his own life and comparing family ideas of the past to the present.
A family either plays a positive role in one’s life leading to their success, or a negative role leading to failure. The love and concern from a family is very important in determining the prosperity in life of its members, and without this support, a person will only face adversity. In Fall On Your Knees by Ann-Marie McDonald, the Piper family, primarily the father, is responsible for the sorrowful life of the Piper daughters. The disappointment in life of Frances, Kathleen and Mercedes is due to lack of love and nurture, inadequate parenting and over protectiveness.
All children need love to help them grow and flourish. If a child lacks the sense of a loving parent to child bond, it can result in them feeling unloved. Lily often times feels unloved as a result of her father's abusive and neglectful behavior towards her. Lily decides to run away with Rosaleen, who for much of Lily’s life, has been the one to care for her. Lily and Rosaleen find themselves at the home of the Boatwright sisters. Throughout her time staying with the Boatwrights, Lily is being greatly cared for by the sisters including May Boatwright, the youngest sister. Through May and Rosaleen’s actions, Lily comes to realize that there is love all around her. “And there they were. All these mothers.I have more mothers than any eight girls off the street. They are the moons shining over me,” (Kidd 302). Lily views these women as her mother figures because they show her that they love her. Having insight on how Lily perceives these women, it is clear that she is very grateful for how much love they provide her. Lily is appreciative towards May and Rosaleen, through their major and minor acts as Lily’s mother. They help to fill the place of a loving parent that she needs since her mother is not able to do so. May and Rosaleen give Lily the love she needs much like how Mother Teresa loves and cares for the poor children in developing nations who many times do not have a stable family life. “Mother Teresa’s ministry was centered on love. She cared for the poor’s physical needs, but her main focus was on loving them. Mother Teresa’s life exemplified the meaning of love and of giving. She encouraged all people to give not only tangible gifts such as money, food, and clothing but also the intangible gifts of ourselves, such as a smile or a caring ear.” Mother Teresa is a huge mother figure to thousands of children around the world who lack the love need. Therefore, through the actions of these minor
Wm. Paul Young’s novel, The Shack, explores the theme that people find it difficult to forgive others that cause them harm. Firstly, Papa wants Mack to forgive the man that caused him all his pain so that he can be reborn as a better human. Mack states, “How can I ever forgive that son of a bitch who killed my Missy.[...] I want him to hurt like he hurt me...if I can’t get justice, I still want revenge.” (Young 224). Mack cannot let Missy’s murderer be forgiven of his sin as the child’s death brought too much pain to the family. Mack feels that the murderer should experience all the pain that he gave others throughout the years. The pain and sorrow the man inflicts prevents the victims from being able to forgive him as they think that the man
For many of us growing up, our mothers have been a part of who we are. They have been there when our world was falling apart, when we fell ill to the flu, and most importantly, the one to love us when we needed it the most. In “Two Kinds” by Amy Tan, it begins with a brief introduction to one mother’s interpretation of the American Dream. Losing her family in China, she now hopes to recapture part of her loss through her daughter. However, the young girl, Ni Kan, mimics her mother’s dreams and ultimately rebels against them.
Gaining wealth isn’t necessarily a good thing. It changes people, replacing the things that were once most important in their lives with an expensive outfit or fancy sport car. This is what happened with the family of Richard Rodriguez. As he and his siblings make history in their family by being the first to get a college education, their lives also change as the become successful in their fields of choice and come into money they never had growing up. Rodriguez shows through a passage about a typical Christmas morning with his family as a grown up how much his siblings, and even himself, have changed. Where once family was at the center of the Rodriguez’s live, the children are more concerned with what gifts the
There are many themes that occur and can be interpreted differently throughout the novel. The three main themes that stand out most are healing, communication, and relationships.
Having a harmonious family is a part of the American Dream. In The American Dream, written by Jim Cullen, a soldier wrote to the newspaper that he would “relate to” their “wives and children, parents and friends, what” they “have witnessed…” (Cullen, 114). Willa Cather introduces Rosicky’s family, which emphasizes on close relationships and positive community impacts in “Neighbor Rosicky”, and F. Scott Fitzgerald suggests that Charlie wants his role as a father back in “Babylon Revisited”. Even though both Cather and Fitzgerald value intimate families in integrity, they have different attitudes toward life.
There are two working themes that are more prominent than any others; poetic justice and the power of familial love. Scott Forschler, author of “Revenge, poetic justice, resentment, and the Golden Rule”, defined Poetic Justice, as when, “injury coming to a wrongdoer that is both roughly equivalent to and caused by his wrongdoing, but in a way, that is neither anticipated by him, nor primarily inflicted on him by other persons as part of an intention to punish his wrongdoing” (Forschler 4). Malcolm through his interactions with the Winfield family demonstrates this perfectly. Familial love and the power it can possess is reiterated in every interaction between the Winfield siblings, and later the significant others that are brought into the close-knit family. This power is the driving force of every single decision Edwina makes from the moment she is promoted to the matriarch of her family after the tragic loss of her parents and fiancé, “But now she had so many responsibilities, she had to be so well informed when she went to meetings at the paper, and she felts as though she should be teaching the children something more than just baking cakes and how to plant daisies in the garden” (Steel 193). Edwina’s love for her siblings and her desire to provide for them has completely eclipsed any personal desires she ever had for