Orphans are kids without parents. In some cases, these children never know their biological parents, or others deal with the heart-breaking separation. After reading the novel, A Single Shard a reader learns about the main character Tree-ear. He is a twelfth century orphan with a guardian who cares for him plus gives him love and affection from a young age. Ruckel is a more modern-day orphan, but he lives in an orphanage with a bunch of children. He is a twentieth century orphan, but does not a lot of attention from anyone; he is with other kids. As the reader can see, Ruckel and Tree-ear have some similarities and differences. Ruckel and Tree-ear have many similarities between them. A similarity they have in common is they are brave. They are brave; likewise, in A Single Shard Tree-ear was abandoned; therefore, was living on his own until he found Crane-man; since Crane-man has disabilities, Tree-ear has to care of Crane-man. Tree-ear is young, but has to work and provide food for him and Crane-man. Ruckel is also brave; therefore, when he was six months he got polio, which is a virus, yet destroys the nerve cells and spinal cord. His parents took him to the hospital, but left him, then at age three they put him in an orphanage. He was abused at the orphanage, …show more content…
One of the variances is, Tree-ear has Crane-man as a parent or guardian to care for him. Even though he was homeless, he still found Crane-man, but he was willing to take care of him. Ruckel has no parents or guardian to care for him. The workers at the orphanage are the only people he has. Another difference, they have is Ruckel has polio; is a very horrible disease that paralyzes the body from the waist down sometimes. Tree-ear is a very healthy kid, yet does not have any diseases. Another difference, is they have is Ruckel has a shelter. Ruckel lives in the orphanage with many kids. Tree-ear does not have a shelter, so he lives under a bridge with
The Orphan Train is a compelling story about a young girl, Molly Ayer, and an older woman, Vivian Daly. These two live two completely different yet similar lives. This book goes back and forth between the point of views of Molly and Vivian. Molly is seventeen and lives with her foster parents, Ralph and Dina, in Spruce Harbor, Maine. Vivian is a ninety-one year old widow from Ireland who moved to the United States at a young age. Molly soon gets into trouble with the law and has to do community service. Molly’s boyfriend, Jack, gets his mom to get her some service to do. Jack’s mom allows her to help Vivian clean out her attic. While Molly is getting her hours completed, Vivian explains her past to her. Vivian tells her about all the good times and bad in her life. She tells her about how she had to take a train, the orphan train, all around the country after her family died in a fire. She told her about all the families she stayed with and all the friends she made along the way, especially about Dutchy. Dutchy is a boy she met on the orphan train and lost contact with for numerous years, but then found each other again and got married and pregnant. Sadly, Dutchy died when he was away in the army shortly after Vivian got pregnant. When Vivian had her child, she decided to give her up for adoption. Molly and Vivian grew very close throughout the time they spent together. Molly knows that Dina, her foster mother, is not very fond of her and tells her to leave. Having no place to go, Vivian let her stay at her house.
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Two people with two completely different characteristics have something alike. Both Dally and Johnny are mentally tough because of their parents. Johnny and Dally’s parents both do not care for them and could care less about them. For example, during Dally’s childhood he went to jail, been in a gang, and has been in many fights and his dad still would not care for him even if he won the lottery. Dally also talks about his dad's disgrace towards him in the car with Johnny and Ponyboy, “‘ Shoot, my dad don’t give a hang whether I’m in jail or dead in a car wreck or drunk in a gutter...’”(88). Dally could easily live without his dad and he does for the most part. Dally just hangs around with his friends and stays at their place. Similarly, Johnny's parents use him like a rag doll to blow off steam, “his father always beating him up”(14). The gang knows what happenes in Johnny’s house. Once Ponyboy was witnessing, “Johnny take a whipping with a two-by-four from his old man”(33). Ponyboy talks about how loud and mean Johnny's mom is and,“you can...
Corwin highlights the corrupted foster care system through detailed progression of the central character, Olivia. She is one of the most brilliant students in the novel and views school as a positive distraction from the daily physical abuse she encounters at home. In a sense, intelligence saves her. She manages to disconnect her emotions and use her intellect to excel in and out of school. With a molested mother and lack of father figure, Olivia becomes a ward of the county. Children who enter foster care often have been exposed to condition...
The main characters are David, his mother, and father. David, the abused child, cannot escape his mother’s punishments. David’s mother is a drunken, abusive mother that refers to her child as “It”. David’s father is caring and understanding, but cannot help David escape. The mother and father drastically change after the alcohol abuse. David also changes in his attitude towards his parents.
The kids perceive the nursery room as “far more important in their lives than their real parents.” (12) The description gives the reader insight on how the spoiled children became reliant on the nursery. Children in nurseries should be cared for; however, George and Lydia had never presumed the role as parents for the two kids. The symbolic representation of parental figures is established by the nursery as it nurtures and influences the children to make them rely more heavily on technology than their actual parents. Peter and Wendy viewed their parents as “Scrooges” (12), getting in the way of their relationship with the nursery. The two kids were so reliant on the advanced home that they were willing to kill anyone who got in the way of their bond. This clearly shows that technology can strain relationships in families, since it develops a sense of dependency in
The narrator, Twyla, begins by recalling the time she spent with her friend, Roberta, at the St. Bonaventure orphanage. From the beginning of the story, the only fact that is confirmed by the author is that Twyla and Roberta are of a different race, saying, “they looked like salt and pepper” (Morrison, 2254). They were eight-years old. In the beginning of the story, Twyla says, “My mother danced all night and Roberta’s was sick.” This line sets the tone of the story from the start. This quote begins to separate the two girls i...
“The Pain Tree” written by Olive Senior tells the story of a woman who comes back home after many years and begins to think about her childhood in a new light, which changes much of what she thought she knew of her family and childhood. The story shows the main character, Lorraine, revisiting the memories of her family and the woman who had taken care of her as a child, Larissa. Children mainly focus on the happy memories which may be tied to more important topics that they do not understand until they are older. Most children do not pick up on many of the complicated things happening around them. Lorraine can now see the bigger picture of her relationship with Larissa and how large the divides were between Lorraine’s family and Larissa’s
We have all heard the African proverb that says, “It takes a village to raise a child.” The response given by Emma Donoghue’s novel Room, simply states, “If you’ve got a village. But if you don’t, then maybe it just takes two people” (Donoghue 234). For Jack, Room is where he was born and has been raised for the past five years; it is his home and his world. Jack’s “Ma” on the other hand knows that Room is not a home, in fact, it is a prison. Since Ma’s kidnapping, seven years prior, she has survived in the shed of her capturer’s backyard. This novel contains literary elements that are not only crucial to the story but give significance as well. The Point-of-view brings a powerful perspective for the audience, while the setting and atmosphere not only affect the characters but evokes emotion and gives the reader a mental picture of their lives, and the impacting theme along-side with conflict, both internal and external, are shown throughout the novel.
Luthar’s article, “Maximizing resilience through diverse levels of inquiry: Prevailing paradigms, possibilities and priorities for the future,” Luthar emphasizes the idea of gene environment interactions, or how both genetic and environment factors play a role in shaping childhood development. According to Luthar, “good” genes are able to buffer the effects of environmental stress. The results of Luthar’s experiment with Rhesus monkeys showed how early rearing experiences can beneficially alter gene expression, genetically giving the individual resistance to risk exposure. This would explain how Hushpuppy, despite her exposure to environmental risk, was able to mature properly. Towards the end of the film, it could also be inferred that, throughout the film, Hushpuppy was progressing through the resilence pathway in response to various adversities. The first indication would be her steady positive adaptions in response to the threat of the flood, her father leaving her and her trying to find her mother when her father was dying. As her relationship with her father recovered Hushpuppy attempted to transform and restart her life by blazing her father’s funeral pyre. Despite the adversities, she was able to mature through challenging herself constantly. In the process, she was also able to reconnects with the different aspects of her life: her memories of her mother and her sense of community after the
Min a famous potter, that lives in a small village off the coast of West Korea according to A Single Shard. Min has changed drastically over the course of the book in many parts of his life, physical and mentally, but his relationship with Tree-ear changed the most. At the beginning, of the book, their relationship wasn’t strong, rather weak; however, their relationship changes drastically over the course of the book.
Oliver Twist, a story that is filled of adventure, but not of one that is a mighty warrior or an epic leader. A small orphaned child is the main character of this story, although he may be no hero facing his rivals with clashing of steel, but he succeeds in hiding, escapes and luck. This orphan designs his own future by pulling his own strings, unlike many today. People, humans, are born to be successful and to achieve and thrive, and many have been but not because of their parental guidance, although that may influence many, or more but twist’s fate twirl downward and is conclusion is to be successful, like many others.
“The Farmer’s Children” is a horrific tale. Two children, Cato and Emerson, were told by their stepmother to go to the barn and protect their farm equipment. Since the children were poorly dressed and the weather was extremely cold, the boys froze to death. The author, Elizabeth Bishop, used a wide range of literary techniques (foreshadowing, symbolism and allusion) to get her message across. Bishop wrote this story to convey lonely abandonment is a deep pit to fall through. Consequences will have to be paid; Cato and Emerson died as a result of being unattended to.
The Pied Piper began the story by wanting to use his skills to make money. He trusted the townspeople and got rid of all of the rats on the promise to get paid, but the townspeople broke their promise and this triggered a change in the piper. The children disappeared when the piper decided to seek revenge on the townspeople, so he used his skills to get rid of the children just like he got rid of the rats. The resulted in the townspeople being upset, but they did not mourn in the way that was expected.