The novel ‘Bastard Out Of Carolina’ by Dorothy Allison is about a girl named Ruth Anne Boatwright who goes by the name of Bone. It opens on Anney Boatwright at the age of 15. She had just given birth to Bone a few months ago and is trying to change Bone’s birth certificate so that the illegitimate stamp across the bottom can be removed. The reason that this stamp is there is because Bone’s father is unknown. At the age of 17 Anney marries a boy names Lyle Parson’s. Lyle and Anney have a daughter together named Reese. Lyle is later killed in a car accident leaving Anney to be the mother of two children at such a young age. Anney keeps her job at the local diner in order to support herself, Bone and Reese. After a few years Anney meets a man …show more content…
named Glen Waddell. At first Glen seems to be the perfect husband for Anney and the perfect stepfather for Bone and Reese. Everything changes on the night that Anney gives birth to a stillborn baby boy. As this is happening Glen is with Reese and Bone in the car out in the parking lot of the hospital. It is then that he rapes Bone for the first time. After this Glen makes raping Bone a regular thing whenever Anney isn’t around. In addition to sexual abuse, Glen also physically abuses Bone. Whenever Anney comes home from work and questions why Bone has bruises or why she may be crying Glen makes up excuses that may justify why Bone needs to be punished. It is also shown in the novel that Glen has anger issues. This is shown when Glen is repeatedly losing jobs due to the way he handles himself in the work environment.
Due to the fact that Glen keeps losing his job, Anney and the children have to be moved around from house to house, month after month in order to be able to keep paying the rent. After Glen comes home from work in a bad mood this is when he takes it out on Bone. One day, Bone has had enough and she tells Anney that she refuses to live in the same house as Glen. Glen over hears this and after Anney has left he ‘punishes’ Bone for saying those things. He physically abuses her by breaking her arm and then he sexually abuses her by raping her on the kitchen floor. Anney walks in on this happening and is shocked. Bone and her mother go out to the car and Glen pleads with Anney that he would rather her kill him than her abandon him. To Bone’s shock, Anney ends up crying and wraps her arms around Glen. Bone’s aunt, Raylene, visits Bone in the hospital and takes custody of her. While Bone is recovering at Raylene’s house Anney shows up asking for Bone’s forgiveness and then she leaves without telling Bone where she is going. But not without leaving Bone with a new birth certificate. This one without the illegitimate stamp across the
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The police treat the Saints as if they did nothing wrong. They might give them a slap on the wrist instead of the punishment for the crimes they did. The police thought of the Saints as leaders of the youth in the community.
Sandy Wilson, the author of Daddy’s Apprentice: incest, corruption, and betrayal: a survivor’s story, was the victim of not only sexual abuse but physical and emotional abuse as well, in addition to being a product of incest. Sandy Wilson’s story began when she was about six years old when her birth father returns home from incarceration, and spans into her late teens. Her father returning home from prison was her first time meeting him, as she was wondered what he looked like after hearing that he would be released (Wilson, 2000, p. 8). Not only was her relationship with her father non-existent, her relationship with her birth mother was as well since she was for most of her young life, cared for by her grandmother and grandfather. When she was told that her birth mother coming to visit she says, “…I wish my mother wouldn’t visit. I never know what to call her so I don’t all her anything. Not her name, Kristen. Not mother. Not anything (Wilson, 2000, p. 4).” This quote essentially demonstrated the relationship between Sandy and her mother as one that is nonexistent even though Sandy recognizes Kristen as her birth mother.
Jacobs, Harriet, and Yellin, Jean. Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press
"Good Country People", by Flannery O’Connor, presents us with a look into the monotonous lives of three women living together on a rural farm. All three women are set in their old-fashioned ways, having experienced very little of life, out on the farm. A bible salesman named Manley Pointer, appearing like nothing more than simple, "good country people"(1), pays them a visit one day. It turns out that this simple countryboy is actually a brilliant con artist who scams the pretentious daughter, Hulga (also known as Joy) into removing her wooden leg, which he proceeds to steal. A great change in Hulga is triggered by her experience with Manley Pointer. Although it was a cruel scam, the bible salesman helps her to see the truth about her education and human nature. Hulga realizes that in addition to book smarts, people skills are also crucial in navigating the real world.
The story of the Saints and the Roughnecks shows how great the impact that appearance, background, and action can have on a reputation following the future. While both groups participated in deviant behavior only one (the Roughnecks) were perceived as bad within the community and received punishment. Several sociology theories offer explanations as to why this came to be with each giving a twist on how human perception can be misleading in such events.
Celia, A Slave by Melton McLaurin tells a true story of a female slave who was sexually exploited by her master and the trial she faced as a result. At the young age of fourteen, Celia was brought to Callaway County under her new master, Robert Newsom. Celia later murdered Newsom, in an act of self-defense, and was placed on a trial challenging the institute of slavery and the moral beliefs of anyone involved with slavery in the South. The short life of the young Celia revealed a slave girl who had pushed beyond the ideal limit of a system that denied her humanity and threatened to erode the base of the antebellum southern society.
Taylor, Edward. “Upon Wedlock, and Death of Children.” The Norton Anthology of American Literature. Ed. Nina Baym. 8th ed. Vol. A. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2012. 303-304. Print.
Flannery O'Connor was born in Savannah, Georgia, the only child of a Catholic family. The region was part of the 'Christ-haunted' Bible belt of the Southern States. The spiritual heritage of the region shaped profoundly O'Connor's writing as described in her essay "The Catholic Novelist in the Protestant South" (1969). O'Connor's father, Edward F. O'Connor, was a realtor owner. He worked later for a construction company and died in 1941. Her mother, Regina L. (Cline) O'Connor, came from a prominent family in the state - her father had been a mayor of Milledgeville for many years.
Andrea, her roommate, is seeking treatment from addiction to heroin and self-harm. Gwen refuses to having anything to do with the treatment center and group therapy. She believes she doesn’t have a drinking problem at all and therapy is silly. While still denying she has a problem, her boyfriend Jasper slips her a bottle of pills while visiting her. Gwen and Jasper leave the campus and have a night of partying. Gwen arrives back in her room the next morning clearly intoxicated. Cornell, the director of the rehab facility, confronts Gwen and informs her that she violated the rules of the facility. Gwen is told she is being kicked out of the program and is being sent to jail. She becomes outraged and denies that she has a problem and can quit whenever she chooses. Leaving the director’s office, she goes to her bedroom and decides to take the pills that Jasper slipped her. She ends up spitting out the pills and throwing the rest of the bottle out of the window.
In his narrative, Justin Burnell recounts his memories of his biological father changing into to a woman. There are many ways the people in this story reacts but as a whole, in his recounts, they are almost the same. The heavy atmosphere in this story tells you how this story is going to go. The author does not give the year this takes place but just the location, in Knoxville, gives the reader insight on the hate that would be prominent.
Her parents meet at a social gathering in town and where married shortly thereafter. Marie’s name was chosen by her grandmother and mother, “because they loved to read the list was quite long with much debate over each name.” If she was a boy her name would have been Francis, so she is very happy to have born a girl. Marie’s great uncle was a physician and delivered her in the local hospital. Her mother, was a housewife, as was the norm in those days and her father ran his own business. Her mother was very close with her parents, two brothers, and two sisters. When her grandmother was diagnosed with asthma the family had to move. In those days a warm and dry climate was recommended, Arizona was the chosen state. Because her grandma could never quite leave home, KY, the family made many trips between the states. These trips back and forth dominated Marie’s childhood with her uncles and aunts being her childhood playmates.
Jack, thinking he might have been that very baby, retrieves the bag he was found in as an infant in which Ms. Prism identifies by some distinguishing marks to have been her own. Jack realized the woman that had been teaching his niece was his mother. But then Lady Bracknell explained that she was not, but Lady Bracknell’s poor sister Mrs. Moncrieff was. The irony continues to explain how Jack and Algernon were biological brothers. They were pretending to be earlier to play out their game of Bunburyism.
In the story “Good Country People” by Flannery O’Connor, the readers are told a story of unrequited love between two adults. The story begins with a pair of mothers talking about their children, more specifically their daughters and their accomplishments. One of the mothers, Mrs. Freeman, talks about how one of her daughters is now married and expecting a child and her other daughter is doing her own thing in the world. The other mother, Mrs. Hopewell, talks about her only daughter, Joy and how she does considering the fact that she has a wooden leg. The story then moves over to Joy who now chooses to go by Hulga because she believes it will make her more unappealing to people. Hulga meets a bible salesman named Manley Pointer, who uses his
The short story Girl written by Jamaica Kincaid is a mother’s compilation of advice, skills, and life experience to her daughter. The mother believes that her offer of practical and helpful guidance will assist her daughter in becoming a proper woman, and gaining a fulfilling life and respectable status in the community. Posed against the mother’s sincere concern for her daughter’s future is Sir Walter’s superficial affection to his daughters in the novel Persuasion written by Jane Austen. Due to his detailed attention for appearance and social rank, Sir Walter has been negligent to his daughters’ interests and fails to fulfill his responsibility as a father. Throughout both literary works, the use of language and tone towards persuasive endeavors reveals the difference in family dynamics and the success of persuasion on the character’s transformation.
The night ebbed in the darkness brUGHT t about the memory of the most tragic event in the history of the small town of Greenville. Not knowing the tragedy that would unfold the citizens rested quietly in the slumber of that hot August night. Storm clouds loomed on the horizon with blazes of light that speckled the sky. In the distance the soft rumble of thunder brought no alarm to this quiet little town. Jenny and Blade lived in the rural area of green pine forests on the outskirts of this sleepy little town. Nowhere in the history of Greenville had such a tragedy happens, and no one was aware of the destruction that loomed on the horizon. As the night closed near the midnight hour, the wind seemed to awaken the lifeless living things in