Character Analysis Essay On The Crucible '

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During the first few years of Myra’s life, she was happy and experienced a sense of pride to be a part of her family. However, as she grew older, Myra started distancing herself from her family and a great deal of conflicts followed Myra through her early adolescent years and her college career. The first set of conflicts happened between Myra and her mother. This lead to small disagreements exploding into huge fights. For example, Myra would be doing homework and her mother would ask her to do the dishes. Myra would tell her to wait until she was done her homework and they would start yelling back and forth at each other. This back and forth increased in intensity until Myra would end up running to her room in tears. Sometime her mother would come and comfort her and sometimes she would leave her to cry alone. While these fights seemingly happened over small issues, there was usually a deeper problem that presented itself throughout the fight. For instance, Myra may have really been upset because she is upset by the …show more content…

He was skipping school, doing drugs, and getting in trouble. Michael often had arguments with his adoptive mother over his poor life choices. While these fights may have started like those Myra had with her mother, they definitely did not end the same. Their arguments were often long and drawn out. They felt like they were never going to end, whereas when Myra fought with her mother it only lasted a short time. The fights between Michael and his mother eventually turned physical, and one day his mother called the cops in Michael. These fights stemmed from the fact that Michael’s mother felt that at his age he should have been more responsible, but Michael did not appear to care or feel any responsibility for his own life. I think that Michael’s mother also felt that because she adopted Michael, she was obligated to make sure that turned out

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