Flowers In The Attic is about four siblings who are forced to live in an attic so that their mother can inherit money from their grandfather. In this story, there are many plot points and events. There is a exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution. However, I will only be covering the exposition, climax, and resolution in this essay. The story starts off with a family, the Dollangangers. There is Cathy, who is twelve and the narrator of the story; Chris, who is fourteen; and Carrie and Cory, the four-year-old twins. They live with their parents, who are married and very happy. On their father's thirty-fifth birthday, they find out that he has died in a car accident, leaving them in serious debt. Their mother decides to move them to her parents' mansion, where the kids must be hidden in the attic until she wins back her father's love. The kids are taken care of by their extremely strict grandmother. Their mother promises they will be out within a week, however, months go by, and their mother has still not won over their grandfather. As their mother's visits become less frequent, they begin to lose hope, leading into the climax of the story. …show more content…
Cathy and Chris notice the twin's health is declining. However, their mother is not doing anything to help them, so they plan to escape. At night, Chris goes into his mother's bedroom and steals money over a course of time. However, Cory is deathly ill, and Cathy forces her mother to take him to the hospital. When she comes back, she says that he has died of pneumonia. Afraid they will die soon, Chris decides to take as much money as he can, but he discovers that his mother has left for good with her new husband. He also overhears that their grandfather died months ago, and their mother had been poisoning them in order to inherit his
Working as a teacher serving at-risk four-year-old children, approximately six of her eighteen students lived in foster care. The environment introduced Kathy to the impact of domestic violence, drugs, and family instability on a developing child. Her family lineage had a history of social service and she found herself concerned with the wellbeing of one little girl. Angelica, a foster child in Kathy’s class soon to be displaced again was born the daughter of a drug addict. She had been labeled a troublemaker, yet the Harrisons took the thirty-hour training for foster and adoptive care and brought her home to adopt. Within six months, the family would also adopted Angie’s sister Neddy. This is when the Harrison family dynamic drastically changes and Kathy begins a journey with over a hundred foster children passing through her home seeking refuge.
Although Alexandra begins working the land to fulfill her father’s dying wish, no one in her early life ever realizes that perhaps she had other dreams and other wishes. “You feel that, properly, Alexandra’s house is the big out-of-doors, and that it is in the soil that she expresses herself best,” an...
Auntie Sarah was Annabelle’s aunt, she would often go on explorations through the house either when the family wasn’t around, or when they were sleeping. Annabelle had always wanted to tag along, she never had the courage to ask Auntie Sarah though, and one day Auntie Sarah approached Annabelle and asked her if she would join her, Annabelle invited Tiffany. They go to look at the spiders, it was time to go, and Annabelle got stuck in the spider’s web. When they helped her get out, moments later, the family came down, Auntie Sarah was able to hide, Annabelle and Tiffany were too far ahead already. They leapt into a book bag, and went to school with Kate, and when the hall was quite they began to roam in search of Kate, the owner of the Funcrafts. School ends, the two dolls didn’t make it back in time they roamed the school hallways the next day they returned right away to the book bags and stayed in there the entire day. To their surprise, they went into the wrong book bag; it was a Friday so they wouldn’t get home until Monday. The family Annabelle and Tiffany came home with leave on long weekends, and we meet the meanest doll in the world, Princess Mimi. Princess Mimi corners the other living dolls with fear, and then she meets Annabelle and Tiffany; when she leaves we find out they don’t want to be her friend because she thinks she’s queen of all dolls and she treats her friends like slaves.
The Curtis family is a very poor family ‘on the other side of town’ as a result of their father never having finished fifth grade and never being able to hold a job for more than a month at a time. The father, Ed, is a scruffy looking man, overbearing and built, and whose son, Darry,
...s her that he raped her and the next day comes to her house shooting his BB gun at the house. In retaliation the kids shoot Rex’s gun. The police come to check out what happened and the family decides to leave for their grandma Smith’s house in Phoenix. They arrive in Phoenix only to find out that grandma Smith is dead and her house is inherited by her daughter Mary Rose. The house is 14-rooms, the front rooms converted to a studio by Jeanette's mother. Once again the kids are enrolled in school and have to take their eye and hearing exams. Everyone passes except Lori who has to get glasses and is surprised how clear she can see. Jeannettes parents like to leave the windows open and one day during the night a stranger came into Jeannette’s room touching her private areas. Brian, Jeannette, and her father try to look for him after chasing him off. Reading the paper
They both live in the inner city of Chicago and try to survive. The timeline of the book consists from the Summer of 1987 to September 1989. The author met the boys while writing an article in the Chicago Magazine. The article was about poverty and he met them through a social services agency. Kotlowitz described a picture he was taking of Lafeyette, on how the picture "seemed like there was a lifetime's worth of horrors bottled up inside him".
Sociology relates to this novel in so many different ways. The family in the story, Flowers in the Attic, written by V.C. Andrews, starts off as a family of procreation, a family established through marriage, which includes the mother (Mrs. Dollanger), the father (Mr. Dollanger), and the four children: Cathy (the oldest daughter), Chris (the second oldest son), Carrie and Corey (the young twins). A conflict begins when the father dies in a car wreck, so the mother and her four children must move in her rich parents estate because they have no money and nowhere to stay. After the father's death, the norms of the children changed. The norms of the children were to stay hidden in the basement by them selves because Mrs. Dollanger may only earn back the right to inherit her father's estate by falsifying that she has no children by her husband who was also her half-uncle. The original agreement was that they can leave the basement when their grandfather dies. The rules of the house were given by the dying grandfather that stated if Mrs. Dollanger was found to have children that she would be disinherited again.
The children were horribly spoiled and considered the nursery as their parents, not their actual parents. The nursery is a room that turns your thoughts into reality. The nursery had been an African veldt for about a month now, demonstrating ideas of death and hatred ever since the children were denied a rocket to New York. They called in a psychologist named David McClean. He said this wasn’t good at all and that they needed to shut the house down as soon as possible, as well as getting away from here. George and Lydia were fine with it since they wanted to do so already, they wanted to live and the house wasn’t letting them. They told the children and they were in hysterics. They begged the nursery to be turned back on. They did so, and eventually George and Lydia were locked inside by their children, and were killed by the lions that were always in the veldt, waiting. David asks where their parents are, they said they’ll be coming. It ends with Wendy breaking the silence, offering a cup of
Innocence is something always expected to be lost sooner or later in life, an inevitable event that comes of growing up and realizing the world for what it truly is. Alice Walker’s “The Flowers” portrays an event in which a ten year old girl’s loss of innocence after unveiling a relatively shocking towards the end of the story. Set in post-Civil War America, the literary piece holds very particular fragments of imagery and symbolism that describe the ultimate maturing of Myop, the young female protagonist of the story. In “The Flowers” by Alice Walker, the literary elements of imagery, symbolism, and setting “The Flowers” help to set up a reasonably surprising unveiling of the gruesome ending, as well as to convey the theme of how innocence disappears as a result of facing the harsh reality of this world.
Martin and Kris wanted to be closer to the family because they were already at least 2 hours away from the rest of their family. In late August they decided to look for houses on a small town called Plymouth Wisconsin. My dad was looking for an engineering job at Kohler Company. This way we would only be about an hour away from most of our family. Soon after the move, Emily would start kindergarten at Fairview Elementary School. Emily cry the first week of school when she realized her mother would not be coming with her. She was especially sad too because she was in a new environment and she did not know anyone. Luckily Lauren took Emily and on the first day and they were best friends all through
Butterfly Kisses is the first book in The Orange Blossom series, the latest in heartwarming Women's Fiction from National Readers' Choice Award winner, Leigh Duncan.
At 14, Jackie went to a boarding school. She has always had a very close relationship with her parents and her brother. “I was used to leaving home very often, but I always knew that I’d be back in a couple weeks, or even months. This just felt so final.” But just like that, Jackie and Devon packed their bags and drove off. There they were, stuck in a pick-up truck with each other for the next 5 days until their destina...
On a chilly, December day, the Peterson family began their day as usual. The day started with the father, Paul, making breakfast while the mother, Lia, packed lunches. They had one daughter, Taylor. She was in ninth grade at Westfield high. This particular morning when they were getting ready for work and school, Taylor excitedly reminded her parents about her upcoming choir concert that night. Taylor had been given a solo and was excited to surprise her parents with it. As they headed out the door, they all gave hugs and said their I love you's. Taylor watched her parents drive away together as she waited for the bus to pick her up.
After a plague has killed all of the adults, Lisa and her little brother Todd must survive in this new world.
But to get more detailed in the story The Tillerman kids' mother just left them one day in a car in a mall parking lot. Their father had also left them as well a long time ago. All they had left was $11, and this was supposed to last them. It was up to thirteen-year-old Dicey, the eldest of four, to take care of everything, make all the decisions, feed them, find places to sleep. But above a...