Marginalized Group Case Study

Answer 1: (3rd choice)
Jeanette shows her experience as a marginalized group who is trying to fit in the subcultural group at school. When she says,“Some of the kids looked as poor as me, with home-cut hair and holes in the toes of their shoes. I found it a lot easier to fit in than at Welch Elementary”(199). The word “fit in” closely represents that she is considering herself at a fringe. This is described when she enters a school that is full of students. Some of those students are also not even privileged and they have made a subcultural people of group that is considered as poor. She tries to settle in it easily because she is going through the same existing environment that is marginalized.
Answer 2:
The principal method of organization

in this book occurs as a person vs person conflict in different ways. Jeannette shows the conflict of her friend Danita when she kills her mothers boyfriend in terms of hateness which is seen when she says, “Later, we all learned she'd been arrested for stabbing her mother’s boyfriend to death”(200). The word death is symbolizing to the anger somebody can be when their loved ones treat them carelessly.
The other conflicts happened in the story are also Person vs person conflicts. Reliability of parents sometimes lack in the independency of the children which leads to negative thoughts.It is seen between mother and daughter Maureen. When Jeannette says, “Maureen stabbed Mom. It happened after Mom decided it was time for Maureen to develop a little self-sufficiency by moving out and finding a place of her own”(275). The word ‘stabbed’ is a violent act which is done as the result of too much reliability on parents. When the parents ask her to be independent, as a result she tries to kill her own mother.
Answer 3:
I agree to my thesis that finding self love regardless of the family status can influence our perspectives on ourselves and what we are capable of achieving. It is seen when at the end everybody has their own set up life. The conclusion is quite satisfying as in the end she says, “We raised our glasses. I could almost hear Dad chuckling at Mom’s comment in a way he always did when he was truly enjoying some thing”(288). They raised their glasses; it means that the whole family was now together. Though her dad dies, but she starts having the flashbacks of her past which remembers her of the time when her dad was alive. It felt like they all were happy at the end and it proved that their own self love helped them in achieving a happy life after.
Answer 4:
Family love further shapes the perspectives of the children  and if the parents would think  and talk negatively to their children then it can create hate towards children. When the author speaks about her mother, “ She could have been a famous artist by now, she yelled, if she hadn't had children”(187). She is foreshadowing to the past. She is thinking that without kids she would had a better life.
Answer 5: