5. Orphan Black 5.1 Plot Summary Season 1 and 2 The TV series Orphan Black revolves around a group of women who discover that they are clones and try to solve the mystery of their origin. The series opens with Sarah Manning witnessing a woman’s suicide who appears to be her doppelganger. With only a short moment of hesitation Sarah takes on the woman’s identity, a cop named Beth Childs. Quickly she discovers that she is a clone and has many sisters spread throughout North America and Europe. Together with two of them, Alison Hendrix and Cosima Niehaus, Sarah continues the search for their origin and discovers a movement called Neolution whose members believe that humans have the power to direct their evolution via genetic engineering. Furthermore, they get to know that each clone is watched by a closely affiliated person such as husband or boyfriend. A religious group called the Proletheans is introduced that believes the clones are abominations and should be therefore killed. They send Helena, the slightly psychopathic “lost” clone, to murder her sisters. Sarah eventually discovers that she has a twin sister and that this sister is no-other than Helena. The Dyad Institute, headquarters of the Neolutionists, tries everything to get hold of …show more content…
Sarah’s daughter Kira, Sarah being the only clone able to bear children. Sarah finds out that the cloning project she and the others are part of is called “Project Leda”. Believing that Kira was kidnapped, Sarah takes Beth’s colleague Arthur Bell into confidence. Later she discovers that the kidnapping was staged by Mrs. S., Sarah’s foster mother, to get Kira to a safe place. All precautions are useless for they are located again and again on their flight. Although Sarah shots Helena, they later ally to search for more answers. They are separated and Helena is taken to a Prolethean family that accommodates her. Meanwhile, Cosima delves for a cure for the respiratory illness that already killed at least two of the clones and now threatens also her life. Rachel Duncan, the only clone that was raised self-aware, kidnaps Kira from the clinic she was in to donate bone marrow to cure Cosima. Sarah’s only chance to see her again is to surrender. She escapes again, leaving Rachel severely hurt. Marion Bowles, a high-ranking official of Topside - a group that controls Dyad - reveals that there is parallel line of male clones, the “Project Castor”. 5.2 The Project Leda Project Leda consists of at least 13 female clones (number of clones known at the end of season 2): Sarah Manning, her twin sister Helena, Cosima Niehaus, Allison Hendrix, Rachel Duncan, Beth Childs, Katja Obinger, Jennifer Fitzsimmons, Janika Zingler, Aryanna Giordano, Danielle Fournier, the transgender Tony Sawicki (born as Antoinette Sawicki), and Charlotte Bowles.
The first twelve of them are the results of illegal cloning experiments beginning in the 1970s and are all born in the year 1984 (Fawcett 1.1 00:27:11). Charlotte, the youngest clone, was created in 2006 as the sole survivor of over 400 attempts to continue the line of Leda clones although the original genome was lost in a fire (Fawcett 2.10 00:36:20, 2.5
00:24:22). All women were conceived in vitro. Either there was a surrogate mother involved who thought that the scientists that approached her were a couple unable to have children themselves (like Amelia, Sarah's and Helena's birth mother) (Fawcett 1.9 00:40:37-00:41:30) or a couple using IVF unknowingly got a baby that was not their genetical daughter. (Fawcett 2.8 00:30:35). The Projects Leda and Castor (a parallel project with male clones) have been a military operation with Susan and Ethan Duncan as lead scientists until the Dyad Institute under the leadership of Dr. Aldous Leekie took over Project Leda (Fawcett 2.10 00:39:36). Nearly all of the female clones (except Rachel) were the largest part of their lives not aware of their clone nature and therefore had to be observed by so-called “monitors” - romantic partners, family or close friends – that collect information about the behaviour of their specific clone and send these to superiors such as Dr. Leekie (Fawcett 1.5 00:31:51). In order to be able to distinguish the clones and to patent their creation each DNA is expanded with an artificial sequence that is a code for "This organism and derivative genetic material is restricted intellectual property" followed by a tag number (Cosima's tag number is known to be 324b21) (Fawcett 1.10 00:31:06, 00:38:56-00:40:59). The original genome for the Leda as well as the Castor clones originates from Kendall Malone due to genetic chimerism (Hodson). The women are “barren by design” as Ethan Duncan explains to his foster-daughter Rachel and thus Sarah and is the “failure” being able to bear children (Fawcett 2.8 00:35:56). This meddling with their genome causes an auto-immune disease resulting in violent bursts of coughing blood and a general feeling of weakness that finally will cost them their lives. Clones known to be affected by this respiratory illness are Katja (who was shot by Helena before the disease could kill her (Fawcett 1.1 00:40:10-00:41:02)), Jennifer (who was promised a cure by Dyad, but died (Fawcett 2.3 00:19:27)) and Cosima who is still fighting to find a cure herself (Fawcett 1.10 00:09:26).
A movie, “The Other Sister,” is about two mentally challenged people name Carla Tate and Daniel. Carla Tate, a 24-year old woman, return to San Francisco from a sheltered boarding school after long years. After rejoining with her overprotective mother Elizabeth, a gentle and thoughtful father Radley, and two young and older sisters, Carla announces that she wants to attend a local school called Bay Area Polytech, a normal vocational school. Nevertheless of her mother Elizabeth’s disapproval, Radley supports her to pursue her dream. On the first day, Carla meets a boy named Danny and helps him when someone calls him “retarded.” They both get close to each other and fall in love quickly. Carla envied Danny for living on his own, so
Anne Orthwood’s Bastard by John Ruston Pagan tells the story of what Anne’s life was like living in early colonial America. The book depicts a very accurate description of what life would be like for any settler in the Americas. Settlers were enticed to move over the colonies by the Virginia company with the idea that they could achieve a life full of opportunities. There they would work as Indentured servants and serve out their term. Throughout the book there are many cases involving the sale of Indentured Servants and also the in Anne’s case of her pregnancy through her illicit relationship. These legal cases favored those with higher social status and higher economical statuses. Early American society was built with economic interests
Which was sister souji who is a psychologist or someone who comes and preached and gives advice to those in trouble , in need of some good advice she is well known in new york . Winter gets introduced to sister souji who takes her in even though winter gives her a fake name . She asked sister souji if she knew her cousin midnight she said “yes” . Winter had lied and said that her mother was very sick and her mother wanted to see midnight which was her cousin . she asked if she could stay there which sister souji let her for a few weeks till midnight came to get her . Sister souji introduced her to her little sister lauren which who also liked to party and was a bit sneaky . Then the doctor who works down stairs and has her little clinic which winter seems to keeps an eye on because she make 300 dollars each patients . Sister souji gets invited to her friends party who most likely her boyfriend on the low but things don't seems to workout at the moment with his career and lifestyle as a rapper . Which winter sees a big opportunity to snatch and if she sleeps with the rapper she can make him fall in love with her body which is not true at all because the moment she gets a chance to go back to the mansion and gets picked to go up stairs . She gets played out. who she really sleeps with is the bodyguard .
While she might think that her plans are working, they only lead her down a path of destruction. She lands in a boarding house, when child services find her, she goes to jail, becomes pregnant by a man who she believed was rich. Also she becomes sentenced to 15 years in prison, over a street fight with a former friend she double crossed. In the end, she is still serving time and was freed by the warden to go to her mother’s funeral. To only discover that her two sisters were adopted by the man she once loved, her sister is with the man who impregnated her, and the younger sister has become just like her. She wants to warn her sister, but she realizes if she is just like her there is no use in giving her advice. She just decides that her sister must figure it out by
As she got older, Jeannette and her siblings made their own life, even as their parents became homeless. Jeannette and her older sister Lori decide to run away from their family in Virginia and go start a new life in New York City. However, after a few months, the rest of the family moves to New York and settles down. While in the City, Jeannette gets a job as a reporter, which was her life goal, and one day on her way to an event she sees her mother rummaging around in a dumpster. While the rest of the family gets along, Maureen, the youngest of the family goes insane and stabs their
This book is about a girl name Ellen Foster who is ten years old. Her mother committed suicide by over dosing on her medication. When Ellen tried to go look for help for her mother her father stopped her. He told them that if she looked for helped he would kill them both. After her mother died she was left under her fathers custody. Her father was a drunk. He would physically and mentally abuse her. Ellen was forced to pay bills, go grocery shopping, cook for herself, and do everything else for herself. Ellen couldn't take it any more so she ran away her friends house. Starletta and her parents lived in a small cabin with one small bathroom. One day at school a teacher found a bruise on Ellen's arm. She sends Ellen to live with Julia the school's art teacher. Julia had a husband named Roy. They were both hippies. Julia and Roy cared a lot about Ellen. After Ellen turned 11 years old she was forced to go live with her grandmother. Ellen didn't want to leave Julia and Roy but her grandmother had won custody. Her grandmother was a cruel old lady. Ellen spends the summer with her grandmother. Living with her makes her very unhappy. Since her grandmother owns farmland she forces Ellen to work on the field with her black servants. Ellen meets a black woman named Mavis. Mavis and her become good friends. Mavis would talk about how she knew Ellen's mother and how much Ellen resembled her mother. Her grandmother didn't think the same. She thought that Ellen resembled her father. She also hated that man. Her grandmother would often compare her with her father. Her grandmother would torture her because she wanted revenge from her father. Her grandmother also blames her for the death of her mother. While Ellen was staying with her grandmother her father died. When her father died she didn't feel sad because she had always fantasized about killing her father. Ellen just felt a distant sadness. Ellen cried just a little bit. Her grandmother was furious because Ellen showed some emotions. She told her to never cry again. After that Ellen becomes scarred for a long time. One day her uncle Rudolph bought the flag that had been on Ellen's father's casket. Her grandmother turns him away. Later that day she burned the flag.
In Mudbound, by Hillary Jordan, characters of many different backgrounds interact in the Mississippi River delta. Although the novel takes place at a time when races are technically equal, many older white characters carry their prejudices into farm life, discriminating against their black peers, whether consciously or unconsciously. As she explores race relations in her novel, Jordan asserts that racial discrimination is insidious, still existing despite good intentions and a lack of overt offense.
she is able to meet her twin sisters that have been missing from her life for over 30 years.
Unwind by Neal Shusterman describes a world, taking place shortly after the second civil war, where parents and families are able to “retroactively abort” their children when they are past the age of thirteen. When they turn eighteen, they are no longer within their parent's’ constraints and cannot be unwound. When teenagers are unwound, their body parts and organs become disassembled and can be transplanted into teenagers who require that specific part or organ. Families interpret this as their children’s essence being spread among other teenagers, in which their child will still live on. This book follows every move of the main characters Connor Lassiter, Risa Ward, and Lev Caldar. These three characters work together for most of the book
The story of the Gadbury sisters is a documentary which the descendants of each sister shares their heritage, beliefs and where they originated from, giving insights on their convicted family history. Caroline, Sarah and Maryann were the three troublesome sisters, which were categorized to be very clever and organized with their convict offenses. Starting at age twelve these three sisters began their rebellious missions with robberies and shoplifting from Londoners. Through time the Gadbury sisters formed generations and generations of descendants although the concept of Gadbury family history changed over time as told by each descendant of the three sisters.
It is set in alternate “England, late 1990’s where human beings are cloned and bred for the purposes of harvesting their organs once they reach adulthood. These "clones" are reared in boarding school-type institutions” (Cusk. 2011). The reader follows retrospective and episodic accounts of these experiences through a series of flashbacks from the main protagonist and point of view of ‘Kathy H’ introduced in the beginning of the novel as a “thirty-one year old carer” the only option available to the clones in which they can experience any sense of normal societal life i.e. employment, their own transport and accommodation (Ishiguro. 2005: 3).
The story building is in three acts. The first one tells us about the childhood of our characters(Hailsham), the second one about their teens and early adulthood(cottages) and the last one about their donations. The clones were made from normal people, but they grew up in institutions with other clones and when they reached adulthood they start to donate their vital organs.
...ear old girl and was the first multiple to appear to the therapist. “Janet” comes out to drive. “Carol” comes out to grocery shop. “Mary” is the financial keeper. “Skeptic” claims that Beth is a liar and is acting everything. “Yardwoman” takes care of the yard. Beth once caused her family to be $6,000 in debt because all her personalities had a combined seventeen credit cards and ran them up. Beth was abused and raped from age ten until the age fourteen.
The three Weird Sisters, or as Tolman explains, the “Norns of Past, Present, and Future,” embody knowledge that is utilised to bring about man’s downfall (92). The Sisters are not realistic characters per se, but are constant and unchanging, suggesting a spiritual, demonic level of being. To begin with, the Weird Sisters are shown, as a result of an evidently Mephistophelian exchange...
war. Through this hardship, the girls: Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy, learn to be thankful in all circumstances and help those less fortunate than themselves.