Aunt

businesses to check if everything is okay, and then starting the day not knowing what is in mind. My aunt Leanne started her business when she was 23. Leanne suffered from endometriosis when she was really young and she ended up having four kids. She also has 4 dogs. My role model is my aunt Leanne because she is very determined, highly successful, and family oriented. One of the main reasons why Aunt Leanne is my role model is because she is determined. She borrowed money to open up her daycare…

anything of the sort. She was too cool for that. She prefers to be called Mimi, however I sometimes slip and call her “Gram” and she thinks that is pretty cute. She has two children of her own, my father who is the oldest with two children (girls) and my Aunt Star who has two children (boys). She has resided in Chester County, Pa all of her life. Mimi is one of the smartest people I know. She is very knowledgeable about many things and very good with money. I frequently go to her for advice.…

My aunt Shekelia is the type of person likes to have step by step directions. She will pull on the side of the road until you have all the information about where you are going. She isn’t the type to waste gas going in circles, because people don’t know where they’re going. Also, if you had a certain time to be somewhere sometimes she come and pick you up a hour ahead of time just so you can’t say that she was the cause of you being late. (Sequence First) She is the type that likes all her…

Niece and aunt were alike in so many ways. Ann often feared Claire would turn out like her. Contrary to popular belief, Ann is not a reckless person. In reality, she’s the exact opposite. Like her aunt, Claire sometimes acts irrationally. It’s common for each to overreact, or to continue without careful consideration. While other times, they stand firm, refuse to budge, when maybe they should. Some call this stubbornness. Ann calls it, “Being a bitch.” As it turns out, Claire’s life took a…

I attended the 7:30 showing of Charley’s Aunt on October 7th. Based on my experience during ThunderBard and this specific performance I would somewhat agree with Ms. Ditor. It truly depends on the emotion and atmosphere of the play. If the play has more shocking elements it would make sense for the audience to be compelled to mentally ask “what will happen next.” If a performance is more about feeling the story that that question is not necessarily upon the minds of the audience. From the play…

Mockingbird, Aunt Alexandria comes into town to visit Scout, Jem, and Atticus. Scout was not very happy to see her aunt. Her aunt ignored her question about why her husband did not come along with her. But when Scout asked Aunt Alexandria why she there, Aunt Alexandria responds that they kids need a feminine influence around the house. Aunt Alexandria also asked them did their father not tell them that she was coming into town and Scout and Jem replied no. Although Scout did not like her aunt…

In the folktale, Aunt Misery by Judith Ortiz Cofer the author argues Aunt Misery’s hospitable, insightful, and clever traits helped her to achieve immortality. For instance, Aunt Misery’s hospitality shows when “she fed him and made a bed for him in front of her hearth -Judith Ortiz Cofer.” This shows that Aunt Misery is very hospitable,without expecting anything in return. This is important because if she didn’t treat the first traveler or sorcerer in disguise hospitably, she wouldn’t have…

Aunt Sally, A Miss Guided Christian First off, the irony in the scene of Aunt Sally, all stems from her unawareness to her insensitivity for the value of an African American man’s life referenced as a ‘Nigger.’ However, her compassion for a Caucasian man’s life brings her sorrow. When Huck arrives at her farm, thinking he was Tom Sawyer she was happy, but rather distraught of his tardiness. Through her excitement, Aunt Sally is quick to question him on what had taken him so long to arrive. She…

"Whose Afraid of Aunt Jemima" painted in 1983, done after the death of both her mother and sister. At that time Aunt Jemima was the black feminist hero, she was ridiculed for being fat, black, and having a big nose. Ringgold felt that this was not a way to condem someone, so with the quilt she gave her another life. In this life she had a family, a career, and talked about the important things in her life and not about the way she looked. Other women that she asked did not feel bad for aunt…

At the beginning of this section, Annemarie confronts her uncle about lying to her. She knows that her Great-Aunt Birte was not in that casket, and she knew that she did not have a Great-Aunt Birte. Later that night, the “family” of Great-Aunt Birte arrived. As people came into the house and sat down without saying anything, Mrs.Johansen called Ellen to go outside. Peter and the Rosens showed up and so did the soldiers. They came beating on the door asking for a reason that so many people…