Grendel's mother

proven to be a better mother than Aunt Alexandra. First of all, Alexandra is too strict of a motherly figure. This is first proven in the words she says upon arriving, which is commanding Calpurnia to put her bag in the front bedroom, and Jean Louise to stop scratching her head (Lee 169). In fact, most of what their aunt says to them are remarks to do this or to be more like that. This suggests that she is too hard on Jem and Scout. Rather than building the kids up like a good mother should,…

example for this effect of divorce of children. Following the divorce, Jane’s mother had more custody over Jane, her older brother, and her younger sister. Jane’s older brother did not agree with this settlement at all. He began to see his mother as selfish for having them more than their father did. Jane’s brother began to find himself resenting his mother for keeping him from his father. He felt as though his mother was trying act like she was the better parent by taking care of them more of…

Welcome to the Land of Ogres It was the moment my world stopped. The moment the birds flew away for safety and little kids playing so noisily outside ran home to their beloved mothers. I can remember it clearly. “James, Yvonne. Your dad is very sick, he can’t cope living here anymore, and his mummy and granny have both died. That is why we’re moving to Scotland.” I could feel the hatred both my brother and I had towards my mum for saying something that was beyond our wildest dreams of…

3rd grade: I was staring that club write in the eye, it was staring at me like a hawk. The contact was so loud, it sounded like a bomb, my ears rang so loud it hurt. I put my hands on my head but something was not right, instead of my fingers stopping at my forehead they went inside. I looked at my hands and they were just red, all red. My instinct was to scream, so that’s what I did, even though I didn’t feel anything. I laid down and some random guy sat on top of me and started to hold my…

my life, career and leadership skills would be my mother, LaDawn Lundstrom. My mother is the leading role in my life and I could never thank her enough for her dedication to my life. My mother has raised my brother and I alone and has always shown unconditional love for the both of us. When my mother was 21 when she had my older brother Dante and was completely unaware of the difficult life changes that the future would hold as a single, young mother. My parents were never married but were in a…

Racist, that occurred significantly more times than any others: daughter and mother. Helen Oyeyemi wrote these words seventy- eight times, which gave support to a theme of the short story. The theme is the strength of relationships between daughters and mothers, which is established through Oyeyemi’s characters and their attributes. Oyeyemi wrote her story from the first-person point of view. This meant that the mother was the protagonist in the short story. She was also the…

Sitting down in the back of a moving van on a hot summer day while reading a book to distract myself from the heat and everything around me. Most summer days, I would help out my father with his work. During those days, I noticed that my father would be hunched back in the van just so he was able to fit inside. For you see, this van was his working van. Inside this van were a cooler filled with sodas covered in a layer of ice, a variety of fruit and vegetables, and plastic containers filler with…

“Sister Wife,” by Shelley Hrdlitschka is set in a polygamous community run by men who manipulate women into believing that their rules are absolute and people that do not follow them are evil; however, the reader learns along with the main character Celeste, that rules and common sense are two very different things and those rules of the community are not common sense at all. The rules that are enforced by the men affect the parenting roles of both men and women. They also ruin the opportunities…

the kids as well, because they will emulate what they see or happens around them. “Middle-class boys tend to do worse in school when their mothers worked... as well, boys whose mothers work tend to have strained relationships with their fathers due to their perceptive devaluation of their father 's worth as an adequate breadwinner”(Novelguide). When the mother works the middle-class boys see their Dads as less of a man, because he isn 't supporting the family.The high levels of stress, and…

The American families truly changed over the last 50 years, not since World War II we seem so many women and mothers in the workforce. During World War II nearly 46% of the female population in the United States stepped up to the plate to fill the roles that their male counterparts had up to that point dominated. During the 1960s there was a time of social and political change not only were African-Americans fighting for their rights to be treated as equals, but there was another group pushing…