Mother insult

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,…

twenty-two years is defying all obstacles that face a child of a low-income, teenage mother. At sixteen years old, my mother took the reigns of motherhood without hesitation despite my biological father leaving the picture. We grew up together. We made it through her abusive second husband, an ongoing legal battle surrounding child support, and the recent capstone of my coming out in our very conservative state. The insults from high school teachers who taught us both were no match for my mom’s…

Once upon a time, there lay a miniature cottage in the blank canvas of a desert. It held two mean pigs and one kind, they lived with their caring mother, Oinkisha. “Everyone to the living room. Family meeting!” Oinkisha shrieked and the house shook violently. Two dirty, smelly, ugly, pigs scrambled into the living room, piling on top of each other. The third clambered over the heap. “Rowdie, Rusty, Ronnie, I think you should move out. You are twenty you know.” Onkisha announced. “You know…

at their victims, but they almost always stuck together. Neither boy would “rat” out their friends, instead they kept quiet and attempted to protect each other as long as possible. The characters I liked the least were Eddies and Marcus’ mothers. Both mothers did not trust that they boys would not betray each other. Instead they told their sons that they no longer had the once strong friendship. Eddie's youngest sister, Rose, reminds me a lot about myself. When her brother and Marcus are…

In Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman, readers get an insight into the struggle of a middle class family that can't live a comfortable life due to the demands of a poor paying job with little rewards and promise. The man of the family, Willy Loman, can’t give up the past glorious success he once had as a traveling salesman. He has two dysfunctional sons, Hap and Biff, whom never made anything of their lives, who never sought out for a higher quality of life, who leave and eventually come back…

Alice Munro, originally Alice Laidlaw, was born on July 10th 1931, in Ontario, Canada. As a child Munro found an escape in books when her schoolteacher mother was diagnosed with Parkinson’s, Alice was ten years old at the time. (“Top 10 Things To Know about Alice Munro.”) And as a child she made up her own endings to stories like the Little Mermaid. She thought it was unfair how the Ariel to choose between the prince and her family. So she created her own ending. ("Alice Munro." Bio.com.)…

on to something in a way you can you can explain some behaviors, but it is not one hundred percent certain. By knowing this theory i have understood myself and others a little better. Though I do not think it is completely accurate for example, my mother is a nursing professor and has her PHD. she has always stressed how…

problems, and now this year, I always get caught up on the things going on. I also find myself thinking about my future and what I want to be when I am older, last year I wouldn’t have thought about it. Another indication that I am growing up is that my mother asked for my advice on a serious matter, last year she would have just dealt with it with my father or on her own, but this year she asked me aswell. Unfortunately, in the book Esperanza Rising, by Pam Munoz Ryan, the main character,…

Throughout the works we have studied in class, identity has been a common theme. Forming an identity is imperative to the writers we have studied. Identity in relation to genetics, family, and overall lineage is something closely connected to Caribbean literature. Michelle Cliff, Edwidge Danticat, and Jamaica Kincaid all left their respective Caribbean homelands to settle into new environments. The writings include a deep search for a strong identity. These identities often take root in lineage,…

women in whatever way they feel like treating. However, Nirupama’s mother-in-law can be seen as the antagonist of the story because of so many reasons. She not only treats Nirupama like a stranger in the house, but she also does not let Nirupama meet her father and when Nirupama falls ill, she refuses to believe her and says, “It’s all a sham.” and “It’s only a ploy to go back to her father’s house.” (p. 64). The character of the mother-in-law is a manifestation of how even one’s own gender can…