Sister

Growing up with siblings can influence a child profoundly through the years of their development. In “Science Looks at the Sibling Effect”, Ira Flatow interviews Jeffrey Kluger, author of the book, The Sibling Effect: What the Bonds Among Brothers and Sisters Reveal About Us. Kluger describes the current scientific research on the effects of siblings on human behavior. Throughout the radio broadcast, Kluger depicts many research and observations towards young children with and without siblings.…

printing a Jonbenet story and many other media have been inspired by this case. Even after seventeen years, the unsolved case has become a popular subject in many television documentaries, crime blogs, and even books. Joyce Carol Oates’s story My Sister, My Love: The Intimate Story of Skylar Rampike, shares some striking similarities to the Ramsey case. Sarah Churchwell states that “The Ramseys were renamed the Rampikes, Patsy is now Betsy and her daughter recast as bliss (a champion junior…

story, Sister and her younger sister, Stella-Rondo, have a very one-sided relationship. Sister believes that since “Stella-Rondo is exactly twelve months to the day younger,”…

when rather it is due to their ignorance and intolerance. The reader see Sister Aloysius’ evident dislike for Father Flynn through the sugar incident, which coincides with Sister Aloysius’ discovery of Father Flynn’s nails. Sister Aloysius is about to serve Father Flynn when she notices his nails and completely stills. By her next phrase, “Oh yes,” the reader recognizes how…

Eudora Welty’s “Why I Live at the P.O” is a short story that is a prime example of two sisters that are not particularly compatible with one another. The narrator, who is only addressed by the name of Sister, has a younger sister, Stella-Rondo, who makes Sister's life very complicated. Sister seems to be exceptionally envious towards Stella-Rondo’s way of getting whatever she wants in life. Welty creates this one-sided family drama to show that everyone has their own version of the story.…

ruined and severely turning everybody against her. While telling this store Sister exposes her own character as well as many family secrets. From the Sister’s point of view in the beginning of the story the reader has sympathy for Sister because of the way she described how her younger sister turned her family against her. Later on in the story we start to see that these conflicts were perpetuated by Sister herself.…

brothers/sisters. Your parents might let them get away with more than they ever let you get away with, or they might even take up for them more than they would you. Having your parents and relatives take up for them in times that you know they should be either upset or disappointed in them might make you try to point it out to them. It would create an internal battle with your emotions for your brother/sister and your parents and relatives. Eudora Welty gives us a story of an older sister that…

mother to get to work. The male cousin is babysitter of the two daughters. It seemed to bother the younger sister about the male cousin as she was rushing towards her room and not wanting to leave the room. The older sister asked the younger sister what she wanted to eat because the older sister was planning to order food. The younger sister in the state of somewhat paranoia; gave her older sister an odd selection of food based…

Although all three of the main characters: Sister A, Sister James and Father Flynn share the same religion they have very opposite basis for their faith. Through the book of Doubt Shanley is portraying three different erroneous ways people approach faith. Sister A’s faith is based on her experience in life, not God’s; Sister James’ faith is based on emotions instead of being based on God; Father Flynn’s faith is used as a tool for power. Therefore, the play presents potential ways of engaging…

Dead Man Walking retells a true story of Sister Helen Prejean, who is a Roman Catholic nun who attempts to bring salvation to a convicted murderer and rapist on Death Row named Matthew Poncelet. Matthew writes a letter to Sister Helen, asking her to take on his case to compile a final appeal, one week before his scheduled execution. She agrees to meet with him, and decides to work with Matthew. Matthew is unashamed to be a racist along with a sexist, and to feel no remorse for the crimes he has…