Upon her release, Father Pafnutius tells her to “remain steadfast in fearing God, and continue loving Him forever” in order achieve heaven;
She is hidden away because, “her father says to be this beautiful is trouble.” (81) The only difference between the two of them is their age. When Sally goes to school, she dresses and behaves differently because she is not under the tyranny of her father. But, when she goes home, she is forced to behave the way he commands her
In order to provide for the family, “Ambrosch hired his sister out like a man, and she went from farm to farm, binding sheaves or working with the thrashers,” Antonia selflessly sacrifices her dignity. Though at first responding indifferently to Jim’s question of going to school, saying “I ain’t got time to learn…School is alright for little boys. I help make this land one good farm.” Revealing her true desire for an education to Jim, Antonia asks him to tell her of all that he learned in school. The magnitude of Antonia’s altruism is great; therefore her abrupt transformation from self-sacrifice to self-absorption is astonishing.
and “How can I now do it?” allows Edward Stacey to put himself in her position. These questions paint Eliza as a pitiful invalid who is at the mercy of the
In addition, the daughter finds a fork in the road that she finds questioning. Towards the end of the passage, when Dad went to find the vocabulary book, the daughter thought, “Why should I eat when my own father has abandoned his own food? Nothing’s more important than his books and vocabulary words. He might say I matter, but when he goes on a scavenger hunt for a book, I realize I don’t matter” (Lopez paragraph 26). This shows that the daughter feels that her father does not care as much about her.
This is a point when Lizabeth finally thinks deeper than a childish level. This is the turning point in which she begins to wonder what true adulthood is. She also experiences many times when she has mixed emotions and parts of the mind that pull to make decisions. “I indeed had lost my mind, for all the smoldering emotions of that summer swelled in me and burst- a great need for my mother who was never there, the hopelessness of our poverty and degradation, The bewilderment of being neither child nor woman and yet both at once, the fear unleashed by my father's tears. And these feelings combined in one great impulse toward destruction.
This doesn’t seem relatively fair to everyone else like the
This really sets the tone for the rest of the novel, including leading up to Rex’s diagnosis of tuberculosis. He was always pleased in living a life such as the homeless. Rex eventually died of a heart attack. The reason I find this the most important contributions to forgiveness is because her father was one of her best friends. She always believed in him when he ceased to believe in himself.
Isaac Ober Mr. Petrich Honors English, 9 22 December 2022 The Appeals of the Southern Belle code: a Look into the Past Through her primal imagery and employment of substories in To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee conveys that the institution of racism is perpetuated by the Southern Belle code; this code yields even more power to the already immensely powerful patriarchy by degrading women to pure beings that need protection from the outside world, reducing women to only their opinions and making it impossible for them to take action, thereby increasing the prominence of racism in the south. Through her clever word choice, Lee expresses that young girls are pressured to conform to the Southern Belle code through female role models, who heavily
She loved the Harling children as her own. She served Jim’s grandparents as if she was their bondservant. Whatever she did, she did wholeheartedly, tending the seeds of love and hope she had planted. And this did not fail her, for at long last she harvested the love, admiration, and respect of everyone around
As they shoot her family, she almost does not care but is trying to save her own life. She claims that he is a good man, “”Listen,” the grandmother almost screamed I know you’re a good man. You don’t look a bit like you have common blood. I know you must come from a nice family” (O’Connor, 477), but he is the farthest thing from a good man. He kills people and commits serious crimes.
She wanted real love and actively pursued that desire, proving her autonomy to all. However, this “real love” was tainted in a way she was unable to see, it was in fact seduction, not love. The seduction twists Eliza’s drive for independence and uses it against her. She attempts to decide her own fate, and society punishes her for it. The seduction ruins her name and her life, leaving her alone and with child, then eventually dead.
Her take on the antagonist is a complex mixture of agreement and disapproval. The reader almost wants to feel sorry for him, which is one reason why this work is controversial. In an eye opening
In “A Good Man is Hard to Find” the author uses the grandmother a lot for the sole purpose of bringing sin and redemption out. Throughout the story, the grandmother repeatedly criticized both her son and daughter-in-law, she always seemed to be lying and messing with other people's feelings. The Grandmother considers herself morally superior to others because she is a “lady,” therefore she freely and frequently judges others.
The reality of the situation was that she had no control over her father’s death. There was nothing or no way that she could have prevented the events that took place. Although she was extremely angry with the situation at hand she learned that she had other things to be grateful for. She wanted people to know that even though something or someone has passed away you can’t stay stuck in the state of depression forever. You have to step back and look at your life because the reality is, life still moves on.