She grew up in a little fishing village with little money. As she got older she started looking for work and found herself a job being a highway woman. During this time she committed petty thievery which she didn 't get in trouble for but lead her into more severe problems of Major crimes which ended being resolved in
Eventually her parents stopped sending her to therapy by the age of 12 as it was futile. They gave up on fixing what they
She may have had her emotions completely take over and her mind may have been telling her body what to do. Being emotionally unstable, makes our brains “foggy” and can often blind us from the real world and concepts of right and wrong. She was obviously not psychologically stable in her life during that
She was possessed by Satan himself which is a medical condition called Cacodemonomania. So to free her children from the hands of evil she killed them or as so she
She worried about her mom leaving or giving her up like her own mother did, she also thought that even good people could be bad if they had the opportunity so she didn’t
Her book describes the hardship and struggle she faced growing up in Little Rock and what it was like to be hurt and abused all throughout high school.
Her father was a religious fanatic and an abusive alcoholic, and her mother struggled with depression and other mental illness and was not able to care for her children. At the age of 12, Dorothea went to live with her grandmother in Boston. Her grandmother was very wealthy and proper, and expected Dorothea to act the same way. A dance instructor and seamstress were both
She watched her mother die slowly and she watched her dad struggle to take care of her. As a young kid or even as an adult watching the person who is supposed to raise you and teach about love, and everything you need to know in life will greatly affect what type of person you turn into. One of the most heartbreaking things you can go through as a child is watching your mother slowly die and then watching your father struggle to take care of her and provide for the family. Ida went through a lot, her mom was sick and then her mom’s sister Clara came to help out and caused a lot of drama in the family. All the fighting put a lot of stress on young Ida, “Mama charged Clara with sneaking into the house like an enemy, charger that she had always covered papa, berated her for taking advantage of illness to have her way” (283).
She felt guilt for hiding her parents from the people in her life, and she felt like she was living a lie. Also, she feels guilty because her parents are homeless and living on
Her mother died when she was at a young age, though that made her become more determined with the desire to expose her mother to the world and gain new
She was sold by her mother thinking that she would help the family and have a better life;
She looked at her mother suffer when the slave owners were punishing her.
No matter what circumstances she was stubborn and never changed. Her values and strong minded opinions kept her from changing. As a result this did more damage as she failed to enforce her views to her daughter and son in law. Although she felt she was doing the right thing in her opinion she did not succeed and was forced to move with another
According to the quote from the story, the author just wanted to be somebody she wanted to be, not somebody her mother wanted her
Her husband isolated her from others and her child, which caused her condition to worsen because she felt that she couldn’t care for her family as she
