Reason Case was accepted for investigation: On 12/2/17, Hennepin County Child Protection accepted a report of alleged predatory offender status concerning Tayshawn Robinson, Makayla Mason and Jemeul Robinson by their father’s partner Lillian Simmons. Per reporter received an anonymous report concerning children Tayshawn Makayla and Jemeul. Per reorter the children father’s partner Ms. Lillian Simmons was conited of murder in the 1st Degree in 1989. Ms. Lillian Simmons resides in the home with the children’s father Mr. Quincy Mason.
She and her family traveled to the coast to work long hour at large coffee or cotton plantation. Condition was hard back then. If children did not work, they would not eat. Her two brothers died, one from pesticides and the other from malnutrition. When her brothers died they were not allow to bury them.
On a damp, Saturday afternoon, in the rural southern town, of Wrongberight, Clemmy Sue Jarvis sits in silence on the top step of her front porch, sipping lemon laced ice tea from a chipped mason jar. The moment she observes storm clouds approaching from the northeast, she becomes vexed and contemplates building an Ark. All week intermittent rainstorms had hit the area, leaving in their wake, humidity as thick as the mud that converted the roadways into a never-ending slip and slide. Clemmy Sue, can live with the humidity, which she refers to as – the poor man’s sauna, however, she adamantly refuses to venture out onto the dangerous roadways. However, today she realizes deep down in her soul the only way to accomplish what she needs to achieve meant she has no choice other than to drive on the wet muddy roads. Therefore, late Saturday afternoon Clemmy Sue lifts her petite frame into the cab of her rusty Ford pickup and cautiously eases out of her driveway and slowly turns south onto Flat Bottom Road and follows it along the edge of the Dismal Swamp toward the isolated home of her dearest friend Estelle Louise.
In less than twenty minutes, Clemmy Sue is standing on Estelle Louise’s front porch. Without knocking, she opens the squeaking weathered screen door and moseys into a cluttered sitting room, where Estelle Louise slowly rocks back and forth, in a tattered rocking chair. “Estelle Louise, why ain’t you ready? You be knowing another storm be riding in.” “Imma guessing time just ran right past me.
Aunt Alexandra hosts a tea party for the ladies in the missionary circle to discuss various topics. The main topic that the ladies discuss is J. Grimes Everet and the work he is doing with an African tribe called the Mrunas. The women, especially Mrs. Merriweather, all praise J. Grimes Everet for all he does claiming that, “Not a white person’ll go near ’em but that saintly J. Grimes Everet” (309). These women are all very supportive of him helping a tribe that is halfway across the world in Africa that they decide they want to help. Although, these women praise what he does and want to help people over in Africa,they are repelled by the idea of even being associated with the African Americans there in Maycomb.
Janie’s first place of residence was West Florida with her grandmother. Her grandmother moved here so they can have a better life. “Ah got with some good white people and come down here in West Florida to work and make de sun shine both sides of de street for Leafy,”(19). This led to Janie
John Steinbeck, in the novel, Grapes of Wrath, identifies the hardships and struggle to portray the positive aspects of the human spirit amongst the struggle of the migrant farmers and the devastation of the Dust Bowl. Steinbeck supports his defense by providing the reader with imagery, symbolism and intense biblical allusions. The author’s purpose is to illustrate the migrant farmers in order to fully exploit their positive aspects in the midst of hardships. Steinbeck writes in a passionate tone for an audience that requires further understanding of the situation.
Scout is now forty six and living in Colorado, she’s a grammar school teacher and a mother of two. She’s been married for 19 years with Henry Stub, a pediatrician. Living in a country style community she learns to ride horses and raise farm animals. Her two daughters Amilia and Catrina would help in the farm all the time as children but now they are grown with their own lives. Now it’s just the two of them, Scout and Henry and their farm animals.
In the short story, “A Worn Path,” Eudora Welty introduces an elderly, African American, woman named Phoenix Jackson, whom for two or three years has made a long quest to town to get medicine for her ill grandson. Initially, Phoenix must overcome many obstacles to reach climax of her journey. Eudora Welty uses these obstacles to demonstrate the theme of her story, which is that Phoenix’s ambition/hope was the leading role in her preserving. The first obstacle that displays Phoenix’s determination to succeed, was when she came to a hill during her quest to town.
In the short story Kneel to the Rising Sun, we are given insight on the life of sharecroppers on a farm. Caldwell highlights two sharecroppers in particular: Lonnie and Clem. Clem is a confident black man that fights for what he wants and stands up to his wretched boss Arch Gunnard. Lonnie is a submissive white man that cannot talk to Arch. Throughout the story interactions between the characters lead to the horrible death of Clem Henry.
The incident of the “town mule”, when Jody “rescues” Matt Bonner’s mule (p 55-62), is more than just a humorous moment in the book. The mule story serves to illustrate the strained relationship between Janie and Joe Starks. More than that, however, the figure of
Humans live in a world where moral values are very clearly set determining what is good and what is bad. We know what scares us and how racism should be treated. Nevertheless, this was not the case back in Alabama during the 1950s. In the famous novel To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee narrates the lives of the people of Maycomb, Alabama, focusing on the story of Scout and Jem Finch, and the case of a said to be rape. In this emotion filled narrative, readers learn how life was back then not only in general, but for the separate social statuses that there was.
In this story, readers witness the life of Miss Emily through the eyes of the townspeople; some of which are the very embodiment of Old South ideals. Judge Stevens, the 80-year-old member of the board of Aldermen, is a leading example. The use of slavery in the pre-Civil War Southern states created a sense of social hierarchy, in which more whites espoused an aristocratic nature. As an 80-year-old citizen, who lived in the idealist era, Judge Stevens retains these traits. When he responds to the neighbor woman about the developing smell he states, “it’s probably just a rat that n***** of hers killed in the yard.
The false aquisations of people’s livelihood has been looked down upon since the beginning of the Renaissance, and from there on, had multiple sayings and books about such topics. But no piece of literature shows mastery in this theme better than Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird, which takes place in Maycomb, a sleepy little town in Alabama, during the 1930s, a time period where the common man did not second guess people’s appearances. However that does not mean that there is not another, more hidden story behind said appearance, as seen with a multitude of people. Harper Lee teaches her audience that more often than not, people’s appearances can be truly deceptive, Dolphus Raymond is a prime example of how Lee deceives the reader with appearances
The poorest white families in Maycomb County were the Cunninghams and the Ewells, who were living behind the town 's garage dump. “ ' '... The Cunninghams are country folks, farmers, and the crash hit them the hardest. ' '”18 For example, Walter Cunningham and Burris Ewells ' characters are both bullied at school, since they do not have the money for lunch or clean clothes. “...Walter Cunningham was sitting there lying his head off.
