Vance identifies the reasons for lack of economic and social success amongst people living in Appalachia, and how he broke out of it. As a child growing up in this poverty stricken area, Vance is well aware of all of the issues keeping “Hillbillies” from moving up the social and economic ladder. Aside from bare lack of money and abusive drug use, he recognizes how “Hillbillies learn from a young age to deal with uncomfortable truths by avoiding them.” In his story, he talks about how people in economic hardship would not try to change their bad work ethic or lack of education, they would just continue to labor in their same low paying job. Ultimately, this caused many of his peers to sacrifice their dreams; Vance accounts, “Psychologists call it “learned helplessness,” when a person believes, as I did during my youth, that the choices I made had no effect on the outcomes in my life.”
He is able to broaden his horizons and keep himself illimitable in his present situation by exhibiting faith in his family and their
Supporting someone can change the way they feel and improve their courage. Support moves like a cycle, it has a mutual affection for everyone. There are many ways to impact someone, those who impact others in positive ways create a better mental and overall status of others and themselves. Both writers Ernest Buckler in “Long, Long After School”, and Sherman Alexie in The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian implement this idea of how support can change someone. First, in The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian, Grandmother Spirit encourages Junior to go to Reardon.
I have learned a lot about the effects that war can have on soldiers and their families form Eleanor Wimbish’s letter A Mother’s Words. In the letter, Mrs. Wimbish speaks to her son, Bill, a soldier who fought, and died, in the Vietnam War. She tells Bill how much she misses him and also informs him that she learned more about his time in Vietnam from one of his friends who was a fellow soldier.
She doesn't want him to run away from his fears, nor does she want him to always be helped by him. Also like that in The Red Hat by Rachel Hadas, the parents say “Now our son officially walks to school alone,”(2). This shows how they taught him to go to school on his own. They want
Growing up Charley is a daddy’s boy. His father said he had to choose him or his mother and could not be a mamas and daddy’s boy. While increasing by age Charley would play ball and wait around for his father at the liquor store. Then a day came were he just up and left Charley and mama. “War means tears to thousands of mothers” (Starr 8).
He needed a plan to get her back. He screwed up with her badly when she told him she was pregnant. He panicked told her to get rid of it, then denied his own child. He was scared and too immature to realize what a blessing god had bestowed upon them. He will never forget the look on her face the day she moved out.
The life of her son makes the mother desperate and resorts to any possible job thus giving the reader hope that her son has a future.
She tried so hard to distance herself from her family-mindset and be her own individual in college, but even in her most rebellious phase Callie always felt attached and duty-bound to her family. She could not escape her upbringing and
She wants to act like a teenager but doesn’t want to grow up. She knows that growing up isn’t all what it’s cut out to be and decides in the end that she wants to take her time in growing up and getting
The day before the hero started high school he started to feel the part of the refusal of the call because he did not feel like he was ready. He felt scared and nervous because of all of the people in the school. He did not think that he was ready because he felt insecure. The heroes parents helped to serve as a guide and mentor because the hero started to doubt that this was his journey. Although his parents kept the hero on track he still had doubts in his mind that this was not his journey.
“Otherwise you won’t survive.” She took this new knowledge and started to gain momentum. She Started learn the english language then everything became better. She could ask for help and she started to move through school faster and she understood what was being taught. She was able to get a job she was able to graduate and get a better job.
Hope and Education We learned from the Junior chapter that one has to look for success because sometimes you don 't have the life you wanted right there in front of you so you have to work hard and look for that glory . In the story Junior hopes for a better education and a better life . For example in the story , page 46 , it says , “ “I want to go to Reardan ,” I said again . Couldn’t believe I was saying it . For me , it seemed as real as saying , “ I want to fly to the moon.”
There are many that never get to experience what its like to nurture another human being- to form a bond so deep that time nor distance can drive a wedge between you…” Hearing the sadness in her grandmother’s voice, Allie turned to look at her. “Are you all right, Grandmother?” “Oh, yes,” said her grandmother cheerfully. “I am going to be a great-grandmother- what could be better? I do, however, wish this had not happened until after this blasted war is over.”
She liked to imagine “a world that presented opportunities for courage, boldness and self sacrifice. ”[47] which connects with what happens when she is helping out her dad on his farm. Even if not all days are as great
