Rasheed: Summary

Edith Wharton focused her novel Ethan Frome, around the tragic story of the man himself. Ethan lived with his sherd wife, Zeena, and discovered early on in there marriage that happiness was not in the card for him, as he gave up his dreams for fear of being alone. Years into their marriage Zeena's cousin, Mattie, comes to stay with the Fromes. Ethan soon finds himself entranced by the girl, longing to be with her over the women he was married to. The two find themselves falling in love and are devastated when they hear that Zeena has arranged for a new aid to come.

These two sisters have grown together all through their life’s, creating a strong bound, and the fact that her family and a “old guy” is taking away her sister is something she can’t stand. In the end Nea believes that she is saving Sourdi from Mr.Chhay and her mother. However what Nea does not understand in all her youth and idealism , is that sourdi does not want to be saved: She willfully accepts her fate and her marriage to Mr.Chhay because she finds financial stability and a secure future.

As a result, the situation validates that the parents’ divorce impacted the narrator’s life and resulted to change her perception on how to approach her mother. Furthermore, the narrator fears upon meeting her mother since the divorce was also the result of her traumatic realization; Which is the stealing of “Persian Carpet” alluded the mother’s extra-marital affair influence the thought that their family relationships could not be mended. The narrator’s emotions were overflowing when she met her mother that

The main character of the book is Betty Mahmoody. She is a loving mother and is remarried with Moody. If they are going to Iran for a holiday, he refused to allow them to leave. She never thought Moody would take her there against her will, because he had sworn by the Koran that they will return to the USA after two weeks and she believed him. Betty is a strong woman who keeps having faith that she and her daughter will escape Iran and can go back to the USA some day.

By watching the springtime occurrences, Janie comes to realize the emotional connection and physical duality she wants in her future marriage. Nanny promised that Janie would come to love Mr. Killicks naturally. But when that doesn’t happen after a year of marriage, Janie becomes disillusioned with romance and more pessimistic in her outlook. She’s given up on her springtime marriage.

My parents decided to see what Frida was like since they would be needing a new nanny. The first day Frida met my family and me she worriedly told Maria, “They can’t speak Spanish, I don’t know if I should work here.” Frida is from Peru and cannot speak a word of English besides, “Hello, how are you.”

When Jason told her that he married the princess for her and their children to give them a better life ¨ I shall show you that my action was wise, not swayed by passion, and directed towards your interest and my children¨( Medea lines 549-551). But she did not tell her about his plans before putting his plan in march.¨ One

Nanny who has been Janie’s caretaker has several hopes and dreams for her granddaughter. Nanny is not entirely perfect at her job of raising Janie, since her dreams for her are clouded by her own scarring experiences. Nanny attempts to insure a better life for Janie by forcing her to marry Logan Killicks, an old and wealthy man. Blinded by her own dreams, hopes, and desires, Nanny makes many impositions on Janie, “Have some sympathy fuh me. Put me down easy, Janie, Ah’m a cracked plate” (Hurston 20).

The interns and residents make huge mistakes that normally would cause them to get kicked out of the program. For example, Izzy, an intern at the time, falls in love with a patient by the name of Danny. Danny’s condition worsens and Izzy cuts his wire in order for him to move up on the transplant list. Of course, she gets off lightly and we know that this is very unlikely. In real life, a resident would be kicked out of the program, sued, and unable to practice medicine again, and possibly serve jail time (Kirzner, 2014).

Marjane parents both choose that Iran was not the place for their daughter. She was headstrong, outspoken, and independent. However, the behavior she has got her expelled so her mom and dad was afraid something worse would happen. They shipped Marjane to Vienna where she ended up in a boarding house that was run by some nuns.

The movie Follow the Stars Home is about a woman, Diane Parker, who is pregnant with a girl who can not walk or speak. Diane meets a man and they fall deeply in love, but he is strictly against Diane having the baby, so he leaves Diane. Diane successfully goes through with the pregnancy, but Julia’s doctors predict that she will not live much more than six years. Diane struggles through taking care of her daughter, nevertheless she does not find regret in giving birth to Julia (Lowry). The film as a whole offers a theme of valuing human life no matter what problems occur, nor what the future holds.

One day, Tariq stopped by Rasheed’s house to see Laila. This came to Laila as a surprise because Rasheed had made everyone believe that he was dead. After learning that Tariq had been there, Rasheed began to beat Laila for being with Tariq. ( Hosseini 182) Mariam had realized that Rasheed’s anger had overcome him and that he was going to kill Laila.

“RUTH (sincerely, but also self-righteously): Now that's your money. It ain't got nothing to do with me. We all feel like that— Walter and Bennie and me—even Travis. MAMA (thoughtfully, and suddenly very far away): Ten thousand dollars — RUTH: Sure is wonderful. MAMA: Ten thousand dollars.