Character Analysis Silver Sparrow

She didn’t want her parents to find out about a disease she knew she had because she didn’t want to face the consequences. The author uses a metaphor in paragraph 14 to describe her actions, and it says, “As I moved my chair a little nearer suddenly with one catlike movement both her hands clawed instinctively or my eyes and she almost reached them too.” This illustrates the levels the young girl was willing to go so that her parents won’t find out about her diphtheria. The doctor was trying to do his job, but the young girl was making it hard for him because she didn’t want to face the consequences.

It was a harsh realization, but she got her point across and that’s what she intended to do. Although it was too late to do anything about it, it gave some people closure and others left guilty of what they did or what they could’ve

. Lady Macduff's sentiments in regards to her spouse's unannounced way out is shown is this scene. Macduff did not tell his wife everything, dissimilar to Macbeth, whose wife was his 'accomplice in wrongdoing' and whose counsel he took in everything. Macduff escaped giving his wife no former explanation. This gave her the full right to feel frustrated about herself and her child's future.

While there is stigma associated with visible illnesses, like Updike's psoriasis, there are also invisible mental illnesses. In Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar, Esther is cautious of everyone around her, including her doctor and her very own mother. Right when she walks into his office, Esther doesn't trust Doctor Gordon," I hated him the minute I walked in through the door,"(Plath 128).Esther does not believe that this man will help her in any way because of her built up thoughts, "Then I thought, how could this Doctor Gordon help me anyway,"(Plath 129). Since Gordon does not fit Esther's imagine of what she wants the perfect Doctor to be , she doesn't trust him enough to tell him what's wrong. Esther even attempts removes her mother from her

She finds herself yelling when she should not, isolating herself from the world and even disassociating herself at work. Lisa used to be an extrovert, the life of the party. She yearns for the life she had before the rape. She is hesitant to seek help, due to the lack of support the system provides to rape victims that are not minors, but she knows all these effects could have been avoided if she went to therapy. Therapy and support should be provided to rape victims because without support , victims run the risk of depression, without the proper help, rape victims can be a risk to themselves and to others, and without the proper psychological help, substance abuse rates increase.

Stealing is like robbing your innocence from your life. The short story “Ashes” is a story about a divorced mom and dad with a daughter named Ashleigh. During the story it goes through the challenges the family faced. Ashleigh is faced with a big challenge: whether she should steal the 200 dollars from her mom for her dad or, not steal the money for her dad. Ashleigh did not take the money because her mom is a good role model, she knew her dad is not a good person, and she knew that stealing is not right.

Once again, the narrator was told that she couldn’t do something because John said so. During this time, the narrator’s condition has gotten worse because she is seeing things in the wallpaper. “And it is like a woman stooping down and creeping about behind that pattern.” (315). The narrator noticed this change in the wallpaper as her condition worsen.

It was highly expected for the women to obey either their husbands or father’s decisions. At that point in time women weren 't as well respected, men were always the most dominant. Julia Alvarez could portray that otherwise by the four sisters showing women 's self-worth and righteousness. Minerva was unhesitant about women 's right she was first to join against Trujillo. Each sister had strong characteristics to show their willingness to not give up on a better life for them and their children.

It becomes apparent in the very first Act that Abigail is not a trustworthy character. She is willing to throw blame at anyone to deflect the suspicion from herself, or even to gain something she wants. I suppose in some ways Abigail could be seen as a tragic character, but her manipulative nature sure makes it difficult to sympathize with her. She is willing to hang an innocent woman in her delusion that this will somehow result in John Proctor realizing his love for her. He has made it clear multiple times he has moved on and wishes to not see her but - of course - Abigail only persists.

Abusive relationships are toxic and dangerous. However, most people rarely recognize whether or not a relationship is abusive unless the victim is getting physically hurt by the abuser. That is the reason why many people never realize that they, themselves, are in an abusive relationship, and Malala is one of those people. Malala is abused by her best friend, Moniba, who likely is not even aware that she is being abusive, but that does not excuse any of her actions. The most glaringly obvious sign that Moniba is an abusive friend is the fact that “She doesn’t like me

Violet shows off her intelligence numerous times throughout the book, to the point where Titus’s friends and even father think she is snotty and a show-off, even calling her a bitch. Titus thought Violet lacked the basic social intelligence that tells you to adapt to the world around you. But Violet refused to give into the feed and adapting, which led her to resist the feed. This decision she makes is making her unpopular, but it also makes her a rebel, in a way making her a role model for being above the influence. She 's grown up in a whole other world due to the way she was raised by her father.

She let’s her diary keep all her secrets because she doesn 't want her mom to take what she says to heart. So Anne has started to notice what she is doing and feels bad. Second Anne has made her mom out to be the bad guy

She never wanted to do what she was told by people she didn 't fully respect. She puts up the fight of her life to Aunt Alexandera because she does not want to become a lady. She does everything she can to stay away from her for a while, then she just tries to stay away from it. Atticus, Scout’s father, commented that he thought that he would have more problems with Scout, because of her fighting spunky nature, than with Jem, her older brother (120). She also would go to the court case, after her father deliberately told them to not go to town.

At first Josie hated her father Michael for what he did to her mother, but then ends up opening her heart to him and accepting him into the family. She also didn’t get along with her Nonna that well at the start, but after realizing what her Nonna went through when she was her age, Josie and her Nonna started to see eye to eye. The reason Josie didn’t get along with Katia (Nonna) that well was because of the way she treated Josie’s mother. If Christina (Josie’s mother) or Josie ever did or wanted to do something Katia will always say “people will talk” and that really annoyed both of them. Josie’s relationship with her mother is a love hate relationship, one minute they love each other to bits and the next they’ll be screaming and throwing stuff at each other.

The message that is most prominent in The Bonesetter 's Daughter is that the lack of communication in relationships is harmful both to the relationship and the people in it. Tan makes this point over and over again using examples of: mothers, daughters, spouses and partners. She shows that when people don 't say to other what they really mean or feel, misinterpretations can lead to hurt feelings, strain in the relationship, damaged sel0images and self-destructive behavior. Than Makes a point that all can be resolved, but usually it takes time and talking. The story also suggest that in youth many things have to learned before on even things to question human intention, or even how their actions may come across to another, through mother and daughter relationships.