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This feeling of sympathy is portrayed by this passage because we see how Mary’s mother did not want her at all and although Mary got sick, the only thing that Mary’s mother was most concerned about is not letting anyone know she had a daughter. On page nine of the book, we are able to see that due to the outbreak of cholera, Mary looses the only person who cared for her which was her Ayah. Although, Mary did not develop any affectionate feelings towards her Ayah, we are able to see that after her Ayah dies, Mary is left behind with no one to take care of her. The author made me feel sympathetic towards the character because during the cholera outbreak Mary was extremely neglected up to point where she accidentally got drunk by drinking wine. “It was in that strange and sudden way that Mary found out that she had neither father nor mother left, that they had died and been carried away in the night, and that the few native servants who had not died also left the house as quickly as they could get out of it, none of them remembering that there was Missie Sahib.”

The Takeshimas move to “Lynn’s home” in an effort to help her get better with the help of the saved money from the kids. Lynn recovers slightly, but then falls back to sickness after Sammy gets caught in a trap on a picnic. Lynn's condition continues to worsen and Lynn becomes easily angered, (An example being of when Lynn wanted milk, only to throw it on the floor, and when Katie brought water, also threw that.) Later on, Lynn dies alone and it is discovered that 4 days before she died, she wrote a will to her family stating who got what from her because she knew she would die soon.

In the story “The Good Earth” by Pearl S Buck, the author uses O-Lan’s marriage as an example to show how women in the early 20th century was treated poorly and were unappreciated by others regardless of how important their role was in the family. From the moment O-Lan was married to Wang Lung until she died, she has served everyone in the family and cared for them without being appreciated. The morning right after getting married to Wang Lung, O-Lan started to do housework like bringing tea to her husband and his father. After bringing tea to the old man O-Lan returned to Wang Lung and said “I took no tea to the Old one-I did as you said-but to you I…” (Ch. 2, pg. 28).

She became very bored with life and had no desire to care for herself or her home as it became very dusty and old. She often sent her Negro out to to get food or other items she needed, but eventually that stopped as well. She also resulted to harm, as we can assume that she killed Homer at the end of the story. She may have also tried to harm herself with the poison to deal with the disorder, but we can’t be sure. We know about the lows since there were so many, but what about the highs?

She was begging at the docs all dirty and stinky like. My husband made quick with her arrangements for he would be traveling in the next year and I would be in need of a maid. Maybe. Well, I bathed her and clothed her and sat her. I’m not acquinted with keeping a maid but she does have stories, only nineteen but worked for ten, family is dead and she, mercy me, has no place but the street.

It is a novel about a neighborhood carpool, four families, and an affair that threatens to tear the community apart. Frances Bloom is a carpool mother that often finds hersel the unwiting witness to her neighbors' deepest secrets. She knows that Mrs Horton has gone missing and that her cousin wants a new child but has not yet mustered the courage to tell her husband. After the shock of seeing Anne Porter making love to a man that was definitely not Mr. Porter, Frances resolves to stick to her lane. But that is easier said then done particularly when Mr. Porter throws out his wife barely a week after.

In the book Literary and Cultural Theory by Donald Hall, he discusses key principles which define feminist analysis and its subcategories. Kate Chopin’s short story, “The Story of An Hour,” is about a woman named Louise Mallard who was told that her husband died and she finds joy in her freedom. However, her husband turns out to be alive and when he returns home, Louise dies from devastation. In Chopin’s book The Awakening, Edna Pontellier is different from most women in society and has been rebellious for most of her life with fantasies of forbidden loves. Despite her responsibilities as a wife and mother of two boys, she continues to rebel by having

In fact, some pharmacists hate their job. I even got recommendations from one pharmacist to get out of the field, not at my fault, but due to the decrease in respect and over corporatization in the industry. Even though Rose had less experience in the medical fields, she had a better understanding of the pros and cons of pharmacy. She stated that the pros were more knowledge of medications and the medical industry in general. The cons, in her opinion, were the responsibility of having patients lives in your hands and many long hours on your feet.

She even risked and lost her job just so he wouldn 't go to prison with Grant 's murder on his record. She has been doing newspaper and photography for a long time and the fact that she put that all aside and risked it just for Shep really shows a lot about how she really is and how nice and caring she is. Also she risked hers and her mom 's job by talking and seeing Shep. She really loved working with her mom and she said it was her favorite thing to do.

Olds talks about family life as well she talks a lot about the abuse she went through as a child and her relationship with her father. In the poem “The Victims” Olds is talking about how she is excited that her father has left. She is glad that her mother divorced him, “When mother divorced you, we were glad, she took it and took it in silence” (Poemhunter). In this poem Olds seems to be excited that her father has lost his job as well,” We were tickled to think of your office taken away, your secretaries taken away, your lunches with three double bourbons, your pencils, your reams of paper” (Poemhunter). From this the audience, would get that Olds father was abusive referencing the bourbons whenever he drinks.

Laundry was not an easy job back in the Civil War era and once she got so frustrated with one of the laundresses that she slapped her. On February 25, Von olnhausen finally had enough wounded soldiers to keep her busy. She even cared for a confederate soldier; something she never wanted to do. When

She left and ran away from the rehab center calling her dad from a payphone and he eventually met up with her at a donut shop. She hadn’t seen her dad since she started rehab so when she finally seen him she was relieved. He eventually told her that it was his fault for not being there and she realize he is the reason why she began to abuse

“Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Cabin Fever” is a young adult novel by Jeff Kinney. It is a sixth installment in Kinney’s “Wimpy Kid” series. “Cabin Fever” follows the misadventures of Greg Heffley. His attempt to earn money for Christmas gifts gets him in trouble at the school just as a massive blizzard sets in. When the novel begins, Thanksgiving has just passed, and Greg is panicked about being as good as he can so that Santa Claus will bring him many gifts.

The book I read was called Fever 1793 and here is my book summary. This book is about a teenage girl named Mattie Cook. it all starts off on August 16, 1973 Mattie's family runs a little coffee shop in Philadelphia. there has been an outbreak of yellow fever in philadelphia all the sudden. the first person Maddie knows that gets yellow fever is one of the workers in the shop whose name was Polly, shortly after Polly dies.

Many people throughout the world live in a place where they are unable to obtain the necessary resources needed to survive unless they’re risking something. They’re trapped in this nearly never ending circle day to day, doing the same thing to keep themselves and their families alive and in a better place then they were. In the short stories of Edwidge Danticat’s novel Krik? Krak! The author follows the fictional lives in a town called Ville Rose, in Haiti.