ipl-logo

One For The Murphys By Lynda Mulla

994 Words4 Pages

Have you ever felt like you don’t belong wherever you go? Have you ever felt like nothing is going your way? Lynda Mullaly Hunt, the author of One for the Murphys, intriguingly describes the life of a teenage foster child with many problems dealing with her foster family, her real family, and her friends. One for the Murphys is a story about a twelve-year-old foster child, living with a lovely foster family. After her mom went to the hospital for being abused by her step-dad, Carley’s life changed, from being a Las Vegas girl to becoming a Connecticut girl with a family she never knew existed. Carley has many problems ahead of her like, trying to accustom to a new family with three new brothers, new parents, new friends, new school, and new people she never wanted to meet. Also, being away from her mom was a …show more content…

When her Mom is finally good enough to be able to take care of her, Carley begins to move out. Because of this, Carley is heartbroken and conflicted, she doesn’t know whether she should stay or go, but realizes having her mom back is a good thing. One time when Carley visited her mom in the hospital, her mom said in tears, “‘And I thought that if those people wanted to keep you, that…’ She puts her hands over her face. ‘That you would have a better life without me.’ ‘But you’re my mom!’” (Hunt, 202). For this reason, Carley learns that her mom cares about her and wants her to have a good life. After being with the Murphys for so long, they taught her that people can be trusted and that people can be helpful. In this case, even after her mom turned on her, she realized after going to the Murphys that forgiveness is a part of life and is needed to get through the toughest times. Overall, Carley turned out to be a better kid by staying in the Murphy household becauses now she is finally able to trust

Show More
Related

  • Three Little Words By Ashley Rhodes Courter

    405 Words  | 2 Pages

    “Three Little Words” by Ashley Rhodes Courter is a memoir chronicling the author’s experience growing up in the Florida foster care system. Before Rhodes Courter was introduced to foster care, she was raised until the age of three by her single-teenage mother. In Ashley's Ordinary World, she recalls feeling happy and loved by her mother. However, her mother, unbeknownst to Ashley, engaged in hazardous activities, abusing drugs and neglecting Ashley and her half-brother, Luke. After their mother was arrested, Ashley and Luke were uprooted from their home and crammed into the dysfunctional foster care system (herald).

    Read More

  • Mary Moon And The Stars Janice Galloway Analysis

    265 Words  | 2 Pages

    As the story progresses we come to understand the reason behind all of this. Unfortunately her home life is not the best as she lost her brother and her mother a victim of attempting

    Read More

  • Hard Pan Chapter Summaries

    430 Words  | 2 Pages

    This book is a story of a girl named Lucky, the hard times she has faced in her short ten years of life and the ways she has overcome them. The setting of this book is in a town called Hard Pan in the California desert where Lucky has a few friends in the 43-town population; Miles, Lincoln, and Short Sammy. The book starts off with Lucky wanting to get this “higher power” that she overhears a few people talking about in a 12-step meeting in her town; she thinks if she gets this, all her problems will go away because of the stories she hears being told in the museum and visitor center. Lucky has been through what most ten-year-old girls today have not been through. Her mother passed away when she was eight and her father called his ex-wife,

    Read More

  • Connie In Joyce Carol Oates 'Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?'

    169 Words  | 1 Pages

    During the years of adolescence, an individual goes through a period of time which causes confusion and curiosity, where finding themselves is inevitable. “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?” by Joyce Carol Oates takes the reader on an adventure of rebellion as the protagonist, Connie, sorts through a sketchy situation with her own self-experiences. Connie, through her confusion of life, creates a devilish nightmare that is a subconscious manifestation of her desires for attention from the opposite sex. The feeling of helplessness and loneliness is a major characteristic of a nightmare that seems to linger in Connie’s minds. Through her journey, she finds that she is a helpless heroin and cannot control the events occurring around her.

    Read More

  • Lucy Yuppies Are Unhappy By Tim Urban

    1128 Words  | 5 Pages

    Writer Tim Urban, uses a character who he calls “Lucy”, to speak about a group of people in his essay “Why Generation Y yuppies are unhappy.” This group of people are a generation that are born between the 1970’s and mid 1990’s who in his definition, are wildly ambitious, with delusional expectations and are often taunted through social media which lead to their unhappiness. The author portrays this in a satirical and sarcastic tone, in order to get his point across. He also uses exaggeration and imagery for the audience to better understand the text.

    Read More

  • Beatrice Culleton Character Analysis

    746 Words  | 3 Pages

    This story is written by Beatrice Culleton and it talks about two young Metis girls, that grow up in foster care because their parents are drunks. They get taken into foster care and while they’re in foster care, they go through a lot of sadness from beginning to end. This is a very eventful novel that makes the reader think quite a bit about what they really went through and how they must’ve felt going through these types of things, both April and Cheryl don’t know why they are getting taken away from their parents at first because they’re too young to understand what’s really going on with them.

    Read More

  • Birthday Box Analysis

    668 Words  | 3 Pages

    Her parents were separated at the time, so she was stressed out about that, while her mom was sick with cancer. She explains that that she felt empty and angry, and she was terribly mean to her stepbrothers, stepmother, and father. Although this type of action is very understandable, it doesn’t make it right for her to act horribly towards her father’s family. This evidence illustrates the theme life is tough, because right after her mother died, she had to go move in with her father, which probably reminded her of her parents divorce.

    Read More

  • Safe Haven Nicholas Sparks Character Analysis

    943 Words  | 4 Pages

    Never Give Up It’s not easy to surpass immense challenges in life. In Safe Haven Nicholas Sparks portrayed this through the main character Katie. In the novel, Katie was in an abusive relationship, which she fled from, and ended up in Southport, North Carolina. This incident built up trust issues, which later in the story were knocked down by a man named Alex. Over the course of the story, Katie showed how difficult sit can be, but also how rewarding it can be.

    Read More

  • One For The Murphys Character Analysis

    396 Words  | 2 Pages

    Do you know anyone who keeps people at a distance to avoid getting hurt? Well Carley Connors, the main character from One For The Murphys written by Lynda Mullaly Hunt, keeps people at a distance to avoid getting hurt. For example, in the beginning Carley lies to Toni, her friend, about her life. She lies about Mrs. Murphy being her mother, the boys being her brothers, and Mr. Murphy being her father.

    Read More

  • Deep Blue By Jennifer Donnelly

    174 Words  | 1 Pages

    When you read a book, do you think that some characters are not needed to better the story? The book I read, "Deep Blue", by Jennifer Donnelly, is about a princess of the Mer region of Miromara. During her coronation of sorts her mother and father are struck down be an assassin in a black uniform. The city is captured by the Mer men in black uniforms, and Serafina and her cousin, Neela are forced to flee the city. The rest of the book is about Serafina's struggle to find the the assassin that killed her parents.

    Read More

  • Summary: The Most Important Conflicts

    838 Words  | 4 Pages

    Journal 4 You’re all alone the only person you have in your life is your younger brother because your mom is a drug addict that is never home and your dad left you when you were young, how do you feel? This happens to Ian McDermott and his little brother Sammy. When Sammy was born his father left them and that was when their mother became a drug addict. Ian has to take care of Sammy because their mother isn’t going to watch over him.

    Read More

  • She Said Yes Analysis

    939 Words  | 4 Pages

    This was a very hard transition for her because with out them she had no sort of identity, it was also a hard transition because her old friends did not make it easy for her they use to throw things on her lawn and try to contact her. Cassie parents and her best friend Mona’s parents had a meeting with the sheriff and at the meeting Cassie’s parents were accused by Mona’s parents of it being Cassie fault that their daughter was into this sort of thing and that she changed Mona, they also talked about how they were making a big deal out of about this. When Cassie was at her new school she did not fit in very well but she did make friends with a girl name Jamie. When Mistsy, Cassie mother met Jamie she was no they type of girl she wanted Cassie to hang around but she decide to give her a try Jamie dressed very Goth but had a deep steadfast relationship with Christ she also attended weekly youth group meeting at church.

    Read More

  • Archetypes In The Miracle Worker

    766 Words  | 4 Pages

    The Miracle Worker: the struggles: from hardships to friendships The storyteller uses the character archetype, a mentor, to reveal how she taught a little girl to communicate with her family because we as humans help people who need it and will do anything to help them because we want the parents to know what she wants without guessing. First of all , How Annie is a mentor because she taught Helen how to spell words out with her fingers. Helen can’t talk, so they don’t understand what she is trying to say (acts out, violent) Annie helped Helen to spell by using her fingers/palm as a language. This ties back to the theme because that is the only way she could learn.

    Read More

  • Analysis Of And Then I Tell My Story Canfield

    294 Words  | 2 Pages

    Her life consisted of school, doctor’s appointments, paying bills, shopping and cleaning the house. Eventually, her last two years of high school, she had to be home schooled. Maria was frustrated with her life because it was not normal for a teenager. Her mom was infected with AIDS through a blood transfusion before her sister was born and then passed along to her.

    Read More

  • Pet Girl: A Short Story

    1432 Words  | 6 Pages

    Living on a pet store for almost all her life has been pretty boring. She’d always wondered why is it that no one ever took her home. All she did is stay in her cage, eat and sleep. She was just a little puppy that liked to recieve love gestures, food and a lot of sleep. She was born on the streets and a good man took her there.

    Read More

More about One For The Murphys By Lynda Mulla

Open Document