Personal Narrative: The Young Men's Christian Association

This novel is a tale of a young girl 's life named Julie. Julie had been through a lot including her only brother named Masenier dying and her Papa has, well, leaving her having to do all outside man work being the strong one in the family. Julie meets a guy named Hank and they get married and move to Gap Creek in South Carolina, where they get a house for cheap from a man named Mr. Pendergast who made a deal with them that they don 't have to pay rent as long as they do the household for him such as cooking and laundry. Ma Richards, who is Hanks mother, visits them who has nothing better to do it seems like but to blame others. Later on, the house caught on fire which Julie was finally able to put it out before it spread to the floors and walls after Mr. Pendergast being burned from a tank exploding while he was in

Phoebe Internal and external In the novel “Walk Two Moons” by Sharon Creech, Phoebe faces internal and external conflict that change Phoebe and her life forever. First Phoebe tries to make up ways that someone forced her Mrs.Winterbottom to leave instead of realizing Mrs.Winterbottom left without telling her or any of her family.Next Phoebe finds her mom and the lunatic kissing on the bench at Mike's school.Finally Mrs.Winterbottom brings mike home and Phoebe finds out she has a half brother. After all the positive and some negative stuff that happen in her family, Phoebe struggles with thinking positively about all the things that has happened to her family. First when Phoebe’s mother leaves unexpectedly one morning, causing internal and external conflicts for Phoebe and her family. In fact, Phoebe makes unrealistic ways why her mother left, then not accepting her mother left because she was not happy with who she was.

She remembers what she used to do with her mom after school and now that she's gone everything has changed with her dad now. This suggests that her dad is a single parent and he doesn't understand change. In contrast, in Tortilla’s Sun in paragraph 18 it states that the daughter has to move to New Mexico for the summer while the mom finishes school. In paragraph 46 she gets upset and storms to her room and she gets her dads baseball and this means that she misses him and needs him. In the story the Confetti Girl the main point

Due to being a woman , Esperanza’s mother was not able to complete her education , instead she was forced to stay at home and look after Esperanza and her siblings while her husband provided for them, she strongly resents this ‘“I could have been somebody, you know? My mother says and sighs. She has lived in this city her whole life. She can speak two languages. She can sing an

I just finished the novel “ The Northern Light” by Jennifer Donnelly. The sad story of 16 years old Mattie Gokey working very hard with her father on a farm moved my heart badly. Her mother died because of poverty and cancer, her brother left home afterwards and she had to take care of her three younger sisters while also struggling with money just to make her mom’s wish. She cleaned the house of her Aunt and worked as a waitress too in Glenmore Hotel to save money. It reminded me of my past when I came to U.S in 2011.

Introduction The 1960s was a time of regression: the age at which many women married and few attended college. Post-war culture solidified that women belonged in the home, taking care of their children and husband, and many believed the same. Betty Friedan graduated Smith college with a bachelor’s degree in 1942. After birthing her second child, Friedan was fired from her current job and turned to domesticity to take care of her children instead of looking for another place to work. She was dissatisfied with herself and the role she was playing in her home and wondered if other women in her situation had felt the same way.

Came with her sisters where she kept the house and watched her sisters’ life grow. Phoebe later goes back to college for psychology and meets her future husband. Later getting married, she gets a job as top columnists for a newspaper giving advice using her degree. Phoebe later gets a divorce and starts dating again to find the love her life. Once Phoebe stops trying to find the love of her life and starts pushing to be a better person.

After losing her mother, Chrissy, a smart and beautiful woman refusing to loan her childhood best friend two hundred dollars caused the two women to fight. Hospitalizing Chrissy. After learning her boyfriend was cheating on her and coming home to a burglarized apartment she packed up her mother’s ashes and what she could salvage and left town. She started to deteriorate both professionally and mentally until she was placed on leave and was offered help from her boss who had a therapist friend. As Chrissy recovered one day while sitting in the park surrounded by nature she was surprised with a call and visit from a past love.

She visits home every year and she says every time she goes back home, she feels that this is the last time she will see her father and that makes her so sad. She misses her food and convenient like public transportations. In Taiwan she can go everywhere with a taxi, a bus, or a train. When she came here, she had to learn how to drive. She thinks here, in the State, if you don’t have a car, and especially if you don’t know how to drive, you stuck at home and you cannot do anything without a car.

Even with everything happening, Frankie only worried about her brother, who was a bisexual boy left alone in an unsafe home. With all this stress Frankie begins to have panic attacks but decides to deal with it all by herself. After staying at her best friend’s house for a few weeks, her social worker, Dorothy came to take Frankie to her new “home”. Frankie had wanted to go to an LGBTQ+ group