Speak To Me Analysis

Pecola, an 11 year old child was raped by her father. Pecola is an easy prey because she was just an 11 year old young girl, and she has no strength to voice out her concerns to the adults in the novel. She does not know anything about oppression and that’s how she became a victim of one. Because of what Pecola experienced, the physical abuse, that led to her psychological disorder. Pecola was emotionally abused by her classmates who usually called her ugly because she was black.

Charlotte’s insecurity is a partial result of her mother’s disapproving and unresponsive nature. Unlike Charlotte’s father, who listens attentively and enthusiastically to Charlotte’s day at school, Charlotte’s mother shows no interest. She simply gives a half-hearted comment, “without emphasis of any kind”(71), then changes the subject. Additionally, when Charlotte is distressed over Ms. Hancock's death, her mother gets irritated and blames her for “disturbing the even tenor of [their] home”(80).

She also starts to hang with the wrong crowd after she got expelled from her old school Hazlehurst because of her behaviors and that she didn 't do any of her school work as well. Another conflict in the book is that she blames her dad and his new girlfriend for her mother 's death and she can 't live in the same house as them. Kenisha response to her conflict is that she takes the incentive to moves out her dad 's house and away from his girlfriend to live with her grandmother, she couldn 't accept that his girlfriend cried about the same thing her mom had gone through and that she was pregnant and naming her baby after her

The short stories, “I Stand Here Ironing” and “The Yellow Wallpaper” are both stories told by women who felt that their responsibilities as a mother were

Lucy despises this notion almost as much as she loathes her mother and struggles with it daily. One concept she finds very repulsive is the importance of a woman’s image. She is disgusted by Dinah’s obsession with beauty and comments that “among the beliefs I held about the world was that being beautiful should not matter to a woman, because it is one of those things that would go away” (Kincaid, 57). Later on she mentions that “for the first time ever [she] entertained the idea that [she] might be beautiful”, but declares that she will “not make too big a thing of it” (Kincaid, 132). Lucy’s rejection of society’s emphasis on appearance frees her from the insecurities that are brought upon by a self-image based on looks.

This displays how Melinda felt like she did not belong, and like she was not loved. No one made her feel special, not even her parents, because they didn’t understand what she going through, and never bothered to ask. Melinda was completely left out and was missing support from her family and friends. She lacks love and belonging, and this makes Melinda see herself as alone and vulnerable, which makes her life

Alvarez,Erika Mr.Kegley Health Science/ 4th period 22 September 2015 Teen Pregnancy and Confidentiality Girls that don’t have a education may end up on the streets. In my side I said that girls that get pregnant in a really early age is really sad because they don’t think about their future, dropping out high school and parents kick them out from their houses. It is important for teens to think about their future. Girls that are 15 years old they get pregnant and at the same time they just feel like killing their self because they think that their parents will not respond for that. Yeah of course our parents are not responding for this!!

She forgot who she was, she was asking herself questions and could not explain others who is she. She was comparing herself with her friend, Marbel from class. Alice could not handle those changes, and her pool of tears indicates her emotional part, because she made an ocean of tears while crying, that symbolizes her emotions. There was a part when only her parts of body were growing, for example her head, then neck and that is indicating on that how teenagers are going trough puberty, and most of them do not like their bodies, they think lots of bad stuff about them selves, they are just not satisfied. In Wonderland, everyone was rude to Alice, she wanted to find someone polite which shows us that she was scared about introducing new life, new people and new personality while

The teacher and some students asked her why her mom didn’t go to the Mother’s Day lunch. The girl got bullied and made fun of because she didn’t have a mom to join her in her lunch. Day after day she say alone at lunch because the kids thought she was weird and different. When the girl got through eighth grade, she dropped out of school and never graduated. The girl never got the courage to go back to school after she got bullied in middle school about gay parents.

As Virmati does, her daughter too hates her mother, she too do not want to become like her mother. Though Virmati loves her too much, her daughter Ida never understands her mother while she was alive just like Virmati. In her “Family Structure in Manju Kapur’s Home” Maneeta Kahlon has rightly observed: Ida becomes the typical daughter of a ‘difficult daughter’ Virmati. She could not develop an understanding with her mother in her lifetime and after Virmati’s death; this realization engulfs her with guilt. (Kahlon 3)

She lost her identity and became cynical of other people. After her old friends ditched her, she lost a major part of herself. Then, although she did not consider Heather a “true friend”, she was desperate to keep her when Heather wanted to cut the ties of friendship. Going through high school is hard enough, but especially difficult when teenagers have no one there to go through it with. Also, Melinda’s appearance changes drastically over the summer.

So, because she does not feel she can have someone who will understand her and not punish her for what happened, she does not speak. Her parent’s behavior toward her and each other make herself feel like she is a disappointment. Her mental state of mind is unstable and is struggling to process what happened to her. When her family and the people around her start pulling her down, she does not feel as strong and confident to stand up for herself and to face her so to speak demons. A perfect example of this is “I open up a paper clip and scratch it across the inside of my left wrist.

The lack of normality and inability to integrate back into a daily routine can cause depression. The theme that defines Melinda’s behavior for a majority of the novel is depression, She exemplifies symptoms of major depressive disorder. In major depressive disorder an individual; experiences a major depressive episode and depressed characteristics such as lethargy and hopelessness ( Santrock 459) Melinda lacks the desire to actively engage in in life. Causes of major depressive such as internalizing problems exemplify through the novel when Melinda refuses to speak about her sexual assault.

She didn’t know what to do. “And I suddenly had such a vivid flashback that I completely lost my train of thought.” She talked about a childhood experience with her brother Matt. I think she was trying to get the student into learning, but that got the student feel boring instead. The entire lesson, she couldn’t build connections with her students.

Katie’s addiction tainted the relationship with her parents. It created a multitude of barriers that her family