Sweet Home Summary

As shown in the story the key by Nnedi okorafor. She tell a story of a young girl named fwadaus who lost the house key of her uncle’s house .After losing the key fwadaus decided to burn her hand so as to attract sympathy from his uncle who mistreated her . The story says “this fateful day, she lost something not so little- she’d lost the key to the house and she was terrified of her uncle‘s wrath.” and the story continuously say. “Only two weeks ago, he had beaten fwadaus for spilling a pitcher of milk. She’d fallen and hit her head, knocking herself unconsciously for thirty seconds.

Patria was the only one spared, besides Dedé, who never joined her sisters in the revolution. (Wasn’t that a wise choice?) Before arresting Patria’s husband and son, the secret police ravage their home, tearing apart everything they own and burning the remains. This is one example of the evil tactics the secret police used in order to spread fear and prevent the Dominicans from rebelling. After witnessing the life she built being burned to the ground and her husband and only son snatched away from her, Patria collapses, crying, tearing up the grass at her feet, and wailing up to the heavens in grief.

But, it is no use, she does not listen to what he wants. Hansel, on the other hand, has another tricky plan to come back home again even after the step mother has also another plan. The point is the step mother is trying all she can to throw the children away, far from the house but Hansel is also tricky, "On the way into the forest Hansel crumbled his in his pocket, and often stood still and threw a morsel on the ground.". In here, the step mother shows her final action as a horrible parent for both Hansel and Gretel before finally she dies, "The woman led the children still deeper into the forest, where they had never in their lives been before. Then a great fire was again made, and the mother said: 'Just sit there, you children, and when you are tired you may sleep a little; we are going into the forest to cut wood, and in the evening when we are done, we will come and

First in the Slave girl , Shyima was 10 years old when she was taken . She had lived with the Ibrahims and worked for very little pay .Her mother decided it was time for shy’mia to help out the white people next door out into the farmhouse. Then after that Shymia was domestic and poor . Her mother had taken several loans from the Ibrahims for medical Bills .While Shymia had nothing when she was a slave her and the rest of the slaves had no money for school , dentist or doctors . Another supporting idea about slavery and family in the central themes .

She can’t help but think of her husband and children. Eventually, she finds out that her husband has been murdered by her kidnapper and can’t help but think of getting back to her kids that need her. Five days later, she gets up the courage to escape the room she’s been held

Later in the story, a fire destroys Rasheed’s shop, leaving him unemployed, at the same time Mariam comes to know of her father’s death. With no one left to help the family, Rasheed decides to give away Aziza to an orphanage, yet again an act of gender biasing. Laila somehow managed to visit her daughter daily, she is relieved that at least her daughter won’t have to stay hungry but is beaten brutally several times by Rasheed for visiting her, still nothing deters her. The story again takes a turn when Tariq returns to Laila, when he visits her house, “she didn’t dare move a muscle. She didn’t dare breathe, or blink even...laila stood perfectly still

The stages of separation began this journey. Beatrix's first step, the call to adventure, was the incident at the wedding chapel in Texas when the Deadly Viper Assassination Squad killed her whole wedding party and left her in a comatose state. When she woke up from the coma she realized her child was gone and assumed that her daughter had died. This infuriated Beatrix, and led her to start her journey to fulfill her vengeance. Beatrix was clearly motivated on revenge so there wasn’t a psychological component of the refusal of the call, but she did have a physical factor involved.

She forced Cindersaurus to work and clean for her and her daughters. Cindersaurus was considered ugly because she never got pink scales from her family. Her family hated and mistreated her. One day, many years after her father died, a letter arrived saying that there was going to be an event at the watering hole. Cindersaurus wanted to go badly.

All of that was not enough for Stanley; he wanted Blanche gone so he bought her a bus ticket for her birthday. In the meantime Stella was pregnant and was ready to have a baby Stanley brought her to the hospital one night only to come home the same night without Stella because she was not due for another day. That night that he came home, while he was alone with Blanche he picked her up and brought her to the bedroom and raped her. This action caused Blanche to lose her grip on life

The story begins with a poor woman who was hated by nearly everyone in her village for her entire life dies while intoxicated and leaves 2 daughters and a son behind to fend for themselves. After she is found dead the towns people pitied her children, and the two oldest were taken in by new families, but the youngest Maggie, who was crippled, was left alone because nobody wanted to deal with her disability. But alas a man named Joe Thompson decides to take her in for the night but because he did not think his wife would approve of him bringing her home he later planned on taking her to the poor house the next morning. And he was

A three months pregnant teenager was declared dead after her mysterious collapse at her home in Honduras. Her family members called a priest believing she was possessed by an evil spirit when they saw the teenager fell unconscious and foaming at her mouth. Relatives of Neysi Perez, 16, said that the teenager woke up in the night to use the toilet when they saw her passed out after hearing a gunfire outside. They recall that the priest who came tried to exorcise Perez but became unresponsive. They rushed the teenager to the nearest hospital but was pronounced dead by the doctors three hours later.

At the beginning of the story there was an un ordinary mom named Starr knight, she was one to wear glossy make up and brand name clothes. Until her husband found her wearing baggy clothes and murdered in a tangle of kudzu. That 's how the beginning of the book started with mistrys. Everyone shocked with this murder was wondering how they were going to tell starr knights kinds that their mother has passed away. So when it came to the time they had to tell the kids about their mother, they decided to lie about it instead of telling them their mother was murdered.

Antwones mother never came to see or claim him after her release from her incarceration. He stated how he always wanted to see his mother and used to daydream of a large family, with a huge banquet waiting in his honor. After living in the orphanage, he was sent to the foster home of Mrs. Tate in Cleveland. In this foster home, he suffered some very unpleasant things. He suffered sexual abuse at the hands of a babysitter, who forced him to perform sexual favors for her.

As a women, she did the domestic work as most women in slavery did. “Alas! slavery still held me in its poisonous grasp. There was no chance for me to be respectable. There was no prospect of being able to lead a better life.” To Jacobs, she had grown up with the notion that she would be a slave forever and so had no hope for herself to be free.

Children at the same age as Perry, 13, will one day be in a home where they have to survive on their own, then the next they are in an orphanage. The mother of Perry Smith passed away soon after she left his father. The battle she fought was an enthusiastic battle with alcohol, the next day she lost and choked on her own vomit, this was probably the worst experience of Perry Smith’s life. When Perry Smith’s mother died, when she left the children, they moved into a Catholic orphanage where Perry got beaten for wetting the bed. The author, Capote seems to achieve a feeling of sympathy for Perry Smith, because his childhood was a series of unfortunate events.