The Bell Witch Cave Book Report

She was always in her bedroom and was sick so her father was wondering what the problem was. The father of Betty Parris, Reverend Parris is an overly protective father who is always worried. Then one day he sees his daughter and his niece Abigail and some other girls dancing with a servant named Tituba. He is now even more worried that she does have a connection with witchcraft. If so, then

And I took her away” (Kidd, 8). Deborah, Lily’s mother had previously ran away and came back but Lily was not sure why. When T. Ray came in the room and started yelling, all Lily wanted to do was help. Because of this she has to live with the constant memory of shooting her mother, and questioning herself, whether or not her mother’s purpose in coming back that hot day, was to get Lily. Most readers at this time can not even comprehend the pain Lily feels because most people do not go through times like this.

Pelzer was treated like a slave, having to do all the chores around the house on time and ordinarily had to play his mother’s tortuous games; these games usually caused Pelzer severe injuries. Through imagery and repetition, Pelzer recounts his monstrous abuse story, and how he used the power of determination to survive and to inspire the readers to have courage. Everyone’s life is not perfect because we don’t have a yellow brick road to show us the way, but some people have a more appalling life than others and Pelzer’s childhood was one of them. Pelzer went through a lot including starvation and having to find food without his mother knowing because if she did he would be punished. One time Pelzer decided to steal frozen food from the school cafeteria because he wasn’t feed for days.

Rose as a child had a great fear of Old Mr. Chou the door guardian in her dreams. Her fears resulted in her to have terrible nightmares. In one of her nightmares, Old Mr. Chou chased her stating "See what happens when you don 't listen to your mother!" You can see the effects Old Mr. Chou nightmares have on her now as an adult. Rose is very unassertive in other words a doormat when it comes to her twisted husband.

Rape is something that happens to both men and women every day all around no matter your gender it a very scary experience for people because it can affect them both physically and mentally. It is very traumatizing if the victim knows her abuser because that can make it difficult for a person to trust anyone in life especially the opposite sex. This was seen in Alice Sebold’s The Lovely Bones, where each character dealt with grief in their own unique ways. In the book, the Salmon’s family lost their beloved fourteen Susie, who was kidnapped raped and murdered by her next door neighbor. Each character in this book dealt with grief and trauma in their own way.

Haiti’s political system in 1969 was very dark. They did not believe in women’s rights and many children and babies were dying there like in chapter five when Marie finds a dead body and talks about her miscarriages to it. Or in chapter four where a prostitute has sex with other men next to her sons bed at night. I think this shaped Danticat’s life by making her angry. She becomes a writer even though she knows that female writers can be killed and she writes about all these tragedies and deaths of people.

He gets angry at the cat and hurts it after drinking alcohol. In the text it states that “I took from my waistcoat-pocket a pen-knife, opened it, grasped the poor beast by the throat, and deliberately cut one of its eyes from the socket!” this shows that the narrator was changing into a killer. He said that he hung his first cat Pluto for ignoring him after he cut out his eye. He wanted the cat to pay attention to him, but now the cat is scared of him. In the text it states that “ One morning,

In fact, Oprah had to overcome many challenges and obstacles during childhood. This included taking a beating regularly as her grandmother would whip her for almost everything. Due to this, she went to go live with her mother who had to work long hours as a maid. This caused Oprah to be neglected; which later in life led her to being sexually abused by friends and family. On top of it all she was living in poverty during these traumatizing experiences.

Furthermore, Melinda criticizing her physical appearance is a sign of how she mainly criticized and changes her clothing or way of looking due to she had major physical damage of being raped making her don’t want to remember the “Melinda who was raped.” Also, this caused a huge emotional and physiological depression where she can’t stand alone; she needs to speak up. Lastly, the action of Melinda needing to put the mirror away just because she can’t bare herself is a sign of a deep depression because of the lack of confidence and battle between herself. This means Andy Evans sexually assaulting her was the reason for her depression at such a young

It's a sad sentence to say right? Try having to hear from a complete stranger tell you that your mom doesn’t want you anymore. Even though my mom was as awful as she was before she let me go, everyone always reminded me of how stoked my mom was while she was pregnant, but years after I was born I watched her slowly wither away. Day after day she would come home at all hours of the night bringing home groups of people at a time. They loved to pick on me and throw me around, but they had no idea what they were doing, they weren't in their right mind to understand they were picking on

Mrs. Tate who was an exemplary "Christian" in church, but a horrific caregiver at home. Mrs. Tate was violently abusive of Antwone. Throughout his childhood, he suffered substantial physically, sexually, and verbal abuse by members of that family until he left their home at age 14. Antwone got into trouble and spent his later teen years in a reform school, a prison for juveniles. All these factors generated valid explanations for Antwone to be angry at society.

The world had become a living hell. Finally the people had enough living like hell. They got more insane with each heart break. People grew to old to do anything but lay in bed. People forever bleeding out with lost limbs in car crashes.