Madea’s Family Reunion In the beginning of the movie Madea’s Family Reunion by Tyler Perry, we start off with Lisa waking up with flower pedals leading up to a bath with professional violinist playing in the background. What seems to begin as a story of richness and happiness soon becomes the opposite. Lisa is engaged to marry Carlos, an investment banker. Carlos has an abundant amount of money that he uses to get the things he wants. We find out that this rich man is in fact not rich at heart because he regularly beats Lisa. Lisa obviously wants to get out of this abusive relationship but we find out why exactly she cannot leave. Aside from Carlos threatening to kill Lisa if she leaves, there is another factor in her life that hinders her …show more content…
When Victoria finds Lisa, she is in the room with her sister. During this time family secrets are brought into the light for Lisa who knew nothing about them. The first secret that was told was about the trust fund. The second secret was deeper and more disturbing. The second secret consisted of Victoria’s late husband, Lisa’s father raping Vanessa. Vanessa revealed that when she was younger she overheard her mother and her stepfather talking. Apparently Lisa’s father was going to leave Victoria. The only reason he agreed to stay was for Victoria to allow Lisa’s father to rape her oldest daughter. When the story came to the light, Lisa did not want to believe it. Instead of Victoria trying to deny her actions she did not. However, Victoria tried to justify and rationalize her actions. Victoria told her daughters that they would have become destitute if Lisa’s father was going to leave. Victoria worked two jobs after Vanessa’s father left and she believed that she deserved better. Victoria goes on to say “sweetheart you were my only option” to Vanessa as if it was still right to allow a man to harm her child physically and emotionally. Victoria also stated that her mother traded her for “$10 and a fix” to let her daughter know that she was not the only one who had to do something she did not want to do. Victoria was not going to allow Vanessa to ruin her chances at being happy, even if it caused her child
Winifred’s failing help has caused stress on Virginia since she must take care of her and cannot afford a home health aide. Estella and Raymond don’t live close enough to come and help care for Winifred and Winifred is not in the right condition to travel. Along with caring for Winifred she also has physical custody of Tiffany and Suzanna. Having to care for all three of these family members has caused major stress on Virginia. She also has the fear of possibly losing their home because they can’t provide the title for the
This is the tenth time that Lisa has been admitted to the hospital within the past two years. At least this time there aren’t any broken bones or concussions to worry about. Lisa only has two black eyes, a patch of her beautiful long hair forcibly yanked from her head, a nasty black and blue bruise on her neck and a few nails ripped directly from the newly manicured nail beds. Lisa swore to God and her best friend Brandy that this was the final straw. Actually, she made that exact same pledge under oath just three months ago, yet she is coincidently in the same position she vowed never to return to. This time was different though. She was making plans to move her things out of the small apartment that she shared with her boyfriend the minute she was discharged from Sinai Grace Hospital, and what seem to be her home away from home. Lisa has made plans for her mom to babysit her 2 year old daughter while she searches for work, and Brandy has already told Lisa she can stay with her as long as she needed to. Yet, the very next day, Lisa calls to inform Brandy that she decided to stay with Jason despite of the awful things that he has done to her. Lisa believes that Jason has changed overnight and that he deserves a second chance, besides a child needs to be raised with both parents in the home. Unfortunately Brandy was not at all surprised by the phone call, in fact, she was expecting it. As the wave of guilt and the “should’ve, could’ve, would’ve” attempts to overcome Brandy again, she quickly snapped back into reality, wiped the tears off her face and placed the white roses on Lisa’s tombstone. A story like Lisa’s usually raises the million dollar question; why do women stay in abusive relationships? Across the nation...
he won’t let her talk on the telephone. And he doesn’t let her look out the window.” (Cisneros 101) Sally takes the in the influence of the other women around her that she thinks that marriage is the best thing for her. Esperanza saw this coming when she knew that she would not be able to save Sally. That is because it was already happening. Esperanza saw that Sally was tu...
...d kill immediately but if acted upon quickly the violence could be avoided. Abelard started this whole mess but the love of his family was too strong and, he would rather his family broken up than together and possibly miserable. Lola’s problems with mother-daughter love roots from Abelard breaking up the family and Belicia problems with La Inca as a child. Finally Emily, she never felt the love she actually had because she was very conscious about what was going on around her, she would just form an opinion and stick with it stubbornly. Love comes in all different ways and was the clear cut reason why anger and love influence the impulsive and reckless decisions the characters made in their lives.
After the family got into the car and were on their way, the grandmother remembered an old house that she had went to when she was a young lady and, being selfish once again, she took it upon herself to try and convince Bailey to stop at the house. She remembered many things about the house but “knew Bailey would not be willing to lose any time looking at an old house” (189) so she sweetened the story of the house up by stating that it had “a secret panel in this house” (190). That little white lie that she happened to throw into the mix sparked the kids up like a wildfire on a hot summer day. The children started kicking and chanting that they want to go see the house that grandmother had been talking about. They wanted to see the secret panel and they wouldn’t stop until they saw it. Little did the kids know, but their own selfish grandmother who lied about the secret panel and just wanted to go there to see if her memory served her right and had just manipulated them. She made them do her bidding for her and just when she thought that they were so close to the house “a horrible thought came to her. The thought was so embarrassing that she turned red in the face and her eyes dilated…The horrible thought she had…was that the house she had remembered so vividly was not in Georgia but in Tennessee” (191). She realized her selfishness got the better of her while
Like Harvey, Vanessa reacts to situations in ways very similar to the ways her main influences would react to those same situations. When talking to her brother about what to name her new dog she notices that her voice carries a “disturbing echo” of her grandfather’s voice.
...her. Although the plan did not go as expected, it was still secretive and off the radar. In particular, the characters worked very hard to secretly see each other and make plans to maintain their relationship.
With a knock on the door, Louise Mallard found herself surrounded by her sister Josephine and her husband’s friend Richards. They carefully told her the news that her loving husband had died in a horrible train wreck, because they were worried about her heart condition.
Not only were there hidden truths, but a lot of symbolism came up in the reading. The symbolism starts with an open window. That is what Louise was staring at and looking through when she was told about the death of her husband Brently. The open window symbolizes freedom. Louise was now free of her husbands rein. She was unhappy with the marriage and liked finally being free and her own person.
For example, she lacks remorse or any form of sympathy or regret for her actions and sees herself as being superior to other people. Secondly, Lisa saw herself as being invincible, and at one point, Lisa and her friend Susanna described having mental illness as a gift, which allowed them to see and understand the truth.
thinks of her as burden, and low life. Jane is forced to live with her
The irony comes into play when the truth starts to unravel and Jack finds out what really happened to him as a child and why he does not know his parents. After some coincidental events, all the main characters end up in the same room. When Lady Bracknell hears Ms. Prism’s (the woman Jack hired as his nieces governess) name she immediately asks to see her. She continues to say that Ms. Prism had wandered off with a baby years ago and asks what came about of that. Ms. Prism continues the dialog to explain how she misplaced a baby that was in her bag at a train station. Jack, thinking he might have been that very baby, retrieves the bag he was found in as an infant in which Ms. Prism identifies by some distinguishing marks to have been her own. Jack realized the woman that had been teaching his niece was his mother. But then Lady Bracknell explained that she was not but Lady Bracknell’s poor sister Mrs. Moncrieff was.
The film Family Weekend was not given a fair shake. Family Weekend is story of a dysfunctional family. Eldest daughter Emily comes up with the plan of kidnapping her parents in order to save her broken family. Emily is a driven girl who is an accomplished jump-roper. Her siblings consist of her older brother Jackson (Eddie Hassell) who is openly gay, her younger sister Lucinda (Joey King) who is movie obsessed, and her youngest brother Mickey (Robbie Tucker) who has the perfect memory. Along with Emily’s crazy siblings she also has two self-absorbed parents, Samantha (Kristen Chenoweth) and Duncan (Matthew Modine). The bases of the film story are surround by the problems that go along with Emily kidnapping her parents. Critics
In the short story “A Secret for Two”, there is an old man named Pierre who delivered milk to the people of Montreal with his best friend Joseph, a horse. One day Joseph died and Pierre was heartbroken. Pierre started walking down the streets in depression; all of a sudden he got hit by a truck and died. Doctors found out that Pierre was blind for five years. This secret was kept between Pierre and Joseph. This story represents philia, a love of friends. They had spent a lot of time with each other and had kept secrets. At the end of the story Pierre’s boss says “None of us knew. Only one knew- a friend of his named Joseph…It was a secret, I think, just between those two.” Two friends were able to keep a secret for five years until someone discovered it. Friends keep secrets so the other friend will feel secure.
Choosing secrets for the topic of my research, -being an obvious theme in the readings- seemed both interesting and easy to collect information on. Secrets are common experiences so there are various opinions on this subject, they affect some people in different ways than others. So surely theres a lot of information out there, but what i’m getting to is the feelings and problems that secrets can bring into a relationship or into a persons life, using the information gathered from books, real life experiences, and research to prove points on my theme. As displayed in A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen, and Freefall by Mindi Scott, secrets can have a negative effect on the relationships between people, but once revealed, there is a sense of relief on the subject.