This story happened in late 1970s, in a very ordinary American family. To some extent, it was not a very common family though, because everyone who knew them all admired their perfect family life. But everything changed after a phone call from distant France. Ten years ago, Bob, the husband had had an affair with a French doctor Nicole, who died recently in a car accident, leaving a child named Jean-Claude. Without Bob's knowing for ten years, he was Bob's. An old friend of Bob and Nicole called Bob to see whether Bob could take the child in, at least for a while, during which he could manage the future things well for Jean-Claude. Bob could do nothing but to confess all his past to his wife and they reached a bitter agreement to have that child in their care only for a month. During the torturing month, Bob and his wife Sheila had gone through a lot. Finally they found out the most important thing was the inexorable love--love between the couples, the parents and children. At the end of that predetermined month, Sheila, as well as her two daughters, changed their mind and invited Jean-Claude to live with the whole family in America, because they loved him. However Jean-Claude had to leave and finally left because his mother hoped him to study in a French school. But I believe the Atlantic Ocean was not able to separate the beloved ones, because love was beyond all.
Beautiful face, perfect figure, clever dark eyes, for more, successful in career, highly valuing freedom, attempting to lead an extraordinary life, comes our French doctor Nicole Guerin. It was she who brought the whole story, a brave but willful woman, though ended her legendary life in a car accident.
Honestly, I admired her very much, because of her courage and independence. She ignored regulations, routines, and all those clichés, which was very hard for a woman at that time to do so. But sometimes, was she too willful to create such a story?
I often wondered why Bob fell in love with her just after several days? For her wisdom, sense of humor, or simplicity? I was afraid may be none of them. In my opinion her beauty might be the sharpest spear cutting into every man's heart, arousing mercy and adoration.
If a woman who does not look like an innocent fairy or a fascinating siren or a charming princess, do you think it is quite possible for a man to fall in love with her just after several days' random casual meetings?
This story starts off with a family who lives in Kazakhstan, then moves to America because of their Aunt Madina. Aunt Madina married this guy named Bob Campbell who lived in America, they met through a dating magazine. After 6 months of dating they finally got married and moved to America. Aunt Madina kept bugging the rest of her family to move there. When they finally decided to move there they realized how different America was.
witted, and had an amazing sense of humor. Her husband was a lady's man and
About thirty years ago there was a young girl in love with her boyfriend. One day, he convinced her to take their relationship to the next level, telling her how deeply he cared. A couple weeks later, she found out that she had become pregnant, and decided it was best to hide it from him. They kept in close contact over the next few months, and he told her that they would be together forever. When her father realized that she was having a baby without marriage, he made her leave the house until she came back with a husband. When the baby girl was born, she decided to tell the boyfriend about the child, by bringing her to his house. He lived on a small farm right outside town and you had to pass over a small river on a bridge to get back to his house. As she opened the door, she walked in on him with another girl. Filled with anger, (pause) she gets in her car and speeds off. Now she could not return home unmarried and had lost her only love because of this one child. As she looked over at the baby, she is only reminded of her boyfriend and the image of him with the other girl. (tone increases) Finally, she reached the bridge, then slammed on the breaks. She got out and in a moment of rage threw the baby over the bridge to rid her of the baby girl’s troubles. Later that night, the police were tipped off about a murder at the bridge and came to find the girl hanging from the bridge.
I really admire the phrases author used to describe the feelings , emotions , visions and thoughts of that woman .
Not only was she smart, she had a lot of leadership skills which was helpful because she was the oldest of ten children. She only grew to about five feet tall and had dark brown hair. In her youth, she enjoyed music, sewing,
It served as a moral lesson for the community and played an important role in the development of the American culture. Although, it would be very hard to determine how much of her bitterness is the result of her experience and how much is simply cultural conditioning. This can for sure be attributed to her language describing the Indians as”bloody heathens, infidels, barbarous creatures, savages, pagans, enemy, merciless heathens…” (Rowlandson 308). Although, she was not at all treated with the same brutality as her fellow peers and in several stances through her narrative served more humane as would any other savage not do. Even with the death of her daughter Sarah, these savages as she prefers to call them they buried her “I took the first opportunity I could to look after my dead child. When I cam...
She was a feminist woman with great courage and good will. She was always reminded and thanked for her good strong actions that showed feminism was something possible. Amelia received a letter from the Clarksburg Rotary Club in which it said, “Congratulations your daring solo across the Atlantic placed womans achievements in aviation at a new high mark in history welcome back to our shoes.” This letter shows how big of an inspiration and leader Amelia Earhart was through her outstanding expedition. Amelia was also determined aside from her own goals to help other women. In the article “Who is Amelia Earhart?” by Marion Perkins, he shares some of his knowledge about Amelia, in the article he shares some of Amelia Earhart’s personal notes which said, “I shall try to keep my contact with the women who have come to class; Mrs. S. and her drunken husband, Mrs. F’s struggle to get her husband here, Mrs. Z. to get her papers in the face of odds, all are problems that are hard to relinquish after a year’s friendship.” This short but meaningful note written by Amelia shows the way she cared and wanted to help other women get the education they deserved and have more opportunities. Amelia was also a great role model for many women because her expedition across the Atlantic Ocean was a reminder and proof that anything was possible. Susan Ware wrote, “Amelia shared this
...tive techniques to get her point across. Her story was very powerful and probably helped in the antislavery movement, therefore fulfilling her goal. In the end she is thought of as a "new kind of female hero" (497). She has gone through many hardships
...eneration from time to time; may be because of her impressive and short life story.
see her work was not in vain. And that the revolution she and other ladies of
...that so many children read and loved her books. But when she was seventy-six she decided to stop writing and spend more time with Almanzo on their farm.
was not afraid to stand for something that many people were afraid to stand up for during her
had written the novel in hope it would be read by people of her day
in her life, but most importantly she inspired other women to be independent and to improve their lives.
"She dressed like a tart and behaved like a bitch. She seems to be an unpleasant and utterly unscrupulous character. She's gone every sort of hog since she was seventeen ... and she stinks like a civet cat that has taken to streetwalking." (Hansen 1) That is very harsh thing to say which came from the mouth of Virginia Woolf, another writer during the time period. Now although she nor a lot of people were very fond of Katherine Mansfield, people did admit to liking this ambitious young writer. By the time Mansfield died, she wrote 72 stories, mastered playing the cello, did a good amount of traveling and became a magazine editor as well as accomplished many other things in a matter of 35 years. Katherine was a passionate woman and she lived outside the norm of most young women of her time. Furthermore, had a free spirit and risked everything as well as always having a form of glitz in her life. She displayed herself as flashy and would change her personality so easily, as well as her writing. It was dif...