It is crucial for a child to receive proper support and attention from parents or guardians as it directly influences their development. When not shown adequate affection by a caring and nurturing caregiver children may manifest low levels of cognitive, physical and emotional development. Without proper affection children can consequently form random bonds with any adults, have difficulty connecting with others and be afraid of initiating relationships (Quick). The novels Ellen Foster by Kay Gibbons and Me & Emma by Elizabeth Flock both follow the stories of girls who are impacted by parents and guardians who do not show them proper love and affection. The former is about Ellen, a girl who experiences abuse from her father and is forced to …show more content…
Firstly, in Ellen Foster, Ellen is determined to find a suitable guardian that will love and protect her and after years of suffering she finds her ‘new mama’. Ellen sees her ‘new mama’ at church one day and immediately knows that she will accept and love her. Shortly after Ellen leaves her aunts house and shows up at her ‘new mama’s’ door. Later Ellen describes this first meeting with her ‘new mama’ and she recalls, "And then she hugged me. She leaned over me and pulled me up next to her and it was just like I wanted it to be” (Gibbons 119). Throughout the novel Ellen dreams of this moment, of finally being accepted and loved for who she is and it is with her ‘new mama’ that she is finally able to receive the love and acceptance that she needs. With each new home Ellen goes to throughout the novel she searches for protection and acceptance and this need is fulfilled with her ‘new mama’ which then allows her to heal from the trauma and abuse she faced to arrive at this point. Likewise, in Me & Emma, Carrie continues to search for love and acceptance but instead of trying to find someone new to provide her with this, she believes that she can change her mother and make her mother love and protect her again. Although her mother allows Richard to abuse her and does nothing to stop him, Carrie …show more content…
This is seen in Ellen Foster as Ellen continues to struggle to cope with her mother’s suicide. Ellen’s mother knowingly over doses and dies with Ellen lying next to her and it is from then on Ellen struggles with her death as she has nobody to go to for support. In order to cope with the loss Ellen instead thinks of her mother’s death as a magic trick and at her mother’s funeral she thinks to herself, “It is all done with lights said the magician. Where is she? Not in the box. You cannot rest in a box” (Gibbons 22). Rather than face the fact that her mother is dead, Ellen comforts herself by believing that her mother will return. She makes herself believe this mainly due to the fact that she has never faced trauma like this before and she has nobody she can turn to for help with her grief. Moreover, in Me & Emma, Carrie also struggles to deal with seeing her father get murdered along with Richard’s abuse and in order to cope with the trauma she creates an imaginary sister Emma. It is Emma that saw her father die and it is also Emma who experiences the majority of the abuse from Richard. When Carrie’s mother finally tells her that Emma is not real, Carrie thinks to herself, “Emma was there. She was real. Emma was the one who pushed me out of the way when Richard called up from the bedroom. It was Emma he did things
The attachment process plays a crucial role in a child’s development and their future impact on society According to Dr Suzanne Zeedyk. Children can’t feel relaxed and safe with the adults & children in the nursery until they get to know them. If there’s a lack of affection towards a child they may be reluctant to take advantage of all the learning opportunities because of their anxiety. We now know that relationships literally shape the neural connections in young children’s brains. This means everything that happens or doesn’t happen for the child will leaves a physiological trace in their growing brain. According to Dr Suzanne
Racism through the years has provided places around the world with a shameful past that even today, racial reconciliation is still only in its beginning phase. Legends such as Rosa Park, Martin Luther king, and Malcolm X sacrificed their own life daily to pave a brighter future for America. However there is only so much people can do to change the ways of the world, the rest is up to the moral ethics of everyday citizens. The novel, Elizabeth and Hazel: Two Women of Little Rock, makes me question society in the past and present. If today; years after racism was said to be over, two people can not move on from their horrid past, how is the rest of the world supposed to? Recent events have proven that racism still exists and will always exist
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An example of this is offered when Emily Grierson’s father passes away due to old age. Emily is so attached to her father that she keeps his body in the house for several days after his death, pretending, most likely for her own sake, that he is still alive. In fact, the t...
America, in the early twentieth century, was centered on the Progressive Era. This was a period of unrest and reform. Monopolies continued in spite of the Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890. Social problems flourished in the U.S. During the 1910s labor unions continued to grow as the middle classes became more and more unhappy. Unsafe working conditions were underscored by the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire in which hundreds of female workers were killed. The plight of the Negro worsened, all while women finally received the right to vote through the ratification of the nineteenth amendment. Although this was a turbulent time in America, it was also a time to remember. During this time period, Emma Goldman devoted all of her attention to the cause of upholding the first amendment clause of freedom of speech. The right to free speech is one of the most fundamental American guarantees. However, defining the limits of free speech has never been an easy task.
Justin, a boy who was raised in a dog cage until the age of five, suffered similar neglect as those mentioned earlier. Justin was kept in a dog cage and rarely interacted with his caregiver, who lacked the attachment bond needed for later development; his only attachment came from dogs (). In regards to the four factors that help strengthen the attachment between a child and caregiver, contemporary factors played a role in this situation. Contemporary factors are influenced by the abilities of an adult needed to provide a strong and stable attachment (). Justin was left in the care of his grandmother, but when his grandmother passed away, he was left in the care of Arthur, the grandmother’s boyfriend Arthur. Arthur was an elderly man who never had children and was limited on how to raise a child. Other contemporary factors such as the confidence and self-control needing to raise a child carry over into the child’s attachment development (). Within Connor’s case, he suffered neglect from birth to 18 months (). Connor had been neglected throughout all stages of development, which in result limited his ability to form a secure attachment and be able to rely on others for support and comfort. Connor was left alone throughout the day, creating an inconsistent and unstable perspective on how
Despite contextual differences, Jane Austen's novel Emma (1815) and Amy Heckerling's film Clueless (1995) reflect similar attitudes and values regarding gender and class. Emma is set in a period where social hierarchy was largely based on birthright; whereas Clueless is set in the American city, Beverly Hills, dominated by a capitalist consumer culture. Both texts explore the nature of the class system, the association between relationships and social order, and the role of men and women.
Queen Emma was a crucial figure in improving the overall wellbeing of the Hawaiian people. The Hawaiian people did not have many options for good healthcare and schooling. Queen Emma cared about her people, so she made the effort to get better resources for them. Queen Emma contributed to the overall wellbeing of the Hawaiian people by founding Iolani School and St. Andrew's Priory, by founding Queen's Hospital, and by working to represent her people in politics.
In order to fully understand the different outcome of Eleanor and Norma, the internal issues of the characters should also be considered; specifically, how their pasts affect their psychological and mental states in the present. Prior to Eleanor's invitation to the Hill House, she is forced to spend eleven years of her life looking after her invalid mother, this frustrates her because it prevents her from having a normal societal life like the others with the same age. In some degree, the confinement of her mother interrupts her natural psychological development at that time when she is twenty-one years old. While living in the Hill House, Eleanor is constantly haunted by the dream of the former distressing experience with her mother. Regardless whether there are ghosts in the story, these negative psychological implications of Eleanor suggest that she blames herself for the death of her mother even though there is no direct evidence pointing to her. With this in mind, Eleanor's illusion is the only tool that brings her peace and hopes to sustain in this world of despair. The moment when she is banished from the Hill House, she loses hope because she has nowhere to go, no place to feel home. In the story, she tells the readers that “what I want in all this world is peace, a quiet spot to lie and think, a quiet spot
Child abuse and neglect are “social” issues that were addressed by the author. While children are in foster care, they may become victims of maltreatment: child neglect, child emotional, physical and sexual abuse. The terms neglect refers to when parents fail to provide a child’s basic needs and provide satisfactory level of care (Downs, Moore and McFadden, 2009). An example of a child being neglected is when parents or c...
Emotional technique is included and used to alter the readers perspective of Mother through the introduction of her own voice, allowing us to have a separate look at her character without Christopher’s unreliable aspect. This is evident when Chris discovers the letters his mother has been leaving him, the first one coming from eighteen months after she ‘died’. For example, while Christopher is reading, one of the segments from her third letter says, “I was not a very good mother, Christopher. Maybe if things had been differant, maybe if you’d been differant, I might have been better at it.” (133) From this sentence alone the audience is able to establish that Mothers portrayal throughout the beginning of the novel was potentially misleading.
...e call as being the son’s death, but in this case are the parents the victims of misshapenness throughout the day? There is no true evidence that the last phone call was indeed from the hospital a mistaken phone call once again. What makes the story particularly interesting is through this misguidance and places of signs and symbols throughout the story, the reader is challenged to decode the ending to the mysterious phone call and look for answers. The struggle the mother and father had to face to bring up their mentally unstable son makes the story particularly unique. The characters of the story make them relatable people because they have such strong emotion towards their son and the reader can feel comfortable and at ease with the couple as if the mother and father of the story are the reader’s parents.
Without being healed, Emma Jean was never able to let go of the pain that her mother inflicted upon her. Emma Jean proved that she had never been healed and was still letting the pain that Mae Helen caused control her life the day Gracie first appeared at their house hoping to get her sister to visit their mother. Their mother was sick and supposedly had admitted that Emma Jean had everything that she (Mae Helen) ever wanted. Gracie claimed that their mother had changed and was sorry for how she had treated Emma Jean, but Emma Jean showed no sympathy still and swore to never visit her. This continued to affect her and her relationships. This also affected her psychologically which led to her trying to overcome the pain by creating this relationship with Perfect to give and also get what she didn’t from Mae Helen. This seemed to be right at the time of her doing but it still never healed the pain that Emma Jean truly held. This proved to be true when Mae Helen died and Emma Jean accompanied her grave still questioning her actions of how she treated her growing
Emma's Dilemma In my investigation I am going to investigate the number of different arrangements of letters for names and words and try to find a formula that can be used to predict this. For example: TOM is one arrangement. and OTM is another arrangement. First, I am going to investigate the number of different arrangements.
Emotional abuse can be understood as the “failure to provide children with an emotional environment conducive to adequate psychological, developmental and physical progress to ac...