Friendship Flipped

In the short story “Everyday Use” by Alice Walker, Dee becomes angry with her mother because she won’t allow Dee to take quilts that she had already promised she would give to Maggie. I do not believe this feeling is justified one bit. The mother sent Dee to a school in Augusta for her to be happy since their house burnt to the ground, that must have been expensive; when Dee comes to visit is seems as if she has changed. Dee seems to be very unappreciative. Mama tells Dee that she has already promised Maggie they could be hers then asks “Why don’t you take one or two of the others?”(Walker160).

Diana then realized Natalie is not going to be a teenage forever and she has already missed too much of it, so she gets rid of the medication. A for weeks later, the Goodman family all sit down excited to have a family meal when Diana comes out of the kitchen holding a Birthday cake and singing for Gabe. Despondent, Dan explains to Diana that Gabe has been dead for years now. Natalie ru... ... middle of paper ... ...na crazy causing her to hurry back to Doctor Madden. Diana starts questioning what would happen if the treatment was not working.

“One Holy Night” by Sandra Cisneros and “Seventeen Syllables” by Hisaye Yamamoto both center on the idea of being in love on a low social class. Ixchel being the protagonist in One Holy Night falls in love with a man who kept coming back to buy fruits and vegetables from her while she was working the pushcart ever Saturday. Later on she discovers the man she once loved was arrested for being a serial killer but even still loved him since that was her first love. In Seventeen Syllables, Rosie the main character is told about the importance of her culture frequently by her parents. Rosie falls in love with a boy who works with her in the field but soon is told not to marry him by her mother.

This is Scouts first year of school and on her first day she gets into trouble with the teacher because she already knows how to read and write, and gets into a fight with Walter Cunningham. While walking home from school one day Scout finds a stick of gum in a hole in a tree by the Radley’s yard. Later on Scout and Jem find more gifts in the tree, but then suddenly Mr. Radley fills the hole with cement and the gifts stop. After school is over Dill comes back to Maycomb. Scout, Jem, and Dill continue to try to get Boo to come out of the house, but with no luck.

That disturbed the sixth grade. Chapter 3: Jem invites Walter to their house for lunch, promising that Scout won’t attack him anymore. They go to their house, where Walter pours every bit of syrup on his food. Scout yells at him for having poor manners, which Calpurnia scolds her about, since not everyone gets to eat like they do. Back in school, Miss Caroline screamed at the sight of a live mouse.

One of the things she has to deal with is a menacing ex-boyfriend, Zack Minty. Another problem of Tick’s is the fact that after her parents got divorced, Janine, Tick’s mom, was given custody of Tick, even though Miles, her father, was undoubtedly better fit to be a parent. Tick also had to deal with the sudden appearance of Walt Comeau, her future stepfather, in the home she and her mother live in. An issue Tick had at school was that she decided to take an art class, but her art teacher couldn’t understand. Also, because Tick was given a special lunch hour to eat by herself, the principal decided she would be a good candidate to spend lunch with John Voss, who had no friends and needed someone to eat with.

However, my mom loved Kevin and so that meant we had to love Kevin as well for my mom’s happiness, time went by and Kevin grew on my brothers and I, we loved him like a father. I was starting 8th grade that year, which was the same year it was my mom and Kevin’s one-year marriage anniversary. On that day, I was in a garage with people I thought were my friends. What happened in that garage changed my life. I was raped , I constantly said no, I was terrified at what would happen if I told my mom, what would go through her mind, what would happen to me, what would the other kids think if they found out.

In the short story A rose for Emily, the father of a beautiful young girl named Emily who has taken care of her her whole life dies. Emily who has always been kept from men by her father ends up falling in love with a Yankee Homer Barron awhile after her father’s death. The community sees that young Emily and homer are always seen together and are always going out. Soon they see that homer is nowhere to be seen and Emily no longer is seen outside her for a couple of years. This seems odd to the towns people and later start to notice a horrible odor coming from her house, a couple of men from the town go to her house at night and spread lime (calcium oxide) which is used to remove odors.

Amanda then decides that Laura's last hope must lie in marriage and begins selling newspaper subscriptions to earn the extra money she believes will help to attract suitors for her daughter. Meanwhile, Tom loathes his warehouse job and finds escape in liquor, movies, and literature, much to his mother's chagrin. During one of the frequent arguments between mother and son, Tom accidentally breaks several of the glass animal figurines that are Laura's most prized possessions. Amanda and Tom discuss Laura's prospects, and Amanda asks Tom to keep an eye out for likely young men at the warehouse. Tom selects Jim O'Connor, a casual friend, and invites him to dinner.

Instead of being admired for class participation, as in earlier years she was laughed at and labeled as “teacher’s pet.” She said the rules were simple “shun or be shunned—if you weren’t willing to go along with the crowd, you would become the reject.” Sixth grade Jodee enrolled at a private academy and the first few months were without incident. Jodee reveled in having friends and tried to do everything right to stay in their good standing. The trouble started when she called her mother to leave a party early. Jodee begged her mother not tell what was going on with the twelve year olds—but they were all caught in the act. Monday morning at school she found her favorite suede shoes floating in a toilet bowl of urine with a note attached—“Bitch, this is just the beginning.” She was cruelly treated, spit at, beaten, and shunned on a daily basis.