Journal Entry

I have never let him hit my little brother, so I would take the hits for him. I had him lock himself in the bathroom or run off in the pasture. It seemed like a never ending nightmare. My mom began to become an acholoic, just like him. She didnt care for me anymore, i could try talking to her but she didnt care, she “loves him”.

In heaven she was no longer able to boss him around and therefore returned to Hell preferring that over a lapse of control. Later in the story, the narrator’s attention is turned to one of the “Great Ones” Sarah Smith. Sarah Smith in life had no rank or fame and yet on earth everyone she met became a son or daughter to her because she loved so deeply. Her husband, in contrast, was less than a man and did everything in his power to keep her miserable. In heaven, however, he was not able to and therefore slunk back to hell despite Sarah’s plea for him to stay.

Her mind tried to survive a state of mind in which abandonment was lethal. As her internal psychosis set in, she robbed herself of a life while trying to erase the thought of her loved ones’ deaths. Emily Grierson came from the most prominent family of her town. Although she rarely left the house or socialized with the townspeople, they were fascinated by her seemingly quiet life. She was a peculiar woman, never married and never looking.

I looked to her eyes and started to cry. I think that my mother was very young to make any decision nor have experience to be raising a child. My grandmother was the heart of the house. She always spoke with God to account for all the misfortunes that threatened us. On the other hand, my grandfather was a bald old man that he did not talk with God; he talked to himself.

Miss Emily, however, never married. Her father had never accepted her suitors, meeting them at the door "clutching a horsewhip." He selfishly kept her single all those years, which must have caused immense embarrassment to a woman from her era, whose whole life should have led up to her marriage. She seldom left her house after her father died, further mystifying herself to the town who watched her life from behind their lace curtains. The Civil War came and went, and Miss Emily still lived in that same house "set on what had once been [the] most select street," "lifting its stubborn and coquettish decay above the cotton wagons and the gasoline pumps."

Many times this kid did hit them for any reason and he never cared about them. I believe that Essie Mae's parents were too involved in their jobs with the land, and they never realized that another child was taking care of their children, and that's a really big mistake, but it was better than nothing, because it could be worse, if they were by themselves. It seems like Essie Mae's lifestyle is full of negative things at home but is not just there because she also experienced abuse in her own school with Reverend Carson. She really was scared of this teacher, and that is why she spent most of the class time in the girl's restroom. She said about her teacher: "I was so scared of him I never did anything.

He says “I was poor”, he had no money and he knew that Daisy won’t wait for him for too long, as he states “She never loved you, do you hear?” “She only married you because I was poor and she was tired of waiting for me. It was a terrible mistake, but in her heart she never loved anyone except ... ... middle of paper ... ...d with the absence of his father, who he saw only once more after his parents divorced, in a brief 1971 visit. "My father had left paradise, and nothing that my mother or grandparents told me could obviate that single, unassailable fact," he then said "They couldn't describe what it might have been like had he stayed.” (Barack Obama). Barack Hussein Obama also struggled and suffered a lot during his life, but he ended up as the 44th President of The United States of American. He achieved his American Dream, and in his situation it was slightly impossible.

Emily was fiercely independent. She was strongly opposed to formal religion. This could have been from the hardship she endured as a child. Emily felt no love from her aunt Branwell, who took care of them when her mother died. Aunt Branwell was a very religious person, yet had no compassion in her life for her nieces.

This lifestyle was nothing like what she was accustomed to and having her family far away was difficult, especially when they were thinking that she was living her dream life in America. “Send pictures of your new life”. What pictures can I send?” (Lahini 125). Mrs. Sen had nothing exciting in her life, she was always restricted and had the same repetitive schedule every day, yet she kept this frustration all to herself. She is the classic example of someone who rarely speaks her mind, afraid to be a bother to anyone, until she tells Eliot “Tell me, Elliot.

Mrs. Reed did not ask for an explanation to why either of them had been fighting, she just automatically blamed it on Jane and she was the one punished, as always. Mrs. Reed also teaches her children not to treat Jane with the same respect as their other siblings. This is proved when John tells Jane "mama says you ought to beg, and not live here with gentlemen's children like us". John takes this seriously and consistently beats Jane whenever he gets the chance, but "she [Mrs. Reed] never saw him strike or heard him abuse me [Jane]" even though "he did both now and then in her very presence"