People think that because one has been treated poorly in the past that is how they will treat others for the rest of their lives, but this is not what happens to Vivian Daly. Firstly, before Vivian was Vivian she was Niamh and that is where the story starts. Niamh grows up in a an unstable home. Her father is a drunk and her mother should be in a mental hospital, but instead stays at home in bed crying while Niamh takes care of her three younger siblings and cooks for the entire family. Niamh’s father has the idea to go to America and leave Ireland so they can replenish their family. Soon after the family comes to America everyone in Niamh’s family dies in a fire. She was only eight at the time. This takes the reader to the orphan train. The …show more content…
Dorothy was even advised to call the woman ma’am instead of mom or mother. Her initial thoughts about living with this family quickly change after Mrs.Byrne tells her that she will be sleeping in the hallway and that she will only be fed at specific times and the refrigerator will be locked otherwise. She only then realizes her true purpose in this household; to help make clothes for this family's business. She befriends one of the ladies who works at the Byrnes business. Her name is Frannie and she teaches Dorothy how to sew dresses for herself. Even though she is only seen as someone working for them in the Byrnes household this did not stop her from feeling comforted by Frannie and her caring nature. In a horrible situation she takes the best of it and learns how a true friendship works. Before this time in the novel she does not see much of anyone except for her family. By being faced with such a tragic past she overcomes it and learns to be caring and give and know what emotional support is. Finally, after a couple of months at the Byrnes house she has to leave due to a drop in the economy. They cannot afford to feed any more mouths than their …show more content…
She screams at Dorothy and tells her to leave. Dorothy packs her things and leaves immediately. The only place she knows how to get to is her school house. It is a cold winter night, but she treads through the snow eager to leave the Grotes house. Her teacher Miss Larsen finds her in the morning and she tells her what happened the night before. Miss Larsen takes her in. She lives in a woman only hostel in the city. Which lead her to finding her last foster parents who are nice and kind, the Nielsens. Even though she had such a traumatic experience at such a young age it did not break her heart. Virginity is a very big part of a girl's life and losing it the way that she did could have scarred for life. There is no denying that she will never forget it, but she does come to peace with it because it got her out of that horrible home and brought her to a loving couple who cared for her. All of these incidents caused Dorothy to lose innocence. Little by little it disappeared, but it gave her sympathetic and role modeling traits at an early age which as one can see ultimately lead to her
“Orphan Train” is a very applicable title for the novel. Molly Ayer is an orphan who does not know her place in the world. She doesn’t fit in with the strangers besting her. Although Molly is not the one riding the literal orphan train that Vivian does during the depression, it is proper to say that metaphorically,
“The thing I hate about space is that you can feel how big and empty it is… ”
She was seduced at an early age and then fell in love with a preacher, but was overcome by an exciting younger man. She experienced every form of lust and desire as well as loss. Somehow though all the hardship she was able to come out on the other side a more complete woman and ironically did so without any of these
In The Big Field, author Mike Lupica explores the theme, "Success uses motivation as fuel." Lupica portrays this theme through the main character, Hutch. Throughout the entire book, Hutch, a young boy that has just recently joined a highly talented baseball team, displays moments that exemplify this main theme. Hutch and his team have a chance to play in the stadium of the Miami Marlins, a Major League Baseball team, as long as they can keep winning games and advancing through a challenging tournament; however, Hutch's favorite position on the field, shortstop, the position located between 2nd and 3rd base, has already been filled on the team. Unfortunately, Hutch gets a demotion from shortstop, to second base, the position located between 1st base and 2nd base. Although Hutch was disappointed and melancholy about the switch in position, he was even more upset about the downgrading of leadership, since the
To Kill a Mockingbird is a novel written in third person point of view. It took place in the 1960’s in Maycomb, Alabama. Jean Louise Finch is one of the most appealing and active child I know. Jean Louise Finch is the narrator of To Kill A Mockingbird. She lives with her widowed father Atticus, her brother Jim, and “colored” cook and housekeeper, Calpurnia.
mother and her husband after her mother’s death. But Eudora Welty deliberately includes a selfish character of Fay in the family to shows the important of the memories they have. Laurel discovers the significant meaning of the memories and past to her, yet she could not survive in staying fully attached to it.
She is brutally honest about her background and tragedies she endures, to show others that it is acceptable to have a voice in this world. In a raw moment on her 16th birthday, she speaks up to her abusive stepfather, after he spanks her in front of her friends, saying, “You can’t break me…and you’re never going to touch me again” (Allison 68). In this moment Allison realizes that she is the girl who “stood up to the monster” (68). At the same time, she realizes that she is capable of reclaiming herself and her life from the grasps of this monster that is her stepfather (Allison 69). At one point, she lets the tragedies in her life take over and reinvent who she is, making her nothing more than a victim that society has assigned a stereotype to, she writes, “I did not want to wear that coat, to be told what it meant, to be told how it had changed the flesh beneath it, to let myself be made over into my rapist’s creation” (Allison 70-71). Ultimately, Dorothy Allison defines herself and her voice through the progression of her
Piaget believed that a child’s development is neither intrinsic (learning based on interest) or extrinsic (learning from an outside force, such as a parent). He believed that a child develops based on his or hers interactions in the environment (Mooney 2000). Piaget created four stages of cognitive development, some of which can be seen in the film “Cheaper by the Dozen”. A few examples of characters that display Piaget’s theory are the twins, who are in the preoperational stage and lack the concept of conservatism, and the mastermind, who is in the concrete operational stage and show's the concept of decentralism. These characters will have Piaget’s theory applied to them in the following paragraphs.
Through the terrifying events she experienced as a child and her parents’ miscommunications, she begins to realize how her mother tried to protect her from the mistakes that she made. Lena does not truly accept this at first, but ultimately discovers that she should strive to do better.
We learn that Jane is a young girl who is a victim of emotional and
The narrator, Twyla, begins by recalling the time she spent with her friend, Roberta, at the St. Bonaventure orphanage. From the beginning of the story, the only fact that is confirmed by the author is that Twyla and Roberta are of a different race, saying, “they looked like salt and pepper” (Morrison, 2254). They were eight-years old. In the beginning of the story, Twyla says, “My mother danced all night and Roberta’s was sick.” This line sets the tone of the story from the start. This quote begins to separate the two girls i...
From flashbacks in the play, it is easy to depict that Vivian lived the life characterized by an inhuman lack of empathy. As the play opens, flashbacks of Vivian interactions with students show her having a serious problem. She lashes at a student for his failure to give feedbacks to her questions and she also denies giving another student an extension for the assignment. After the student explains that her grandmother died, this is what she says to her “do what you will but the paper is due when it is due” (63). This lack of empathy and arrogance apparently is unsocial, but she adopts it while pretending/believing to be advocating for excellence from her students and would not take fabricated excuses. This portrays her as a cynical person, and one who only cares about the success of what she does, therefore, does not make necessary compromises for healthy relationships. She thus suffers a high level of rudeness and arrogance that makes it extremely d...
To begin with, Anne in Anne of Green Gables faces hardships early in her life from being an older orphan
As a girl, she had an extremely difficult childhood as an orphan and was passed around from orphanage to orphanage. The author has absolute admiration for how his mother overcame her upbringing. He opens the third chapter by saying, “She was whatever the opposite of a juvenile delinquent is, and this was not due to her upbringing in a Catholic orphanage, since whatever it was in her that was the opposite of a juvenile delinquent was too strong to have been due to the effect of any environment…the life where life had thrown her was deep and dirty” (40). By saying that she was ‘the opposite of a juvenile delinquent’, he makes her appear as almost a saintly figure, as he looks up to her with profound admiration. He defends his views on his mother’s saintly status as not being an effect of being in a Catholic orphanage, rather, due to her own strong will. O’Connor acknowledges to the extent that her childhood was difficult through his diction of life ‘throwing’ her rather than her being in control of it. As a result, she ended up in unsanitary and uncomfortable orphanages, a ‘deep and dirty’ circumstance that was out of her control. Because of this, the author recognizes that although his childhood was troublesome, his mother’s was much worse. She was still able to overcome it, and because of it, he can overcome
novel seems to be quite content living on the farm amid the dreary atmosphere. However, Dorothy (Judy Garland) in the film, dreams of a better place by singing the song, ‘Somewhere Over the Rainbow’. When she is eventually carried away by the cyclone and ends up in the Land of Oz, she is not able to handle the dangers, the responsibilities and immediately wishes to go home. Dorothy in the film is seen as someone who is much older than t...