The Inmortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

She spots the basket and sends one of her slaves to go and get it and bring it back to her. When she opened the basket she saw baby Moses crying. She immediately knew that he was a Hebrew baby, yet she felt sorry for him and wanted to raise him. Moses’s older sister, who had been watching from a distance, ran over and asked if she wanted her to go find a Hebrew woman that could nurse the infant. The pharaoh’s daughter approves her offer, so she went to get h... ... middle of paper ... ...gave sermons about the closeness of God's Final Judgment.

Flannery ‘o Connor was passionate about her religion, even when she was losing her battle with lupus, she would still attend mass every Sunday (New Georgia Encyclopedia). When looking at her writing, one can see her anger towards Christian’s and how she feels they flaunt their religion... ... middle of paper ... ...rustrated because she was a faithful Catholic, and she still had terrible things in her life, like her father’s death. She always felt she could never be good enough for God, therefore as a Roman Catholic she always felt guiltily for not being good enough. Her anger toward all these things can be seen in her short story “A Good Man is Hard to Find”. She uses the characters, not only to prove her point about Christians, but to secretly show the world how she was really feeling about her illness.

Love and Acceptance in I Stand Here Ironing and Everyday Use Tillie Olsen's I Stand Here Ironing, and Alice Walker's Everyday Use, both address the issue of a mother's guilt over how her children turn out. Both mothers blamed themselves for their daughter's problems. While I Stand Here Ironing is obviously about the mousy daughter, in Everyday Use this is camouflaged by the fact most of the action and dialog involves the mother and older sister Dee. Neither does the mother in Everyday Use say outright that she feels guilty, but we catch a glimpse of it when Dee is trying very hard to claim the handmade quilts. The mother says she did something she had never done before, "hugged Maggie to me," then took the quilts from Dee and gave them to Maggie.

Pearl, and her mother Winnie, the other half of the mother/daughter pair attend a funeral as Pearl narrates. They then go to Winnie's home, as Winnie dotes on Pearl and her two daughters. Pearl's heart breaks as she notices all the small intricacies of her mother, and all the little things that her mother does to illustrate her love. As Pearl and her family drive away from her mother's house, Winnie begins to narrate, to her daughter about her life, her hardships, and her loves. Through these two novels, the five mother/daughter pairs and the perception of mother to daughter, the theme of mother daughter relationships is distinctly portrayed.

After Emily was born her mother, “with all the fierce rigidity of first motherhood, (I) did like the books said. Though her cries battered me to trembling and my breasts ached with swollenness, I waited till the clock decreed.” (Olsen 174). Then when Emily was two she went against her own instincts about sending Emily to a nursery school while she worked which she considered merely “parking places for children.” (Olsen 174). Emily’s mother was also persuaded against her motherly instincts to send her off to a hospital when she did not get well from the measles and her mother had a new baby to tend to. Her mother even felt guilt for her second child, Susan, being everything society deemed worthy of attention.

Brooks relates a second related account. Lee promised another sick girl that she "should live to be a mother in Israel. She grew up to womanhood…and has sixteen children" (204). These supernatural stories are not qualified at all, but left to stand on their own before Brooks informs us that descendents of Lee "feel that he was a great and good man-a martyr" (204). These two recollections may also serve a dramatic purpose, but the acceptance of faith healing by an individual she defends weakens Brooks' objectivity as a historian.

Instead, she complains and talks bad about the grandchildren. Near the end of the story, the grandmother constantly asks the Misfit, “Do you know Jesus?” (O’Connor pg…). This statement is hypocritical because she constantly sounds as if she is trying to reassure herself with her walk of faith. Numerous times throughout the the end of the story, the Misfit lets both the readers and the grandmother know that, yes, he knows Jesus. He agrees with the grandmother

When the commander was reading excerpts from the bible for them, Offred flashbacks to the time when she was at the red center and the Aunts were reading out loud similar quotes. It is likely that they would read them this because the handmaid’s entire life revolves around these few lines. They basically state that the handmaid’s main purpose in life is to reproduce, in order to increase Gilead’s population, or else they are worthless. It is as if this excerpt from the bible is preparing them for the life they will have to experience once they leave the

It turns out to be a beautiful poem about their lives thus far, and what shall become of them, in her mind. After she is done she lets her husband read it and then she burns it, as to get rid of all the painful memories that came with the writing. After Jo had got married, had her babies, and opened up the school for the boys, she learned that every day and every person is a gift from God. She also learned to be thankful that she had Beth for as long as she did, and to treasure the memories. "Into each life some rain must fall, Some days must be dark and sad and dreary" (375).

“Love your enemies; bless them that curse you,” (Bronte 55) she says, teaching Jane her first lesson: forgiveness. This lesson gives Jane the ability to eventually let go of her hatred of those who wronged her and helped eliminate the bitterness building up inside her. This is especially important when it come to Rochester. Jane left Rochester after finding he kept the truth about Bertha from her, but her love for him and her ability to forgive drives her come back. Second, Helen shows Jane how to develop one’s own thoughts regarding religion.