Howard shouldn’t have gotten the lobotomy. There was no need for that to happen. He was perfectly fine, there was nothing wrong with him at all. Just because he smoked cigarettes, teased his brothers, and stole candy doesn’t mean he deserved a lobotomy. Even the doctors said nothing was wrong with him. He would’ve been better off without the lobotomy. Howard’s stepmom was the blame for his lobotomy. She was very rude, heartless and had favorites. Lou (Howard’s stepmom) was also very strict. If he didn’t eat a banana at 3:45 he would get spanked. In the book he said “I wanted to call her mom but it didn’t seem right.” One time she was spanking him and she hit him so hard he felt dizzy and almost passed out. The reason why Howard shouldn’t
In the book, Bad Boy, Walter Dean Myers talks about his family’s background. In the first chapter, Walter described his mother on page three, Walter talks about having no feelings for Florence Dean, and his mother died during childbirth. Roots, the title of chapter one helps us to understand Walter’s childhood. Even though Marry Dolly Green was Walter’s birth mother, he considered Florence Dean to be his real mom. Walter had several family members that lived in his house. His father was raising seven children. On page three, Walter talks about his sisters from another couple named Geraldine and Viola. His father also took care of Walter. His family also included a brother George.
After a decade of not seeing his mother and brother, Howard returns to his hometown in Mississippi. It is evident how thrilled he is. As the train approaches town, he begins “to feel curious little movements of the heart, like a lover as he nears his sweetheart” (par. 3). He expects this visit to be a marvelous and welcoming homecoming. His career and travel have kept his schedule extremely full, causing him to previously postpone this trip to visit his family. Although he does not immediately recognize his behavior in the past ten years as neglectful, there are many factors that make him aware of it. For instance, Mrs. McLane, Howard’s mother, has aged tremendously since he last saw her. She has “grown unable to write” (par. 72). Her declining health condition is an indicator of Howard’s inattentiveness to his family; he has not been present to see her become ill. His neglect strikes him harder when he sees “a gray –haired woman” that showed “sorrow, resignation, and a sort of dumb despair in her attitude” (par. 91). Clearly, she is growing old, and Howard feels guilty for not attending her needs for such a long time period: “his throat [aches] with remorse and pity” (par. 439). He has been too occupied with his “excited and pleasurable life” that he has “neglected her” (par. 92). Another indication of Howard’s neglect is the fact that his family no longer owns the farm and house where he grew up. They now reside in a poorly conditioned home:
As well as being forced to watch his mother's sexual acts, Henry's mother severely beat him. Henry and one of his brothers were carrying on one day and Henry's eye was stabbed out. It was days before someone took Henry to the doctor. He was in excruciating pain for days. (Bonnie Bobit) One time Henry's mother beat him so hard with a wooden stick that he "lay in a semi-conscious state for three days' before he was taken to the doctor. (Serial killer index) Viola, Henry's mother also used to dress him up in a dress, curl his hair and send him off shoeless to school. She beat him once because he came h...
The paternal grandfather stated that Hudson is a child who does things in his own pace. He indicated that the mother hired a sleep specialist, who locked the child in his room with a fence and he was not allowed to leave the room unless the light was green. The paternal grandfather stated that Stuart went along with this. Hudson was traumatized by this.
Bell grew up in a nightmare. Her mother, Betty McCrickett was a mentally, unstable alcoholic and prostitute. According to Gitta Sereny in her book, Cries Unheard: The Story of Mary Bell, Betty would force Bell to take part in prostitution. Others say Betty had tried killing Mary making it seem like an accident. There were suspicions that Betty suffered from Munchausen’s syndrome by proxy, which could explain why she acted the way she did with her daughter. Due to the bad home environment, it could have possibly affected Bell’s personality. At school, she had an unpredictable and violent behavior. Even though she was violent, nobody did anything to stop it from continuing and it eventually got out of proportion. May of 1968, Bell strangled a four-year-old. This was ruled an accident and no act was taken. Later, Bell and her friend Norma Joyce Bell broke into a nursery and vandalised it, but police considered it a prank. July of 1968, both Mary Bell and Norma Bell strangled a three-year-old. Eventually both deaths were linked and both girls were charged with two counts of
His mother was Karen Ringquist and his father Randy Ringquist. Karen was the jewel of the community, all loved her but the delicate flower was often stomped on. Randy Ringquist was an abusive, alcoholic, racist and savagely beat Karen, who could not leave him because of finical problems and not having any nearby family members. Things only got worse when Jeremy returned home. Jeremy had a fiery temper and often had a helping hand in tormenting his mother.
She indirectly causes the dysfunction in the family because Biff and Happy see their father as someone that should be successful, but he only has dreams that he’ll never reach, and Linda just helps him along. Miller is trying to tell us that we should not enable people to be someone they’re not, and that we should tell them like it is. If we don’t, then dysfunction will happen. So, if you ever see someone enabling someone else, try to stop it. They might be trying to be nice but they’re just hurting the person they’re enabling, because everyone should be living in
Both characters did infact face struggles of being awful people with awful qualities that no spouse or any family member should have to deal with. The difference between the two men is purely that Howard did in infact love Georgianna whereas Anse and his wife, Annie, had no love whatsoever anymore. Howard probably did not realize what he was doing hurting the ones he cared about much more subtly. In rough situations, Anse
The father of the girl, now called Alice, came forward and proved that she was his. This was a problem, though, because Julia was already going through the adoption process and connecting even more with Alice. To make matters worse, Ellie got a lead on the investigation of Alice’s case and discovered the cabin where she was kept. The cabin was closed off in the woods, with two ropes on opposite sides where Alice and her mother spent years tied up. Alice’s mother died before Alice got away, and everyone was horrified with what they saw: “’Jesus’ He said, his face pale, his moth trembling. ‘Someone tied her up like a damned dog? How-‘ ‘Don’t-‘ Ellie could feel the tears streaking down her cheeks; it was unprofessional, but inevitable” (Hannah 354). When Alice’s father came to take her back with him, she started to retreat back to her old ways; hiding, not speaking, and making animal noises instead of using her words. It seemed that all progress that Julia made with the girl would be lost if the two were separated. Alice’s father took her and started driving back to his home when she started freaking out. No one could calm her down except Julia, so in the end her father gave up custody: “’She went… Crazy. Howling. Growling. She scratched her face…” (Hannah 385). She needed Julia and Julia needed her, and in the end things worked out perfectly. I really enjoyed how this book was fiction but seemed like a true story. Kristin
In her final letter to her mother, Eliza admits her wrong doings. She tells her mother she ignored all the things she was told. All their advice fell on her deaf ears. She explains that she had fallen victim to her own indiscretion. She had become the latest conquest of “a designing libertine,” (Foster 894). She knew about Sanford’s reputation, she knew his intentions, and she knew that he was married, yet she still started a relationship with him. And her blatant disregard for facts and common sense caused her unwed pregnancy and premature demise. Eliza Wharton had nobody to blame for her situation but herself. She ignored warnings, advice, common sense, and other options available to her. She chose her ill fated path and had to suffer the consequences.
The first instance where Linda Loman serves as the family destroyer is in Act when Willy Loman comes home and tells her, "I suddenly couldn't drive any more. The car kept going off onto the shoulder, y'know?" (1402). Linda replies, "Oh. Maybe it was the steering again. I don't think Angelo knows the Studebaker" (1402). Willy says, "No, it's me, it's me. Suddenly I realize I'm going sixty miles an hour and I don't remember the last five minutes. I'm--I can't seem to-- keep my mind to it" (1402). Linda says, "Maybe it's your glasses. You never went for your new glasses" (1402). Linda knows throughout this conversation that her husband, Willy, is trying to kill himself in a car accident. Yet she continues to listen to the excuses Willy makes up for the car accident. To make matters even worse, Linda even makes up he...
“As they stepped into Ms. Couchon's office, the mother, a nurse, burst into tears. Her husband, a software engineer, had just lost his job,” she explained, leaving the family strapped. “I gave her a hug and let her cry,” Ms. Couchon says. She also refused the mother's request to drop her two preschoolers from the center's roster, telling her she would cut their tuition until her husband got a new job.” (Shellenbarger, 2000).
While living in her father’s house, Goldman became a victim of her father’s abuse, and of her mother’s lack of emotion. Her eldest sister, Helena, showed Goldman as much love as she possibly could but was still unable to fill the void.
Linda Loman is the enabler of the family because she just simply overlooks everything that her family does to avoid living in their reality. The Loman family lives in a sense of false reality that they try to hide behind every time something doesn 't turn out the way they would of liked it too or that didn 't benefit them in some way. This sense of false reality
...er alcoholic mother. Jess takes on the role of scapegoat when Alice deflects her “sick” behavior and yells at Jess to do her homework repeatedly while Alice stumbles around the house drunk.