Wild Plums

The way in which Torvald speaks to Nora, calling her his “little squirrel”, or his “skylark”, and nonchalantly telling her she spends too much of his money, is based on his expectations of her being responsible. Torvald is considered an upstanding man within his society. With Nora to be out a “spendthrift”, it looks bad on him. In the time setting, women were held to expectations from society to be submissive to their husb... ... middle of paper ... ...loves Torvald, she stops acting the child, and begins acting a woman. Nora’s thoughts of leaving her children to find herself, is not what society would expect of her.

In Grace Stone Coates’ “Wild Plums” the reader is presented with two disparate families: one of class and privilege, an unnamed family of the story’s protagonist, and a family of meager farmers, the Slumps. The Slumps find themselves often living off of the land which includes plumming, a task that involves the collection of plums. The story’s protagonist, an unnamed little girl, always asks her family if she can join the Slumps but both her father and mother refuse to allow her to spend time with such a modest family. Because children lack class consciousness, one should be allowed to enjoy all that childhood offers despite who it’s spent with. The narrator from the story, the nameless little girl, recognizes that her parents are not akin to the Slumps yet she doesn’t wholly understand the reasons for such a determination.

This all changed the winter of my eighth year. Mama was always fragile. She often fell ill but this was something all together different. No matter how ill she was, my mama always found the strength to mind the Bakery storefront or too busy herself in its kitchen. When one winter morning I awoke to find that I could not smell the aroma of baking bread nor hear the clattering of ... ... middle of paper ... ...to wake and her coughing subsided I leaned in close to her resting my head on her chest.

The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe By C.S. Lewis The four childeren, Peter, Susan, Edmund and Lucy had to stay at the home of a professor in the time of the second world war. Because there was not much to do and it rained a lot, the children decided to look around the house. They came across a room that had nothing in it, but a big wardrobe. Peter, Susan and Edmund found nothing interesting, and left the room.

Eighner then presents his sadness as he comes to the realization that what he considers special is completely ignored and thrown away by daily consumers.Consumers also tend to come from the middle class. Those in the lower class do not have access to the monetary resources to mindlessly purchase. Eighner conveys the emotional impact that living out of a dumpster can have on a person. He describes finding objects such as "abandoned teddy bears, shredded wedding books, and pets lying in state." Seeing the pets makes him think about his dog Lizbeth and how she is likely to end up with a dumpster as her final resting place, as Eighner does not see himself having a place for her before she passes on.

She never says anything pleasant to Pip and I think that she thinks he interrupts with her relationship with Joe. Mrs Joe says that Pip was not to be "Pompeyed" - pampered. This was what most parents do do to their own children, but Mrs Joe makes sure Pip doesn't have an easy life. He does occasional jobs for local people in which he was to "frighten birds, or pick up stones, or do any such job". Even though it is Pip whom earns the money, he doesn't get a share of it as Mrs Joe kept a money box "on the kitchen shelf…..were to be contributed eventually towards liquidation of the National Debt."

My father was a farm laborer and my mother was a stay at home mother at the time. I got bullied by my peers and often neglected by my kindergarten teacher. I felt lost and alone and I would often come home in tears. I frequently feigned stomach aches just to get away from school and it was not until I saw a group of people in my class get a green tote full of school supplies that my life would take a turn for the better. I inquired about the tote to the woman who was handing them out and she answered me to my surprise in Spanish.

4-Basement/Garage: Dave's mother would make him sleep in the garage in an old army cot. Sometimes it would get really freezing down there and he didn’t even have anything to cover him. Dad would occasionally sneak him scraps of food, but if he didn’t he would have to starve. 5-Bathroom This is where mother played many games of torture with Dave. She played 'Gas Chamber' which is a dangerous game where Dave has to stay in the bathroom with many different chemicals causing him to choke.

For example ,“executive”, an advert for cornflakes aired in 1958, showed a medium shot of a man leaving the house without a good breakfast because he “had no time to” ,then there is a cut to another ¾ shot of the man in the office performing badly and losing clients. And even his secretary (a woman!) is doing better than him. Informing him that she cannot find the report because he hasn’t written it. The voice-over then informs the housewife what she should have done: forced her husband to have a nice bowl of Kellogg’s Corn Flakes.

An example of this is the lack of food that the children have throughout the novel. Due to the poor socioeconomic status of the family, Jeannette and her siblings never have food to take for their school lunches. This would have been understandable if the family had no means to make money, however, this is not the case. Jeannette says that she and Brian found a “genuine two-carat” diamond ring. Jeannette tells her mother that “…that ring could get us a lot of food“ (Walls 118).