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The Other Sister is about a family with a sibling that has a developmental disability also known as mildly mentally retardation (MMR), mild developmental disability, or mild intellectual disorder (MID). Carla Tate is our main character that has MMR as a disability. She is a young women, twenty-four years old, with a slender but beautiful appearance. Carla has just graduated from a special education boarding school and is returning home to her family. Carla’s mother (Elizabeth Tate) is overbearingly protective, does not appreciate all of the abilities that Carla has acquired. Her father (Bradley Tate) is a recovering alcoholic who is sympathetic and supportive of Carla, who at the same time has to deal with his domineering wife. Carla has two sisters Heather (who happens to be a lesbian) and Caroline (who is planning a wedding). Carla’s sister quickly bond again upon Carla’s return. They are supportive of Carla and her abilities. Carla’s mother, Elizabeth, throughout the movie shows her domineering, over protectiveness for Carla. Elizabeth who is a wealthy, high society, embarrassed to have an intellectually challenged child, and ashamed that she and Carla’s father sent her away to boarding school now wants to shelter her. Elizabeth pushes Carla into tennis, changing her bedroom appearance, wants to change Carla’s style of dress to something more appropriate for a disabled person, and pushes Carla into high society. Elizabeth does not listen to what Carla wants and desires. As Carla strives to reach independence by acquiring her own apartment, going to a regular school, picking her own style of décor and clothing, she meets Daniel McMahon. Daniel is also MMR/MID. Daniel goes to school with Carla. Carla and Daniel quickly become ... ... middle of paper ... ...comes her disability and gains most of her independence from her family. Carla gets her own apartment, learns to care for herself in the apartment, and learns to stand up for herself especially with her mother. We see Carla standing up for herself in the scene of the country club lawn when Carla tells her mother what she feels and expresses her desires. Carla tells her mother that she does not care about the mothers’ opinion on what Carla wants to do. Carla tells her mother, “Daniel and I can take care of each other.” Daniel is determined to stay with Carla. He hitchhikes from Florida back to Carla. He shows his resourcefulness and his independence in the journey back. Daniel proves himself to be worthy of Carla. Both of the main characters are great positive models of MMR/MID. Their disabilities did not stop them from living a complete life in a non-disabled world.
Leigh Anne leaves her Ordinary World by Crossing the Threshold into the Special World, where she must overcome a series of challenges. Leigh Anne’s journey begins when she helps out a juvenile in need. As a wife and a mom of two Mrs. Touhy seems to live a normal life in her Memphis, Tennessee home. Ole Miss graduate Leigh Anne Touhy and husband Sean Touhy run a fast- paced and hardworking household in their quaint Tennessee home. A Campbellian Hero must have an Ordinary World that she is able to leave in order to get to the Special World. Heroes do not always look the same, or even appear as a Hero, “Heroes wear many faces because of their responses to the numerous needs of individuals” (Brown). Young Michael Oher is trying to find a place where he fits in and is accepted, when the Touhy family welcomes him with open arms. She soon realizes that Michael in is need of help and she says herself, “I just think Michael needed somebody, and it was so evident that there was nobody in his life. And it just broke my heart” (Touhy). Leigh Anne reacts to her call to adventure briskly and almost without second thought. Leigh Anne Touhy is the matriarch of the Touhy family, and she is the one that runs things. She does not have a mentor, no...
Throughout the film, we learn that each woman has setbacks within her household. One sister has a terrible drinking problem and ultimately loses her job due to excessive drinking and tardiness. The second sister has had several pregnancies that each result in miscarriages due to high stress. As a therapist, there are several different elements to review.
The experience changed her life, she learned to rethink her own attitude and self determination. I learned that people with mental retardation are not to be separated from society or even treated with less respect because of their disability. “Riding the Bus with My Sister” taught me to never neglect people with mental disabilities. Readers learned that people with mental retardation, just like everyone else, have families, desires, and determination. They cry, they laugh, they have emotions just like the rest of us. We can learn new things from those suffering from mental retardation. ‘Riding the Bus with My Sister” taught me that civil rights apply to
The hardships of living with a disability are communicated using minor characters as props and how they are misconceived as being unintelligent or even abnormal. For example, a waitress suggests that Raymond is a “very clever boy”. Fascinatingly, she is the only minor character who treats Raymond with respect and sympathy, in contrast to Charlie and the general public who evidently takes advantage of his condition. In addition, the mise-en-scene composed of high key lighting and a wide-angle shot creates an ambient atmosphere, which makes it seem as if Raymond is unique, in contrast to abnormal or strange.(Cinematheque, 2010, p. 1). This conversation with the waitress shows that Ray’s disability makes him unique, in a positive way, especially because the general public seem to be uneducated about mental disabilities in this film; this is evidently shown where a man is seen screaming as Raymond, as he stands in the middle of a busy intersection. As a result, the director breaks down these misconceptions and generalisations about the, as if he is reprimanding that the disabled are a part of our society and that they should be treated with respect.
Throughout the story, it has been Sister who has tried to persuade the reader to take her side in the debacle with her family. The truth is that it was Sister who caused the entire dispute that is going on with her obsession to compete with her sister that goes back to her childhood where she feels that Stella-Rondo is spoiled and continues to be spoiled up to the end following Sister’s desperate need for attention.
Since the Mill’s closing the community has gone downhill with unemployment and crime skyrocketing. Carla should speak with Reverend Smith to possibly create programs to reduce the crime such as, after school programs as well as crime watch in community, and more police to assure safety for residents. The matter of lack of care and living alone could be solved by bringing a caretaker into the home of Carla if she’s open to the concept. Carla would benefit from carrying on with her relationship with sister, and improving on one with Loretta, Reverend, and especially
Since Sister was affected the most by certain actions of the family, Welty narrated this short story through Sister’s point of view to show how the function of the family declined through these actions. Sister was greatly affected when her sister broke the bonds of sisterhood by stealing her boyfriend and marrying him. Secondly, Sister was affected by the favoritism shown by her family towards her younger sister. Since her sister was favored more than her, this caused her to be jealous of her sister. For example, Sister shows a lot of jealousy by the tone she uses when describing what Stella-Rondo did with the bracelet that their grandfather gave her. Sister’s description was, “She’d always had anything in the world she wanted and then she’d throw it away. Papa-Daddy gave her this gorgeous Add-a-Pearl necklace when sh...
1In the introduction of the film, Daniel’s mother is offered a job far from the life they have led. Daniel and his mother leave the ordinary world and accept their Call to Adventure.Their lives in New Jersey are over and they set out to begin a new life in California. Daniel did not have high hopes of their new home and environment just as most heroes are, “... uneasy, uncomfortable and unaware” (Vogler, Hero’s Quest Cycle) of what will happen when they leave their ordinary world. When they arrive in California, Daniel’s new environment starts to change him. He quickly makes a new friend who welcomes his new neighbor to a beach party. This is where Daniel’s call to adventure really begins as “his situation shakes up” (Vogler, Hero’s Quest Cycle).
It seems that every sibling doesn’t always have a great relationship with their older or younger siblings. In the movie “Real Women Have Curves”, we have two sisters, Anna and Estella,who seem not to get along in the beginning because of their differences, but at the end they become the best of friends because they have similar dreams and learn to support each other. The advantage of Anna and Estella’s relationship is that they benefit from each other. The whole story is that you don’t always realize how much you have in common with your siblings until you realize that you have similar dreams and can be there for each other.
Chapter 2 opens up with a delinquent by the name of Carla James, a smart young girl who gets good grades, and volunteers her time at school. Lately, however, she had been staying up late at night and her grades were slipping. In fact, she had a gun and another life and engaged in a drive-by shooting, shocking her family and her counselor. Carla's Parole Officer, Sharon Stegall, notes that more and more cases like Carla's are coming up, young girls from good families who have no excuse for lives of crime. Carla didn't hit anyone, though, so she may have another chance.
However, as I continued to read the story I began to wonder if maybe Connie’s life was not in any way parallel to my own. I have a younger sister where she has an older sister, but that is where the similarities end. Her mother is always telling her that she should be more like June, her older sister. It seemed to me that June living with her parents at her age was unusual, but the fact that she seemed to enjoy this and was always doing things to h...
As Winfield 's wife, Amanda is worthy of love and respect. Amanda is a southern lady, when she was young, she had an attractive appearance and graceful in manner, and her families were also quite rich. These favorable conditions made her the admiration of many men. Still, her final choice was a poor boy. She did not hesitate and bravely to choose her own love. Though her marriage was not as good as she had imagined the happiness of life, and the husband, Winfield meager income also drinking heavily, finally abandoned Amanda and two young children, but she still remembered and loved her husband. Her husband 's weakness did not make Amanda fall down; instead, she was brave enough to support the family, raising and educating of their two young children. Daughter Laura was a disability to close her fantasy world, and she was collection of a pile of glass small animals as partners. Amanda knew Laura sensitive, fragile, she was always in the care and encourages her daughter. Because of her shortcomings, Laura sometimes frustrated and Amanda immediately replied that "I 've told you never, never to use that word. Why, you 're not crippled, you just have a little defect". Amanda for the care of the children was more reflected a mother 's strong from the play that Amanda paid money to send Laura to typing school. She hoped daughter have a better future and married a good man to take care of the family, and encouraged her daughter, prompting her to go out of the glass menagerie to experience her real life, but Amanda placed more expectations for his son Tom because her husband left home, Tom is the only man and the mainstay of the family. She wanted Tom to realize that is a kind of family responsibility, also is a kind of essential social
The three family members are adults at the time of this play, struggling to be individuals, and yet, very enmeshed and codependent with one another. The overbearing and domineering mother, Amanda, spends much of her time reliving the past; her days as a southern belle. She desperately hopes her daughter, Laura, will marry. Laura suffers from an inferiority complex partially due to a minor disability that she perceives as a major one. She has difficulty coping with life outside of the apartment, her cherished glass animal collection, and her Victrola. Tom, Amanda's son, resents his role as provider for the family, yearns to be free from him mother's constant nagging, and longs to pursue his own dreams. A futile attempt is made to match Laura with Jim, an old high school acquaintance and one of Tom's work mates.
Carla exhibits many characteristics related to having an intellectual disability. She talks slower, doesn’t always understand how things work, has trouble understanding social norms, has difficulty seeing the consequences of actions, and struggles with problem solving and logical thinking. While the characteristics are accurate, I would not necessarily say that they were accurately portrayed. I personally felt that the acting was offensive and uneducated. The actress walks almost with a duck-like waddle and her talking reminds me of someone mocking a person with an intellectual disability, not someone who has an intellectual disability. I personally feel that the directors and actors did not have much knowledge about intellectual disabilities
Gina Montgomery has been a single mom so long, she's forgotten she's a woman -- until a romantic hero straight out of her dreams strolls into her life, awakening desire and lust. The cowboy surprises her at every turn. When she freaks out about a spider, he calmly carries it outside. When her dishwasher breaks, he fixes it. She won't let just any man into her life -- as a single mom, she just can't risk it -- but Aidan is different and she feels a thrill of excitement every time she's around him.