Yasmin Narcisa Narcisa was not a woman who was given to fits of anger, but her growing bitterness following Yasmin’s mysterious disappearance had cracked her begun to erode her normal temperament like the fissured soil of a dry field. She had become prone to visions, and had started to show signs of peculiar behavior. Eva and officer Santos Sosa had married two years after the unfortunate day when he and Detective Mendoza had announced the suspected death of her sister, Yasmin. Eva had joined forces with Santos in the search for the truth of her mysterious accident. During this time they had fallen in love and married to Narcisa’s disappointment. She had hoped that her only remaining daughter would have married someone with more money. Their son was born a year later. That same year, with their infant in arms, they felt the need to move back to Narcisa’s farmhouse to minister to her deteriorating health. Narcisa’s constant insistence that her heart was weak and failing baffled the doctors, who could find no medical evidence to substantiate her claims. Instead, it was her mental health that had started showing signs of instability, but Eva’s loyalty prevailed. With the belief that her own heart had grown weak, and her feeling that her time on this earth would soon come to an end she wanted to visit the old farmhouse that had once belonged to Jose one more time. Narcisa had always expected that she would spend her final years living in the house she had coveted since Federico had asked for Yasmin’s hand in marriage. . The bitterness caused by the events that changed her fate, filled her with rage that morning. She walked the field that separated their houses, walking with an unsteady gait. The incessant summer win... ... middle of paper ... ...” she yelled over and over, until all was quiet. When Eva came to bring her mother inside to share dinner with the family, she hoped Narcisa had calmed down, and fallen asleep on her chair as she usually did. Except this time, Narcisa wasn’t at her chair. As concern overtook Eva, she noticed the delicate footprints made by her mother’s slippers leading into the river. In a panic, she called for Santos and Ofelia. Santos dove into the dark waters, but was only able to find Narcisa’s slippers that had been stuck in the mud near the edge, and her silk robe caught on one of the sharp rocks rippling the surface of the water like a blood stain. It was days before the police found her body down river, naked and bloated. Eva tormented herself for not noticing how agitated her mother had been that day. Ofelia endeavored to convince her that it was Narcisa’s will.
After April and Roger search desperately for Cheryl, they look for several weeks, and have no idea where she has gone. One night Cheryl’s friend Nancy calls April, and explains that she was leaving with her, but she had left suddenly and believes she is going to do something bad. April remembers that Cheryl told her how their mother committed suicide, by jumping off the Louis Bridge. When they arrive at the bridge a group of people say they saw a women jumped off and commit suicide about five minutes before they arrived.
Esperanza, the most liberated of the sisters, devoted her life to make other people’s lives better. She became a reporter and later on died while covering the Gulf Crisis. She returned home, to her family as a spirit. At first, she spoke through La Llorona, a messenger who informed La Loca that her sister has died. All her family members saw her. She appeared to her mother as a little girl who had a nightmare and went near to her mother for comfort. Caridad had conversations with her about politics and La Loca talked to her by the river behind their home.
...en-year-old girl”. She has now changed mentally into “someone much older”. The loss of her beloved brother means “nothing [will] ever be the same again, for her, for her family, for her brother”. She is losing her “happy” character, and now has a “viole[nt]” personality, that “[is] new to her”. A child losing its family causes a loss of innocence.
When Mr.______ drives Nettie away, Celie experiences a loss. profound that it would take many years to undo the damage done. Up
Elisa life in the “closed pot” of the Salinas Valley is not one that she wants, but it is one that she cannot escape. Without the encouragement of a man, she cannot find the strength to look beyond her life of gardening and household chores. Until she does, she will remain trapped in role as a house-wife.
From beginning to end in the novel there are many events that test the strength and values of the Marez family. When Ultima comes to live out her remaining time with the Marez family, they treat her with the upmost respect calling her “La Grande” and taking her in as if she was family. In the during the story relationships are being tested, Antonio’s father Gabriel has a big dream of moving to California with the family, but refuses to leave until all three of his older sons come back from war (WWII). Soon after Antonio’s brothers return home from war, a short time after two of his brothers’ (Gene and Leon) leave and head to Vegas, crushing Gabriel’s dream. Although, only one brother (Andrew) has decided to stick around, Antonio and he begin to form a relationship that he didn’t have with the others. Since the arrival of Ultima many of the town people question the Marez family for allowing a bruja (witch) to live with them and because of her, many individuals take a stand against them. The Marez family and Narciso show great connection by rallying around Ultima, ...
Furthermore, losing her father and older brother means that Najmah had to do most of the chores outside of the house leaving her mom all by herself. Najmah and Mada-Jan were keeping the farm and home up and running, even with the birth of Najmah's new baby brother, until, “My mother lies on the ground nearby with her legs splayed at odd angles to the rest of her. She reaches her hand toward me, and opens her lips to speak. Instead of words, blood pours from her mouth. By the time I reach her she stares with glassy, dead eyes”(67). Najmah does not know what could have gone worse, she has to take care of a farm and home by herself! But luckily Najmah also has other neighbors that haven't lost their families and are traveling to Pakistan. Najmah only agrees to this because she hopes that Baba-Jan and Nur will be there waiting for her. In addition to all this Najmah has forgotten that she will lose the home that she was born in and spent the last twelve years in, " I look back over my shoulder at the path we've ridden all through the night. But they are far, far behind us, and I realize I will never see them
... sins, but she can’t take back what she did so she will forever have blood on her hands. This guilt and all of the lies she has told is giving her true trepidation and in the end she decided to end her terror by taking her life.
As a child, Lena was always kept away from strangers by her mother, fueling her curiosity and imagination. In order to keep the “bad man” from planting babies in Lena, her mother had barricaded the door to the basement and told her not to enter. However, Lena’s curiosity finally enabled her to pry open the door, but she fell into a dark chasm. When she is rescued by her mother, she said “…after that I began to see terrible things. I saw these things with my Chinese eyes, the part of me I got from my mother.” (103) Lena completely overlooked the warnings that were presented to her by an authority figure, her mom. Her mom constantly reminded her of the terrible events that could happen, but Lena felt she was so separated from the world she lived in that she became very curious. She wanted to see the world veiled by her mother’s restrictions, and even face danger she was always kept way from. As a result, she suffered the consequences of seeing everyth...
Helene was raised by her grandmother because she mother was a prostitute in the New Orleans. When Helene has a family of her own, she refuses to make her background be known. Helene raises Nel with fear because she doesn’t want her to have the lifestyle she grew up in. Helene controls Nel’s life and makes her see the world how it is. Nel and her mother go on a train to New Orleans to attend the funeral for her great grandmother. On the train, Nel witnessed racial situation between her mother and the white conductor. “Pulling Nel by the arm, she pressed herself and her daughter into the foot space in front of a wooden seat… at least no reason that anyone could understand, certainly no reason that Nel understood,” (21). Nel was very uncomfortable throughout the trip and wasn’t able to communicate with her mother because she never learned how to since her mother was not supportive of her. Nel views her mother very negatively for the way she raised her. Nel starts to determine her life and great her identity when she became friends with Sula. The effect of negative maternal interactions on an individual is explained by Diane Gillespie and Missy Dehn Kubitschek as they discuss
Eva is a single mother of three children. The father of these children left her to raise them by herself. This proves to be an extremely difficult task for her to complete. Eva is a very poor woman, and does not have much to provide for her children with. Her, “children needed her;
When Elena knocked on Eugene’s green door, she had a lot of hope to study with Eugene and getting to know him better. But when Eugene’s mom answered the door, she told Elena to leave and that she was not welcome in Eugene’s home. “‘What’s wrong? Didn’t you hear what I said?’ She seemed very angry, and I finally snapped out of my trance. I tu...
...her to feel despair. Her misery resulted in her doing unthinkable things such us the unexplainable bond with the woman in the wallpaper.
... she was scared and alone. With the Grandmother, she already prepared to die if anything happens. She doesn’t have to wear the fancy outfit for the trip but she did it anyways. At the end, she refuses to die and begs for survival. In the end, she realized the error of her ways in the story and that even with the difference between her and The Misfit, they are both the same in sin. Both the grandmother has reach an understanding of fear of death and have self-discover who they really are their whole lives.
The Narrator’s family treats her like a monster by resenting and neglecting her, faking her death, and locking her in her room all day. The Narrator’s family resents her, proof of this is found when the Narrator states “[My mother] came and went as quickly as she could.