In the beginning of the book, Pete gets his girlfriend Crystal pregnant (LaBoucane-Benson, The Outside Circle). Crystal tells Pete she’s pregnant and when she does he kicks her out of his car (LaBoucane-Benson, The Outside Circle). Pete is angry about this as seen by his masks in panels 4-5 at about 4 pages into the novel. He is angry because he thinks Crystal is sleeping around and it isn’t his kid she’s carrying (LaBoucane-Benson, The Outside Circle). This moment impacted Pete to change in a very mature way (LaBoucane-Benson, The Outside Circle). Pete gets his life together after he is put…
The author reveals humor in the story with Daves', Stephanie's father, attitude towards his daughter's boyfriend, Paul. Being a father, Dave feels uncomfortable with his daughter dating; thus, humor is created through awkward situations. Clearly showing humor, when Dave sees that Paul has bought Stephanie flowers, "he wince[s]." However, Dave is glad that Paul does not look like him because "he had read that if a girl didn't feel love from her father she would look for someone just like her father to love her." Apprehensive of his daughter dating, Dave acts humorously when his insecurities are resolved when he concludes that since Paul looks nothing like him, his daughter must love him. Through Dave's uneasiness with Paul, humor is evident through his insecurities and awkwardness.…
Junie B. Jones is doing a secret Santa. She gets the last name in the bag and the name was May. She hated May but she had to get a present for May or else she wouldn’t get a present from her secret Santa. Mr. Scary told Junie B. Jones is counting on her to get a present. Junie B.Jones changed her mind and said she going to get her secret Santa a gift. They all went to the holiday shop so they can see what they can get for there secret Santa’s. May told Junie B. Jones that it is nicer to give then to receive. Junie B. Jones didn’t listen to May because she was going to get everybody in her family a gift for Christmas. Everybody thought that Lucille burped. It was actually just a toy called the squeeze a burp. Everybody started to laugh.…
Paul was the premature baby that Mary Dempster was pregnant with when she had been struck with the snowball at the very beginning of the novel. The author portrays Paul Dempster as a young innocent boy who does not know the issues he is surrounded by. However as Paul grows older, he gains a better understanding of the things, and people he’s surrounded by. This results in him constantly blaming himself for his mother’s current insanity. He believes that his mother is insane and simple in the mind because of his birth and that if she was not pregnant with him she would be fine. Paul, already feeling guilty, began to feel even more guilt later in the novel due to the townspeople isolating him. “Paul was not a village favourite, and the dislike so many people felt for his mother- dislike for the queer and persistently unfortunate” (Davies…
Today while I was with Bellingham, Wilson, and Dimmesdale, Pearl and Hester showed up. Everyone began to tease Pearl by calling her a bird and a demon-child. They also ask her why she was allowed to keep her child. Wilson tries to test her child, who is only three-years-old, about religious subjects. Hester begged Dimmesdale to talk to Pearl and her child.…
The book starts off when Peter wins a turtle at Jimmy Fargo's birthday party. He names the turtle Dribble. Peter introduces his family and the concepts of Fudge and his habits. When Peter's father's business clients stay at their apartment for the night, Fudge annoys them by decorating their suitcase with green stamps, prompting them to remove the account from the company. Then Fudge decides not to eat and later adds pretending he is the family dog and wanting to eat on the floor. A week later, the father’s patience is broken and he dumps a bowl of cornflakes over Fudge's head, leading to Fudge's new favorite phrase, "Eat it or wear it!".…
In “The Speech of Polly Baker,” a sardonically aggressive tone reflects the speaker’s attitude towards the charges being made for having a fifth “bastard child.” The tone feeds her persuasive appeals. By appealing to pathos and ethics, she convinces the Court to not punish her for her actions.…
The book starts off with them being a typical couple awaiting the arrival of their first new born child, going back and forth to the hospital thinking that it’s time for the arrival of their son. When the day finally arrives the Clines have a healthy baby boy named Christopher. The only thing that they don’t know and won’t know for the next two years is that their son is not going to be able to hear anything; this is because Christopher was born permanently deaf. They find out latter on that he has lost the neurosensory witch is lost in the inner ear. Which ended up being because his mother was exposed to the German measles which his mother got from a baby earlier when she was carrying, which left Christopher with no chance of hearing at all. The way his mother found out, that Christopher was deaf was, one day she was getting ready for a big dinner, her husband had a business man coming over to possibly sign him to a big business deal. As she was washing the dishes she knocked over a bunch of the pots and pans thinking that it was going to upset he son she went to run over to make sure he was ok but when she looked over at him she saw that he didn’t flinch at all he just kept playing with his toys. So she made a lot of noise and even hit a couple pots together but still…
The narrative opens with the assertion that the vanishing of the child “was an event so cataclysmic that it forever divided time into the then and the now” and proceeds to detail the events that immediately preceded the child’s disappearance and the actions of the doctor, his wife, the authorities, and the paperhanger after the child vanishes. (72). In the first pages, the doctor’s wife quarrels with the paperhanger on the building site of a mansion being built for her and her husband. The child, Zeineb, is innocently playing with the paperhanger’s long flaxen hair as the mother assails him for his shoddy work and for overcharging her. The paperhanger’s insolent and sexually provocative response enrages the doctor’s wife, and she verbally abuses him, whirls on her heels, and marches out of the house to her silver Mercedes. When she calls for her daughter to join her, there is no response. She goes back into the house and demands to know where her daughter is. No one knows; but led by the paperhanger, the workers search the house and all of the woods behind the house.…
At 17 weeks she went to her pediatrician for a scheduled check up. Subsequent to an examination and ultrasound examination, she learnt that the baby had died. She was thrown into a state of shock, simultaneously both angry and sad and cried uncontrollably. You were being called in to talk to Lemmy.…
One Sunday, Connie’s family planned to go to a barbeque. Connie refused to go. After her family left, Connie started to daydream. A little while later she heard a car come up the driveway. She got scared and was worried about how she looked. She didn’t recognize the two boys and the car at first, but she eventually recognized the driver. He was the same boy she had seen at the drive in. The boy was trying to influence Connie in to getting in the car with him. Connie refused to go with him. Connie kept telling him that she didn’t know who he was. He introduced himself as Arnold Friend, and he introduced the person in the passenger seat as Ellie. His name was written on his car amongst many other things. He said he knew all about her friends and family. Connie wanted to know why she had never met him, if he knew all her friends. Arnold pointed out that in fact she had seen him at the drive in and that he knew everyone. Arnold explained that the X he drew in the air at the drive in was his sign. Connie asked Arnold how old he was, realizing he was much older than she was. She looked at Ellie and saw that he looked like,” a forty year…
It had been 3 months and 15 days since Daisy and her husband had seen let alone heard from Donny. Daisy got up and started her normal routine, she got herself ready in just enough time to say goodbye to Amanda because she knew that she probably wouldn’t see her until the next morning. Daisy had seen everyone off and she started to clean the house when all of the sudden she hears a knock on the door. She didn’t really think anything about the visitor at the door so she wiped off her hands and head for the door. She opens the door not looking at the person directly and then the visitor say “Hi, mom” she was in utter shock!…
When Cholly, Pecola’s father, raped her, she became impregnated with his baby. Instead of going after Cholly for raping his daughter, his own blood, the community alienated her even more and claimed that her baby should die because "Certain seeds it…
about his mother suffering with an unknown illness. “I said that she had been coughing up…
Sitting in the bathroom waiting for the dip stick to tell our fate. A minute passes and two pink lines light up the test strip. It’s official we are expecting again. Flushed with delight and apprehension of confirming my pregnancy, I call the doctor to confirm. It’s a Friday, they cannot see me until Wednesday. With emotions raging through my head, feeling elated and nervous, I can’t wait to tell my husband. I know I should wait for confirmation but I am too excited. He is overjoyed at the news.…