In the book Chains by Laurie Halse Anderson, Isabel is kindhearted.This is shown in chapter 5 when she protects her little sister, Ruth, from being harmed by Mrs. Lockton. When the sisters arrive to New York City, they overhear Madam’s argument with a cargo inspector over having her chest full of underclothes searched. This is a humorous scene, but while Isabel knows not to laugh, Ruth accidentally laughs. Feeling offended, Mrs. Lockton announces, “‘Which one of you made that noise’”(33)? Instead of blaming Ruth, Isabel lies, “‘I did, ma’am’”(33). After saying this, Madam slaps Isabel so hard she falls to the ground. This proves that Isabel is kindhearted because she protects Ruth from getting hit by receiving the painful hit herself. Another…
Isabel went through being a slave. Isabel is a girl who was very happy living in Rhode Island before she and her sister were sold to be a slave for Mr and Mrs Lockton and went to New York. Isabel wants…
Jimenez and her husband decided to move to Sioux Falls because he wanted to be closer to his family. When she arrived Irene was set on not working and just selling Mary Kay. Yet, she decided to go work at John Morrell’s for a while until money was steady. However, when she realized how good the checks were she kept working and had Mary Kay as a sideline job. At John Morrell’s is where she met her best friend Gabriela Comparan.…
This was one of the reasons Isabel did not flee. She knew that if she tried to flee, she would be caught and brought back to Mrs. Lockton. If Mrs. Lockton knew she tried to flee Mrs. Lockton would beat both Isabel and her sister so hard they could possibly die. This is demonstrated when Ruth is sold away and Isabel tries to run away. This can be shown when the author narrated, ¨Becky dragged me down the steps and shoved me toward the open door.-Run!-she screamed¨ (pg. 135)…
“Well..” He said as if the alcohol had no effect on him whatsoever, “my family has a long history in Whale Cove, my great-great-great grandmother was born here and raised her entire family here, I lived here as a kid… But then I moved.” his voice trailed off as the path led them straight into the dark depths of the white woods, of course, Evelyn didn’t even notice. “Wha-wait a minute… Now, I’ve lived here my whole life and… I don’t remember you.…
“Suddenly she was trembling. She snatched at the dream that had comforted her for so long. It was faded and thin, like a letter too often read. She tried to remember how it had felt to stand on the deck of the Dolphin and…
“Whenever I hear someone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.” Our sixteenth president, Abraham Lincoln, said this. Isabel makes many important decisions through the novel, but a few were when she took the blame for Ruth at the docks, saved Lady Seymour from the huge fire in New York, and took Curzon with her as she escaped from her evil mistress. To sum it up, everything she did was one step further toward getting back to Rhode Island and her dead Momma and Poppa with Ruth and maybe Curzon too. This is true because everything she did made Madam angry, which in the end of the book, turned out well because the motivation Isabel got to run away was Madam’s heavy threats and Lady Seymour’s encouragement.…
Isabel had faced many internal and external conflicts in Chains. One internal conflict Isabel faced was when Curzon asked Isabel to be a spy for the patriots “He stopped beside a barricade. The brim of his hat cast his face in shadow. ‘You might hear things. At the Lockton house.’ ‘What kind of things?’ ‘Useful things. Things that might help you get to that lawyer and your freedom.’”(pg 39).If she did she would get help to be free. Isabel’s slave owners were loyalist and if your slave owner was a loyalist so are you. But if she disobeyed that rule and spy on them than her and…
For example, one late night Lily came downstairs, went up to the Lady of Chains figure, and prayed: “I live in the hive of darkness, and you are my mother...” (164). Within the story, Lily attempts to figure what has happened to her mother while, according to August, the Lady of Chains is guiding Lily in the predicament she is experiencing. For example, the event that started it all was the label of the back of the honey jar, which gave directions to the honey-house. As a result, Lily was able to run away and meet the Boatwright sisters where she was able to experience love all around her, motherly figures flanking left and right. Even though Lily’s mother has passed from a mysterious event that Lily was unsure about, the Lady of Chains is able to guide her just like a mother would. However, even with the guidance of the Lady of Chains, Lily is still experiencing racial hardships that is directed towards her loved…
Harriet Jacobs was a beautiful slave girl who suffered great abuse as a child from her master. After loosing her mother at age six, her grandma was all she had. Although she had great admiration and respect for her grandma, she also feared her presence. Harriet lived in town with her master, Dr. Flint, instead of on a distant plantation like most slaves in that time. As she grew, she caught the attention of her master more and more. She was fifteen when the innocent attention turned in to something more dark and abusive. Growing up Harriet’s grandma taught her to respect herself and not participate in certain activities, so when her master came to her and demanded that she be involved with him she was very emotionally torn. She was not able to confide in her grandma about the abuse, thus leaving her essentially alone to deal with her pain on her own.…
When I had first met Isabel, I was boarding off from sea one sunny winters afternoon. What had caught my attention about her the second I laid eyes on her was her laugh, & the curls of her dark hair swirling in the wind; the first time I realized how beautiful she was.…
Paula, Jacob’s daughter, always coasts through life with an effortless smile across her face…or so it seems. Paula has a beautiful, angelic voice that could stop you in your tracks. “Paula had filled the silence with her own voice.” (175) The silence created by her Father’s omission of his past impacts Paula to have an empty, negative space in her life. On the outside, no one would ever accuse Paula of thinking negatively or being afraid. But, you cannot judge a book by its cover, “You wouldn’t believe it, but I’m still so afraid of the dark, after all this time; I go to sleep with my hands and feet twisted together for comfort.” (123) Jacob never told Paula of his past, which led to Paula feeling insecure, afraid, and lost. Once Paula does find out the truth of her father’s past, she is “broken, like somebody took her (me) apart.” (214) Jacob was just trying to protect his daughter by keeping his past a secret, but in the end has a more negative impact on her life.…
"I began to look forward to Esther's arrival in the afternoons. I sang for her the parts of songs I had memorized that day. Memorizing lyrics left my little time to think about what had happened in the war. As I grew comfortable with Esther, I talked…
Isabel is a young girl. Isabel is a slave. Isabel is a girl who is constantly juggling new problems that are thrown at her. In Laurie Halse Anderson’s book Chains, people walk right over Isabel without even a thought. Isabel still gets back up. Three quotes that I think resemble Isabel’s situations are; “Life is tough my darling, but so are you”, “You have brains in your head, feet in your shoes, you can steer yourself in any direction you choose”, and “Hope is the little voice in your head that whispers ‘maybe’ when it seems the whole world is shouting ’no’”.…
Well, actually I do know you I ‘m also a huge fan of you, Alice in wonderland and the Three Little Pigs. Really me too, she replied, so you must me going to your grandma’s house to give her treats if it’s fine with you and if I am not a stranger to you. Sure, it’s fine with me, I responded, so as we were walking she told me a lot about stories when she met the Three Little Pigs, and I was telling some stories…