Glass Menagerie Outline 1 Summarizing Sentence: Amanda Wingfield is the most prominent and dynamic character in the play. I. Amanda begins the play with the first impression of being overprotective and critical of her children A.In the play she appears to be a constantly worried about her families future. 1. She comes up with foolish ways to some how secure their lives. a. She asks Tom to find Laura a gentle man at the factory B. Even as grown ups she would try to control them and teach them
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Counseling Couples: The Complexity of Delicate Situations Clarissa Jennings-Reid Liberty University Counseling 501 Professor Clark July 5‚ 2013 Abstract Love is patient and love is kind‚ according to Corinthians 13:4 yet more and more frequently couples find themselves at impasses not knowing which is better to stay together or to separate. Living in a society of our way right away‚ right away can present conflicts among couples especially when they each have different views
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each other. Amanda alludes to her past‚ and is untruthful to herself in order to cope with her reality. She cannot understand her children’s’ ways. As a mother‚ she remembers her youthful experiences‚ and longs for the same for her children‚ Tom and Laura. When talking of her past‚ she has an elated diction‚ happier than that of when she talks of the present: QUOTE AND EXPLAIN. Her past has become an illusion and is not the truth of her reality‚ yet it influences her language. Amanda was outgoing
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years. We would also get to visit her on the weekend‚ and she would also visit us on the weekends. Plus my mom and I do not get along well‚ so I figured I needed a break from her. On the other hand‚ I did care she was taking my big sister Amanda with her. Amanda made the decision to move to Athens so she could swim for the UGA bulldogs to get herself ready for her swimming career in college. This idea was horrific to me‚ even though it would be the better for both my mom and my sister. I was also
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there was no sympathy for the disabled‚ any such allowances or even kindness from others. Even her own mother did not want to admit or talk about how her daughter was disabled. When Amanda is shouting at Tom about being selfish she says “An unmarried sister‚ who’s crippled and has no job.” This is the only time Amanda does talk about Laura’s disability and it is insulting her.
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The night the gentleman caller‚ Tim‚ comes to the house for dinner Amanda "wears a girlish frock of yellowed voile with a blue silk sash. She carries a bunch of jonquils--the legend of her youth is nearly revived" (Scene 5). Although the stage directions show how Amanda cannot face reality‚ they leave the audience and or reader with a sense of admiration for Amanda and her attempt to protect her family. The development of Amanda in the play shows she came along way and even though she was self absorbed
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if you don’t plan for it.” • Amanda Wingfield The first phrase to catch my attention was when Amanda is telling Tom about planning for the future. It seems as though it may have been first hand experience being how her own life has not gone the way she would have liked it too. She puts a lot of stock into the first gentleman caller’s future completely lying with Laura which we will come to find out was presumptuous. When Tom questions her (Amanda) own relationship and its demise‚ she
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Amanda Girls‚ that’s Victoria ‘the Witch’. She was one of the most dangerous criminals of this time. Sharon Why do they call her ‘the witch’? Amanda Because she really is one‚ she has magic powers. Jennifer She must be Vanessa’s ancestor. I can’t believe Adam’s related to her. Amanda Listen guys‚ we don’t want any trouble. We were just about to leave‚ so-- Dorothy Maybe you can help me
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Elliot and Amanda first speak on their balconies‚ we chose this scene as it shows how both characters feel towards each other; we see Elliot is surprised to see Amanda this leads on to the later scene with Victor and Amanda on the balcony‚ Amanda tells Victor about seeing Elliot and she tries to get Victor to leave for Paris. The 3rd scene we decided to do was between Sybil and Elliot‚ in this scene Elliot tries to get Sybil to leave for Paris but mentions nothing about speaking to Amanda and makes
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the many obstacles of a teenager named Amanda Todd who was bullied in high school. Both articles read convey two totally different situations but they are both surrounded by different difficult life situations involving the lack of self-esteem in one person that is caused by others. The biggest conflicting issue in the David Sedaris essay was the experiences that he faced when being verbally attacked by his discouraging French teacher‚ whereas in the Amanda Todd
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