Harrison tried to show the people that he could escape the world they had to live in, and tried to do so by tearing off the handicaps that held him down. George and Hazel confused me it was hard to grasp onto what their characters were about. It was interesting to me when George heard a shot and Hazel also was able to hear it.
This person is very welcoming to Brandi, and has allowed her to come in and get away from her mother. He would make sure he was home exactly the same time so Brandi would come over and have some time with him. Once he went to IHOP Brandi came into the apartment while he was gone, which ended the relationship that these two had. The man had issues if anyone said anything to him he would keep processing these things in his head and not letting them go.
The theme of the story is that all people that you may try to help improve their lives may come back and slap you in the face. He tried to help Brandi out by showing her support and care in her life that her mother was not giving her, but it turned out to only hurt him in the end. He had to move out of his apartment and start a new life there. Moral of the story, do not trust all those that look so helpless it may hurt you in the end. Even though you might have been just trying to help a lost person.
This story shows differences in culture and how these different cultures play a role in how people live. It was amazing how he was able to go from a country so far away and be able to adjust. Then have his wife move in with him without even knowing her. I can not imagine how it would be for Mala to leave her family and come live with a man she hardly knows. Then the happy ending how they come together and eventually fall in love, and have a boy that goes to college.
The grandmother already seems that she has fallen off her rocker, but once Misfit is introduced into the story everything seems to change. I understand that the family was going on a trip, but the grandmother wanted to go down the dirt road to find the house with the secret panel. On their way there the family was in an accident and Misfit entered the story. He ended up killing the grandmother once she said that he was her son. I feel this stories beginning and ending had absolutely nothing to do with each other…but i may just misunderstand why Misfit is killing the family.
This story is hard to follow because this lady is so out there it is hard to relate to her or draw myself into the story. The symbolism behind the yellow paper means a few things. For one the color, and how it is a sick yellow. Which, contradicts what my image of what yellow is in my mind; the image i have is colorful yellow flowers and a beautiful happy sun on a little child’s drawing. This yellow in the story resembles the illness that the women is suffering from. She also can see images of women on the wall paper, and then becomes protective over the wallpaper and does not want people to look at it or touch it. The whole story confused me and was not able to connect with this crazy women, but I will see that as a good thing.
This women was able to work around the law, and was able to not pay taxes because she had “connections” with officers. The part that freaked me out the most was when the end of the story said that there was a dead corpse rotting away upstairs. It makes this women seem even more crazy and out there than it was lead to believe before.
The narrator’s relationship with his father starts off rocky. Once his mother is no longer with the family his father begins to drink, and abuse all the children when he comes home drunk. The children learned to take their fathers belt off once he passes out so he could no longer abuse them. In order for the children to survive they had to out wit their father. They would go find the money in his shoes and various places that he hid them. The narrator no longer had a father he had a drunken man that he had to live with, and one day once he grew big enough he decided to challenge his father and beat him up letting out all the anger and frustration that he had built up inside. From that day forward he found his father. His father needed a rude awakening to what he had become, and what he had done to his children.
The narrator’s mother told him to take care of Sonny, and to look out for him. After his mother died the narrator came back to tell Sonny he would take care of him. Sonny did want to hear it he wanted to get away from his home town he wanted to escape. The narrator went back to the war he had to fight, and then Sonny disappeared while he was gone at war. Later on he tried to find Sonny, but when he found him Sonny wanted him as far away as possible he even kicked him out of his house. Sonny came back to his brother though, and his brother knew why his brother knew Sonny was doing drugs. He found this out once Sonny came home last night and spilled out all that he has done, and explained how alone he was. The the narrator saw his brother escape this loneliness once he started to play the piano. At this moment he saw the pain flow through Sonny’s fingers as he hit the keys, the readers knew their relationship would change for the better at this point.
This story starts of by making the father look like a horrible person. He is unable to except the person that Kitty has grown up to be, and can not let go of the little girl that he use to be. He would go to the extent of calling his daughter ugly, and acting mean. Later on he expresses how the article Kitty wrote made him feel bad about what he said that when she did not set the table it really was not that big of deal that his wife and him made it. He realizes how he felt as a child when his father was mean to him , and once his father was dead there were not wonderful memories left of him. I believe that is his new worry, that Kitty will have no great memories of her father.
There are girls that come into the store from the beach and he watches the girls throughout the store. The manager embarrasses him and wants to seem like a hero. He ended up not getting the girls because when he left the stores the girls were gone. He became confident from this dumb move, but it allowed him to be powerful.