How Does Sophie Die In The Fringes

Ian’s overwhelming heart to these people makes a great impact on their decisions towards him. Accordingly, after years of serving as Ian’s house maid, Berta is remorseful about leaving her citizenry back at Guatemala and feels dishonored. One day, as Ian has a nightmare he heads downstairs to the kitchen, he sees Berta thoughtfully thinking. However, Ian without realizing incites a breakdown of Berta stating that she is worried about the safety and quality of life her people have back in Guatemala. For example, she said “Sometimes I think the only way to free myself from the thoughts is to go back home” (Walters 164) Berta is apprehensive that her homeland would be affected greatly by the genocide and thinks that moving back there would help solve come problems. However, Ian is in a dilemma, choosing to let her go or keep her. Berta has been taking care of him for his whole life and really loves Ian, on the other hand, she had a valid reason to leave and therefore showing empathy, he didn’t hesitate to deny her choice. Giving support to Berta, Ian is left by himself, with his parents busy with work he must now continue on life faithfully.

David changes his mind about Uncle Frank through the experience. He used to be David’s idol and he adored him. But that all changed when David’s housekeeper and baby sitter, Marie Little Soldier, becomes violently ill and is in need of a doctor. Wes Hayden, David’s father, calls his brother Frank, who is the town doctor, to come and see her. Strangely enough, Marie Little Soldier refuses to be alone in the room with Frank. Later on, Marie tells David’s mother horrible things that Frank has been doing to Native American women. David’s mother, Gail, tells Wes and David overhears. She says, ‘Wesley, your brother has been raping these women. These girls. These Indian girls…… I was beginning already to think of Uncle Frank as a criminal…Charming, affable Uncle Frank was gone for good”.

Jane begins her life in isolation at Gateshead, abused and misunderstood by her Aunt Reed and cousins. She is constantly reminded of her worthlessness to them and the fact that they view her as a burden, and is literally

But then her father finds an old, repulsive (but rich) man whom she calls "Shaggy Beard,”and no matter what she does, he won’t leave. For the whole year she refuses to marry him and though she realizes that her father could physically force her to she comes up with many different plots to escape, and other versions of her life where she will run away and become a monk, or go on Crusades. As the day for her official betrothal approaches, she runs away to her Uncle George and Aunt Ethelfritha's home, thinking that she and her aunt can come up with some plan to escape the marriage. Once there, though, she realizes that her aunt is completely crazy, so she allows her uncle to take her home. When she arrives at the manor, she is confronted with the happy news that Shaggy Beard has died in a brawl, and that she is now engaged to his son, Stephen. This

Handful’s determination as a child matures as she does to guide her through the turbulence of enslavement. A fortitudinous soul in her youth, Handful refuses to accept her position in the world. At the age of ten, Handful becomes Sarah Grimké’s waiting maid; therefore thrust into the responsibility of waiting on the girl’s every desire, including sleeping outside Sarah’s room awaiting evening orders. She displays determination as a child the first time Sarah’s mother, “Missus,” hits her with a cane. After incorrectly setting a fire in Sarah’s room which causes the entire house to evacuate, Missus hits Handful. As she raises the cane a second time, Handful, determined not to let her win, stands up and glares at her. Sarah recognizes the resolution within Handful: “she was looking at me like she’s never seen me in her life” (24). The young girl again displays her fortitude in returning to the room she shared with her mother rather than sleeping outside Sarah’s door. Handful is determined to cling to the remnants of her childhood that

“She’s not one of the-“… “ I ran up the stone and flung myself on him.” (Pg.44) This quote also shows how David cares about Sophie and doesn’t want anyone finding out that she is a mutant who has an extra toe. He is concerned about her life and decides to throw a rock at Alan, so she will not get sent to the Fringes and will stay safe. In the connection, Professor X cares about mutants and believes that they are no different from the normal.

We first see Jane; vulnerable and lonely at Gateshead, where the orphaned little girl resides with her bitter widowed aunt and her children. Jane is sent to the ‘Red Room’ for retaliating when her

Because of this big trouble, the grandmother has to move out in order to avoid her daughter’s divorce. Natalie loves her mother, but she cannot afford to lose her husband. Finally, the grandmother moves in with Natalie’s mother in-law, Bess. Natalie doesn’t bring Sophie when she visit her mom, and she seems busy than ever before, just come and leave.

keeps his place in the acting dollhouse because he has hidden feelings like Nora’s that will

The only time that a member of the Reed family speaks to Jane is when they are belittling her, hoping to further assert their elite dominance over the lower class. In one particular quarrel, John Reed, the oppressive “Roman emperor” and “slave driver,” throws a book at Jane’s head to physically proclaim his dominance over her, to which Jane responds by verbally firing back at his elitist oppression. (Brontë 13) The battle between the social classes concludes with Jane being banished to the horrifying red-room as punishment for attempting to overthrow the elite power, John Reed, even though John was the clear instigator of the scuffle. Jane is later condemned by the house servants for her attempt to overthrow her “young master.” Jane and John are both children, but due to the wealth and status of his parents, John is allowed to rule over Jane, making Jane, as the Gateshead servants would describe, “‘less than a servant’” because she does nothing for her keep. (Brontë 15) Jane continuously faces this maltreatment at Gateshead until an outburst directed towards Mrs. Reed causes her to be sent away to Lowood school, a place where Mrs. Reed hopes Jane will perhaps be taught to conform to the societal norm of how a young girl like Jane should act in

Experiencing further unstable environments, these children are forced to move from one foster home to another. They rarely develop meaningful relationships and constantly endure lack of care and protection by adults. Sabreen, another gifted student, was able to excel in school despite her unstable environments. She, too, became a ward of the county battling to find a stable home, constantly being placed in unstable environments, environments that do not encourage any achievement. When her situation becomes untenable, she goes AWOL, like Olivia, refusing to return to county supervision. Corwin masterfully frames the problem that wards, like Olivia and Sabreen, face when they feel that going back into the system is not an option. The additional struggles can be seen through Olivia and Sabreen accepting jobs with long hours in order to make enough to pay their bills. The responsibility on taking care of themselves financially detracts from their studies, which quickly can become a vicious, never-ending cycle.

From here we can start seeing many bad choices and decisions Tracy commits: as lying to mother about tattoos and piercings, rejects old friends, misses classes, and even do drugs. These activities were greatly influenced by Evie, and how much Tracy wanted to be accepted in the group. This peer pressure is also demonstrated when Evie and Tracy invite over two popular boys from sch ool to Evie´s house.

10-year-old Jane lives under the custody of her Aunt Reed, who hates her. Jane resents her harsh treatment by her aunt and cousins so much that she has a severe temper outburst, which results in her aunt sending her to Lowood boarding school. At the end of the eight years, she has become a teacher at Lowood. At the age of eighteen she seeks independence and becomes governess at Thornfield Hall.

However, Nora does eventually realize that she has been treated like a child all her life and has been denied the right to think and act the way she wishes. When Torvald does not immediately offer to help Nora after Krogstad threatens to expose her, Nora realizes that there is a problem. By waiting until after he discovers that his social status will suffer no harm, Torvald reveals his true

When the story begins, Jane is ten years old and lives with her aunt at Gateshead. She was constantly terrorized by her relatives. In her description of her life at Gateshead, she said, “John Reed was a schoolboy of fourteen years old, four years older than me, as I was but ten” (Brontë 12). His superiority in both age and size led him to constantly harass Jane while they lived together. Eventually, Mrs. Reed decided to send Jane to Lowood school where she would spend the rest of her youth. After being there for a bit of time, she stated,