Did you at any point think about your love when you were reading Nine Folds Make a Paper Swan? I can say that I did. Throughout the story love comes between each character’s decision in life. Ruth’s love for her parents comes in between great opportunites. Shmendrick’s love for his mother came between him seeking help in the situation he was in. As for the third character in the book, Aisling, love had interfered between her family and religion. Moreover, as for myself love has writhe its way in a couple situations in my life and in couple of situations of friends and family. Nowadays love influences one’s identity because of how it plays a role in big decisions of one’s life and affects the person.
In Ruth’s story she explains how much out of the ordinary she is. She talks in further detail how her family acknowledges her. Ruth explains how the little acknowledgement gets from her parents brings her happiness “Ruth leaned into the idea now, feeling a blush of pride. She knew she didn’t deserve it, really – that it was Niamh’s doing most of all – but still she let it linger for a moment” ( Gilligan 99). Ruth throughout her story in the novel over works herself to be loved. Ruth even tells the readers how her parents hardly ever show her love, she says, “But then last–for once– Mame’s letter had actually found a bit of feeling for her younger daughter; a bit of praise, even, for the Emerald Isle” ( Gilligan 222). The way she points out the bit of feeling she gets from the
Ruth just want to get out of poverty and to have a happy family. She doesn’t want to lose her opportunity to get out of the too small dilapidated apartment of which her family is forced to live in do to their lack of finances.
Ruth’s dream is to improve her family’s lifestyle and move into a house where she can raise Travis and the new baby. To realize her dreams she should not put everyone else’s wants and needs in front of hers all of the time. She should express her feelings more often so that her family will listen and help her to reach her goals. The play supports this view by showing how Ruth often neglects her feelings and pays great attention to her family’s feelings, wants, and needs.
The marriage problems between Ruth Younger and her husband Walter Younger are obviously taking a toll on her. It seems as many times that she is depressed and filled with stress. Further, through the play, we later find out she is pregnant. With the struggling money situation going through the house she is faced the consideration of abortion. The Younger family as it appears could in no way afford another mouth to feed with the already low income coming in. To make matters worse abortions are illegal and dangerous. So the already distressed Ruth was faced with a huge
This was a reward to James because he never had the opportunity to be with his mother alone since she always occupied with something.
Ruth was emotionally abandoned she wanted someone to return the love she had been giving out. The mere idea of her having to go the rest of her life in that state frightened her. If she was emotionally supported by her husband she would have been happier. This shows that her mental state shows abandonment of women.
(Pg 5). Ruth did not care what people thought of her and what what she did. To me she is acting like
Mameh made a significant impact on her daughter because her kindness and ability to persevere through tough situations taught Ruth to never give up on her life and family. When Ruth decides to leave Suffolk for good, Mameh tries to persuade her daughter to stay, but Ruth replies with, “‘I can’t live here, Mameh,’ and she didn’t bring it up ever again or ask me to stay any longer” illustrating that Mameh knows there is nothing left for Ruth, and even though Mameh needs people to take care of her, she chooses to put her family first (McBride 214). Ruth values her mother's selflessness, and makes sure that she does the same for her own children as well. Another characteristic that Ruth admires is her mother’s ability to not stand down, even though she is constantly abused and insulted by her husband. After Tateh gets another girlfriend, he tries to get Mameh to divorce him, but Ruth, who is caught in the middle, writes “She refused, and I could understand her dilemma
Ruth led a life broken in two. Her later life consists of the large family she creates with the two men she marries, and her awkwardness of living between two racial cultures. She kept her earlier life a secret from her children, for she did not wish to revisit her past by explaining her precedent years. Once he uncovered Ruth 's earlier life, James could define his identity by the truth of Ruth 's pain, through the relations she left behind and then by the experiences James endured within the family she created. As her son, James could not truly understand himself until he uncovered the truth within the halves of his mother 's life, thus completing the mold of his own
Love is different for each and every person. For some, it comes easy and happens early in life. For others, such as Janie in Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston, it happened much later in life after two unsuccessful marriages. Janie’s grandmother, Nanny raised Janie to be attracted to financial security and physical protection instead of seeking love. Nanny continually emphasized that love was something that was bound to happen after those needs were met; even though Nanny never married. Janie formulates her ideal of love while sitting under a pear tree as a teenager; one that fulfilled her intellectually, emotionally, spiritually and physically. She was then informed that she was to have an arranged marriage to an older
Ruth’s dreams of living in better conditions shows how desperately she wants to fill an unfulfilled dream. She is even willing to work several jobs in order to ensure that the family can move and make ends meet when they move to the new house. This shows her determination to improve their situation despite the fact that she is pregnant. Her husband does not offer to lighten her burden by taking on more jobs. Furthermore he makes a sexist remark saying that Ruth just wouldn’t understand because money is a man’s domain and this highlights how he sees that women are not intellectual enough to understand finances. By putting his wife down is a sign of verbal abuse and I posit that he does this in order to feel more powerful as a man. He dreams
Ruth Foster is an extremely interesting character who throughout the novel is restricted by men in her quest to nurture and care for them. She is a depressed character, relying on an old water stain to keep her in this world, to remind her “that she was alive somewhere, inside, which she acknowledged to be true only because a thing she knew intimately was out there, outside herself” (Morrison 11). This water stain also represents Milkman, Ruth’s only goal in life is to care for him, which is why she breastfed him to an older than normal age and cares for him so deeply. He is the only purpose that she has for living, and
Secondly, during the play Ruth is shown as a housewife who takes care of their son Travis, and is always cooking and cleaning for Walter. A prime example of Ruth is just being a lady who serves her man is when Walter is having George over and he tells her “ Why don’t you offer this man some refreshment. They don’t know how to entertain people in this house, man” (Hansberry 1488). Since Walter works all day driving around, he feels empowered to belittle his wife, and view her as a servant. Thus setting the expectation that women are just supporting roles to their husbands, and are meant to cater to the needs of the husband. Moreover, Ruth is relied on to get Walter and Travis ready for work and school. “Will someone listen to me today!” (Hansberry 1481). Ruth is therefore the caregiver for the family; she is heavily depended on to support her family, while her husband complains about getting the money to open up a liquor store with his friends or about driving his “white” boss around everywhere and being jealous because he isn't successful.
Love makes us do crazy things. It makes us become people we never thought we were. Love gives us an ultimatum about our life. Love is a powerful bond and wicked curse. When we love, we love hard. We will do anything for love and to be loved. In “My Sister’s Marriage,” Cynthia Marshall Rich presents the different views of love upon similar yet different characters. Two sisters, who share a loving yet manipulative Father show the different ways love affects us. Sarah-Ann and Olive have many similar and different relationships with love, their dreams, and their traits.
A Thousand Splendid Suns, a novel written by Khaled Hosseini, tells the life story of two girls growing up in Afghanistan. It begins with Mariam’s point of view, then switches to Laila, and eventually the two cross paths and have a major impact on each others lives. There were a lot of social and cultural issues going on during this time that changed the course of story several times. One idea that stayed constant was the significance of love. Both girls learned to love others and eventually each other in the midst of all the chaos. It helped them develop into the characters that they are by the end of the novel. A major theme that is constantly displayed through Laila and Mariam journeys is the concept of love.
First, Ruth, is one of the women in the house who changes Walter’s decisions in the story. Her relationship towards him is poor. Ruth nags at the beginning, saying “Eat your eggs Walter” (Hansberry 34). This angers him because she repeats it multiple times throughout, not understanding him, showing their strained relationship. Ruth is also shown to not be on Walter’s side on multiple occasions. For example, when Walter finds out that Mama spent the money on a new house, he does not like it. Ruth however is not feeling the same way as him, and tells him “Walter honey, be glad” (Hansberry 92). Ruth tells Walter to be glad, because their views are different. Ruth thinks this was beneficial to the family, yet Walter does not. This hurts Walter throughout the story as he feels alone with no one on his side. Walter know this when he says “Cause ain’t nobody with Me! Not even my own mother!” (Hansberry 85). Since he is alone, and believes no one cares about him, he tries to fix his own mistake when he decides he will get more money saying, “That White man is going to walk in that door all to write checks for more money than we ever had.” (Hansberry 143). Ruth does not like Walter’s idea, but he does not care as no one is on his side, which disappoints Ruth.