Jane Child Custody

Ultimately, as a woman, she is a limited agent and can only do so much indecently. Jane breaks off from the domestic sphere to which she is confined

Knowledge about all that parents and caregivers do for the people they care for puts into perspective how little is done for them. An example of this can be found on page 406 when Gary talks about how he is going to buy new clothes with the money he is earning from picking grapes. The mother, however, had other plans and the inference can be made that she was providing for the children what they needed to survive while the children just wanted to look their best. “Mother earned one hundred and forty-eight dollars. She wrote this on her envelope, with a message I didn’t bother to ask her about.”

The theme of James Baldwin’s, “Sonny’s Blues” is overcoming sibling conflict through love and understanding. The poetic passage I chose that best represents this theme is, “Sonny’s fingers filled the air with life, his life. But that life contained so many others. And Sonny went all the way back, he really began with the spare, flat statement of the opening phrase of the song. Then he began to make his.

Jane being ignored is a reason why she has some mental issues. She feels ashamed of what she is feeling and society makes it hard for her to want to talk about this with anyone. Not being able to talk about it, causes Jane’s depression to get worse with

Gilman intentionally tried to make Jane a typical woman of the time period. She is economically dependent on her husband, as she does not work out of the house. She is not allowed to make her own decisions, John will not let her out of bed, even though she wishes to do so; and she is often treated like a child, John gives her a dirty look when she expresses that she is still not well when he believes that she is getting

It is ironic that Jane is seen as the guilty party in the incident with John Reed because John started the fight when he slapped Jane. Then when John’s sisters, Eliza and Georgina, go to “tattle tale” on Jane, their mother blames Jane for the whole situation. Jane compares John to a “murderer,” “slave-driver,” and “Roman Emperors” (Bronte 9). During this comparison, she is implying that he is a very cruel and awful person. That he would beat her and boss her around.

“I did the math. It came out to twenty-five dollars a week, or a little over three-fifty a day. I worked out a budget and and calculated that we could indeed squeak by if I made extra money babysitting. ”(Walls 209) This is the total opposite of her father, who would selfishly blow all the money on cigarettes and alcohol for himself.

One can not research social work without coming across the name Jane Addams. Jane’s work within the world of social reform, had a great deal of lasting power. She was at the time of her death, best known for establishing the Hull house and advocating for fair treatment of immigrant communities. Her work may have started in Chicago, but reached worldwide with her reform. Jane Addams influences had a wide reach with lasting results, the greatest being the Hull house.

Both mother figures in his life fail to fulfill their duties and provide basic guidance. Today, it is common to see careless mothers who fail to train their children due to various circumstances, this takes an immense toll on the child mentally and physically. It is important to note, that children are vulnerable and innocent, as it is only expected that a mother will groom, nurture and provide for their child. However, this is not the case for all children, a mother's failure to do the aforementioned can lead to permanent consequences and destroy the familial

1. She was really a moron. But what a dancer. I could hardly stop myself from sort of giving her a kiss on the top of her dopey head – you know – right where the part is, and all. She got sore when I did it.

oh I know, because you hate me!” Most of the kids who are treated by Permissive Parenting Style tend to believe in the value of themselves because no one condemn them. Fortunately, she treats Jane from spoiling to let Jane do things by herself. Every day, her mom cooks her a breakfast, but since everything has changed, cooking breakfast is her duty. Furthermore, her mom decides to lead her to know the taste of life and pay attention not only to the school lessons but also real experience.

In the beginning, she is deprived of education, love and appreciation of her presence which ultimately is her prime reasoning of taking off to be successful. Her experience at Gateshead was nothing more than miserable, she fought for what she needed and grew out of her comfort zone to stick up for herself. The strict rules and limits to freedom was not something Jane could handle for much longer, starting with the false accusations said by Brocklehurst of Jane. Brocklehurst is one of the many obstacles Jane fights to become happy and successful. She did not let him control how she envisioned her future life, rather she became even more passionate to prove how much of a cruel master he was.

The 1962 movie Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? is about two older sisters, who were successful and famous in their early years. Now, they just think about the old days and wish they could get back to those glorious days. The two sisters in the movie are Jane and Blanche Hudson. Jane was a famous child star, where Blanche got recognized and became a famous actress later in her life. After reading Susan Sontag’s essay “Notes on ‘Camp’”

She criticizes herself because she is not able to cope with the room her husband is making her live in. Gilman shows the other side of women through her means of dialogue. The Narrator overcomes her conformist ways towards the end of the story when she says “I’ve got out at last, said I, “in spite of you and Jane. I’ve pulled off most of the papers, so you can put me back.” (656) .

However, when Jane finds out about her inheritance, she also becomes financially independent which puts her on the same social standing as Mr Rochester. Although they are now financial equals, the fact that Mr Rochester is blind makes him dependent on Jane. When Jane marries Rochester, she proves both to herself and her “reader” that her marriage is based on nothing but love which saves her