According to the American Institute of Stress, it says: “The number one cause of stress, is the individual 's environment.” Many people in the world are facing failure, or going through rough times, because of what is around them. In the novel, Make Lemonade by Virginia Euwer Wolff, Jolly’s family and LaVaughn transition through many changes based on the environment around them. Because of transitioning through their childhood, apartment, and school, the characters transform their identities from negative to positive. Childhood plays a big role when looking at how the environment shapes Jolly’s family and LaVaughns identity. For example, Jeremy’s identity is shaped when LaVaughn is teaching him life-needed skills: “Jeremy, you have to learn …show more content…
The poor condition affects the different moods of the characters. More times than not, it is a negative mood. Jolly knows this, and tries battling against it. For example: “I’m capable of giving Jilly and Jolly a good bath tonight” (91). This piece of evidence is important because it is showing the change of how Jolly is stepping up, and getting out of her comfort zone, because she knows that this is what it is going to take in order to live a somewhat decent life. Jolly’s actions influenced by the apartment, are also influencing Jeremy’s too. “Jeremy now knows how to make his bed and pick up his socks” (132). Jeremy is starting to catch on too. In the beginning of the story, Jeremy was incapable of doing chores around the house. All of these newly developed actions that are taking place by Jolly’s family is creating LaVaughn to act more responsibly. Right before Jilly’s occurrence with the ambulance is when this took place. “ I get down on my hands and knees and pick up the vomit” (175). This quote is talking about LaVaughn. This scene in the book shows a lot. In the early pages of the book, LaVaughn wasn’t really self motivated. But after she saw Jolly, Jilly, and Jeremy stepping up, in addition to her mother being on her, she knew that she needed to pitch in too. The apartment started what seemed like a …show more content…
The Mom’s Up Program didn’t really shape much of LaVaughn, Jeremy and Jilly’s identity, but rather more so Jolly’s. It starts off by mentioning a change that Jolly is hoping to make. “I want to find a real job” (118). This quote is really important because in the early parts of the book, she wasn’t really self motivated. She was struggling to find a job, and didn’t have the relationships for it. She develops the urge to step up, and now make something of herself. This really shows how she matured from the early stages until this point. Another way the Mom’s Up Program impacted Jolly was it got happy about something for once. “Now Jolly never got excited in liking a job before, I know for a fact” (169). This is also showing how, when she actually makes the attempt to find something she likes and is good at, it makes her feel a certain way. Again, this shows her maturing. Both of the quotes lead into the final example. “I realize that you can get through rough times” (196). This piece of evidence is probably the most powerful example yet. Jolly has gone through times people can’t even imagine. She faces powerful adversity as a teenager, which puts her in a hole. She didn’t let that stop her though. This represents how she made the change to want to get better, and developed a self-motivator within
Instead of pitying herself, she decided to be courageous and do her duty- to almost any extent. For example, she was once caught by the Confederate army for spying, and was sentenced to death by hanging. Even so, she stayed calm, never gave up, and improvised her way out. She used her previous acting experience to pretend to be sick. The court allowed her to get better first, but after she had “healed”, she acted weak at court.
He hurt me. It wasn’t my fault. And I’m not going to let it kill me. I can grow.” This connects to “the perks of being a wallflower” because it shows how even though she was betrayed, and hurt by people she trusted, she's still growing even from those memories.
She learned to never give up and to never stay still, she knows she can always do better. Janie's dreams were opposite from her nanny, her nanny just wanted Janie to be someone who is taken care of just so she can be sitting down all day,
She wanted to express to her precious son to take on any opportunity that the universe threw at him for he is not the only one with admirable qualities. She urged him to carry on head strong no matter the circumstances and by providing all this support and love she sent him off with confidence and motivation to bring his mother “justice, fortitude, and every good virtue which can adorn a good citizen” (Adams). to continue making her
‘For the better’” (Cervantes 15). This cite demonstrates that the family is in a tight situation and how if izzy's mom graduates college it would help them in the future. To theorize, the mother is just trying to help their family got out of the tight situation and the child just doesn't comprehend
Instead of telling Janie what to do he gives her options, creating a two way relationship instead of a dominant partner. As well as being a good man, the circumstances change, in the past Janie had no way to support herself and was younger. In comparison to her old relationships, Janie is older and has quite a bit of money to keep herself standing while with Tea Cake. Janie also loves how sweet and caring Tea Cake is. He expresses his love constantly, like in chapter eleven when he claims, “Things lak dat got uh whole lot tuh do wid convenience, but it ain’t got nothin’ tuh do wid love."(Hurston ).
This delineates the theme because she chose to seek help to heal her
Stress is something we all go through and over time our stress beings to build up. Many believe that stress starts to impact one 's life by the time they start middle school or the beginning of their teenage years. The transition from elementary to middle school into high school can be very intense. Students become highly influenced by their surroundings which makes them susceptible to descended into unhealthy coping mechanisms. At this point in time their lives are shifting dramatically, they will be encountering many different people.
She struggles both socially and financially. Unable to provide the needed living and care for her children(Jeremy,3, Jilly,1). She has low income due to her education and it isn’t enough for her family to successfully live off of. Jolly decides after getting fired to go back to school to get a higher education leading her to a better job for higher income to support the needs of her family. The environment in Make Lemonade changes Jollys identity for the better from negative
(163) Knowing that Mattie knew she had to assist Nell even though she could barely care for herself demonstrates her caring nature and
He feels his father has unfairly abandoned him. His relationship with Tom Leyton has made him think twice about judging others, and has made him understand
She watched her mother die slowly and she watched her dad struggle to take care of her. As a young kid or even as an adult watching the person who is supposed to raise you and teach about love, and everything you need to know in life will greatly affect what type of person you turn into. One of the most heartbreaking things you can go through as a child is watching your mother slowly die and then watching your father struggle to take care of her and provide for the family. Ida went through a lot, her mom was sick and then her mom’s sister Clara came to help out and caused a lot of drama in the family. All the fighting put a lot of stress on young Ida, “Mama charged Clara with sneaking into the house like an enemy, charger that she had always covered papa, berated her for taking advantage of illness to have her way” (283).
Janie holds anger for her grandma because of the grandmother’s decision, but eventually, after she matures, Janie realizes that Nanny was merely doing it
She recognizes that the abuse she experienced as a child has had a profound impact on her life, and she is determined
He utilizes his observations of the cottagers to create his own ideals of humanity. He remains true to these words as he is very compassionate about the De Lacey family’s poverty. He learns of the acute shortage of food in the