Case Study: Lola from a Motives Perspective Rikkie Oree Johnson Way PSYC2900: Intro Psychology Personality Unit 3 Assignment 2 Capella University October ,2016 Snapshot of Lola Lola is twenty-year-old female who is has a bit of difficulty identifying her place in life. She describes her family as a loving doting father she feels warmly for. She sees her Mother as a cool personality but describes her as pretty, and she only acknowledges her sister in passing. She states that as children they moved around a lot and that she was a lonely child. This trend of being lonely continued as she grew up and she finds friendships hard to start and even harder to maintain. There was not a feeling of family togetherness and they did not have many gatherings out outings. When Lola was in the sixth-grade things went better for her, she was achieving good grades and she was able to maintain these grades and even made some friends. She won a contest and did some modeling for a local department store, she was able obtain clothes from this and attention She felt as if not people were jealous of her and her peers were envious. After the attention on the sixth grade she started having issues again she was more introspective and gained weight. Her attention was focused on her appearance still and her worth was reflected in the fact that she put much stock in not having friends or a boyfriend. She was transferred to an all-girls school and there were programs
First, Lola is the one that is responsible in the house. Lola says she did “all the cooking, cleaning, washing, buying groceries, writing letters to the bank to explain why a house payment was going to be late, translating” (456). This shows that she was in charge of everything in the household, and it can be said that Lola was the mother in the house. It also shows that Lola’s mother is not responsible about anything that happens in the house. Lola appreciates that because that is what made her to be a responsible girl. Also, what is surprising is that Lola is also responsible for her little brother Oscar, she makes sure he has everything that he needs. Lola says that she “raised” her little brother Oscar (459). She values that because if she was not the one raising him up, her brother Oscar wouldn’t be the same one as he is now. Lola plays the mother role instead of their actual mother. The only time their mother would talk to them, is when she wants to insults them, or when trying to make Lola to feel bad about herself. Although Lola is the only one doing
Billie and her mother used to fight a lot, when her mother was around. Much of the time Billie was left in the care of relatives or friends, many of whom were unloving (E). Billie's relationship with her family was very weak, as Billie throughout her life and career never or rarely got family approval or
The story “My Lucy Friend Who Smells Like Corn” by Sandra Cisneros is about the Narrator and her friend Lucy. The Narrator who is a girl who loves Lucy and think of her as her own sister. She isn't part of Lucy's family yet she loves her as if she was something more than a sister. I have someone to me that was a brother to me, still we didn't have a friendly relationship like Lucy and the narrator, but it change with time. The narrator has that in common with me. She's a single child who has someone else to be their brother or sister. The narrator had to go through the situation of the identity of who is her family. I had to go through on who my brothers and sisters are. I admire that the narrator has someone like Lucy, but so
At age 5 you start kindergarten and you learn all the basics of education like the alphabet, how to read and write, colors,shapes,and how to interact with others. Well kindergarten was a different time for Jaida Milburn, who had lost both of her parents in a car accident. Jaida had been taken into foster care and had problems adjusting to her new home. Jaida did not like her new home she was always getting picked on by the older girls because of her learning disability. Jaida had been acting out at her new foster home which resulted in getting sent to another one. Jaida was misbehaving at every foster home she was at until she got to this one foster home when she was placed with Ms. Jessica Norris. She immediately started to love Ms, Jessica
I have this theory that the general population sees their past selves as the underdog; the one who never fit it in during high school. Statistically most of them are correct. She played right into that. Her middle and high school story woes were told probably as a way to connect the universal underdogs. Her last line about a peer telling her that she knows that the author based the main character, the insecure underdog, on her helps prove that this strategy works and is successful.
Loung’s tragic loss of her Father, Mother and youngest sister Geak, leaves her with no father or mother. These deaths have a severe emotional impact on Loung. . From this we get a glimpse of the power that family relationships have in Loung’s life. After Loung has lost both of her parents she is left with an empty space in her life – the two most essential elements in her family are gone. Loung dives into a short-lived quest for a family like her own. We see this in her observations of a foster family (quote). From this we see Loung’s longing for a family which she no longer has.
Next, She goes to tenth then on to eleventh grade.In these grades she had a new friend come in her life.She had drama add to her life because her friends put her in drama.As the year's progress she gets more homework .she Also had boy issue and drama.
The reader can conclude that Lola doesn’t respect men using the evidence of her expressed opinions whenever she comes in contact with one. On the other hand, Lola adores her father and is the only man she will ever love. Unfortunately, Lola finds her father dead and later discovers the cause was from a heart attack and stress. She describes, “I sat there trying to blank my mind it was too much” (208).
People in the protagonist’s school feels she is a weird, overly educated, sociopath. She has been through many things in her life, which she behaved very strangely to. For example, in the sixth grade, a school shooter came in her classroom. Instead of running, and hiding like her classmates she stood up to the shooter pulled the fire alarm, and called the police, all with a straight look on her face. “In fact in grade school a counselor insisted I be
As a teenager she claims that she was ‘pretty wild’ always talked back to her mom which then resulted to a punishment. In high school she took charge in being apart of Beta Club and Pep Club. She was always active and playing sports.
She would dwell and manifest herself as worthless. Though, if life was going good, it was never enough for her. She had low self-esteem and was often teased. Growing up, it was hard to make friends. She focused too much on how others viewed her.
She grew up during the 70’s, with the vibrant colors and pop music, where roller rinks were full, and everyone knew Abba. She was a happy and funny girl, whom everyone befriended, and loved. She was a lovely girl, who was born in a nice family, and a neighborhood. She had a beautiful mother, a handsome father, and an intelligent sister, older than her, whom she loved, very dearly. Every day, the two sisters would take a walk in the park, skate in roller rinks, and buy ice cream. The two sisters more like best friends, and share everything together. The youngest who was in 8th grade, was Nina, and the oldest who attended 10th grade, was Minerva. Nina is a 14-year old girl, who loved listening to pop rock, dress in hoodies, and jeans. Minerva
Teaching her coping skills, having her go to teen groups for self-esteem can also help her relate to other young kids feeling the same way. Also it’s said that self-esteem “lies at the intersection of culture and cognition” (Strandell, 2016, para
Louisa and Salma agreed to meet at Salma’s place the following evening. Her friend’s parents went for a vacation to Spain and Salma stayed alone at the big house. Tired of people and her own parents Louisa was happy when Salma suggested celebrating her 18th birthday at her place together. Their friendship started years ago and despite their young age was strong and devoted. When Louisa arrived in Dallas she was small and frightened. Her parents did not have another choice as to move because her father was bankrupt at Frisco and his old companion suggested to become his business partner at Dallas. In comparison to Frisco Dallas was something magnificent in Louisa’s small naive eyes and comprises the whole world in this densely populated city
The story develops two old college friends gathering for a chat, in a week afternoon, talking for hours straight. During this period there is abusive alcohol consumption, a robust evidence of personal problems. The conversation evolves around gossip and complains. It is Eloise, the protagonist, who complains the most throughout the whole story, and about every aspect of her current life. Including her own daughter, which until that moment she barely considers as her descendent: “I need a cocker spaniel or something” (24). Even though the text only brings up the distinct appearances between them, Eloise believes Ramona is so far apart from her that anything would be closer to her – even a dog.