“I was angry. I never cried. I didn’t know how to cry.” This quote was said by Mary Lennox, in the movie The Secret Garden, based on the book, wrote by Frances Hodgson Burnett. Mary is an orphan, brought into her uncle, Lord Craven’s, house, Misselthwaite Manor. Her uncle took her in after a terrible earthquake in India, that sadly took the lives of her parents. Mary never really had any friends and was always alone, her parents were not very caring nor affectionate to her, and never really paid much attention to her at all, they only cared about themselves. This was very hard difficult for Mary, she would try to please them, make them love her, but it never seemed to work. Mary had almost anything she could have wanted in her life, but love, …show more content…
As you know Mary’s parents died in an earthquake, but before they died Mary still had no connection with them, they cared more about themselves than her. Mary tried to connect with them and be with them, but they never wanted to be with her, they neglected her in the love department. When Mary moved into Misselthwaite Manor, she was ornery, angry, and upset all the time. That was the way it was for her until she found her aunt's room and the key to the garden. Even though she found the key to the garden, she had not found the garden yet. When she found the garden she was so happy, and she actually started to smile, and be happy, she found something that she was really passionate about, and was willing to love and care for. This garden not only helped her open up, but it helped her help others to open up their heart. Mary helped Colin open up, which opened Lord Craven, which then opened Mrs. Medlock. If Mary did not go to Misselthwaite Manor, everything would be the same, she would still be unhappy, and Colin and Lord Craven would have never connected. “The spell was broken. My uncle learned to laugh and I learned to cry. The secret garden is always open now. If you look the right way, you can see the whole world is a garden.” That quote was said by Mary in the end of the movie, she did learn to cry, open her heart, learn to love, and learned that everything is a garden if you look the right way. The key to getting into the garden is kindness and trust, and the garden is your heart, if you are kind and trustworthy, you can be loved and in someone's
Coming from a lonely and abusive home Mary had to find happiness outside of her house. Her mom made a friend from their church and she happened to have a three month year old baby. Mary always occupied the Richardson’s by helping with baby Alyssa, while also distracting herself from reality. Meeting the Richardson’s ended up being Mary’s worst nightmare. One night the Richardson’s went out and asked Mary and her mother to watch Alyssa.
As Mary’s story unravels, she continues to suffer long hours of work, starvation, and separation from her family. She reads her holy bible and is constantly reminding herself that God is with her and will see her through these trials. Her spirits are lifted her master agrees to sell Mary to her husband, and her mistress begins the journey with her, but before long the mistress decides not to go any further and they turn back. Not long after, she starts to loose hope that she will ever be reunited with her family. She becomes discouraged, and her spirit
When she enters the bedroom, her voice changes from present to past tense and she starts to reminisce and begins to talk about her mother and aunts. She seems happy to remember her mother’s room and introduces her aunts to the audiences. Mary delivers her dialogue saying that the dressing table and the small elephant statue figures are all same. When Mary gently touches her mother’s photo, she delivers a sad tone. Her performance conveys to the audiences that she misses her mother. The tone of her voice represents that she is a gentle, innocent and a loving child. Her verbal and non-verbal interactions conveyed the viewers with a message that she is an orphan.
Mary begins the story as a doting housewife going through her daily routine with her husband. She is content to sit in his company silently until he begins a conversation. Everything is going as usual until he goes “ slowly to get himself another drink” while telling Mary to “sit down” (Dahl 1). This shocks Mary as she is used to getting things for him. After downing his second drink, her husband coldly informs her that he is leaving her and the child. This brutal news prompts the first change in Mary, from loving wife to emotionless and detached from everything.
The Black Mary made Lily think about her life and what could be done to make it better. It made Lily think about the positives and negatives, and that she now had people to relate and connect to.
Mary grew up in a rough part of Baltimore she wanted to get her education and leave the neighborhood .Her parents before her did not finished college
As a young mom, Mary had days in which she felt overwhelmed she enjoyed “partying, dancing, and being noticed by men-and noticing them back - much to the chagrin of her family, friends who ended watching the boys so many nights”(Moore 19). This contrasts Joy’s choice to leave her children with family and friends because she on the other hand had to work. Her absence in her children’s life did not transmit nurture, but absent mindedness instead. Joy also “knew what her older son was into but didn’t think there was anything she could do for him now. She hoped that Wes would be different” (Moore 71).
During their “removes,” Mary becomes too weak to walk any longer, and the Indians, “like inhuman creatures, laugh and rejoice to see it.”They do nothing to provide for her comfort during their long journeys through the rough landscape. Her only refuge is to take comfort in her prayer and hope that God will help her through these hard times. After the first several days, Mary develops a dependency upon the Indians, and begins to get used to their means of living.
When Mary Anne arrives she is a happy, pretty, innocent young lady and she is very well liked by many. After a couple of days of being at camp Mary Anne starts participating more in the war and begins to distance herself from Mark. Mary Anne was too drawn into the war life “A haunted look, Rat said- partly terror, partly rapture. It was as if she
There is a constant cycle of talking-at and not talking-to. The lack of knowing how to communicate effectively is a hindrance on the mother-daughter dynamic as well as their ability to This cycle of learned behavior, many have impacted how Mary's lack of ability to communicate in a positive and healthy manner is a pattern within the family. The is filled with anger, Mary always appears to be upset and angry faith Precious or the government and life in general. This frustration that she faces she tends to handle them with violence. Education is not encouraged and is seen as useless. Relying on the government is a norm within
By the novel, Mary discusses several issues related to relationships which terrorize aspects of her personal life, including birth and childhood, the death of her mother, her miscarriage and new child and her coming across with the events which occurred in the summer of 1816 (see notes).
She tells John that she wants to visit Henry and Julia, her cousins, but he tells her that “she wasn’t able to” (Gilman 45). She is left feeling helpless: “what is one to do?” (Gilman 39). By suppressing her feelings, the narrator slowly “creeps” (Gilman 52) towards insanity.
The following quote from Greer’s story illustrates how Mary might be feeling when she comes home and accepts that the man she loved is gone and her son does not care for her “We think we know them. We think we love them. But what we love turns out to be a poor translation…” (Text 3, L. 2-3). In the end Mary has nothing left in life, the family dynamic is officially broken and nobody is there to keep the family together, this is what Mary
Mary deals with the sense of displacement because of the absence of a stable home. Since her husband, James, was an actor, the family would have to move around depending on his schedule. Leaving Mary and her children on cheap hotel room. Mary was not a fan of this, she never had a place to call home. She fondly remembers her ideal childhood home, and contrasts it with her present dwelling.
In the play, Mary is a beautiful woman and lives the life like any other girls of her time; but she is emotionally attached to her sons and her family when she marries into the Tyrone family. She is also getting old, so she keeps going on her days worrying about her change of appearance. She suffers from a morphine addiction and she is psychologically wounded because of her past. She tries many times to break free but she could not stop as she spends time with her family. She has gone through many struggles but she cannot move on with her life. She keeps looking back into the past; and she regrets marrying into the family because of the dreams she had to sacrifice such as becoming a nun or a concert pianist.