ungest daughter. learned from her mothers life by listening to her mothers family stories. Stella was unlike her older sisters whom carried on the Toms family poison of self hatred and descete. She was filled with goals and dreams ot anger and living in the past. Her sisters, Fay, Billyrene. Frances, and Rita fell into latched on to the family roots of poison. Unlike Stella, their childhood was filled with Zelda's strange men and having to work on a fruit farm from a young age. They weren't filled with hope as Stella was. Stella didn't have to deal with the reality of disappointments such as a whore mother from a young age like her older sisters did. They were forced to grow up realisticly and pesstimisticly due to the world around them. Although Stella did not have to deal with all the obstacles as her sisters had, she still could have easily fallen into the family trap of poisen which were in her roots. Stellas life was not lll good times, she also had disappointments such as loosing her job. Unlike her predecessors, she took responsibility for the hard times in her life and worked through them. When she lost her job as a secretary, instead of felling angry and blaming the family poison someone else started in the past, she instead took matters into her own hands and got a new job. She never once felt sorry for herself or blamed others for her problems. Although Stellas older sisters did have a harder childhood than Stella, they still would have been able to break free from the poison as Stella did by talking responsibility for their lives, talked about their mistakes, and didn't live in their mothers bad judgments. In conclusion, by using poison, which one finds out is in actuality self hatred and hidden lies not an outside sourse; Serris proves that a family learns and grows from each other starting from the roots. Although most members fell into the routine of self hatred, others were able to break free by taki...
