The Face On The Milk Carton/ Character Analysis

The day after Janie found the dress, she gave her parents dull and mean responses since she was upset with them. The text states, “Something wrong, honey? Why are you mad at us?” Janie then starts giving her parents attitude and they start yelling at each other. The next day, Janie had a Honors Breakfast. After the honors breakfast, Janie asks her “parents,” “I want to know why there aren’t any photographs of me until five. Even if you didn’t buy a camera until then, you would have had a baby portrait done. I want to know who Hannah is upstairs in the trunk. I want to know why you won’t let me see my birth certificate.” 

*SPOILER ALERT* Janie’s mom and dad sit her down. They tell her that Hannah is her mother and that they’re not really her parents. They tell Janie they are really her grandparents and that Hannah was their daughter. They began telling her that basically her mother, Hannah was an unusual teenager. She wasn’t crazy about boys or stuff like that, she was mostly concerned of right and wrong. When a cult came along and swept thousands during the 60s and 70s, from the East Coast to the West Coast. It attracted Hannah. When Hannah was 16, she begged on her knees for her parents to let her join the cult. The text says, “We tried everything to get Hannah out. We took her on long vacations, we sent her to live with my cousin in Atlanta, we tried traditional church.” They say no matter what they did, Hannah would never budge. They wrote to Hannah a lot, but she rarely wrote back. Janie’s grandfather, Frank, got a letter by the cult that Hannah had been married to a member in the cult. Then, one day, the door opened, and Hannah was standing there with Janie. She had escaped.  After everything they could do, eventually hannah went back to the cult. So, for the sake of Janie, Hannah’s parents lost touch with Hannah. Stopped calling on her birthday, stopped sending presents, stopped writing letters and sending postcards. After all the crying and hugging, Janie was relieved. Janie says, “Mother and daddy are all I have, and all I want.” 

Character Analysis

Reeve was Janie’s next door neighbor. He doesn’t care about about his schoolwork. In the text it states that,” Reeve never did homework.” But he got B’s as grades at times, also with some D’s ad F’s. Janie and Reeve knew each other since they were little kids because their parents know each other as well. 

Face On The Milk Carton- Summary/ Character Analysis

Janie goes upstairs to the attic to see if there was any clues or things about her kidnapping. She starts looking around the boxes so see if anything looks suspicious. She sees a box in a corner and remembers her mother telling her that it is junk, and that she'll "toss out." The narrator said "If she had really intended to toss it out, or if it was really junk, it would have never gone to the attic; she would have donated it to the Salvation Army." Then, Janie finds a box that has the letter H written on it.After Janie had found that box with the letter H on it, she began to look through it. She found book reports, maps, worksheets, and photographs.  Even a report on Mesopotamia. It turns out that the letter “H” stands for Hannah. Then Janie found a photograph of Hannah. Heres how the text describes her, “A pretty girl- perhaps twelve or thirteen-looked back at her. Sweet, blond, mild.” From behind the papers, Janie realized a little piece of fabric. It was a white cloth, with tiny dark polka dots. It was the dress on the milk carton. 

Janie Johnson is a redhead, from in which she inherited from her mother, Hannah. She is lactose intolerant. In the text it says, “They had recently discovered  she had a lactose intolerance. This was a splashy way of saying she had stomachaches when she drank milk.”

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Native Americans have been marginalized by society and made to feel as if they didn't exist by: Captain Pratt tricking the children's parents into thinking that he is going to give them education. In the text it says, "He believed that Native American children deserved a quality education." So he came up with a plan, his plan was to turn abandoned army barracks in Carlisle, as said in the text. This had convinced the parents to let their children go. But Pratt didn't tell the parents the whole story. Pratt also wanted to kill the Native American culture inside the person. He believed he needed to do this to them in order for them to succeed in America. The text says, "Pratt believed that the children needed to completely abandon their "Indian-ness" in order to succeed in America." This proves that Pratt would then make the children completely change their lifestyles.

The purpose of Shanice's essay was to tell to people that just because she is a Native American, she is just as normal as everybody else. Also to inform the readers the many different things her tribes do. She wants people to know that Native Americans are regular people, but they still proudly show their culture through their actions. Her town is just like any other town, with restaurants, paved roads, a grocery store, like a little small community. She wants the readers to know that they have a lot of traditions they pass down generation, through generation, and if you don't pass them down, that part of the tradition might disappear.