The next day, it is 12: 15 in the lobby, but her mother never shows up, and Novalee realizes that her mother only wanted the money.

When Forney comes back, he talks about visiting Bowdoin and Novalee realizes that he could now finish his education.

Since Novalee has only a few dollars, she secretly moves into the Wal-Mart store.

In Sequoyah, Oklahoma, Novalee asks her boyfriend to stop at Wal-Mart so that she can go to the bathroom and replace her shoes, which had fallen out a hole in the floor of their beat-up car.

When Novalee reaches out for her change at the register, the amount of $ 5. 55 sends her into a panic and she runs outside to find that her boyfriend has left ( Novalee believes that the number 5 is a sign of trouble or a negative event of significance is to come because when she was 5, her mother left her for a baseball umpire and when she was a waitress at a restaurant, a regular customer went crazy and cut her on her arm from wrist to elbow and it took 55 stitches to close the wound ).

Later that evening, Novalee feels sick and runs into the bathroom to vomit, and when she comes out again she discovers that the store is closed, locked, and dark.

Novalee goes to Sister Husband's house and explains that she is not Ruth Ann.

That night in the Wal-Mart, Novalee wakes up during a thunderstorm when she starts feeling pain in her stomach.

After being asked by her nurse Lexie Coop ( Ashley Judd ) what she will name her baby girl, Novalee decides to name her baby Americus ( because Moses suggested Novalee to give her baby a strong name ).

Novalee gets to know Lexie, who reveals that she has had four children by three different men ( and that Lexie named her children after snack names ; Brownie, Praline, Cherry, and Baby Ruth ).

While in the hospital, Novalee gets a visit from her mother ( Sally Field ), whom she has not seen since she was a child.

Novalee shows her the $ 500 that she was given by the President of the Wal-Mart chain to her mother.

Novalee remembers that, in the hospital, she was reading cards that people sent to her and that one card post marked and sent from Midnight Mississippi said her baby was an abomination under God.

Five years pass, and Novalee begins a career as a photographer with the help of Moses Whitecotton ( whom she befriended in the Wal-mart ).

After the funeral, one of Sister Husband's friends from AA informs Novalee that she is the beneficiary of Sister's estate, worth around $ 41, 000.

Novalee cannot hear what he is saying, and eventually perceives that something bad has happened so she drives to Lexie's house.

Novalee and Forney end up sleeping together, after which he tells her that he loves her and she doesn't reply.

Forney says he loves her and wants to get a factory job and stay with her, but Novalee lies, saying she does not love him, and he leaves.

On Americus's 5th birthday, Novalee is paranoid about her party because of the unlucky 5 ( when Americus was 5 days old, she had jaundice ; at 5 weeks old, she had an ear infection ; at 5 months old, she was kidnapped ).

Novalee visits the library and meets Forney Hull ( James Frain ), who works at the library while caring for his sister ( the librarian ), whose health has been ruined by alcoholism.

Novalee learns from Sister Husband and her boyfriend that Forney dropped out of Bowdoin College in Maine and wanted to be a history teacher before he had to leave school.

Later, Novalee and Forney are getting Christmas trees, when Forney remembers Americus is 5 months old.

Novalee asks Forney why bad things happened to her.

When Forney ’ s sister passes away due to alcoholism and he does not appear to be at the funeral, Novalee finds him in a hotel and comforts him.

* Forney does return to college until Novalee comes back to confess her lie in the movie but in the book Forney does not return to college ; instead he travels around the nation.

* Forney and Novalee did get married in a Wal-Mart but in the book they do not get married at all.

The film follows Novalee Nation, a pregnant 17-year-old girl from Tennessee, who sets out for California with her boyfriend.

For the rest of the afternoon, Novalee browses Wal-Mart.

She meets Sister Husband ( Stockard Channing ), a woman who runs the Welcome Wagon in town, and mistakenly believes Novalee to be her long-lost relative Ruth Ann.

Novalee also meets a photographer named Moses Whitecotton ( Keith David ) who becomes her mentor in later years.

However, Sister Husband invites her in to stay for some cornbread and buttermilk, and Novalee plants the buckeye tree in Sister's yard.

The next morning, Novalee wakes up in the hospital and became an instant celebrity after giving birth in a Wal-Mart.

Novalee says no, and her mother says that the two women can get an apartment together.

Novalee agrees that her mother can come pick her and Americus up at 9: 00 a. m. the next day.

Later, Novalee is shown to have a good time at Sister Husband's house.

This shocks Novalee about her unlucky number and races home to find out that Americus was kidnapped.

As if in a trance, she repeats his words -- then realizes, with a shock, her own audacity.

Bernadette Peters steps into the six-month-old revival of ' A Little Night Music ' with a transfixing performance, playing it as if she realizes her character's onstage billing -- " the one and only Desiree Armfeldt " -- is cliched hyperbole.

Cora realizes she and Schub are meant for each other, and they dance off together.

Nora realizes that her husband is not the strong and gallant man she thought he was, and that he truly loves himself more than he does her.

She now realizes that Torvald is not at all the kind of person she had believed him to be, and that their marriage has been based on mutual fantasies and misunderstanding.

She realizes that marriage would confine her, the freedom she attempted killed someone, and her love for Lo would require her to give up the personal freedom she always wanted.

Murbella realizes that she wants to be Bene Gesserit.

" Ethel suddenly realizes she was just talking to Arden herself, who soon passes Lucy and Ethel's table to leave the restaurant while the pair gawk.

She thinks Ash murdered her parents at first, but when the evil spirits unleash against them, she realizes the truth and finds out her only way to survive is to help Ash defeat the spirits.

At the end of the season, Chandler accidentally reveals that Ross loves Rachel, who realizes that she feels the same way.

Rachel realizes she loves him, too, and cancels her flight to Paris, agreeing to stay with him.

* The scene where Naoko learns her brother is alive ; Goro snaps pictures of them reunited, which angers Naoko because she realizes he only helped her in order to get the scoop.

Guilt is a cognitive or an emotional experience that occurs when a person realizes or believes — accurately or not — that he or she has compromised his or her own standards of conduct or has violated a moral standard, and bears significant responsibility for that violation.

Hera wakes up while breastfeeding and then realizes she is nursing an unknown baby: she pushes the baby away and a jet of her milk sprays the night sky, producing the faint band of light known as the Milky Way.

The play is " a dark play about people who, at the beginning, are with wrong partners and in the end it is hopefully going to become right, and she ( Desiree ) mistimes her life in a way and realizes when she re-meets the man she had an affair with and had a child by ( though he does not know that ), that she loves him and he is the man she wants.

Act Two begins days later, and Desirée realizes that she truly loves Fredrik.

The dramatic performer must take on the character of Desirée: a woman who finally realizes that she has misspent her youth on the shallow life.

Her fairytale marriage to Brad Silver comes crashing down when she realizes that he's unfaithful to her, leading her to reconsider choosing him over Katchoo.

When she tells him that more than ten days have elapsed without contact, he realizes that they are stranded.