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Lighter Skin Color Account Of Jefferson Recovery Grant
616 wordsThe lady that appears after the first 100 pages of the book turns out to be Vivian, Grants secret lover. Grant and Vivian take a walk and after their walk they visit Grants aunt, aunt Emma. Aunt Emma and her friends are very fond of Vivian and they give her many compliments. Aunt Emma, and the reverend go to visit Jefferson and they find that Grants previous account of Jefferson's recovery was lie; Jefferson still eats and behaves like a hog. Aunt Emma and the reverend confront Grant regarding h...
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Maxine Hong Kingston Fa Mu Lan
4,500 wordsNational Chiao-Tung University, Taiwan See also the Kingston entry in DLB Yearbook: 1980. BOOKS: The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts (New York: Knopf, 1976; London: John Lane, 1977); China Men (New York: Knopf, 1980); Hawaii One Summer: 1978 (San Francisco: Meadow Press, 1987); Through the Black Curtain (Berkeley: Friends of the Bancroft Library, University of California, 1987); Tripmaster Monkey: His Fake Book (New York: Knopf, 1989). OTHER: "Cultural Mis-readings by American ...
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Importance Of Being Earnest Lady Bracknell
1,811 wordsLondon, and a country house in Hertfordshire, England; the 1890 s Jack Worthing, gentleman of the Manor House; also known as "Ernest" Cecily Cardew, Worthing's pretty young ward Algernon Moncrieff, Worthing's friend Lady Augusta Bracknell, Algernon's aunt Gwendolen Fairfax, Lady Bracknell's daughter The Reverend Canon Chasuble, Rector of Woolton While Algernon Moncrieff and his manservant prepared for a visit from-n his aunt, the formidable Lady Bracknell, their conversation turned to the questi...
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Hard Working Work Hard
620 wordsIn life, winners are those that are tenacious and pursue their goals, and losers are those that dont attempt to make an effort at all. What is the difference between them? People consider winners to be super intelligent and losers to be really lazy, but this may not always be the case. Though brainpower plays a minor role in determining the success of a person, it is not just this factor that determines the success or failure of a person. The winners are those who work diligently every step of t...
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Aunt Alexandra T Shirts
439 wordsHave you ever felt you had to dress a certain way or you would not be acceptable? Aunt Alexandra wants Scout to dress like a young lady to be respectable, but Scout thinks she can dress as she would like and still be a respectable person. One reason is she can do anything any other woman can in a dress. Also, there are no girls her age. And the most important, it is a free country. When other women do chores in the house wearing a dress they arent out in public, so, why dress to impress? Scout c...
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Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn Aunt Sally
814 wordsThe last sentence in the book "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" by Mark Twain reflects the tone and character of Huck, the main character. "But I reckon I got to light out for the territory ahead of the rest, because Aunt Sally she's going to adopt me and sivilize me, and I can't stand it. I been there before. " (497) The language and grammar reflect the manner of an "uncivilized" stray child. Huck want to remain the way he is - wild and crude, wants to keep his jargon and his lifestyle, with...
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Brave Orchid Woman Warrior
1,167 wordsThe Woman Warrior, by Maxine Hong Kingston, illustrates the story of a girl trapped between the culture of her surroundings and the traditions her mother forces upon her. The collection of memoirs is non-linear because Kingston goes back and forth between childhood and adulthood, instead of beginning as a child and proceeding through her adulthood into middle age. Kingston acts as the character-narrator in each section, and all the sections together build the total plot. Kingston writes about he...
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Helen Burns Jane Finds
1,858 wordsCharlotte Bronte's novel, Jane Eyre, skillfully reveals much of the sanctimony concerning women during the Victorian Era. Jane, the protagonist, has the qualities of endurance, valor, and vitality, yet she is refused self-contentment by the confined society in which she lives. Not only is this work a love story, but it is the tale of a young orphaned girl and her struggle for simpatico, for love and independence. Through the various environments Bronte provides, Jane oscillates between education...
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Contemporary Literary Criticism Younger Brother
2,233 wordsGo Tell It On The Mountain The story at issue here has a broad range of themes, however some of them are definitely more important than others. One of the most controversial themes that the author introduces in his novel is how church further oppresses the family. Church, prayers and the Lord are mentioned throughout the whole book, however it is not easy to see the underlying message of oppression behind the authors words. The story starts by introducing the active role of church in Johns and h...
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Huckleberry Finn Aunt Sally
987 wordsCollier pg. 1 The author of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is Samuel Longhorn Clemens, who is more commonly known by his pen name, Mark Twain. (Lyttle pg. 16) He was born in 1835 and died in 1910. Ever since The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn were published there has been a wide variety of objections about the literature found in the book which are represented as racist or hatred, because Twain Attributed a stereotyped ^Negro^ dialect (Cox pg. 129). There has been acts of depriving children ...
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Role Reversal Short Stories
875 wordsDysfunctional family relationships form the basis of many Canadian short stories. Often, tragedy is the end result of severe family breakdown. In other cases, personality defects are directly traceable to poor family dynamics. In the stories Hurt, Fall of a City, and The Sound of Hollyhocks there were very profound family problems. The difficulty in the father / son relationship in Hurt reflects a role reversal. Even though Stevie is only a young boy, he took care of himself and his father. Stev...
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Miss Emma Ice Cream
960 wordsIn A Lesson Before Dying, Mr. Grant Wiggins life crises were the center of the story. Although he was supposed to make Jefferson into a man, he himself became more of one as a result. Not to say that Jefferson was not in any way transformed from the hog he was into an actual man, but I believe this story was really written about Mr. Wiggins. Mr. Wiggins improved as a person greatly in this book, and that helped his relationships with other people for the most part. At the start of the book, he m...
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Katherine Anne Porter Southern Belle
2,172 wordsHistorically women have been considered intellectually inferior to men and also a source of temptation and evil. Women have also been considered naturally weaker than men, squeamish, and unable to perform work requiring muscular or intellectual development. In most early societies, and up until fairly recently, domestic chores were relegated to women, leaving heavier labor such as hunting, plowing, and careers outside of the home to men. Maternity was considered the natural biological role of th...
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Story Then Jumps Finds Out That Esther John
1,527 wordsPart One- The Seventh Day: 1. Summary- The story starts by introducing the active role of church in John s and his family s life. Various activities occur on Sunday in church, such as school, hymns, and preaching. On the morning of his birthday, he wakes up to lay in bed, pondering on his past birthdays and events. He falls asleep to wake up late and head to breakfast. Roy s hardheaded personality is introduced here through an argument with his mother. The argument was based on their father, and...
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Joseph Conrad Women Are Treated
1,516 wordsPart I In the novel, Second Class Citizen, the main character, Adah, is a strong, Nigerian women who faces sexism from within her own culture since she was born. She explains, ? She was a girl who had arrived when everyone was expecting and predicting a boy She was so insignificant? (Emecheta 7). In the Ibo culture that Adah grew up in, being a girl was looked down upon. Giving birth to a boy was a major accomplishment, whereas giving birth to a girl was an equally major disappointment. Girls we...
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Feeling Of Guilt Mice And Men
539 wordsLennie's Guilt in Of Mice and Men Lennie Small, the strong but dull-witted farm hand, experienced a psychotic break-down near the end of Of Mice and Men, by John Steinbeck. This episode was brought on by a tremendous feeling of guilt. While Lennie's head was full of the thoughts of the death of Curleys wife, his burden upon George, and his mental relationship with his aunt Clara and the giant rabbit, a somewhat confusing portrayal of Lennie's true guilt was shown. Lennie feels guilty about the d...
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Louisa May Alcott Older Sister
3,947 wordsLouisa May Alcott was an exceptional novelist in a time when few female authors were recognized. She lived in the midst of the turmoil caused by the American Civil War. As a nurse in that war, she saw horrors that no one should have to experience. Later, she would draw on these experiences to write Hospital Sketches (1863). Bronson Alcott, Alcott's father, was a pioneer of the transcendentalist movement, along with Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau. He founded several schools that all ...
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Religious Revival Communist Party
1,753 wordsShort Summary of Black Boy: Black Boy: A Record of Childhood and Youth is hailed in the genre of American literature as one of the most important non-fiction works documenting not only a piece of history, but a piece of African American culture. The novel starts with Richard at the age of four, who mistakenly burns down the house after starting a fire out of boredom. As punishment, Richard is beaten a typical punishment he receives from authority figures. When Richard father figuratively says to...
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Maxine Hong Kingston Woman Warrior
2,780 wordsMaxine Hong Kingston creates a self as a Chinese-American woman through models of selfhood in The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts. She does this by writing stories and rewriting myths that identify parts of her self. The story of the? No Name Woman? shows Kingston? s fears of being forgotten and her feminist views. The rewritten vision of Fa MuLan is a story that Kingston identifies with as a Chinese-American woman. She tells about her mother to show how they are the same in so...
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Truman Capote American Literature
2,688 wordsAmerican literature in the thirties and forties, was dominated by social consciousness. The preferred fiction was sociological prose, much of it naturalistic. Thus, when Other Voices, Other Rooms was published soon after World War II, it was criticized as being out of the main stream. Within a decade, however, as other young writers gained renown, it became apparent that Truman Capotes novel was a piece in a new pattern of fiction, one that was described by terms such as narcissistic, grotesque,...
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