... "...He's like a baby. He can't play Monopoly or checkers or anything. I won't play with him anymore..." Charlie's sister also ignored him. To her, Charlie was dumb and could not do anything. Charlie had dreams of his sister yelling at him and making fun of him. He also had memories of the night his parents took him to the Warren Home. He was terrified and his dad would never answer his questions. Charlie remembered his childhood and through his memories, he felt guilty for hurting his family. After the operation, Charlie also suffered from disillusionment. In the bakery he used to have friends. Friends that would talk to him and care about him. "... ...
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... the daughters view their mothers in a different and unflattering light. Tan does this so the reader can see the stories behind both sides and so as not to judge either side unfairly. This section, titled Feathers From a Thousand Li Away, is aptly named, since it describes the heritage of the mothers in China, a legacy that they wished to bestow on their daughters, as the little story in the beginning signifies. For many years, the mothers did not tell their daughters their stories until they were sure that their wayward offspring would listen, and by then, it is almost too late to make them understand their heritage that their mothers left behind, long ago, when the ...
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... he used as an author came from his environment around him. In the late 1820s, Dickens became a newspaper writer and reporter. Dickens= first book, Sketches by Boz, written in 1836, consisted of articles he wrote for the London Chronicles. After he married Catherine Hogarth in 1836, his first work printed in The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club. This was the beginning of his career. When Dickens was twenty-four, he became famous for the rest of his life. His first fame came with The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club with Dickens= adventure stories. Other works followed such as, Great Expectations, A Tale of Two Cities, and Our Mutual Friend. ...
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... from the Nazis with the assistance of sympathetic and courageous people. Anne Frank and her family were among the fortunate few that went into hiding but were, unfortunately, later found. The cruelty of the Nazis not only affected those in Germany but people everywhere felt its impact. In addition to changes in the lives of Jewish people, normal existence changed for others as well. Everyone, Jewish or not, had to register to record their name and address. Those who were Jewish could then be singled out. In order to separate them, they were given identification cards and made to wear a yellow Star of David. Anne makes reference to this segregation in her di ...
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... eventually gets the parts he needs to repair his ship, and he and the manager set out with a few agents (whom Marlow calls pilgrims because of their strange habit of carrying long, wooden staves wherever they go) and a crew of cannibals on a long, difficult voyage up the river. They come across a hut with firewood stacked and a note saying it is for them but to approach cautiously. Natives attack them and the helmsman is killed before Marlow frightens the natives away with the steam whistle. They come to Kurtz's Inner Station, expecting to find him dead, but a Russian trader there assures them everything is all right and reveals that he is the one who left the ...
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... a position of security in society, "high ground" as she puts it. As the person who raised her, Nanny feels that it is both her right and obligation to impose her dreams and her ideas of what is important in life on Janie. The conflict between Janie's sacred view of marriage and Nanny's wish for her to marry for stability and position is a good illustration of just how deep the respect and trust runs. Janie has a very romantic notion of what marriage should be. "She saw a dust-bearing bee sink into the sanctum of a bloom; the thousand sister-calyxes arch to meet the loveembrace . . . so this was a marriage," is how the narrator describes it (p.24). Nanny's idea o ...
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... to give us her increase, and we shall all perish." Pg 22 Ezeani said this to okonkwo in response to his challenge against his chi, by beating his wife during the week of peace. Okonkwo can be an example for a person challenging his own chi since his desperate desire to succeed his chi, does not let him go any further than failure, destruction and death. Chi is simultaneously a destiny and an internal commitment that cannot be denied. The Igbo religion has a tendency to symbolize numerous amounts of divine gods. They have a god for every different natural phenomonum that occurred. These things of worship were things such as trees, pieces of wood, hills, caves et ...
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... which they represented, was associated in our minds with a greater insight and a more humane wisdom.” This bitter quote shows that after the war is over their generation does not know what will be left for them. The characters felt betrayed. This idea of betrayal is paramount in the loss of war. Even though they may be able to go home after the war is over, they will constantly have to fight themselves. Another force that led to the loss of innocence at the front was the things that the boys were learning. They refer to themselves as “stone aged veterans” even though they are only twenty. The young men learn things such as how to properly stab a man an ...
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... need for pride and what it or the lack of it can cause that is so beautifully communicated to the reader in Everyday Use. I understood why some characters were unsure of themselves. I was puzzled by why some did not feel surer of themselves and their heritage. I was also surprised that some had the pride that could carry them through any situation. Maggie is a classic example of poor self-esteem. She has little pride in herself. She is not as pretty or smart as her sister is. She was also scared in a fire. She has spent her entire life playing second fiddle or at least feeling like it. Dee wants the quilts that rightfully belong to her but instead of fighting she ...
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... a book about the great American dream, a book about long held American ideals, now squashed by big business and white supremacy? Mark Twain did just that, when he wrote what is considered by many as the “Great American Epic”. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, “The great American epic,” may be one of the most interesting and complex books ever written in the history of our nation. This book cleverly disguises many of the American ideals in a child floating down the Mississippi River on a raft with a black slave. On the outside of the story, one can see an exciting tale of heroism and adventure; however, that is not all. The book sho ...
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