The Touch Of Magic By Lorena Hickok
.... took this
unbelievably hard for she had realized that Jimmie was the only thing she had
ever loved.
Annie's attitude then worsened even more because she felt she had
nothing left. She would throw hissy fits at the nurses and kick and scream.
Believe it or not, this is one of the character traits that I most admire about
Miss Macy. She was aggressive and didn't let anyone tell her what to do. Even
though she could hardly see, she lived her own life in her own little world.
Another trait that I admire about her is that she was a dreamer. I know
I am a big dreamer and can get lost in my thoughts sometimes, but her dreams
we .....
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The Color Purple By Alice Walker
.... write to. She feels that what happened
to her is so terrible that she can only talk about it to someone she feels loves
her. She knows her sister Nettie loves her, but she is too young to understand.
Celie believe only to God may she talk honestly and openly about her suffering.
Celie is not, however, at this point, complaining to God, she is simply
confiding in him.
Celie was born into a poor family; her mother was sick most of the time,
mentally and physically; there were too many children in the family; and Celie
was abused by the man she believed was her father. Celie feels used and abused,
but does not understand why. So .....
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Windflower
.... Jimmy is a joy and a blessing to Elsa, he also creates a
conflict for her. She does not know whether she should raise him as an Eskimo
like herself, or white like the father. Elsa takes advice from a lady she once
worked for, named Madame Beaulieu, the only white woman she knew. Elsa is soon
dressing Jimmy as the white do, and is keeping her hut clean and tidy. The
people from the Eskimo society are in awe at the beautiful baby with blond,
curly hair, and the ways in which Elsa is raising him. They always want to
borrow Jimmy and they even start to bathe their children as Elsa does, at the
same time every day. Elsa is proud .....
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Mary Astell's From A Serious Proposal To The Ladies
.... I would not exclude people to the same degree
that Mary wanted to. So these places that Mary Astell wanted to create do have
some merit to them. For without them, women of that time, unless rich, would not
have been able to be educated.
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The Awakening: Public Controversy
.... century's message of the
supremacy of motherhood was so strong and so intense that it was absorbed into
the systems of it's women - even women like Edna [ ,a character in Chopin's book,
] who were not maternally inclined." ( ? ) You could almost say that women were
considered symbols of everything that is pure in the society in which they lived.
Anything short of that was considered unacceptable.
Because of the time that Chopin lived in: " The Appearance in print of
her most recent work had brought her harsh criticism and condemnation, as well
as ostracism from many of those who had always formed a close-knit world of St.
Louis .....
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The Feminine Mystique
.... to achieve
a thin figure. The look that women were striving for was the look of the thin
model. Many women wore tight, uncomfortable clothing in order to create the
illusion of being thinner and some even took pills that were supposed to make
them lose weight.
The role of women was to find a husband to support the family that they
would raise. Many women dropped out of college or never went in the first place
because they were lead to believe that working outside of the home was for men
and that it would not be feminine for them to get jobs and be single without a
husband or children to take care of.
An enormous problem f .....
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The Mists Of Avalon: The Women Behind King Arthur
.... sister,
Morgaine, who has come down to us as Morgaine of the Fairies, a sorceress who,
in this epic retelling of the story, plays a crucial role both in Arthur's
crowning and destruction. Above all it is a story of profound conflict between
Christianity and the old religion of Avalon.
The term "Medieval Romance" does not necessarily mean that the piece
using it contains any sort of "romance." Most Medieval Romance pieces told the
tales differently from those of the realistic novel. In other words, the plots,
like those of the romance, (1) divide into sharply separate episodes that often
do not seem joined in in any obvious ca .....
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Battle Royal
.... of this one black boy, but the struggle of all blacks at
the time in which this story takes place.
I think that if one were to analyze the grandfathers dieing words, one
would find the view of most conformist black Americans. The only way for a black
person to excel at that time was to conform to the white society. Any rebels
that tried to stand up for their rights were mostly killed by anti-black groups
such as the KKK.
There was one symbol in the story that stood out especially in my mind
and that was the stripper. She was a tall blonde haired blue eyed woman with a
tattoo of the American flag on her belie. I think that .....
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20,000 Leagues Under The Sea: Overview
.... and mysterious parts of the book was when
the characters were thrown into a big room inside the submarine that seemed to
have no doors. At this point in the book the characters have no idea what was
going on, neither does the reader. The only thing that happens during the time
in this room is a man comes in and gives them some food, minutes later they all
fell asleep. Why where they put to sleep, where is this room that seems to have
no doors? This is just one of the hundreds of questions going through your head
during these couple chapters of the book. When they wake up all the lights in
the room are off and the submarine .....
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Accordion Crimes: Dismal Reality Checks
.... back.” A character that
has a great deal of intrigue is the accordion maker. The most interesting fact
of this character is that he has no name, only an occupation. This is symbolic
of all the millions of faceless immigrants that came to America in search of
their dreams, but very few found them waiting, much less at all. “...He had his
theory, his idea of the fine instrument; with the proof of this one, he planned
to make his fortune in La Merica.” The accordion maker himself was a large man,
but more sensitive that most like him. He despised working through problems and
simply let his wife handle them when she could. Once in L .....
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A Farewell To Arms: Style
.... facts, Hemingway is telling us, and they can't be ignored.
And just as Frederic Henry comes to distrust abstractions like "patriotism," so
does Hemingway distrust them. Instead he seeks the concrete, the tangible: "hot
red wine with spices, cold air that numbs your nose." A simple "good" becomes
higher praise than another writer's string of decorative adjectives.
Though Hemingway is best known for the tough simplicity of style seen in the
first passage cited above, if we take a close look at A Farewell to Arms, we
will often find another Hemingway at work--a writer who is aiming for certain
complex effects, who is experimenting w .....
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A Farewell To Arms
.... are apparently the most important themes in the book, but I don't agree. I
also don't agree that it is a war story or a love story. Exactly what it is,
though, is not clear to me. Can't art exist without being anything? "There isn't
always an explanation for everything."
War and love are obviously important themes in the book, and the relationship
between the two is explored by Hemingway and, somewhat, by Henry. In the first
two Books we are in the war and the war is overwhelming. In the last two Books
we are in love. And, just as the first two Books are peppered with love in the
time of war, the last two Books are tinged with .....
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