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- 4231: The Cat In The Rain
- ... story the "The Cat in the Rain" by Ernest Hemingway, the cat is a symbol around which the story revolves. As a central symbol, the cat reveals the psychological state and emotional desires of the American wife. When the cat is first observed it is "crouched under one of the dripping green tables. The cat was trying to make herself so compact that she would not be dripped on."(56) Even ... 57) She is feeling so sad and depressed making us wonder why this cat is so important for her to have. "We must go back inside, you will be wet." "I suppose so" says the American girl, as if her emotions are not drowning in turmoil with the life she is currently leading. It soon becomes clear to the reader why the woman probably feels like a cat drowning in the ...
- 4232: The Bluest Eye
- ... in general in this particular setting. Basically Pecola’s child has very little chance because "everything and everyone" is hostile towards blacks. If anything negative is going to happen it will be to an African American because by this quote they do not have any chance at becoming contributing members to society. The society that Pecola lives in is racist. The soil can represent the society and she does not have ... see the world through blue eyes. For the first time he honestly wished he could work miracles." This comes from the character Soaphead who finally realizes what it must be like to be an African American in a racist society. If only Pecola could literally see life through the eyes of someone who is not oppressed by their society. Pecola only wants to live up to the image of a blue ...
- 4233: The Bean Trees
- ... book. Some prime examples of these sacrifices are Mattie’s will to offer sanction to illegal immigrants, the fact that Taylor sacrificed the whole success of her excursion by taking along an unwanted, abused Native-American infant, and Estevan and Esperanza’s decision to leave behind their daughter for the lives of seventeen other teacher union members. Mattie sacrifices her business, her reputation, and her life to help out illegal aliens ... she would wind up just another hick in Pittman County, she left town and searched for a new life out West. On her way getting there, she acquires Turtle, an abandoned three-year-old Native American girl. Taylor knows that keeping Turtle is a major responsibility, being that she was abandoned and abused. Yet, Taylor knows that she is the best option that Turtle has, as far as parental figures go ...
- 4234: The Bean Trees
- ... imagine, all reveal a special value to Taylor as she learns to depend on others and have them depend on her. Main Characters Turtle Greer: Turtle begins as the child no one wants. Her natural American Indian mother abandons her for her own safety. In her old home, she was beaten and abused. Taylor names her Turtle because of her strong grip onto everything and anything that she can get her ... Kentucky, and left for the same reason. They just had to get out. Mattie, Esteven and Esperanza: Mattie is the owner of JESUS IS LORD USED TIRES. Upstairs her shop and home, she houses Central American refugees. She is especially kind when she takes is two special refugees, Esteven and Esperanza. Esteven and Esperanza become two of Taylor's best friends, and she eventually returns them the the Cherokee nation at ...
- 4235: The Art Of War
- ... This is why they have not much been looked at once the war was over. One of my most favorite poems, is an untitled poem by James Monroe Meserve. Meserve was a solider in the American Civil war. In this poem, he his writing home to his family. He talks of his wife and children being his guardian angels. I always cry when I read this poem because it is a ... was almost more honorable to be a draft dodger than to actually fight. As soldiers came back from war, they were degraded for going to it. They experienced one of the most pointless wars in American History, and they suffered through it like any other soldier of any other war did. But they weren’t treated the same. The soldiers did not want to be there, probably more than the protestors ...
- 4236: Sula
- ... had discovered years before that they were neither white nor male they had set out about creating something else to be." (52) In "Sula," Toni Morrison dwells on the dream of a new, strong, African American woman. She challenges conformity and traditional rules of society. If old restrictions are never defied, new and better rules would never come. In this book, this image is contained in Sula and Nel together; each ... them is a part of the image. By splitting the qualities of a whole and complete personality into two, Toni Morrison stresses how necessary both components are to the image of the new, strong African American woman.
- 4237: Song Of Solomon
- ... a tightly woven story. With its many parts, but only one beginning, Song of Solomon is absolutely, the "perfect soft-boiled egg" (40). Works Cited Andrews, William L., et al. The Norton Anthology of African American Literature. New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 1997. 103 Barnhart, C.L., et al. The American College Dictionary. New York: Random House, 1970. 919 Heinze, Denise. The Dilemma of "Double-Consciousness": Toni Morrison's Novels. Athens: The University of Georgia Press, 1993. 14 Hurston, Zora Neale. Hurston: Folklore, Memoirs, & other Writings ...
- 4238: Song Of Solomon
- ... the story of Milkman's search for identity. He appears destined for a life of isolation and self-alienation. The Deads exemplify the patriarchal, nuclear family that has been a stable and critical feature of American society. The family is the institution for producing children, maintaining them, and providing individuals with the means to understand their place in the world order. But this same nuclear patriarchal structure of the family itself ... her brother's life. The first part of the novel details the birth of Macon Dead III, the first black baby to ever be born at Mercy Hospital, which has been named by the African American community as No-Mercy Hospital. He acquires the name Milkman when people learn that his mother is still nursing him long after it is considered normal to do so. His father, Macon Dead, is a ...
- 4239: Rose Schneiderman And The Triangle Fire
- A Review of the Essay "Rose Schneiderman and the Triangle Fire" Reported by Leslie Regina Goodson The American History Illustrated, published in July of 1981, featured an essay by Bonnie Mitelman. The essay expounds on the tragedy of a horrific fire at the Triangle Waist Company on March 25, 1911 and the impetus ... support from a blind populace, safety in the work place and support for union recognition. A Review of the Essay "Rose Schneiderman and the Triangle Fire" by Bonnie Mitelman Reported by Leslie Regina Goodson The American History Illustrated, published in July of 1981, featured an essay by Bonnie Mitelman. The essay expounds on the tragedy of a horrific fire at the Triangle Waist Company on March 25, 1911 and the impetus ...
- 4240: Robert Frost - Use Of Everyday Items In His Poetry
- ... to England so he could focus more on his poetry and book publication. "A Boy's Will was published by the London firm of David Nutt and Company in 1913, and was reviewed favorably by American poet and critic Ezra Pound, a highly influential figure in modernist letters. Nutt published North of Boston a year later." (Bloom p. 13) As Frost was continuing to write poetry, he began to pursue what ... read at President Kennedy's inauguration, he read "The Gift Outright". Frost died on January 29,1963, just 2 years after reading at the president's inauguration. He was said to be the most famous American poet and also the most popular of his time. "If a reader, even the most superficial takes anything at all from Frost's poems, it is likely to be a memorable impression created by the ...
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