When my dad and I arrived at Home Depot, with no idea of what kind of flooring we wanted for our kitchen, we thought about my mother's favorite colors, which happen to be her sorority colors. ... My mother wanted a new kitchen floor; the stick tile is what it is called. She wanted a new look for the kitchen. ... My mother almost fainted; because her kitchen was about to float off into the living room. The first thing that hit her mind was "what have I let this boy and his father do to my house?" ...

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They had to dream in boxes on the street in Hell's Kitchen. ... Hell's Kitchen is beneath the poor and Mott Street is the next best thing. ... Alger made the character, Ragged Dick, who was a very honest and hard working poor boy that lived in Hell's Kitchen. ... Alger told stories of young poor males who made it to middle class through Frank, a boy that was being toured by Dick. ... He also was a poor boy, but also has ambition and will most likely succeed. ...

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The young boy responded as if he had just won the jackpot at his mother's Monday night bingo session, "The bicycle!" ... They soon arrived home and the mother made her way to the kitchen to cook a small meal for two. ... She made her way back to the kitchen, which also doubled as the living room, ate her portion of supper, then blew out the candles that dimly lit her kitchen area. ... The young boy was filled with excitement and Christmas joy as his mother led him to the living room area. ... Both the boy and his mother received the gifts that they wanted the most. ...

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The scene portrays a pleasant memory of a father and son roughhousing before the boy's bedtime. ... The title of the poem reveals Roethke's intention to show the boy's love for his father by using the comfortable word papa instead of the formal father. ... The imageries of the poem are seen throughout their playful moment in the kitchen, the mother's face, and the waltz to the bedroom. ... They are messing up the mother's kitchen in a playful way with the pan falling on the way to the bedroom, but she is not interrupting the bond of the father and son. ... In lines 12-...

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Instead she is sided with only her self, do to all of her family waiting for her to give up the tom boy phase. ... To her a day in the yard carrying around a wheel barrel of water to feed the fox's beats a day in the kitchen by far. ... Among the facts that laird is getting older and her mother wants her in the kitchen the narrator feels as if she belong in the yard. Constantly doing work and taking on the role of a young boy she tries to prove she is worthy of a man's work. ... In one split second she changes from that moody tom boy into a caring young girl who only wants flora ...

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The poem has four quatrains in which author describes a relationship between a young boy and his father. ... The boy dancing with his father who spins him around making a mass in the kitchen which "make a small boy dizzy;" On the other hand reader can confuse dance with real meaning which is the beating of the child. ... Narrator described that a small boy was afraid of his father. ... The boy respected his father and he knew that his behavior is normal. ... He complained about his whisky breath and reckless actions "We romped until the pans slide from the kitchen shelf;" Despite of harsh puni...

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This was the indicator that the speaker in the poem was a boy. ... In stanza two, line one says, "We romped until the pans / slid from the kitchen shelf"(5-6), this is a vivid use of the words to show commotion. ... Perhaps the father is not realizing his placement in the kitchen because he is so intoxicated. ... The boy realizes though, that his mother will be unable to help him. ... To the small boy it is like this beating could go on "forever". ...

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I grew up with my brother having me build Lego castles and racing hot wheels around the kitchen table with him. ... The kitchen set, full of pink dishes, food, and place to wash the dishes tells them it's their job to do the cooking and cleaning. ... If the boys to not play kitchen why would they then do that work when they are older. ... I don't think that a parent should go out and buy a pink kitchen set for their 3-year-old son, but maybe buy him a set of dishes and some food to go with it. ... After walking through the toy department I've realized to be a boy means that yo...

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The poem, in first person point of view, describes a small boy who is dancing with his drunken father in the kitchen. The small boy's mother is upset with the father (7-8). The images in the poem include the boy's father stumbling around, and the small boy thinks he and his father are dancing. ... Roethke uses a simile in the poem comparing how the boy was being dragged around while the boy thought he was dancing (3). ... The small boy believes he is dancing, but his father is really dragging him around. ...

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Coolidge said he was a country boy and spent other times hunting, trapping, fishing and coasting. ... His description of these visits reveals a great deal about his nature: "Most of the visitors to our house would sit in the kitchen with my mother and father. The hardest thing in the world for me was to go through that kitchen door and greet the visitors. ... But every time I met a stranger, I'd have to stand by that kitchen door for a minute. ... He said "the greatest grief that can come to a boy came to me." ...

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I think that this poem tells us about a darker memory a little boy has of his father. ... The fist two lines of this poem show me that this is not one of the happy memories that any little boy would have: "The whiskey on your breath / Could make a small boy dizzy" (1-2). ... Then this man talks a little about his unhappy mother, and how kids were playing and making a lot noise and mess: "We romped until the pans / Slid from the kitchen shelf" (5-6). ... Every step papa missed this boy's right ear got scraped by a buckle on his papa's belt. ... Caring father takes his little boy t...

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While they are buying the bunting a red-haired boy says that his street will look the best. ... To raise some more money Sadie starts making and selling chips but sets the kitchen on fire when the ginger-haired boy annoys her outside. ... They speak about the burned kitchen and their girls. ... She thinks of the kitchen and the flames. ... Kevin steps into the kitchen and opens the kitchen door, but suddenly Mrs Jackson comes in and cries: "Who is there?" ...

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On two couches' they sat across from each other (boy-girl, boy-girl) talking until the food was ready. ... My uncles sat in the TV room watching football, while my aunt, mother and grandmother were in the kitchen getting the food ready to be served. ... Kitchen | Women Formal Living Room | Older Generation Living Room | Younger Generation TV Room | Men Once we began dinner, I noticed, once again, where everyone was eating. ... In the kitchen there are two serving isles. ... The women who cooked the food always clean up the kitchen and wash the dishes. ...

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When a Jewish boy turns, age thirteen into an adult Jew they know it as a Bar Mitzvah. In order for this to happen a young teenage boy must attend Hebrew school. ... " My friend's family had a separate kitchen called the Kosher kitchen, meaning no meat. They stocked the kitchen with the normal utensils. ... His grandparents hid his aunt and uncle under the floorboards of the kitchen. ...

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Play Analysis: Miss Julie In the play, Miss Julie, by August Strindberg, three characters, Miss Julie, Jean, and Kristin, sit in a large kitchen of a Swedish manor house in a country district in the 1880's. ... The play begins with a point of attack where Jean and Miss Julie stay up late drinking beer secretly in the kitchen. ... For example, Jean has loved Miss Julie since he was a young boy. ... They both have detailed background stories and spend all night talking in the kitchen about how they are in love and want to be together. ... The tone of Miss Julie, is first set when ...

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In other passages, the woman further enhances her infatuation with her cat's life with phrases like, "I stand in the cold kitchen, bowing down to her." This line suggests that she longs for the simple, carefree life of her feline friend, and it poses a juxtaposition in the next line, "I stand in the cold kitchen, everything wonderful around me." ... "We took them to the edge/of the field and put them in the shade/of a sand moist clod," suggests the possibility that the boy can choose a different path for himself in the future, a path other than the one laid before him by family expectatio...

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It is a poem portraying a rather strange moment between a young boy and his father. ... Perhaps the father is holding the boy against him, and the boy is afraid to let go. ... Then, the speaker says that he and his father "romped until the pans / slid from the kitchen shelf" (5-6). It is apparent that this activity between the boy and his father is quite boisterous. ... Maybe the boy is holding his father for both reasons. ...

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"The whiskey on your breath could make a small boy dizzy- (1-2): This passage leads the reader to an incorrect idea of a drunk father getting home; but the reality is that it just shows a typical farmer father drinking whiskey, which is a very common thing in cold places, and fatally will give a strong alcoholic breath for whoever drinks it, no matter how much. ... Following these thoughts the whole idea is totally confirmed when Theodore says "We romped until the pans slid from the kitchen shelf - (5-6). ... That could explain what "At every step you missed My right ear scraped a buckle- (...

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Duality in interpretation is established immediately with the description "The whiskey on your breath could make a small boy dizzy." ... "We romped until the pans slid from the kitchen shelf", can be interpreted to mean that the father beat his son around, knocking things asunder in his drunken haze, or that the son and father played roughly, and in their fun, knocked the pans around. "My mother's countenance could not unfrown itself" is interpreted by readers to mean that the mother was upset by the way the father was beating the son, or that the mother was simply frowning because the ...

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The theme for this contest was "Monarch Butterfly Immigration and a boy been Deported by U.S. ... Therefore I decided he would be the best candidate to this since that the little boy on the theme would be pretty upset. ... I might had fallen asleep, as the smell of french vanilla coffee coming out of the kitchen went inside my room waking me up. ... He was at the kitchen's table sipping out of his favorite mug. ... Also it would make sense the dark of an eclipse would finish it up creating the darkness and loneliness the little boy would suffer. ...

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At the same time the boy summarizes these events as a "waltz." ... The hand "That held [the child's] wrist", may be "battered" as a cause of the "romping" in the kitchen. The boy mentions that at every step the father missed, his ear "scraped a buckle." This could represent the father beating the boy with his belt. ... As the boy finishes with the words "Then waltzed me off to bed/ Still clinging to your shirt," the reader comes to realize the complicated yet still unsure emotions that are going through the young boy's mind. ...

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" He turned around to enter the kitchen again. ... I'm going back to the kitchen.... Rob returned to the kitchen and his brother Dave looked at him. ... Jack, my boy, how's the dessert going?... She walked over to the kitchen. ...

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As she kneels down to pick up her books in a rush, a boy sees her struggling to get everything together. ... The boy did not plan on acting on kindness in his day. ... The girl most likely went home feeling thankful someone helped her pick her books up, and the boy felt good doing it. ... To teach her daughter a lesson, every night she makes her daughter sit down at the kitchen table and write three nice things about the boy to tell him the next day .Everyday, she would come home and tell her mother about it. The mother also makes her daughter promise that for the next month that the boy is ...

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