In the oasis stage, the daughter is in her childhood and the father in his thirties. ... Appleton (1981, 35) stresses that sexual behavior between a father and a daughter need not consist of incest; rather it should be defined in terms of how the father responds to a daughter's femininity. ... In addition, Appleton found that fathers also affect a daughter's academic success/ career. ... If the father does not encourage his daughter to pursue her talents then the daughter will live life in a subordinate role because the father has not passed on to his daughter leadership traits. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Her father had collections of short stories and novels throughout the whole house. ... This is a story about an Indian husband raising a family who lost his wife leaving their daughter Akash and her son Ruma. ... He wants his daughter to attend law school and be a mother at the same time. ... They show some family problems the daughter and father go through, which relates to Jhumpa childhood. ... Only goodness is one of my favorite short stories by her. ...

• Word Count: 1328
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• Grade Level: High School

Father-daughter relationships are of the most central issues examined in many plays. ... Wilson's Trail of Her Inner Thigh centrally focuses on contrasting love between father and daughter. ... The platonic element of the father-daughter relationship resides more in the character of Jolene. ... In the beginning of the story the whole transfer of erotic to platonic love takes place. ... Despite different approaches, Proof and Trail of Her Inner Thigh present vivid father-daughter relationships. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Death pervades Mansfield's short stories. ... The Daughters of The Late Colonel and The Garden Party depict characters in society facing the real world consequences of death. ... Death cuts the daughters off from an adult, mature life; trapped in their service to the memory of their overbearing father that leaves them ill-equipped and unprepared to live life on their own. ... "The Daughters of the Late Colonel" - from The Garden Party (1922) This is the story of two middle-aged women - Constantia and Josephine - lamenting the death of their father but haunted by the possibility that he m...

• Word Count: 493
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• Grade Level: High School

Anna's story suggests a rather empowered woman, largely thanks to a German laws, which made women's basic rights, and kept men from treating them like garbage. ... The story of Anna's battle for her inheritance shows a great deal about women's rights. ... Even more important is evidence of public opinion, instead of siding against Anna as an unfit daughter causing trouble for her family Hall's citizens actually sided with Anna against her father. In this, both daughter's obedience to father and woman's obedience to man were turned on their heads, revealing th...

• Word Count: 932
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• Grade Level: High School

The Secret Life Of Bees, is a novel about a young girl named Lily who lives with her father and her black nanny / housekeeper. ... Lily and her father, T. ... Lily invents a story telling the Boatwright sisters her parents are both dead and she is on her way to her aunts house in Richmond Virginia. ... The Boatwright sisters belong to a group of women called the Daughters of Mary. ... August figures out that Lily is the daughter of Deborah Fontanel Owens. ...

• Word Count: 598
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• Grade Level: High School

The Garden of Good and Evil (Rappaccini's Daughter) Rappaccini's daughter is a deeply symbolic story. ... However, I would like to address the story of Rappaccini's Daughter, the fable of Giovanni and Beatrice as an analogy of Adam and Eve. Also, another interpretation of the story is worth notice: three men and a woman. ... Baglioni refers to a story of a poisoned woman, sent to assassinate a king (1760). ... " (1766) A great deal of the inherent cruelty of the relationship of the father to the daughter is implied by her carefully cultivated poisonous nature...

• Word Count: 1836
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

Imagery and irony are shown throughout this story. ... In this short story there is a imagery shown through Beatrice and the poisonous flowers in her fathers garden. ... Rappaccini makes Giovanni a companion for his daughter. ... Beatrice blames her father for his interference in her life. ... Love, competition, and death play a big role in this short story. ...

• Word Count: 670
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• Grade Level: High School

However, throughout the story, Susie tries to help her family to move on, but unfortunately, things fall apart. ... For instance, as Susie narrates her story and she witnesses her father and Mr. Harvey's conversation when Jack says, "When he handed a stack to my father's fingers 'You know something,' my father said.... Harvey as his daughter's murderer. ... For example, as Susie narrates the story and she comes to chapter five of the novel saying, "The guilt on him, the hand of God pressing down on him saying, 'you were not there when you daughter need...

• Word Count: 1619
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

His father came from an old Virginian family and his mother was a descent of New England Calvinists. Cable was forced to leave his formal education in 1858 to support his family as a clerk when his father died. ... In his story ""Tite Poulette," Cable introduces Zalli, a quadroon, single mother, and her daughter "Tite Poulette. As one reads this story, it becomes seemingly apparent that mother and daughter are very fond of each other and enjoy each other's company. ... One may wonder why Zalli didn't tell her foster daughter that she was "legally" of good standing. ...

• Word Count: 1006
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

The book Galileo's Daughter, by Dava Sobel, brings the famous scientist Galileo to life, while also showing a perspective on his trial for heresy, and his relationship with his daughter Maria Celeste. ... But Galileo's daughters, Virginia and Livia, were placed in the convent of San Matteo in Arcetri, where Virginia took the name of "Maria Celeste," (this was a tribute to her father's fascination with the heavens) and Livia took the name of "Arcangela" after becoming nuns. ... Having his daughters sent to a convent seemed to be the best way for him to protect them. ... In Gali...

• Word Count: 1088
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• Grade Level: High School

Rappaccini brings up his daughter (Beatrice) to tend the plants. ... In the story, Hawthorne has created many similarities between Adam and Eve's story in the Bible Genesis 1 and 2 and "Rappaccini's Daughter" version of creation. ... Beatrice had already broken this command, although not intentionally because it was her father that had nourished her with the poison from birth. ... Hawthorne's story, "Rappaccini's Daughter", contained many similarities between the Genesis' creation stories. ... Beatrice was seen as a good and pure person on the outsi...

• Word Count: 885
• Approx Pages: 4
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Nathaniel Hawthorn, author of "The Minister's Black Veil- and "Rappaccini's Daughter,"" lived a life of solitude "devoting the majority of his existence to the acquisition of knowledge. Likewise, in these two short stories, a few characters also come about this misfortune, whether by choice or by obligation. ... In "Rappaccini's Daughter- the young, beautiful Beatrice is isolated "literally "as a result of the poison her father has instilled into her. ... Through these two short stories, the reader becomes aware of the effects knowledge has on human relations. ...

• Word Count: 673
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Amy Tan is an author who often uses the theme of Chinese-American life, focusing mainly on mother-daughter relationships where the mother is an immigrant from China and the daughter is a thoroughly Americanized - yellow on the surface and white underneath. In "A Pair of Tickets," the mother tries to convey their rich history and legacy to her daughter, who is almost completely ignorant of their heritage, while the daughter attempts to understand her hopelessly old- fashioned mother. ... At the opening of the story, Jandale Woo, and her father is on a train and are destined for China. Their fir...

• Word Count: 692
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

In The Histories, Spartan women act as mothers, daughters, wives and queens and they participate in the political and social arenas. ... She was the daughter of Cleomenes and wife of Leonidas. ... When Aristagoras continued to raise his offer for Cleomenes" support in the war, Gorgo speaks out to her father: "Father, you had better go away, or the stranger will corrupt you." Aristagoras left for good, and Cleomenes appreciated his daughter's warning. ... In all of Herodotus" stories, women were mentioned to compliment the events, and were rarely the focus of a story, aside from Spartan wo...

• Word Count: 1817
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

The essay "Only Daughter", reveals how parents' lack of acceptance and motivation can change someone's life. ... She was the only daughter surrounded by six brothers who despised her for being the only girl in the family. ... Throughout the story Cisneros speaks about how isolated her family made her feel. ... Cisneros's dad was very disappointed when he realized that his daughter went to college to get an education and a job instead of going to college in search of a husband. ... Throughout the story Cisneros demonstrates her frequent emotions of isolations and desper...

• Word Count: 716
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• Grade Level: High School

Alice Walker's short story "Everyday use" tells the story of a mother and her two daughter's conflicts and differences in opinions. The mother narrates the story of when her older daughter Dee comes home from college to visit her and her younger daughter Maggie. ... This tells the audience that she has probably been playing father and mother to her children for quite some time. ... The narrator spends most of the time in the story describing her daughters. ... She is a black woman with a simple, uneventful life who relays the actions and stories of her two daughters. ...

• Word Count: 936
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

Most short stories deal with issues, which are common to humans in conflict. ... This is challenged through the daughter, who is unhappy at home, when she meets Mr. ... As the girl says in the story "the only utensils Mr. ... Another issue in this story is the lack of love and attention that the parents show their daughter. ... The girl compares her father to Mr. ...

• Word Count: 699
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• Grade Level: High School

This novel tells the story of a small-town, working-class life in the mid 1900's. ... Albert Lea still was in the 1950's when this story began. ... This was where Cheri's father had worked since 1943. ... Cheri Register tells the story about her father's involvement with the historical strike against the Wilson & Co. meatpacking industry. The Packinghouse Daughter was a really interesting book. ...

• Word Count: 868
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

Candace "Caddy- Compson is the only daughter of Jason and Caroline. ... Caddy's daughter is named Quentin, after Caddy's brother. ... Quentin Compson is an alcoholic, just like his father. ... Soon the story goes back in time and Benjy narrates the story as a little kid. ... Quentin, the son, commits suicide and not too long after and Jason, the father, dies. ...

• Word Count: 911
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

How to start a story that has no beginning or end? ... Like many parents before mine, and many who do the same for their children after my passage through this world is over, my story is no different from any other story of a boy who grew up in a distant country in South America during a military dictatorship, and a father recently retired after a long and successful military career. ... Of course, I look like my father. ... My father was also a violent man. ... All his daughters had also gone very far away. ...

• Word Count: 1452
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

" In the short story "Two Kinds", it is made clear early in the story that the family immigrated to America from China to give their children a shot at the American dream. ... In the end of the short story, the mother returns the piano to Jing-mei for her thirtieth birthday. ... The mother offering her daughter forgiveness for what she had said to her after the talent show. ... In both stories the parents and/or family has migrated from a foreign land. ... Born and raised in Antigua, she grew up in poverty as her mother was a home-maker and her father a carpenter. ...

• Word Count: 813
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• Grade Level: High School

Introduction In this research paper, we are going to deal with the short story 'Rappaccini's Daughter'. ... 'Rappaccini's Daughter' is a romantic work with romantic characteristics. ... Besides, she considers those plants as her sisters for the only human being she knows is her father. ... Above all, the innocent Beatrice is not abused only by her father, but also by his rival Baglioni. ... This act leads to her death at the end of the story. ...

• Word Count: 9442
• Approx Pages: 38
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Nisei Daughter Nisei Daughter, by Monica Sone, recalls the author's childhood as a Japanese girl, growing up in Seattle, during World War II. ... During a point in Kazuko's childhood, her father is set up by two corrupt police men accusing for father of selling illegal sake. ... Kazuko's father insisted, "Mine? ... Her father was wrongfully accused of selling sake, based on he was a Japanese man. ... These stories are just a few that prove to Kazuko that she's different. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Ravan and Eddie is a story of survival. A story of two young boys escaping from extreme poverty, from reality. ... Like Tara and her sisters are constantly being told by their father that he should have had sons. But, when his youngest daughter dies, he is traumatized and cries out her name for days on end asking God why He has taken her away. At the same time, when his daughter Tara gets pregnant with an illegitimate child, he mistreats her so badly that she has a miscarriage. ...

• Word Count: 652
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School