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. ...
Set in the small town of Beaufort, it tells the story of Landon Carter and Jamie Sullivan and how their love changed his life forever. ... Jamie, on the other hand, is the daughter of the town's minister. ... Peter Coyote and Darryl Hannah also turn in good performances as Jamie's preacher father and Landon's mother respectively. Although it is a love story, this movie does have its funny bits as well. ...
At the beginning of the story we are told of Mrs. ... When I was four years old, my father left. ... I was no longer Beth; I was Jack's daughter again. ... My father called. ... Six months after my father's first phone call, he passed away. ...
Genesis 5:21-24 tells us a story about a man named Enoch. His entire life is summed up in just four little verses: "When Enoch had lived 65 years, he became the father of Methuselah. And after he became the father of Methuselah, Enoch walked with God 300 years and had many sons and daughters. ...
Typically a bride's father guides her down the aisle and gives her to her groom. It is a moment in a woman's life that all fathers dread and only hope they can entrust the man in which they place their daughter's heart. ... My father is bipolar, and like most people with this condition he chose to self medicate. ... A friend of mine told me how her dad used to be a drug addict and that he cleaned himself up, as I listened to her story I grew angry and wondered "Why can't my dad do that for me, why doesn't he love me?... I loathed watching little girls play with th...
As the story starts, he wishes to hear how much his daughters love him and offer to give them land for their kind words. ... Albany is a character within the story who is married to King Lear's eldest daughter Goneril. ... In the story of King Lear, after the banishment of the kings loyal servant Kent and his daughter Cordelia there was an eclipse. ... Considering the fact that he saw the great mistake the king made with his daughters, he himself had a great weakness in the story. Gloucesters fear that the current situations, being that the sons/daughters going against their fathers cause...
This story revolves around the continuous battle of good (King Lear's one truly good daughter Cordelia) and evil (Edmund, the son of Gloucester) within the theme of human nature. ... Her father, King Lear, is about to step down as king and divide his throne among his three daughters. Lear has his daughters compete for their inheritance. ... Regan and Goneril, Lear's older daughters, use flattery to prove their love. ... He feels remorse, shame, and love for Cordelia, the one daughter who really loved her father for the man he was. ...
This story revolves around the continuous battle of good (King Lear's one truly good daughter Cordelia) and evil (Edmund, the son of Gloucester) within the theme of human nature. ... Her father, King Lear, is about to step down as king and divide his throne among his three daughters. Lear has his daughters compete for their inheritance. ... Regan and Goneril, Lear's older daughters, use flattery to prove their love. ... He feels remorse, shame, and love for Cordelia, the one daughter who really loved her father for the man he was. ...
This story is about the errors in judgment a king makes while shrouded in a personal darkness. ... Bradley remarks, "turning the hearts of the fathers against their children and of children against their fathers" (225) when describing this catastrophic story. ... The story begins with the tired king ready to relinquish his throne and wealth to his three daughters. ... His two eldest daughters praise their father with lies 6), and a dark collusion for power and control ensues. ... His gift to his daughters is poisoned by his own beliefs of being noble and great. ...
After learning of Grace's death her father started to doubt God. ... Grace's father was full of questions no one had an answer to. ... Grace's father didn't like to talk about things that happened. ... This caused him to be so ill that he ended up in the hospital only 2 weeks after his daughter's death. ... Things in Graces" fathers life were never the same. ...
Maybe a father has lost his job and needs to find another so he can provide for his family, the father is desperate. ... Mother didn't even want a girl and she tells the story of how she cried when the doctor announced me rather frequently. ... Fathers teach daughters how they should be treated by men. ... Today I am determined for my daughter to have a relationship with her father. ... Fathers and daughters have a bond that can never be replaced. ...
By choosing to commit to the movement, the husband's decision puts a strain on his marital relationship and father-daughter relationship. ... However as the story progresses, the audience learns of her adoring patience towards her husband as he distances himself away from her for his cause. ... Their child, Inkululeko, only knows him from the pictures and stories her mother tells her. ... His daughter even told him,"that's not him.... His decision to commit to a city movement negatively affects his relationship with his wife and daughter. ...
The man had a beautiful daughter, fair as milk, eyes brighter than the sun and hair so long. The prince couldn't get his eyes off her when he saw her the first time, the man introduced her as Anna, his daughter. Her mother died when she was seven, so she used to take care of her father, household and help her father with the work of stable. ... She asked him to leave and go to his father who needed him. ... She told everything to her father and said that she had to go see him. ...
As little girls, we grew up to the stories of Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, Snow White and Beauty and the Beast. ... But after her mother died, her father remarried a horrid woman who only married Cinderella's father for his money. And with her, she brought 2 horrid, ugly daughters, because like they always say, like mother like daughter. ... All the nice things, kind thoughts and loving touches were for her own daughters. ... All this was laid on for her daughters. ...
He likes the maternal qualities of Ruth but loves the body of Mary Fisher, who became a successful novelist writing love stories. ... First of all she burns down the house after she has sent the children to Mary Fisher's Tower to spend some time with their father. ... Ruth suggests to her that she could move to her daughter, who did not care a lot for her in the past. ... my personal comment: It is quite interesting how Fay Weldon wrote such an amusing story out of such a serious topic. ... The story is sometimes perplexing and asks many questions without answering them at the end. ...
Much of the novel, "The Scarlet Letter" centers around determining the identity of Hester's lover, Pearl's father. ... My child must seek a heavenly Father; she shall never know an earthly one!... In this specific case, Hester's words strike Dimmesdale in an almost insulting manner as he now thinks that Hester will keep their daughter from knowing the true identity of her father. ... This accusation alone hints greatly at Pearl's father being Arthur Dimmesdale. ... It is true that Arthur Dimmesdale is the father as revealed near the end of the novel; however, it is evident ...
He started writing before the war and his first story, "Three Generations," has been hailed as a masterpiece. ... The lovers asked her father's permission to wed. ... The daughter, mother, the foster-son, the maids and even the dogs trembled when the lifted his voice. ... And within that house he wanted to be the center of everything, even of his daughter's honeymoon. ... "You don't know my father-in-law," he groaned. ...
In the story the king's daughter was madly in love with a man of a lower class. ... The story ends for the reader to decided what happens to the accused man. ... In the story the girl behind the door was "one of the farest and loveliest of the damsels of the court who had been selected as the reward of the accused youth; and the princess hated her". The princess would rather see her lover dead because she was a "semi-barbaric princess" like her father. ... The princess's "soul was as fervent and imperious as her fathers" Even through her barbaric ways she could have been moral an...
"My father charged you in his will to give me good education," he stormed at his eldest brother Oliver, "but you have trained me like a peasant, obscuring and hiding from me all gentleman-like qualities!" Oliver decided that the time had come to rid his brother without parting with any money his father had left him. ... While the real Duke and his faithful followers lived in exile in the Forest of Arden, the usurper reigned in the palace only allowing Rosalind, daughter of real duke, to stay as a companion for his daughter Celia. ... He told the story of how Orlando saved his life by killi...
This statement was his reaction to Cordelia's response to the amount of love that she has for her father. ... Cordelia was murdered by one of the guards sent by Edmund; Lear after the murder of his daughter killed the guard. King Lear brings the corpse of his youngest daughter out and exclaims thoughts of grief and horrible guilt. ... Although he was able to apologise for banishing Cordelia and forgive her for the answer that she gave him as to how much she loved her father, it was too late for Lear's spirit. ... We can take away from this story that blaming others and using alternat...
According to the story, Oedipus accuses Kreon of trying to take his place as king and Teiresias acted as if he didn't know what was going on in the first scene, "Why, he is no more clairvoyant than I am!... Oedipus was an evil person who married his mother, killed his father and caused pain to his people from the plague. ... He sees this clearly and it's important because of his love for his daughters: "My children, where are you? Come here, come to these hands of mine that are siblings to yours, hands that brought to this sad state the once bright eyes of your begetting f...
The Color Purple tells the story of Celie, a black woman who suffers virtually throughout her entire life. ... She had no choice in the matter as her father made the decision for her. ... He is much older than her and I think she views him the same way she viewed her father. ... If it wasn't for the friendships that Celie formed with Sophia (Albert's daughter-in-law), and later Shug (Albert's lover), I don't think that she would have survived. ... I thought The Color Purple was an encouraging story of a woman who was suppressed but eventually found the courage and self-conf...
All of Jack London's stories are baser on personal experiences, which shows that he is fascinated by pain and nature. ... During his time at the Klondike, he listened to other people tell their stories. After hearing their stories, he would collaborate a selected few and produce his own. ... With Bess, he had two daughters " Joan and Bess. ... As a father and husband to the Maddern's, he neglected his duties. ...
"Paper Pills" retells the story of Dr. ... This story tells of a little girl's desire to be named Tandy. The youngest child in Winesburg is the seven-year-old daughter of Tom Hard, the community's leading atheist. ... Similarly, Tom Hard's daughter assumes the responsibility of gathering the strength to be loved and to become Tandy. ... This story gives us a closer view of George Willard's family: his mother, Elizabeth, and father, Tom. ...
The story progresses as do the characters. ... Sonny's dynamic characteristic is seen as his moral changes from the beginning to the end of the story. ... Baldwin shows him as being the stereotypical older brother who plays the role of a father figure to his younger sibling. ... The death of the narrator's daughter, and the promise he made to his mother compelled him to aide his brother to go towards the right direction in life. ... The narrator struggles internally because his distress about Sonny and the death of his daughter are kept bottled up inside of him. ...
