[Movie plot] The story begins with Cora and Alice, the daughters of the British Colonel Munro, being taken by Major Duncan Heyward to visit their father at Fort William Henry. ... Hawkeye (the main character), Uncas (Hawkeye's adopted brother), and Chingachgook (Hawkeye's adopted father) rescues the girls and Heyward. ... All this ending with a final battle with the death of one of the daughters and Uncas. ... Yet, Magua's revenge is the backbone of the story. ... In the book, Magua wishes to kill the Colonel and marry his daughter Cora. ...

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In 1985, Tan wrote the story "Rules of the Game" for a writing workshop, and the story became incorporated into The Joy Luck Club as part of Waverly Jong's story. ... She has also written other stories, narratives, and even childrens' books. ... Also, in The Kitchen God's Wife, Pearl's father was a minister who died of stomach cancer when Pearl was fourteen, not very unlike Tan's situation. ... In the last section, as the story in the beginning of the section suggests, the mothers watch as their daughters grow, feeling the desire to protect them, to teach them "how ...

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The discourse time in the novel begins with the story of M. ... Thénardier saved Marius' father. ... Two characters whose story seems to overlap with one another are Fantine and Mme. ... After seeing the Thénardier children playing outside, she believed that her daughter's best chance was to live with the family as she alone would only corrupt her daughter. ... She too is devoted to her daughters like Fantine, but shows it more abruptly and rude. ...

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She is the only daughter and the second oldest of the Compson family. Caddy becomes defiant in her teens, growing up with an apathetic mother and a father who's an alcoholic. ... The total demise of the Compson family can be described as a "riches-to-rags" story. ... Once Caddy is gone, she sends money to her daughter, Miss Quentin, for her well being. ... Miss Quentin's escape is also the climax of the story. ...

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Browne tells why she named her daughter Melanie (after her grandmother), and tells the story of her grandmother's strengthwhen facing a group of angry white men. ... Serena, their daughter was electrocuted when she used a fork to chase a roach into a socket. ... After the death of her daughter she doesn"t want to speak, move, or even live. ... How the wall is so significant throughout the story. 3. ... In Mattie's chapter, her father is so strict and never allows her to talk to some guys. 5. ...

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This novel written as a story that contains positive characters and negative characters as well. ... my father asked. ... For example, Penelope's father Earl in the first meeting with Arnold, he tells him to keep his hands away from his daughter, and if did, then he will disown her and kick her out of his house. As he expresses that (P 109) "Kid, you better keep your hands out of my daughter's panties"Kid, if you get my daughter pregnant, I'm going to disown her. ...

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Rosa tells a story to Guzman of her vast experiences in life and how she came to be in Salud. ... This man, her boss Jackson, found an apartment for her and her daughter and paid the expenses, including medical for the illegitimate child. ... Rosa never completes her story because Guzman becomes extremely sleepy and goes to bed, however, one can only draw the final conclusions that Rosa that the next step in her life is when she receives the letter of her mother's death and then moves herself and her daughter back to Salud. ... The second example of a story teller from The Line of the Sun...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

During those times, we can see that Josie hates her father, because of what he did to her mother. ... Later in the novel, she has spent more time with her father, and has come to realise that he isn't really that bad. ... As the story goes on, Josie becomes more kind to her Nonna, because of her interest in her Nonna's past. ... She had slept with another man, and that her mother was not in fact Nonno Francesco's daughter. ... This is very effective as it makes the story more personal, and the issues concerned in the novel are personal. ...

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The House of the Spirits In the novel, The House of the Spirits, Isabel Allende shows how many things throughout the story that repeats itself. ... Fathers would get scared for their daughters and hide them because Esteban had the power to do whatever he wanted since he was the patron. ... For example, after Blanca left Jean de Satigny, Amanda, Nicholas" girlfriend, came into the story. ... The main things that are repeated are Esteban's sexual needs, the unchanging number of people in the story, the genealogical names, and Clara's innocence from birth to death. These repea...

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In this novel Looking for Alibrandi, Josie shows the story of her father (Michael Andretti), returning after 17 years of not knowing Josie existed. ... Josie slowly but finally realised how good it feels to have a father. ... In Looking for Alibrandi, Josie's family consists of her and her mother who have quite a strong mother-daughter bond. ... He is Christina's real father. From this secret Josie has learnt that Nonna sacrificed so much for her daughter. ...

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The story is told over a time period of several months, from December 1952 through December 1953. The book opens with the story of the death of the five-year-old who is adored by her family. ... Her daughter's unexpected death, which was cause by spinal meningitis, causes her to withdraw into herself. ... She lives with her strict father and unassuming mother, as well as with her younger sister and older brother. She feels oppressed by her father, who will not let her be a normal teenager. ...

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It is the story of two brothers--one of whom served in Vietnam--who must rely on each other to survive a disastrous skiing trip in the wilds of Minnesota. ... This book suggests that stories often communicate a more accurate notion of the truth than even experience can, which makes them compelling whether or not the reader experienced the War first-hand. ... Despite his awareness that his parents, his wife, and his daughter all think he is insane, he acts out his life as a drama of paranoia and nuclear dread, fashioning an impromptu shelter out of a ping-pong table as a youth and diggi...

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Looking for Alibrandi is a moving story about a year 12 girl's current life. ... Andretti (her father), for the first time she ran off in disgust. ... After some time she realised that he in fact was a nice guy, and she was proud to be his daughter. ... However, over time Josie slowly comes to the realisation that John thought that he was alone and no one could support him when he was pressured from his father. ... The examples above show that Josie has the ability to understand others, such as her father. ...

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Paul, Minnesota to father Edward Fitzgerald, and mother Mary (Mollie) McQuillan. ... While there, he fell in love with eighteen-year-old belle and youngest daughter of an Alabama Supreme Court Judge Zelda Sayre. ... Following this, Fitzgerald assumed his career writing short stories for magazines. ... He put his novel writing on hold and wrote short stories to pay for the psychiatric help for Zelda. ... When his contract was up, he made his money writing free-lance short stories and scripts. ...

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Therefore, to understand the pieces of the puzzle it is vital to analyze Roberts relationship with his mother, his sister and his father. ... Ross is portrayed as an adamant woman in the beginning of The Wars, yet as the story progresses, her firmness is broken by various tragedies. ... Ross had mourned for years over the sudden death of her brother and her father, now she had lost a daughter and was going to lose a son. ... Ross comes across as being envious of her son and daughter's relationship because Robert and Rowena had a relationship where Robert was like a parent (guardian) to Ro...

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The story follows a young Russian intellectual who, as he deals with his guilt from an evil crime, tries to convince himself that he is extraordinary and did the right thing. ... Sonia is the daughter of an alcoholic government official. Since her father drank away the family money, she was forced into a life of prostitution to provide for the others. ... Whereas this story takes a plunge deep into the workings of the human mind, the fact remains that Dostoyevsky wrote Crime and Punishment as a model to show what can happen when one commits a sin and makes the mistake of confusing ideas with r...

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The angel is poised above Orlando and her daughter, resplendent and androgynous, pealing out the ecstasy of being "neither a woman nor a man," its exuberance inviting the audience to celebrate the eradication of chronology, distance and gendered characteristics. ... Potter's adaptation of Orlando very much begins, as it ends, as a story of personal development and ultimate freedom. ... Thus Orlando's desire and future are always assured in Potter's film, and indeed will come to literary success, a beautiful daughter, and a singing angel who proclaims, "At last I am free. ... Pot...

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Mistry's short story collection 'Tales from Firozsha Baag' and his two novels, 'Such a Long Journey' and 'A FIne Balance' focus on the Parsi community in India rather than on the immigrant experience. ... After a few years in Canada, he started writing stories and gained immediate attention, receiving two Hart House literary prizes and Canadian Fiction Magazine's annual Contributors' Prize in 1985. Two years later, Penguin Books Canada published a collection of eleven stories titled Tales from Firozsha Baag, which appeared in 1989 in the United Stat...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Mistry's short story collection 'Tales from Firozsha Baag' and his two novels, 'Such a Long Journey' and 'A FIne Balance' focus on the Parsi community in India rather than on the immigrant experience. ... After a few years in Canada, he started writing stories and gained immediate attention, receiving two Hart House literary prizes and Canadian Fiction Magazine's annual Contributors' Prize in 1985. Two years later, Penguin Books Canada published a collection of eleven stories titled Tales from Firozsha Baag, which appeared in 1989 in the United Stat...

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The novel Angela's Ashes by Frank Mc Court is about franks miserable childhood, after the death of his younger daughter frank and his family moved to Ireland, here this miserable life begins.Worse than the ordinary miserable childhood is the miserable Irish childhood and worse yet is the miserable Irish Catholic childhood? ... He suffered a long time of guilt when he shared excitement with Theresa and couldn't bring himself to the confession box for a long time.I can't tell, Father I can't?. ... Malachy was unable to provide frank good food or toys but gives him stories, ...

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His wife is expecting their first daughter. ... To cover up everything they make up stories to the police, tamper evidence and make it look like accidents or self defense. ... After shooting Jacob, Hank makes up the story to tell to the police and FBI. ... Later on, when Hank was in college, the farm went bankrupt and Hank's father had a fatal car incident. ... Hank's father killed himself and made it look like an accident in order for his life insurance to pay for Hank's college education. ...

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On the alternative, Addie's daughter, Dewey Dill, is struck with betrayal and trapping which leaves her no time to mourn over her mother's death (Bakker, 231). ... They are in high spirits as they fulfill Addie's wish to bury her next to her father's grave in Jefferson. ... The citizens of the antebellum society exist in these stories from Faulkner. ... His father asked him to join Ole Miss, so he did. ... The foundation of his way of telling stories is oral (Hoffman, 38). ...

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The type of interaction that Tita has with Mama Elena is the focus point in which the story is developed around. Though the story concentrates on Tita, and Mama Elena, Tita's life experiences is the focus point which provides the deeper meaning in the story. ... Mama Elena's role in the story will not be touched on as much as Tita's because of this reason. ... This mother-daughter relationship is filled with problems from its beginning, when Tita is born prematurely following her father's sudden death. ... Esquival put on a pedestal, this story of women, and one woman in pa...

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He introduces Otama, who is the daughter of a candy dealer, and Okada, who is a medical student at Tokyo University. ... Otama's father had troubles finding a mate to marry his daughter, but one day he allows Otama to marry a police officer. ... This can refer to the context of the story because of the role that women has in those times were very strict and they were supposed to make whatever their parents said, or if they were married what their husband said. ...

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She was born the only daughter to a telegraph operator and his wife (Wyoming 1). ... La Semana de las Senoritas Mejicanas, was the only magazine that carried a home economics section, and the magazine developed into a magazine that published signed stories, poems, and serialized fiction. ... After seeing Tita's pain because of the tradition, Tita's sister Rosaura, decides that she too will impose the tradition onto her daughter. ... Mama Elena is the opposite of a nurturer, never forging any kind of bond with her youngest daughter. ... Mexican women were expected to serve their f...

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