This text deals with this issue in Mama Elena's shocking mistreatment of her youngest daughter Tita. ... Instead she was confined to the destiny of looking after her mother until the day she died. This was an extreme act self-centeredness of the part of Mama Elena. ... Mama Elena was constantly abusing Tita, emotionally and physically. ... When Pedro and his father came to ask Mama Elena for Tita's hand in marriage, she forbade it, but she offered Rosaura's instead. ...

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She exclaims, "Lena – I'll work I'll work twenty hours a day in all the kitchens in Chicago I'll strap my baby on my back if I have to and scrub all the floors in America and wash all the sheets in America if I have to – but we got to move! ... " A character, who overcame this barrier to achieve their dream, was Mama. ... Mama's barrier to her dream was her financial status, and later, her race. ... Mama aint no black people living in Clybourne Park" (Hansberry 72). This shine's a light on the barrier to Mama's dream. ...

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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. ... Mama Elena's role in the story will not be touched on as much as Tita's because of this reason. ... Mama Elena is a dictator to Tita never forming any type of bond with her. ... Whereas Mama Elena lets her loss of love turn her into the bitter dictator she has become. ... Added to her eventual victory Tita inspires her niece which would some day put an end to the tradition which has crippled the development of women in their family for generations. ...

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When Walter's boss called telling Ruth that he has not been to work in three days, He explains that he been wandering all day and drinking all night. Mama felt guilty for his unhappiness. ... With the check in her hand, Mama began to make plans. ... Money was only a means to an end for Mama. ... Mama loved to care for plants. ...

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Mama is an Ponton 3 Evangelistic Minister (Powell). ... Mama told me that God takes care of everyone and everything. ... Mama said in 1970 that she lost her husband and her daughter. ... My anticipation began to fade when I thought of Mama. Mama would take charge of the moment (182). ...

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Cooking, sewing, and embroidery were the usual creative outlets for the women, and of course conversation, storytelling, gossip, and advice engulfed every waking day of the Mexican lady of the home. ... Mama Elena expects Tita to obey her harsh demands without question and feels that Tita had never had the proper deference towards her mother. ... Mama Elena is the opposite of a nurturer, never forging any kind of bond with her youngest daughter. Tita, strives for love, freedom, and individuality, and Mama Elena, stands as the prime opposition to the achievements of the these goals. ... ...

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I used to be one of those kids who were scared of the old wrinkly people over at our house every second day, who we were forced to hug. ... She meant the world to my dad and the day she died my dad was crushed. ... On my mum's side of the family, we have Mama and Papa. ... From then on whenever I visited my Great Grandma I made sure to hold Mama's hand. Whenever I was scared and mum wasn't around I"d hug Mama. ...

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When papa was finally able to afford me and mamas fare for the boat ride to New York, I found out my beautiful picture of America was all wrong. I swear the letters papa wrote to mama and I in Sicily made this place seem like heaven. ... He must be making ten dollars a day in this bakery. ... Things got hard after that mama had no job I wasn't in on the molasses run and we were dead broke. ... So about two years pass and my eighteenth birthday as well mama and I are surviving but the money we made from selling the bakery is running short. mama started going to the speakeasy a lot I wasn&#...

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I remembered coming home with tears in my eyes one day after school. ... Her life was just like a routine until one day she fell in love with a young man who later became her husband. ... That night, she looked at her child and vowed to herself, "Mama will never ever let you live the way mama was forced to live. Mama will make sure that you study in school, able to graduate from the university and have a respectable job.... Your mama, your aunt and uncle are living testimonies of Po Po's story. ...

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I used to love going to Mama-ghar in my childhood. ... I think I was just 8 years old studying in class three; I came back from my school and becoming ready to go mama-ghar. ... I was going to Ridi at the first day of Maghesakranti with my friends in 2064 B.S. ... At the very first day of me in Kathmandu, my friend took me a hotel and ordered two plates of Mo-Mo. ... One day my friend Mahan said that I seemed so aged in formal dress so he requested me to wear jeans pant and t-shirt. ...

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"This was the house Papa talked about when he held a lottery ticket and this was the house Mama dreamed up in the stories she told us before we went to bed." (p.4) On Sundays, which was Papa's day off, the family would go out and look at the nice houses on the hill. ... Mama begins, and then I stop listening." ... She "...cries every day for the man who left without even leaving a dollar for bologna or a note explaining how come." ...

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Similarly, in Douglas Ward's Day of Absence, the whites did not realize how much they depended on the blacks until they were absent in their lives. ... In Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun, Mama is the rock of the family. ... Mama is the one that everyone comes to for advice and concern. ... Her great grandmother, Mama Ola was especially fond of the piano and loved when Berniece would play for her."... Mama Ola polished this piano with her tears for seventeen years. ...

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Later on that day, you are informed that the other six people who were in the waiting room with you were asked to be students at that institution. ... She also says that "[she has] always wanted to protect mama from hurt, to ease her burden" (93). ... Also due to her mother's level of education, bell feels that she cannot speak with her mother as an adult because when she tries to talk to mama, "[her] voice sounds like a twelve year old" (94). ...

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Esperanza views her mother as a pretty, warm loving person: "my mother's hair, my mothers hair, like little rosettes, like little candy circles all curly and pretty because she pinned it in pincurls all day, sweet to put your nose into when she is holding you, holding you and you feel safe- (6). ... The day of her cousin's baptism her mother doesn't bring home the shoes Esperanza wanted for her new outfit, showing Esperanza she really doesn't care about her feelings. ... "Mama dances, laughs, dances. All of a sudden, mama is sick" (47). ...

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Nnu had an older female friend named Mama Abby. Mama Abby helped her read letters from her husband and sometimes took the children. ... Nnu did her trade so that she could keep her boys in school so that would some day take care of her. ... She was unable to read the letter send to her home so she asked the help Of Mama Abby. ...

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Having a mama moose show up with two or three babies in tow. ... Nineteen hours out of the day you can play just like it's four in the afternoon, even at three in the morning. ... Baseball and hot dogs at three in the morning, sleeping for two hours a night every day for a week so you don't miss anything. ... I laughed at my college buddies who told me I would one day miss Alaska and want to return. ...

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Sexton's "Cinderella" has a modern day, cynical twist, Sierra's "Cinderella or the little Glass slipper" is written by a French author and is inspired by the Disney Version, and Offodile's "The Orphan Girl" comes from a Nigerian fairy tale. ...

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Moving day was at the least my first day in hell. ... We ended up taking all day long. ... Piling up in out truck the next day, packed from top to bottom we were off. ... His mother, Katie, boggles my mind to this day. ... How could a two year old mama's boy? ...

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October 26, 1995 is the day that I was born. ... There weren't any hospitals nearby in the village, so a day before my mom was due, my parents travelled to the city to give birth to me. ... The first word I said was "Mama and that was around when I was a one year old. ... I love school, and learning new things every day. ... She is a very hard working woman, and one day I wish to be just like her....

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Coming of Age In his novel, "This Earth of Mankind" author Pramoedya Ananta Toer writes of a boy, Minke, who is constantly being changed by the world around him. Through various circumstances and encounters with key individuals, we see Minke slowly align himself into the strong and capable leade...

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In the Younger household, Mama always had control of the finances, in fact, she had control over everything in the house. ... When he explains to his son Travis that one day, "you name it , son and I hand you the world!"...

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Although his economic situation is uncomfortable for him, it is evident in his monologue the he is not one to surrender to adverse circumstances; but one who realizes his struggle, deals with the anguish that it brings, and anticipates a better day. ... When Mama die, I say to myself, Mr. ...

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Jasmine leaves her house on Saturday evening and goes to Big Mama's house to have her fortune told. She finds out that she is surely taking a journey the next day and that she will eventually return. ...

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Wesley even called Dada at five months and Mama at eight months. ... Also during the same day Wesley ran up joining a group of children that was mixture of the four-five year olds and peer from his own room. ...

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PARENTS AND KIDS RELATIONSHIPS "October Sky" by Joe Johnston and "Every Day Use" by Alice Walker's stories deal with parents and kids relationships. ... In "Every Day Use" it's a story narrated by a woman who describes her self as "a large, big-boned woman with rough, woman-working hands." ... This was shown when she says to her mother "She can have them, Mama, I can still remember Grandma Dee without the quilts." ... As well as "Every Day Use" by Alice Walker provided us a list of conflicts, which made Maggie and her mother relationship very static. ...

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