June Woo learns of the real secret her mother carried to her grave from her mother's friends. ... Their anger in the early years, how women and children were treated as possessions. ... The movie brought out her unhappiness in her life and the unhappy relationship with her mother. ... Mothers protecting their children, wanting their daughters to know their worth. ... I was touched by the strength and courage these women had whether they lived in China or America. ...

• Word Count: 879
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

She leaves no consideration for her husband or children. She fails miserably in performing the duties of the mother. ... In her conversation with Madame Ratignolle, Edna shows that she cares for both her children and husband. Only her immense courage allows her to break away from these beloved people. ... The "life- left behind consists of her "material possessions-(home, husband, children). ...

• Word Count: 455
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• Grade Level: High School

Why was she leaving her husband and children behind? ... Edna is a twenty-eight year old mother and wife of Leonce Pontellier. ... This shows her strength, courage and ability to be one with the human society. ... She does not love her children and thinks nothing of the affair between her and Robert Lebrun, although he becomes hesitant. ... Her husband and children were never a large part of her life, she had no friends, and although she loved Robert at the moment she knew later down the line that love would be non-existent. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

She tells her life story to her daughter, Pearl. ... Through her own story she wants to express the qualities of courage and positive thinking to her daughter, Pearl Conflict The antagonist in the novel is Wen Fu, the first husband of Weili. ... He rapes her and then forces her to make her say that she needs him badly. ... But when he continues to humiliate and disgrace her and kills her children, she decides to leave him. ... At the age of six years old Weili's mother left her. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

First of all, the one who loves somebody outside the marriage will injure his or her partner's feeling. ... Children especially the young children learn the views of life and value firstly from their parents. ... When these children grow up, becoming fathers or mothers, sometimes, they will mimic the actions of their parents subconsciously, and then affect their children. ... Marriage includes not only love, but also responsibility, trust and courage. ... Therefore, a married person should not forget this and find excuse to indulge his (her) desire. ...

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Together they have a cozy house, and three darling children. ... Her purpose in life is to be happy for her husband and children, to dance and to play. ... Is there anything more humiliating to a woman than to live with a stranger, and have children with him? ... When Helmer reminds her about her "holiest duties" as mother and wife, she tells him that, "I have another duty equally sacred" (Ibsen). ... Nora Helmer for sure was ahead of her time, and many women wish that they had her courage. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Celie's father rapes her when she is about fourteen years old, get pregnant not once but twice and has her children taken from her. It is almost implied that her mother knows about the rape but lets it go because her husband is focusing his negative attention on Celie and not on her. ... She does not speak about what is bothering her, she shows great care for her siblings, and her relationship with Nettie is what keeps her going. ... The reunion Celie has with Nettie, and her own children who had been adopted by the missionaries that befriended Nettie, is emotional, and overwhelming for C...

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• Grade Level: High School

Macomber is attacked by a lion and looses all his self esteem and courage by running away from the lion. ... Ernest Hemingway born July 21st, 1899 the second of six children. Over his childhood he was very attached to his mother, Grace Hemingway. ... She also tried to include all of the children in the arts and music, Ernest played the cello and attended operas. ... All through his childhood Hemingway despised his mother and saw her as "that bitch", (Kert 21) he blames her as the reason of his father's suicide. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

A woman in ancient Greek society had to produce children. ... Men, for example, are naturally adapted for movement, while women's nature is sitting and being patient, courage is given to men and fear to women so that man can defend the household and woman can preserve it." ... The women would teach the girls of ages fifteen how to prepare food, the knowledge of wool spinning, making clothes, and also the joy and the ability to raise children. ... When it was their turn to get married, the daughters performed the tasks they had watched their mothers doing, which they had learned by pr...

• Word Count: 1064
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• Grade Level: High School

A daughter is to become a mother, and her upbringing is to prepare for that. ... She knows she had better learn well, for after the relatively forgiving apprenticeship under her mother, she will have to meet the exceedingly rigid, usually waspish, and all too often brutal, standards of a mother-in-law. Only after the children are raised and married off does a woman begin to enjoy the fruits of love " from the children, now parents themselves, who gratefully realize what she gave them, and from a husband whose years if not his attitudes force him into co-dependence as his body gets frail ...

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They were expected to fulfill their domestic duties, such as caring for the children, cooking washing, and cleaning the household. She had the responsibilities of dealing with a household and she almost always had children to care for, which required strength and knowledge; however, being able too fulfill marital duties and satisfying her husband brought satisfaction to some married women. ... Jane Harwood, mother and wife in Lydia Sigourney's "Intemperate," is also put down by her husband, James. On their journey to a new home, James is speaking to a neighbor when he says the following...

• Word Count: 1949
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School