This novel is set in Kerala, South India, during the late 1960s. It revolves around two seven year old twins and their extended family. The story is about the loss of innocence of the two children, who become victims of prejudices of the caste system, patriarchal families, third world communism, and satellite television. The novel, in its own understated way, comments and analyses the transition of the Kerala of the sixties to the Kerala of today. Roy gives you an in-depth look into an Indian Society, through the eyes of these innocent children. ...

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In a small town near Dallas, Texas, lived a beautiful girl named Grace. ... After learning of Grace's death her father started to doubt God. He thought to himself that he's always believed in God and always strived to do the right thing, and how can God do this to him and his family? ... She explained to him that God has his reasons to do things, and he must understand that. ... Things in Graces" fathers life were never the same. ...

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The more she talked, the more I started to connect the things she was saying to the ways my dad was acting. ... Growing up with that in my life has made me realize many things. ... Today, these things are all still a struggle for me. ... I have started going to youth group with small groups of my friends. ... God grants us so much each day and I believe beach day should be better than the next. ...

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One can easily see the difference in their personality even down to the most basic things. The Marez's are very free spirited, they do not like to have to worry about things. ... They believe highly in God and everything else that is involved in the Roman Catholic religion. ... They don't believe that God plays a very important part in their lives. ... In this dream he says, "Then the silence was shattered with the sound of hoof beats; vaqueros surrounded the small house with shouts and gunshots, and when they entered the room they were laughing and singing and drinking." ...

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She makes it through these 2 years with hope and faith in God. ... "People who have a religion should be glad, for not everyone has the gift of believing in heavenly things. ... It isn't the fear of God, but the upholding of one's own honour and conscience" She loves her family although she tends to play favourites with her father over her mother. ... Many issues come up in this small house. She talks a lot about boys, family, religion, war, food, and many other things. ...

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For the most part, I was raised in a very small, Cajun country town. ... From being a handy-woman around to the house to building things outside, I will try it all. These things are not necessarily bad things until it starts having negative effects in your life. ... One of the other things that being this way has done to me is that I expect for everyone to be independent. ... This family went to an Assembly of God church and was a very spirit filled family. ...

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He then began to tell me that he left his small town of Mexicali. Mexicali is a small city in Mexico that borders the United States. ... It did not matter because he knew once he got there he would find a job and have all the things he did not have at home. ... We lived in a small trailer home with two bedrooms, one bathroom, a very small living room, and an even smaller kitchen. ... They do believe in God, and expect us to do the same. ...

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I was torn between asking what was wrong and letting things play out. ... I became to get angry at not only the world, but God as well. ... Why do bad things have to happen to such great people? ... If God could let this happen to my mom, He could make it better, right? I could tell that things were slowly beginning to go back to normal. ...

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The play follows the life of a small black family's struggle to keep their dreams from tenants to owners alive. ... As Walter dreams bigger and bigger he seems to leave the smaller things such as his family behind. ... (In the past his father would have been happy working for another man and caring for his family, but Walter is more concerned with becoming self-employed or at least in a management position without really thinking about the consequences which may be imposed upon his family by his incessant need to other things.) ... Later in the morning Beneatha, the younger sister of Walt...

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We used to live in a small apartment right across the street from where the block party was held every year. ... We were able to ask them for things as small as using their lawn mowers or as big as being able to babysit my sister and me while my parents were at work. ... The neighborhood kids from Whiteaker helped me gain social skills and communications skills as well by teaching me the value of friendship and how I should ask for things instead of just taking them. ... We were all so close as a community that we started putting together small potlucks just so we could celebrate. ... Paz al...

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I lived with my mom in Oklahoma and things were very unstable for us to live together. ... Prior to the court date she had already packed up my cloths and all my personal things. ... I first planned to go to Oklahoma State University, but I decided to tackle a smaller school first since I wasn't old as matriculating freshmen. ... My mom is still the same person she has always been and I am doing things for myself in life. ... In the end there is always somebody there for you a friend, family member, or God. ...

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As Walter dreams bigger and bigger he seems to leave the 'smaller' things such as his family behind. ... Later in the morning Beneatha, the younger sister of Walter, initiates a conflict by speaking in an unacceptable manner about God seemingly rejecting values that have been taught to her since childhood. ... Beneatha's speech about God is her attempt to show her independence and uniqueness in the world, but when she asserts her self in an area that is extremely sensitive to the family heritage and structure, she threatens to wean herself from the only guaranteed support...

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She uses physical appearance, small details, and dialogue to really let the readers get to know her characters. ... You can tell she is thankful for the simple things in life - even her yard that she describes as an "extended living room." ... Mama states that Dee has always wanted nice things and is even described as having feet that looked "as if God himself had shaped them with a certain style." She is into what is in style and trendy at the time, which happens to be the main theme of the story because Dee feels that her African heritage is now popular, which is why she returns home to get...

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"Untitled" When you"re a kid you think life was made to have fun and be happy. I can remember my childhood as if it were yesterday. Now I understand when people used to tell me, "You can't live with someone who harms you". Being about 10 years old, I didn't understand what that meant. I neve...

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I then asked, "does God or religion or spirituality play any role in your marriage?" ... They told at first it did not but after they got married they realized that they were closer to Christ and God through the sacrament of marriage. ... From here, I went straight to asking, "what are some of the most rewarding things you have encountered?" ... They did mention other small problems, but were not as stressful as the ones mentioned. ... They said, "to be prepared for the things that come with marriage. ...

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" I asked, "Wrong, God dropped them there just for you. ... But why doesn't he have a lot more important things to do, I mean why would he take the time to do that, it's such a small thing?... "He cares about the little things. ... "Thank you for my sunglasses, God." I said. God got a whole lot bigger for me that day; it set the tone for my faith. ...

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"A person is a person, no matter how small"- Dr.Seuss once said. ... They talked about it for a while and finally decided not to try, but not to prevent either - they were leaving it up to God. ... Exploding with excitement she and her husband started buying things for the baby's room. ... For some reason, seeing the baby no matter how small she was would make her feel at ease. ... Until one day, when she decided to divorce her now ex-husband she realized God has a plan. ...

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O God! God!... "Fie on't, ah fie, "tis an unweeded garden/ That grows to seed; things rank and gross in nature" (Shakespeare I. ... In fact, Hamlet views his father in many ways to be god-like. ... Since it sets up Hamlet's depression and ends with no action, the soliloquy actually intensifies what was originally a relatively small problem involving only his family. ...

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This was a hard decision to make because it involved two big important things in life. ... John Proctor did the right thing because he did not want to live a lie and besides he knew that God knew he was innocent. ... Sometimes they are big, and other times they are small and insignificant. ...

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To this day, the songs "Who Let the Dogs Out," "We Are Young," and "God Bless the USA," remind me of this day. ... Whether it was for something as small as something to do for the holiday, or to accomplish a big goal like my father, people were anticipating this weekend for weeks. ... The support of the fans was one of the most amazing things I have ever personally experienced. ... Every July 3rd game has fireworks, and during those fireworks the main song that they play is "God Bless the USA.... The accident was one of the scariest things I h...

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Little niggers in the country don't have things like we do. ... From one small conversation with the grandmother The Misfit has changed his entire way of thinking. ... Sometimes a man says things he don't mean. ... God never made a finer woman than my mother and my daddy's heart was pure gold," (391). ... She dwells on the things in life that are of no consequence whatsoever. ...

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It's pale light illuminating only a small section, leaving everything else in murk. Fingers of shadow clawed silently around the room, a bare wooden tomb with only a small tattered sofa and two chairs to show any sign of occupancy. ... Please, don't,"" a small boy pleaded, in a strangled whisper, his lips trembling with every word, and his body stiff with dread. ... Like most, he had spent his life moving from one place to another, running away from it all, and then going back and enduring the torture and spite with the hopes that things would change, that his father would change. ...

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When she was a very small child of "toddling age." ... For God's sake tell them it is not true. ... In the same drawer, he discovers a letter his mother had written to his father, expressing thanks to God for the love she received from her husband. ... "When he smiled, she asked no greater blessing of God." ... Monsieur Valmonde grew practical and wanted things well consid...

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Therefore, American families tend to be small and, compared with other countries, rather isolated. ... They believed that they had been chosen by God to rest in the canopies of heaven with Him. ... If they appeared to be successful, it meant that God was on their side. ... Americans have always considered themselves individualists chosen by God. ... Since then many things have changed. ...

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At the funeral all things that she would need in her after life was gathered and put into the coffin. These things included her personal slave ho happen to be very young and did not want to die. ... The Obi blamed her not getting pregnant on her chi, personal god, who happen to be the slave woman. ... Sacrilege: violation of something consecrated to God "It would be like a sacrilege to disturb such complete and personal bliss." (65) 2. ...

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