This shows a child that his father or mother is "bad" in the eyes of the other parent, and the child, as an extension of the first parent, feels "bad" too. ... Paul's mother tells him that they are the poor members of the family because, as mentioned before, his father had no luck. She defines luck as what causes one to have money, and states that she is not lucky either. Paul announces at this point that he is lucky, and begins to search for the secret to luck. ... Paul's driving force is his desire to attain luck in order to please his mother. ...

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The family lives of the characters from Nights Below Station Street and Joy Luck Club demonstrate that children's behavior is directly affected by the misunderstanding of their parents" love for them. ... She tells her friend, "Joe's a big stupid drunk [ ] Too bad, but that's the way it is- I never mention her as you can see- but it looks pretty grim"(11). ... In the second section of Joy Luck Club, the problem of communication and lack of understanding between mothers and daughters is emphasized. ...

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She was always in debt and blamed their poverty on the father for the unluckiness, as it's demonstrated like this: "...she said slowly and bitterly, "it's because your father has no luck"". ... It shows that he cared the money more after he died as it's demonstrated: "My God, Hester, you"re eighty-odd thousand to the good, and a poor devil of a son to the bad." ...

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Another time is when Edmund has a bad experience with a crow in the day so later that night Charles places a stuffed crow on Kingshaw's bed " Kingshaw lay stiff, and did not scream he was dry and faint with fear of the thing . ... At once he knew that he had pushed his luck . ...

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The purpose of Upton Sinclair's The Jungle was to bring the grim conditions of Chicago's meatpacking industry and its workers to the American public's attention. After Sinclair was commissioned to investigate labor conditions in the Chicago stockyards he wrote about his observations in The Jungle. ...

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We get out walk probably three quarters of a mile down a fence row, sat down and called for coyotes with no luck, the whole time the wind is blowing unusually hard. ... Also I guess that I myself am a lot like the child in the story, never really saying dad this is a bad idea, but always ready to say HA that was dumb I knew that was going to happen. ...

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Saida went home but was feeling very nervous deep down inside her brain she was having all these bad thoughts inside her saying "What if something happens to my Sajda, or what if she runs away with someone?" ... That night Sajda came home at about 11o"clock, four hours late before being seen by her mum, Saida was going to ask Sajda what have you been doing today, but couldn't bare the shame if Sajda was to tell the truth, and she felt like she was a bad mother and hadn't brought Sajda up the normal Muslim way of life. ... That night Sajda went to the toilet, she tried to o...

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