In Yamamoto's story, Rosie's mother received repercussions for expressing herself through haiku and letting her heritage and spirituality shine. ... How, she questions, if these women were unable to express their creative spirit, was it passed down from generation to generation from mother to daughter. ... These stories, however, were often interrupted by a chore that needed to be done or a child that needed to be tended to (63). ... All this jealousy eventually lead to an upheaval where Rosie's father burnt an award the mother had won for a poetry contest. In the end, Yamam...

• Word Count: 712
• Approx Pages: 3
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• Grade Level: High School

After being raped and impregnated by her father she is asked to leave school. ... The story is about the unraveling of society's lowest of the low: a black female child. ... She loved taking care of their daughter. ... Pauline beats her daughter and kicks her out for this simple mistake. The mother coddles and protects the little Fisher girl, protecting her from her ugly dark skinned daughter. ...

• Word Count: 1291
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

I was focused more on the characters and following the details that added to the story. ... The silent films without the use of speech rely on the actors' actions and body language to help add detail to the story. ... During a discussion between Gridlestone and Sylvia's father Jasper, who worked for Gridlestone, Gridlestone struck him claiming that his father told him that in order to keep Negroes in line was to whack them every once in a while. ... In a flashback, Sylvia is shown growing up as the adopted daughter of a sharecropper. When Sylvia's father confronts their white l...

• Word Count: 943
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• Grade Level: High School

In John Grisham's novel rape, racism, and justice all prevail throughout the story A Time to Kill. Carl Lee Hailey, the father of the ten-year-old child takes justice into his own hands by murdering his daughters assailants. ... "That nigger Hailey-- his daughter." ... Later on chaos erupted in the town of Mississippi after the father of the raped girl, Carl Lee Hailey took justice into his own outraged hands and murdered her two assailants. ...

• Word Count: 656
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• Grade Level: High School

The story illustrates Troy, his father, and briefly his son, in an examination of how these men serve to symbolize the struggle of men and how those struggles are often passed down from generation to generation. Throughout the story, the word Fences symbolizes every difficult aspect . ... Troy's father was less than a true man, but he was a worker and a provider. Troy, even as a runaway, carried with him his father's virtues. ... (Winson, 96) Rose's words, wise as they are, would have been ineffectual without the help of Raynell, Troy's illegitimate daughter, no...

• Word Count: 1386
• Approx Pages: 6
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• Grade Level: High School

Such as when her husband Troy tells his exaggerated near death experience, Rose responds by saying "Every time troy tells a story he finds a different way of telling it"(p. 683). ... Rose decides to raise and love Troy's daughter as her own. ... When her son Cory makes a decision not to attend his father funeral, she tells him "Troy meant to do more good than he meant to harm"(p. 705). ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Robinson is falsely accused of having raped a white man's daughter. ... But because this story takes place in the south where many people are racist he was accused of the crime. ... White women were not supposed to have anything to do with black men and Bob is so shocked by his daughter's behavior that he beats her savagely. ... Another event that plays a big role in Lee's portrayal of unfairness is through Jem and Scout's maturations and adventures throughout the story. ... She acts impertinent questions, such as when she drills Dill on where his father is, and insults peo...

• Word Count: 1230
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• Grade Level: High School

What if you lost your mother, your father didn't show any affection or love, and you had no one to trust but your housekeeper? ... Her mother Deborah died, leaving her father T.Ray to take care of her but her housekeeper Rosaleen cares for Lily. ... Lily changes throughout the story because of Zach and the Boatwright sisters. ... Now Lily considers all the Boatwright sisters as her mothers and the rest of the daughters of mary her mothers too....

• Word Count: 768
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• Grade Level: High School

Nevertheless all the building blocks of the story exist in reality. ... When Cholly Breedlove, Pecola's father, burns down his family's house, his daughter is placed in the MacTeer house. ... One day, Pecola's father comes home drunk and finds her doing the dishes, and he rapes her. ... She narrates the story from two different points of view. ... This narrator knows the story fully and gives the reader inside thoughts about how Pecola's father and other characters within the novel feel. ...

• Word Count: 2371
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• Grade Level: High School

Nella Larsen's novel Passing concentrates on this theme with the story of Clare, a "tragic mulatto" who "passes" as a white person. ... However, once she does return back to the African American community, her story leads to a tragic ending. ... Her African American father dies, and she is left with her white aunts. ... Clare tells Irene that she "nearly died of terror the whole nine months before Margery [her daughter] was born for fear that she might be dark" (168). ... In reality, Clare's ultimate "loss of soul" is realized in the fact that she is willing to forsake her family, in...

• Word Count: 949
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• Grade Level: High School

His mother got a broken nose two days after his father got a black eye. ... Kimberly was the daughter of Jason Wilder who was the College President. ... Thus, as part of an anti-war agenda, news producers and journalists purposely selected stories that portrayed the war as uncontrollable. ... The story describes a group of people chained inside of a cave all of their lives, facing a plain, stone wall. ... As the story continues Socrates explains that the philosopher is like a prisoner as well. ...

• Word Count: 2053
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• Grade Level: High School

Macon Dead - Milkman's father. ... A pregnant woman was there in the crowd that morning along with her two half-grown daughters who were carrying baskets of velvet red roses which they made for a department store. ... Milkman is happy working for his father. ... He realized she was going to visit her father's grave. ... They got on the train in silence and she began to tell him her story. ...

• Word Count: 2974
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• Grade Level: High School

Her gift of writing poetry was encouraged by her owners and their daughter, Mary; they taught Phillis to read and write, with her first poem being published at the age of twelve, "On Messrs. ... Smith, became a Mormon convert in 1847, Mason and her three daughters joined his family on a 2,000-mile trek to the Utah Territory during which Mason was responsible for herding the cattle, preparing the meals and serving as midwife. ... California being a free state, Mason and her daughters petitioned the court for their freedom, which was granted in 1856. ... One source said her father was a black A...

• Word Count: 2366
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: High School

The Harlem Renaissance was a very important African-American cultural and social movement during the early twentieth century. The Harlem Renaissance marked the first time that African-American artists and authors were taken seriously by American society. During the Harlem Renaissance, African-Americ...

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The stories of the internment camps are withheld from the normal history class because the history that we are taught was written by an educated, upper-middle class white man. ... During the same time there was an issue in the south with young white women, usually the daughters of plantation owners, having sex with black men. Some of these women would tell slaves that if he didn't have sex with her, she would tell her father that he tried to rape her. ... They had set roles in life as mothers and daughters and were a significant part of the family unit. ...

• Word Count: 1504
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• Grade Level: High School

The book follows the story of a mean and ignorant white man who falsely accuses an innocent black man of raping his daughter, purely to uphold his own family's values in the community as racists. ... You're father's one of them"(245). Miss Maudie exhibits the enormous amount of respect that she has for Atticus throughout the entire story. ...

• Word Count: 1682
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The movie "42" that told the story of Jackie Robinson and his journey, "painted [him] as a real-life superhero while avoiding melodrama." This movie let the audience know that in this story, baseball speaks much louder than words. ... Jackie Robinson was able to endure this harassment because of his values, which his daughter, Sharon writes about in her book, Jackie's Nine. She talks about her father's courage, determination, teamwork, persistence, integrity, citizenship, justice, commitment, and excellence. ... His daughter said that when he had a goal, he fough...

• Word Count: 2830
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• Grade Level: High School

His two daughters, Yolanda Denise and Bernice Albertine. ... In 1958, he published his first book that is called Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story. ... Martin returned from his trip and became a co-pastor with his father at Ebenezer Baptist Church from 1960 to 1968. ...

• Word Count: 1928
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After Sylvester was born, Rosa's little brother, her father left them and went off to live in another town. ... King's home was bombed, his wife and their baby daughter escaped without injury. ...

• Word Count: 1975
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Washington High School His mother and father were very important figures in his life. ... She was the daughter of a minister, so was also highly religious. ... Martin Luther King's father was inversely to his mother, a very self-confident man. ... Another early experience of discrimination would come about with his father. ... The story behind the boycott features one Rosa Parks, who on December 1, 1955 refused to give up her seat for a white male passenger. ...

• Word Count: 3793
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• Grade Level: High School