Rappaccini brings up his daughter (Beatrice) to tend the plants. ... In the story, Hawthorne has created many similarities between Adam and Eve's story in the Bible Genesis 1 and 2 and "Rappaccini's Daughter" version of creation. ... Beatrice had already broken this command, although not intentionally because it was her father that had nourished her with the poison from birth. ... Hawthorne's story, "Rappaccini's Daughter", contained many similarities between the Genesis' creation stories. ... Beatrice was seen as a good and pure person on the outsi...

• Word Count: 885
• Approx Pages: 4
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

This novel tells the story of a small-town, working-class life in the mid 1900's. ... Albert Lea still was in the 1950's when this story began. ... This was where Cheri's father had worked since 1943. ... Cheri Register tells the story about her father's involvement with the historical strike against the Wilson & Co. meatpacking industry. The Packinghouse Daughter was a really interesting book. ...

• Word Count: 868
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

Set in the small town of Beaufort, it tells the story of Landon Carter and Jamie Sullivan and how their love changed his life forever. ... Jamie, on the other hand, is the daughter of the town's minister. ... Peter Coyote and Darryl Hannah also turn in good performances as Jamie's preacher father and Landon's mother respectively. Although it is a love story, this movie does have its funny bits as well. ...

• Word Count: 325
• Approx Pages: 1
• Grade Level: High School

At the beginning of the story we are told of Mrs. ... When I was four years old, my father left. ... I was no longer Beth; I was Jack's daughter again. ... My father called. ... Six months after my father's first phone call, he passed away. ...

• Word Count: 777
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

Genesis 5:21-24 tells us a story about a man named Enoch. His entire life is summed up in just four little verses: "When Enoch had lived 65 years, he became the father of Methuselah. And after he became the father of Methuselah, Enoch walked with God 300 years and had many sons and daughters. ...

• Word Count: 719
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

Typically a bride's father guides her down the aisle and gives her to her groom. It is a moment in a woman's life that all fathers dread and only hope they can entrust the man in which they place their daughter's heart. ... My father is bipolar, and like most people with this condition he chose to self medicate. ... A friend of mine told me how her dad used to be a drug addict and that he cleaned himself up, as I listened to her story I grew angry and wondered "Why can't my dad do that for me, why doesn't he love me?... I loathed watching little girls play with th...

• Word Count: 638
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

As the story starts, he wishes to hear how much his daughters love him and offer to give them land for their kind words. ... Albany is a character within the story who is married to King Lear's eldest daughter Goneril. ... In the story of King Lear, after the banishment of the kings loyal servant Kent and his daughter Cordelia there was an eclipse. ... Considering the fact that he saw the great mistake the king made with his daughters, he himself had a great weakness in the story. Gloucesters fear that the current situations, being that the sons/daughters going against their fathers cause...

• Word Count: 666
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

This story revolves around the continuous battle of good (King Lear's one truly good daughter Cordelia) and evil (Edmund, the son of Gloucester) within the theme of human nature. ... Her father, King Lear, is about to step down as king and divide his throne among his three daughters. Lear has his daughters compete for their inheritance. ... Regan and Goneril, Lear's older daughters, use flattery to prove their love. ... He feels remorse, shame, and love for Cordelia, the one daughter who really loved her father for the man he was. ...

• Word Count: 724
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

This story revolves around the continuous battle of good (King Lear's one truly good daughter Cordelia) and evil (Edmund, the son of Gloucester) within the theme of human nature. ... Her father, King Lear, is about to step down as king and divide his throne among his three daughters. Lear has his daughters compete for their inheritance. ... Regan and Goneril, Lear's older daughters, use flattery to prove their love. ... He feels remorse, shame, and love for Cordelia, the one daughter who really loved her father for the man he was. ...

• Word Count: 700
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

This story is about the errors in judgment a king makes while shrouded in a personal darkness. ... Bradley remarks, "turning the hearts of the fathers against their children and of children against their fathers" (225) when describing this catastrophic story. ... The story begins with the tired king ready to relinquish his throne and wealth to his three daughters. ... His two eldest daughters praise their father with lies 6), and a dark collusion for power and control ensues. ... His gift to his daughters is poisoned by his own beliefs of being noble and great. ...

• Word Count: 999
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

After learning of Grace's death her father started to doubt God. ... Grace's father was full of questions no one had an answer to. ... Grace's father didn't like to talk about things that happened. ... This caused him to be so ill that he ended up in the hospital only 2 weeks after his daughter's death. ... Things in Graces" fathers life were never the same. ...

• Word Count: 735
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

Maybe a father has lost his job and needs to find another so he can provide for his family, the father is desperate. ... Mother didn't even want a girl and she tells the story of how she cried when the doctor announced me rather frequently. ... Fathers teach daughters how they should be treated by men. ... Today I am determined for my daughter to have a relationship with her father. ... Fathers and daughters have a bond that can never be replaced. ...

• Word Count: 756
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

The man had a beautiful daughter, fair as milk, eyes brighter than the sun and hair so long. The prince couldn't get his eyes off her when he saw her the first time, the man introduced her as Anna, his daughter. Her mother died when she was seven, so she used to take care of her father, household and help her father with the work of stable. ... She asked him to leave and go to his father who needed him. ... She told everything to her father and said that she had to go see him. ...

• Word Count: 842
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

As little girls, we grew up to the stories of Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, Snow White and Beauty and the Beast. ... But after her mother died, her father remarried a horrid woman who only married Cinderella's father for his money. And with her, she brought 2 horrid, ugly daughters, because like they always say, like mother like daughter. ... All the nice things, kind thoughts and loving touches were for her own daughters. ... All this was laid on for her daughters. ...

• Word Count: 1334
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

In the beginning of the short story she is taking the banner down which cause her to reminisce. ... His daughter who it was suppose to resemble did not like it she stated, "Take it down, Grammy. ... For the mother in law it was a sad reminder of Rashads drug abuse and fighting with her daughter Shirley. One of the memories that came to her was that of the first time Rashad Beat her daughter. ... He has a lot of money and is spending it own his wife and children albeit illegal money but it didn't matter because her girls were happy and in love with their father. ...

• Word Count: 647
• Approx Pages: 3
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Her father thinks that "None of the young men were quite good enough for Miss Emily and such.... His crayon portrait shows that Miss Emily believes her father is still with her and watching her. ... Miss Emily's father has been so proud of his Southern family, and he thinks that there is no man who deserves to love her daughter. ... For example, in the story, after Miss Emily father's death, the writer describes her: "her hair was cut short, making her look like a girl," as being like an "idol", and "dressed as usual and with no trace of grief on her fac...

• Word Count: 1189
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

He likes the maternal qualities of Ruth but loves the body of Mary Fisher, who became a successful novelist writing love stories. ... First of all she burns down the house after she has sent the children to Mary Fisher's Tower to spend some time with their father. ... Ruth suggests to her that she could move to her daughter, who did not care a lot for her in the past. ... my personal comment: It is quite interesting how Fay Weldon wrote such an amusing story out of such a serious topic. ... The story is sometimes perplexing and asks many questions without answering them at the end. ...

• Word Count: 610
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

The movie tells the sorrowful stories about four women. ... Susie, Lora's daughter, lives a rich and envied life. ... She has a daughter with light skin, who is called Sarah Jane. ... The story about Annie and Sarah Jane makes me sad. ... Sarah Jane looks like a white because her father is a white man. ...

• Word Count: 1149
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

-As Baldwin continues with Sonny's story, he talks how his first letter to Sunny is after the loss of his daughter. As he says in the story "and I didn't write Sonny or send him anything for an extended time. ... Baldwin not only just lost his daughter, but precious time with a brother that needed him after the loss of their parents. ... I saw the moon-lit road where my father's brother died. ... As the Narrator unfolds his story, with the discovery of his brother's arrest, then the loss of his daughter, which ultimately causes him to write his brother and brings the journ...

• Word Count: 1177
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

He started writing before the war and his first story, "Three Generations," has been hailed as a masterpiece. ... The lovers asked her father's permission to wed. ... The daughter, mother, the foster-son, the maids and even the dogs trembled when the lifted his voice. ... And within that house he wanted to be the center of everything, even of his daughter's honeymoon. ... "You don't know my father-in-law," he groaned. ...

• Word Count: 5098
• Approx Pages: 20
• Grade Level: High School

In the story the king's daughter was madly in love with a man of a lower class. ... The story ends for the reader to decided what happens to the accused man. ... In the story the girl behind the door was "one of the farest and loveliest of the damsels of the court who had been selected as the reward of the accused youth; and the princess hated her". The princess would rather see her lover dead because she was a "semi-barbaric princess" like her father. ... The princess's "soul was as fervent and imperious as her fathers" Even through her barbaric ways she could have been moral an...

• Word Count: 636
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

In Oliver Goldsmith's, "She Stoops To Conquer," it looks as if Kate Hardcastle is little more than a dutiful daughter who marries the man her father has chosen for her. ... Hardcastle knows what is best for his daughter and still she manages to change his mind and allow her to show him how wrong he is. ... When Marlow questions Kate status in the house she changes her story from a barmaid to a "poor relation" to the family" (41). On the spot she is able to fix her story without being told how to fix it. ... Kate knows she cannot keep up the barmaid story for long so she slowly e...

• Word Count: 1498
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

In Oliver Goldsmith's, "She Stoops To Conquer," it looks as if Kate Hardcastle is little more than a dutiful daughter who marries the man her father has chosen for her. ... Hardcastle knows what is best for his daughter and still she manages to change his mind and allow her to show him how wrong he is. ... When Marlow questions Kate status in the house she changes her story from a barmaid to a "poor relation" to the family" (41). On the spot she is able to fix her story without being told how to fix it. ... Kate knows she cannot keep up the barmaid story for long so she slowly e...

• Word Count: 1498
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

In Oliver Goldsmith's, "She Stoops To Conquer," it looks as if Kate Hardcastle is little more than a dutiful daughter who marries the man her father has chosen for her. ... Hardcastle knows what is best for his daughter and still she manages to change his mind and allow her to show him how wrong he is. ... When Marlow questions Kate status in the house she changes her story from a barmaid to a "poor relation" to the family" (41). On the spot she is able to fix her story without being told how to fix it. ... Kate knows she cannot keep up the barmaid story for long so she slowly e...

• Word Count: 1498
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

In Oliver Goldsmith's, "She Stoops To Conquer," it looks as if Kate Hardcastle is little more than a dutiful daughter who marries the man her father has chosen for her. ... Hardcastle knows what is best for his daughter and still she manages to change his mind and allow her to show him how wrong he is. ... When Marlow questions Kate status in the house she changes her story from a barmaid to a "poor relation" to the family" (41). On the spot she is able to fix her story without being told how to fix it. ... Kate knows she cannot keep up the barmaid story for long so she slowly e...

• Word Count: 1498
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School