Father-daughter relationships are of the most central issues examined in many plays. ... Wilson's Trail of Her Inner Thigh centrally focuses on contrasting love between father and daughter. ... The platonic element of the father-daughter relationship resides more in the character of Jolene. ... In the beginning of the story the whole transfer of erotic to platonic love takes place. ... Despite different approaches, Proof and Trail of Her Inner Thigh present vivid father-daughter relationships. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

The Secret Life Of Bees, is a novel about a young girl named Lily who lives with her father and her black nanny / housekeeper. ... Lily and her father, T. ... Lily invents a story telling the Boatwright sisters her parents are both dead and she is on her way to her aunts house in Richmond Virginia. ... The Boatwright sisters belong to a group of women called the Daughters of Mary. ... August figures out that Lily is the daughter of Deborah Fontanel Owens. ...

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His father came from an old Virginian family and his mother was a descent of New England Calvinists. Cable was forced to leave his formal education in 1858 to support his family as a clerk when his father died. ... In his story ""Tite Poulette," Cable introduces Zalli, a quadroon, single mother, and her daughter "Tite Poulette. As one reads this story, it becomes seemingly apparent that mother and daughter are very fond of each other and enjoy each other's company. ... One may wonder why Zalli didn't tell her foster daughter that she was "legally" of good standing. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Amy Tan is an author who often uses the theme of Chinese-American life, focusing mainly on mother-daughter relationships where the mother is an immigrant from China and the daughter is a thoroughly Americanized - yellow on the surface and white underneath. In "A Pair of Tickets," the mother tries to convey their rich history and legacy to her daughter, who is almost completely ignorant of their heritage, while the daughter attempts to understand her hopelessly old- fashioned mother. ... At the opening of the story, Jandale Woo, and her father is on a train and are destined for China. Their fir...

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The essay "Only Daughter", reveals how parents' lack of acceptance and motivation can change someone's life. ... She was the only daughter surrounded by six brothers who despised her for being the only girl in the family. ... Throughout the story Cisneros speaks about how isolated her family made her feel. ... Cisneros's dad was very disappointed when he realized that his daughter went to college to get an education and a job instead of going to college in search of a husband. ... Throughout the story Cisneros demonstrates her frequent emotions of isolations and desper...

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Candace "Caddy- Compson is the only daughter of Jason and Caroline. ... Caddy's daughter is named Quentin, after Caddy's brother. ... Quentin Compson is an alcoholic, just like his father. ... Soon the story goes back in time and Benjy narrates the story as a little kid. ... Quentin, the son, commits suicide and not too long after and Jason, the father, dies. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

How to start a story that has no beginning or end? ... Like many parents before mine, and many who do the same for their children after my passage through this world is over, my story is no different from any other story of a boy who grew up in a distant country in South America during a military dictatorship, and a father recently retired after a long and successful military career. ... Of course, I look like my father. ... My father was also a violent man. ... All his daughters had also gone very far away. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Nisei Daughter Nisei Daughter, by Monica Sone, recalls the author's childhood as a Japanese girl, growing up in Seattle, during World War II. ... During a point in Kazuko's childhood, her father is set up by two corrupt police men accusing for father of selling illegal sake. ... Kazuko's father insisted, "Mine? ... Her father was wrongfully accused of selling sake, based on he was a Japanese man. ... These stories are just a few that prove to Kazuko that she's different. ...

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Ravan and Eddie is a story of survival. A story of two young boys escaping from extreme poverty, from reality. ... Like Tara and her sisters are constantly being told by their father that he should have had sons. But, when his youngest daughter dies, he is traumatized and cries out her name for days on end asking God why He has taken her away. At the same time, when his daughter Tara gets pregnant with an illegitimate child, he mistreats her so badly that she has a miscarriage. ...

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The daughter in the story does have many rivers to cross. ... The part of the story that really confused me was how the father was acting when he found out his wife was dead. ... The father in the story also seemed like he refused to call the doctor a couple times until he really saw that his daughter was mad at him. ... The daughter in the story I think acted like any other person would in her situation. ... I came to this conclusion, when the father didn't even lend a hug to his daughter when her mother died. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

The daughter in the story does have many rivers to cross. ... The part of the story that really confused me was how the father was acting when he found out his wife was dead. ... The father in the story also seemed like he refused to call the doctor a couple times until he really saw that his daughter was mad at him. ... The daughter in the story I think acted like any other person would in her situation. ... I came to this conclusion, when the father didn't even lend a hug to his daughter when her mother died. ...

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The first story is about a father and daughter and the second story is about a great aunt and her niece. ... I think it is how the daughter associates herself with her father. ... The father walked in and out of his daughter's life, but he never got rid of the dog. The father would take his daughter and her friend driving around the neighborhood to see the cool kids. ... The father tries to be more of a friend to his daughter then a father. ...

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The story "Israel", is written by Mary-Beth Hughes. ... The story is first person narrative and objective because the story is based on the girl's point of view. ... The mother finds reason to hit her daughter after his visit. ... A drink is a symbol in the story. ... She releases her anger on her daughter and abusing her. ...

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A Parent's Love Has No Bounds " Harry, your father loves you," a loving father says to his son, who refuses to communicate with him, in the short story "My Son the Murder". ... Allow me to elaborate with an example in the short story "My Son the Murderer," written by Bernard Malamud. This story is about a distant father and son relationship, which is based on silence. ... This loving father went through this whole ordeal to spend time with his son. ... They would like to feel secure and to make sure that their son/ daughter is safe and well. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

I interpreted it to be a coming of age story. Eugéne de Rastignac begins the story as a hopeful young student with an optimistic outlook into society. ... He represents the ultimate father, but near the end of his life he begins to see things clearly. ... He finally realizes that his daughters are ungrateful and that he has caused his own untimely demise by giving all that he ever had to his daughters. ... Even at the end of his life the ultimate father tries to understand why his daughters are not there for him in his time of need. ...

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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...

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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...

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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. ...

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• 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. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Laurence is a well-known Canadian novelist and short story writer. ... They loved her as if she were their own daughter. ... Jules, the father of her unborn, left Vancouver, and he did not know that he was actually the father. ... In 1952, Laurence's daughter Jocelynn was born. ... Laurence died in Ontario, where her protagonist Morag Gunn lived with her daughter. ...

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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

King Lear: Comparison and Contrast of Gloucester and Lear The Shakespearian play, King Lear, is more than a simple story. King Lear is a combination of two smaller stories, which overlap and intertwine. ... "The subplot simply repeats the theme of the main one story."" ... In both cases the children still love their fathers, but are unable to express this in the way their fathers wish. ... In conclusion, the sub-plot of Gloucester and his sons is a mirror image of the main plot, Lear and his three daughters. ...

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In the story she talked about a time she had to dig postholes herself for a hundred of acres of land. ... She hears thunder and see's lighting she thinks of her daughter Hapsy. Granny thought Haspy has arrived but she passed away years ago and her other daughter Lydia has arrived and in the story Lydia is one of Granny children that comes to Granny for advice with her children and Granny feels like Lydia husband is very irresponsible and she will need the land. ... Earlier in the story Granny and John already had God in their hearts because they mention about the nightmares they had about...

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• Grade Level: High School

In this book, she tells the story of her difficult childhood. ... The story begins when the author is six (1938). ... He locates a place for his daughters. The daughters will stay with the Hanninks. The oldest daughter (Rachel) refuses to leave her mother. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

In this book, she tells the story of her difficult childhood. ... The story begins when the author is six (1938). ... He locates a place for his daughters. The daughters will stay with the Hanninks. The oldest daughter (Rachel) refuses to leave her mother. ...

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A: Sum up the story in about 200 words. ... Michael speaks impolite to his father and does not concern about his 46-year birthday. ... B: Write an interpretation of the story. ... His daughter Katy is too little to understand it, but she does not think much about her father or the rest of the family-members. ... McCreedy does not like his daughter much, but tries very hard to love her. ...

• Word Count: 748
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School