The three of us walked along the rocky bank until we came upon the fishing hole. ... We quickly decided our fishing hole was not such a great spot after all and left it to find my brother down by the riverside. ... We told him about the great fishing hole full of snakes and that we should probably return home before the snakes come back. ...
Today's society has been overwhelmed with many family problems. This statement holds true in Wallace Stegner's short story "The Blue-Winged Teal." John and Henry, the two main characters, are father and son with a problem bigger than the both of them combined. With the death of the wife and mother, ...
Life's Sanctity "Do you know what it's like to be unable to scratch an itch or pull up a blanket? Do you know the horror of "living" with no sensory stimulation other than torturous pain for days upon days, weeks upon weeks, months upon months and years upon years" (Larsen 77)? In "Put Me Out o...
The book Twins" by Christine Thorburn is a novel about two girls, who have very different characters. The book is told in two perspectives: Emma writes into her diary and Kristy sends letters to her friend Alison. About the main characters: Emma Ferguson was 15 years old. She, her elder sister R...
She smiled. She took a step back, looked at the work she created - the life she created - and smiled. Soaking in the moment, she reminisced on all the work: shuffling around, grabbing all the tools out of the shed, and making sure she had just the right amount of soil and nutrients. Quickly, she ran...
Summary of Everyday Use Everyday Use is a story written by Alice Walker. It is a story of a mother who gets a visit from one of her daughters. The story takes place during the 1960's. The story begins with the mother and one of her daughters (Maggie) relaxing in the backyard. The mother...
The book I read is called "A Child Called It" written by Dave Pelzer. The theme of this book is to keep hope alive. You should have faith and dreams to have something to look forward to in your future especially when you feel you can't go on any more. Like Dave, he felt trapped as if he was never go...
We were all a little perturbed by the colossal hole in the side of the hill, and were debating on whether to go in or not. ... Finally, we came upon a large opening were there seemed to be a hole in the ground, were light was shinning from. ...
In a small town near Dallas, Texas, lived a beautiful girl named Grace. Grace was about seventeen years old and was in her last year of high school. She was incredibly smart and loved to have fun. Grace was known by everyone. She never hurt anyone and was a very fun, outgoing person. She was v...
Here I am on the first plane. I had to ride on two planes to get to Puerto Rico. The first plane is going to San Juan. The plane was huge and so clean that any light that hit the plane would be reflected right back at your eyes. The planes were so white that they looked as if they were doves in ...
People spend their whole lives trying to flee from something. A person's life echoes her upbringing, unless she does everything in her power to get away. In the short story "Everyday Use" by Alice Walker, her character Dee portrays the need to escape. Dee was ashamed of her family and their he...
I sat there in the midst of my father's shadow, I watched him as he spoke to an unknown man about the papers he held out. Black slacks, a white collared shirt with a black tie, he seemed professional. The pen scribbled along the bottoms of the paper. "I'm sorry, the man mumbled, lowering his eyes to...
In human context, a family is a group of people affiliated by consanguinity, affinity, or co-residence. In most societies it is the principal institution for the socialization of children. Anthropologists most generally classify family organization as conjugal and consanguine in which parents and ch...
Barn Burning At the beginning of the story Faulkner introduced the readers to Sarty who is the main character of "Barn Burning". Saty is faced with the decision of either going along with his father or family beliefs and his own values? "I could keep on, he thought. I could run on and on and never...
Communication is one of the most important factors in a relationship and the main theme in this story. Communication has the ability to make a relationship more stable. In most of her work Jhumpa Lahiri shows the length people go to in order to maintain a relationship. Lahiri focusses on relationshi...
In the novel, "Song of Solomon," Tony Morrison tells a story full of strange occurrences and unbelievable feats. The way in which she writes allows space for the reader to interpret the paranormal in the story as truth or legend. Many things are left as questions and unanswered thoughts. However, I ...
Sohail Shah, a thirty year old male clerk at the 7-Eleven located on Barbur Blvd. near Jackson Middle School, has been in the United States for four years. He moved here with his wife and two children to "escape punishment". Sohail claims he was in the secret police protecting the president when man...
Michael A. Dorris, a contemporary author of anthropological studies, poetry and short stories, best known for his work in prose. Perhaps his interest and later achievement of a Masters of Philosophy in anthropology from Yale, in 1970 came from his unique genealogic tree, Irish and French on his mot...
The Ideal of Marriage In today's society most marriages have different perspectives of an ideal marriage. Some married couples are totally faithful, honest and respectful to one other, meaning the wife and the husband are together and living happy in there married life, other married couples...
I wake up to the sound of my heart monitor beating. I look around and see clear plastic tubes everywhere, one connecting to an oxygen tank, another connected to my pale bruised arm and smaller versions of those connecting to different tanks and tubes. I wake up my senses and realise I don't know whe...
Later when the daughter roused to rapture in response to the flowers this acts as a contrast to Elizabeth who also sees the Chrysanthemums as a symbol of her marriage, saying "It was chrysanthemums when I married him, and chrysanthemums when you were born, and the first time they ever brought him home drunk, he"d got brown chrysanthemums in his button-hole". ...
Little Keechi Creek Ranch Has there ever been a time in your life when you dreamed of being someone else? When the daily stresses of life start to wear me down, I have this one particular dream. Don't get me wrong, I love my life, but sometimes I yearn for the simpler, less chaotic days of th...
