This book takes place in London, a country house I Hertfordshire, and England; the 1890's. ... Algernon Moncrieff, Jack's friend, has an alter ego called Bunbury. ... My brother before he left for college left a lot of his stuff still at home. ... As soon as I got home I ran to the closest, took out the book, and sat on the floor reading it. ... It takes place in London at about 1895. ...
In the book Persepolis, Marjane demonstrates the theme of being an outsider in many ways. ... Marjane demonstrates throughout the book how she is not afraid of consequences and breaking the law. ... While coming home after a party one night, the police followed them home to look for alcohol. ... As shown throughout the book Persepolis, Marjane is very much an outsider in Iran. ... It is not always easy being an outsider in the place you call home....
She is just one of the many that has learned the hard way that class is not easy at all to move up in this place we fondly call the "land of opportunity." ... Class determines the place a person will work, the amount or quality of their education, and the health of the people we love. ... Despite our own personal efforts, mobility through the classes is mainly based on a persons status, and overcoming the "labels", such as the ones discussed in Herbert Gans" book The War Against the Poor, that go with a persons status makes mobility extremely hard if not nearly impossible. ... Thes...
It has but established new classes, new conditions of oppression, new forms of struggle in place of the old ones" (18). ... The first time the title is used in the book are the lines "and in the eyes of the hungry there is a growing wrath. ... They stay in a work camp called Hooverville, a place with its own rules that's filled with pitched up tents that housed homeless families desperate for any sort of work. ... Many of these refugees were offered homes outside of the work camps, however, no one was allowed out (206-207). ... In today's world, a soldier comes home and gets everyt...
He became so captivated by his own reflection, that he sat looking at himself until he died and a small flower grew in his place. ... The Secret daughter by Shilpi Somaya Gowda, is a book that compares the treatments of females in two different families - one in India and one in America. The book begins with the unforgettable birth of a baby girl named Usha in a remote Indian village on the eve of monsoon. ... Somer, an American woman who adopts Usha (they call her Asha) after the discovering that she can never have children of her own. ... Griet's situation made me aware of a simila...
In upper class homes it would have been expected that a high moral tone would have been transmitted from masters to their servants and not the reverse as Algernon suggests should be the case. ... - I call that business."... For both Cecily and Gwendolen it was absolutely vital that they marry men called Ernest. Gwendolen heard that her cousin Algernon had a friend called Ernest and was instantly intrigued... Gwendolen professes that she loves Ernest (as she knows him) passionately, but that she would "pity any woman who is married to a man called John!" ...
It seems Othello's dark skin alienates him no matter the effort he places in attempting to blend into a rigidly class-structured Venetian society. ... Although Othello's dark-skin automatically places his ranking lower than that of Brabantio, the Duke ultimately sides with the more socially powerful - Othello - by saying to Brabantio "And noble signior, If virtue no delighted beauty lack, Your son-in-law is far more fair than black."" [1.3.289/290] The relationship betwe...
