We knew when we brought in a basketful of brightly colored lettuce, tomatoes and radishes that we were certain to have a crispy salad for supper that could make you wish for a yearlong garden. ... When our chores were completed, we were free to do as we pleased until it was time to help Mama prepare supper. ... When supper and cleanup were concluded, the entire family, all eight of us, would meet on the spacious and inviting front porch to ponder upon the day's happenings. ... The last sound I hear is the rattle of the massive chain that locks the main entrance gate, as if in it's ...

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In the end, the mother cooked supper and coffee and waited for her husband and son to return home and was appropriately concerned and glad to see them, and the lover wrote a letter to his own wife, with the tenderness and devotion of a husband in love. ... Kate Chopin's most revealing line is perhaps the last, " So the storm passed and everyone was happy." (142). ...

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When reading and analyzing fiction, it is often noted that the characters play active roles in the development of the plot and the overall mood of the story. Author Flannery O'Connor stated, "if you start with a real personality, a real character, then something is bound to happen."(O'Connor 471). T...

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Grandma's Kitchen "Look up at the stars and the biggest brightest star is me looking over you and protecting you," That quote came from a letter my Grandma wrote me before she passed away. That line keeps replaying in my head. My childhood was mostly a big blur, I seem to suffer from short term memo...

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What are my family values and how do I fit into my family? My name is Josh Thayer; I am the first born into my family and have one other brother, who is four years behind me. I grew up in a small town twenty miles away, in a small cluster of houses in what today is called a sub-division. In today...

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To begin, over the last two years, I have become much more aware of how the bonding process between my mother and me has changed. ... " My mother came in my room to let me know that supper was ready. ...

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Right before supper, Grandma Joad, a devoutly religious woman, has Casy bless the food even though he is not a preacher. ... They then tell their story and the owner lightens up and explains to them that the people with money go to the company-owned stations, while he gives out all the freebies, and he know it will not last. ...

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MY LIFE STORY By Margaret Christia Newberry Herbert My Mother, Margaret Lular Bass Newberry, told me this following things as I grew up. I asked her questions about my grandmother, as I never saw any of my grandparents. My grandfather John Bass, was the overseer of a large plantation in South Carolina before the Civil War. They owned a lot of slaves. After the slaves were freed, my grandfather was out of work, so he and Uncle Ashley Rhodes, my grandmothers' brother, went to Arkansas and homesteaded some land. ...

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