Tevye is directly confronted with modern ways and views as against the Jewish traditions when marrying his daughters. Tevye goes to Efrayim the Matchmaker to traditionally multiple times to arrange marriages for his daughters. All of the arranged marriages are rejected, except for the case of his youngest daughter Beilke, which is major dilemma in the story. ... Tevye makes comments on the fact that he has never heard of a young man being the matchmaker, the groom, and the father-in-law at the same time. ... Tevye is tempted to reunite with his daughter, but cant since Chava has married out...

• Word Count: 777
• Approx Pages: 3
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Rosa tells a story to Guzman of her vast experiences in life and how she came to be in Salud. ... This man, her boss Jackson, found an apartment for her and her daughter and paid the expenses, including medical for the illegitimate child. ... Rosa never completes her story because Guzman becomes extremely sleepy and goes to bed, however, one can only draw the final conclusions that Rosa that the next step in her life is when she receives the letter of her mother's death and then moves herself and her daughter back to Salud. ... The second example of a story teller from The Line of the Sun...

• Word Count: 1045
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The Frau calls him "The Father", which at once distances him from being within the family but instead held above it and above the wife. The daughter Rosa, complains about her early curfew, but the moment the Herr is used as a threat, all protests cease - which tends to indicate that the violence is not limited to the Frau alone. ... There is a strong binary opposition of the masculine large and feminine small threading throughout the story, demonstrated in this scene, by Herr Brechenmacher not having enough room to dress in the kitchen with his wife, where previously she had been working in ...

• Word Count: 1523
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The main character in the story is Katherina, "the shrew". At the beginning of the story, Katherina is very foul tempered, sharp-tongued, and violent ("The Taming of the Shrew"). ... One is that Katherina's father shows favoritism to her sister, Bianca. ... Katherina is very smart and does not want to play the part of the maiden daughter. ... Even Katherina's father does not like her because he views her as a burden. ...

• Word Count: 1015
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Abigail Adams" account stands as a testimony to the birth and political maturation of the U.S while Mary Todd's story gives insight into the more factional nation of Civil War years. ... Her father preached a more softened form of Puritanism that reflected the growth of more diverse religious practices of the Great Awakening period of early 1740s. ... (Akers 8), as a daughter of a minister and because her family was well-off, Abigail was never short of books. ... (Baker 114) And while Abigail Adams concerned herself about educating daughters, Mary was equally concerned in obtaining best...

• Word Count: 1568
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The story of the Sarakatsan's family as well as my own personal experiences growing up in a traditional East Indian family illustrate the impact and enormous benefits that social improvements have had on our society, and countries in southeast Asia such as India. ... In my own family, my paternal grandmother was beaten by her husband, my grandfather, and my own mother was similarly abused by my father, partly due to such dowry customs. ... Another negative result of the dowry system was that women were expected to give birth to sons, not daughters since sons would not only carry on the ...

• Word Count: 2249
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: Undergraduate