The drunken father's breath, "Could make a small boy dizzy", yet the boy hangs "on like death" (My Papa's lines 2-3). ... The waltz with his father was so vigorous that the "pans / Slid from the kitchen shelf" (My Papa's lines 5-6), thoroughly annoying the mother who's "countenance / Could not unfrown itself" (My Papa's lines 7-8). She does not like to see her kitchen fall apart because her husband and child are bouncing around the house. ...

• Word Count: 1292
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Sacks was a young, curious boy who grew up just before the Second World War. ... It explains all of his different scientific obsessions he had as a boy, and how he came about finding all the information he did on them. ... We had meals in the breakfast room next to the kitchen..." ... (Pg. 7,190,191) Oliver Sacks called metals his "obsession" as a young boy, exhibiting his true compassion and love for it. ...

• Word Count: 1347
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

At the kitchen table Cosmo replies, "A man understands one day that his life is built on nothing, and that's a bad, crazy day" (Gardenia, V. 1987). ... The next morning Loretta is walking home obviously in love in the meantime Johnny has returned from Sicily, his mother did not give her blessing and Johnny, a mama's boy, will ask for his engagement ring back. ... The final scene of the movie has the family gathered in the Castorini's kitchen waiting for Johnny who has returned from Sicily. ...

• Word Count: 2080
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School