The setting of this drama took place in the 1940s in the home of Doaker Charles, Berniece's and Boy Willie's uncle. ... He tells of a sordid relationship with Lymon's mother and brings news about home, which is Mississippi. ... She don't know nothing about it. ... I just ain't ready to get married right now." (1366) At the end of the play, Boy Willie and Berniece finally came to terms with the ghosts of the past, which were compelling them to take their stands about the piano. Some family members, especially Boy Willie, challenged the use of the ghost returning to h...

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The play flashes back often as Willie reminisces to himself about how things used to be, and how great Biff used to be. ... It has been over ten years now and he still has not made any money, and the dream of his father's about Biff making money is starting to drive him crazy. ... Biff was the all-american boy and Happy was just his brother who followed him around and wanted to be like him. ... He worries about everything and does not have the self confidence that Biff has. ... Willie did not believe that Bernard was a well liked person, so it comes to show that Willie's ideas abou...

• Word Count: 1434
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• Grade Level: High School

Paul spent concentrated moments with Bassett, he came to learn about horseracing. ... Uncle Oscar found the boy on one of his journeys on his horse, his uncle found out the boy's uncanny ability to predict the racehorse winner. ... The uncle was to gain, utilizing the boy. ... This statement coming from a man who knows about greed. ... "Malabar", is yelled as the boy lifeless drops to the floor. ...

• Word Count: 1384
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• Grade Level: High School

In the essay "The Achievement of Desire" Richard Rodriguez reminisces about his experiences as a scholarship boy. ... He can think about ideas, "big ideas", ideas that his parents did not even consider at home. ... One could very well say that Rodriguez's "The Achievement of Desire" is a "book about books". ... The reader is told about the extraordinary educational experience he endures. ... Rodriguez gives a definition for the "scholarship boy". ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Rusty is fully aware of the strained relationship he experiences with his father: "It was hard for me to decide how I felt about my father. ... Rusty regards Motorcycle Boy as a friend instead of a brother: "He was the coolest person in the world. ... Instead of looking up to his heedless father, Rusty aims to gain approval from Motorcycle Boy. ... (Hinton 106) Steve is the only person who is concerned about the safety and well being of Rusty and makes an attempt to treat his injuries. ... (Hinton 32) Both Rusty and Motorcycle Boy attempt to downplay the injury: "He's been hurt worse tha...

• Word Count: 1475
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

I have developed a thesis about changing self - a change of self is not always accepted and the process that is carried out in order to achieve this change has both negative and positive consequences. ... It is also an indication that the boy has left the stage of being a "child" and is being introduced to adulthood. ... Throughout the poem, the scarf represents the boy's childhood. ... Now, at the poem's end, the scarf is crumpled symbolising the boy's departed sense of innocence. This symbol signifies the point in the boy's life where he may begin to accept that he is a...

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The novel "Montana - 1948" by Larry Watson begins as a story of a young boy growing up in rural Montana shortly after World War II. ... The thoughts and emotions of this twelve-year-old boy are the heart of the story and of great interest to me. ... He thought about the shot; the wind, the type of weapon, and the distance. However, he didn't think about the law, justice or right and wrong. ... He was accustomed to his Dad lying about trips to Yellowstone, knowing these lies where only a diversion to end conflict. ...

• Word Count: 1693
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• Grade Level: High School

The Suburban Sickness The average white-middle class suburban housewife and her two kids, a boy and a girl, supported financially by the father in his business suit, reading the paper over waffles and orange juice, is unhappy. At school the rambunctious boy gets dirty, plays baseball while his sister and her friends, in little skirts, play house with dolls, a miniature stove, washing machine and car. When he masturbates, he is told it is ok, when she, at six, is caught under the bed with one of her boy friends, the column in the paper says it is just a stage. ... Alongside the starch...

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• Grade Level: High School

When the reader expects him to be emotionally upset about losing his younger brother, the narrator doesn't seem to feel much of anything besides a sense of burden. ... The young man is very matter-of-fact about his brother's death, almost sarcastic one could say, because he despises being called away from his life and opportunities at school. ... From this line, the reader begins to assume that the woman longs to be out in the world, free to leap about as she pleases, free to move about as easily as she did before her old age. ... This poem, which the reader gathers is about a father...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Nnu became very attached to the boy and even started to breast feed him. ... She gave birth to a baby boy and named him Ngozi. ... Surreptitiously: done, made, or acquired by stealth "Keep calm, and surreptitiously look about for her without raising any alarm until I have told Nnaife... Afterwards Aduka had a boy but he died a few weeks later. ... Weeks later Nnu gave birth to a baby boy and his name was Nnamdio meaning this is my father. ...

• Word Count: 2054
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• Grade Level: High School

I will be talking about Everyday Use a story written by Alice Walker, and Monkey Business written by Joseph Geha. ... The first story I am going to talk about is Everyday Use. ... The other story I am going to talk about is Monkey Business by Joseph Geha. ... They are both two independent people, even though Jimmy is a little boy. ... Just how Zizi would let people run his life with out trying to do something about it. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

If I was awake, he would say "You better get some sleep boy, we got a lot of work to do tomorrow." ... Dad said, "Get Boy, men are working here, no time for playing." ... I thought about other things in that little room of mine like my first love. ... I had big plans for a boy of fourteen. ... I went over and over my speech in front of the dresser mirror about what I would say to my dad. ...

• Word Count: 1589
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• Grade Level: High School

When she was asked what she would like to be in the future and answered that she wants to be a police, her family started to "Ooh that's so sweet but cop is a boy's field. ... "Primate Studies and Sex Differences", an essay by Sally Linton, tells about her disagreement of the experience done on primates, the "animals that are most like human beings", to reveal the truth that some behaviors reflects innate differences between genders. ... If you still think that the fact given above is invalid for it was tested on animal, think about your own experiences. ... Since they know that the...

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• Grade Level: High School

He didn't write only about African Americans, and the many struggles they had to face. ... However, what I find to be most striking about Hughes" was reading about his determined nature. ... His parents, James Hughes and Carolina Mercer Langston, separated when he was a very young boy in 1903. ... In his autobiographical novel, Hughes said as a young boy, "For the first time loneliness strikes me, strikes me terribly settling down in a dull ache round about, in the dusk." ... Even as a young boy he was ready to take chances in life. ...

• Word Count: 1483
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• Grade Level: High School

It was all about having the honor and discipline to learn his craft completely, which he later realized. ... Equally, Ellie and Vi, in Douglas Ward's Happy Ending, cared first about their family's welfare. ... "I ain't selling that piano, Boy Willie. If that's why you come up here, you can just forget about it." She felt that her and Boy Willie's dad died for the piano and they owed it to his memory to keep it in the family. ...

• Word Count: 1924
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• Grade Level: High School

A young boy gets molested and killed in the parking lot of the local shopping mall. ... When they ask him about his affair he says, "I am sorry, about everything that's happened. ... She also demonstrates knowledge of sexual behavior, telling Marsha that a boy's "thing" looks like a thumb. ... There are many examples of these in this story: Luann and her obviously bad experience with her parents; the molestation and murder of an innocent young boy; a family where the father leaves his wife for his sister. ... Pain is always about to happen somewhere to someone I know and at times it ...

• Word Count: 1475
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• Grade Level: High School

Maya would always fantasize about her father but he was much larger and more handsome than she had ever imagined. ... Maya was unsure about this trip because she didn't want to leave Momma behind. ... Maya get confused about Mr. ... Unfortunately, Maya soon learns that she is pregnant by the neighborhood boy. ... She gave birth to a baby boy which became the love of her life. ...

• Word Count: 1681
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• Grade Level: High School

"Altar of the Family" is about a young boy, David and his simple wish to gain acceptance and honour from his distant and critical father. ... However, when his father becomes aware of this, he puts David down for engaging in feminine activities instead of interacting with boys his own age "Damn grown boy playing with dolls." ... It is about a young boy Albie and his father driving home from a fishing trip at night. ... Albie is slightly afraid, as he is, in the end, still only a boy and he is alone with a stranger who is in a state of shock on a long dark road. ... Here, violence was not s...

• Word Count: 2365
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: High School

The sad part about this was this wasn't the first time either. I am one of three girls and one boy. ... "Nothing just got a lot to think about,"" I mumbled. ... I then followed her instruction and boy was shocked. ... That day we both learned a lesson about love. ...

• Word Count: 1283
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• Grade Level: High School

Wang is glad that the boy's offspring is female, so that he no longer has claims to the Wang family. ... Though he is educated, he is fearful that people should view him as only a country boy, and so he attempts to appear as noble as possible by spending and marrying well. ... Wang Lung's Third Son The youngest son of Wang, he is a silent boy who keeps his thoughts and wishes to himself. ... In a way, his wealth is the root of what brings about some downfall in his life. ... The casual manner in which a refugee talks about strangling a baby girl or selling one as a slave is quite...

• Word Count: 2063
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• Grade Level: High School

He held out his hand and favored me with a smile that had nothing feigned about it" (Hosseini 31). ... He tries to raise a boy who is brave and not afraid of anything or anyone but by failing his duty to be empathetic with Amir, he forms a boy consumed with jealousy. ... The novel The Kite Runner, shows the importance of an empathetic father figure to a young, impressionable boy. ...

• Word Count: 1789
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• Grade Level: High School

Perry tries his very best to make Neil change his mind about acting and become a doctor. ... Todd is an example of a boy who grows up with a father who has no emotional connections with Todd, but provides and makes all the decisions for him. ... His father is almost a stranger to him and never cared about any of the activities he did, or helped with any problems he had. ... Todd's fear of being unimportant to this world came from his father, who never cared about what he said or what he did. ... Nwanda is a rich boy who has to learn the hard way for his actions that has serious consequenc...

• Word Count: 1967
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

The book is about the evolving relationship between both women and reveals that both of them are little better than animals. ... When Mariam's mother dies she is married off to a shoemaker who is thirty years older than her and initially seems to care about her. ... When Mariam is pregnant he keeps on insisting that the unborn child would be a boy. The need for a boy is primordial. ...

• Word Count: 1256
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

The opening scenes of the film Billy Elliot, directed by Stephen Daldry, helped introduce me to one of the main themes of the movie; that the realization of one boy's dream will be barred by three different hurdles on the way to achieving his goals. ... The director has helped me to understand what the film is going to be about by introducing Jacky's expectations of his son, hinting that Billy is going to disappoint him later on. ... In this world of miners who do physical, rough work, a boy doing ballet is a ridiculous idea. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

When Greece meets America The movie My Big fat Greek Wedding is a fun-filled romantic comedy about a Greek US immigrant family. ... All her father Gus wants is for her to get married to a nice Greek boy and have children. ... As Toula tells us early on in the film, "settling down means marrying a Greek boy, having Greek babies, and feeding your large Greek family for the rest of your life". ... We do not see them arguing about anything in particular and they seem to have more mutual decisions. ... They are all sitting at the dining table doing the invites and making decisions about the wedd...

• Word Count: 1762
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School