Some other clues that point to the boy's death are playing cards, the wife wearing a black dress with no make-up, and the birthday present that the parents were bringing their son. ... The train represents the boy and the "current between two stations" represents the boy's connection with himself and that current world. ... In the United States, women typically wear black dresses and very little to no make up to funerals. Since she is always wearing a black dress and no make-up, Nabokov is insinuating that she is always ready for a funeral, in this case her son's fun...

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However, in some cases, a gun brings out the youthfulness that still lives in a boy trying to become a man. ... However, his parents disagree and call him "boy" throughout the story. ... Yuh ain nothing but a boy yit!" ... Knowing that everyone thinks of Dave as a boy, he feels he must prove himself and this causes him to want the gun. ... When asked if he shot the mule "Dave cried, blurring white and black faces" (266). ...

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Search for One's Identity Richard Wright's, "The Man Who Was Almost a Man", is a fictitious short story about an uneducated black boy's quest to become a man. Growing up in the early 20th century was a very hard task for most black people. ... The story centers upon one seventeen-year old boy who has very low self-esteem caused by his peers. ...

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In this story a young Indian boy feels that he doesn't fit in with white society. ... The boy couldn't live with this society so he left to go back to his own home and village. ... In this story, a lawyer, Atticus, is defending a black man for a crime that Atticus believes he is innocent of. ... This made his case a very hard one though because racism had become a part of society and it wouldn't be easy to prove the man guilty because he was black. ...

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In his short story "A & P" John Updike utilizes a 19-year-old male to show us how a boy gets one-step closer to adulthood. ... Sammy is a 19-year-old boy conveying a cocky but loveable male attitude. ... There was this chunky one, with the two piece-it was bright green and the seams on the bra were still sharp and her belly was still pretty pale...there was this one, with one of those chubby berry-faces, the lips all bunched together under her nose, this one, and a tall one, with black hair that hadn't quite frizzed right...you know the kind of girl other girls think is very "striking"...

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"Andy saw that her mothers swimsuit top had come off, so that her breasts swayed free, her nipples looked like two black eyes. ... Andy reacts more like a little boy, because she didn't want to see that part of a woman's physique. ... Before the doe was spotted by Andy, Charlie heckled her, whether she was a boy or girl. ... A boy or girl?" ...

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In this case Bandy is referring to the phrase "cute little pickaninny" (O'Connor 1382) to describe a little black boy without britches. Bandy forgets to mention that the reason the old lady wanted her grandchildren to observe the little boy was to see him for whom he was and to acknowledge him. ... He only sees the words "a nigger boy ate it"(1382), and reflects on it as a racist remark, interpreting it to mean that she judges all poor black boys as thieves. ...

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The prose fiction "Catcher in the Rye", explores an inner conflict, of a boy, "Holden Caulfield", and his journey from his school to his home. ... These two put together is like putting diamond to black velvet, the black under the white diamond intensifies the whiteness of the diamond. Similarly to Salinger who explains the inner tumoral and despairs of his fictional character, Holden, Frances Echin explores the conflict experienced by an Asian boy and one of his opponents who is also the narrator, in the short story "Tri". In this short story, initially the main conflict focus on an Asian ...

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She no doubt saw mixed ancestry in the black communities and realized the cause of it. ... The blacks were cheerful while his father was alive but was not during Armand's strict management of the L'Abri. ... This would also mean certain social destruction for Desiree having given birth to a black child. ... One of La Blanche's quadroon boys was near the baby when Desiree noticed the resemblance of the skin color between the boy and her baby. ... The quadroon boy is one quarter Negro ancestry and so his mother La Blanch is also of mixed ancestry. ...

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The young boy and Rebecca meet at a cottage, where there is a group of eight or nine people. ... She is a Jewish girl from the exotic Bronx and, to the boy, this "vast borough seems a Cythera." ... The boy thinks of The Bronx as a Cythera, since it can "house such fantastic creatures as Rebecca. ... This foreshadows what the love relationship between the boy and Rebecca is destined to go through. ... For instance, one day the boy buys Rebecca a ring, which to him implies an "innocent symbol that tortures his blood. ...

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For example, when Arnold first appears at Connie's home, he talks about his car and how it has new paint, but just to illustrate how evil he his, Arnold's name appears on his car in "tar-like black letters"(11). This example is specific in its nature because evil is implied as being something physical, in this case it is Arnold Friend's name written in not just any black letters but in tar-like letters. Arnold's name is written in "tar-like black letters" to signify that Arnold himself represents evilness and that by persuading Connie through talking about his black lettere...

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The way Oates describes Arnold as "a boy with shaggy black hair, in a convertible jalopy painted gold" (Oates 150) initiates fear in the reader. Since Oates is very religious it is easily inferred that she associates Arnold with the devil because his hair is black which stands for evil and he is driving a old beat up jalopy which is unattractive like the devil. ... Connie is leaving the restaurant with a boy without her parents" permission and is planning to have a sexual encounter with him both of which are sins. ...

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For example, she still thinks of black people as slave, so he goes and sits next to them on the bus. ... When the mother offered a little black boy a penny the mother of the boy took offence and shoved Julian's mother to the ground. ...

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For instance, the little boy Davy, too young to even hold his slip of paper properly, could have been the one to "win" the lottery instead of his mother. ... Summers conducts the lottery by preparing the slips of paper for the black box and Mr. ...

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Like Dave, many young black men focus more on the external symbols than the internal symbols. ... Society was always teaching them that they would always be considered a boy no matter what they achieved. ...

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In addition, the black box is another crucial paraphernalia for the lottery. Black color usually has a metaphor meaning of the evil and the death. Such black box, Jackson prominently depicts the origin, the evolution and the present situation of the black box in particular. ... Even so, the present black box "had been put into use even before Old Man Warner, the oldest man in town, was born; the black box grew shabbier each year. ... Summers began talking again about [making] a new box after the lottery each year, [the black box] was no longer completely black but splintered badly along o...

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Heard the boy cry out as if surprised at each blow" (page 216). ... However this difference between the 'whites' and 'blacks' creates the tension in the novel. ... Richard believes that we should not fear the 'blacks' but try to create a bond between 'blacks' and 'whites'. ...

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In Latifiyah, I met a mother and boy of four who was exhausted by the walk. ... A seven-year-old boy named Saif approached and offered me a place to stay. ... Still, we followed the boy to a tiny dwelling where his family welcomed us. ... I looked around me and saw a series of black funeral banners draping the walls and four makeshift tombs of bricks that had been hastily set up and draped with Iraqi flags. ...

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Another incident where the nameless character showed no self-confidence was when she had to go to the black board to write something down, she starting getting uncomfortable and scared. ... Such is the case with a popular boy in her high school, Manson Williams. ... She started feeling ashamed as Manson, who was a popular boy was dancing with a 'nonentity' like herself. ...

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Tessie's hand tightly seized to the square piece of paper that would surely hold her grim fate waiting in its center in the form of a black dot. ... When Jackson introduces Tessie's son Davy, the reader has the imagery that Davy is a very small boy, " ____________________________________" (Jackson 461), but in the film Davy does not look like mommy's little boy, but rather like an eight-year-old child. ...

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In the short story "The Lottery" by Shirley Jackson, setting plays an important key role. It creates irony because the ending of the story completely contradicts the upbeat impression that the reader gets all throughout it. Jackson creates this irony very well in her writing. She keeps it going ...

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In "The Lottery" the first foreshadowing clue is the little boy Bobby Martin "had already stuffed his pockets full of stones"(Jackson 291) Boys filling their pockets with rocks is a normal thing for boys to do but is also a hint and should have had the reader wondering why the boys were filling their pockets with rocks. ... "(Kennedy 1318) In "The Lottery" the reader only knows that this event happens yearly and that there is a black box with names and a drawing but it isn't until the end that the audience finds out what the lottery is actually about...

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When the story starts, with all the details the reader can see in their mind a boy at the front counter working a cash register watching people as they come in. ... Updike writes "there was this one, with one of those chubby berry-faces, the lips all bunched together under her nose, this one, and a tall one, with black hair that hadn't quite frizzed right, and one of these sunburns right across under the eyes, and a chin that was too long." ...

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The grandmother, Bailey, his wife, June Star (the little girl), John Wesley (the little boy), and the baby make up five or six people, depending on how you view the baby. ... At the very instant one learns of the car headed toward the family, "a big black battered hearse-like automobile" (478), one knows that the confrontation between the Misfit and the family is about to take place. ... Nonetheless, O"Connor foreshadows that the grandmother will meet her demise when the Misfit says, "I never was a bad boy that I remember of I was buried alive" (480). ...

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The young boy, Tommy, seeing how drained and distressed his mother is, with a burst of insight exclaims "Mother, I won't never go droving; blast me if I do!" ... In the setting of The Drover's Wife, the reader's attention is obtained through the use of adjectives such as "stunted, rotten apple trees- and "big, black, yellow-eyed dog-. ...

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