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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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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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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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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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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To briefly summarize A Monster Calls, a young boy named Conor has nightmares every night, as he struggles to cope with the reality that his mother has terminal cancer and is dying. ... On page 208 it says "A moan started in his throat, a moan that rose into a cry and then a loud wordless yell and he opened his mouth and the fire came blazing out, blazing out to consume everything, bursting over the blackness, over the yew tree, too, setting it ablaze along with the rest of the world, burning it back as Conor yelled and yelled, in pain and grief" (Ness 208). ...

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As I wake up early for my morning jog, I ran past the big stadium with its dim lights on. Shining on small parts of the field. I think to myself I can't wait to get to the next level. My excitement for this game is so astounding that I just can't help but to work hard daily to get the opportunity to...

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