Spoon River Anthology Synopsis The book Spoon River Anthology by Edgar Lee Masters depicts many different aspects of life through poems written by the inhabitants of the town Spoon River. Spoon River is a fictitious town in early America. ... Spoon River Anthology tells its tales of life but the most important is how unforgiving love is. ... She could have been one of the great writers and poets until she fell in love and became a breeding animal, used solely for cleaning, having children and tending to them. ... Unforgiving is the way that Spoon River Anthology depicts love in all of it...

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In 1822, Red Cloud was born in western Nebraska near the forks of the Platte River. Red Cloud grew up one of nine children with a respected warrior as a father. While progressing through adolescence Red Cloud participated in many of the tribal games and was considered to have been a fine horseman....

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She then took her child to the river and walked in until her son was silent. ... Laura was so sad, she walked into the river with her child until there was no life. ... Then one night, the father to the baby and threw him in the river. ... She ran outside and found her father coming from the river. ... And, when their children were drowned. ...

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As the story begins to shift from the daughters of Laban, to Dinah, the intricate dynamics of the children in the family are more thoroughly addressed. Dinah relates well with Joseph and becomes his milk-sister, and based on their knack for story telling the two young children find themselves the leaders of the younger portion of Jacob's children. ... On this trip Dinah has her first interaction with large rivers, which immediately captivate her. She is awed by the nature of these lively rivers and develops a connection with them. She is told that when she grows older, she will live ne...

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The day before, Ni"ma's father took a plane to Libya to work for a year, leaving his wife and children behind. ... Ni"ma doesn't want to disappoint her father, so she suggests to her mom that she would "accidentally" slip when she was feeling the water jar from the river, and she would lose the baby. ...

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Based on her observation, the Lim family is a large family with fourteen members which is "Lim Chieng-cua and his wife; their six children; Lim Chieng-cua's older brother's widow, Lim A-pour; her unmarried son, Masa; her married son, Lim A-bok, and his wife; and their two children" (page 34). ... Besides that, the Tamsui River is another an important source of economy for the village to replace every time the crops fail. Farmers can transport goods or people across the river, or they can use it as a supply source for some women to laundry. ... More specific, men mostly do s...

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The law allows a married couple whishing to have children to have only one child. ... Human wastes have to be dealt with by treating the sewerage, but in rural and agricultural areas they do not have the money to treat the sewerage and it simply gets poured into the rivers and waterways contaminating the land. ... In the past families have preferred more children because they can do with an extra set of helping hands, and as the parents age their children can help to support and look after their parents. Children would often die young so the parents would need more children to ensure that a...

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She had tracked Rick down to the Bluebird Ranch, a place for abused horses and children to be rehabilitated. ... Rick found the cave and saw Allie and Charlie struggling at an outcropping over the raging river. ... Allie found Rick's little brother that he had lost when they were put up for adoption as children and had him attend the ceremony. ...

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Claiming to have no money, this rich, elegantly dressed woman demanded once more to be taken down the river. ... She is in no way a good example of out district, nor a model for us citizens or our children for that matter. Out children should not go about the rest of their lives, thinking that actions such as hers is still honored and respected. ...

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You know children are naive and silly, how they think nothing bad could ever happen and that everyone lives forever? ... They are no longer the naive cheery little children they once were, they are now wiser. ... Don't you think I could see your feet get wet where you went acrost the river to get it?' ...

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Dolly shows an inability to act as a maternal figure to her children, instead she regularly gets drunk and offers sexual favors to many and varied random men. Dolly's ignorance of her role as a mother, to be at home nurturing her children, leads Rose to feel a bitter hatred toward Dolly, "Hating you is the best part of being alive." ... Military like imagery surrounds Oriel: "Sergeant Major", sleeping in the tent, referring to the children as "troops" etc. ... We see each have opportunities taken away from them as children. ... The river is a traditional feminist symbol. ...

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Over this period of time, pioneers from all across the "Old World" decided to embark on a journey to the "New Country", a land of unending farmland, furs, and rivers in the newly acquired California and Oregon Territories (Schlissel, 19). ... The majority of women making the journey were married, about 70%, and the rest were either unmarried or were children. ...

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In Alifa Rifaat's short story "Another Evening at the Club", the protagonist is Samia and her husband, Abboud Bey is the antagonist. The story takes place in Egypt near the Nile River. The conflict arises when Samia loses the emerald ring that her husband gave her. The story suggests that often in o...

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His sons are actually just poor women's babies in Rosewater County that claim Eliot is the father of their children. ... And in the end he still goes against what his father wants and says that he wants to pass all his money to those poor women and children in Rosewater County. ... It showed how he was against those very rich people "dipping in the river of wealth" while so many " can't even get near the banks." ...

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Actions such as strolling by the river, or riding up a hill in a carriage were out of place for women; instead women were expected stay home, serve their husband, and raise children. ... The reasons of her departure are various, it could have been neglect from her husband, or that she had bound feet however she had no children. ...

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The main character in the novel Jane Eyre is a strong, ambitious, self-sufficient woman by the name of Jane Eyre. From very early on Jane struggles to find her place in the world amongst a society who places a high value on social status. Despite three major challenges throughout her life, Jane Ey...

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Families are a natural grouping in life; they consist of two parents and children. ... However his family is reluctant to let Fish near the river. ... Parents will always influence there children in some way, which is shown in the great differences in Rose and Dolly, Rose turns out the complete opposite of Dolly and the religious views we adopt are also partially due to influences in the family. ...

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Even when Catherine grows old enough for the question of marriage to arise, her relationship with Heathcliff remains the same as when they were children. ... Disgusted with the army and deciding to dessert his unit, as he has had enough of war; he dives into the river to escape. ...

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He alludes to Greek mythology as he says; "Like Niobe, all tears" (line 21) (Niobe is said to be a goddess of snow and winter who had 14 children, all of which were murdered. Niobe wept until Zeus cast her into stone, and even then tears flowed from the statue, forming a river.) ...

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Many children were often sent to wet nurses or a governess" even if they were not ill, because mothers did not want the burden of dealing with the children. ... Food, mostly meat and flour, was often rare to come by even so Rose often gave to the needy along the river which was strongly looked down upon, but was a selfless act and rare. ... Rose for her children's, family and friends safety acted like she needed to but she also fought to prove that those wrongly imprisoned were innocent. ...

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It had a black canal in it, and a river that ran purple with ill-smelling dye, and vast piles of building full of windows where there was a rattling and a trembling all day long, and where the pistons of the steam-engine worked monotonously up and down like the head of and elephant in a state of melancholy madness. ... Louisa and Thomas are two of the Gradgrinds children. ... Gradgrind is a man of facts and who wants nothing more than facts to be taught to all children. ... This is the principle on which I bring up my own children, and this is the principle on which I bring up these childre...

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The Chinese lived along the Yellow River 7,000 years ago. ... (Tan p. 12) Women were respected and all of the children took their mothers" maiden name. ... (Tan p. 13) Parents also valued male children for two reasons. ... The Han dynasty also required women to marry and have many children. ...

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