Now her American dream till this day is for her family to succeed and be something in life, now that she couldn't.regresar a la escuela, pero soy bien burra para eso y solo llegue a la primaria. ... That after she graduated, they threw a party for her and even though she was small she still danced and celebrated , and she said it was the most memorable because she said "despus de la fiesta mi papa me dio una mueca que yo adoraba," meaning that her father gave her a doll that she loved so much. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

- "Vamos a caminar alrededor de la plaza."" ... Y tu, de donde eres?... "Esperate, yo te quiero ver otra vez pero me voy a ir a La Ciudad de Mexico esta noche de vacaciones. ... We went to the cathedral first, El Vosque and El Castillo de Chapultepeq second, and then we went to the plaza Garibaldi last. ... The day that I arrived to Mexico, I called her from my grandparent's house and said, "No puedo ir para Mexico hasta despues de Ener...

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• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

Location: Spanish Town, Jamaica In this chapter we are given and insight to Antoinette's new life at the Convent in Spanish Town (a new environment) as well and a description of the students, teachers and the area. The events of the night have left Antoinette ill and she awakes six- weeks late...

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• Grade Level: High School

La Blanche: Female slave of mixed ancestry. ... When she looks at her child, then at the quadroon "the son of La Blanche, one of their slaves "her "blood turned like ice in her veins, and a clammy moisture gathered upon her face," the narrator says. ... "As white as La Blanche's, " he says. ... However, conversation between Desiree and Madame Valmonde indicates that he apparently found time for La Blanche, the slave woman whose name (French for white) suggests that she was of mixed heritage, with light skin that made her a tolerable sexual object for Armand. Desiree, speaking o...

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• Approx Pages: 12
• Grade Level: High School