Tita must follow the family tradition that requires her to reject Pedro's marriage proposal so she can take care of her widowed mother until her death. ... Tita learns to express her emotions through the food that she prepares for the family. ... She pours all of her passion for Pedro and anger towards her mother into her meals, helping to bond Pedro and herself. ... Mama Elena is the opposite of a nurturer, never forging any kind of bond with her youngest daughter. ... Any suggestion of dishonor on the part of a woman promises to bring shame to entire family, and can harm the busines...

• Word Count: 2483
• Approx Pages: 10

Mama Elena is a dictator to Tita never forming any type of bond with her. ... Added to her eventual victory Tita inspires her niece which would some day put an end to the tradition which has crippled the development of women in their family for generations. This victory although seemingly confined to one family will further the advance of women trying to wean themselves from the domestic centered stereotypes that exist even today. ... The majority of food in the novel is prepared by Tita, and in this way she is able to express emotion because her role in the family presents her with no other...

• Word Count: 1266
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

Denver feels a close bond with Beloved because Denver knew that she had drunk some of Beloved's blood with her mother's breast milk. However, later on Beloved begins to go crazy and tries to overrun Sethe to where the whole family is suffering. ... This novel contained more of a creepy plot about a ghost who comes back to haunt the house and family so it's understandable that it gave some kids the creeps. ...

• Word Count: 1428
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Heathcliff actually used Isabelle as a tool to get revenge on the Linton family. ... I believe he does all of this to get back at Edgar for marrying Cathy and among other things he despises the Linton family for. ... The problem of the bond between Cathy and Heathcliff and its significance was that it remained the central mystery of the novel till the very end. ... In Wuthering Heights Catherine and Heathcliff's love is a direct challenge to those social forces of family and class which tyrannize, oppress and restrict individuals and their relationship. ... He repelled readers by using...

• Word Count: 1378
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

On the ark Noah's controlling attitude and disregard for the hierarchy takes root when he separates the family by putting himself, Hannah,,Japeth and Shem on the higher level and Mrs Noyes ,Lucy, Ham and Emma on the lower level with the animals displaying that they are worthless except as slaves to him ,which is what Noah thinks of animals(pg210-213).The ruffians in this novel symbolizes the breakdown of the patriarchal model and the ultimate destruction of humanity and harmony. ... This show ours non-existent concern with how we are destroying the harmony an...

• Word Count: 1381
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

But mattie then loses the house when her son, Basil, jumped bail after Mattie used their home as collateral for his bond. ... Kiswana is Really the only woman at Brewster Place who chooses to be there.Kiswana moves from with her Black family living in a middle-class neighborhood, Linden Hills. ... The second generation inhabitants were the family members of those world war one and the Ones unable to leave. ... she has a live-in boyfriend, Eugene, and they have a child, Serena. shehas dreams of a family and of Eugene one day becoming a wonderful husband as well as a loving fathe...

• Word Count: 1933
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

Meanwhile, in the novel upon Yaweh's arrival Noah regards Him with esteem and reverence, and thus Yaweh admires Noah for his love and says; love is the one true bond "Between God and His angels". ... Indeed, to demonstrate this very idea Findley procreates Noah's character as someone that could not see anything wrong with a hierarchal, authoritarian world, with the surpluses of his ritual slaughter of animals or his experiments with, amongst a mass of others, Mottyl and her kittens, or with his separation of his family into upper and lower decks. ...

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For instance, the bond Edna has with her children is very doubtful when she contemplates on how she feels towards them. ... Her family has been her obligation for a long time, but now she sees that there's so many more possibilities out there with the start of her affair. ...

• Word Count: 1575
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

The bond that they share is much like an old couples love, after 50 years of marriage. ... Like most parents, both would grieve by crying and turning towards many friends and family members, and that is exactly what Herlin, the father, did. ... Remembering his family, his friends, and especially Genevieve. ...

• Word Count: 2037
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

The capacity to choose what we integrate into our personal repertoire of images and ideas is both a central function of the moral imagination and a central feature of one's own personal character formation. The moral imagination then is not only a storehouse but also an intellectual guide " (Bohlin,...

• Word Count: 2048
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School