Nyasha pretends to be a settler and insults her father by calling him a "good boy, a good munt. ... Along with everyone else, Njoroge resorts to believing in fantastic stories for encouragement under such bleak circumstances. ... Tambu's story also exemplifies how education does not lead to social freedom. ... A daughter, in contrast, is not as valuable. This is evident when Tambu's father denies her request to send her to school. ...

• Word Count: 1640
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

This lack of understanding of his father and his father's behavior is shown in the phrase " I often wonder how he existed" The poet also seems to lack an understanding of adult behavior, as well as Polish culture, showing that the poem is written from a child's perspective. ... As his father tries to tech him this language the narrator states that he is drifting away from his father and his birth culture. ... Cats in the cradle is a story about a father who sees his son grow up the way he wanted to, like him, only to realise that all the tome he spent at work and not with his son has...

• Word Count: 1417
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Originally born just outside of Johannesburg, Nadine began to gain a political identity at a young age as the daughter of two Jewish immigrant parents, who spent much of their own young adult lives under repression in Russia. ... Outside of the work being discussed, two of the authors most notable works include Burgers Daughter and Jurys People both of which would be banned by the South African government for their anti-apartheid views. ... The story opens up to what has already happened as a result of the story being told, leading the reader to the answer from the beginning and working ba...

• Word Count: 1018
• Approx Pages: 4
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

There Are No Children Here is a story of two young brothers, Lafeyette, 10, and Pharaoh,7, growing up in the poverty of Chicago's projects. Their family includes a welfare dependent mother, an alcoholic-drug using father, an older sister, older brother, and younger triplets. While reading the story, we watch the boys in their day-to-day lives for about four years. Kotlowitz provides a detailed true story of the boys" lives and portrays various incidents involving poverty, gangs, racism, and violence. ... She stored her food at her daughter's. ...

• Word Count: 874
• Approx Pages: 3

One of the significant characters in Twain's novel, a runaway slave Jim plays an important role by representing the humanity of black people even though his social status is lower than any one else in the story. Ever since Jim met Huck in the Illinois Island, Jim protected Huck as a father like figure throughout their journey through the Mississippi River. ... Since Pap was not a caring father to Huck at all, Huck sees Jim as a person who actually cares about his family more than Pap. In his tearful conversation of how he made his daughter a deaf, Jim does not only impress the readers, bu...

• Word Count: 1186
• Approx Pages: 5

Njoroge's father represents the traditional values of land being important yet adapting to the British values. His father is still attached to his passed belief that having land is very important. ... My father and many others had been moved from our ancestral lands. ... "Or be like Juliana...proud to have a daughter who was a teacher. " Stating that the only ones with knowledge were the whites and the only ones that were important were those with education or with educated children. ... It was a very powerful story when it dealt with Njoroge's life, his thoughts and his feelings....

• Word Count: 1124
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

Slave narratives are testimonies of representatives who speak for those still enslaved and cannot tell his or her own stories. ... Douglass however lacks this kind of information, he is not sure who his father was (he only knows that he was white), and his memories of his mother are vague. ... Jacobs starts her story and states in the preface that she wants to "arouse the women of the North to a realizing sense of the condition of millions of women at the South, still in bondage, suffering what I suffered"(Jacobs XIV). ... Even if the father was white, by the "one drop rule" the child was cons...

• Word Count: 1523
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Scholars argue the story which involves Abraham, Sarah, and Hagar, explains the origin of female circumcision according to Christianity. According to the story, Sarah forces Abraham to circumcise Egyptian born Hagar. ... Christians that adhere to female circumcision interpret this story as God's acceptance of the practice (Chessler, 1997). ... In communities where a person's place in society is determined by lineage traced through fathers, female circumcision reduces the uncertainty surrounding paternity by discouraging or preventing women's sexual activity outside of marriag...

• Word Count: 2909
• Approx Pages: 12
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate