In Woman of Color, Daughter of Privilege, Kent Anderson Leslie tells the true story of a woman, Amanda America Dickson, whose life shows how these definitions were crucial to an African American woman's life, and how, with tenacity and determination, one woman defined herself. She, her father and her mother all helped define who she was and who she became. ... Her father, David Dickson, made sure that it was not. ... Dickson doted on his daughter and it is believed that he gave Amanda Dickson her earliest education in reading and writing, for their handwriting is similar. ... For her...

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Her father was a mean old man. ... She aborted a child because her father did not approve of a black man being with his white daughter. The father ends up with nothing. He loses his daughter because she marries a black man and he never got to know his grandchildren because he is a racist. ... When you hear the life story of a family, it really touches the heart. ...

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Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye is the story of young black girl growing up in a small town in Ohio, during the 1940's. ... Pecola's mother, Pauline Breedlove, sees no beauty in herself or in anything else in her life: her home, her marriage, or her daughter. ... And she hates her daughter for the same reason she hates herself, her ugly black skin. ... Pecola was raped and impregnated by her father. ... She thought that her father had taken out his disgust with her looks by raping her. ...

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The movie tells the sorrowful stories about four women. ... Susie, Lora's daughter, lives a rich and envied life. ... She has a daughter with light skin, who is called Sarah Jane. ... The story about Annie and Sarah Jane makes me sad. ... Sarah Jane looks like a white because her father is a white man. ...

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But since the niece was only three years old, Jacobs" actual master was the father, Dr. ... Flint and his daughter to locate her and return her to slavery in the South. ... The male narrator was under no compulsion to discuss his sex life, nor did he need to talk about his children he may have fathered outside marriage. ... However his eldest daughter, Rosetta, tells a different story in which she talks about Anna Murray, a free black woman, who helps Douglass in his escape. ... Her story ends with freedom; not in the usual way with marriage. ...

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After being raped and impregnated by her father she is asked to leave school. ... The story is about the unraveling of society's lowest of the low: a black female child. ... She loved taking care of their daughter. ... Pauline beats her daughter and kicks her out for this simple mistake. The mother coddles and protects the little Fisher girl, protecting her from her ugly dark skinned daughter. ...

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Harper Lee was born in Alabama, and her father, a lawyer, defended two black men accused of murdering a white storekeeper, and it is from this account that Lee created a story that would challenge and inspire generations. ... When Finch's young daughter, Scout, asks him why he was defending Tom Robinson, a black man, he said, "For a number of reasons. ... Through the plot and dialogue of the story, Lee promotes the idea of a fair and just world for everyone and she makes it apparent that in the 1930's, there were but a few white men, such as Atticus, who believed that all men were ...

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We thought, at the time it was because Pecola was having her father's baby that the marigolds did not grow." ... This metaphor was used to describe why Pecola's baby did not live, it was not meant for her to have her father's baby. ... Polly shows more tenderness to the white family's daughter that she cares for then she does Pecola, Polly finds her "perfect family" with the white pretty little girl, and spends all her time to take care of her because she is what society finds "beautiful". ... , then Pecola comes into the story and asks him for blue eyes because he "grant...

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I was focused more on the characters and following the details that added to the story. ... The silent films without the use of speech rely on the actors' actions and body language to help add detail to the story. ... During a discussion between Gridlestone and Sylvia's father Jasper, who worked for Gridlestone, Gridlestone struck him claiming that his father told him that in order to keep Negroes in line was to whack them every once in a while. ... In a flashback, Sylvia is shown growing up as the adopted daughter of a sharecropper. When Sylvia's father confronts their white l...

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In John Grisham's novel rape, racism, and justice all prevail throughout the story A Time to Kill. Carl Lee Hailey, the father of the ten-year-old child takes justice into his own hands by murdering his daughters assailants. ... "That nigger Hailey-- his daughter." ... Later on chaos erupted in the town of Mississippi after the father of the raped girl, Carl Lee Hailey took justice into his own outraged hands and murdered her two assailants. ...

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Harriet Jacobs story "Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl" is a true story about her life and her struggles growing up and being a female slave, Jacobs wrote her story during the 1850's and published it in 1861, the same year the civil war began. ... Sexual abuse from slave owners caused a serious problem for slaves and caused women to feel father apart from men. ... It makes the white fathers cruel and sensual; the sons violent and licentious; it contaminates the daughters, and makes the wives wretched.... I think Jacobs is a true hero for what she did in her life and also...

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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...

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Some important facts that influence the story is that, the town where the story takes place is where Morrison grew up as a little girl. ... Cholly is Pecola's father he is very abusive towards women in his life. ... The main turning point in the story is when Pecola's father, Cholly, rapes her. Pecola is changed because now she is pregnant from her father. ... Cholly is changed because now he has impregnated his own daughter because was drunk. 9. ...

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Mayella's father, Bob Ewell is so angry when he witnesses this kiss that he decides to accuse Robinson in order to keep his and his daughter's reputations. ... Instead, she has a vicious father; she cannot decide her own things and her father often maltreats her. ... This shows obviously that Mayella is just following her father's idea but it's not true. ... Mayella must feel very bitter when her father decides to accuse Tom Robinson but she has no choice. ... They do not really know who he is or even what he looks like or if the stories are true or not. ...

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The story illustrates Troy, his father, and briefly his son, in an examination of how these men serve to symbolize the struggle of men and how those struggles are often passed down from generation to generation. Throughout the story, the word Fences symbolizes every difficult aspect . ... Troy's father was less than a true man, but he was a worker and a provider. Troy, even as a runaway, carried with him his father's virtues. ... (Winson, 96) Rose's words, wise as they are, would have been ineffectual without the help of Raynell, Troy's illegitimate daughter, no...

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Robinson is falsely accused of having raped a white man's daughter. ... But because this story takes place in the south where many people are racist he was accused of the crime. ... White women were not supposed to have anything to do with black men and Bob is so shocked by his daughter's behavior that he beats her savagely. ... Another event that plays a big role in Lee's portrayal of unfairness is through Jem and Scout's maturations and adventures throughout the story. ... She acts impertinent questions, such as when she drills Dill on where his father is, and insults peo...

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This family consists of the mother Pauline, the father Cholly, the son Sammy, and the daughter Pecola. The novel's focal point is the daughter, an eleven-year-old Black girl who is trying to conquer a bout with self-hatred. ... Much of the narration comes from Claudia MacTeer as a nine year old child, but Morrison also gives the reader the insight of Claudia reflecting on the story as an adult. some first person narration from Pecola's mother, and narration by Morrison herself as an omniscient narrator. ... Names play an important part in The Bluest Eye because they are often symboli...

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The story of female slavery is the story of survival of Black women and their construction of a definition of womanhood that made sense to them. In some ways it is the story of the phoenix. Faced with misery and suffering that many succumbed to, African American women as a group proved resilient eno...

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What if you lost your mother, your father didn't show any affection or love, and you had no one to trust but your housekeeper? ... Her mother Deborah died, leaving her father T.Ray to take care of her but her housekeeper Rosaleen cares for Lily. ... Lily changes throughout the story because of Zach and the Boatwright sisters. ... Now Lily considers all the Boatwright sisters as her mothers and the rest of the daughters of mary her mothers too....

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Nevertheless all the building blocks of the story exist in reality. ... When Cholly Breedlove, Pecola's father, burns down his family's house, his daughter is placed in the MacTeer house. ... One day, Pecola's father comes home drunk and finds her doing the dishes, and he rapes her. ... She narrates the story from two different points of view. ... This narrator knows the story fully and gives the reader inside thoughts about how Pecola's father and other characters within the novel feel. ...

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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...

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Just like many of her characters Walker was the daughter of black sharecroppers from the rural South. ... The two decided to move to Jackson, Mississippi where they would have a daughter Rebecca Grant. ... When Celie was being raped by her step-father (Alphonso) he told her not to tell anyone except God (Lewis 2). ... When she was just fourteen years old the old man she thought to be her father was raping her. ... Alphonso who Celie thought was her father is really just their stepfather. ...

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This is quickly displayed in the story when the Duke seeks Othello's council immediately after hearing news of an impending attack by the Turks. ... This is derived from his decision to marry the daughter of a powerful senator of Venice. ... Othello is harassed by Desdemona's father, who claims that he used magic to steal his daughter from him. ... Aaron is a smart man, and he uses his intelligence to guide Demetrius and Chiron to rape Lavinia, Titus's daughter. ... To some degree he plays the role of father figure to Chiron and Demetrius. ...

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This is quickly displayed in the story when the Duke seeks Othello's council immediately after hearing news of an impending attack by the Turks. ... This is derived from his decision to marry the daughter of a powerful senator of Venice. ... Othello is harassed by Desdemona's father, who claims that he used magic to steal his daughter from him. ... Aaron is a smart man, and he uses his intelligence to guide Demetrius and Chiron to rape Lavinia, Titus's daughter. ... To some degree he plays the role of father figure to Chiron and Demetrius. ...

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Nella Larsen's novel Passing concentrates on this theme with the story of Clare, a "tragic mulatto" who "passes" as a white person. ... However, once she does return back to the African American community, her story leads to a tragic ending. ... Her African American father dies, and she is left with her white aunts. ... Clare tells Irene that she "nearly died of terror the whole nine months before Margery [her daughter] was born for fear that she might be dark" (168). ... In reality, Clare's ultimate "loss of soul" is realized in the fact that she is willing to forsake her family, in...

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