His father came from an old Virginian family and his mother was a descent of New England Calvinists. Cable was forced to leave his formal education in 1858 to support his family as a clerk when his father died. ... In his story ""Tite Poulette," Cable introduces Zalli, a quadroon, single mother, and her daughter "Tite Poulette. As one reads this story, it becomes seemingly apparent that mother and daughter are very fond of each other and enjoy each other's company. ... One may wonder why Zalli didn't tell her foster daughter that she was "legally" of good standing. ...

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Amy Tan is an author who often uses the theme of Chinese-American life, focusing mainly on mother-daughter relationships where the mother is an immigrant from China and the daughter is a thoroughly Americanized - yellow on the surface and white underneath. In "A Pair of Tickets," the mother tries to convey their rich history and legacy to her daughter, who is almost completely ignorant of their heritage, while the daughter attempts to understand her hopelessly old- fashioned mother. ... At the opening of the story, Jandale Woo, and her father is on a train and are destined for China. Their fir...

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Nisei Daughter Nisei Daughter, by Monica Sone, recalls the author's childhood as a Japanese girl, growing up in Seattle, during World War II. ... During a point in Kazuko's childhood, her father is set up by two corrupt police men accusing for father of selling illegal sake. ... Kazuko's father insisted, "Mine? ... Her father was wrongfully accused of selling sake, based on he was a Japanese man. ... These stories are just a few that prove to Kazuko that she's different. ...

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In the story "Eveline", Eveline finds love with a man called Frank. ... Emily's father is a very wealthy man and he feels that no man is good enough for his daughter. ... Both fathers make it very difficult for their daughters to find love and lead their own lives. ... Emily clings to her father even after he dies. ... She told them that her father was not dead. ...

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The daughter in the story does have many rivers to cross. ... The part of the story that really confused me was how the father was acting when he found out his wife was dead. ... The father in the story also seemed like he refused to call the doctor a couple times until he really saw that his daughter was mad at him. ... The daughter in the story I think acted like any other person would in her situation. ... I came to this conclusion, when the father didn't even lend a hug to his daughter when her mother died. ...

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The daughter in the story does have many rivers to cross. ... The part of the story that really confused me was how the father was acting when he found out his wife was dead. ... The father in the story also seemed like he refused to call the doctor a couple times until he really saw that his daughter was mad at him. ... The daughter in the story I think acted like any other person would in her situation. ... I came to this conclusion, when the father didn't even lend a hug to his daughter when her mother died. ...

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The story "Israel", is written by Mary-Beth Hughes. ... The story is first person narrative and objective because the story is based on the girl's point of view. ... The mother finds reason to hit her daughter after his visit. ... A drink is a symbol in the story. ... She releases her anger on her daughter and abusing her. ...

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A Parent's Love Has No Bounds " Harry, your father loves you," a loving father says to his son, who refuses to communicate with him, in the short story "My Son the Murder". ... Allow me to elaborate with an example in the short story "My Son the Murderer," written by Bernard Malamud. This story is about a distant father and son relationship, which is based on silence. ... This loving father went through this whole ordeal to spend time with his son. ... They would like to feel secure and to make sure that their son/ daughter is safe and well. ...

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Typically a bride's father guides her down the aisle and gives her to her groom. It is a moment in a woman's life that all fathers dread and only hope they can entrust the man in which they place their daughter's heart. ... My father is bipolar, and like most people with this condition he chose to self medicate. ... A friend of mine told me how her dad used to be a drug addict and that he cleaned himself up, as I listened to her story I grew angry and wondered "Why can't my dad do that for me, why doesn't he love me?... I loathed watching little girls play with th...

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In this book, she tells the story of her difficult childhood. ... The story begins when the author is six (1938). ... He locates a place for his daughters. The daughters will stay with the Hanninks. The oldest daughter (Rachel) refuses to leave her mother. ...

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In this book, she tells the story of her difficult childhood. ... The story begins when the author is six (1938). ... He locates a place for his daughters. The daughters will stay with the Hanninks. The oldest daughter (Rachel) refuses to leave her mother. ...

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A: Sum up the story in about 200 words. ... Michael speaks impolite to his father and does not concern about his 46-year birthday. ... B: Write an interpretation of the story. ... His daughter Katy is too little to understand it, but she does not think much about her father or the rest of the family-members. ... McCreedy does not like his daughter much, but tries very hard to love her. ...

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In 1985, Tan wrote the story "Rules of the Game" for a writing workshop, and the story became incorporated into The Joy Luck Club as part of Waverly Jong's story. ... She has also written other stories, narratives, and even childrens' books. ... Also, in The Kitchen God's Wife, Pearl's father was a minister who died of stomach cancer when Pearl was fourteen, not very unlike Tan's situation. ... In the last section, as the story in the beginning of the section suggests, the mothers watch as their daughters grow, feeling the desire to protect them, to teach them "how ...

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I know this may be something many people have been through but that doesn't mean my story isn't unique in its own. ... The man on my birth certificate is my father but he does not deserve the title of dad. ... When my mother was a senior in high school she was head over heels in love with my father but what she didn't know was he was a horribly abusive man with a huge drinking and drug problem. ... Sometimes I think about what life might have been like if my mother would have stayed with my biological father and it kind of scares me I have been told so many horror stories of how...

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The father builds a fire with "cracked hands that ached" (1-5). ... The father would also rise early "in the blueblack cold" and relight the fire (1-5). ... She instead tells her daughter to go to church where the mother feels it is safe. ... The quiet stories of the immense sacrifices parents make for their children. ... The mother shows she loves her by limiting her daughter's activities. ...

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In "October Sky", the story takes place at a West Virginia mining town during the 1950's. ... However he always proved respect to his father. ... The story makes it clear that Dee was confused about the meaning of her heritage. ... This affection changes the static relationship they had as mother and daughter. It also created a dynamic attitude towards her daughter. ...

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Jing-mei was born years after in America, to another father. Suyuan died before she could reach her daughters although she found the address of her lost daughters. ... They fear that their own daughters, like Jing-mei, may not know or appreciate the stories of their mothers' lives. ... In the third group of stories, the four daughters tell about their adult dilemmas such as troubles in marriage and with their careers. ... Suyaun's story is representative of the fight to maintain the mother-daughter bond through cultural differences, and generation gaps. ...

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Describe the mother, father, sister, and brother. ... The sister who is Abby is the daughter. ... In her childhood, she has always been living under her father order. ... Abby moves us back and forth in time with her story to show us the interior of her family: her devoutly Catholic mother, rough and harsh father, and misfit brother Sam. ... My opinion on the story is that this is a sad story about someone childhood. ...

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Adele's father, Joe, loves her dearly even though she is not her daughter by blood. ... Through the eyes of the daughters, we can also see the continuation of the mother's stories, how they learned to cope in America. ... Obedient daughter!' ... She has no respect for her father and feels that he does not deserve to be in the family. ... This section is rife with mother-daughter conflicts, as the story in the beginning foreshadows. ...

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Maybe a father has lost his job and needs to find another so he can provide for his family, the father is desperate. ... Mother didn't even want a girl and she tells the story of how she cried when the doctor announced me rather frequently. ... Fathers teach daughters how they should be treated by men. ... Today I am determined for my daughter to have a relationship with her father. ... Fathers and daughters have a bond that can never be replaced. ...

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The story begins with a means to an end. ... I believe it is the authors' goal to create the perception that the father in the story may have prepared fugu for his son and daughter. ... We learn from the story that this terseness was brought about by the father when the narrator was younger. ... If his daughter were to move to America, I believe the son would stay with him due to the fact that nor he or the father have other options. ... Regardless of what happens, the story ends with the father hoping things will get better....

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Kim Barnes" In the Wilderness; Coming of Age in Unknown Country delved into her childhood and adolescence as a logger's daughter in northern Idaho. In Bloodlines; Odyssey of a Native Daughter, Janet Campbell Hale utilized short stories to chronicle various stages of her life as the daughter of a Coeur d" Alene. ... In "Daughter of Winter," Hale described her function within her native family. ... Hale's mother frequently told her stories of her father's drinking and abuse but Janet believed that her father did not fit the description her mother fed her: "My father, the man I...

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For example , she uses Shelby's story of how his father abused him and his father's love became misdirected to him.We became so confused about love because and get so attached to our parents thinking they love us even though they abuse us and as we grow older we attend to do the same thing, abuse our own children.Hook also states that "Why was harsh punishment a gesture of love As children do , we pretend to accept this grown-up logic , but we know in our hearts it was not right", We pretend to accept this grown-up logic because our parents tell us as a young child , everything they ...

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She was forced to give her daughter up for adoption. ... Instead he drank himself to death, occasionally beating his wife and daughter. In this story, if it wasn't for a kind hearted woman named Mrs. ... Men, who would read stories like this one, would not want this to happen to their families. ... Parents did not want their daughters being trafficked in the saloons. ...

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His grandfather had told his father that he wanted his father to keep up the good fight. ... I had read the short story "Graduation" by Maya Angelou. In this short story, the author Maya Angelou had a similar talent as Ralph. ... This short story is portraying the life and regret of a young mother struggling to raise her oldest daughter to whom she could not give her love and time, which she should have given. ... The author would have been pleased to have her daughter as the well-known person in the town. ...

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• Grade Level: High School