The discourse time in the novel begins with the story of M. ... Thénardier saved Marius' father. ... Two characters whose story seems to overlap with one another are Fantine and Mme. ... After seeing the Thénardier children playing outside, she believed that her daughter's best chance was to live with the family as she alone would only corrupt her daughter. ... She too is devoted to her daughters like Fantine, but shows it more abruptly and rude. ...

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Browne tells why she named her daughter Melanie (after her grandmother), and tells the story of her grandmother's strengthwhen facing a group of angry white men. ... Serena, their daughter was electrocuted when she used a fork to chase a roach into a socket. ... After the death of her daughter she doesn"t want to speak, move, or even live. ... How the wall is so significant throughout the story. 3. ... In Mattie's chapter, her father is so strict and never allows her to talk to some guys. 5. ...

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On the other hand, the progression in McCarthy's story aligns with a father and his son's valiant quest to survive, which is almost constantly thwarted with new dangers. ... The immediate problems of the father and son are  hunger, thirst and coldness, which cause all of their faculties to be devoted to survival. ... Devoting to work as his salvation, Peter attempts to salvage society and his sanity by continuing on with his career and raising his daughter earnestly with his wife, Mary during the outbreak. When the couple must consider euthanizing their daughter, Mary displays stron...

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Choose a novel or play that depicts a conflict between a parent (or a parental figure) and a son or daughter. ... Furthermore, the journal entries signify a solution to Stephen's wavering feelings towards his father, Simon Dedalus. ... However, in the closing lines of the novel, Stephen finally frees himself from his father's influence. Stephen also resolves his emotional turmoil toward the family by describing his father endearingly, despite his many faults. ... However, as in the story of Daedalus and his son, Icarus, Stephen must take caution to find the perfect medium between com...

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The angel is poised above Orlando and her daughter, resplendent and androgynous, pealing out the ecstasy of being "neither a woman nor a man," its exuberance inviting the audience to celebrate the eradication of chronology, distance and gendered characteristics. ... Potter's adaptation of Orlando very much begins, as it ends, as a story of personal development and ultimate freedom. ... Thus Orlando's desire and future are always assured in Potter's film, and indeed will come to literary success, a beautiful daughter, and a singing angel who proclaims, "At last I am free. ... Pot...

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His wife is expecting their first daughter. ... To cover up everything they make up stories to the police, tamper evidence and make it look like accidents or self defense. ... After shooting Jacob, Hank makes up the story to tell to the police and FBI. ... Later on, when Hank was in college, the farm went bankrupt and Hank's father had a fatal car incident. ... Hank's father killed himself and made it look like an accident in order for his life insurance to pay for Hank's college education. ...

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On the alternative, Addie's daughter, Dewey Dill, is struck with betrayal and trapping which leaves her no time to mourn over her mother's death (Bakker, 231). ... They are in high spirits as they fulfill Addie's wish to bury her next to her father's grave in Jefferson. ... The citizens of the antebellum society exist in these stories from Faulkner. ... His father asked him to join Ole Miss, so he did. ... The foundation of his way of telling stories is oral (Hoffman, 38). ...

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The type of interaction that Tita has with Mama Elena is the focus point in which the story is developed around. Though the story concentrates on Tita, and Mama Elena, Tita's life experiences is the focus point which provides the deeper meaning in the story. ... Mama Elena's role in the story will not be touched on as much as Tita's because of this reason. ... This mother-daughter relationship is filled with problems from its beginning, when Tita is born prematurely following her father's sudden death. ... Esquival put on a pedestal, this story of women, and one woman in pa...

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She was born the only daughter to a telegraph operator and his wife (Wyoming 1). ... La Semana de las Senoritas Mejicanas, was the only magazine that carried a home economics section, and the magazine developed into a magazine that published signed stories, poems, and serialized fiction. ... After seeing Tita's pain because of the tradition, Tita's sister Rosaura, decides that she too will impose the tradition onto her daughter. ... Mama Elena is the opposite of a nurturer, never forging any kind of bond with her youngest daughter. ... Mexican women were expected to serve their f...

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The novel Cloudstreet by Tim Winton is the epic story of two Australian families" whose lives come together. ... At Gallipoli- It was hard to believe the story was fictional because we are so familiar with the reality of the setting. ... Rose and Sam's relationship was a result of this theme, Rose helped her father at his lowest point and Sam saved his daughter at her weakest moment. ... "Dad, I cleaned up her vomit, washed her clothes dragged her home from the pub My childhood was taken from me- The theme of communication throughout the text also made readers see the novel as a real l...

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He grew up exploring the hills, forest and lake near his father's estate where he acquired that play so important a role in his fiction and non-fiction. ... For the story of The Last of the Mohicans, the episodic adventures are the appropriate fictional clothing, while the traditional emotional love represents the charming piping. ... Since conflict is a basic ingredient of the frontier in the novel, the story's action of flight, hostility, disguise, warfare, etc. ... With difficulty finding their way through the heavy morning mists and the infinite French, the seven, hotly ...

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(Book Tower, p. 153) The story is read by ways of the internal speeches of several characters in and out of the family. ... This is true in the fact that Addie lends order and design throughout the entire story, and then after death, the family unites in their efforts for her burial. ... Dewey Dell hated him because of him knowing about her pregnancy, and Jewel cursed when Darl asked him about his real father. "Your mother was a horse, but who was your father, Jewel?" ... She's the only daughter of the family, and represents fecundity, earthiness, and reproduction. ...

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Vonnegut uses his stories to explain his life and innermost thoughts and ideas. ... He enrolled at Cornell University in 1940, and, under pressure from his father and older brother, studied chemistry and biology. ... One very interesting story is his first novel, "Cat's Cradle". ... In the book, The Hoenikker family closely parallels Vonnegut's own family, consisting of an elder son who is a scientist, a tall middle daughter, and a younger son who joins Delta Upsilon. ... Many of Vonneguts stories have been made into movies. ...

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Heckerling's Clueless is indeed a clever film, transforming a 200-year-old story and making it relevant to today for a modern screen audience, despite radical social changes. ... They are also both manipulative as seen in both characters' desire to control such as Emma's manipulation of her doting febrile father and Harriet, parallel to Cher manipulating Tai and Mel through affection. ... In Emma, Mr Woodhouse is a fussy invalid who is obsessively concerned with his and others' health while Mel Horowitz loves fattening food, is indolent and aggressive when he wants to be,...

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Historians have pieced together that she was born in Kent in 1640, and she was the second daughter of a barber, Bartholomew Johnson, and a wet nurse, Elizabeth Denham [ CITATION Bio15 l 1033 ]. ... In her teenage years, Behn and her family allegedly journeyed from England to the British colony of Surinam because of her father's transferal there due to a military appointment [ CITATION Bio15 l 1033 ]. ... Oroonoko claims to be a true story based on Behn's experiences in Surinam. She begins the novel by stating that she is an "eye-witness" and that the story is not a work of ...

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This would have been unbelievable, risible even, at the start of the book, but the reader has become so engrossed in the story, so completely immersed by King's telling of it that even if we were to find it doubtful we would not admit it to ourselves. ... In Stephen King's novels and short stories (excepting the "Dark Tower" series) we are faced with extremely unusual, often even supernatural events, but they happen in a familiar situation to familiar people. ... Even if we are not completely aware of it, there is a likelihood that most people in the English speaking world have at ...

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