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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" The daughter is zealous and submissive to her father. ... The Sky Spirit calls his daughter by the dependent term "youngest daughter" that relies on a father. ... In the Adam and Eve creation story, Adam gives his companion the name Eve, meaning "mother of all the living. ... The Spirits and Chiefs in these stories are acknowledged as a power that is the source of life and good for humans. ... When the Sky Spirit in WGWU tells his daughter to simply give a message, she is too curious and is steered by her temptations and immaturity to another way of life with the very thi...

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the Late Colonel," and "Bliss" In, "Miss Brill," "The Daughters of the Late Colonel," and "Bliss," In each story Katherine Mansfield tells the story of different women. ... In Mansfield's, "The Daughters of the Late Colonel," two daughters, Josephine and Constantia, are living behind the ghost of their father. ... In, "The Daughters of the Late Colonel," Josephine and Constantia are only known because of their father's name and his military status (Smith 1). ... The daughters inability to live has turned them robots, robots their father has made. ... (Daughters 469). ...

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In this essay I will be comparing and contrasting the two female agents in the stories The Tigers Bride' and The Werewolf' in regards to the post-modern feminism of our times. Initially in The Tigers Bride' a father looses her daughter (beauty) to The Beast in a game of cards. Obviously Beauty resents her father for this act, this is shown in, "My father said he loved me yet he staked his daughter on a hand of cards."" ... In Comparison beauty follows The Beast to his retreat, while the young daughter in The Werewolf' goes through the dangerous forest. ... This c...

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In this essay I will be comparing and contrasting the two female agents in the stories The Tigers Bride' and The Werewolf' in regards to the post-modern feminism of our times. Initially in The Tigers Bride' a father looses her daughter (beauty) to The Beast in a game of cards. Obviously Beauty resents her father for this act, this is shown in, "My father said he loved me yet he staked his daughter on a hand of cards."" ... In Comparison beauty follows The Beast to his retreat, while the young daughter in The Werewolf' goes through the dangerous forest. ... This c...

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In the story "Girl," a mother is teaching her daughter a lesson on how to carry herself appropriately to be accepted and please not only men, but also society as a whole. ... This double standard is clear throughout the story. ... Some of the female roles depicted in this story are, "wash the white clothes on Monday and put them on the stone heap...this is how you iron your father's khaki pants so they don't have a crease; this is how you grow okra far from the house...this is how you sweep a corner; this is how you sweep a whole house; this is how you sweep a yard" (...

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In the stories A Doll's House and Sweat this idea of what we now call a "woman" does not even exist. ... In some cases even daughters were treated like this also. If a man wanted to marry another man's daughter he would have to get her father's permission and in some cases pay the father to marry his daughter. ... In the story A Doll's House Torvald, the husband, treated Nora, his wife, more like his daughter. ... In the story "Sweat" Delia was basically faced with a similar situation. ...

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In the short story, "The Man From Kabul- by Rabindranath Tagore, there was a man known as the Kabuliwallah. ... He had left his family behind to make his way through life, and during this time he began longing to see his daughter. Then one day he came across a young girl named Mini whom he felt resembled his daughter and he became attached. ... One of the important pieces of the relationship and the story was when Mini and the Kabuliwallah would sing. ... - and shaking his fist at an invisible policemen he would reply: "I shall thrash my father-in-law."" ...

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Her father is an unfair man, who makes his daughter work and then keeps her wages. ... b) Eveline's father is a shadowy but menacing bully who has ruined her mother's life and is set to ruin hers. Eveline's father is the repressive authority in her life. ... She is trapped in an ugly situation, responsible for her siblings and the aging father who abuses her. ... The mother doesn't really accept her newborn child as her daughter and to an extent her child doesn't mean anything to her. ...

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Shortly after his father-in law was dead, Mr. ... Doran and her daughter. ... Perhaps, the same way her father or Mr. ... Lastly, "The Boarding House" can be described as a short story with a strange twist. ... Mooney and James Joyce's biographical background are just two of many reasons why this particular short story portrayed such unconventional behavior. ...

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Gender inequality is at the backdrop of this story. ... Looking at this story in a different way, imagine that the genders were reversed, and that this is a story about a father teaching his son about his place in the world. ... The story would be almost preposterous. This fact further amplifies the power and truth of Kincaid's story. ... Why not teach your daughter to be an original? ...

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The dominance of the males in the household is further emphasised by having the father "ask a blessing" at the rather rushed encounter at the dinner table. In the conversation between mother and daughter we are treated to further conflict within the story. ... "S"pose your father made you go out an" work for you livin"?" ... "He wanted a game of marbles before school, and feared his father would give him some chores to do." ... which mirror's Sarah's similar cry of "Father" at the story's start. ...

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However, in traditional India, the woman is restricted in a patriarchal society as her existence is confined only to her relationships with the man; a daughter to her father, a sister to her brother, a wife to her husband and a mother to her son. ... A daughter is to become a mother, and her upbringing is to prepare for that. ... The story of Savitri is held up as a prime example of the lengths to which a wife should go in aiding her husband. ... She is the daughter, the wife of Nathan and though at first begets only a daughter, Irawaddy and no sons, ultimately becomes a real woman, with the ...

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This book taught that men should treat their wives with honor and respect, "but he insisted that women remain subject to the guidance of the principal men in their lives-first their fathers, then their husbands, and finally, if they survived their husbands, their sons." ... Fathers have the power to offer their daughters to any man they see fit, even if it is against their daughters wishes. ... The servants (of Kaikeyi/Sita) in the story are very mischievous. Soorpanaka is a female demon that terrorizes Rama in the story and does everything in her evil power to obtain his love, but fails. ... ...

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He likes the maternal qualities of Ruth but loves the body of Mary Fisher, who became a successful novelist writing love stories. ... First of all she burns down the house after she has sent the children to Mary Fisher's Tower to spend some time with their father. ... Ruth suggests to her that she could move to her daughter, who did not care a lot for her in the past. ... my personal comment: It is quite interesting how Fay Weldon wrote such an amusing story out of such a serious topic. ... The story is sometimes perplexing and asks many questions without answering them at the end. ...

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In Oedipus the King, Othello, Tartuffe, The Father and even the absence of women in Waiting for Godot all have an impact in the story and on the audience. ... She is almost like a child vying for a father's affections in every aspect of her actions towards Iago. ... Tartuffe is a comedy and the other two plays are tragedies, so the characters in this play have a different motivation throughout the story line. ... Mariane plays the daughter of Elmire in Tartuffe; she is a submissive girl willing to do whatever it takes to please her father even if it breaks her heart. ... One such woman...

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He is married to Justine, and they have two children, daughter Allegra Sky and son Ryder Lee, they live in Manhattan. ... As a young boy he tried to please his father and looked up to his father as his hero. ... When he is portraying his father his voice gets deep. ... This makes his story more interesting than him just telling it in their voices he uses his body to tell a more complete story. ... He sees the way his father abuses women and prioritizes sex. ...

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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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Another interpretation of the controversy surrounding Maria Henson asserts that she was simply a loving daughter whose charisma and personal ideas were misconstrued as an illegitimate daughter of a wealthy landowner. ... Maria's father (Don Pepe) was a religious man who was respected greatly because he was a landowner. ... Eventually, Maria's father met with her and explained his situation and why they can't meet in public. Maria understood and obeyed her father. ... By sharing her story with other women who went through the same ordeal, it made her feel relieved and settle...

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Another interpretation of the controversy surrounding Maria Henson asserts that she was simply a loving daughter whose charisma and personal ideas were misconstrued as an illegitimate daughter of a wealthy landowner. ... Maria's father (Don Pepe) was a religious man who was respected greatly because he was a landowner. ... Eventually, Maria's father met with her and explained his situation and why they can't meet in public. Maria understood and obeyed her father. ... By sharing her story with other women who went through the same ordeal, it made her feel relieved and settle...

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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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They call these men the Founding Fathers of America. ... But least you should imagine it too burdensome to a girl at my early time of life, give me leave to answer you: I assure you I think myself happy that I can be useful to so good a father, and by rising very early I find I can go through much business"" (Roberts (1), p.2). ...

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The Greeks had arranged marriages and often times the daughters, without a brother, would be married to a close relative such as a cousin or uncle. She would then pass on her father's inheritance to her spouse. ... His daughters played no significant role in the play but he was worried about them and who would take care of them after he was gone. ... Her father sent her overseas to marry a King and the king tamed her and groomed her into an ideal queen. ... The role and subjection of women in Chaucer's stories have changed greatly from Beowulf and King Oedipus. ...

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She is the hero, or heroine, of this story in more than just a single way. ... Matthiessen talks of Hester clinging "to the hope that her girl has capacity for strong affection, which needs only to be awakened by sympathy" (4) but Hester wants so much more for her daughter. Never did it occur to me that Hester wanted to keep Pearl from her father though it may appear that way at times during the novel. ... Not only would she witness the ridicule and social downscale of her mother but her father's persecution would have also taken its toll on her. ... Any woman who can provide that fo...

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The fact that the gift from her father was from Hink's, a women's clothing store, not a girls clothing store, made her feel as if her father was treating her as a woman creating a sense of love and acknowledgment in her life. The heightened affection from her father is explored again in the poem when the speaker mentions that "[her father] had braved [Hink's] for [her] the way he had entered [her] mother once to get [her] out" (12-14). In these couple of lines, the speaker compares the act of her father braving Hink's, the wonderful women's department store h...

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