Douglass, in the "Heroic Slave", displays keen logic and planning throughout the story. ... Listwell, a white man who will guide the reader through much of the story. ... Somehow, this gives even more credence to the sailor's story by having him assert that he is no lover of blacks. ... Douglass begins by having his main protagonist, Washington Madison, state, "Liberty I will have, or die in the attempt to gain it", thus putting him in the context of the revolutionist Patrick Henry who stated, "Give me liberty or give me death". ... However, the theme of Racism and the Trope of Black...

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The theme of race throughout "Desiree's Baby" reveals racism in a universal nature. ... Mallard has heart problems which made me view her as a naturally weaker character at the beginning of the story. ... In "Story of an Hour", marriage gives the impression that the male has complete control over the woman. ... This showed me that a woman in the nineteenth century was not even aware just how much she has to hold back and give up when married. ... In conclusion, Kate Chopin's works, for example, "Desiree's Baby" and "Story of an Hour" showe...

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The fact that they seek to be overly-kind to him and give him their charity, just separates him all the more. ... Another theme that is introduced in this novel is the response to discrimination, or in Bigger's case, rage. ... It seems to me that Bigger's anger is closely connected to his sense of racial identity. ... Every story told, every novel ever written, every plot created, always had an idea behind it, a theme, an opinion. ... Naturalists wanted to collect social data in such a way as to give a scientific explanation for their characters' behavior. ...

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When he wanted me to go into the dry cleaning business with him. ... Man say to his woman: I got me a dream. ... She provides him with food to give him strength to go on each day. ... At one point in the story, Benetha states that she didn't love her brother because he lost the money. ... Linder makes the theme of racial discrimination prominent in the plot as an issue that the Younger family cannot avoid. ...

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What are you going to ask me next? ... There is also an eighth character in the play, the recorded voice of "the playwright-, giving the entire piece a Brecht-like quality. ... BIFF: O please come to me short sweet simple perfect idea. ... While Kushner does not discuss a current issue or theme, his ideas about communication and identity in today's world are clearly revealed in his writing. ... In this light, it is very true that whether or not a playwright chooses to build a plot or story around a controversial issue, there will always be a message which comments on some aspect of cu...

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It does however address themes that impacted him, most notably the tragedy of loss and the polarization of America. ... "Sonny's Blues," begins as a story of two worlds, one occupied by the narrator and one by Sonny, or so it would seem. Baldwin assures the audience will empathize with the narrator at the beginning of the story. ... Nonetheless Baldwin deliberately illustrates the vast chasm of difference between the narrator and his wife Isabel, "Isabel who is really much nicer than I am, more open and more giving...It was nice to see her face so vivid again and to hear her laugh and wa...

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Slave narratives are testimonies of representatives who speak for those still enslaved and cannot tell his or her own stories. ... The quest for identity is another prevalent theme of slave narratives, but there are differences in formation of identity between the two authors presented here. ... He mentions that "[a] want of information concerning my own was a source of unhappiness to me"(Douglass 310). ... It rekindled the few expiring embers of freedom, and revived within me a sense of my own manhood. It recalled the departed self-confidence, and inspired me again with a determination to be...

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Henslin states that an authoritarian leader is "one who gives orders" (p.163) Derek gives orders to his gang to rob a Mexican owned grocery store. ... Derek explains to Danny that, "it was wrong, it was eating me up, and it was going to kill me. ... And it didn't make me feel any different. It just got me more lost and I'm tired of being pissed off, Danny. ...

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She responded by saying that he is not black or white, but a spirit, leading into the main metaphor of the story, saying, "God is the color of water. ... Gradually, James McBride began to give serious consideration to the warnings of his sister Jack and Chicken Man. ... This reflects the theme because it shows how these two people, Ruth and James McBride, both face these separate obstacles in life, one being the death of Hunter Jordan, and the other one being James McBride's drug dependency, and yet, they are able to persevere through these events. ... This gives the entire event a s...

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At a time when many rappers were stuck in the negating fashions of cliches like the hood life, Eminem pushed the limits of rap by abandoning the genre's familiar themes of sex, drugs, and money with more lyrical power and imagination than any of his contemporaries. ... Ever since Eminem broke out from the underground world of unknown musicians and into the mainstream of the music industry in 1999, he's amazed audiences and critics alike with his ability to tell stories through music and rapid-fire wordplay. ... " that gives him the credibility to put together an anthem that tell...

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