In Alice in Wonderland and Corpses Bride both Alice and Emily are initially put into uncomfortable situations due to their femininity. ... She asked her father once before going to bed if she had gone mad. ... Even though it may take some time and also have to go through unwanted events . ... When Lord Barkus finally dies a blue butterfly flies by beside Victoria and Victor as well as when Alice is beginning her new adventure and going with her desires to explore the world the blue butterfly passes beside her symbolizing love, happiness, and rebirth for Alice's new way of life where she d...

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• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

I felt that the story "In the Gloaming" by Alice Elliot Dark reminded me of another story that I have read before, it is "The Children Stay" by Alice Munro. ... Alice Elliot Dark shows how a mother loves her child by staying with her son until the day that he dies. ... Laird says, "If that is what he wants, I"m afraid I"m going to have to disappoint him again. ... Until one day she suddenly decides to leave her husband and her family to go away with another man. ... When she asks him about her daughters he responds by saying, "The Children Stay." ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Vicky and Alice stay in the shop mostly to attract customers, but it Maggie who does all the work. ... Albert comes into the shop only to speak to Alice. ... This makes Maggie even more determind to find a husband so she goes into the shop and askes the shoehand. Maggie eventually persuades the shoehand, Willie Mossop, to be herhusband and Maggie goes off to tellher family. ... Alice is to marry Albert and Vicky, Freddie. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Alice runs the restaurant because Juan is to busy with the bus and the garage, and she is helped by a young employee named Norma. ... (Steinbeck, p.23) and then "Pimples looked at Alice's well-formed behind and then quickly away." ... she asked Pimples tried not to show his disappointment."... Pritchard finds himself going back to his wife. ... Juan, an unhappily married man, decides that once the bus is stuck in the mud, he's going to go to Mexico and leave his whole life, including his wife, in the past. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

He asks More to 'make it worth his while". ... The Boatman also goes as far to hint about his 'young wife'. ... The Common Man will only go as far as he knows it safe to go. ... The Common Man as the jailer has to remove Alice and Meg from the cell and when More asks him for more time he tries to make excuses and calls himself a 'plain, simple man' who just wants 'to keep out of trouble'. ... More asks Alice but when she declines, he asks Meg as he knows that Meg is the only one that really understands him and the reasons why he has to do it. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

The mayor's wife asks Sofia to work for her, and be her maid. ... The females stuck together through everything and that's what gave Celie strength to keep going in life. ... Celie starts to make pants and she makes them for anyone that asks. ... Everyone goes through a struggle in life to get where they want to be. Ask yourself if you really know who you are? ...

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• Grade Level: High School

In Adventure, Alice Hindman is destroyed by industrialization and the city. ... This happens when George Willard tells his mother that he is going to leave Winesburg. ... He asks Hal Winters what he should do about his situation. ...

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In both "Roselily" written by Alice Walker and "Another Evening at the Club" written by Alifa Rifaat, we can see how economics/class shapes the gender relationships between women and their husbands, and how it uncovers ulterior motives for marriage. ... "You've got 15 seconds to say where you've hidden the ring or else, I swear to you, you"re not going to have a good time of it" (384). ... It was then that she could more clearly see that she had been "bought" for no other reason than to please her man and not ask any questions. ...

• Word Count: 1545
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School