In the scene at the end of the film when Steven and Mollie begin talking again, she tells him that the worse has happened, and asks, "What more could happen?" ... Alice is always concerned about others and barely thinks of herself. ... In one scene, she stands in front of a mirror with Justine and asks her if she thinks she is pretty. Then, in the scene when Mollie announces that the family is moving, Alice stands up for herself and tells Mollie that she is not going to follow her mother every time she wants to run away. ... Mollie calmly tells her to stop, after which Alice agrees. ...

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• Approx Pages: 4
• 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." ...

• Word Count: 409
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

A slave by the name of Alice got caught going into the main house. ... A few days after Alice was whipped she tried to run away. ... Sarny and Mammy spent the rest of the day patching up Alice. ... Waller whipped her to make her go faster. ... Waller ordered John to go to the spring house and put on the shackles. ...

• Word Count: 1194
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

"Everyday Use" In "Everyday Use," Alice Walker navigates the cultural gap between a mother and her two daughters. ... Ironically enough, the way the two girls were raised caused them both to go separate ways socially. ... Everything is going well, until material possessions get in the way of the family. Dee begins asking about various antique items in the home and their ownership status. ... The battle, it seems, will be on going with no end in sight. ...

• Word Count: 578
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

I live with my parents Alice and Richard and my little sister Addie. ... When I say soon I didn't know it was going to be that upcoming Wednesday. ... I asked him about the car and how he got it and why he got it and he kept making a nstrange noise as like he didn't understand what I was saying. ... I asked him how I was to believe that he was my real father. ... It was a lot going on for me to take at one time. ...

• Word Count: 1360
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

PARENTS AND KIDS RELATIONSHIPS "October Sky" by Joe Johnston and "Every Day Use" by Alice Walker's stories deal with parents and kids relationships. ... The only one the can help in is his dad and he goes and makes another rocket for him. ... Once he wins the scholarship goes back to his town. ... We're able to know this when Dee asks her mother for the quilts. ... As well as "Every Day Use" by Alice Walker provided us a list of conflicts, which made Maggie and her mother relationship very static. ...

• Word Count: 1757
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

At school he can receive answers to questions that could not even be asked at home. ... "Books were going to make me educated." ... I didn't decide, "Well today I'm going to become 40 percent Mexican and 60 percent Gringo." ... He asks this rhetorical question: "Could anything shorter be a book?" ... Yet, Rodriguez read Plato's Republic at an age when a usual student would most probably read Lewis's "Alice Adventures in Wonderland". ...

• Word Count: 2210
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: High School