I know you're going to go away and be a soldier. Well- you can go to hell. ... When Robert started training he would go for long walks at night as well. ... Ross] went into the salon and sat with her legs tucked beneath one of the pullman chairs and drank a third of a bottle of scotch. When Mister Ross came in and said it was time to go, Mrs. ...
" he remained walled up in his stony silence his head bowed over his plate, while my mother sat turned away from him crosswise, her legs never under the table, as if she expected at any moment to have to rise up suddenly ." (130). ... One day when the children arrived back from their visit to their father's place, the elder daughter tells her mother that she wants to go and live with her father. ...
Negrillon: Male slave who pretends to have suffered a leg burn in order to be excused from work. ... Desiree shows her mother's letter to Armand and asks him whether he wants her to go. "Yes,"" he says, "I want you to go." ... Rather than following the road to Valmonde, she goes through stubbly fields that hurt her feet and tear at her gown. ...
The American West has been a place that people envisioned as somewhere personal destiny could be fulfilled and diligence rewarded. Visions of freedom, wide-open spaces, uncompromised opportunity, and success became the mythic representation of the American West to many people outside of the region. In reality, however, the west's society and economy rarely fit the legendary depiction. Janet Campbell Hale and Kim Barnes were two westerners whose journeys by life exemplified the struggles, instability, and turbulence of the real west. Barnes and Hale explored their own experiences in t...
