In Amy Tan's "Two Kinds," Jing-mei struggles with her mother's high expectations to be a youth prodigy through constantly bucking and opposing her mother's wishes. ... As Tan indicates with the quote from the mother saying "You could open a restaurant. ... This quote tells me right away that the mother's intentions are very pure even though she conveys it in a different way than most mothers would. ... Illustrated in the following quote-"In all of my imaginings, I was filled with a sense that I would soon become perfect" (306). ... The conflict soo...

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Sonny lives in the North during the late 50s while the setting of Battle Royal takes place during the 30s in the South, both navigate their own paths to manhood trying to defy the expectations set before them. ... The Ralph Ellison short story titled Battle Royal, is a great exemplary of this everyday struggle. ... In the quote above one can see that even the manner that a black person was spoken to was vulgar, and an as black person you had to know your place. ...

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Wormwood has a great deal of respect for Screwtape as he gives repeated reports of his progress and continuously seeks clarity and affirmation from Screwtape. ... He has expectations of how people are supposed to talk, what his actions are supposed to be, and even of how the enemy will attack. ... This quote describes exactly what he is trying to get Wormwood to do. ... We also have so may expectations that he is coming to attack our life that we often fail to see his other attempts. ...

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• Grade Level: High School