In Flanney O"Conner's, "A Good Man is Hard to Find" a great deal of irony is used to express her views on how society and culture in the present day and how it has changed from that of the past. ... The beginning of the story is an important part because the reader is first exposed to the idea that the grandmother is little respected or listened to by any of the family members. ... This put a big emphasize on the how life's morals are transferred from one generation to the next. ... "If I were a little boy," said the grandmother, "I wouldn't talk about my native state that way. ...

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"Yaw grandfodda was the most po-lite man I eva eva knew", Alice said, "A real charma. ... He was a big man as you know, a full six three and looked like a football player. Out from the house came this little women, no bigger than 5 feet tall. ... It made me laugh because he was this huge, brawn looking man; next to this sweet, tiny, little lady, but for some reason they looked perfect together. ... He was a respected man by his family, his peers, and his community. ...

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Flannery O"Connor, in her short story "A Good Man is Hard to Find," brilliantly utilized vivid imagery and twisted irony to foreshadow the fate of the entire family. ... The grandmother, Bailey, his wife, June Star (the little girl), John Wesley (the little boy), and the baby make up five or six people, depending on how you view the baby. ... At the very instant one learns of the car headed toward the family, "a big black battered hearse-like automobile" (478), one knows that the confrontation between the Misfit and the family is about to take place. ... In "A Good Man is Hard to Find," Fla...

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In Flanney O"Conner's, "A Good Man is Hard to Find" a great deal of irony is used to express her views on how society and culture in the present day and how it has changed from that of the past. ... The beginning of the story is an important part because the reader is first exposed to the idea that the grandmother is little respected or listened to by any of the family members. ... This put a big emphasize on the how life's morals are transferred from one generation to the next. ... "If I were a little boy," said the grandmother, "I wouldn't talk about my native state that way. ...

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I have two sisters, one older and one younger, and a little brother. ... Hence my little sister was named Ariel and she is 14 years old now. So whenever "Ariel the Little Mermaid" came up I would think of my little sister Ariel. My little brother was named Joseph after a close family friend. ... Culture was also a big deal when it came to literacy. ...

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In Flannery O"Connor's short story "A Good Man is Hard to Find," the gruesome ending comes as quite a shock. ... The grandmother embodies in her character many foreshadowing elements in "A Good Man is Hard to Find." ... The entire family ignores her except for the little girl, June Star, who easily reads the grandmother like an open book. ... Furthermore, while they wonder what to do next, a "big black battered hearse-like automobile" tops the hill coming towards them, presenting the last clue before the actual killings begin to occur (Jones 2887). ... She keeps repeating hers...

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In Flannery O"Connor's short story "A Good Man is Hard to Find," the gruesome ending comes as quite a shock. ... The grandmother embodies in her character many foreshadowing elements in "A Good Man is Hard to Find." ... The entire family ignores her except for the little girl, June Star, who easily reads the grandmother like an open book. ... Furthermore, while they wonder what to do next, a "big black battered hearse-like automobile" tops the hill coming towards them, presenting the last clue before the actual killings begin to occur (Jones 2887). ... She keeps ...

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I spend a little time with my family before going to my old bedroom and lie down. ... You are twelve now and need to start acting like a man." ... I thought about other things in that little room of mine like my first love. ... I had big plans for a boy of fourteen. ... We had to have water since mom always cooked a big Christmas dinner to help celebrate Christ's birth. ...

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That's why having a Barbie doll is a dream for every little girl. Especially, another important reason is the little girl is convinced she must own the new Barbie doll because her friend gets one is in the same situation. ... Not only children, in this society the fact is, even when a 45 years old man hears about his colleague getting a new television, he may be thinking about get a bigger one than his colleagues'. ... In my memory, my uncle was a extremely busy man who had a nice job in a great company in my family. ... Finally, he bought a bigger house for grandmother, but grandf...

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"She has been like this, chin on chest, eyes on the ground, feet in a shuffle, every since the fire had burned the house to the ground" (2128) Maggie is just like a little sister trapped in her big sister's shadow. Never wanting to tell her bigger sis no because she would be angry. ... From his mother when he was a kid just as his wife did when he was a man. ... They are both two independent people, even though Jimmy is a little boy. ... She had a little education, but she never had the desire that Dee did in life. ...

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After hours of standing, they finally loaded everyone into big trucks. ... When my brothers saw what we were going to be fed, those big eyes suddenly got small. ... The man then said, "So, you"re not going to confess?" ... Right there, right infront of me, that man shot my little brother, and I had not done a thing to stop him. ... My little brother, only nine years old, was shot and killed for stealing a little piece of bread. ...

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"Go for your dreams, my little princess. Nothing is too big that you cannot achieve because Po Po believes in you.... Once upon a time, there was a young little girl who had big dreams but her family was too poor to support her. ... Her life was just like a routine until one day she fell in love with a young man who later became her husband. ... Po Po had a big heart. ...

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This young man was able to balance both his education and parenthood. ... A report done by practitioners, most notably midwives and antenatal parent educators, they reported that there seems to be a significant number of young men quite willing to be involved in the lives of their babies, but little appropriate help for them to achieve this goal (Father & Child). ... Throughout this series this young man named Ben lets his big brother move in and Ben asks what could be better than my two best buds living in the same house as me; I got my best friend and my big bro. ... Furthermore, this series...

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Miller creates Willy to be a working man who, even with little job or pay, goes out every day and tries to succeed, disproving Witts point that Willy has no passion and fails to be the hero of the story. ... Witt explains that "Miller himself has created a very big ad for the dysfunctional Willy Loman and its effect is not altogether unlike the effect of the Hastings refrigerator ad on Willy Loman " (Witt 213). ... I'm the New England man. ... The man who never worked a day but for your benefit?... A little later, though, he tells Linda that "three of the stores were half c...

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One is written by a white woman in the 19th century, the other by an African-American man in the 20th century. ... Each character faces oppression, one as a woman in the 19th century and the other as a black man in the early 20th century. ... She believes it was once a nursery; "the windows are barred for little children, and there are rings and things in the walls (77).... The big windows fool no one; they aren't big enough to make space out of no space. (256) Despite the fact that Sonny's brother knows that his upward mobility is most imaginary, he's still worried about ...

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One is written by a white woman in the 19th century, the other by an African-American man in the 20th century. ... Each character faces oppression, one as a woman in the 19th century and the other as a black man in the early 20th century. ... She believes it was once a nursery; "the windows are barred for little children, and there are rings and things in the walls (77).... The big windows fool no one; they aren't big enough to make space out of no space. (256) Despite the fact that Sonny's brother knows that his upward mobility is most imaginary, he's still worried about ...

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Globalisation looms in the form of the airport and the need to extend to make way for bigger, longer and more runways to stay abreast of increasing economic demands of the global marketplace, eventuating in the compulsory acquisition of private property. ... Dennis is a small time conveyancing lawyer who knows little about litigation and is clueless in the realm of Constitutional Law. ... It is this belief that breathes life into the philosophy that "a man's home is his castle' and more important than "a driveway". ... Bonnie Doon is also seen to have a "sacred link", the house...

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The author does not like the ways of the Victorian times and its patriarchal society and dees not waste any time with 'thoroughly British dissatisfaction' the author sets the scene early on with the estate agent when he describes the house to family and sets the image of a typical Victorian family with George being the head of the house, provides for the family brings the money in and makes all important decisions, the wife knows exactly what her role in the family is having to beg 'George to see about getting a nice house in the town for season' although she does go on...

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Little is known about him except that he is a serial killer. ... The first mention of a "good man " is when the family is at The Tower. ... ") But she doesn't realize that the Misfit just will not fit into the little mold she has for a "good man ". ... This is a rather big step for her considering it means that she was caring about someone other than herself. A common definition describes grace as the unmerited favor of God toward man. ...

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A man who befriends her takes Beloved off somewhere to hide her. ... The big question for me would be if Beloved herself really existed when she came back into Sethe's life and were her two sons truly ghosts? ... Beloved is a child who suffers a little mental-retardation from lack of oxygen to the brain. ... When Denver went looking for a job, she didn't hesitate to ask a white man for directions. ... A man, I believe his name was Paul, came in and out of the picture to lend some support. ...

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Little by little pushing children away, as an obstacle to greediness. All for what, a bigger house and fancier car. ... The little boy attempted to figure out what makes his mother happy, desperately seeking his mothers affection and approval. ... Oscar Cresswell, a sophisticated upper class man and Hester's bother. ... This statement coming from a man who knows about greed. ...

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He was a handsome and strapping young man, with thick, wavy, dark brown hair. ... A little blushed at the thought of dancing with the handsome 14-year-old. ... " Lila replied, a little confused by the announcement. ... Nick had big lips that fit well, for all of his features were large. ... Sad, mad, happy a little of everything. ...

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The rates of working women who had heart attacks are not bigger than the rates of working men. ... These women have "low-paying clerical jobs with many demands on them and little control over their working place, who also have several children and little or no support at home" (Barnett, and Rivers, The Myth 185). ... In short, paid employment raises self-esteem in women and has a big influence on their mental and physical health. ... Man feels that his basic duty to be the main provider is taken away. ... All of these facts combined show that women can be better employees than man. ...

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Willie Loman is an ordinary man who embodies traditional American values of success. ... "She more than loves him, she admires him, as though his mercurial nature, his temper, his massive dreams and little cruelties, served her only as sharp reminders of the turbulent longings" (Miller 1195). ... After realizing that he did not accomplish all the success that he wanted, or any success at all, he told his sons they needed to make a big business, but he told them to start big, instead of telling them to start from something little and then go big. ... He kept asking his sons, about ...

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"Men stood by their fences and looked at the ruined corn, drying fast now, only a little green showing through the film of dust. ... Next, they learn from Muley Graves, a neighbor, that Tom's family was evicted, so both Tom and Casy travel onwards to family relative, Uncle John's home, in hopes of catching up with Tom's family before their big move to California. ... While at a new settlement of tents, they meet Floyd Knowles, a young man who talks of the harsh, harassment tactics the police in the area use. ... After Tom's little sister, Ruthie informs neighborhood chil...

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