The Latino American culture portrayed by this book is no different having prominent themes and traits seen in the characters and repeated throughout the novel. ... Throughout the novel it seems man woman and child all have positions in society. ... The first example of the power men have in this book is when Esperanza comments, "The Chinese, like the Mexicans, don't like their women strong (p10)." ... On page 32 it says that Alicia only fears mice and fathers illustrating this theme of dominance that begins at home and escalates through Latino women's lives. ... Through the main ...

• Word Count: 1127
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

There might even be mice in that filthy thing. ... In the book Ashes of Roses, it was not common for women to get high paying jobs and earn a lot of money. ... The fact that she was only in America with her sister was also very dangerous because two girls in the streets of New York with no help from a man was never a good thing. Uncle Patrick had once said that letting Rose and her family live in America without his help would make them fair game for every con man in New York. ... In the book, Rose struggles from the beginning all the way to the end and things never turn out as perfect as th...

• Word Count: 2291
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: High School

As an adult, he wanted to hear his father's story and make it into a book. ... Art turned his book about his father's life in the Holocaust into a comic book, using mice to represent the Jews and cats to represent the Nazis. This book, "Maus" (mouse in German), took 13 years to create and finish. When "Maus" hit the book stores, many people had mixed feelings about a book that told the story of one man's life through the Holocaust in the form of a comic. ... "A remarkable work, awesome in its conception and execution at one and the same time a novel, a documentary, a memoir,...

• Word Count: 2087
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

When shown the lyric "Sent me off to a foreign land, to go kill the yellow man," they were asked who they thought the "yellow man" was. ... Responses from even the most intelligent of the group included "a man who fell in yellow paint," or "a man wearing a yellow mask." Many college students, when asked who the yellow man was, responded with "A yellow man is any kind of communist." ... There is no parental advisory sticker on the bible, torah, or any other religious book. ... An example of this would be a project conducted at the University of Ankara determined that loud music causes homo...

• Word Count: 1767
• Approx Pages: 7

In the bizarre, comic tone of the book, the strike and massacre of the workers is recalled through the memory of a child, which seems to undermine the horror of the Yankee exploitation. ... In the beginning of the book, the gypsies brought new technology and by the end the imperialists have replaced them but like the gypsies, the technologies they bring remain more curious than useful. ...

• Word Count: 2611
• Approx Pages: 10