Grandpa Hayden's patriarchal values and his need to control his sons" lives have led to the tragedies. ... This affected the way in which his sons, especially Frank view women. ... Julian's racial prejudice towards the Native Americans is a main cause of the tragedy. Grandpa Hayden shows his racist attitude towards Native Americans when he turns up at Wes" house demanding him to free Frank in part three. ... This eventually led to murder and resulted in Frank committing suicide, Wes having to leave town and Julian losing both of his sons. ...

• Word Count: 610
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

Ivanito on the other hand is Felicia's youngest son and is incredibly loyal to his mother, until his aunt Lourdes and Pilar go back to Cuba to visit and send him off to America. ... The claim that Pilar remembers everything in Cuba after having only lived there two years as an infant is absurd, but it drives at the notions of nostalgia, idealization, and idolization that are so relevant in the shaping of Latin-American identity in the twentieth century for those Latin-American immigrants who now reside somewhere other than their native land or the native land of their parents. ...

• Word Count: 559
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

Although she is able to live on her own she still prefers to live with her son, Bailey. ... In fact, she wants to be with her son and his family all the time. ... She tells the children, "In my time, children were more respectful to their native states, and their parents, and everything else. ...

• Word Count: 617
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

The grandmother is determined to change her family's vacation destination as she tries to manipulate her son into going to Tennessee instead of Florida. ... She decides that she would like to visit an old plantation and begins her plotting of convincing her son Bailey to agree to it. ... She informs the children that they do not have good manners and that "children were more respectful of their native states and their parents and everything else, when she was a child....

• Word Count: 890
• Approx Pages: 4
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Moreover, still comparing between children in the past and present, "children were more respectful of their native states and their parents and everything" (O'conner2). ... Any loving, caring grandmother would put her life on the line for her son and grandchildren. ... Throughout the story she never shows her son Bailey that kind of love, she does it only to try to save her life. ...

• Word Count: 1003
• Approx Pages: 4
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

She makes sure to watch over her son and keep a tight grip on what the family does. ... The children became excited, being the bratty children they were, started to whine, scream, and kick the seats in order to get their parents to pursue the plantation. "...the grandmother for her own selfish ends uses the children against her surly son" (Jones 837). ... "I wouldn"t talk about my native state that way. ...

• Word Count: 998
• Approx Pages: 4
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School