In The Wars, Roberts mother, Mrs. ... From Findleys description of Barbara she does not seem like the type to dwell over lost love and instead moves on quickly, "Barbara never cries," (Findley 155). Considering the amount of men that go off to war and come back to Barbara wounded, she finds it quite difficult to fall in love since they hardly return as the men that left. Barbara's sister, Juliet walks in on her and Robert engaging in intercourse and describes it as "Two people hurting one another," (Findley 160). ... Robert is a private person and is generally lonely, ...

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 The role of the individual and their relationship with the community is an important thematic issue that is observed in the works of Leslie Marmon Silko's Ceremony and Barbara Kingsolver's Animal Dreams. ... It is not until she returns to her childhood home, sees the truth of her father and loses her beloved sister that she ultimately realizes that her family community has always been there for her in her fifty mothers. ... This dislocation ultimately leads to his death when he enlists in the army during World War Two and takes Tayo with him, who is left to suffer the guilt of lo...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Grant's wife was cross-eyed, and owned slaves during the Civil War while her husband served as general of the Union Army.   ... Arthur's sister Mary Arthur McElroy served as White House hostess and later joined the anti-suffrage movement. ... Before their marriage, Cleveland's sister Rose Elizabeth Cleveland served as House hostess of the bachelor president.   ... Ida McKinley 1847-1907 William McKinley's wife was the only first lady to work as a bank teller and manager, and successfully urged her husband to retain the Philippines after the Spanish-American War.   ... ...

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Critic Barbara Christian agrees and points out that there is "nothing more precious than being characteristically and spontaneously [yourself]" (1). ... Indeed, her tinted view of heritage and her family is blocking her ability to truly appreciate her mother and sister and their lifestyle. ... She can truly understand that her sister's criticism and "fault finding power" has nothing to do with Maggie's lack, but with Dee's incredibly ridiculous attempts to cover up her own insecurities. ... The Johnson's quilts are patches of war uniforms, dresses, and o...

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Barbara Kingsolver is the author of many well-written pieces of literature including The Poisonwood Bible. ... As she describes them, the days when there was still room for laughter in her husband's evangelical calling, before her pregnancies embarrassed him, before he returned from World War II a different man, a man who planned ''to save more souls than had perished on the road from Bataan.'' ... She sees that her father's ''blue eyes with their left-sided squint, weakened by the war, had a vacant look. ... Adah feels somewhat jealous, and irritated w...

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