The only thing that can be gathered from the story about the setting itself is the time period in which the story occurs. ... The story creates two very distinct characters, a nagging mother and her daughter. ... The mother in Kincaid's story seems to be very cautious and protective of her daughter. ... As the story progresses, there is some dialogue added by the daughter. ... The poor girl gets no response to her reply and the mother continues to lecture the daughter. ...

• Word Count: 893
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Randall captures the sadness of the tragedy by speculating what may happen between a mother and her daughter shortly before her daughter is killed in a bombing. ... The setting of this poem is during controversial time where peace between races is hanging by a thread. ... The way the setting is portrayed gives the reader a sense of what is going on around the characters at the time the poem is set. ... This is precisely what is happening at the time the story is taking place. ... Randall invokes emotions by telling a story of what it may have been like to live in a controversial time as the on...

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• Grade Level: High School

From the past to the present some have tried to restore some sort of balance between the races, but it seems, at least for now, racism is still very much alive, especially in the novel "A Time to Kill". ... In John Grishams" novel "A Time to Kill", he captures the hatred and feelings of a place where racism seems to be right at home, The Old South. In the time of the Civil War the south prided itself in being the richest and the most beautiful people in the country. ... " () But it always had some form of heart and true emotion driving the story " "I ask you what would you have done...

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In the short story, Rappaccini's Daughter, Rappaccini, a world famous botanist, has a daughter, Patricia, who becomes more his experiment than offspring. Rappaccini creates a plant with poisonous fumes that he makes his daughter smell and care for. ... People who had been previously living on the earth progress too far and learn so much in a short time, they cant handle their knowledge and destroy themselves. ... Geovani, the main character in Rappaccini's Daughter, sees Patricia one day in Rappaccini's garden. ... In Rappaccini's Daughter most of the story takes place ...

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His wife had died and his daughter was taken from him as a result of his reckless lifestyle. ... Fitzgerald uses symbolism to emphasize the emptiness Charlie is left with after the crash by giving his daughter the name, "Honoria". ... Not only has Charlie lost most of his money, his daughter and his wife, but also his personal honor. By naming Charlie's daughter Honoria, Fitzgerald is alluding to the fact that Charlie not only finds his lost daughter in Paris, but also his lost honor. ... Fitzgerald's untraditional plot structure and symbolism in his work, "Babylon Revisited", clearl...

• Word Count: 1051
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

His wife had died and his daughter was taken from him as a result of his reckless lifestyle. ... Fitzgerald uses symbolism to emphasize the emptiness Charlie is left with after the crash by giving his daughter the name, "Honoria". ... Not only has Charlie lost most of his money, his daughter and his wife, but also his personal honor. By naming Charlie's daughter Honoria, Fitzgerald is alluding to the fact that Charlie not only finds his lost daughter in Paris, but also his lost honor. ... Fitzgerald's untraditional plot structure and symbolism in his work, "Babylon Revisited", clearl...

• Word Count: 1051
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

At the commencement of the story, the author depicts Jing-Mei's mother as being a typical parent, wanting the best for her daughter. Jing-Mei's mother wants her daughter to do as she says, while Jing-Mei wants to be her own person. ... Their different beliefs cause them to argue more, displaying the conflicts among mother-daughter relationships. ... At the end of the story Jing-Mei states, "And for the first time, or so it seemed, I noticed the piece on the right-hand side. ... Jing-Mei's mother wants her daughter to succeed and be the Chinese Shirley Temple (211). ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Some inferences can be made about the characters setting, and the time period can be made while reading this story. The time Period could have been any, really, but there are a couple lines that helps us to differentiate. ... He starts off with the Olsens being a new client and by the time he is finished he feel like he has done something wrong. ... The mother is an emotional wreck because of the daughter. ... Lastly the daughter. ...

• Word Count: 1018
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The story takes place in an old run down house where Dee's mother, Mama, and daughter, Maggie, of African American descent. ... Mama has another daughter, Dee, who was sent away to be educated at an early age. ... Through Mama, the narrator, Walker uses characterization to share Mama's observations of her daughter Maggie. ... to her daughter Dee. ... After Dee storms off it seems Mama and Maggie are left with a sort of gratification in themselves as the narrator ends the story describing what they did after Dee left, "And then the two of us sat there just enjoying, until it wa...

• Word Count: 1145
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• Grade Level: High School

Her daughter joy is a thirty two year old with a P.H.D in philosophy. ... Hopewell's daughter. ... Hopewell's daughter before he departed. ... The impression of the time of living and the value of friendship was made clear. ...

• Word Count: 625
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• Grade Level: High School

He is visiting the home to call upon the family's young daughter who has been ill for some time. ... She is seemingly frantic and worried about her daughter. ... The narrator is disgusted at the mother's words to her daughter "Come on, do what he tells you to. ... While the parents make excuses for their daughter's behavior, the doctor is impressed with his young patient and respects her as an adversary. ...

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In 1965, the couples first daughter, Tezh, was born, followed by Mitra in 1967, prompting the family to move to Baltimore, the place in which Tyler still resides, although now widowed, and where many of her novels and short stories are set, especially Baltimore's Roland Park-the "epitome of upper-middle class waspdom in all its glory" (DISCovering Authors). Most of Tyler's time in Baltimore has been spent raising her two daughters, running her household, and publishing twelve more novels, a children's book, numerous short stories, and several reviews. ... When her daughters we...

• Word Count: 834
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Jane's mother is to overprotective that she can't see that her daughter is safe with the piano teacher. ... Another example of Colwin's relation to reality is the fight between the mother and daughter. ... Jane's mom reveals that she understands Jane is growing up but that she is still her daughter and she knows what's best for her. ... In conclusion, this story was a wonderful example why people should value the time they have as a child. ...

• Word Count: 740
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During the story, there was not a time when he apologized or offered a work of encouragement to them. ... Later in the story after they had arrived at their next house, he orders his wife, her sister and his two daughters to unload the wagon. ... His coldness is shown when he demands his two daughters to clean the rug in pots of lye and then hanging it to dry. ... The court ruled in DeSpain's favor fining him, "to the amount of ten bushels of corn over and above your contract with him, to be paid to him out of your crop at gathering time" (226), thus setting off Abner's anger. ...

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This time it was with the evil nurse. ... Her daughter is still alive and will never stop dreaming about her beloved mother. ... The narrator of this story is the teacher's daughter that is still alive. ... The only time where the writer uses physical description is when she describes Flora and Ellie in this sentence: " Flora and Ellie were both dark-haired, dark-eye women, tall and narrow-shouldered and long-legged-. ... She had a lot of friends when she was young, and the way her daughter talks about her makes her a role model. ...

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The novel Crank follows the story of how fictional character Kristina Snow, a "gifted high school junior, total dweeb, and perfect daughter"(Glass) transforms into Bree, her meth addicted alter ego. ... Cresting to the top, time moves into overtime as you wait for that scant hesitation, just before you drop how you feel at that instantthat's exactly how it feels when you shake hands with the monster"(Crank). ... Hopkins is able to give a first hand account to the battles of addiction as her daughter, also named Kristina, struggles with meth addiction. Hopkins openly admits...

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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

She feels way less than what she would like to be, especially when it comes to her older daughter Dee. ... Mama's younger daughter is a lot like her. ... She is into what is in style and trendy at the time, which happens to be the main theme of the story because Dee feels that her African heritage is now popular, which is why she returns home to get her things. ...

• Word Count: 733
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Bennett has all the chances to decrease her miseries and concerns about her daughters. ... Collins, if she fails to find out at least one ideal suitor for one of her daughters. ... Darcy, in the end of time, wishes to marry Elizabeth, but before that he prefers to end her prejudices about him. ...

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the unredeemed captive By: anonymous The Unredeemed Captive The Unredeemed Captive is a true story of the life of a Puritan minister's daughter who is captured by the Indians and decides to stay and immerse herself in the Kahnawake Indian culture. ... With time, Williams, his other surviving family members, and many other captives were released, or "redeemed" from the Indians' captivity. His daughter, Eunice, remained with the Indians and began to adapt to the Indian culture. ...

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He introduces Otama, who is the daughter of a candy dealer, and Okada, who is a medical student at Tokyo University. ... Otama's father had troubles finding a mate to marry his daughter, but one day he allows Otama to marry a police officer. ... And along the novel Ogai Mori successfully accomplish to show the role of women in that time. ... That they are having an affair and he has been hiding it from her all the time. ... The last example of the role of women in that time is an example of symbolism. ...

• Word Count: 955
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All throughout history, there have been times in which a moment or event nearly summed up a generation: what happened during that time period, what the people were experiencing, the emotional state of a country, the impact of a single person all merely examples of stories that helped share a larger one. ... Originally born just outside of Johannesburg, Nadine began to gain a political identity at a young age as the daughter of two Jewish immigrant parents, who spent much of their own young adult lives under repression in Russia. ... After being home schooled through most of her younger year...

• Word Count: 1018
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Rosa and Stella, Rosa's niece, are marching in a line to the camp with Rosa's daughter, Magda, wrapped in a shawl (a well knitted fabric worn by women over the shoulders, head or wrapped around a baby) and hidden from the Nazis. ... When Magda is killed by soldiers, Rosa stuffs her mouth with the shawl as Magda had done most of the time she spent in the Concentration Camp. ... This is important to consider because that was the very first time Magda cries for something in her life (Friedman 114). ... "The Shawl" is the sad story of a mother and her family including her jealous niece ...

• Word Count: 1071
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Andretti (her father), for the first time she ran off in disgust. At the time she despised him and never wanted to see him again. Over time Josie and Mr. ... This obviously shows that during the time that Josie had known Mr. ... After some time she realised that he in fact was a nice guy, and she was proud to be his daughter. ...

• Word Count: 701
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TIME AND ORDER OF EVENTS: the story is told chronologically. ... I think that Coelho must have spent a lot of time and effort putting this masterpiece together. ... The four main obstacles that Santiago had to face were leaving the merchants daughter behind, selling his sheep, leaving Fatima, and turning himself into the wind. ...

• Word Count: 900
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Despite his awareness that his parents, his wife, and his daughter all think he is insane, he acts out his life as a drama of paranoia and nuclear dread, fashioning an impromptu shelter out of a ping-pong table as a youth and digging a hole for a larger shelter as an adult. ... But as he begins to locate this topic within broader contexts, his continued popularity can be attributed to his gifts as a master storyteller, his willingness to grapple with the relevant intellectual issues of our time, and his reminder of the continued need for fiction in a world which increasingly tends to look else...

• Word Count: 781
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate