However, this beautiful sentiment can never be shared with her daughter due to their language barrier. ... Her character is representative not only of the daughters" point of view, but the mothers" as well (Huntley 44). ... She begins at a time of turmoil and confusion; her mother is dead, and there is an empty space at the mah-jong table. ... As was afore stated, Joy Luck Club begins at a tumultuous time, with Jing-Mei at the forefront. ... She is included in the old world traditions, just as all the Joy Luck aunties wish their daughters would be. ...

• Word Count: 1953
• Approx Pages: 8
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The discourse time in the novel begins with the story of M. ... In the films, there is not much time focused on M. ... Hugo uses certain chapters to express the characters and their roles during that time. ... After seeing the Thénardier children playing outside, she believed that her daughter's best chance was to live with the family as she alone would only corrupt her daughter. ... She too is devoted to her daughters like Fantine, but shows it more abruptly and rude. ...

• Word Count: 1615
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• Grade Level: High School

It helps us to discover the perfection of ourselves but at the same time, grab our eyes on the defectiveness as well. ... In a culture where females' infanticide is rampant, Kavita, the baby's mother sent her daughter to an orphanage in order to save her life. ... Griet is the protestant daughter of a tile painter Delft who has lost his sight in kiln accident. ... 'It is about time I caught you doing things maids are not meant to do. ... At this time, literature stepped out and showed me the reflection of the truth in our world. ...

• Word Count: 1988
• Approx Pages: 8
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• Grade Level: High School

However, this happiness only lasted for Emma a short time before she became discontented again. ... The relationship between mother and daughter is very different in both novels. ... Ada and Flora spend a great deal of time together and Ada was constantly "thinking of Flora.""... Alisdair Stewart gave Ada a great deal of sorrow through her time spent in New Zealand. ... For Ada it was Baines, her daughter Flora and her piano. ...

• Word Count: 1692
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• Grade Level: High School

Although the majority of the book portrays the depressing day to day mission of the man and the boy, each time the two overcome imminent death, they are encouraged to persevere. ... With ubiquitous danger all around, the man, who no longer has the luxury of time to do as he pleases, manages to stay alive so much longer, because he is now driven by the mission to protect his son. ... Shute demonstrates how each character has enough time and resources to ensure that the last days of their lives are fulfilling. ... Devoting to work as his salvation, Peter attempts to salvage society and his sanit...

• Word Count: 1772
• Approx Pages: 7
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Martin marries, I wish you may not be drawn in, by your intimacy with the sisters, to be acquainted with the wife, who will probably be some mere farmer's daughter, without education- (28). ... The reader will find Emma to be intriguing because she is such an amiable character, but at the same time they will feel sorry for her because of her upbringing. ... Where shall we see a better daughter, or a kinder sister, or a truer friend? ... Emma finds her to be annoying because she never stops talking about her daughter, Jane Fairfax, who sometimes seems to threaten Emma. ... Miss Bate...

• Word Count: 1855
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• Grade Level: High School

Browne tells why she named her daughter Melanie (after her grandmother), and tells the story of her grandmother's strengthwhen facing a group of angry white men. ... Serena, their daughter was electrocuted when she used a fork to chase a roach into a socket. ... For example, in the time this book was set it was wrong to have homosexual relationships. ... The Time period of the novel is between the 1930s and 1940s. ... After the death of her daughter she doesn"t want to speak, move, or even live. ...

• Word Count: 1933
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

According to Literature and Its Time, the term was first used by the German art critic Franz Roh in 1925, it described a manner of painting that "was not a mixture of reality and fantasy but a way to uncover the mystery hidden in ordinary objects". ... She was born the only daughter to a telegraph operator and his wife (Wyoming 1). ... After seeing Tita's pain because of the tradition, Tita's sister Rosaura, decides that she too will impose the tradition onto her daughter. ... Mama Elena is the opposite of a nurturer, never forging any kind of bond with her youngest daughter. ......

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The angel is poised above Orlando and her daughter, resplendent and androgynous, pealing out the ecstasy of being "neither a woman nor a man," its exuberance inviting the audience to celebrate the eradication of chronology, distance and gendered characteristics. ... The opening sentences interlace the governmental strands of patriarchy, property and empire: "He- for there could be no doubt of his sex, though the fashion of the time did something to disguise it- was in the act of slicing at the head of a Moor which swung from the rafters Orlando's father, or perhaps his grandfather, had st...

• Word Count: 1793
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Lorenzo had spent time on this beautiful sun-bleached island before he met Lucí, yet, for an unknown reason he had always refused to take her there. ... His writings reveal the tale of a one-night stand years earlier with Elena, who runs the boarding house Lucí stays at and who furthermore gave birth to a daughter, Luna, after her sexual encounter with Lorenzo. ... Numerous flashbacks take the story back and forth in time revealing the course of Lucí and Lorenzo's relationship. ... Along with periods of writer's block, he becomes involved with a girl named Belen,...

• Word Count: 1287
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The character Schoolteacher is a slave capturer and when Sethe sees a sheriff and Schoolteacher coming to her house, she runs to the woodshed without time to think about what she was really doing. She grabs a saw and cuts the throat of her oldest and unnamed daughter being the age of two, her two sons were bleeding but alive. Her youngest daughter, Denver, was grabbed by Stamp Paid, an old friend of Sethe, before Sethe could kill her by another violent and gruesome act. ...

• Word Count: 1428
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• Grade Level: High School

A cultural study on the book suggests that what Genji's ability to move four women at a time was revolutionary in this aspect. ... It was customary in Murasaki's time for men to have several relationships with many women, so Genji's behavior was considered normal at the time that the novel was written. ... " She sees Genji's actions for what they really are and states that, "He never wore a tie, never got a job, and after seducing his step-mother when he was a teenager, he had a string of affairs with women, which included his own adopted daughter" (Tyler n.d...

• Word Count: 1359
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Factors like the upbringing of a character, the time and place, and the environments a character is exposed to, are usually seen as being the most important ones. ... Dona Gloria and Bayardo San Roman are two individuals who accessorize themselves during a time of their life when they have self-assurance. ... Dona Gloria answers her future daughter-in-law by saying that she only wore those "widowed jewels- to attend a special event, the Coronation. It seems that Dona Gloria's joyful days only last during a certain time period while she accompanies her husband just as her ornaments only br...

• Word Count: 1389
• Approx Pages: 6
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

No wonder that Henchard has the stubborn, hardy, rude and instinctive sprit of the old-time country. ... He manages his books in his head, conducts his business by word of mouth, and employs the aid of weather prophet---already obsolete in many parts of the country at that time, in order to determine the success of a harvest. ... Such as: The Caged Goldfinch----In order to express his deep love to his daughter, Henchard visits Elizabeth Jane on her wedding day, carrying the gift of a caged goldfinch. ... In real life anywhere conversations are not invariably overheard, kind of good sailor doe...

• Word Count: 1370
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• Grade Level: High School

During the time of the exile, Felix was unable to see his loved one, just like while Victor was away studying, they both could not see the one they cared for. The monster at this time learns of emotion and compassion. ... "She was not her child, but the daughter of a Milanese nobleman. ...

• Word Count: 1455
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During Austen's time in which Emma was written, society was based on a hierarchy of social birthright in an orderly system of strict proper etiquette, gentility and formal addresses. ... In Emma, Mr Woodhouse is a fussy invalid who is obsessively concerned with his and others' health while Mel Horowitz loves fattening food, is indolent and aggressive when he wants to be, "anything happens to my daughter, I got a .45 and a shovel-. ... In Austen's time, manners were important so only situational humour and irony were the main forms of humour. ...

• Word Count: 1375
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

We know that this first image of Rodia is incorrect because we know that some time ago was a law student. ... This death marks his life because this event, Raskolnikov meets Sonia, the daughter of Marmeladov, with which begins to lead a more intimate relationship as the novel progresses. ... We see as our main character is very smart and at the time where there is great tension, manages behave sound judgment. ... This time, in the house of Porifi, it is also time for us as readers we doubt. ... At this time we as readers feel the same perplexity Rodia. ...

• Word Count: 1767
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• Grade Level: High School

Sethe's dead daughter is reincarnated as a young woman, and from there the story revolves around those two characters reconnecting. ... In "The Woman Warrior," the reader knows that the belief of ghosts is realistic because of the setting and the time period. ...

• Word Count: 1397
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In the novel this thematic problem is slow in development--in fact, we are hardly aware of it until mid-point--and even as it comes into the cutting edge of action toward the end, it is silenced by Cooper at the very time that it becomes the most immediate encouragement for the hair-raising events that bring the novel to its close. ... At the same time Cooper was heir to the idea of progress which in America became "manifest destiny" to press civilization all the way to the Pacific Ocean. ... With difficulty finding their way through the heavy morning mists and the infinite French, the ...

• Word Count: 1773
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

One of the themes in the novel acknowledges that all humans live in solitude and solidarity at the same time. ... On the alternative, Addie's daughter, Dewey Dill, is struck with betrayal and trapping which leaves her no time to mourn over her mother's death (Bakker, 231). ... In 1949, Faulkner was bestowed the Nobel Prize for Literature for the first time (Scott-Kilvert, 192). ... Faulkner experienced three major stages that included of the usual time of apprenticeship, when he contemplated on whether or not to be a writer, and what kind he should be if he became one (Hoffman, 18)....

• Word Count: 1548
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Elvira, Antonia's mother, views her daughter as, "young and artless, uninstructed in the world's perfidy and with charms sufficient to render her an object of seduction" and takes control over matters of Antonia's heart and sends away a man that Antonia has strong feelings for (162). ... The eighteenth century was a time period of several ideological changes and radical revolutionary events; these historical events can be seen in several different works. ... These women went against everything that was standard for the time and paid dearly for straying from the norm. ....

• Word Count: 1567
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

She's the only daughter of the family, and represents fecundity, earthiness, and reproduction. ... She woke up from having a nightmare: ...I knew that something was passing but I couldn't even think of time then all of a sudden I knew that something was it was wind blowing over me it was like the wind came and blew me back from where it was I was not blowing the room and Vardaman asleep and all of them back under me again and going on like a piece of cool silk dragging across my naked legs. ... Vardaman is full of confusion and loneliness, that he had at one time ran to ...

• Word Count: 1564
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• Grade Level: High School

She was a commoner among royals, revolting against the societal norms of her time with her vulgar, yet ingeniously crafty works. Behn's influence extends far beyond being just a writer of her time period; rather, she left a mark as a pillar of English literature. ... Her works and the influences they cast prove Aphra Behn to be a dramatist worthy of the ranks of other famous British writers of this time period. ... Historians have pieced together that she was born in Kent in 1640, and she was the second daughter of a barber, Bartholomew Johnson, and a wet nurse, Elizabeth Denham [ CITAT...

• Word Count: 2238
• Approx Pages: 9
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Rose and Sam's relationship was a result of this theme, Rose helped her father at his lowest point and Sam saved his daughter at her weakest moment. ... Readers found the text reflected situations very similar to their own lives, fights in with family, birth of children, marriage and death. " know my story for just that long, long enough to see how we"re come, how we've all battled in the same corridor that time makes for us- I felt that the plot made the biggest impact in producing a very real fiction text, as characters experienced real life dramas. ...

• Word Count: 1597
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• Grade Level: High School

Rochester and Jane become so intense that "by the time this marriage is reached it has come to represent the resolution of moral and emotional conflicts" (Craik 72). ... As she worked at Thornfield she began to see Adele as her own daughter. ...

• Word Count: 1336
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School