An essay on The Chieftest Mourner by Aida Rivera-Ford The short story focuses on Filipino conventions during the wake of loved ones. It’s also a twist of Filipino stereotypes regarding social conventions such as the ‘kabit’ or the second wife/mistress‚ as compared to the first wife. The story is narrated in a somewhat unbiased‚ childlike tone but it’s actually flavored with insight and implicit descriptions that shows the protagonist’s maturity. There is a good balance of insight‚ as if to give
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family members. In both passages‚ food is carried out as a representation of one ’s social status in the hierarchy present in Vietnam during the times of the revolution. In the first passage‚ Aunt Tam hosts a huge banquet celebrating Hang ’s entry into university. With regard to guests attending the feast‚ Aunt Tam claims that "[t]here are going to be a lot of guests" (146)‚ many of which are "important people in [the] village" (147) such as Duong‚ the vice president. From this passage‚ her high and
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during his childhood‚ with his elder brother and sister‚ by a grandmother and two aunts. It seems probable that their stem and unsympathetic methods account for Munro’s strong dislike of anything that smacks of the conventional and the self-righteous. He satirized things that he hated. Munro was killed on the French front during the first world war. In her Biography of Saki Munro’s sister writes: “One of Munro’s aunts‚ Augusta‚ was a woman of ungovernable temper‚ of fierce likes and dislikes‚ imperious
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realizes that his aunt will be in town the next day‚ showing how bad Uncle Howard’s decision could have turned out. If Uncle Howard had sent his letter just a day later‚ or Clark had not been home‚ the letter would have not been received in time. A second choice made by a character was made before these events ever took place. The decision was a joint decision made by both Aunt Georgiana and Uncle Howard. In their earlier days Aunt Georgiana and Uncle Howard wanted to be married‚ but Aunt Georgiana was
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The main character is the extract is orphan Nicholas‚ who lives with his aunt and his cousins. The style of writing is satirical in a humorous way. The scene is laid in house of Nicholas’s aunt. In this day he is in disgrace‚ because he misbehaves at the breakfast. His cousins and his younger brother are to be taken to Jagborough Cove but Nicholas stays at home as a punishment. When Nicholas and his aunt return home and his aunt forbids him go into gooseberry garden. But he does not admit with her
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adult who is telling the story talking about he or she’s aunt Belle and how she had a alligator. And aunt Belle how she would train the alligator and how she got older and she saw the alligator. The Night the bed fell was about a kid named James and about the bed fell on his bed. James’s fathers decide to sleep in the attic and his mother thought the old wooden bed would be unsafe and the grandfather usually sleeps in the attic. James’s Aunt old Melissa Bella was afraid that robbers would come and
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BookRags Literature Study Guide Not Without Laughter by Langston Hughes For the online version of BookRags’ Not Without Laughter Literature Study Guide‚ including complete copyright information‚ please visit: http://www.bookrags.com/studyguide-not-without-laughter/ Copyright Information ©2000-2012 BookRags‚ Inc. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. The following sections of this BookRags Literature Study Guide is offprint from Gale’s For Students Series: Presenting Analysis‚ Context‚ and Criticism on Commonly
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the end of the working day we had gone back to my Auntie’s house‚ I would have gone back to my Grandma’s‚ but I wanted to see my cousin Jordan first. When we got there Aunt Jackie had decided to drink a beer and show Jordan her “vampire” bite which she had gotten from a dog. Jordan and I decided to go talk for a little bit while Aunt Jackie and Uncle Roger relaxed. The drama didn’t start until evening came
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book. First of all‚ the major thing that we discover at the end of the book is Aunt Helen’s full story. Early in the book Charlie tells us how his Aunt Helen was molested which made her turn to a life of drugs and alcohol. So‚ she came to live with Charlie and his family. We also learn that he feels responsible for her death because‚ she was going to buy him an extra birthday present. However‚ what we didn’t was that Aunt Helen actually molested Charlie when he was younger and that in order to cope
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which revolves around a little orphan Nicholas and his tyrannical and dull-witted aunt‚ who because of the cruel methods of education couldn’t not only find approach to children‚ but also understand their soul. The conflict between the aunt and the nephew as if the conflict between prose and poetry. But softness‚ purity and tenderness of soul of the boy could resist to staleness‚ misunderstanding and callousness of his aunt. ------------------------------------------------- PLOT The story is narrated
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