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    As I reviewed the book Black Boy by Richard Wright‚ I have noticed that the author’s main interest is in Language and World Affairs as he paid much attention to human conditions of the twentieth century. Keen focus/ literary theme was on the life and history of the author which stimulated insights and thoughts of the cultural occurrences of the period. The story tabulates the author’s life growing up as a poor African-American‚ highlighting the struggles and obstacles that were trite for that group

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    To start with the article “How Boys Become Men”‚ the author is trying to convey the reader that boys since a young age‚ they have the primitiveness of being men. Moreover‚ they try faking it at least. For example‚ when the bag slammed the kid’s side of face‚ he acted like it was normal and he said proudly he is not a chicken‚ while on the other side his mother screamed when she saw his swollen face. Women have another perspective of men; they think that they do not have humanity or feelings just

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    The novel‚ “The Bully Boys” by Eric Walters chapters 15-18 continues about a farm boy named Thomas who rides alongside James FitzGibbon as a companion due to the fact the Americans are hunting him down. First‚ FitzGibbon is hit by a musket ball and is injured. Thomas needs to defend FitzGibbon from getting hit again so‚ Thomas kills 1 soldier‚ badly wounds 1 while the third one escaped. The injured soldier tells Thomas to deliver a letter to his wife and kids because he thinks he is close to death

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    The short story “ Boys and Girls” describes growing period into womanhood‚ for a young girl living on a fox farm in Canada‚ post World War II. This story also relate to a lot of gender issues that we face in our society everyday. In America’s history women couldn’t voter because of their gender. Why should women be treated differently because of their gender. In this short story the author describe how the young lady is having trouble finding who she is. It describes how the young lady faces difficult

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    early in the first chapter. Ponyboy is talking about how he stays out of trouble most of the time because Darry would get extremely upset with him because it might jeopardize their ability to live together. These boy are living on the poor‚ east side where they are a part of a group of boys called greasers who come from poor‚ rough backgrounds. The three brothers are handed an unfortunate situation in life where they are completely on their own to go about life‚ as long as they stay out of trouble

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    The Lost Boy

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    Title: The Lost Boy (Based on a true story) Author: Dave Pelzer No. of Pages: 340 Major Characters: "¢ Dave Pelzer " A young boy who grows up in a home with a terribly abusive mother. He is incredibly skinny due to malnutrition‚ he wears rags for clothes‚ and his personal hygiene is appalling because he rarely has the privilege to bathe. He desires love from a family who is eager to care for him‚ and he desperately searches for that throughout his adolescent years as he moves from one foster home

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    In the autobiography‚ Black Boy‚ written by Richard Wright takes the readers back into the deep south of Jackson‚ Mississippi‚ where whites attempted to tame blacks into submission by hard discipline. It seemed that the more Wright had gained in life‚ the more he was hurt. Wright was alienated from his environment. Even though he tried to distance himself from the prejudice all around him‚ the white people still tried to turn him into the stereotypical southern black person. Wright was born after

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    constructed from outside the barrio by the urban bourgeoisie who generalize from the reputations of certain specialty bars rather than common neighborhood bars which serve as social centers for local residents. “The “myth” of the bars barrio chino became part of the interplay of cultural stereotypes that confirm the political‚ economic‚ and social marginalization of the area and its inhabitants. Indeed‚ as landmarks in the human symbolic geography of Barcelona‚ barrio chino bars appear to have become

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    Chapter 8 – Doctor! Doctor!- pages 115 - 127 Chapter summary: The chapter starts out with Sathnam and his family making their way to Croft Resource centre in Bilston. Sathnam first describes how each of his family members look like and how odd they must seem as a collection to onlookers. Sathnam and his mum start a series of discussions and he describes the bus ride vividly referring back to his teenage days where he remembers the same people in the street. Once at the Croft Resource Centre‚ Sathnam

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    How does the narrative voice of TBL explore truth? Tobias Wolff’s highly accredited novel‚ ‘ This Boys Life’ explores truth and lies through the use of various scenarios and characters in a cliché “American dream” teenage world. The narrative voice and main character of the novel‚ Tobias Wolff‚ uses his subjective truth – better known as what he believes is the truth‚ to justify his actions. Tobias is never quite satisfied with what has been bestowed on him‚ whether it be his name (to which he

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