ways. In The House on Mango Street‚ Sandra Cisneros shows the expectations of Esperanza Cordero and explains how she deals with the difficulties of living in poverty in 1984. One societal standard is the expectation that the oldest sibling is responsible for the younger siblings’. Being the oldest of the children in her family‚ Esperanza is responsible for her siblings. One morning Esperanza’s abuelito passes away. “Because I am the oldest‚ my father has told me first‚ and now it is my turn to tell
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An ideal marriage consists of communication and honesty‚ but in A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen the Helmer marriage is quite the opposite. At the beginning of the play‚ Nora conformed to obeying her husband and she was naïve in hoping that her husband would sacrifice his reputation for her. She even forged a check to borrow money from the bank to help Helmer with his illness. She thought that this would be a good way to show her love and ability. Their weak marriage later revealed that Helmer never
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Summary: My Ántonia begins as an account between an unknown narrator and Jim Burden‚ both of whom grew up together in a small Nebraska town. While on a train ride across Iowa‚ the two begin reminiscing about their childhoods and the conversation continually returns to a mutual friend‚ Ántonia. The narrator suggests that Jim write down what he remembers about her. Jim’s story begins at ten years old. Newly orphaned‚ Jim endures a trip to Black Hawk‚ Nebraska to live with his grandparents. Coincidentally
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Imagine having no one to support you. Our friends make us who we are and help us feel better. In The House of the Scorpion by Nancy Farmer‚ Maria is Matt’s first friend. Friends are important people so Maria is an really important character. She was Matt’s best friend and lover. Maria is compassionate but still can be unforgiving because she had concerns for people‚ held grudges‚ and she helped Matt. She did all those things although she can’t seem to grow out of the fact that Matt is a clone.
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The Fall Of the House Of Usher is a short story written by Edgar Allen Poe in 1839. The short story is complexly written‚ with challenging themes such as identity and fear. Poe utilises many elements of the Gothic Tradition such as setting and supernatural elements to create a more mysterious story‚ and uses language to his advantage‚ employing adjective filled descriptions of literal elements that also serve as metaphors for other parts of the story. In The Fall Of The House of Usher‚ Poe explores
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Puritans believed God always had a plan for them and never challenged it even if they were unhappy with the results. “ Verses upon the Burning of your House”‚ is a poem about a woman‚ Anne Bradstreet‚ who loses all her goods in life but never her faith. Anne Bradstreet displays her faith in God by saying‚ “I blest His name that gave and took‚ / That laid my goods now in the dust. / Yea‚ so it was‚ and so ‘twas just. /It was his own‚ it was not mine‚”(29). Bradstreet was never angry with what happened
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Act I Analysis: Act I‚ in the tradition of the well made play in which the first act serves as an exposition‚ the second an event‚ and the third an unraveling (though Ibsen diverges from the traditional third act by presenting not an unraveling‚ but a discussion)‚ establishes the tensions that explode later in the play. Ibsen sets up the Act by first introducing us to the central issue: Nora and her relation to the exterior world (Nora entering with her packages). Nora serves as a symbol for women
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family’s house burned down on July 10‚ 1666. After the destruction‚ she wrote the poem expressing her sadness and grief on her loss. She lost everything‚ including her cherished items where she wrote‚ “My pleasant things in ashes lie‚ and them behold no more shall I.” (Bradstreet‚ 1666) However‚ she mentioned her understanding this was God’s will for this to happen‚ and she moved forward knowing her greater reward for service to God was heaven. Example of this is mentioned‚ “Thou hast an house on high
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enough spare change to buy something that I wanted. My father died from his addiction with drugs and alcohol. Not an overdose but a thrill ride that almost took someone else’s life. He lived fast and hard and died young. Me‚ I went home to an empty trailer in part because my mom worked and I had talked her out of going to babysitters. Looking back I think how crazy it that? In the summer I spend day and night alone unless I either spent time with my grandparents or I went to work with Mom. During the
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Text Analysis “Doctor in the House” (Richard Gordon) 1. The author of the story is Richard Gordon. It is the pen name used by Gordon Ostlere (born Gordon Stanley Ostlere on 15 September 1921)‚ an English surgeon and anesthetist. As Richard Gordon‚ Ostlere has written numerous novels‚ screenplays for film and television and accounts of popular history‚ mostly dealing with the practice of medicine. He is most famous for a long series of comic novels on a medical theme starting with Doctor in
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