Analyzing the Bread Givers Bread Givers‚ by Anzia Yezierska‚ is a novel about Sara Smolinsky‚ and her struggle remaining in the old world traditions or heading to the ever-changing new world. The novel has multiple themes‚ however‚ the main theme‚ of Anzia Yezierska’s writing‚ is the old world versus the new world. Old world versus new world is very evident in the beginning chapters when we first learn that the father of the house doesn’t work‚ controls the income to his liking1
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Reed‚ her cruel‚ wealthy aunt. A servant named Bessie provides Jane with some of the few kindnesses she receives‚ telling her stories and singing songs to her. One day‚ as punishment for fighting with her bullying cousin John Reed‚ Jane’s aunt imprisons Jane in the red-room‚ the room in which Jane’s Uncle Reed died. While locked in‚ Jane‚ believing that she sees her uncle’s ghost‚ screams and faints. She wakes to find herself in the care of Bessie and the kindly apothecary Mr. Lloyd‚ who suggests
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Themes: 1. apartheid: laws and policy of south Africa - makhayas frame of mind and source of some of his inner struggles - black people had no rights to vote. People were poorly educated and often imprisoned and beaten - bessie head explains that not all white man in south Africa are evil a good example of her conveying it is when dinorego states “I take gilbert as my own son which fact surprises me since he is a white man and we Botswana do not know any white people”
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Hypothesis: Rhoda Penmark‚ upon whom The Bad Seed is based‚ suffers from an antisocial personality disorder. To the common person‚ she would be known as a psychopath or a sociopath. It can be hypothesized that Rhoda suffers from antisocial personality disorder because the motives to her crimes are for her own self-fulfillment. Research: The Bad Seed is an astounding account of an 8-year-old girl that suffers from antisocial personality disorder. Rhoda was a very intelligent and well-liked young
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unloved orphan who is almost obsessed with finding love as a way to establish her own identity and achieve happiness. Although she does not receive any parental love from Mrs Reed‚ Jane finds surrogate maternal figures throughout the rest of the novel. Bessie‚ Miss Temple‚ and even Mrs Fairfax care for Jane‚ giving her the love and guidance that she needs. Jane returns the favour by caring for Adèle and the students at her school. Still‚ Jane does not feel as though she has found her true family until
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In the turn of the 20th century‚ an enormous wave of change swept across the nation. As the trend of modernism crashed into the shores of American life‚ traditional values washed out to sea. However‚ changing tides also brought sunlight upon modern culture. Rapid urbanization‚ economic growth‚ industrial production‚ invention and innovation in technology contributed to the rise of a new consumer culture. By the second decade‚ the United States liberated from the restrictions of conservatism. Many
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with her amazing vocal and delivery skills. Her extraordinary manipulation of phrasing‚ tempo‚ and improvisation skills‚ make her an influential pioneer in American jazz music. Although she received some formal education from known artists such as Bessie Smith‚ and influence from Louis Armstrong‚ Holiday’s singing career began in nightclubs around Harlem where she worked harsh hours and was paid $2 a night for 6 nights a week. Her strong vocal style‚ nonetheless‚ still influences American music to
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with conflicts in his family still unresolved‚ until he realizes the cruelty and inadequacies in this family before he dies. CAST: ROBERT AREVALO (Zacarias) SPANKY MANIKAN (Zacarias) NANDING JOSEF (Celo) MARCO VIAÑA (Chitong) CRIS VILLONCO (Bessie/Pokpok) JACKIELOU BLANCO (Sofia) CELESTE LEGASPI (Sofia) PEEWEE O’HARA (Mrs. Paulo) BANAUE MICLAT (Nena) MADELEINE NICOLAS (Nena) And Tanghalang Pilipino ACTORS COMPANY In 1976‚ the year Nick Joaquin was declared National Artist for Literature
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Jane Eyre contains a number of significant dreams and day-dreams. Despite her distaste for fantasies and inefficiency‚ the eponymous narrator‚ Jane‚ is a frequent day-dreamer. Edward Rochester‚ Jane’s employer at Thornfield‚ recounts observing her pace around in a day-dream. When the voice of a servant‚ Mrs. Fairfax‚ awakens Jane‚ Rochester imagines her thinking "My fine visions are all very well‚ but I must not forget they are absolutely unreal‚" and finding a task to complete to ensure she does
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During the novel‚ Bigger sexually assaulted and murdered two women‚ Mary and Bessie‚ and was condemned to death. The harsh environment and influences that envelop Bigger’s life led him to commit these horrible crimes. Due to society’s influence‚ criminals similar to Bigger exist today. Similar to today’s society‚ a person’s family
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