Michelle Spremulli Mrs. Petitbon English III HAT 8 December 2014 Title: Ordinary People Significance of Title: Ordinary People is named so because it tells the story of a year in the lives of “ordinary” (normal) people. Author: Judith Guest Biographical Information: • born March 29‚ 1936 • American novelist/screenwriter • studied English and psychology at the University of Michigan • graduating with a BA in education Date Published: 1976 Historical Significance: In
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For Rachel Simon’s Riding the Bus with my Sister‚ this mediation is found in the fact that Beth had no hand in the text’s writing whatsoever. In short‚ every aspect of the memoir’s structure and chronology came down to Rachel Simon‚ and Rachel Simon alone. The structural elements of the memoir put the text’s authenticity into question as well
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"How many cups of tea?" "One. No‚ two‚" said Beth. "Or was it three?" "No‚ no‚ it was two." "And how many slices of toast?" She hesitated again. "I can’t remember." "You can’t remember what you had for breakfast this morning‚ and yet you can recall in great detail every sentence you heard six months ago." Beth bowed her head again. "Not only can you recall every word Mr. Spencer Craig uttered that night‚ but you can even remember such details as him winking at you and rolling his tongue
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and Starbucks is about the Lindens. A little family containing Dan who’s the father and an up-coming actor. Beth who is the mother and their three little children: Honey‚ Ben and Grace. They decide to move to L.A. to try and get some jobs for Dan because their current money situation is not very good. They can barely manage at the current time. So Dan is going to a casting at CBS while Beth and the children are staying at a Starbucks. But then CBS hears that he has three children. Dan can see that
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trying to control Conrad’s emotional problems‚ but it gradually becomes a fight to simply keep the family together. As the story progresses‚ he gets into more arguments with his wife‚ Beth‚ about how to deal with the past and Conrad’s emotional state. Calvin believes the family should talk through their problems whereas Beth believes that the family should simply move on and forget the past‚ which leads to
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son named Max‚ a daughter named Beth‚ a mother named Sarah and a father named Tom. Their family just got home from the grocery store so Sarah was just about to cook dinner for their family and the kid’s mom sister was about to come over with their family. To stay for Christmas Beth and Max hated it when they came over because all they ever wanted to do was fight with each other‚ eat and watch television. So then Sarah heard a knock at the door and it was them so Beth went up to her room to text her
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JUSTICE FOR INJUSTICE Have you ever encountered injustices? How did you faced it? In the short story‚ Truth About Sharks by Joan Bauer‚ Beth‚ faced injustice at a very young age. I believed that we all come across discrimination and unfairness‚ and we should stand and speak up for our it because we don’t want other people control our lives. In the story‚ Beth encountered injustice unexpectedly and pointlessly. She already experienced discrimination against his Uncle Al. Well‚ it does not bother
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Death is an important initiation experience for any character to endure. The weight of death’s importance comes from the fact that it is such a strong dictator in life. The actual death of another individual forces characters to face reality without romanticizing suffering but more importantly initiates what they are going to do until they die. In The Nick Adams Stories by Ernest Hemingway and Little Women by Louisa May Alcott‚ the experiences the March girls and Nick Adams have with death are very
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bring home seafood for his family. We are initially positioned to see him as a loving and caring family man‚ that is until his wife Beth discovers he has been laid off and sees her dreams of buying their own home go out the window. Jake is a man of excuses who sees the dole as being “only 15 bucks a week less than my wages” and bursts into a tirade of abuse when his wife Beth resists his sexual advances after discovering the truth. Jake also excuses his own propensity for violence when he says‚ “Look
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and would have helped them get through all the problems they have with each other. Each family member had their own ways of showing silence or violence. Conrad showed a lot of verbal violence towards everyone around him throughout the entire movie. Beth was silent most of the movie with some verbal violent outbreaks towards people. As for Calvin he was very silent throughout the movie and did not say much when a problem came up till the very end of the movie. Throughout the movie Conrad was extremely
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