If you were starting over in an empty house without any of your accumulated belongings‚ what would you need to make it feel like home? That’s the question four of us‚ longtime good friends‚ were discussing over a cup of tea. And the question continued nonstop in my thoughts after our tea-drinking stopped and I went home. Understand – my home is my joy‚ my hobby‚ my comfort. I love the antique clock on the mantel‚ the family photographs that make me smile‚ our wedding-gift silver that can turn
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Julian home‚ the first in the neighborhood to be owned by a black family‚ was the victim of arsonists on Thanksgiving Day‚ 1950‚ and the target of a dynamite bomb on June 12‚ 1951)‚ and where other famous people‚ such as Ernest Hemingway and Frank Lloyd Wright‚ had their residences. Because Percy’s father was a federal employee‚ the family held a higher status than most blacks of that day. This advantage‚ and the fact that his well-read father had a great love for mathematics and philosophy‚ helped
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Phase 4 Individual Project 3/18/2013 LITR240 The play “Trifles” is a murder mystery about from 1916. The husband was found strangled by a rope in his bed and his wife was found rocking in a chair. When the authorities came to inspect the property they brought some neighbors of the wife to bring her something from the house. The most compelling part was when they found the bird also strangled and hid this information from the authorities almost to protect her. The setting of the play is
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The Right Perspective Men and women do not always see things the same way‚ and often time’s‚ men consider themselves as superior to women because of their way of thinking. In “Jury of Her Peers”‚ the men‚ Mr. Peters‚ Mr. Hale‚ and Dr. Lloyd‚ are trying to solve the murder case and leave the women to their “trifles” in the kitchen while they work on the case. The men in the story seem to think that they are the only ones who are smart enough to solve the case or to know what evidence is
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In the play “Trifles” by Susan Glaspell‚ the characters are at the house of the Wrights‚ investigating the murder of Mr. Wright. His wife Mrs. Wright says she slept through the whole thing. The men are looking for her motive to have killed him since they already have her in custody. The women are gathering things to take to her in jail. The men are walking through and criticizing her kitchen and housekeeping‚ the ladies did not like that one bit. They know something had to be wrong for her kitchen
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about. Life in the rural Midwest of the century was a lonely‚ difficult‚ and depressing way of life…….. The twentieth century was difficult for women. Bailey L. McDaniel states‚ “The isolation and despondency with which Glaspell characterizes Minnie Wright ’s existence is not far from the reality that many farmers would have experienced‚ with no telephones or televisions‚ miles between the nearest neighbor‚ and backbreaking work a necessity just to survive” (1). Women would suffer in silence; they will
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underestimate and underappreciate women. Ultimately‚ the audience has to decide if the women that protect Mrs. Wright from punishment are justified. Was murdering Mr. Wright a just punishment for his poor character and the killing of a canary? Perhaps leaving him would have been a better option‚ but that is for the audience to decide. After reading the play it is easy to emphasize with Mrs. Wright and with the women that protect her based on gender identity and loyalty. Mrs Peters page 11 row 460 says
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understand that when Mrs. Wright’s husband murdered her canary‚ a symbol for her free spirit‚ Mrs. Wright is unable to overcome her depressing predicament as her husband’s doll and chooses to retaliate by disposing of him. Ultimately‚ Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peters fight for Mrs. Wright in an additionally ironic manner because they say nothing of what they have discovered‚ which in turn protects Mrs. Wright who they realize now is simply a victim to her own societal helplessness as a
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Compostion #1 In the play‚ Trifles by Susan Glaspell‚ is about a murder mystery of Mr. Wright. The men; the court attorney‚ sheriff‚ and Mr. Hale‚ a neighorbor to the Wright family‚ and the women; the sheriff’s wife‚ Mrs. Peter and Mrs. Hale‚ solve the mysery in two very different ways. The men show up at the house as a crime scene‚ and only focusing on the bigger‚ important elements of a murder mystery. As Mr. Hale was trying to explain everything he saw in the house that morning of Mr. Wright’s
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women uniting to protect their female neighbor Mrs. Wright from the potential injustices of a sexist and male dominant society after her husband is murdered. The behaviors of the female characters serve as symbolism supporting the stories theme of protection. Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peters are apprehensive as they enter the Wright’s farmhouse. Their behavior demonstrates fear and anxiety of the unknown circumstances surrounding the murder of Mr. Wright. They stand close to each other‚ united as women in
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