Topdog/ underdog The play is written by Suzan-Lori Parks who became the first African American woman to win the Pulitzer Prize in Drama in addition to many other prizes. The play revolves around relationships of power and control between two brothers; both of them are the protagonist of the plot. Their parents thought it is amusing to name them after Abraham Lincoln and his assassin. The drama was very successful because of the insights it presented into the role of betrayal and deception in society
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Alice Walker: The Achievement of the Short Story By Alice Hall Petry‚ accessed from JSTOR In this article‚ the Pulitzer Prize winning author‚ Alice Walker‚ is narrowly described as a phenomenal writer; yet her short stories‚ 1973’s In Love and Trouble and 1981’s You Can’t Keep a Good Woman Down‚ are criticized for their individual uniqueness that sets them widely apart from her prized writing‚ 1982 novel‚ The Color Purple. The author of this article goes into great detail about each short story
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AMERICAN LITERATURE OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY ESSAY ON PASSAGES FROM PLAYS BY EDWARD ALBEE Preface: Sources Passage one and passage two are from Who is Afraid of Virginia Woolf? I read the whole play at http://ebookbrowsee.net/who-s-afraid-of-virginia-woolf-the-full-text-pdf-d466659706 Passage three is from the play The American Dream by Edward Albee‚ which I read at http://99ebook.com/the-american-dream-edward-albee-full-text/ Caparison one is from Tennessee Williams
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Alice Walker’s essay Am I Blue?‚ is on the surface‚ a statement about how humans treat animals and the right’s of animals. However‚ on a deeper level‚ Walker is making a very powerful argument about how human animals treat each other much the same way they treat non human animals. All though history‚ horses have been symbols of power and grace. Gigantic herds of mustangs were once seen galloping on the American frontier. Alice Walker brings you to her reality‚ with the story of a beautiful horse
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committed suicide due to problems existing within a troubled marriage. Her novel‚ The Bell Jar‚ was first published under her own name in the United States in 1971‚ despite the protests of her family. Plath’s Collected Poems‚ published in 1981‚ won the Pulitzer Prize. Throughout her short life‚ Plath loved the sea. She spent many of her childhood years on the Atlantic coast just north of Boston. This seascape provides the source for much of her later poetic imagery‚ among these is "Point Shirley". In
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In the 1960 Pulitzer Prize winning novel To Kill a Mockingbird‚ author Harper Lee develops the idea of prejudice. Lee breaks down the many forms of prejudice and shows them using character and symbolism. The idea of prejudice is explained in such a realistic way that the reader learns from the text and is able to apply this understanding in the society of today. To Kill a Mockingbird is set in Maycomb County‚ a small township; separate from the outside world‚ Lee can explain the consequences of
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She became the first African American woman in history to win a Pulitzer Prize for literature as well as winning the national book award for her book ‘The Color Purple’ in 1983. The book later became a movie produced by Steven Spielberg in 1985 and was adapted for the stage in 2005 and preformed on Broadway in New York
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Danielle Lucas Period 5/6 “To Kill a Mockingbird”: Boo Radley “To Kill a Mockingbird” takes place in the early 1930’s when racial segregation‚ alcohol‚ and penniless people plagued the streets. The Finches managed to stay in a comfortable lifestyle. The bleak house down the street always seemed to catch the Finch children’s attention. This is why Boo Radley becomes an important character within the story line. He watches the children from inside his house. This was because of his strict father’s
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usually written in a joyous-sad way‚ which makes them noticable at the same time. “My work is writing‚ but my real work is being” he writes in his obituary and during his lifetime‚ he published over sixty books and one of his stories win the Pulitzer Prize but he rejected it by saying “I can’t call one of the them is better or worse than others”. According to Steve Hauk‚ who is also an American writer‚ Saroyan was the most popular and creative author in his time and it is really hard to choose
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“The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any”(Alice Walker). Alice Walker is African-novelist‚ short-story writer‚ poet‚ etc…. She was awarded the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award for the most famous novel she have every wrote is The Color Purple. She was honored with O. Henry award‚ was inducted into California Hall of Fame in 2006 and receive Lennon Ono Peace award in 2010. Walker was part of the Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s for women’s to
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