Frank Escobar Professor Finnegan English 111-883 25 November 2014 Erdrich’s “The Red Convertible”: America After the War in Vietnam “The Red Convertible” by Louise Erdrich is a story about two young brothers named Henry Junior and Lyman Lamartine that have a strong relationship until Henry junior is drafted and sent away to the war in Vietnam. “The Red Convertible” shows that returning veterans face troubles‚ such as problems with family relationships; war changes Henry’s his personality and causes
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In Louise Gluck’s poem‚ “The School Children‚” Gluck focuses on the difficulty that mothers face when their children leave and the success they desire from within their children. The poem essentially depicts the power struggle between mothers and teachers‚ as the mothers try and protect their children from the outside world‚ while the teachers expose them to reality. Gluck utilizes biblical allusions‚ negative connotations‚ and fragmented imagery to portray the war over control for children between
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Louise Mallard‚ the protagonist in Kate Chopin’s "The Story of an Hour”‚ was informed before this passage that her husband has died in a railroad accident. She asks to be left alone and goes to her room‚ everyone assumes to go grieve‚ but this passage shows her actual response to the news. Instead of sobbing or any other natural responses to the death of a loved one‚ Louise responds to the news by whispering the words “free‚ free‚ free!” over and over again. Like many women of this time (this short
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Multi-Cultural Exam One In the short story “In the Hour of the Wolf” (1949)‚ Betty Louise Bell asserts that Native Americans have to be assimilated into the mainstream white culture which causes them to have serious identity crisis issues. When the Indian’s leave their tribe‚ it puts a major strain on how they perceive their old traditions which molds them to be all alike white people. This short story supports the claims of how inferior Indian’s feel to white people because of the emphasized comments
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Growing up in a strict Mexican household‚ it may seem as if the strains on curfew are never going to get better‚ or even the time spent on homework is ever going to get lesser. Hispanic and Latino families are perceived as field works or even factory workers at an early age. It seems as if education will never be the center of importance in their lives‚ but that is not true at all‚ just merely a rumor. There always has been word that Hispanic households are some of the most strict when it comes to
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Have you ever wondered how a poem’s structure can contribute to it’s meaning and effect? Well if so‚ you have come to the right place because today I will be discussing how the poem “Train Tune” written by Louise Hogan’s form and structure contributes to it’s meaning and effect. There are several different elements in a poem that can contribute to it’s meaning; those elements are rhyme‚ rhythm‚ meter‚ punctuation‚ capitalization‚ and many others. All of these elements contribute to how you read a
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Erika English 110 1-21-2014 Arts of the Contact Zone Questions for a Second Reading: 1. In my opinion‚ the introductory story Pratt is telling about her sons and their baseball cards not only gets the reader interested in what is to come‚ but also gets them thinking a little about how worthy their education system. It sparked my interest to learn that her sons were learning their phonics not in school‚ but by reading the names and statistics of players on baseball cards. Later on‚ Pratt
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An hour‚” by Kate Chopin‚ is a short story about a woman who thinks she loses her husband in a railroad accident‚ but loses her freedom instead. Louise Mallard suffers from heart troubles‚ and has to be monitored every day. When her sister Josephine‚ and a family friend Richards‚ tell her the news about her husband she has to be careful not startle Louise too much‚ as it could hurt her heart. Chopin uses setting‚ point of view‚ and language devices to enhance the central idea of confinement. The
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In the poem titled “The School Children” by Louise Gluck‚ the author utilizes an industrious tone and the symbol of the apple to establish the understanding that it is hard to maintain individuality in a society where one is expected to conform to the masses. Continuing to conform can only lead to a loss of one’s sense of self. In the first line of the poem‚ the speaker states‚ “The children go forward with their little satchels” (Gluck). The term “satchels” is used in this line and is a small bag
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Red Convertible” by Louise Erdrich because they both show that there is much more to it than that. Both stories symbolizes that soldiers aren’t simply mindless emotionless killers but instead they are young men who gave up there life at home to something greater then themselves. The events of war‚ in fact‚ take a much greater toll on them and it is something they carry with them for the rest of their lives‚ even long after the war is over. In both stories‚ both O’Brien and Erdrich use similar symbolism
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