Assignment 1 Interpreting: The Story of an Hour After reading the Story of an Hour‚ I concluded that Louise Mallard is a sympathetic character. I am not sure sympathetic is the best word to describe her. Perhaps caring or considerate would be a more exact word. She is also a little self-centered. Her feeling may be unpredictable but they show signs of a caring and compassionate individual. Louise’s happiness does not come from Brently’s dead; her happiness comes from being separated from
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A Brother’s Love When you compare Louis Erdrich’s story “The Red Convertible” and James Baldwin’s story “Sonny’s Blues”‚ they seem like completely different stories. “The Red Convertible” is about two brothers‚ Lyman and Henry‚ who grow up on a Native American reservation in North Dakota. The two brothers share a strong bond that is personified through their love for a certain red car that they share. They go through an amazing journey and discover a lot about each other. On the other hand‚ “Sonny’s
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The Symbolic Red Convertible In Louise Erdich’s “The Red Convertible” Henry and Lyman buy a red Convertible Oldsmobile. Erdich uses the car to portray the brothers’ relationship. The car like the relationship started off good and strong‚ then turned rough and finally disappeared altogether. In the beginning of the story the boys’ relationship was good and strong. Just like the car. “We went places in that car‚ me and Henry. We took off driving all one whole summer” (p. 368 4th ed.). You
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Madonna Louise Ciccone was born in Bay City‚ Michigan‚ on August 16‚ 1958. Her father‚ Silvio Anthony Ciccone‚ is a first-generation Italian American (with roots in Pacentro‚ Italy)‚ while her mother‚ Madonna Louise (née Fortin)‚ was of French Canadian descent.[2] Her father later worked as a design engineer for Chrysler and General Motors. As Madonna had the same name as her mother‚ family members called her "Little Nonni".[3] The third of six children from her father’s first marriage‚ her full-blood
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ending the crisis. Jeremy Finch was the first to sight Tim Robinson as he was coming down the street. He told the reporter‚ “I could see right away that something was wrong with the dog. I made my sister come home with me to tell Calpurnia.” Jean Louise “Scout” Finch confirmed her brother’s story: “ I thought Jem was being silly‚ there ain’t supposed to be no mad dogs in February.” After the sighting‚ the two children hurried to their home where they told their housekeeper‚ Calpurnia‚ what they had
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where people have established their life‚ their culture and their heart; sadly it has happened where people have been forced out of their homeland. Great opening sentences. Mary Louise Pratt‚ Kenji Yoshino and Edward Said all present very good methods of maintaining one’s national identity in their essays. In Mary Louise Pratt’s essay Arts of the Contact Zone she gives examples of people who are in a contact zone. Contact zones are where people are meeting other cultures‚ and they have to remember
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Oral History by Louise Erdrich‚ the families living on this reservation have lives filled with betrayal‚ alcoholism‚ love‚ and triumph. The novel is told from many different characters’ point of view‚ ranging in a fifty year time frame‚ which makes Oral History distinctive. The National Book Critics Circle Award winning novel keeps the reader engaged throughout its fourteen chapters‚ as the novel ventures in a maze of interconnected short stories. As stated in a review about Love Medicine published
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Love Without Love 1. According to the first four lines‚ the speaker loved this particular person because they never saw this person coming into their life‚ therefore it was a surprise and they saw a drastic change something called love. 2. The metaphor in lines 5-6 is "I’ve fly you flying through my soul in quick‚ loft flight" and this means that this special person came into their life very quickly like a plane‚ it was in and it was out. The extended metaphor is that this person was looking
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Summer 2014 Finding Love through Dust In the novel‚ Of Love and Dust‚ Ernest Gaines discuss means of love in the story which help give readers a look into the interracial relationships between some of the characters in the novel. There is conflict between the couples who are encountered by the reader which hints at love between a white man (Sidney Bonbon) and black woman (Pauline Guerin)‚ as well as a black man (Marcus Payne) with a white woman (Louise Bonbon). Although the love between Sidney Bonbon
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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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