I. Discuss an element of Fiction I decided to tackle three elements of fiction from the story because I personally can’t choose just one from the many remarkable elements here. First‚ let me talk about the symbolisms. The author obviously used a lot of symbols in this story! I feel like even the settings and characters are actually symbols. However‚ I only fancy to talk about three: the man with no face‚ the mongoose‚ and the blank page. The man with no face‚ I think‚ is all the oppressed citizens
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respect of family. In The Glass Menagerie‚ Amanda‚ the caring but overbearing and over protective mother‚ wants to be taken care of‚ but in A Raisin in the Sun‚ Mama‚ as she is known‚ is more or less‚ the overseer of the family. The prospective of the plays identify that we have family members‚ like Amanda‚ as overprotective‚ or like Mama‚ as overseers. I am going to give a contrast of the mothers in the plays. In The Glass Menagerie‚ by Tennessee Williams‚ we embark on the task of seeing a
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new home. Walter’s dream is to open up a liquor store and make money for his family to have a “better” life. Early on in the story‚ readers find out that Mama has a large check coming from her late husband’s life insurance. This excitement starts to create a large uproar of arguments in the family. The arguments ranged from Walter and Ruth to Mama and Walter to
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The symbolism of the plant in A Raisin in the Sun One might ask how the scientific facts of the functional purpose of a plant would connect to a literary piece‚ especially the well-known play‚ A Raisin in the Sun‚ written by Lorraine Hansberry. The plant in the text symbolizes the foundation for the family‚ honest hope‚ and Mama’s dreams. Symbolism is not a definition of an item‚ but represents something specific other than itself. Much like Mama’s plant‚ it represents many meaningful ideas with
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The Seven Deadly Sins Brianna Kibler Introduction To Film Studies- HUM/150 Dominic Biondi The 1944 film “Double Indemnity” is about an insurance salesman‚ Walter Neff‚ who gets entangled in a plot to kill an unhappy wife’s husband‚ Phyllis Dietrichson‚ over greed. They work together to stage a suicide that should later be determined accidental. Little does the salesman know the wife will get what she wants‚ no matter the cost. This paper will dissect the movie to help illuminate underlying
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scene one Mama says “ Lord‚ if this little old plant don’t get more sun than it’s been getting it ain’t never going to see spring again.( Hansberry‚ 40)” In the beginning that the plants needs sun because its in a room with a little window and Mama worries that it will not spring so it shows that even thought it does not have enough sun and it is still surviving so it wants to holding because it knows it will be in a better place and become stronger in the future. In act one scene one Mama says “They
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was more then what they expect. Summary Twelve year old Lanesha lives in tight-knit community in New Orleans Ninth Ward. She doesn’t have a fancy house. She live with mama Ya-Ya. She can see ghost and is very special. Mama Ya-Ya saw Katrina in her dreams. So Lanesha and she prepared for the hurricane like everyone else. Sadly‚ Mama Ya-Ya die during the hurricane and Lanesha‚ her Neighbor and dog spot survived. Text-To-Text Ninth Ward Compares to Noah and the Ark. When God flooded the earth and
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just like every year I was visiting my mom’s side of the family. Early in the morning I woke up from the hard carpet right after Shaun‚ my brother. Gabe‚ Papa Doug‚ and Lola were the only ones out of bed once Shaun and I had walked down stairs. Many hours hours the rest of our family members had woken up finally. Once they did Lola cooked eggs and rice for Shaun‚ Gabe‚ and I. My family had already planned to go on a walk to the park after we had eaten. This made the three of us quickly eat excited
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the use and importance of money in general. Mama sees money as a way to help her family succeed‚ Walter believes money is life‚ Beneatha sees money as a way to achieve her dream of becoming a doctor‚ and Asagai views money as a method to help others. Although money seems to be so important to the characters‚ by the end of the play Lorraine Hansberry shows us that money isn’t everything. A central character and matriarch of the Younger family‚ Mama‚ is not as concerned about material wealth as
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past on the present. Mama Johnson and her daughter Maggie await the arrival of the older daughter‚ Dee. Mama Johnson recalls the various allowances she provided for Dee. Dee receives a formal education and the finer clothes she prefers to wear‚ unlike Mama Johnson and Maggie. Dee has two fundamental issues. Her family embarrasses her‚ and she is accustomed to getting her way‚ although Dee is never satisfied. She has high ideals‚ while Mama Johnson and Maggie are simpler people. Mama Johnson recalls a
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