Alice Munro’s short story‚ “An Ounce of Cure‚” pertains to a young teenage girl‚ dealing irrationally with a break up. The setting is in a town‚ where drinking alcohol is almost considered foreign. The narrator’s dad would lightly consume beer on a hot day. As for her mother‚ she did not join in on the occasion. The narrator is a reliable person who babysits around town. The title of reliability soon changes into irresponsibility after she gets heart broken from a boy named‚ Martin Collingwood. She
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In the book Go Ask Alice (1971) By an Anonymous author‚ a teenager struggling with drugs tragically succumbs to her problems. There has been a lot of Controversy revolving around whether the author is real or if this book was just written to draw attention to drugs. Regardless of whether the supposed author actually existed‚ the fact that remains is that identity issues and drug addiction are very real problems for millions of teenagers. In the beginning of the book a teenage girl talks about
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Heritage is important to most families because it is a value that is inherited‚ passed down from generations to generations. It includes inherited traditions‚ objects‚ culture‚ customs and practices. In the short story “Everyday Use”‚ Alice Walker explores this aspect of heritage with emphasize on the value of cultural heritage in the African American community in the late 1960s and in the early 1970s. The setting of “Everyday Use” took place in post-civil era when the African Americans were trying
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Question: Choose a novel or short story in which there is a clear turning point. Briefly describe what leads up to the turning point and explain the effect it has on the rest of the novel or short story. Answer The short story‚ “The Flowers” by Alice Walker‚ has a clear turning point. There are many clues in the story which symbolise the turning point coming closer. The turning point is when the main character‚ a young girl‚ steps into the skull of a lynched black man and in the process‚ loses
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“Roselily” is a story written by Alice Walker. Set in stone on a front porch near highway sixth one in Mississippi. Her story is about a woman determine and thoughtful. Willing to do any and everything for her four children. She was lost in her thoughts threw out the whole wedding. That every word spoken brought her deeper in thought. Roselily was always lost in her thoughts. She thought about her children‚ and how she could stop working. She thought about her soon to be husband. Did he love her
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"Kids will be kids." (Unknown) That is the theme of the story "An Ounce of Cure‚" by Alice Munro. This story starts out with the narrator and her boyfriend breaking-up. She is very sad. Soon after‚ she baby-sits for the Berrymans’. While there‚ she drinks some of their liquor. After a few drinks‚ she begins to throw-up. She calls Joyce‚ her best friend‚ to come over and help her. When Joyce arrives‚ she brought with her some other people that had been with her. Soon‚ Mr. Berryman came home
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In my bildungsroman‚ or coming-of-age novel‚ The Color Purple by Alice Walker‚ the protagonist‚ Celie‚ develops psychologically throughout the book by facing painful times in order to find the road to self-discovery. Even with her lack of education‚ further into the novel‚ Celie begins to mentally grow and realize that she is not an object to be walked all over nor to be pushed around. From the age of fourteen years old until she was in her mid or late forties‚ Celie let herself be abused and mistreated
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Society places‚ ideas concerning proper behaviors regarding gender roles. How does one handle this pressure placed by a society? Is accepting the pressure of society alright or is it possible to overcome the gender stereotype placed by society to achieve self fulfillment? "Gender is not an easy conversation to have. It makes people uncomfortable‚ sometimes even irritable. Both men and women are resistant to talk about gender‚ or are quick to dismiss the problems of gender. Because thinking of changing
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Alice Walker who wrote “The Welcome Table” had issues of race and gender that was the center of her literary work and her social activism. She participated in civil rights demonstrations. (Clugston 2010). This short story has a theme of life and death. It shows the plot of the story‚ the point of view and has symbolism used to show the death of the old woman and what the church members thought of her as a black woman. (Clugston‚ 2010‚ Section 7.1 and 7.2) Later in the story‚ she is walking
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engaging read and the development of one main character gives the reader a chance to experience a more life-like‚ revealing look into a characters’ life. A captivating and interesting plot is one main feature of any story that makes it a success. In Alice Munroe’s “Royal Beatings‚” the reader is almost immediately captivated by the first line‚ “Royal beating. That was Flo’s promise.” This first line draws the reader
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