and their ability to sympathize with the victim’s wife‚ Minnie Foster. They understand her motives‚ which ultimately leaded them to the evidence they found against her. Glaspell demonstrated how the male assumption that the women were insignificant members in a male dominated society. She made a strong feminist statement that women are more than just housewives‚ or homemakers‚ and they are more intelligent than they are perceived. Minnie Foster was a woman who had been mentally victimized by her
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Antagonist is someone who is against the protagonist. In this case it would be the County Attorney. Protagonist is the main character of some sort of fictional work. For instance‚ Minnie Wright was the protagonist of the play. Soliloquy is a character speaking on their private thoughts. Mrs. Hale displayed this action several times throughout the play. Along with the Sheriff and County Attorney. Monologue is a speech that is presented by a character. Mr. Hale presented his monologue to the others
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that the men don’t because they are too busy to criticize. For instance‚ the women notice that Mrs. Wright had bread set‚ an important detail because it shows what she was doing before the murder. Another instance is when the women find the quilt Minnie Wright was working on and wonder if she was going to knot or quilt it. The men laugh at this; they do not realize that this too reveals a very important piece of evidence. Most of the quilt is very neat and perfect but all of a sudden there is a piece
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Alice Walker Alice Malsenior Walker is an African American writer and civil rights activist. She was born in Eatonton‚ Georgia in 1944. Alice Walker is the eighth and youngest child of her parents‚ Minnie Grant and Willie Walker. Her parents were sharecroppers. After a childhood accident blinded her in one eye she became a shy and withdrawn child. Walker ended up being the valedictorian of her high school. She attended Spelman College‚ in Atlanta‚ a school for black women. Alice transferred to
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arrival‚ Cook’s life has completely changed. She opens jars for him‚ scratches his itches‚ and retrieves anything he might drop. And thanks to the Americans with Disabilities Act‚ Minnie can go anywhere Cook does. At restaurants‚ "she gets me good tables‚" he jokes.” (Miracle Monkey SIRS Discoverer) This tells me that Minnie is a big help to Cook and more than a servant‚ she is like family to Cook. Monkeys are good help in the city‚ but out on a farm dogs are better. Owen is a framer‚ is legally bind
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“Toadstools‚ and butterscotch!? What a horrid combination! Why on earth would anyone wish to consume that together?” I flung down the folded (crumpled) letter. The first letter I received from my dearest friend Leonora in months‚ and she talked about how she and her mentor made a new potion with toadstool and butterscotch. Disgusting. “What are ye huffin’ about now‚ child?” My short‚ round mentor shuffled past me with her arms full of some large birds that twitched unnaturally. She was the kind
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reader begins reading the play‚ he/she is impressed with the turn of theevents. In the play‚ the two women – Mrs. Peters and Mrs. Hale- who are only brought along with the sheriff and attorney to retrieve some items for a wife – Mrs.Wright/ Minnie foster- accused for killing her husband – Mr. Wright‚ are the ones whoactually find the evidence to indict the accused. In trifles‚ the title is ironic as thereader sees what is silly and "trifle" to men‚ is the key for solving the
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“We telling stories that need to be told‚” (244) Kathryn Stockett proclaims in her novel‚ The Help. The story follows three different women’s lives in 1960’s Jackson‚ Mississippi. The women: Eugenia Phelan‚ nicknamed Skeeter‚ Aibileen Clark‚ and Minny Jackson‚ have widely varying personalities and starkly different pasts. With a shared goal of changing the treatment of the maids‚ cooks‚ and other African American workers in Jackson‚ they start writing a book that would reveal the truth about what
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action‚ climax and dialogue. The play’s setting takes place in a bleak‚ untidy kitchen in a rural farmhouse. There are seven characters in this play‚ they are: George Henderson‚ Henry Peters‚ Lewis Hale‚ Mrs. Peters‚ John Wright‚ Mrs. Hale‚ and Mrs. Minnie Wright. In the first few lines in the scene‚ two characters are introduced who quickly establishes the claustrophobic mood of the play. The sheriff‚ Henry Peters‚ is the first to enter the farmhouse‚ followed by George Henderson‚ the attorney prosecuting
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just like Alice Walker did. Walker has written many stories and novels which have been very popular and praised greatly. She says that the creativity for these works‚ along with her beautiful and colorful flower gardens‚ are all thanks to her mother Minnie Walker. Her stories are in fact very exuberant with beautiful diction and a great plot. In her short story "Everyday Use"‚ Walker uses many literary elements such as characterization‚ imagery‚ and irony to piece together a wonderful story which many
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