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as Grange becomes unhappy with his simple life. He leaves behind this wife and child in order to find something better. And, it is...
that they tend to destroy themselves from within. This inner destruction of the community toward one another is also symbolic of ...
Myop finds herself in a "gloomy" little cove. This striking change in imagery foreshadows Myops discovery of a decomposing body. ...
To say the entire point of Bittersweet Memories of Home relates directly to the fight for ones historical existence within the new...
her to be a good school girl and she seems just about ready, at the beginning of the story, to break free from this. What happen...
it clear that there are many unsolved frictions between the two sisters, frictions which include the fact that the youngers husban...
by her contemporaries. These women will weave a rich fabric of friendship, which is symbolically referred to in the novel through...
her arms and legs, eyeing her sister with a mixture of envy and awe. She thinks her sister has held life always in the palm of one...
style. It is with this strength and power that Walkers women are able to cope with extreme situations and make their lives more w...
of these characters. Particularly insightful, Demirturk sums up the novel by stating that Tashi sacrificed her gender identity to ...
his introduction to The Annotated Alice, Martin Gardner relates some of the complex meanings that have been attributed to Alice. F...
only to curse out and insult each other?) On TV mother and child embrace and smile into each others faces... Sometimes I dream a d...
anyone who has read the book, there are some disturbing scenes in the book that are so powerfully written and detailed that the re...
forbidden to them, they have set about creating something else to be" (Morrison 52). For example, Sula would go to Nels house to s...
sad position of a young girl who is oppressed in every possible way. Her sister, however, becomes far more educated and travels wi...
are putting their own histories together, and finding out about who they really are. Mamas relationship with her two daugh...
Dee struggles mentally to understand the world in which she has never truly fit. These mental struggles take a number of manifest...
dress so loud it hurt my eyes...yellows and oranges enough to throw back the light of the sun" (Everyday...Walker). As this sugge...
even though her sister will not appreciate them in a real way as Maggie will. Maggie is one of those people who is easily used and...
siblings to be one of the "lucky" ones to go to the fair with him. The image is of a pretty, favored child. Walker next relates ...
cotton, peanuts and squash ... that cause excited little tremors to run up her jaws" (Walker, 2002). Clearly, Myop was a h...
actions related to their sense of community. A small agricultural community generally lives on the edge of survival. What holds t...
plot, he said that he could not possibly relate what went on during the three-hour production (Kolin and Davis 19). Author Philip ...
about alcohol. The narrator describes that -- if her parents ever drank alcoholic beverages -- it was outside their home (Munro 43...
turn something seemingly worthless into a treasure. A quilt being symbolically assembled throughout the story reflects how societ...
happened, or what may have happened, to this young girl, and finds herself examining her own life as a result. Without even und...
In five pages Walker's short story is analyzed in a focus on quilt symbolism but with a thematic and story synopsis also included....
This paper consists of a 5 page discussion of the important historical events relevant to women in the U.S. workforce. There are ...
In five pages this book is discussed in terms of synopsis and theme and is then reviewed in terms of organization, content, discus...
some sense out of her life. There is also the close, intimate relationship that she has with her younger sister, Nettie. T...