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- 1751: The Optimist's Daughter: Summary
- ... friend of the family. 3.1 Two main characters in The Optimist's Daughter are Wanda Fay and Laurel McKelva. Wanda Fay is a woman in her 40's and has the maturity of a child. Whenever she becomes mad, Fay starts to scream, point fingers, and search out people who will help her. She can not stand up and fight for herself, instead Fay uses tactics to make her opponent ... conflict between the two. 3.6.1 Judge McKelva's daughter, Laurel, and his wife, Fay, disliked each other from the beginning of the book and are in one constant conflict. Fay is like a child trapped in an elder's body. She is used to things being her way, likes to be spoiled, stubborn, and impatient. Laurel is young and kind hearted. She is more than willing to wait for ... and cold hearted, very demanding and wants all the power that she can get. Hillary is also swift and concise when she attacks, but Fay tends to scream and rant. Fay is also like a child, she cries, screams, and throws fits. 3.12 A large part of The Optimist's Daughter takes place in the small mississippi town of Mount Salus. Mount Salus is a rather small, rural town ...
- 1752: Unity Amid Diversity
- ... Malcolm X. Although his approach was completely opposite that from Martin Luther King, Jr., the two dignified and determined men helped each other in fighting for equality. Malcolm X had a rough life as a child. His father was beaten and killed when he was only six years old and his mother was put into an institution shortly there after. He dropped out of school, got into trouble frequently and ended ... in history and helped them regain a pride that was long lost. After his assassination, it was said of him, “Malcolm was our manhood, our living, black manhood! (Haley)” Anne Moody was a poor, black child who grew up in the south during the 1940s and 1950s. She had a rough childhood. Unlike most children in the twentieth century, Anne was working at a very young age sweeping porches and cleaning houses. She was very mature and intelligent as a child and often asked questions about what she did not know. Despite her need for answers, she was usually shrugged off and given a, “because that’s the way it is” answer. Having been told ...
- 1753: Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn
- ... raft in every language men could print - it was America’s masterpiece (Allen 259). It is considered one of the greatest novels because it conceals so well Twain’s opinions within what is seemingly a child’s book. Though initially condemned as inappropriate material for young readers, it soon became prized for its recreation of the Antebellum South, its insights into slavery, and its depiction of adolescent life. The novel resumes ... Bellamy 156). Twain expresses his feelings in the above paragraph by using the I don’t take no stock in dead people(Twain 12) line in the novel. In this way he can fashion a child^Ňs narrative to convey his views of the past. This is one example of the process Twain will continue to use in this novel to conceal satirical meanings within humorous lines. Huck, who has never ... what he used to say, anyway (Twain 16). These types of paragraphs are used for three things simultaneously: to add a note of satire, to add to the storyline, and to continue to emphasize the child^Ňs point of view (Branch 214). Pap is one of the most interesting figures in the novel. He is completely antisocial and wishes to undo all of the civilizing effects that the Widow and ...
- 1754: Harper Lee: Introduction to Harper Lee
- ... a similar house in Harper Lee's childhood. Furthermore, Miss Lee grew up amid the Negro prejudice and violence in Alabama. In addition, she studied law and visited her father's law offices as a child, just as Scout visits Atticus' office and briefly considers a career as a lawyer. Writing Career Harper Lee began to develop an interest in writing at the age of seven. Her law studies proved to ... she can tell him about it in the quiet of her room, he says that he is sorry. Scout And The Adults What then is the picture of the world in the mind of this child, and how does it foreshadow the future events of the story? At first Scout fights with her fists because she does not know how to fight any other way. Then she sees adult injustice applied ... Scout still cannot understand why things should or should not be done. For example, she cannot understand why Atticus never told his children about his ability to shoot. On the other hand, Jem, the older child, is beginning to have a sense of values. He realizes that being a man, and more importantly, a gentleman, is not just in acting and talking. It is knowing when
- 1755: 12 Angry Men: Boy Is Innocent
- ... with the three best points of evidence to prove the innocence of this young boy. Think of this, how could a young boy do this to his father? Even though he was a victim of abuse, l love is still inside him. That is why this boy is innocent. Now remember, Jury, this is a life and death situation that sits in front of you. Make the right decision, or the young life of an innocent child will be ruined forever. The defense rests.
- 1756: Women Rights
- If you ask a young girl what she wants to be when she grows up, she may tell you she wants to be a doctor, lawyer, or even a teacher. That is what any child would percieve their future to become, just like their parents. But what that little girl is unaware of, is that if she had lived a little over 150 years ago, her future dreams would be ... win "that most basic American civil right"...the right to vote. The vote was finally won in 1920, but this was not the end. Suffragists became active in fighting for the rights for protection from abuse in work (1919), Equal Rights Ammendment (1923), and abortion. The birth control movement was fought for some time and denied in 1936. Birth control became legal in 1965. The second wave for this era started ...
- 1757: Columbine
- ... to pass notes, and to meet new people, not to be shot at and never have the chance to come home ever again. They should not have to think or be afraid of sending their child to school and never seeing them. Last year one of the worst school shootings took place at Columbine High School. Not only did it effect the famlies of the victims and of the killers, pretty ... to figure out what had happened, and why it happened. This incident brought our nation together, and touched many people in some way or another, whether it was kids going to school, parents sending their child to school, or all the people involved in the investigation. It was a day that many people will not forget what happened, and how it affected so many people. It seemed like just another average ... such despicable acts. But two years ago, Cassie dedicated her life to Christ, and turned her life around. Another student, Isaiah Shoels, 18, senior, was the only black student shot. Suffered health problems as a child and had heart surgery twice. Wanted to attend an arts college and become a music executive. Small in stature, but lifted weights and played football and wrestled. Bench-pressed twice his weight. "He was ...
- 1758: The Scarlet Letter: A Review
- ... name of thy fellow-sinner and fellow-sufferer!' "(65)-keep in mind that the "fellow-sufferer" is Dimmesdale, but we don't know it yet-and later, in the Governor's house says he: "The child of its fathers guilt and its mother's shame hath come from the hand of God." (my emphasis) (110) Dimmesdale recognizes himself as a sufferer and, forty-five pages later, restates the fact that Hester ... a certain token on her bosom," (50) that token being the scarlet A. Later, in chapter 19, Hester removes the letter and, as if Hester's previous actions had somehow sealed the letter into her child as well, Pearl "suddenly burst into a fit of passion, gesticulating extravagant contortions . . .pointing her small forefinger at Hester's bosom." (206) Again, a beautiful sustained metaphor. The last example of this symmetry comes from ... his soul and life. Hester, a barely feminine name at best, fits her character of a hardy woman who stands up for herself, takes the part of a whipping- boy for Dimmesdale, and raises a child all during the most difficult part of her life. Dimmesdale, a minister, after sleeping with Hester, acts as a corrupt clergyman would (anyone in the '90's reads the papers enough to know how ...
- 1759: Agent Orange
- ... 3). “My hands hurt. The skin falls off when it’s touched,” says Thoa, a 13 year old who suffers from a war, which ended almost 20 years before her birth (“Agent Orange blamed for child defects,” 1). Thoa is just one of the 300,000 children worldwide who are victims of chemical warfare (“Agent Orange blamed for child defects,” 1). Sudden Infant Death Syndrome is four times more likely in children born of Vietnam veterans (Nguyen, 3). Tu Du Obstetrical and Gynecological Hospital has been the site of at least five Siamese twins ... fortune. It has affected the American soldier and people throughout the world very greatly. Hundreds of thousands of lives have changed dramatically due to the use of Agent Orange. Works Cited “Agent Orange blamed for child defects.” Brooks, Clark. “Fatal flaws; How the military misled Vietnam Veterans and their families about the health risks of Agent Orange.” Buckingham, William A. “Operation Ranch Hand.” Doyle, Edward. and Maitland, Terrence. The Vietnam ...
- 1760: Jim's Role in Huckleberry Finn
- ... ben a-treat'n her so!" This passage again illustrates that Jim does have a human side to him, very powerfully. Jim's anger took the best of him, because he didn't know his child was mute, and he hit her. You have to feel sorry for Jim at the end of this passage, though. You can imagine what he must have gone through—to get really mad at your child for something that isn't even their fault, and then to regret it forever. I don't know why, but this passage really seems to have the most impact on me then the rest of ... has done for him. They help each other out all the time, but don't think twice about it. I think that in this friendship is a message of hope. If a little teenaged white child growing up in a very prejudiced society that doesn't even think of slaves as people can become fast friends with a runaway adult slave, transcending major prejudices from inward and outward in the ...
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