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- 5341: Life Of Ma Parker
- ... born and she takes on the role of his mother. According to Susan Lohafer, the relationship between Ma Parker and Lennie is "at the core of the story – the coy and tender interaction between a child and a mothering grandparent" (477). Lennie "was gran’s boy from the first" (Mansfield 146). He was "the focus of all her love, all her joy, all her hope" (Lohafer 480). When Lennie gets sick ...
- 5342: Les Liaisons Dangereuses
- ... she describes it, against the Comte de Gercourt. The young Cecile de Volanges has just come home from the convent and her marriage to Gercourt has been arranged. However, before he can wed the innocent child, Merteuil proposes Valmont ‘educate’ her, thus spoiling Gercourt’s fancy for untarnished convent girls. Valmont is uninterested in such an easy seduction and is far more aroused by the thought of lulling The Presidente’ de ...
- 5343: Langston Hughes
- ... and peaceful. The images of nature, which serve as a symbol for freedom of the soul, appear when she speaks of this existence. In the novel, she remembers a simpler life when she was a child, engulfed in nature and free: ^The hot wind beating in my face made me think ^ without any connection that I can trace ^ of a summer day in Kentucky, of a meadow that seemed as big ...
- 5344: Keeping Things Whole
- ... writings were based here. Chopin continued living in Louisiana raising her six young children until the sudden death of her husband brought her back to St., Louis (Skaggs 3). Oscar Chopin died while their youngest child, Lelia was only three. Soon after Chopin moved her family to St. Louis to be with her dying mother. In the grief of her losses Chopin had to rediscover who she was. This challenge came ...
- 5345: Jurassic Park
- ... park saying, "It is intended to be a controlled world that only imitates the natural world" (Crichton 133). Malcolm is very accurate in his evaluation. Jurassic Park is not the natural world. Much like the abuse of over-mechanized agriculture and the age-old desire of man to fly, it is simply an attempt to control and master the elements of nature (Pacey 85). Nevertheless, the experts and at Jurassic Park ...
- 5346: Joy Luck Club
- ... rejects the women-repressive Chinese traditions when she tells her daughter that she "believed you could be anything you want to be in America" (141). Suyuan continually tells Jing Mei her "Kweilin story" as a child, the story of the origins of the Joy Luck Club as well as her mother's past hardships. Yet despite the importance of the story and the events constituting the story to Suyuan, Jing Mei ...
- 5347: Jane Eyre - Setting
- ... less than a servant for you do nothing for your keep" (44). In Gateshead Hall Jane knew that she was not very lovable, and that she could not find love there. She was an unwanted child, and she was an outsider in her own home, the only home she ever knew. Jane was sent away from Gateshead Hall to a charity boarding school called Lowood. Mrs. Reed decides to send Jane ...
- 5348: Jane Eyre - Nature
- ... Because I know, or believe, Mr. Rochester is living." Another recurrent image is Brontë's treatment of Birds. We first witness Jane's fascination when she reads Bewick's History of British Birds as a child. She reads of "death-white realms" and "'the solitary rocks and promontories'" of sea-fowl. We quickly see how Jane identifies with the bird. For her it is a form of escape, the idea of ...
- 5349: Jane Eyre - Critical Evaluation
- ... can only see the way to happiness now that he is blind. Their marriage is what finally brings Jane true happiness. These five journeys mirror Jane’s four emotional journeys. She transforms from an immature child to an intelligent, accomplished adult at Lowood. Jane also changes gradually from innocent and naïve to mature and strong-willed. Both her experiences at Thornfield, where she learns what it is like to love and ...
- 5350: Jane Erye - Feminism
- ... eventually turned a profit of £140 for her. Encouraged by this success, Jane Austen turned to revising First Impressions, a.k.a. Pride and Prejudice. She sold it in November 1812, and her "own darling child" (as she called it in a letter) was published in late January 1813. She had already started work on Mansfield Park by 1812, and worked on it during 1813. It was during 1813 that knowledge ...
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