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- 5391: Cry, The Beloved Country
- ... his son. When he goes to Johannesburg to find his sister and son, he is abject to find that his sister, who had become very frail, was forced to become a prostitute to support her child and his son had murdered a white man who ironically was abetting the black people. Arthur Jarvis the man who had been killed by Absalom had lived in an adjacent farm when the two men ...
- 5392: Cry, The Beloved Country
- ... Arthur was fair to everyone and believed that the natives should be treated equal. Arthur learned their languages, in doing so he put himself at their level, he did not make himself higher. Arthurs child was the next generation of the ideal citizen, he would tilt his hat to Kumalo, take his shoes off when going in his house, and this little boy even started to learn Zulu. Also like ...
- 5393: Continental Drift
- ... Bobs family further away from the security and happiness that they knew. Ruthie Dubois, Bobs daughter, serves as a good example of the mental anguish that Bobs family is put through. A seemingly normal child while in New Hampshire, part of Bobs, "happy, healthy family," (Banks, 13) she develops what are described as learning disabilities, after the family moved to Oleander Park, that may be due to emotional problems ...
- 5394: Cold Mountain
- ... to a balance more interesting one. Ada and Inman are the main characters of the novel. This two characters have many differences in their life. The first difference came in their childhood. Ada as a child was a responsible student that strobe for academic excellence. In the other hand the only knowledge given by the author of Inman in school is when he drop out of it because he was afraid ...
- 5395: Citizen Kane By Orson Wells
- ... he was married twice, he always stayed alone. This was because of his incapacity of felling love, which was caused by his insecure childhood. Kane was unwillingly taken away from his mother as a young child; this single event molded Kane into the narcissistic man he became. The only time Kane felt safe was when he was under the care of his mother. She was the only person he ever was ...
- 5396: Chrysalids
- ... murder which is against the Waknuk Society, just to help David. He risks his life for another and this really proves how strongly he believes in the right to acknowledge the abnormal and not to abuse them. Axel probably experiences what David has gone through in his childhood. His view of god's image has his own set of ways and has gone in a different direction. Many people don't ...
- 5397: Chaim Potok And The Problem Of Assimilation For The American
- ... by his father; these books present view points contradictory to what his community believes, and he must reconcile his newfound knowledge with his upbringing (Potok 2). My Name is Asher Lev focuses on a Jewish child with an amazing gift for art. Judaism has always discouraged art because it borders on the idolatry of Paganism and the iconography of Christianity. Asher Lev must reconcile his need to create art with his ...
- 5398: Ceremony
- ... with each other had disappeared, and the sacred ground they appreciated and respected was no longer under their control. The land was now in the hands of the white man, which would lead to devastating abuse, pollution, resource depletion, and eventually destruction. The ancient Indian story said, "They will fear the people" and "They will kill what they fear" (Silko 136). The white man was so extremely fearful of Indians as ...
- 5399: Catcher In The Rye - Boys Will Be Boys
- ... slang terms. Each generation has its own variety of slang terms each with separate and almost ironic terms. Some slang used by today's teens means exactly the opposite of what would be thought. Each child is taught that there are some "bad" words or swear words that should not be used, but as like most teenagers, Holden swears quite often. Holden's sister, Phoebe, makes a comment on his swearing ...
- 5400: Catcher In The Rye
- ... the real story of Salinger lies incomplete and myste-rious. Although much about his life is uncertain, it is clear that Salinger was born on January 1 1919 in New York, New York, the second child and only son of Sol and Miriam Salinger. Since much of Salingers early days are clouded and unknown, the only link to his apparent adolescence is through the statement that his "boyhood was very ...
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