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- 1161: Their Eyes Were Watching God: Janie Crawford
- ... was raised in the household of her grandmother, Nanny Crawford, a maid and a former slave. Janie, like her mother before her, was born of rape, and Nanny is committed to protecting her from the sexual and racial violence she and her daughter endured. She pushes Janie into marriage with an older man named Logan Killicks, a farmer with some property. Her life with Killicks is full of boredom and hard ...
- 1162: To Kill A Mocking Bird: Injustice
- ... decision, which made him work even harder at winning the case. Even though his family was made fun of, he stuck with his choice and worked the hardest he could to ignore the threats and harassment. He did very well to ignore all the abuse and was greatly respected after the trial was over. Another person who suffered from injustice was Tom Robinson. He was charged with a crime he did ...
- 1163: The Prediction of 1984
- ... out over the torture. But the best hope that Orwell gives us that is we will learn from 1984 and not enter into any of the characteristics of a totalitarian society where freedom of thought, sexual freedom, and intellectual freedom will become things that are sentenced by torture and death. “Orwell felt he had to frighten people into a painful recognition of the dangers that threatened their very existence,”32 and ...
- 1164: The Bluest Eye: Summary
- ... practically the whole world rejects her, but her own parents are guilty of rejection as well. Her own father, who is constantly drunk, sexually molests his daughter more than once. The first time he has sexual intercourse with his daughter, he leaves her slightly unconscious, and lying on the kitchen floor with a quilt covering her frail, limp, preteen body. The next time he performs the same act, but this time ...
- 1165: Joining The Tribe: Homosexuality
- ... really phobic. It can be really hard coming out and investing in people and getting burned, this time under the guise of people saying they’re tolerant" pg. 123. Parents unaware of their children’s sexual orientation often make cutting remarks about homosexuality television characters, community members, or the orientation in general. Laureen’s mom is a good example of this. Laureen says "I can’t see them totally disowning me ...
- 1166: A Date with Kosinski
- ... that the phone was ringing, got out of the shower and ran to the phone. There, mother and son saw each other, naked. One thing led to another and for 20 years, they had a sexual relationship together. This was a very awkward moment for Levanter and he kept his feelings for her bottled up and set it behind his mind. Levanter undergoes several experiences in his life, all of which ...
- 1167: The Joy Luck Club: Journey to Adulthood
- ... broken in the American family but it is a matter of honor when the same happens in a Chinese home. When Lindo finally does marry Tyan-yu he is afraid of her and afraid of sexual intercourse. They are still not even teenagers and this duty of marriage is expected of them. Tyan-yu does not even let Lindo lie in the bed with him but forces her to sleep on ...
- 1168: All Quiet on the Western Front
- ... isolated from the rest of the world due to the fact that they had never truly established any part of themselves in civilian life. At boot camp, Himmelstoss abused Paul and his friends, yet the harassment only brought them closer together and developed a strong spirit amongst them. Katczinsky, or Kat, was soon shown to be a master scavenger, being able to provide the group with food or virtually anything else ...
- 1169: Essay over The Epic of Gilgamesh
- ... book The Epic of Gilgamesh, is Gilgamesh himself. In the beginning of the book one realizes that Gilgamesh is an arrogant person. Gilgamesh is full of himself and abuses his rights as king. He has sexual intercourse with the virgins of his town and acts as though he is a god. Although some readers of this classic book may say that Gilgamesh does not change from the beginning of the book ...
- 1170: Search of April Raintree
- ... one laughed. Good in their open acceptance of others.” But she also realized the bad things they did. “Bad in that they went shoplifting, drank liquor even though they were under-aged and had easy sexual relationships with each other.”After April notices that she is not heading down the path of life she wants, she isolates herself from those friends. Shortly after, Cheryl graduates from high school, attends university and ...
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