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- 2401: Out Of This Furnace
- ... for rising above the mill workers. However, his affair with Zuska brings Kracha and his business down. For a while, Kracha is able to experience independence, being off on his own. That financial freedom is short lived and Kracha soon becomes like the other workers, dreaming of having something of their own. However, this shows that Slovak immigrants could rise from the seemingly abysmal depths of anti-immigrant sentiment. It is ... difficulties or suppression by the mill. As a businessman, Kracha achieves some success and freedom by having his own butcher shop. He is able to gain independence from the steel mills, but finds this independence short-lived by his affair with Zuska. Mary and Mike may not have been successful by monetary standards, but they are able to achieve success by having a strong family that does not allow the anti ...
- 2402: Our Lady Of The Snows
- An Essay ON Morley Callaghan's "Our Lady Of The Snows" The author 'Morley Callaghan' has written many stories and award winning novels through out his long career. Some pertain to true stories in which he has encountered through out his life. Others are straight fiction but involve a truth that deal with real-life situations and themes.(Canadian Encyclopedia: edi,1) In the novel "Our Lady Of ...
- 2403: Obasan
- ... is a link in her lifeline. She has preserved in shelves, in cupboards, under beds - a box of marbles, half filled colouring books, a red, white and blue rubber ball. The items are endless. Every short stub pencil, every corn-flakes box stuffed with paper bags and old letters is of her ordering. They rest in the corners like parts of her body, hairs cells, skin tissues, tiny specks of memory ... let things be", for she ignores and attempts to block out the trials and tribulations of war. Emily agrees with Obasan views on the war at first, demonstrated in the following quote, "Life is so short…The past so long. Shouldn't we turn the page and move on." (42). Emily however in response to this states that "The past is the future." (42). Emily seems to live each day with ...
- 2404: Looking For Alibrandi
- ... everyday, young and old. Some people cannot handle the pressure of what they have to live for. So they take their own life. Dealing with this type of tragedy makes young people grow in a short period of time. They think they see what the future holds for them and give up to early. After young teenager dies, adult’s thinks it’s selfish as they have cut their life short and have not dealt with the pressures and joys of adulthood. Close friends feel guilty, as they don’t realize their friend needed help. Teenagers that seem to have everything are spoiled and think its ...
- 2405: Lives Of The Saints
- ... sweep the floors or do other chores in the classroom. Eventually, their silent friendship grows to that of a mother-son relationship. Seeing that Vittorio has changed his classroom habits, La Maestra begins reading him stories from a book called Lives of the Saints. It is filled with the stories of many saints and the good deeds they had done. Vittorio likes the book so much that he brings it home with him sometimes, fascinated with the tales. On the day before he leaves before ...
- 2406: Like A Winding Sheet
- In Ann Petry’s 1945 short story "Like a Winding Sheet". Johnson is a black male struggling with racism and societal pressures. Johnson faces many challenges. As one reads, one cannot help but feel his anger, frustration and tenseness. Petry tells ... not able to get enough rest to make his legs feel better. The hustle and bustle of trying to catch a long subway ride home was almost unbearable. As Johnson’s character develops throughout this short story, some key events push him to his limit and cause him to lose control. First, an incident with his white female boss, his so-called "forelady", in which she called him a "nigger". Second ...
- 2407: Keeping Things Whole
- ... the public library and her hometown of St. Louis shunned Chopin for writing it. She was denied membership in the fine arts club and was given no credit as a writer even though her previous stories had been celebrated. Hurt and defeated after all that had occurred, Chopin wrote a public apology. It said that she was sorry that people found Edna offensive; but that when she began writing her story ... about the world as it really was. Her writings do more than just tell a story. The reactions to her writing gives an impression of the way of life was when the critics read her stories. As the reactions changed through the decades, the morals of society and the society itself change. Looking back on critics' changing views, from outrage to admiration, it is easy to see how far this nation ...
- 2408: Jazz
- ... issue of child birth is raised often and plays a major role in the general psyches of our main characters. Morrison, through her narrator, refers to female reproductive cycles multiple times, as well as the stories of Violet attempting to steal a baby and the birth of Joe in Hunter's cabin. These are both important stories in the goal of understanding Violet and Joe, but neither give as good an insight into the characters minds as the account on page 107. "Joe didn't want babies either, so all those miscarriages ...
- 2409: Its A Wonderful Life
- ... day become a major league baseball player. Most of all when its all said and done, that a child can say as a man, "Its a Wonderful Life". "It’s a Wonderful Life" are true stories about events that took place in my life that will be with me forever. I can remember when I was a little boy, I played my first game of baseball. My grandfather practiced with me ... what meant more to me, catching that baseball or the fact that my grandfather taught me the game. As I grew older and more mature I learned a lot about my grandfather. I was told stories about his life and what a great ballplayer he was. He could have gone pro, but he didn’t have the support of his parents. Instead he went ahead and joined the army. It would ...
- 2410: In The Skin Of A Lion
- ... storyline; beginning, exposition, and closure. There are liberties taken with the time structure of the narrative. The story itself is like a "mural, [the] falling together of accomplices." Ondaatje tells of ordinary people who’s stories interlock and intersect, with many "fragments of human order". Ondaatje does not tell the stories loosely and scattered with no real purpose in mind, he employs recurring images and motifs, for e.g. moths and insects, feldspar. This is to provide continuity and relevance, and helps him to give a ...
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