In the beginning of the story, we learn that Francis has tried to shoot a lion but failed, running from the wounded animal in fear. ... When Margot tells Francis that after this experience she "needs" a gimlet (an alcoholic drink), she implies that what she really needs is a manly husband. ...
On the way he would try to kill animals to take to the family as gifts. Once he arrived to the house, he sat with the father and drank chicha (a fermented drink made by Shuar women, it is the most important and sacred Shuar food) and showed great respect for the older man. ... The two older men would drink chicha together and recall stories of their younger days, romances, headhunting, etc. ... The Shuar believe in Shapeshifting after death like reincarnation into plants, animals, and human forms. ... The Shuar repeatedly state that preserving the future generations of humans, plants and anima...
The wedding announcement arrives in typically elegant fashion: decorative envelope wrapped around scalloped parchment paper artistically beckoning the presence of close friends and family to share in a most special day. As the invitation is removed from the envelope, the names of the to-be-wedded p...
Many of their other chores would be spinning, sewing, cheese making, foraging, gardening, weeding, haymaking, carrying and animal tending (Gies 41). ... They were dairymaids, poulterers, bakers, and brewers of beer, and when there were excess quantities of food or drink, women could sell them within the community (Women in the Middle Ages). ...
Jewish religious and cultural history and biblical authority have made the Bible one of the most important means by which woman's place in society has been defined down through the centuries. Not only is the Bible itself a partial historical document of the Jews, the way it has been received and ana...
The story, "Parker's Back"," by Flannery O'Connor, is about the marriage of O.E. Parker to Sarah Ruth and the digression that brings them together. O.E. Parker believes that he'll find happiness by turning a deaf ear to God and focusing on materialistic things, rather than spiritual. Sarah Ruth beli...
Their Eyes Were Watching God Their Eyes Were Watching God, by Zora Neale Hurston, is a novel about self-discovery, in which Janie Crawford is determined to find true love in marriage, and live life according to her terms. Janie's search begins in her Nanny's yard, as Janie lies beneath th...
A so-called "zodiac cycle" consists of 12 years represented by 12 different kinds of birth animals. What those fortune-tellers normally do was to collect the year, month, date and exact hour of birth of the two young people, as well as their birth animals to make a judgment on whether the two will make a harmonious family without any obstruction to each other. ...
