... they called it. Anh put the rent on the table next to the bar-cash, the restaurant-cash, and the cabaret-cash, mounting, heaping great big blocks of bills like brick-a mason laying a foundation. An wanted to know whose mountain of paper it was. [His mom] told him ... was going to do with it. "Anh said, My son, this money will take you abroad to study. In America you will become a great engineer." (Pham 308-309). In the eyes of the Vietnamese, Andrew is considered successful because his career and American lifestyle; in the quote it ... come to define his journey. The importance of gend...

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... but also prove their dominance in a male driven society (Appell). Men had to provide for the helpless females, males were chivalrous and took great pride in being the head and protector of the household. Along with society expectations there were sexual beliefs that men had. Males enthusiastically opposed prostitution even though most secretly participated in it. In the church men were considered ... created characteristics that molded them into the protagonists that can question oppression and morality in the Victorian times. During adulthood the authors begun to use the characters to ...

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... setting plays a strong part in this piece, serving as a foundation for the heroine, Antonia. Its no wonder that Cather describes the scenery so extensively, with quotes such as "The red of the grass made all the great prairie the colour of wine-stains, or of certain seaweeds when they are first washed up." The country-pioneer environment gives room for an unconventional ... experienced hard labor, whose back had never bore heavy loads and whose skin had never toiled beneath the sun. Then there is Antonia, growing up away from all these social expectations, away from the cities and stuff...

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