... of the unstoppable love and care of a grandmother for her grandchild. It tells a story of sheer determination as Phoenix Jackson makes a long journey into town to get medicine for her chronically ill grandson. She strives forward despite frequent obstacles in her way that include her own failing health and the grandchild's ... early morning" in December. Phoenix Jackson is "very old and small ", and walks like the "pendulum in a grandfather clock" ever so carefully with her "thin, small cane made from an umbrella." The description of Phoenix Jackson at the beginning of this story gives t...

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... of the unstoppable love and care of a grandmother for her grandchild. It tells a story of sheer determination as Phoenix Jackson makes a long journey into town to get medicine for her chronically ill grandson. She strives forward despite frequent obstacles in her way that include her own failing health and the grandchild's ... early morning" in December. Phoenix Jackson is "very old and small ", and walks like the "pendulum in a grandfather clock" ever so carefully with her "thin, small cane made from an umbrella." The description of Phoenix Jackson at the beginning of this story gives t...

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• Grade Level: High School

... , Wei Lam Wo walks in the fields with her parents. She wears old sandals made of bamboo that are worn-out from hiking across acres of crops. Her clothes are thin and ineffective to the temperature of the season. Luckily, over these clothes she has a jacket made of cowhide to keep her warm. Her hair stands tangled like cobwebs since she ... . She wields the axe with both hands, and uses a thrusting motion toward the log. Wood chips and bark fibers fly in the air with the log splitting into two flat pieces of wood. She grabs these logs and tosses them into a little, homemade wooden wagon. T...

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... 's wife, ran away with Paris, a Trojan citizen. King Menelaus was my father, King Agamemnon's, brother. When he learned about this surprising news, nothing held my father and his brother back into invading Troy. Both wanted to seek revenge and re-establish honor within our family name. And so they began their war journey to Troy to achieve their goals. On their ... just happened. King Menelaus ordered everyone to leave so let my mother and I could grief in piece. Minutes after everyone left, my father's body had transformed into a deer. And soon after, the deer disappeared into thin air....

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... Family, whether realized or not, is permanent. Generations come and different traits are passed on, yet as different members of families marry into others, their own respective family unit remains. They can never break that thread of relationship. They are completely and irrevocably tied by blood ... His struggles continue into adolescence, when he finds his father intimidating and unworthy of his respect. He obeys his father when need calls for it, but by the time he is fourteen, the only similarity he finds that he shares with his father is "his love of good shoes and fine thin socks. ...

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... has driven him to thoughts of suicide and that he would kill himself if it were not a violation of canon law. He wishes he could just evaporate into thin air and begins by saying, "O, that this too too sullied flesh would melt / Thaw and resolve itself into a dew!" Further, we learn that his father's death and his mother's hasty remarriage have turned his world ... into "an unweeded garden / That grows to seed; things rank and gross in nature / Possess it merely." Gertrude was all tears at her husband's funeral, but "within a month" she ... had shown "wicked speed, to post / With such ...

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... two chairs to show any sign of occupancy. Cold. Dank. The strong stale stench of mold and urine claimed the air. The flickering of the light swept through the rotted, cracked floor, trailing away into the abyss. Dead, until the silence was broken by a sudden creak and a shrill loud enough to shatter glass. ... with dread. The sound of slapping and punching echoed in the room "fist meeting flesh, until with every hit the murderous rage slowly subsided into nothing more than fatigue. His father callously turned on his heel and walked away, leaving the young child huddled in a corner along w...

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... fritters, dried persimmons, a variety of walnuts, dates, vegetables, traditional cookies, etc. Cylinder-shaped rice cakes about two cm in diameter are cut diagonally into thin slices, soaked in water, and boiled in beef broth. People eat this dish from autumn to winter, but it is a specialty dish for the New ... as explained to me are complicated to an outsider but second hand to any Korean. The game involves the four sticks that are tossed into the air and depending on the position of the sticks and the number of stick in a certain position it allows players (Mal) to advance spaces ... ...

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... 's river, leaving behind a shattered family and a terrible secret. The narrative eddies along toward the secret of Sophie's death, but ultimately it flows into the drowning depths of history. " The God of Small Things" is a story of forbidden, cross-caste love and what a community will do ... delights in verbal innovation and stylistic tricks. She runs words together -- "thunderdarkness," "echoing stationsounds" -- and plucks nouns from verbs and verbs from thin air. And she has hit on a striking way of getting at a child's point of view (told in third person, the story unfolds more or ...

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... quot;she invents her own fantasies about why her aunt gave in to her forbidden passions. In one such scenario, her aunt is a timid woman ordered into submission by a rapist. In another, her aunt harbors a slowly blossoming passion, attempting to attract a man's attention by carefully tending to her appearance. ... and the society in which her aunt lived. A description of how it was vital in the village to eliminate sexual attraction among kinsmen segues into Kingston's own peculiarities about making herself attractive to boys. The most vivid parts of the chapter are those in which Kingst...

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