... we got to say. We don't want your money." Walter decides to move into the house so the whole family moves to the neighborhood and the play ends. 1. Setting: South Side Chicago World War II to present day. 2. Symbol: Mama's plant is a symbol of life. 3. Protagonist: Mama 4. Antagonist: Lindner 5. Simile: " sleepy as the devil." 6. Metaphor: "You are a horrible chic at this hour." 7. Characterization: Walter is greedy and wants ... money. Ruth is quiet. Beneatha is moody. Mama is very religious. 8. Man vs. Man: Walter versus Beneatha. They argue about the money that belongs to their mothe...

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... Tita by keeping the tradition of the youngest daughter having to take care of her mother till she dies and not letting her marry the one she loves. The tradition and refusal for Tita to marry Pedro is apart of the conflict. The theme of the story is the battle between women for power and the traditions kept by families. The simile ties to the theme because by keeping the tradition, Mama Elena ... is cutting up Tita like the watermelon. Also, because of the mother's role as the head of household, Tita has to ... obey her mother and respect the traditions kept by her mother. An ... ...

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... any congregation, politics rears its ugly head. Some want Margaret to remain. Others want her to give up the pulpit. When "sinner" Ida Jackson comes to Sister Margaret after Ida's infant dies, the advice once more, is to trust in the Lord. The action comes to a head when the preacher's alcoholic jazz musician husband, Luke, shows up. He is sick and dying, yet their son, David ... wants to follow in his long-absent father's footsteps. David wants to delagate his piano playing occupation in the storefront church to someone else in order to pursue his dreams with his father. Of course this...

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In the essay "The Jacket" by Gary Soto, the author is trying to illustrate what a son would do for his family. There are many examples throughout the essay that prove this point. In the story there was a young boy who had asked his mother for a leather jacket, because he wanted to fit in with the other kids. His mom had gotten him a green jacket that was too big for him. Although he didn't like it, he still dealt with it. He had to wear it for three years. He still showed his mom that he appreciated it by saying thank you to her. Despite him not liking the jacket, he still wore it and got tort...

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... allaw them to do what they want,however,what they do must not against law and not make trouble to other people.I think the couples who live together before marriage have the right.They do not do anything wrong because they did not make any trouble to anyone. It is about 2 people loving ... that they are mature enough and have responsibility. Live-in relationship is the good way to get to know each other.I think when people love each other,they have the idea of getting married but they will never know whether they are the perfect match or not.In order to get to know each other ... better...

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... dark and plain. The wind didn't stir even the smallest strand of hair on the bodies lining the ground. Flies buzzed through the air on their gossamer wings, feasting on the rotting smorgasbord that lay beneath them. The bomb had not reached our family, for my father had heard of the threat and we had prepared an accommodating shelter for him, my older sister, mother my boyfriend and myself. We had ... made it into the shelter merely minuets before the ... ...

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... for one's child is displayed in the poem On My First Son by Ben Jonson. The significance of the poem's sorrowful grievance tone is exemplified and apparent through Jonson's use of irony, metaphor, and word choice. Jonson's sorrowful tone in the poem is expressed in the irony of the line, "my sin was too much hope of thee, loved boy." One senses Jonson's acceptance of the death, despite the state of grievance, he realizes that his ... able to empathize with the poet through his grieving comparison of the two most important things in his life. By using this type of metaphor Jonson puts th...

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... him and memories he no longer wants would be dumped in the sink and washed away by the facet. By marrying his uncle, and her brother, she has, to him, pulled the last straw. He no longer has total respect for his mother because of that. Also knowing that Claudius has killed his father and ... his father is dead. He says it's an "unweeded garden" that eventually spreads to the theme of decay throughout the play as almost everyone dies. Hamlet would want nothing more than to wash his feelings of betrayal and neglect down the drain and just wash them all away. He watched Ophelia fall and e...

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... heroic. Thus, proving his critics wrong. First of all, Aeneas exhibits amazing loyalty to his family. For instance, when he finally sees his family, he holds his father and holds his son's hand. Yet, later when his wife is missing, Aeneas "turns back alone into the city" seeking his wife. Aeneas can be seen ... tell him that she was dead and to go on. Thus, Aeneas would have not ceased his search, if the ghost had not appeared. The most important factor that classifies Aeneas as a true hero is the fact that he leads his people to a new home. While being a leader for his people, Aeneas h...

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... Arrow. Upon his arrival, a blissful welcoming awaits him, showing he has been missed, especially by his father. The Indian tribe goes on a hunt to kill white men. When a canoe comes to the shore, where the Indians are waiting to attack, Johnny pushes them away for he thinks of his white family. Now Johnny will be either burned or left alive for his wrongdoing through ... the eyes of his Indian people. Although he is spared his life, Cuyloga knows his son was now white. Cuyloga ... agreed with Half Arrow that he would no longer speak to True Son. They each parted ways, True Son to the w...

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... However, that's only what he thinks. It turns out tha True Son isn't Indian and is a white boy. True Son is brought back to Pennsylvania. On the way, True Son's two Indian friends, Half Arrow and Little Crane, talk to him about how dim-witted white men are and how uc more superior Indians are ... . Nevertheless, they had to go away because the white soldiers would have killed them otherwise. When True Son arrived in Paxton County, he was immediately brought to his parents, Harold and Myra Butler, his Aunt ... white name is John C. Butler. When "John" sleeps in his bed, he feels too far aw...

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... fear on several separate occasions. When they were younger, Brother took Doodle into the barn loft and showed him the coffin they had made, expecting him to die as a baby. Doodle becomes extremely frightened, and doesn't want to touch the coffin. Brother makes him touch it, by threatening to leave him alone if he ... doesn't. In response to the threat, Doodle cries, "Don't leave me, Brother," (p 3) and touching the casket, screams. Brother uses fear to control his younger brother, forcing him to do cruel things. In the other story, Paul also is controlled in family relationships. His mo...

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... merry-go-round. When if you take a ride on it, it can make you younger or older but before that they have to find the missing wing that goes to the lion of the merry-go-round. They know where it is and how to get it the only thing, is that they have to steel it.   When Prosper and Bo (short for boisterous) and ... it they meet the owner of the missing wing.   Signora Spavento doesn't call the police but give them the wing hoping to get a glimpse the magical merry-go-round. When they gave the wing to the man who was looking for the wing, the Conte, they followed him to the Isola Segret...

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... months after Horita and Theodore are married; Col. Connelly dies, they have a son named Henry Percival, and Theodore leaves suddenly because of a mysterious letter. On the same day Theodore left a small child, Antoinette, shows up and gives a note, from Theodore, to Lord Arlington and Horita stating he wants them to take in this child and educate it as if it were Horita's daughter ... , then he decided to go back to Arlington Castle and live with Horita, Henry and Antoinette for the rest of his days. After Theodore's three chapter story, Antoinette and Francis and Francis" sister and Cou...

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... to Mango Street she lived on Loomis on the third floor and before that house she lived on Keeler. The difference about the house on Mango Street and the ones before are that they don't have to pay rent, there is no land lord bugging them for being loud. They also don't have to share a the yard with the people downstairs because no one lives down stairs ... it's there house. The house on Mango Street is not what Esperanza thought they would get. The House Esperanza wants, is a house with running pipes, stairs and real hall ... ways, at least three bathrooms, so you would not have to tel...

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... together like France, Spain, and Florida. Everyday was like spending a whole day in the middle of a happy fictitious book. We never got in each other's hair and we were never bored with each other. Our parents were the same way. They were like oil and vinegar. They had many things in common. ... mothers shared a common bond in that they exchanged ideas on how to keep their marriages strong and how to raise children. By leaps and bounds, the relationship between our parents went sour. I didn't comprehend it at first because it had happened so fast. Soon I couldn't believe what was happeni...

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... It couldn't have been true! All I could remember was that I was praying and hoping that someone has made a mistake and my father would be walking through the door with my mother and auntie. When they return, alone, at that moment it finally hit me, my father was gone. My life ended that day. How ... resemble my father, and she was mad because he died and left her alone to raise us. Then again that was insane! Finally, thank you Jesus! The good Lord had answered my prayers after all these years. He sent someone to save me from all this abuse, my god-sister. My god-sister wanted me to ....

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... in regards to her marriage. As a child, Lena St. Clair was always over imaginative and "could see the bad in everything"." Lena reveals her immaturity in the beginning when she thinks of multiple ways a beggar could die; "Did they slice off his skin first? Did they use a cleaver to chop up his bones? Did he scream and feel all one thousand cuts? Why do ... up seeing her mother like this should have learned from her mother but instead does the same exact thing, lets everything pass by. Lena keeps secrets about her marriage from her mother knowing very well that her mother could see throu...

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... as "a duet of shade and light". The first one sits in a dark room doing mathematical problems and is both logical and rational. Her only physical attributes depicted are, "Rat-shrewd go her squint eyes," and, "Root-pale her meager frame". All the vocabulary used to describe this girl is unlively and dreary. On the other hand, the other sister is tan and the simile "like pollen on ... bright air" is used to describe her . She is near "a bed of poppies" that are so red that they are the color of blood and the sun shining down on them, "burns open to sun's blade". A fertile theme continues...

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... buys her expensive clothing, Paris has plenty of problems that are unbeknownst to her siblings, but known to her omnipotent mother, Viola. Viola lets Paris into her secret by saying "ain't no pill gonna make you feel better from the inside," (451) in her final words to her eldest child. Perhaps the constant use of the word "painkillers" is a metaphor to Paris's constant claim to try ... "killing the pain" she has had for so many years. After all of her years of playing the lottery and risking her money, Charlotte, the second born child of Viola and Cecil Price, wins the lottery. Although...

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... have no choice but to use the TV as a babysitter."" Parents tend to just use the TV and/or an older sibling (if applicable) to watch the children for the usual two to four hours after school until the parents come home from work. Romano notes that in 1996, people in the TV program industry set up a ratings system for all shows. At the beginnings of the show and throughout it ... , a little box appears in the corner that shoes how the particular show ... ,"" the metaphor Romano uses for taking shows off the air, just because parents aren't able to control their children's actions that may...

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... , blood, and the murder of the flea as cunning metaphors for the most established ancient ritual, intercourse. Through the use of symbolic images Donne is not only analyzing the power of virginity but also the significance of premarital sex and intercourse as it exists in life. The speaker uses the flea as a cunning tool to explain his point of view about premarital sex. The metaphors used within the poem are generous, using the flea as the most dominant ... took the life of the flea into her own hands. During this part of the poem the speaker is respectful with the metaphor about interc...

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... of the family. Dee begins asking about various antique items in the home and their ownership status. There are a couple of quilts that she decides she absolutely has to have. The mother hears her argument, but in the end, has already promised them to Maggie. Dee, flies off the handle stating, "Maggie can't appreciate these quilts!" she said. "She'd probably be backward enough to put them to everyday use." The ... battle, it seems, will be on going with no end in sight. The mother finally ... decides she has had enough and grabs the quilts from Dee and throws them in Maggie's lap. Walker...

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... and that he is going to be in it for a while, but she would not say exactly how long. Even though the point of the nurse showing us the doll was to calm us, I was more terrified after hearing her talk. Soon, we entered the horrid room and my dad was right there. A machine was breathing for him, his head was covered with wrap, but ... his hand was out. I went to his hand and touched it, but immediately pulled away because of how cold it was. The nurse said he could hear me, but he could not respond. I tried talking, but it felt like something was choking me causing me to leave ... perso...

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... was with its "Cottages sprinkled around the shores," and how "undisturbed" and peaceful it was. Not a single thing wrong with it. He, White, explains the sameness of all things around him, right down to the "dragonfly at the end of the fishing pole." It is constantly never changing. When White gets hit with the reality of life, he uses a metaphor to better the understanding of life and what he felt out it ... . "Suddenly my groin felt the chill of death," White expressed as he realized he was his ... ...

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