Mother Savage In the short story of Mother Savage by Guy de Maupassant, we learn of what life was like for a widowed mother whose only son goes off to war, the setting taking place in Virelogne, France during the Franco-Prussian war. ... Formally known as Guy de (Henri René Albert) Maupassant, he was a French novelist and short-story writer. He is deemed one of the modern masters of the art of the short story and has influenced practitioners of that genre from his time to the present. ... (http://www.online-literature.com/maupassant/ Literature Network) As is evident with the sho...

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Clarke assembles eight short stories each having unique characters and plots that tell about different aspects of the lives of immigrants in Toronto. ... In the short story entitled "They"re not Coming Back" the mother, named Claudette, is a single parent of two daughters. ... In a state of delirium Claudette calls her mother and soon after her mother arrives to her home. ... The irony of the story is manifested at the end when Claudette's mother tells her daughter to "sleep" which is a death sentence because Claudette was slowly loosing consciousness from the sleeping pills. ... From...

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In Bloodlines; Odyssey of a Native Daughter, Janet Campbell Hale utilized short stories to chronicle various stages of her life as the daughter of a Coeur d" Alene. ... After a turbulent adolescence, Barnes recognized that she wished her mother was able to give her "a story, a narrative to give meaning to her life and mine." ... After recounting numerous stories of the treatment she received as a child, Hale described her inability to challenge her mother's actions: "Confronting my mother was always out of the question. ... Hale's mother frequently told her stories of her father&...

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Deborah was first sent to live with her mother's cousin, Miss. ... Only three short days later, Miss. ... Also Bathsheba, Deborah's Grandmother told her many stories of female heroism. ... To make sure no one could notice Deborah went to her mothers home and her mother could not recognize her. ... Although these stories were stated many times it unsure whether or not they are true. ...

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His plays are dark, pessimistic stories in which the characters all end up suffering in the end. ... They were becoming much more autobiographical, going into O'Neill's suffering past and more so into the O'Neill family story. ... The reason for this was so that the Tyrone story, which mirrored the O'Neill's, would hurt no one. ... The mother, Mary is the central addictive figure with in the family. ... Instead the men fight over the mother. ...

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One does not separate a child from her mother.' ... By having to take care of the little life he was able to forget about his own worries for a short period of time. ... She uses the word 'bereavement' but listening to the survivors stories it was more like the children forsaken their German culture and language. ... When Vera Gissing met her new mother it was a touching experience that she would never forget. ... Whereas this foster mother says the words "You shall be loved" this is exactly what these children need. ...

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The story begins in the warm-weather months and ends in autumn. ... A short while later, Armand enters the room to search through documents on a table. ... She immediately writes a letter to Madame Valmonde, saying, "My mother, they tell me I am not white. ... Desiree shows her mother's letter to Armand and asks him whether he wants her to go. ... On the other hand, after Desiree informs her mother of developments at L'Abri, Madame Valmonde tells her in a return letter, ""My own Desiree: Come home to Valmonde; back to your mother who loves you. ...

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Does this mean that a father and a father alone is sufficient to raise a young boy but any family structure not involving a father falls short, regardless of how loving and secure it may seem? ... Perhaps if a child has never known life with a father, it will not be as difficult on him as a boy who is suddenly forced to live with only his mother. ... It isn't difficult to hand out a survey to one hundred people with questions asking them how they feel about living with their father or mother, but it does present some major flaws that could cause questionable results. ... Most people, ...

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In his plays, O'Neill has embodied the trends and conflicts of his own time; he rebels against the narrowness, mindedness, hypocrisy, crudeness of feelingness, and the materialistic short-sightedness of his age.16 Throughout his plays, O'Neill reflects the reality of the American society. He simultaneously functioned as a social critic and moral guide as he believes that: The playwright must dig at the roots of sickness today as he feels it the death of the old God, the failure of science, and materialism to give any satisfying new one for the surviving primitive religious instinc...

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Summary - This is the story of two families who have been neighbours for a long time. ... And in a very short time Joe owned one of the biggest shops (factories) in town and became a respected business man. ... Keller had to make up that story about being sick to cover up for his crime. ... An argument took place between Mother and Chris. ... She showed Mother a letter from Larry to her. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Naylor's description of Nedeed with his "short squat body" and protruding eyes,""(3) conjures up an evil and almost satanic picture in the reader's mind. ... Lester and Willie begin their trip into Linden Hills at Lester's house where the reader meets Lester's mother, Mrs. ... The story is built around the great great grandson of the original Luther and his wife Willa. ...

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The story Hard Times is set in an imaginary town by the name of Coketown. ... He tells her "in short, that Mr. ... Louisa receives a note from Stone Lodge, the name of her parent's house, saying that her mother is almost dead and wants to see her one last time. ... She died only a short time later. ...

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You could not have an extended family that included servants, apprentices, and other non-kinfolk in a house that measured twenty feet by twenty feet and raised only a story and a half. ... Mothers usually raised the children, acted as midwives to other women in town, and tended to household chores. ... For example, while boys were off with their fathers, girls would stay home with their mothers, mostly helping out with the cooking, sewing and laundering. ... Men started out wearing powdered wigs and breeches and changed to wear long pants and short hair. ...

• Word Count: 3125
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• Grade Level: High School