Family life always took priority to Tyler's writing. ... Tyler's love and deep interest in her family is often reflected in the themes of her works. ... Letting go to loved ones in order to move on with one's life is also a prevalent subject in Tyler's writings. ... The family involved in this novel, the Pikes, are able to find a common ground between a constantly changing world and the despair of immutability by keeping a "strong tight hold" on what they truly care about: love, family, and neighbors. ... Daisy's attempts to keep her family together in some form o...

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Block in order to help them learn about the importance of hope and the power of love. Block writes about the struggles that people endure when searching for and losing significant loved ones. Children who read the novel will encounter educational lessons about the power of friendship, faith, and love. ... The characters in the novel are ultimately concerned with the happiness of other significant loved ones. ... The protection and happiness associated with the importance of family in the novel also helps educate children about the strength and support that family can offer in times of need...

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One could assume that because it is her aunt she would be treated better as she really is true family, but this is not the case. ... Jane, as a child, reflects that, 'It must have been most irksome to find herself bound by a hard wrung pledge to stand in the stead of a parent to a strange child she could not love, and to see an uncongenial alien permanently intruded on her own family group'. ... The fact that Jane takes comfort in the company of a stranger shows the lack of trust and feelings she has for her family. ... For example when the Pastor accuses Jeannette of not loving Go...

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They have a short love story in Italy which culminates with a forbidden kiss. ... When George and his father move to Tunbridge Wells, the quarter where Lucy and her family lives, she finds that her relationships with her family, with the unconventional Emerson and with her supercilious fiancé Cecilio pull her between the social proprieties of her upbringing and the spontaneous promptings of her heart. ...

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A Psychological bravado unfolds in the midst of an entangling love story. ... Sonia became a prostitute in order to help her impoverished family. ... She can also be seen engulfed in the feelings of love. ... Sonia sacrifices herself to help her family survive and combat poverty stricken situations. ... While attending the labor camp, Raskolnikov sheds his arrogant egotism and realizes that he truly loves Sonia. ...

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Forced into prostitution by poverty, Sonia struggles to fend for her family. ... Sonia justifies her "profession" by the money it brings to support her family. ... Sonia tolerates her shame perhaps even welcomes it, so long as she is able to provide financial relief for her family. ... For example, she struggles to understand the complexity of Raskolnikov's inner turmoil and loves him regardless. ... Similarly, Raskolnikov's love interest, Sonia play an important role in portraying Raskolnikov as a split character. ...

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" (42) This blind adherence to religious ideals often baffles Stephen, such as when he is puzzled by his family's disquietude at his childish suggestion to marry his Protestant neighbor, Emma. ... Stephen also resolves his emotional turmoil toward the family by describing his father endearingly, despite his many faults. This demonstrates that although Stephen recognizes his family's-and specifically his father's-imperfections, he remains strongly rooted by familial love. ... Despite these tarnished upbringings, Joyce would remain strongly attached to his family, especially ...

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This rebuilding provides for an atmosphere of conflict between the Kabuo and the Heine's as the former is left without the land previously worked by his family. ... Ishmael's inner conflict represents themes of morality, love and duty as he decides whether or not to reveal the evidence proving Kabuo's innocence, and removing all chance of him regaining Hatsue's love. ... Ishmael fights with his love for Hatsue and his moral duty to reveal the records to prove that an innocent man is just that. ...

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The idea of feelings being a primary issue in the Romantic era is displayed through the monster because he is described as being a child without a choice of being born and basically just wanting to be loved by someone, which shows the primacy of feelings. ... Griffith also points out another idea of the Romantic era and this is, "that the monster sees in the De Laceys the loving family he has never known and their simple cottage life as a model of the happily primitive which the Romantics idealized." ...

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Her wealthy family has always been somewhat isolated from the community, they "had long thought of [her family] as a tableau" (Faulkner 116). ... In "A Rose for Emily," Emily's family is described as being wealthy, proud, and they "held themselves a little too high for what they really were" (Faulkner 116). ... Despite all of her father's efforts, Emily, out of loneliness, ironically falls in love with Homer Barron, a lower class working man, someone her father would never have approved of. ...

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It is believed that Denham's job as a caretaker for an upper class family allowed Behn the opportunity to receive some sort of second hand education [ CITATION Bio15 l 1033 ]. ... In her teenage years, Behn and her family allegedly journeyed from England to the British colony of Surinam because of her father's transferal there due to a military appointment [ CITATION Bio15 l 1033 ]. ... Rather than searching for the love of a husband to support her, Behn took to pen and paper in an attempt to provide her own living. ... Behn's tragic love story chronicles the life of an African...

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The Rainbow is Lawrence's version of a social saga, spanning three generations of the Brangwen family. ... The Rainbow and Women in Love were originally intended to form one novel entitled The Sisters, which was begun in 1913 when Lawrence was living in Italy, but as the novel developed across 1913-14its scope grew so much that in the autumn of 1914 Lawrence decided to create two novels. ... The Brangwens have for generations been farmers in the Midlands of England and the novel focuses on three generations of the family, starting from around 1840 and continuing up to the beginning of the...

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His personal attitudes about love are portrayed though Emma. ... In 1844, after developing a nervous disorder that required him to retire to his family estate, Through the isolation and boredom of this provincial life that Emma Bovary was created not only as a representation of Flaubert's romantic longings, but as a universal example of a woman bored with a mediocre life. ... A mediocre individual, who gets her ideas of love and happiness from novels and tries to live out these fantasies, Emma stumbles through every kind of romantic "escape" from the banality in which she exists. ...

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The location of a neighborhood generally incorporates the families" incomes, the size of the home, and the quality of the schools, which ultimately affects their values, beliefs, and personality. ... The suffering Raskolnikov undergoes within his chamber can directly relate to another theme in the novel presented by Sonia, a young woman forced to go into prostitution to support her family and her father's drinking habits. ... This "sickness" lasts for several weeks, and is never resolved throughout the novel until he confesses his guilt and his love for Sonia. ...

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In Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, the De Lacey family is considered to be poor and unfortunate. ... Yet, even with all of these obstacles, this family has proven in this novel to be among the richest. ... He knew nothing and yet in a succinct period of time, he earns how to separate his senses, survive, comprehend the human language, and even formulate his own thoughts and ideas: "I admired virtue and good feelings and loved the gentle manners and amiable qualities of my cottagers, but I was shut out from intercourse with them, except through means which I obtained by stealth, when I was u...

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The "Revolution" in Literature During the 19th/20th Centuries An influential English Modernist Virginia Woolf once said, "On or about December 1910, the world changed". This statement is regarding the drastic change in the culture of society with the beginning of exploration of the meaning of li...

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Yet, later on, as the creature becomes aware of how he came to be and is confronted with the cruelty of society, he decides to seek revenge on Victor Frankenstein's family and wreaks havoc upon the life of his creator. ... By exploiting knowledge that he did not have the ability to control, Victor unwittingly destroyed all those that he ever loved and valued; his reckless pursuit of knowledge eventually caused his downfall. ... The monster's rampage against Victor's family eventually led to Victor's demise, which in turn led to the monster very own demise; alone in the cr...

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This film sets the narrative about love and a cultural conflict that will take place simultaneously. ... Even though it is done in slightly different ways, both the novel and the film serve to examine women's position and status within the family and society. ...

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She does an excellent job of pairing the challenges her family has faced being African Americans growing up during the Great Depression with essential life-lessons that are important for every person to understand. ... Morrison's father's family left Georgia to move north as an attempt to escape sharecropping and the violence against African Americans in the South. The town of Lorain on Lake Erie is where both families settled and is also where Morrison was eventually born. ... African American folklore, music, rituals, and myths filled Morrison's childhood, and storytelling was...

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As far as Parsi life goes, though, Mistry has some competition, because the Pakistani writer Bapsi Sidhwa, now a United States citizen, has written a robust novel that portrays this community during the colonial period, The Crow Eaters (1980), another that depicts a Parsi family in Lahore during the time of Partition in 1947, Cracking India (1991), and a third set in the postcolonial era, An American Brat (1993), that treats not only contemporary Parsi life in Pakistan but the community's immigrant experience in the United States as well. ...

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As far as Parsi life goes, though, Mistry has some competition, because the Pakistani writer Bapsi Sidhwa, now a United States citizen, has written a robust novel that portrays this community during the colonial period, The Crow Eaters (1980), another that depicts a Parsi family in Lahore during the time of Partition in 1947, Cracking India (1991), and a third set in the postcolonial era, An American Brat (1993), that treats not only contemporary Parsi life in Pakistan but the community's immigrant experience in the United States as well. ...

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Denying them is not an option for Woolf's Orlando: only her son's birth entitles her position at the family estate; her "compulsory husband", "now grown a fine sea captain", returns home in an airplane. ... Her long look at his face and his smile, and the physical similarity (especially around the eyes) between Billy Zane and Charlotte Valandrey, encourage the viewer to imagine Orlando thinking back through that founding love affair, exploring the likeness between Sasha and Shelmerdine. ...

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Louisa May Alcott presents this human nature as a woman's struggle between duty to family and personal growth. ... The point Alcott is making is that Amy does not love Fred "her heart is not with him "so she must decline his offer, and, in turn, her chance at marrying into money. ...

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The short story, "Hills Like White Elephants" by Ernest Hemingway, and the novella, "The Metamorphosis" by Franz Kafka, both contain covert alternate meanings that emanate from the authors' literary style preferences. The alternate meanings can be considered "hidden meanings" as they do not directly convey any information that overtly states the hidden meaning. The information that does exist can be interpreted as hidden meanings by analyzing other signs and implications throughout the ambiguous literature. Ernest Hemingway uses a literary style called the &q...

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Thesis statement: Eva Luna by Isabel Allende is an example of a novel that depicts a great variety of women characters that come together in their struggle to survive in a politically torn and male-dominated country. Good! Eva Luna was my introduction into the world of Isabel Allen...

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