... . The injustice of women is the main characteristic of Munro's story. The girl hates helping her mother and doing work that was appropriate for a young woman: " I hated the hot dark kitchen in the summer "(157). She wants to help her father outside doing work she thinks is important. Her father considers her help very beneficial until his son grows old enough ... modle in the protagonist's relationship with her family. The ambitions of a confused girl becoming a true women is the goal of Munro's story. This is very apparent in the contrasts between kitchen and barn settings.Throughout th...

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• Grade Level: High School

... of their sons, Preston and Robert, had died on D-Day and that their oldest son, Edward, was missing in action and presumed dead in the Pacific. Meanwhile, the youngest Niland boy, Fredrick, a paratrooper, was fighting somewhere in Northern France." The Army began to a search for Fredrick, and sent him back to the U.S. But he was in a Japanese POW camp. "He was ... he's truly bi-racial. However, anyone who had skin as naturally tanned and dark as his would likely have been considered a black man and he would have been assigned to kitchen duty with the other African Americans. It's a sad ...

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... priest, Dr.Sasaki a young surgeon, and Reverend Tanimoto. I picked Mrs. Nakumara because she is a widow and through this disaster, she had to take care her three children. (two girls and a boy) The night before the bomb was dropped, an alarm went off and she took her kids to the "safe area." In the morning Mrs. Nakumara and her children returned home ... . The alarm went off again so she decided that she wasn't going back to the "safe area," so she put her kids in bed. She went in the kitchen and that's where she saw a flash. The bomb had hit. Her house collapsed. Mrs. Nakamura had to go...

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• Grade Level: High School