... full of projects, you could basically call it ghetto. It wasn't a rough town but it was it pretty bad to grow up in. There are gangs and drug fiends that surround my hood to this day. I could've chosen that path, but that was the easy way out. For example, I ... parties, not together though we seen each other there. At these parties teens would smoke marijuana and if anyone ever offered him some he would gladly take a hit. After getting into the whole marijuana thing, he started selling drugs after seeing how successful all the other kids were at our high school. Making easy money was i...

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• Grade Level: High School

... gentleman caller, Tom singles out as a symbol of unrealized hope. The fifth and final character, the father, does not appear in the play: he skipped town long ago and hasn't been heard from except for a terse postcard farewell from Mexico. Amanda calls Tom to the dinner table and ... illusion is autobiographical. Tom is the playwright's stand-in. Tennessee Williams (born Thomas Lanier Williams) was an aspiring poet in St. Louis when he lived with his family and, at his father's behest, worked in a shoe factory. His older sister Rose was, in childhood, his one true friend and, in adulthoo...

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• Approx Pages: 22
• Grade Level: High School

... of controversy because the rich weren't getting drafted and the poor were (Surrey 67). Timmy J was a boy from a Sino, a small town in Texas. He came from a poor family, and they did not have the money to send him through college. Timmy's father died when he ... was just 4 years old, and Timmy was never told how he died. He was raised by his mother and his grandmother and he had a 14 year old sister. Many people who ... knew Timmy however, said Timmy loved his grandmother more than anyone else in the world. Timmy was 17 years old when his senior year of high school started. Timmy was th...

• Word Count: 1045
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School