A Profile on Rufus from A Death In The Family " I know I am making the choice most dangerous to an artist in valuing life above art." With these words James Agee, author of A Death In The Family, expresses his restless journey that would lead him to an early death. ... Thirty years later, A Death In The Family, a novel of Agee's childhood would be the cornerstone of his fame. ... On first hand we see Rufus's deep love for his father. The narrator tells us that Rufus sees that his father loves the silent companionship with his son. ...

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The relations of strong family ties in this book form a celebration of family and affirms the absolute best in humanity. ... The other quote that truly defines their relationship and the love Abdullah had for her was when she was going through the feathers and saw one particular one and said, "I don't know what this feather means, the story of it, but I know it means he was thinking of me" (419). ... It is within their relationship that true family values can be learned. ... It is at this point that the true test of family ties is displayed in this relationship. ... Masooma ...

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Love and marriage is an important theme in "Pride and Prejudice". ... However, Jane Austen points out the dangers of marriage when it is not based on equal love. ... In Jane Austen's time, Lydia's loss of dignity would have resulted in exclusion from her family and respectable society. Even though Lydia is saved from total humiliation, her punishment will be an unhappy marriage without the love of respect of her partner. ... This relationship is eventually based on real affection and love. ...

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Examples of this are Paul's love for Rosie, Keller and Paul's love for each other and their love and passion for music. ... After his family dies he dismisses his love of the Romantics and seeks refuge in the technical safety of Mozart and Bach "as if seeking some kind of ultimate discipline, some perfect control to set against the treacheries of emotion" (pg 50). ... In failing to protect his family from the Nazi threat because of his arrogance, Keller destroys a source of great love (his family) and destroys his love for great music also. Once he denies his love of passionate ...

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Victor's emptiness and pain come from his withdrawal and loss of his family. When he left for college in Ingolstadt he left his family for what was suppose to be five years. ... When he returns home he has only a slight time before his one and only love is killed, along with the rest of his friends and family. ... Although he is a monster, he acquires human characteristics and does learn to love the De Lacey Family. ... Both the monster and Victor share a common search for love and a mate. ...

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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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He was also the first and only suitor to express his love for Lucie to her personally. ... Manette to tell him about their love for Lucie instead of telling her themselves. ... He wants to feel like he is too, a part of their family because he wants to be desperately accepted there. ... Charles Darnay had been imprisoned and sentenced to death and Lucie and the rest of her family were grieving at the thought of the loss of Darnay. ... Sydney Carton clearly expresses his love and care for Lucie by giving his life for the safety of her family. ...

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She did all this willingly and out of her love for him. Vivian also endured much pain for Grant because of her great love for him. ... There with her constant love and support. ... She stayed despite all this so that Grant's family would be given the chance to learn and accept her - unselfishly, she didn't want Grant and his family to wind up the way hers did - broken. ... Grant showed his lack of understanding when he told Vivian that he considered his family's reaction was "far from being the same thing" as the situation between her family and her husband. ...

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The 16-year-old brother falls in love with the pregnant teenager, and hope springs anew in the unfortunate Whittaker family. ... The novel ends with a surprise gift to that family. ... The lives of the family members are so changed by Annie's death that none of them feel they can coexist as a family without her. ... Although she and Tommy are in love, she will not marry him, because she says they are too young. ... He, in turn, presents Maribeth to his family, and the whole family is renewed by her gift to them of her newborn child. ...

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"It was a dream come true, I love my life! I love my husband! I love Montana! ... She stated, "I love it here in Montana. ... Her family suffered deep pain and grief since in a short amount of time they had lost 2 members of the family and a good friend. ...

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Her family was a hard-working one and they all did their part to keep up the plantation on which they resided. ... Her family valued story-telling and brought Rebecca up to appreciate it as well.(barnesandnoble.com) She organized many plays for her family and later on, for her town and local theater. ... Just as a mother will always forgive and love her daughter, her daughter will always forgive and love her in return. ... To love someone to the extent that seeing her makes a bad decision for herself makes you angry with her is true love. ...

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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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He claims to love her, but the way he acts and treats her it seems like he only loves the physical part of their relationship. ... There is also a long line in the del Valle family and the Garcia family. The two families" sort of match up to the same ages except the Garcia's are about a generation older so their last in the line is a generation older than the last in the del Valle line. ... No matter what, everyone always seems to love Clara. ...

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This duo fell deeply in love through "interpretations of looks" (88). Their love was apparent. ... This is because Victor comes from a good family, has a promising education, and as the quote from Walton proves, possesses a very handsome appearance. ... It was a family and companionship he craved and needed. ... The beautiful are loved and the gruesome are loathed. ...

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They loved their families and had an ordeal which causes them unhinged. ... Holden and Willy love their family. ... He loved to read to his brother, D.B.'... She is the one Holden loved the most which was expressed in the whole novel. ... Willy worked hard at his whole life to support his family. ...

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"By refusing to view the passion that breaks families as a mistake that should be either avoided or corrected, Anna indicates her willingness to embrace it.... Being forced into marriage can we say that Anna ever experienced true love? ... She was so ecstatic after finding what she thought was true love and the affection that she was looking for in her relationship with Vronsky that she went ahead and abandoned her family. ... Although what she did was selfish and ultimately wrong in putting her desires and her wants before her family she had no choice. ... She was forced to marry someone...

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Josie even grew to love her father, even tough he was not their for her, during the firs 17 years of her life. "But I love Michael Andretti more and more everyday. I love him double to what I did maybe a month ago- There are various people who could relate to Josie's sole-parent family situation. In Looking for Alibrandi, Josie's family consists of her and her mother who have quite a strong mother-daughter bond. ... She develops by realising that she cannot fall in love at this age. ...

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At the age of 16, Wolfe entered the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and home on summer vacation a year later, he experienced his first love affair, which also was recaptured in his later work (Johnston 104). ... In Look Homeward, Angel Thomas Wolfe's brother Ben is portrayed as a loner who hides his love for his youngest brother behind a mask of short temperedness and sarcastic denial. ... In this book, George Webber, the main character, has written a successful novel about his family and hometown. ... At last, Webber returns to America and rediscovers it with love, sor...

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It refers to the role of women in society and in the family. ... The reason life is dedicated to love. Maria has unconditional love for Efrain. ... Unfortunately it was an impossible love. ... We can see this with the family of Efrain. ...

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"I love you, only you, no one but you. ... Now you are here we shall love each other, my Robert. ... Edna is forced to choose between Robert and her family. ... The flames of love quickly consume her, and the presence of Robert invades her every thought. ... This same force allows her to break from her family. ...

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That Eye The Sky Review The Novel That Eye The Sky by Tim Winton is about the Flack family consisting of Sam and Alice, their children, and Tegwyn and Morton. ... Due to this incident, gradually through out the novel we find the details of each character and how this incident gradually pulled the family apart. ... As the family is falling apart , Ort hopes for a miracle that will cure his father. Then when a stranger, Henry Warburton who is an evangelist comes into the story and helps the Flack family. ... A crisis looms, and its unforeseen effects end the wrenching story that proves love...

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Kate Chopin's The Awakening was written during a time when husbands were viewed as the protector and the provider of the family and wives were viewed as "mother-women" and housewives. ... Even though she loved and cared for her family, she knows that there is more to life than raising children and being a good wife. ... During this period, women led very sheltered lives that were focused on the family and home and not one individual hopes and desires. ... Her marriage to her husband was an accident that was based on rebellion instead of love (18). ... Even though she is in love w...

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It all starts with Bazarov walking into the lives of the Kirsanov family. ... He starts up conversations with having only his point of view, which starts some trouble with the family members, especially Pavel. ... Bazarov tells him his way of thinking, his way of life, his way of how society works, his way to have a relationship with a family. ... Katya realizes her love for Arkady when she sees the difference in him and Bazarov. ... When he questions her about it, she realizes that she is in love with Nicholas. ...

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The story of Frankenstein is one in which the emotions of love and hate are expressed and felt in many different ways throughout the various characters. Although the character of Victor Frankenstein reveals love for his cousin Elizabeth, his friends and his family at the beginning of the novel, his feelings of hate is what stands out in him the most. ... He goes from loving and caring for his family and friends, to being a self-involved scientist. ... He grows to be very lonely by putting his creation before his friends and family. Victor may not realize this because he is so occupied with h...

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Alfred Booth Kuttner states the Oedipus complex as: "the struggle of a man to emancipate himself from his maternal allegiance and to transfer his affections to a woman who stands outside the family circle" (277). ... Often at the sight of her, "his heart contracts with love"" (278). ... The verification of Kuttner's statement is seen as Lawrence has Paul react to her death in this manner: "my love - my love - oh, my love! My love - oh, my love!" ... The love that Paul feels towards his mother would never die. ...

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