The story begins with a means to an end. ... I believe it is the authors' goal to create the perception that the father in the story may have prepared fugu for his son and daughter. ... We learn from the story that this terseness was brought about by the father when the narrator was younger. ... If his daughter were to move to America, I believe the son would stay with him due to the fact that nor he or the father have other options. ... Regardless of what happens, the story ends with the father hoping things will get better....

• Word Count: 967
• Approx Pages: 4
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

She also takes her daughter to a beautician's to make her look like Shirley. ... "She had come here in 1949 after losing everything in China: her mother and father, her family home, her first husband, and two daughters, twin baby girl"(1). Yet the mother is able to make her way to America where she works very hard cleaning houses to provide for her daughter. ... The depth of the mother's character transforms Amy Tan's very common story of family conflict into one of interest and drama. The mother's background makes the reader more sympathetic to her, her foreign awkward...

• Word Count: 537
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

In the tragic story of Antigone, she picks family over the law because she knows deep down inside that it is morally right. ... Picture this: A daughter passes out and a frantic father takes her pulse. ... Thinking only of his daughter's health the father rushes to the car and drives at 100 miles per hour to the hospital. ... The father is very ill and there is no money for medical care or food. The son steals a ham to bring home to his dying father. ...

• Word Count: 1046
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

Each television household featured a working father, affectionate mother, and attentive children. ... The parents were both conventional and, in the case of the father, emotionally distant. ... Norman Lear's All in the Family brought a sense of harsh reality to television which previously had been populated largely by inoffensive characters and stories that seemed to have been laundered before the were ever placed on the air. ... The relationship that he shared with his daughter, Gloria, was strained after her decision to enter the matrimonial state with a Pole, Mike Stivic. ...

• Word Count: 1147
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Casablanca was a story of political and romantic espionage. ... As families saw their sons, daughters, mothers and fathers depart they turned their eyes to baseball and even though five hundred Major League ball players served in the World War II, baseball continued. ...

• Word Count: 1053
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School