... school. He did not show up on time, in fact he did not show up for three hours after the time he was supposed to. So we all started walking home because there was no one to come get us. But then Steve finally appeared, and we all watched as he came down the road and as he threw something from ... so ashamed. Not just for me but for my whole family as well. The fighting did not stop there though. Steve would come home late almost every night. My mother would wait up for him and when he got home they would have a fight. But for some reason my mother would not give up on him, she kept on t...

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• Grade Level: High School

... expression of love, hides real feelings and gives a fazade of beauty to otherwise ugly relationships. Carolyn raises roses. She cultivates them and makes them into beautiful adornments for her perfect home. She wears perfectly matching clogs and gloves to use her matching clippers to cut her perfect roses. She believes, as she states several times in the movie, that "to be ... . When her husband quits cooperating with this philosophy her world begins to fall apart. She has, up until this time, felt only pragma love towards her family- they fulfill her shopping-list requirements. When the...

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... . On page 354, the narrator says, "Zoë was discovering something she never suspected she had Once she had pampered her students, singing them songs, letting them call her at home, even, and ask personal questions. Now she was losing her sympathy."" Even Zoë is beginning to realize that the changes that occurred since her childhood were truly making her ... to believe that Evan's job is much easier that Zoë's. But when Zoë is talking about Evan's job, she tells the reader how busy she always is with shopping and discovering new ways to set up her food. Even Zoë believes that Evan has...

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• Grade Level: High School