... Wang Lung for being to lavish. Yet, this old man has absolute faith that his sons and grandsons will take care of him, and he endures the hardships of the famine with good nature. Wang Lung's Uncle The younger brother of Wang Lung's father, he is a shiftless farmer who is careless of his house and lets his children run wild in town. He exploits ... it. He fails in understanding his sons who disappoint him by rejecting his land. The lack of domestic tranquility is reflected in the wars and civil strife that surround the personal story of Wang Lung. The uncle's family, with a bandit fathe...

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• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

... There were so many people in each truck that there was no room to sit down. After what seemed like days of riding down bumpy roads, the truck stopped. A Nazi soldier opened the truck, and we were met by a line of soldiers with guns. They told us where we were, Birkenau concentration camp. Next, they told ... As we separated, my father and I made eye contact and, without saying any words, we both said good bye to the other. I tried to see where my father went, but there were too many people and I lost him in the crowd. My brothers and I were put into a barrack and given clothes to wear; w...

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• Grade Level: High School

... (Keshen, pg 259). Families were not prepared to deal with the emotional trauma their loved ones (veterans) were experiencing. So many had immeasurable traumatic memories. The veterans themselves, and their family were not equipped with the skills they need to cope. Men had a difficult time transitioning back into civilian life. Good Housekeeping magazine published articles "telling wives that men would cease ... their remembering in no more than 3 weeks. The Army felt no more than 2 months; in fact it ... ones continued to have flash backs and memories of their time spent over seas. For...

• Word Count: 2120
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

... current husband. Together they have one daughter named Jing-Mei. Canning's aunt Aiyi nicknamed him "Little Wild Goose- when he was a boy. In China the nickname serves as a baby milk name, which is used to discourage ghosts from stealing children. « Aiyi is Canning's 77-year old aunt with a piercing ... China. Her home is a 3-three story, big brick house made by her family. She has one son, two grandchildren, and one great-grandchild. According the Jing-Mei, Aiyi looks ancient, shrunken, like a mummified relic. She is very small with thin white hair and brown decaying teeth. « ...

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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

... very distinguished and pompous lady, long black hair, and affable smile, whom, after almost 40 years, I still remember vividly in my mind. Although I rarely saw her, the most enduring memories that I have of her is when she put me on her lap and sang a song in a language I barely understood, but that made me dream ... stop my desires to travel with him as much as I could to get to know him better and learn to be a good man like him. After all, my father was my idol, he was the only male figure in my life, since I had no other male siblings, and only had three older sisters. Later in lif...

• Word Count: 1452
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School