In Lysley Tenorio's collection of short stories, Monstress, characters in each story suffer from their lives, yet they find the motivation to hope and chase their dreams. Most of them are Filipino-American immigrants who are seeking the American Dream with their fantasy inference. Most immigrants are influenced by a fantasy, the life that they believe America has offered. Their dreams of a fantasy world are a way to comfort and escape their unpleasant pasts, but they lead them to chase unreal desires. In particular, this is true of Felix Starro in "Felix Starro" and Isa in "L'amour, CA" who ha...

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... his own demise as an unfortunate direct result of mankind's imperfect technology. In addition to feeling "like a stranger in his own dying" (142), Jack begins to experience the scientific certainty of his death: "We are all the sum total of our data . . . just as we are the sum total of our chemical impulses" (202) with an overpowering sense of dread. Jack's wife, Baba, although ... shock and panic into the shoppers (i.e. the masses) until they can adjust to the new system. After surviving the initial traumatic change, we see the shoppers quickly resume their mindless lives on the road ...

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• Grade Level: High School

... Florence or see it through, and tragic. Dr Berne's conclusion was that the harder the script that the person has is the easies to talk to a stranger. Oedipus, who got away with the one liners to women and men as well as the robber who says shut- up. Though most people go through six different situations ... head such as his/ her parents voice, experimental-script theory can not be tested, and blind matching-when a teacher and a therapist believe the student has the same script. The Methodology in "What do you say after you say hello", has a few problems, Eric Bernme said that he tried no...

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... - Iambic pentameter Analysis: Lines 1-2- Death is greatly personified in these lines. Figuratively, this woman has a "date with death." Death seems to be gentlemen that may be handsome and well groomed, who makes a call at the home of a young woman. Death "kindly" comes to get her, knowing that she keeps herself busy. 2 Lines 3-4- The third passenger in the coach is a silent, mysterious stranger. Immortality rides with ... them and is also personified with the capitalization of the "i." 2 Line 5- Possible explanation s for the slow speed Death drives the carriage are: the woman is "dead...

• Word Count: 763
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• Grade Level: High School