... family. A successful business is what he loves and what has become his whole life. Although he may love his family, Mr. Pontellier also has the love of his business. Leonce's cold and unaffectionate attitude toward his wife is seen when Edna informs him by letter that she is moving out of the mansion and into the "pigeon-house." He is so ... reputation and financial stature. Leonce demonstrates again the lack of intimacy for his wife and strengthens his role as a self-absorbed businessman. Leonce believes that he adores his wife and children. However, what he really adores is what they ...

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... always fails and gives in to Ray or Marie. Doris Roberts plays the character Marie. She is the paramount mother of Ray. She loves to cook and feed anyone. She's adores Ray and the grand-kids". Sometimes she will cherish Robert, but she shows more love to Ray. For the most part Marie does not like Debra. She feels Debra does ... ...

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... is more concerned with appearance than anything else. Willy is obsessed with status. He believes that if a person is admired, he has everything. Since Willy was never admired himself, he adores the fact that his sons, and Biff in particular, are. In a way, Willy idolizes his children more than they idolize him. Because Willy sees that his boys have attained what ... ...

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... mother loves him. Neither Paul nor his mother realize the love she has for Paul, since it isn't shown until late in his life. ""She is such a good mother. She adores her children." Only she herself, and her children themselves, knew it is not so." (95). Paul does not feel that he can trust his mother with giving him good advice ... ...

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... see his brother in the terrible state that he is almost always in and that he really, truly wants to sing Gaelic songs with his grandmother. This entire family really adores finding something that they really like and sticking with it right up to their death. For example, the way that grandfather dies is probably one of the best ways to ... ...

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... her son like she had always wanted to be loved. At the same time Maya became a different person when she gave birth to her son. She was now a person who adores her child, unlike her parents did and she looked at life differently. She was also a fully educated woman and had made many accomplishments in her life. Throughout the book, Maya ... ...

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... there in my old bedroom brought back many memories from my childhood. I will never forget that old bed that was handed down through the family, and all the cold nights I slept in it. I can almost see myself shining dad's Sunday shoes or sharpening his knife there on the bedroom floor that dad and I replaced. I ... deep impressions. The bed was full size, and it sat up against the west wall under windows since the room was so small. I slept many a cold night under homemade quilts made from scraps of multicolored cloth saved by grandma. Grandma made all of us grandchildren a quilt from di...

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... without your mother, and it makes you very sad. To forget these thoughts I decided to look out the window of my parent's room and saw that the day was quite cold; the street was covered with snow, with too few people walking down the street. Shortly after that, my parents finally arrived, I saw a weird face of my father, not a worried face ... I realized that it was almost time. My father went into the room with the nurse with a smile in his face. After a few minutes my tension began to raise, nervous, anxious, cold sweat, to see my brother, and to have some news about how it was going,...

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... the commotion was all about. I felt extremely hopeless and helpless as I saw my grandfather attempting to aid my grandmother. The hours seemed like days as we waited anxiously in the cold waiting room of the Emergency Department. A Grand Mal seizure, the doctors later explained, was the cause of her illness. Following this seizure episode, she required day-to-day special care ... kind of feeling you would get before starting a new job. The itinerary for the day was provided to me by the head nurse, who greeted me with a cold death stare on her face. The cold eyes reminded me of the medu...

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... winter months when it would snow, Pam and I would spend the night at Granny and Granddaddy's house so Mama and Daddy would not have to get us up in the cold and drive us in the early morning. We loved spending the night because we would get to watch Granddaddy pop popcorn on the pot belly heating stove. We would watch ... . Pam and I would jump in the bed together in the room next to Granny and Granddaddy's room. I can remember how the bedrooms would get cold during the winter nights. Granny was always afraid we would get cold so she would put so many quilts on top of us we could hardly ...

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... life. I have lots of friends and love playing games with them. Today is December 20, 1934 the beginning of Hanukah. The sun is out and it is a beautiful, but very cold day. My grandparents will be here soon to celebrate with us. I love having my grandparents over for Hanukah because they always bring me something and they are fun to talk ... to myself, "Finally, after three years of living in that ghetto, we get to go back home." Two hours later, everyone in the ghetto is standing out in the freezing cold, holding on to as many suitcases as they can. The soldiers came through calling ro...

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... the patriarchal household. Lenny: Good Evening Ruth: Morning, I think. Lenny: you're right there. Pause. My name's Lenny. What's yours? Ruth: Ruth Sits up and pulls collar towards her. Lenny: Cold? Ruth: No The second way we can perform this, is by showing Ruth to be shy and quiet, and Lenny as an overconfident, flirty male who knows what he wants ... views towards women. Lenny: Good Evening Ruth: Morning, I think. Lenny: you're right there. Pause. My name's Lenny. What's yours? Ruth: Ruth Sits up and pulls collar towards her. Lenny: Cold? Ruth: No By performing either version we can se...

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... by not only bad parenting, but also by becoming unattached from other family members, like siblings. A good case study is that of Gary Gilmore, who murdered two young men in cold blood and refused to appeal his death sentence. He was executed in Utah in 1977. Mikal Gilmore, Gary's younger brother, conducted an extensive search to find where things went wrong ... almost immediately that sent him back. Gary wanted to die, specifically to bleed to death, so he finally turned to murder. In July of 1976, he killed two men in cold blood, had he not been caught, he probably would have continue...

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... turned to dust. She had bonny children, yet she felt they had been thrust upon her, and she could not love them" (225). The quote creates an image of how cold the mother is towards her children. Hester stopped respecting and loving her husband, once he was unable to provide her with all her extravagant taste. Hester blames their financial failure ... . This angered him somewhere, made him want to compel her attention" (226). His mother's disbelief and inattention for his claim, caused Paul's determination. The child's affection rejected by his mother's "cold heart", became a tormented an...

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... of each of the hogs, "They had done nothing to deserve it; and it was adding insult to injury, as the thing was done here, swinging them up in this cold blooded, impersonal way, without a pretense of apology without the homage of a tear."(Pg. 35) The key comparison is the condition of the workingmen; as ... cold, efficient machinery assimilates them, a blind fate swallows them up. A few of the men are even swallowed up literally when they would fall into huge vats and emerges as "Durham's Pure ... ...

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... , leaving everything else in murk. Fingers of shadow clawed silently around the room, a bare wooden tomb with only a small tattered sofa and two chairs to show any sign of occupancy. Cold. Dank. The strong stale stench of mold and urine claimed the air. The flickering of the light swept through the rotted, cracked floor, trailing away into the abyss. Dead, until ... heard that familiar voice, measuring memory and imagination against reality. "I love you, Kyle. I'll always love you,"" the woman's voice vowed. Kyle reached up and touched her face, his fingers cold and nervous, tracing the ...

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... and daughter die during the famine, he goes and works at Wang's estate. II. Setting Wang Lung's farmland is in the northern area of the province of Anhwei, which is a cold and dry country. Once every five years or so it suffers a drought in which no crops grow. This region is bare of forests, it has no woodland in which to ... walled country town. His house has three tiny rooms, a thatched roof, and walls made of earthen bricks, with small window holes covered over with paper to keep out the winter cold. The kitchen is nothing but an earthen oven in a shed shared with the ox's stall. Wh...

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... , scampering about, and Gabriel's aunts worrying whether Freddy Malins will turn up drunk. A piano plays in a parlor full of dancing couples. Gabriel tells his aunts that on account of the cold, he and Gretta will be staying in a hotel nearby rather than returning home that night. Gretta laughingly confides to the old women that Gabriel has made her wear galoshes to ... at the top of the stairs, listening to something. Mr. Bartell D'Arcy is singing an old song, "The Lass of Aughrim." At last, Gabriel and Gretta leave, walking through the cold to their hotel. Gabriel is full of joy and ha...

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... some homemade soup and give me a teaspoon of cod liver oil and tell me to lie down and take a nap. When I woke up from my nap I felt good and my cold was all gone. For my birthday grandma would take me to Show Biz Pizza to play games and to watch the movies. And she would buy extra pizza for me ... to go in the kitchen and try to make a sandwich on my own. That is when I notice that something was wrong with grandma. Grandma was sick. I thought maybe she had a cold and needed to take some cod liver oil, with a bowl of homemade soup. That's what she used to do for me. When I took a good l...

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... head but without heat", like he had struck the two mules and at times he also speaks "without heat" These images of cold violence and indifference to inflicted pain convey the child's sense of his father emotional frigidity. Mr Snopes' s cold violence is not an expression of hatred or anger: violence is a tool, used upon his son (as upon the mules) to ... ...

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... boys to achieve greater things, even if done so by lying to protect them. The first example of this inspiration happens when he tells Biff that he "knocked' em cold in Providence, slaughtered' em in Boston" (Miller 33). A little later, though, he tells Linda that "three of the stores were half closed for inventory in Boston. Otherwise [he ... ...

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... the battle and he told us that our home in Warsaw was no longer a safe place to live however we were unable to escape in time. Part 2- The Ghetto One cold autumn morning my parents told me to gather all of my belongings in my brown suitcase, we were leaving our Warsaw for good. My father carried a large sack and 2 suitcases ... ...

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... . One morning before the rosary my grandma wasn't feeling well. She had a really bad cough and said that it felt like someone was choking her. She was so tired and cold and was hungry but didn't want to eat. My sister, Melissa, gave her some cough medicine and told her to take a nap. When she woke up she needed to use ... ...

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The dawn turned night into day, cold air breeze splattered right through my window. I can hear the birds chattering and my clock ticking. It's 5 o'clock when I woke up in the morning, September 27, 2057. "Today is ... ...

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... so I started to worry and ended up unlocking the bathroom door. I came to find Rosa lying on the bathroom floor next to her wheel chair. She was unconscious on the cold solid tile floor. I tried waking up her up but she would not budge. So I ran from the room to the kitchen for my mom's help. My mom went running over ... ...

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