Finals For Lit

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The Treasure of Lemon Brown

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Short Story
Set in Harlem, NY in tenement
Lemon Brown is a poor, homeless, old African American. He lives alone since his wife is dead and son was killed in the war. Lemon once sang the Blues until he was doing so good that he couldn’t sing about how bad things were. · Greg Ridley is a boy who wants to play basketball. He lives in the ghetto, does not pay attention in class and steps into Lemon’s building to get out of the rain.
Theme: · Everybody has a treasure. A man’s treasure may not seem like much to somebody else but it is still worth a lot to him.

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Mother and Daughter

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Short Story
Set in Mexican-American neighborhood(Mrs. Moreno)
A Kinky mother who can not afford what her daughter (Yollie) wants but always tries her best.

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Chanclas

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Short Story
Poor neighborhood where many Latinos live
A girl is self conscious about her shoes but her Uncle helps her and they dance on the dance floor

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All Things Bright and Beautiful

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Autobiography
.Young James, now married and working as a small-town vet, encounters a cast of extraordinary characters as he makes his way through the Yorkshire countryside tending to sick cattle, pregnant ewes, ailing dogs-- and their eccentric owners.

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Flowers fro Algernon

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Short Story
mentally disabled man whose experimental quest for intelligence mirrors that of Algernon, an extraordinary lab mouse. In poignant diary entries, Charlie tells how a brain operation increases his IQ and changes his life. As the experimental procedure takes effect, Charlie's intelligence expands until it surpasses that of the doctors who engineered his metamorphosis. The experiment seems to be a scientific breakthrough of paramount importance--until Algernon begins his sudden, unexpected deterioration.

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The Kid Nobody Could Handle

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Short Story
A music teacher, Mr. Helmholtz whose passion in music, changes an alone and "given up" boy by John Philip Sousa's tumpet.

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Thank You, Ma'm

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Short Story
set in a large city at any time:
A woman taked a young theif into her home and cares for him whcih ultimately changes his life for the better.

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Knoxville, Tennessee

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Poem
A young girl describes what she likes best about summer in her small hometown

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Legacies

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Poem
A young girl refuses to make rolls with her grandmother knowing that when her grandmother died she would make rolls

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A Mother in Mannville

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Short Story
an author who is suffering from writers block moves to NC and meets a hardworking orphan boy who makes up a mother to lure the author into adopting him.

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A Time to Talk

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Poem
Talking to friends even thoguh the narrator doesnt want to. Even though there is work to be done, having friends is more important.

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Fire and Ice

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Poem
THe narrator wanders how the world will end and what is better.

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Dust of Snow

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Poem
A crow shakes snow on a man which makes him respect nature and changes his bad day.

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The Ransom of Red Chief

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Short Story
Kidnappers in hope of money, kidnap a wealthy man's son. But, the son turns out to be a nusance and to much of a pain to even go through with the kidnapping.

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John Henry

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Ballad
John Henry predicts his death as a baby which ultimately comes true when he dies of workind hard against technolody-the steam drill

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The People, Yes

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Poem
This tells a story about all the gret things in America
ex. Skyscrapers they had to put hinges on them
ex. PEcos Bill straddling a Cyclone in Texas and riding it to the West Coast

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Sally Ann THunder Ann Whirlwind

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Folktale
When a woman saves a man stuck in a tree, he cant help but propose to her. She is storng and brave-she even fought off a bear.

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Black Walnut Tree

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poem
A mother and daughter debate selling a special tree to a lumberman