Clare

someone who works all the time and thinks it is the most important thing in the world. The story, “Contents of the Dead Man’s Pockets” by Jack Finney, is about a man who was working on a big project and wouldn't go out with wife, Clare, to watch a movie/play. While Clare left, his project’s paper flew out the window, so Tom pursued it. The paper went on the building's ledge, in between two objects. Tom thought it would be easy to go out and grab the paper and just head back inside. While he was…

female characters demonstrates the timelessness of the importance of skin color. Irene’s thoughts when she sees Clare: “Did that woman, could that woman, somehow know that here before her very eyes on the roof of the Drayton sat a Negro?” (Larsen 16). This is the first mention of color in the novel. This first mention of being black highlights the importance of physical appearances for Clare and Irene. They are in a 1920s, segregated and racist, Chicago. The threat of being recognized…

to acknowledge one part of their race. Then, one would make the conscious decision to engage due to practice of racial passing. For this book, a main character, Irene Redfield focuses on her childhood friend’s, Clare Kendry, decision to pass as a white woman in society, even though Clare is (as well as Irene are) also black. As a result, as Irene is attempting to discover her own identification, it is evident that there are ramifications of such actions in the eyes of Nella Larsen. It is…

example of Tom Benecke’s growth is when he is only a window glass away from safety and the author states, “he thought of Clare- just a wordless, yearning thought- and then drew his arm back just a bit more, fist so tight his fingers pained him (...) Then with full power, with every last crap of strength he could bring to bear, he shot his arm forward toward the glass and he said, ‘Clare’” (20). Here, what enables Tom the strength to break through the window, he finds, is not by self-pity as he…

going to die in Five years. The first one occurs on Friday, February 3, 1995 (Clare is 23, Henry is 31): Henry and Clare invite their friends Charisse and Gomez over to their house. As they are playing a game of monopoly created by Charisse and Gomez.They hear a big loud noise in the kitchen and Henry finds his older self lying on the floor bleeding in a heap of broken glass with a gunshop wound in his stomach. Clare panics and wants to call the ambulance but present Henry says that this…

better caste, the family was doomed to suffer. Similar to “Passing” there would be social climbers with falsified genealogies in order to pass as white. The message would still remain, and I imagine the story would have a less tragic ending for Clare and her child. Although it was not stated what happened to Clare’s Daughter, after her death, one can assume she was abandoned by her father. In Mexico 1790’s, she still would be a higher caste than her mother, rather than still being considered…

are still chasing after them. Loker tries to capture them and George takes a shot at him and hits him in the side. The other men retreat and Eliza says they should bring Loker to the town to get help for his wound. Then where Tom is with the Clares St. Clare is discussing slavery and how he’s not necessarily for it, but doesn’t think he can do anything to change it. His cousin Ophelia doesn’t like…

What is Feminism? According to Google, feminism is “the advocacy of women 's rights on the grounds of political, social, and economic equality to men.” Almost throughout the entire establishment of society, women have been viewed as weak, fragile, powerless, and emotional. The man of the household is supposed to be the breadwinner of the family. He is supposed to have the job, make the all of the money, and provide in any and every way for his family. For the emotional aspect of being a man in…

Life’s events can cause us to change our priorities. For instance, if you were diagnosed with cancer, it can change your life physically and mentally. It changes how you look at life now knowing that one day, you will no longer walk on the Earth, unless there was a cure. In the short story, Contents of a Dead Man’s Pocket, Tom had many priorities in which changed at the end. In the beginning of the story, Tom has to make a decision on whether to go to the movies with his wife or stay at home…

A plantation owner from Kentucky named Arthur Shelby had large amounts of debt, and he faced losing all that he had. Although he and his wife, Emily were nice to the slaves that they owned, Shelby sold a couple of his slaves to a man named Mr. Haley, a slave trader. The two slaves that he sold are named Uncle Tom, a middle-aged man, and Harry, the son of Emily’s maid named Eliza. When Shelby informs his Emily about the sale of their two slaves, she is disgusted because she has sworn to Eliza…