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    In addition, Father uses an unfit vocabulary to communicate, and they keep talking over each other and not quite meeting in the same page. Finally, after many efforts Lisa gets really mad and says, “I hate you Daddy! I hate you! “ (1422). Meanwhile, she throws away her valuable trophy that she won on the dance recital. After that, Paul realizes what Lisa has been trying to tell him, that she wants him to stay with her a little bit longer, she also wants him devote…

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    my self-dependency for the rest of my life. I noticed the start of the ordeal when I was just a toddler. The growth of the figurative distance between my parents grew until it was a canyon. My toddler self had just figured that all Mommies and Daddies had fights like theirs; yelling, screaming and throwing. At least once a week, Mom was bent over with a dustpan cleaning up the shards of the latest casualty. And not just because of the fact a toddler lived in the apartment, the glass broke only…

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    “I don’t want to go!”, cried my five-year-old self as my mom dragged me to the plane that would change my life forever. It was the first time, of many more to come, that I was stepping on a plane. This plane, in less than eight hours, would send me to Madrid, Spain, where my dad was waiting for me and my family with a brand new life prepared without my consent. In 2002, Argentina was not going through a great time. It was recovering from an economic downfall that was called “El Corralito,”…

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    supports his point with several words that show up his suffering. For instance: “So if we 're listening to ' 'I 'm a Little Teapot, ' ' and she notices that I 'm using my arms for some frivolous activity such as steering, she will repeat, ' 'Daddy do it! Daddy do it! ' ' until I let go of the wheel and form my teapot handle and my teapot spout.” The reader can feel sympathy for this miserable father. The author is very smart; by stating this example in addition to another one of his daughter…

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    e bright stars reflected against the soldiers tired, sunken eyes. Their large combat boots crunched in the sandy grains of the Afghanistan desert. Their steps were in complete unison, and every step of their march led them closer to the violent turmoil that they would soon encounter. The rifle was hard and cold and struck against his shoulder with every moment. Father held back cries of pain, as it hit an infected wound from a previous conflict. The soldiers' stomachs ached with the pains of…

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    symbolizes Rodia’s nihilistic desire to do away with a cancer to society in the name of the greater good. Yet, within the dream young Rodia becomes distraught and righteously indignant when he sees Mikolka beating his horse brutally, “Daddy, Daddy… Daddy, what are they doing! Daddy, they’re beating the poor horsie!” (55). As Mikolka continues to savagely beat his mare “and he lashes, and lashes, no longer knowing why,” this foreshadows his fear of losing control as he attempts to do away with…

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    Do you have pets? If so, what kind? In my household, we have 4 dogs, a potbelly pig, and a hamster. My canines are a mixed group. We have a Golden Retriever and a Boxer that live in our fenced in backyard. We have a Miniature Dachshund and a Yorkie that live in the house with us. They have a doggie door for full-time access to the backyard at any time. I suppose the most interesting of the pets that we have is the potbelly pig, Petunia. Petunia became part of our family in November 2015 when my…

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    obligations, and desires. Marguerite was born during the depression time. She had to work for what she wanted and needed to stay living. The first conflict deals with God, prejudice, and segregation. Another conflict is involves living with her momma or daddy. That is a major decision she had to make; it would affect her entire life. After analyzing Marguerite she changed and grew up majorly throughout the book. First, Maya (Marguerite) was very religious and believed in God very strongly. She…

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    myself I did follow the train tracks and pretty quick daddy did have comings after me" (5). This shows how she is so naïve that she walks on the train tracks to find her mom in Heaven since her dad told her that she was taken on a train to Heaven. "jerry went away to have the long sleep" (105). This shows how she is still naïve, but is improving a bit since she understands death a little more. "I can tell God that I saw johnny reeves that night daddy did get a bullet through him. And I did think…

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    further elaborates that “In [Mama’s] time we was worried about not being lynched… and how to stay alive and still have a pinch of dignity too… Now here come you and Beneatha – talking ‘bout things we ain't never even thought about hardly, me and your daddy”(74). Mama expresses her thoughts about her children have become something else than what her and Big Walter had taught them when they were a child. Mama's kids have assimilated new ideas and concepts of how life should work. Mama had told…

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