Daughter

The Horse Dealer’s Daughter is a short story by D.H. Lawrence written in 1922. The story is about the Pervin family whose horse business has failed. Mabel Pervin and her brothers have been left alone with both their father and mother’s death. The story starts in the middle of Mabel Pervin’s brothers in conversation about what they will do in the future and make fun of Mabel. Then Jack Fergusson enters the story stopping by the Pervin home for a little bit then leaving to his job. Then Mabel goes…

fifteenth century, conditions of Russian peasants deteriorated rapidly. By the early seventeenth century the majority had become serfs of one kind to another.” Serfs did not live the best life, this can be seen in Alexander Pushkin’s The Captain’s Daughter, a story of a young Russian noble who ends up in the middle of the Pugachev rebellion fighting for his life . Serfs are mentioned throughout the story as the book does a good job illustrating the different…

to this. The Communist Party in China sets up the idea that china was divided into different classes based on economics. While scholars suggest that it was impossible to draw clear class lines in China at the turn of the century. After reading A Daughter of Han, and examining the perspectives of Chinese people at the turn of the century it seems that the…

It is said that Nathanial Hawthorn is a very symbolic writer, and “Rappiccinni’s Daughter,” is just that. With many examples of symbolism that overwhelm the story, the garden is the most important. The garden is the heart of the story and where most everything takes place. Within the garden we can see symbolic features, as well as, symbolic traits in the characters. The garden where Doctor Rappiccinni’s daughter, Beatrice, is trapped has major symbolic meaning. The fantastic garden is filled…

The unjust treatment of sex workers is constantly depicted throughout Somebody’s Daughter, specifically during Felicia, a fourteen year old’s battle to put Stephen Buggs, her abusive pimp behind bars. The lack of empathy individuals have towards Felicia is evident while she provides her graphic testimony describing the methods her pimp used to torture her. Detective Cathy De La Paz describes the reactions of the audience when she says, “Several of them had not paid much attention to the girl,…

Collier-Thomas, Bettye. Daughters of Thunder: Black women preachers and their sermons, 1850 -1979. San Francisco: Jossey - Bass, 1998. Print. Author, Bettye Collier - Thomas, in her book, Daughters of Thunder and their Sermons, writes about “the history of African American preaching women and the issues and struggles they confronted in their efforts to function as ministers and to become ordained” (xv). Her writing suggests that we gain a deeper understanding of the history of the Black Church…

afraid of showing her face and risking her life to protect anyone who needed her, and this kind of courage not everyone is capable of; this is not only corporeal, but also psychological courage, and according to Polster (2011) in her article “Eve’s Daughters” this is one of the five principal hero’s characteristics. Her father’s opinion and influence about social injustice (Women in World History: A Biographical Encyclopedia - 2000) was not the only thing that motivated, moved and made her…

June created a documentary analyzing her life and how she was a secret daughter. Her mother hid the fact that she had a mixed daughter towards certain people. June wanted others to understand her story on how race and gender influenced the decisions made with her upbringing and the parenting styles used in order to raise her right. Some think the word ‘family’ means biological family; though, here the word family is used quite differently. June comes from a mother who is Caucasian and a father…

These problems escalate until things have spiraled out of control. Unfortunately, many couples fail to communicate about their issues, and their relationship slowly falls to pieces. This is what happens to David and Norah in The Memory Keeper’s Daughter by Kim Edwards. David lies to Norah, and that one lie takes over their lives until they divorce. That one lie combined with other factors, such as their differing maturities, causes their relationship to quickly go downhill. David doesn’t really…

The God of Small Things (TGOSM) by Arundhati Roy and Barbara Mutch’s The Housemaid’s Daughter (THD) explore an individual’s changing perception of themselves within a corrupt society during the 1960’s Communist era in India and the Apartheid era. TGOSM is set in Kerala, India and revolves around the traumatic childhood of two twins and THD is set in Cradock, South Africa where a black girl is raised within a white family, both facing adversity. They explore the lack of proper familial…