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    When recalling ether fond or sad memories your thoughts create a stream that is natural, maybe in order of event or in order of enjoyment. In “I Stand Here Ironing” the Narrator’s flow-of-consciousness replicates the unrestricted elegant thoughts of the mother, while she reflects on her daughter’s full life. The mother struggles to make sense and logic of her daughter’s situation as pieces together fragmented memories. She fights to try to see the reason for her daughter’s, Emily, behavior but…

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    of Granny Weatherall the mother is in a state of denial, while she is on her deathbed. Her daughter is there with her, and the mother’s self-conscious is reminiscing about her children in different ways. In the other short story, Everyday Use, this mother is having to face one of her daughters who has the opposite life then her mother. During that time, she tries and protects the feelings of her other daughter, who is uncomfortable with her sister.…

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    In the film Real Women Have Curves, which is a coming of age story, the main conflict was between a daughter, Ana, and her mother, Carmen. The mother and daughter cannot get along because of their age and traditional differences. Ana’s mother was old fashioned and wanted her daughter to graduate highschool, lose weight, join the family in their dressmaking business, and find a husband. Ana did not want her life to be this way and wanted to go to college and be and educated women who finds true…

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    named Michael Green and his wife, Alice Green, who base their happiness on drinking together as a form of spending time together. The family is faced with a challenge when Alice’s drinking begins to put not only herself in danger but her family and daughters as well. While she enters a detox center Michael is faced with another challenge of running the household while she is away and when she comes back he realizes that his enabling behavior is what brings drinking into the picture for them…

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    mentions in the play how happy she is that everything is back to normal, and that everyone is back under the same roof. The same idea is applied when Nora speaks about wanting all her girls to come have their kids at home. Sadly, Nora’s goal limits her daughters from their ambitions in life and leave them almost still in time, never moving forward but only remaining where they started at the beginning of the play if not less. Elizabeth is a lawyer, but prefers to stuff envelopes for a living,…

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    non-fiction. Walker’s short stories give examples of what her life was like from her character’s point of view. In the short-story” Everyday Use,” Walker speaks about the life of a mother and her two very different daughters. “Everyday Use” is about the relationship between a mother and her two daughters, one whom has forgotten her roots and tries to abandon her past and create a new persona, while using her heritage as an art form. The symbolism of quilts and a butter churn described a life of…

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    There is one fantasy that I have been imagining for the longest time. I was once interning in a youth group at my church. There were boys and girls from middle school all the way to seniors in high school. There was this one family who had a 16 year old son. They were new to the church so it was my first time seeing him. I still remember the first time on a summer trip seeing him come out of the showers with just a towel on. He was not super muscular, but his chest and abs were nice and defined.…

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    this past Monday during class. It was about a town in which a lot of the fathers were missing because of being in prison. Many of the fathers hadn’t been present in their children’s life. However, in the video, they get a chance to have a father and daughter dance. These men have grown up in horrible environments and this has impacted them negatively. Now in prison they are trying to get their lives and their families back. The video we watched was an emotional video even though I showed no…

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    Tan emphasises the idea of family conflict through a more modern conflict that our society today is able to relate to. The mother and daughter relationship shows the pressure of cultural differences of an Americanised Chinese daughter and a traditional Chinese mother. Jing’s mother forces Jing to take lessons for multiple activities. As those do not work out, she arranges piano lessons for Jing. Jing feels pressured by her mother who…

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    a new place you start to assimilate or (Mold) into that countries culture yourself, I know that definitely happened to me in Germany. In the movie, the mother and daughter pair were more affected by the views of other cultures, than they were with the generation gap, much like the father and son. This is primarily because the daughter had come back from college, while being in a different place and started to assimilate (mold) into that countries cultures as well as customs. Furthermore the…

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