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    The setting consists of the couple sitting outside a bar in a train station in Spain. What makes this story so enduring is the fact that it is a coming of age tale. During the course of waiting for the train, the young women grows from a naïve girl into a woman, fully in charge of her destiny. The struggle between the couple reaches a climax right before they board the train to Madrid. Although it is uncertain what the topic of their argument is about, I believe it had to do with whether the…

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    The House On Mango Street

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    Esperanza must face every day in order to be treated equally. As Esperanza grows during the book, she experiences a series of awakenings. At the beginning of the book, Esperanza is completely ignorant about sex and says, “The boys and the girls live in separate worlds. The boys in their universe and we in ours”. She displays such a childlike demeanor that she cannot even…

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    Rural Black Culture

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    they are detaching from an earlier status in their social structure as well as not continuing certain behaviours. The second phase is intervening, also known as the transition phase. The girls gradually make behaviour and lifestyle changes.The final phase is called incorporation, which ultimately means the girls have made a comfortable switch and are more content in the state they are in. The transitional phase if by far the most difficult as their role doe not have as much structure compared to…

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    In the stories "The Scholarship Jacket" and "The Stolen Party" the author shows us how social class impacts the characters. In the story "The Scholarship Jacket" a girl named Martha is discriminated when she is close to getting the scholarship jacket from her school, but even though she deserves it, a girl named Joann could get it too because her family is of a higher class while Martha is from a lower class. In the story "The Stolen Party" a maid's daughter goes her mothers master's birthday,…

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    book. The feelings throughout this book really make you look at yourself differently and that’s a very powerful message. This book all though hilarious and extremely entertaining is also heart wrenchingly sad. Esther was a very happy and joyful young girl and i’d like to share some of that joy with you. Here are some emotional examples of feelings from this book. The first emotion that I expressed while reading this book was happiness, I was ecstatic when I first heard Esther’s humor. She seemed…

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    I Am Nazi

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    Jesus was and why I was drinking his blood-but my mother corrected me when upset assuring it was actually just wine and the body just bread. I was hoping communion wasn 't like a wedding; I had just realized that I wasn 't really as into boys as I was girls and knew what child marriages were-yeah, at 7 I panicked about all sorts of things like rape, natural disaster, and child marriage. I touched all the dresses reaching inside the plastic outer covering.…

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    When I was in kindergarten, my teacher asked each of my classmates including me who they wanted to become when they grew up. The majority of the girls in my class responded with a cheerleader, a ballerina, or a princess. On the other hand, the boys responded with a football player, superman, or a firefighter. When I responded, it was entirely unexpected. Can you conclude who I desired to become? Though young, I had immense ideas of suiting up in a black embellished uniform, coated with a badge…

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    K's life as a constant focus of the media is a little less pervasive.She is enjoying her carefree days--disentangled from Twilight and Snow White and the Huntsman and the attendant dreary carousel of headlines,she refocused on being an actress.The girl is constantly seemed to be paired with the adjective "surly",and she became "most hated woman in Hollywood ".Here is one thing,she had an affair with her married director back in 2013 that ruined her relationship with Rob,Robot…

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    Moth’s” main character is the narrator. Through the narrator's recounting, we see the relationship with her family, her Abuelita, and herself. At the beginning of the story the narrator explains how her “hands were too big” to do the things the other girls could and that she would often use…

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    illusion that creates a fake feeling of happiness which is frequently the cause for conflict with others. When faced with challenges, the character suffers and experiences personal growth. In the story ‘A lamp at noon’ by Sinclair Ross and ‘Boys and Girls’ by Alice Munro, both protagonists found similar and different ways to evolve as a character through identity and suffering and ultimately evolving throughout the story. First, this was evident through the theme of change in identity which was…

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