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    Willy Vs Biff

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    York. The play’s protagonist Willy Loman is a multifaceted character in that he is a salesman, a husband, and a father of two. Willy desperately wants his eldest son Biff to follow in his footsteps and become a salesman. Willy’s wife Linda is always supportive of him even though Willy is not always respectful towards her. Their youngest son, Hap, adores his father Willy and is always seeking recognition for his achievements, which are more or less what Willy would like for Biff to be doing.…

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    David Fletcher Analysis

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    Reactions: It is unfair of Fletcher and his boys to be trying to have everyone living in their valley to leave just because Fletcher wants more land. Everyone who lives in the valley acquired their land through their own work and should not have to give it up just because it would benefit one person. It is also aggravating that all Chris does is try to annoy all of the homesteaders into leaving. Chris definitely deserved what Shane did to him, but it shows the ways in which Shane has been…

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    Jacobs father seen grandpa Portman, as a very uncaring,inattentive, adultery. Never understand why grandpa Portman was really never around in his youth. The day Jacob's dad and his sister found a love letter; made Jacob's dad really feel, like he was not good enough to be around,and abandoned by grandpa Portman. Than the day Jacob was born, Jacob's dad seen a change in grandfather Portmnan, he was around.Jacob had the closeness with grandpa Portman, that Jacobs father was hungry for when he was…

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    Here, the father loves his son more and work hard for their living earnings. Through the lines author narrates his childhood remembrance and his father’s sacrifices made for him. Here the poem expresses the different way of thinking between the father and son. 2. Write a one paragraph response to # 3 in "Thinking about the Text" on 346. From the poem “Those Winter Sundays” written by Robert Hayden even the poem says the different way of thinking between the father and son but there is no…

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    Too Much to Handle (Proposing a Solution to the Prodigal Son) King James Published his Bible in 1611, which became the single most important work of literature that was immensely important in standardizing the English language. In this bible, there is a certain parable that has a lot of meaning and is still being taught in literature today. This parable, Prodigal Son has a tremendous amount of lessons taught and many meanings behind it. These meanings lie within the problems within the story,…

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    Matt Fowlers character is alone with his wife due to the death pf his son. He is left reeling, lost and uncomfortable in the life that he has set up for himself and his wife. He has performed an atrocious act. The outcome may Land him in prison is it is ever discovered.. In the story Fences Troy is last written as dead from…

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    you ever got. When I am able to give my family everything than what my parents weren’t able to give me. That is when I will know that I made it in America. The american dream just doesn’t end with me, I believe that as a parent you would want your son to do better than yourself. Therefore the american dream can be different things for anyone. An american dream can be low for a first generation family coming from another country, than for a third generation. That is why the american dream can…

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    In the play, Lincoln, as the older brother, is the provider of their two-person family. He is proud of his job as an Abraham Lincoln impersonator and of the little it can provide for himself and his brother. Meanwhile, Booth gets what he can through dishonest means such as robbing and attempting to pull con jobs. At the start of the play, Booth is trying to learn how to play three-card monte, a street con that has the potential to be lucrative. Booth wants to find enough economic means to be…

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    Both fathers try to give their son’s a good childhood. The author of “The Gift” had a better childhood. The author of The gift didn’t have to listen to his parents argue. For example one detail would be he only seen kindness. Which means he never heard his parents argue or anything like that. Another detail is he wa always in an uplifting mood. Which most people wouldn’t always be in an uplifting mood if their parents argued all the time. The second reason I think the author of “The Gift” had…

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    In my diary entry, I chose to write a letter from Biff to Willy. These are the characters of the Death of a Salesman by the author, Arthur Miller. I did this to show how Biff felt about his’s and his father’s belief. From what I have read in the play, it seems to me that Biff was living in an unhappy and unsuitable life in New York. As the author states in the book, Biff had tried to do whatever he can to please his dad, not because he was interested in the job. It seemed possible to me to put…

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