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  • Trauma in In Our Time

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    Leslie Marmon Silkhos Ceremony and Ernest Hemingways In Our Time give us two male characters struggling to socially reintegrate after a comparable traumatic events Each of these characters had a hand in a World War and is now rediscovering the rules and constraints governing mainstream society These veterans have seen particularly disturbing scenes and are now coming back to a world that they no longer understand In understanding the differences in the methods that these two use to reintegrate

  • Analysis of Daisy Miller

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    Values of an American Girl Henry James issues the reader a direct challenge to determine Daisy Millers system of values or value system In Chapter 1 of Daisy Miller when Winterbourne upon first seeing Daisy in the distance says of her American girls are the best girls a remark instantly rebutted by Daisys brother Randolf who says My sister aint the best The story then proceeds to examine the idea of whether Daisy is the best or not the best of girls James makes one thing perfectly clear at the

  • Themes in Brownies

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    Brownies is a story by ZZ Packer a young African American writer and it was published in 1999 This story takes place at Camp Crescendo a summer camp for fourth graders near the suburbs of Atlanta Georgia Laurel the narrator gives a glimpse into the day to day world of the black girls parents in suburban Atlanta In addition to the theme of racial prejudice Brownies makes another serious point It shows the power of group thinking and the pressure to go along with the actions of the group to which

  • Social Commentary in The Lesson

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    The Lesson by Toni Cade Bambara is not just a spirited story about a poor girl out of place in an expensive toy store it is a social commentary The Lesson is a story about one African American girls struggle with her growing awareness of class inequality The character Miss Moore introduces the facts of social inequality to a distracted group of city kids of whom Sylvia the main character is the most cynical Flyboy Fat Butt Junebug Sugar Rosie Sylvia and the rest think of Miss Moore as an unsoli

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