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Men and women are constantly debating what their true role in life is. In a family, the women were expected to do the laundry, cook, and clean, while the men went to work and made money for their family. This idea has changed drastically over the years. Women are now able to get an education and work if they’d like. Sixty years ago, this would not have been possible. Most men and women now share the housework, and both have full-time jobs. In Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry and Trifles by

In Thérèse Raquin, Émile Zola uses specific scenes in order to convey and communicate explicit concepts from which the reader can extrapolate key themes in the novel, and the Morgue scene of Chapter XIII is an excellent example of this. Such scenes also offer a comprehensive depiction of the times and the Morgue scene gives us a slice of Parisian life during the 19th century. Across the span of this chapter, Zola’s unflinching depiction of the morgue, the bodies lying on the slabs, and most importantly

What happens to a dream deferred? In Lorraine Hansberry’s play “A Raisin in the Sun”, dreams are often challenged and sometimes even deferred. The characters are faced with challenges that delay them from living the life they want and achieving their dreams. Walter Younger, the father of the family, is an envious, hopeless, and immature colored man living in Southside Chicago during the 1950s. He has multiple sub-dreams throughout the play, but his overall hope seems to be a comfortable life for

Williams of Atlanta, Georgia. He graduated from Douglass High School and furthered his education at Georgia State University, but later dropped out to explore a new talent. Williams took a specific interest in music, pursuing a career in radio and managing a band. Williams’ educational background and career both were pivotal to his defense. In 1979, children and teens seemed to simple vanish. Each child met certain criteria: young, black, and from Atlanta. The first two victims, Edward Smith

other fiction. Much of her work deals with the role of white women in society, especially involving the Cult of Domesticity or True Womanhood. Sedgwick managed to incorporate her unorthodox views on women’s behavior, relationships, religion, and people foreign to her culture, while still appealing to a broad audience. Her novels, A New-England Tale, published in 1822 and Hope

Things: A Story of the Sixties by Georges Perec (1965) explores consumerism through the lives of a young couple, Sylvie and Jerome. The novel looks at their growth, from college students to part-time surveyors to faceless employees, always looking for fulfillment via the newest trend. Whether it is an abundance of vases, or living in Tunisia, Perec shows how influential the language of advertising truly is. To feel like their life has meaning, Sylvie and Jerome spend money and energy on intrinsically

parents is mainly during its teenage years. These are times of rebellion, disagreement, strong emotion, psychological changes and sexual experimentation just to name a few. In Mary Gaitskill's short story "Tiny, Smiling Daddy", the main theme "of how people seek intimacy but don't know how to achieve it" (Gaitskill, 289) is conveyed by the author through the characters, symbolism and setting and imagery. Firstly, the two main characters in this story, Kitty and Stew, are crucial elements of the story

poetic comparisons. Phillis Wheatley and Edgar Alan Poe’s writings in many ways reflect the unique lives that they lived, and having an understanding of the two poets’ backgrounds can assist a reader in dissecting their manuscripts. Comparing works from the two is an easy task to handle if an avid reader decides to pursue it, and even though they lived under adverse conditions they have a way of shaping history into an intricate fashion of delicate, dark and sophisticated writing. Phillis Wheatley

Women have a few common tropes in literature. Seen as submissive to men, and sexualized because of it, women are presented as less-than. While this has been strayed from a little bit in modern literature with the engagement of queer writers, it is still very much the normal view of women, due to a society in which the view on women is that of being less-than. The short stories “Ask Me if I Care” and “Safari” by Jennifer Egan both perpetuate this idea of women as submissive. Egan presents female characters

treated badly and none of the slaves had a say in anything that they would do. Slaves had no rights at all and they were considered basically nothing or a piece of property; a property in which masters could share and buy slaves for themselves. White people who could afford to buy a slave would. Slaves were mainly used for manual labor. The general function of a female slave was mainly to do chores, while men, on the other hand grew crops and worked in many other different things that involved a “men’s