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“White people had their own special world, and the Japanese Americans were not part of it except perhaps as servants, day workers, gardeners, or cooks”. -Yoshiko Uchida. In the novel the Picture Bride by Yoshiko Uchida the main character Hana see’s the racism towards Japanese people since the first day she moves to America and the ways she has to change to become more of an American women. Hana sees racism in America at first when she is told she has to change and become an American women and lose

James Hurst is a very significant and prominent author. He sends important messages through his writing. Many different messages are conveyed in his story “The Scarlet Ibis,” but it is how he conveys the message that is most important. James Hurst uses events in the plot, imagery, and characterization to convey that everyone is special in their own way and should be cherished before they are gone. James Hurst uses events in the plot to convey the message that everyone is special in their own

the next a heap of tiny gears and cogs littering the pavement. I’m not exactly sure why, but I think it was my fault. Or there was the time I’d cut Miss Wee-Wee’s grass and accidently on purpose mowed straight through a patch of her prized pink petunias. I could’ve gone on and on, but I decided to put the brakes on self-loathing. “What about my dad and Grandpa?” “They’re of the same line.” He winked at me. “Tomorrow, you and Mason must go and find the centaurs. They will help you to understand

The words “I love you, Spanish girl” will forever linger in Esperanza's mind as well as the moment the boys at the carnival sexually abused her. Esperanza had many interactions with women on Mango Street. The women show both power and hopelessness. The men on Mango street would beat their wives and daughters restricting them from leaving the house. Esperanza struggled with her identity, she believed there was something bigger waiting for outside of Mango Street for her. One specific interaction that

Plot During Harry’s birthday, a house-elf named Dobby warned Harry about not going back to Hogwarts, because Harry would be in big danger. But Harry enjoys being at Hogwarts so he decided not to listen to Dobby. After coming to Hogwarts, Harry started to hear a voice, but no one else heard it. After a party a writing on the wall appeared, “The Chamber of Secrets has been opened. Enemies of the heir beware”. The writing on the wall is referring to the heir of Slytherin. After a duelling match, Harry

with a thud. I remember all of us standing around the broken vase of red flowers, awed by it’s exotic beauty. Doodle had been very fond of the scarlet ibis, it had seemed. He would not eat as often, and he even buried the ibis himself, next to the petunia

what follows is Harry getting a birthday cake and the desired letter. He learns he comes from a wizard family and that his parents did not die in a car accident. Harry furious asks the Dursleys if they knew all this time about what he was and Aunt Petunia in disgust responded that of course she knew, because her sister was one of them. “I was the only one who saw her for what she really was – a freak!” (53) Then, he meets Hagrid, the first person belonging to the wizarding world. Hagrid being half

Sandra Cisneros is viewed as a strong author for Latinos and specifically women. In her book, The House on Mango Street, Cisneros writes the novel in both English and Spanish. She even dedicates her book to, “A las Mujeres/To the Women.” Throughout the story, Cisneros introduces her audience to many female characters and the lives of the characters as well. Esperanza, the protagonist in the House on Mango Street, is followed as she grows older and begins to find herself and her sexuality. This book

Georgia O’Keeffe On November 15, 1887, Calixtus O’Keeffe and Ida Totto’s lives were changed as they were granted with the gift of their baby girl, the second child out of seven future sons and daughters (“Georgia O’Keeffe Biography,” 2016). They named her Georgia, after her Hungarian grandfather, George Totto (“Georgia O’Keeffe Biography,” 2016). Little did they know, their infant would become well-known as she grew older. Georgia O’Keeffe created astonishing and inspirational artwork, utilized the

brief description of the first book of the novel: “The Fantasy Novel, ‘Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone’, By J.K. Rowling is about a boy named Harry Potter who was a one year old that was left on the doorstep of his mother’s sister’s house, (Petunia Dursley). His Aunt and her husband, Vernon Dursley, accepted Harry. Eleven years later Harry Potter receives a letter from one of the best schools of Witchcraft and Wizardry named Hogwarts, a school for magic people. When Harry finds out he is a wizard