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Although the book had more action than last time and showed the sisters getting involved in the rebellion, I found it disturbing that Dedé wanted to marry her cousin. When the text states, “Her cousin now seems to quicken something in her heart” (Alvarez 67), I was confused by Dedé love for her cousin. And when she ended up marrying Jaimito and had kids, I was ultimately disturbed. Despite this, the action in the book had picked up and it was entertaining reading about the start of the rebellion. I noticed that the girls get married at a young age.

Nine years old, alone, suffering from the death of her brother, Liesel has been separated from her mother and left at 33 Kimmel Street in Molching to live with Hans and Rosa Hubermann. In this book narrated by Death himself Liesel is made fun of at school because she is unable to read. Early on Liesel realizes that she is powerless without words and this is one of the things that drives her throughout the book to never be powerless… wordless. Liesel has nightmares when she is first living at Himmel Street and she has to be sat with by Hans through the night. Liesel is happy and content living on Himmel Street and she becomes good friends with a guy named Rudy Steiner that is always trying to kiss her.

Minerva was talking about real pressing items on how Trujillo was a bad person and how many were dying under his reign. She had a serious tone and often never had light topics or talked about her social life at school. Maria Teresa on the other hand most important topic was her first communion. We saw little drawings of what Minerva wore and how a girl stole her diary. It accurately shows the difference in age of the two girls.

“Diem Perdidi” by Julie Otsuka is a short story about a mother who remembers and does not remember things told from the daughter’s point of view. Diem Perdidi, means “I have lost a day,” (Otsuka 680). Which, makes sense for what this story is about. The mother remembers certain aspects of her life, but forgets other things, then she remembers different things and forgets things she used to remember. For instance, in the beginning, “she remembers her name, name of the president,” then in the end, she doesn’t remember those things she used to.

In Story 8, Bornet’s wife, makes a plan to teach her husband a lesson about his unfaithfulness after learning that her husband is enamored with the chambermaid. The maid tells her mistress, “that she could not stand being badgered by him any longer.” (The Norton Anthology World Literature, pg. 276) The mistress replies, “Be nice to him dear…make a date to go to bed with him…

Cofer writes “Mama put each of us in Maria’s place by describing her wedding dress in loving detail: how she looked like a princess in her lace as she waited at the alter” (Cofer 20). This puts each of the characters and even the reader in the place of Maria, as she stands at the alter and gets her heart broken. The story tells the reader that they do not want to be in Marias shoes, so they must be careful and cautious with men and who they choose to be their husbands. The story of Maria la loca is an example of letting love control who you want to become. Love is the reason Maria becomes an

Meanwhile she forgets to teach a class, being introduced to people, and forgets if she has already repeated something. Again going to her neurologist, Alice decides to participate in the Amylix drug trial. While at their summer home, Alice gets lost, can 't identify certain objects, and has to be watched by her daughter. When they get back to Cambridge, Alice talks to one of her colleagues about how her students rated her. When Alice tells him that she was diagnosed with Alzheimer 's disease, she notices that he doesn 't want her working anymore, and decides to give up her career at Harvard.

In her autobiography, I Came a Stranger Hilda Polacheck reveals the conflicting role of women in the late 19th / early 20th century as workers, caregivers, and social activists in a conflicting age of progress, hardship and missed expectations. Coming from a very traditional Jewish family in Poland it seems that Polacheck was destined to be a full time mother and wife never having immersed herself in the American society where women were becoming more and more relevant. The death of her father changes all of this forcing herself, her mother, and her siblings to fight for survival. This fight is not only what transformed Hilda Polacheck into the woman we remember her as today, but into an American . At age thirteen and even much later after her husband’s death forced Polacheck to go to work to keep her family fed and clothed.

“The Free Radio,” by Salman Rushdie is a short story that describes societal expectations of gender roles in a traditional Indian culture. Ramani, a young rickshaw puller, is seduced by the beauty of the thief’s widow to undergo a government sterilization program for them to get married. The thief’s widow, already having five children alive and two dead, did not want to conceive any more children. Ramani was further convinced on complying with the widow when being told that participants were to be rewarded with receiving a first-class battery radio from the Central Government in New Delhi. With the sterilization the protagonist underwent, the narrator has challenged his masculinity and his ability to meet the expectations of his gender role.

She finds out that she wants a family with a real-life dad and a happy family. In the end, where Charlotte goes to the doctor and finds out that she isn’t pregnant she grows up a bit. Some days after when she and Kate are alone, Charlotte and Joe have sex. That is one of the main things that you learn about and experience when you grow from and child to an

Hope Edelman, a writer and mother, discusses her thoughts and experiences of the reality of marriage in, “The Myth of Co-Parenting: How It Was Supposed to Be. How It Was.” Edelman details how at the beginning of her marriage her husband was starting an internet business and had to take long hours causing Hope to cut hers in order to care for their child. Hope describes how she expected marriage to be a place where the spouses split homemaking and breadwinning equally. She quickly realized that that was not the case.

Now, Racine paid the bill and then she slowly walked Roxie out of the booming restaurant atmos-phere to her car. In the next 10 minutes Roxie and Racine received their cars together. Both ladies drove their expensive black Mercedes down Market street to the 110 freeway with Racine driving closely behind Roxie. Soon - Racine, was speeding wanting to get caught while she was dialing her B-plan to Ra-heem’s cousin ALI via text.

An example of Curt making an effort to defend Ifemelu is when he dropped Ifemelu off at a spa near his childhood home so that she could get her eyebrows shaped for his cousin’s wedding. When Ifemelu asked the Asian woman behind the counter for a wax, the salon employee sneered, “We don’t do curly [eyebrows]” (361). When Curt arrived to pick up Ifemelu, he demanded the woman to do Ifemelu’s eyebrows and declared “I’ll shut down this fucking place. You don’t deserve to have a license” (361). The woman smiled and transformed herself into a considerate coquette by Curt’s command and waxed Ifemelu’s eyebrows, as Ifemelu sat tensely afraid that the woman would harm her.

In the article “Orange is the New Black is the Only TV Show that Understands Rape” by Jada Yuan, she argues that TV show such as, Orange is the New Black can demonstrate how rape is an atrocious and violent act. Orange is the New Black is about the story of a woman in her thirties who is sentenced to fifteen months in prison after being convicted of a decade old crime of transporting money to her drug dealing girlfriend. Yuan has written many different types of articles for New York Magazine, but in this particular article Yuan talks about how TV shows or movies can illustration the agony and repulsive feeling women go through when they are getting raped. Also, by displaying these scenes it can show the audience how traumatic and psychologically

However he still recounted why he was with her and whether marriage was worth a shot; he loved having sex with her, but at the same time he feels more emotionally attached to her, enough to consider marriage. A little later, Sonny was making his way to don Eliseo’s house for coffee and breakfast when he got a call from his aunt Delfina. She said that her daughter Gloria is dead and that is was murder. She asked Sonny to pick her up and to take her to Gloria’s house where she was found dead.