Susan Glaspell’s one-act play‚ Trifles‚ weaves a tale of an intriguing murder investigation to determine who did it. Mrs. Wright is suspected of strangling her husband to death. During the investigation the sheriff and squad of detectives are clueless and unable to find any evidence or motive to directly tie Mrs. Wright to the murder. They are baffled as to how he was strangled by a rope while they were supposedly asleep side by side. Glaspell artfully explores gender differences between men and
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To Kill A Mocking Bird In Harper Lee’s novel To Kill A Mocking Bird the character Atticus is a major role model to his children. During the novel Atticus teaches his children many important values. The main values include: everyone is equal‚ to put yourself in other peoples shoes‚ and not to judge others before you get to know them. Everyone is equal is a major value that Atticus teaches his children. He wants to teach them that no matter what colour‚ social status or appearance people are people
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Book Review written by Jaya Tripathi Homeless Bird by Gloria Whelan Homeless Bird is the story of a young Indian village girl who overcomes adversity and extreme hardship to ultimately live a full and happy life on her own terms. I first heard about this book when a parent expressed his concern about the (in)appropriateness of its selection as required text for 5th graders in a public school in the United States. The book was chosen‚ he was told‚ to educate the students about India. So
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industrialization‚ seemed a safe place to store one’s most precious valuable: a 6-year-old boy. Or so it seemed to the parents who abandoned their only son to protect him from the Nazis in the beginning of Jerzy Kosinski’s provocative 1965 novel The Painted Bird. After his guardian Marta dies and her decaying corpse and hut are accidentally engulfed in flames‚ the innocent young dark-haired‚ dark-eyed outcast is obliged to trek from village to village in search of food‚ shelter‚ and companionship. Beaten and
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Susan Glaspell’s Trifles is a play about the effect of gender differences on perceptions of duty‚ law‚ and justice. When a character named John Wright was murdered‚ the Sheriff and County Attorney go to investigate his house‚ as it was believed his wife murdered him. As the two investigate‚ the Sheriff brought his wife Mrs. Peters and the neighbor of the Wrights that reported the event‚ Lewis Hale‚ brought his wife Mrs. Hale also to the house. While the women stayed in the house‚ they started to
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Boo Radley and Tom Robinson come from very different backgrounds. Both face similar stories of prejudice and unfair judgments. These men faced some of the same hardships throughout their lives. Boo and Tom are both good men who were put down because they are considered “different” than others in the town. Scout learns important lessons from the way the people in town treat Boo and Tom. The title of the book To Kill A Mockingbird takes on different meanings as the author tells the story of these two
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diseases as they often get poisoned by human waste‚ particularly industrial effluent‚ The general population which is affected by these diseases would prefer to have these animals slain‚ rather than caged. The most dominant reason for caging animals or birds is for personal entertainment‚ whether it is a lion in a circus forced to jump through loops or if it is a macaw kept in a cage as a pet or "companion". Pet owners can argue that they love the pets they keep as a part of their family‚ they provide
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“If birds of a feather flock together‚ they don’t learn enough.” To me‚ this quote means that you have to be on your own to learn‚ to grow‚ and create your own life. If you stay in the same place with the same people you will not have the chance to see what more is out there and how many things life has to offer. Sometimes you find yourself in the middle of nowhere‚ and in the middle of nowhere you find yourself. I believe that if you never accept change you will find yourself stuck. You will not
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Prejudice is shown in many ways in To Kill a Mocking Bird. From social prejudice against the Cunninghams to racial prejudice against Tom Robinson‚ the book has displayed many aspects of how people can look through the window and see things completely differently than the person beside them. A form of social prejudice is when Aunt Alexandra forbid Scout to play with Walter Cunningham‚ a poor boy whom Scout attends school with. This is because Aunt Alexandra sees Walter and his family as poor and
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family as he defends Tom Robinson.In current day America we still see these injustice’s but at a lower cases. We sill see African American who have no evidence against them still get charged and prosecuted because they are black. In to kill a mocking bird we see that the parents are teaching there kid that they should not play with black kid because just because they are black.They look at black people as trash. There is a quto in the story by aunt alexendria and says “There’s something in our world
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