House of Tragedy The novel entitled‚ House of Sand and Fog was written by Andre Dubus III and is based around the Behrani family who fled from their native country of Iran after the Iranian revolution. They found themselves in America living in an apartment way too expensive for their income. This forces Massoud Behrani to find a job without much training outside of the military this becomes difficult. Behrani takes two jobs one as a trash collector and the other as a convenience store clerk‚ both
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“The Curse” by Andre Dubus is about Mitchell Hayes‚ a forty-nine year old bartender who is witness to a rape. The rape occurs right before closing when five bikers rape a young woman while holding Mitchell at bay. After the rape‚ Mitchell is distraught over his decision of not making a stronger attempt to help the girl. Police‚ family and friends try to comfort Mitchell by telling him he made the right decision. However‚ he continues to feel guilt and self-doubt over whether or not
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Midterm- Females of Today Do you think that Louise accurately represents a woman of our times? Why or why not? “The Fat Girl” by Andre Dubus is about a girl named Louise. Louise is an overweight girl. When she was nine years old her mother tells her that being fat or overweight is not pretty‚ when she gets to high school if she’s still overweight that boys will not pay any attention to her. Her mother would make her eat “bare” meals‚ if she at a potato during dinner she would have to skip dessert
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sadly‚ vestiges of old social norms still have a toehold in some parts of the country and the unilluminated parts of many people’s psyches. In this story‚ Dubus reminds us of what it might have been like for a young female in what is likely the 1950’s to 1960’s era (not that long ago)‚ where the high standards of female
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The Fat Girl Her name was Louise. Once when she was sixteen a boy kissed her at a barbacue; he was drunk and he jammed his tongue into her mouth and ran his hands up and down her hips. Her father kissed her often. He was thin and kind and she could see in his eyes when he looked at her the lights of love and pity. It started when Louise was nine. You must start watching what you eat‚ her mother would say. I can see you have my metabolism. Louise also had her mother’s pale blond hair
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In my father was a writer memoir‚ Andre Dubus III was young when events in his life starts to mold him. Starting early moving to different places having three other siblings and one parent that was a captain in the military. At the time his father was depressed and didn’t enjoy being a captain in the military in Andre’s eyes. After Andre granddad passed away it was an instant change in the family. Andre dad retired from being a commander in the marines. In Andre’s eyes‚ his daddy became happier‚
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In Andre Dubus’ “Killings‚” Matt Fowler‚ a father‚ makes a drastic decision to get revenge on his son’s assassin after he is murdered. In Quentin Tarantino’s “Pulp Fiction” we see similar themes of violence‚ vengeance‚ and injustice told with the choices of different characters. The conflict changes with the different actions and motivations of the protagonists‚ showing different intensities and motives through the stories. Marsellus Wallace in Pulp Fiction takes revenge on rapist Zeth for purely
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Dubus’s "Killings": Prosecuting Attorney In the story "Killings" Matt Fowler kills Strout in revenge of his son Frank’s murder. Matt assumes that Strout will only serve a few years and be out on probation and doesn’t think he can face that happening. Ruth‚ Matt’s wife feels she cannot go on with life as she sees Strout all over town and can’t live with the fact that he’s out on bail after killing her son Frank. Matt over the course of the story becomes overwhelmed or over capacitated with the
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“Killings" By Andre Dubus’s. “Killings” was written by the late Andre Dubus in 1979 (Dubus). According to the article “Andre Dubus‚” often the characters that Dubus portray are in tense situations and “sometimes their frustration goads them to infidelity or acts of violence; more often‚ however‚ they simply become resigned to their lot” (Contemporary Authors Online par. 9). On the other hand‚ Matt revenge to committing his murder‚ which showed loss and consequences are explored in Andre Dubus’s
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The Killings Plot is defined as‚ "the authors arrangement of incidents in a story it is the organizing principle that controls the controls the order of events (Meyer‚64)." The element of plot is heavily relied on in the short story‚ "The Killings" by Andre Dubus. The plot which is completely made inside the imagination of an author (Meyer‚64)‚ gives the audience important insight to people‚ places‚ and events in the story (Meyer‚64) . "The Killings" provides a somewhat conventional plot
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