cared because they knew I deserved it. I live with my Aunt and her family‚ she adopted me after my parent divorced. Being the youngest child of my family seem very happy but really sucks. All the hopes and ambition does toward my bigger brother‚ Eli. Everyone was always proud of my brother no matter what. As for my other older sister‚ she is only five years older than me and she was the only girl member of the family (beside my Aunt). Of course everyone will spoil her and give her all the attention
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tell you about my journey to get to Ellis Island. As you know‚ I went to Ellis Island to live with my mother since my father had passed away roughly 7 years ago and I was living with my aunt and uncle in Italy. My mother had gone to Ellis Island a few years previous to my own journey to start a new life for us. My aunt and uncle had to save up to five years wages (2200 liras). I had to walk about 50 miles to get to the seaport! The trip across the Atlantic lasted about a week and a half. The fortunate
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The Boy Who Loved Clowns is a book by June Rae Wood‚ this book has come to readers attentions‚ that it was written on accomplice of her childhood. Wood grew up in Versailles‚ Missouri‚ the second of eight children. The third child‚ Richard‚ was born with down syndrome- which is who Uncle Punky portrays in the book. Back in the “dark ages” is when society didn’t know and/or respect the disabled community. Richard was a “happy go lucky man” recalls Woods‚ but some kids were afraid of him‚ so the family
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It is said that reading literary works is more than just setting the eyes on one individual story or another. Rather‚ it has been suggested that all possible connections between two or more works are taken into considerations so as to reach to better understanding of all. True enough‚ this recommendation once put into use for the two stories "The Rocking Horse Winner" (by D. H. Lawrence) and "Araby" (by James Joyce) could lead to a revelation of many details in common between them‚ especially the
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towards‚ the large estate that my uncle and aunt own. It has a large building that looks somewhat like a castle‚ it is a cream colour with blue roofs but still manages to look dark and mysterious and has an eerie feel surrounding it. It is long and on half of it is about 10 floors high with little towers coming out above the main roof‚ the other half is lower down‚ only about 5 stories high‚ with a large watch tower in the middle of that section. It houses my aunt‚ uncle and their daughter‚ my cousin and
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Araby The setting of Araby is described within the first three small paragraphs; it conveys very vivid imagery as you would see it in the eyes of a young boy‚ noticing details of colors and textures of his surroundings. You soon get a sense of the narrator’s simple minded thinking as he is only a young boy. Going into the adolescent years‚ the narrator experiences new emotions and finds himself an immense love interest in his friend’s sister who lives down the street. As he spends much of his time
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uncle L.V.; he listened to his uncle in the movie and didn’t get into any fights with him. In the book it seems to be the opposite Boobie didn’t get along with his uncles when he left the football team and he left his uncles house to live with his aunt for a long period
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individual’s desires is first presented at the beginning of the novel. In his childhood‚ Arjie spend most of his time playing dress up with his girl cousins because he felt that playing cricket with the boys was lame and unimaginative. One day‚ his aunt and uncle caught him in a sari‚ which is meant to be a dress for women. Arjie’s uncle then called Arjie “funny”. By “funny”‚ Arjie’s uncle meant gay. After this‚ Arjie’s father and mother argued about the scene that they had just witnessed. “If he
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burst forth out of control under the stimulus of the cranberry jelly! No‚ it is a mockery of holiday. For instance: Thank you‚ O Lord‚ for what we are about to receive. This is surely not a gala concept. There are no presents‚ unless one counts Aunt Bertha’s sweet rolls a present‚ which no one does. There is precious little in the way of costumery: miniature plastic turkeys and those witless Pilgrim hats. There is no sex. Indeed‚ Thanksgiving is the one day of the year (a fact known to everybody)
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You could have heard a pin drop in the silence of the delivery room. None of the nurses dared to make a sound as Megan cradled her lifeless baby in her limp arms. A stream of tears flowed from Megan’s large hazel eyes as she stared at her child. She thought about all the endless things she would have done with her daughter. She could have spoiled her by buying her pink‚ poufy outfits to dress her. The air felt thick and full of sadness. Ryan stood next to his despaired wife‚ looking over her slumped
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