A Jury of Her Peers The short story “A Jury of Her Peers” by Susan Glaspellis is about a murder that both men and women try to solve. At that time‚ men’s rule was usually more significant than women. However in this story‚ the women’s part is more important than man. This story shows that women should not be ignored like how they were typically ignored in the society before. Also‚ the women are the ones that find the important details. The story begins with the main character‚ Mrs. Halle‚ receiving
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“A Jury of Her Peers” chronicles the discovery of and subsequent investigation into John Wright’s murder. The story begins on a cold windy day in Dickson County with Martha Hale‚ being abruptly called to ride to a crime scene with Lewis Hale‚ her husband; Sheriff Peters‚ the county sheriff; and Mrs. Peters‚ the sheriff’s wife. She rushes out to join them in the buggy and the group sets off. They arrive at the scene of the crime‚ the Wright’s lonesome-looking house. Immediately Mrs. Hale exhibits
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"Her Sweet Jerome" is a short story about a married‚ black couple. Their relationship is not working and they don’t really love each other. The female character is lying to herself. She pictures herself as sexy and beautiful but she is described as a big and awkward woman. She is trying to look sexy and attractive‚ so she can cover up her flaws. She is also denying the truth by pretending that her husband finds her attractive‚ when he in fact is disgusted. Their relationship is unhealthy‚ mainly
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A Woman in Her Prime by Asare Konadu. Heinemann‚ 1967. 107 pages Compared to the brilliance and brashness of so much Nigerian literature‚ the quieter literature of Ghana may seem in danger of being overlooked. A Woman in Her Prime is a good example of what a mistake that would be. Like its heroine‚ A Woman in Her Prime is modest‚ balanced‚ calm‚ and understated‚ but with a charm and quiet beauty that prove captivating. It centers on a domestic drama that can be stated simply: Pokuwaa would
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Eveline SHE sat at the window watching the evening invade the avenue. Her head was leaned against the window curtains and in her nostrils was the odour of dusty cretonne. She was tired. Few people passed. The man out of the last house passed on his way home; she heard his footsteps clacking along the concrete pavement and afterwards crunching on the cinder path before the new red houses. One time there used to be a field there in which they used to play every evening with other people’s children
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production of She Kills Monsters: Adventurers Edition‚ written by Qui Nguyen. It was performed by Liberty High School Theatre on the mainstage at the 51st Annual Colorado Thespian Conference. The play was about a teenage girl named Agnes who tries to reconnect with her dead sister Tilly through a Dungeons and Dragons game that she created when she was still alive. With the help of Tilly’s friend Chuck as her Dungeon Master‚ Agnes is able to enter Tilly’s world and get to know more about her life and
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Warming Her Pearls for Judith Radstone Next to my own skin‚ her pearls. My mistress bids me wear them‚ warm them‚ until evening when I´ll brush her hair. At six‚ I place them round her cool‚ white throat. All day I think of her‚ resting in the Yellow Room‚ contemplating silk or taffeta‚ which gown tonight? She fans herself whilst I work willingly‚ my slow heat entering each pearl. Slack on my neck‚ her rope. She´s beautiful. I dream about her in my attic bed; picture her
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poem‚ like most of Dickinson’s poems‚ has an ABCB rhyme scheme. Here‚ our rhyming pairs are "saw/raw" and "grass/pass." Extra note: Dickinson wasn’t strict in her rhyming. Though she did take steps to fit her feelings into the rhyme (she kept a dictionary by her bed‚ to help her find just the right word)‚ if she couldn’t find the rhyme‚ she came close. * "Ballad-like" meter * "Ballad-like" implies song-like‚ and many folks have put Dickinson’s words to music. The alternating stressed
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book Where She Went by: Gayle Forman‚ the sequel to If I Stay is told from Adam’s perspective not Mia’s. When Mia left for Juilliard after the crash‚ her and Adam tried to keep in touch. After a while‚ Mia cut him off and essentially broke up with him. Now it’s three years later and Adam is a huge rockstar and Mia is finally getting her career going. Adam is in New York to do some recording and Mia is there playing at Carnegie Hall. Adam finds himself at Carnegie hall listening to her play‚ and
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Margarie who appears to be perfect from the outside‚ has her act down to a tee. Everything is thought out from what she says‚ to what she wears‚ is thought out. Bernice decides to confront Marjorie in the kitchen the morning after hearing her lash out about her to her mother. The reader has insight to how shocked Marjorie will be after realizing she is caught when Fitzgerald sets up the scene with "Bernice paused before she threw her hand-grenade". Marjorie is trapped and Bernice ’s words
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