their own thoughts about the meaning of heritage. The mother is referred as Mama and she waits outside in the yard with her younger daughter Maggie for Dee’s arrival. Mama struggles to get Dee to understand the importance of their family’s legacy. On the other hand‚ Maggie lives with Mama and is described with personality traits such as a shy young girl. When Dee arrives back home to her family Mama notices that everything
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protagonist of the novel‚ Tita is the youngest daughter of Mama Elena‚ prohibited by family tradition from marrying so that she will be free to take care of her mother later in life. The novel follows Tita’s life from birth to death‚ focusing mostly on her tortured relationship with Pedro and her struggle and eventual triumph in pursuit of love and individuality. Mama Elena - The tyrannical‚ widowed matriarch of the De La Garza clan. Mama Elena is the prime source of Tita’s suffering. Her fierce
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married due to the Mexican traditions that pass from generation to generation. In this novel‚ Like Water For Chocolate‚ by Laura Esquivel‚ Mama Elena‚ Tita’s mother‚ and had to choose between running away with the love of her life or staying with the family because the tradition did not let Mexicans and Mulatos‚ a breed of African American and Mexican get married. Mama Elena is most affected by tradition and her personal desire of love as she must cover up her secret love of Jose Trevino‚ a Mulatto‚ to
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who are now facing the consequences and putting on a brave face to get by. The play Ruined focuses more on the topic of woman. Those women are view as how of “ruined” by society. These women turn out to be prostitutes for the soldier’s who come to Mama house. These women are victims who are shunned by their own villages and become undesirable to their husbands. My interest in this play is because is a writing that exposes a
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was more then what they expect. Summary Twelve year old Lanesha lives in tight-knit community in New Orleans Ninth Ward. She doesn’t have a fancy house. She live with mama Ya-Ya. She can see ghost and is very special. Mama Ya-Ya saw Katrina in her dreams. So Lanesha and she prepared for the hurricane like everyone else. Sadly‚ Mama Ya-Ya die during the hurricane and Lanesha‚ her Neighbor and dog spot survived. Text-To-Text Ninth Ward Compares to Noah and the Ark. When God flooded the earth and
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The symbolism of the plant in A Raisin in the Sun One might ask how the scientific facts of the functional purpose of a plant would connect to a literary piece‚ especially the well-known play‚ A Raisin in the Sun‚ written by Lorraine Hansberry. The plant in the text symbolizes the foundation for the family‚ honest hope‚ and Mama’s dreams. Symbolism is not a definition of an item‚ but represents something specific other than itself. Much like Mama’s plant‚ it represents many meaningful ideas with
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respect of family. In The Glass Menagerie‚ Amanda‚ the caring but overbearing and over protective mother‚ wants to be taken care of‚ but in A Raisin in the Sun‚ Mama‚ as she is known‚ is more or less‚ the overseer of the family. The prospective of the plays identify that we have family members‚ like Amanda‚ as overprotective‚ or like Mama‚ as overseers. I am going to give a contrast of the mothers in the plays. In The Glass Menagerie‚ by Tennessee Williams‚ we embark on the task of seeing a
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past on the present. Mama Johnson and her daughter Maggie await the arrival of the older daughter‚ Dee. Mama Johnson recalls the various allowances she provided for Dee. Dee receives a formal education and the finer clothes she prefers to wear‚ unlike Mama Johnson and Maggie. Dee has two fundamental issues. Her family embarrasses her‚ and she is accustomed to getting her way‚ although Dee is never satisfied. She has high ideals‚ while Mama Johnson and Maggie are simpler people. Mama Johnson recalls a
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new home. Walter’s dream is to open up a liquor store and make money for his family to have a “better” life. Early on in the story‚ readers find out that Mama has a large check coming from her late husband’s life insurance. This excitement starts to create a large uproar of arguments in the family. The arguments ranged from Walter and Ruth to Mama and Walter to
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time‚ and then there is Walter and Mama with their struggle for the money. These are just some of the conflicts in this story. The generation gap poses problems between Mama‚ Walter‚ and Beneatha. Mama has stuck to her same values ever since she was a child. She is the oldest women in the apartment‚ and is the wisest. She controls the household at the beginning of the play but then hands her control down to Walter by giving him the rest of the insurance money. Mama is stuck to the values of blacks
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