write. Tessa Duder said that her sailing experience inspired her to write about some children sailing together in her short story Too Close to the Wind‚ Patricia Grace wrote Beans based on the sports she played with her relatives when she was little‚ and The Lumber Room reflected the revenge Saki used to play on his aunts. Tessa Duder‚ Patricia Grace‚ and Saki are examples of authors whose lives are reflected in their works. Let’s take Saki‚ for example. His mother died when he was very little. Saki
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Exemplar A: Excellence Research topic: What’s on Amy Tan’s Mind? Research questions: ▪ What issues stand out in Amy Tan’s writing? ▪ How do the narrative techniques used highlight these issues? ▪ Why does Amy Tan highlight these issues? Research Notes: The Kitchen God’s Wife Author: Amy Tan. ISSUES Sense of self identity: ▪ Revelation of her mother’s secret past brings the identity of who Pearl’s biological father really is. ▪ To Pearl this news is horrific
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In the story “It used to be green once” written by Patricia Grace mum is the main character‚ Mum is a interesting character because of these reasons. I found mum interesting because of the way she dressed‚ she used to dress in a purple dress made out of a Japanese bedspread and the way she raised her children. She would often drive around in an old cruddy car and toot to let people know she was coming. Mum was a very shameless person. She did not care about what people might think of her. Her
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Date: 15/02/10 Title: The Geranium Text type: Short story Author: Patricia Grace This short story‚ ’The Geranium’‚ by Patricia Grace and published 1993‚ is a perfect example of Battered woman syndrome and the mental effects it has on a person in this case Marney. In the geranium‚ the main character‚ Marney is a stay at home mother. She cleans intensely all day and seems rather dull. She does not leave the house even when one of the girls tells her to "come for a stretch." You
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Mother Figures in It Used to Be Green Once and Going to the Moon In both Patricia Grace’s short story It Used to Be Green Once and in Nino Ricci’s short story Going to the Moon‚ the mother figures to the protagonists are caring and outgoing‚ but differ on their ability to comprehend specific situations. First and foremost‚ the characters that act as the mother figures in the short stories both care for the protagonists. The mother of the protagonist in It used to Be Green Once cares for all of
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In the short stories the “Big Brother Little Sister” by Witi Ihamaera and “The Geranium” by Patricia Grace the characters make important decisions that affects their lives. In the course of both stories we learn that the characters suffer from domestic abuse and want to be free but at the end they decide to stay. In Big Brother Little Sister the reader learns that the most important decision that Hema makes is to go back home even thought their life is miserable. When the once the children’s mum
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CONTENTS Introduction: How to use these notes 1. The Fall of the House of Usher Edgar Allen Poe 2. The Open Boat Stephen Crane 3. The Door in the Wall HG Wells 4. The People Before Maurice Shadbolt 5. A Horse and Two Goats RK Narayan 6. Journey Patricia Grace 7. To Da-Duh‚ In Memoriam Paule Marshall 8. Of White Hairs and Cricket Rohinton Mistry 9. Sandpiper Ahdaf Soueif 10. Tyres Adam Thorpe These notes are intended to give some background information on each author and/or story as an aid to further
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The Dali Museum Experience and Tour Speaker: Dali Museum tour guide Ms. Patricia Allen Introduction to Speech Communication Professor Chamberlain 25th September 2012 Dwayne Williams Professor Chamberlain Introduction to Speech Communication 25th September 2012 Dali Museum Tour By Tour Guide Ms. Patricia Allen As I arrived at my destination September 25th‚ The Dali Museum located at One Dali Boulevard‚ in the beautiful
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What it ’s Like to be a Black Girl by Patricia Smith Works Cited Not Included An explanation in its purest form of “What it’s like to be a Black Girl (for those of you who aren’t)” by Patricia Smith‚ is just that‚ an explanation. From the first three syllables “First of all‚” the author gives a sense of a story being told. She uses jagged sentence structure and strong forceful language to also show the reader the seriousness of her topic. Smiths poem gives the audience an insider’s view into
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J.M. Blaut said that “eurocentrism is quite simply the colonizer’s model of the world.” The ideas that Blaut talks about are encompassed throughout the several different short stories that were read throughout this unit. In “Kura‚” by Patricia Grace‚ Kate takes her little sister‚ Riripeti‚ to school. There she and her culture are both consistently mistreated and considered inferior to the Western culture. In “Homeless” by Ovo Adagha‚ the native people of Nigeria are exploited by the previous
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