... upbringing to their involvement in the civil rights movement in New York City. "Sadie" is the older (103 years old) and sweeter of the sisters. The first colored high school teacher in the New York Public School System, "Sadie" considers herself to be the Booker T. Washington of the sisters, always shying away from conflict and looking at both sides of the issue. "Bessie" is the younger sister (101 years old) and is much more aggressive. A self-made dentist who was the only colored female at Columbia University when she attended dentistry school there, "Bessie" is the W.E.B. Dubois of the sisters, never backing down from any type of confrontation. As the sist ...

... talking. Florentina: Marianella, are you scared? Marianella: no Florentina. You are very good, and so is Don Teodoro Teodoro: Nela, you are very sick Marianella: yes. I think i've made Florentina angry. Florentina: no Marianela - you are a good person. Pablo arrives at the house of Florentina. Pablo: florentina, i heard my dad was here. Florentina does not answer him. Pablo didn't have to visit Teodoro or Marianella .Pablo: It is not important to me to stay blind after i have seen. I had a dream that that you were looking for me. To your side were very ugly girls. Why are you beautiful? Creí that you wish to be at my side. My cousin, and wife of my soul. Florenti ...

... shows her deep ties to the community and her sex. This loyalty to women follows her throughout the story and shows her ability to look past a situation and tell what is really happening in the lives of others. The men in this story obviously think the women inferior and that allows Mrs. Hale to show not contempt for men, but rather their naiveté toward the true nature and feelings of women. She does this to protect them from things that really do not want to find out about because if they did they would be forced into things that are really not wanted by any, sending a woman whose husband she killed in self defense to her death. This dynamic character goe ...

... daddy. I had to fight my brothers. I had to fight my cousins and my uncles. But I never thought I’d have to fight in my own house. I loves Harpo. God knows I do. But I’ll kill him dead before I let him beat me.” (42). Sofia can no longer tolerate this kind of abuse and she thought that when she married Harpo she had finally escaped it. Later Celie admits that she told Harpo to beat her because she is jealous of Sofia. Celie is jealous because Sofia can fight back and she knows she can’t. Sofia tells Celie how she feels sorry for her because Celie reminds her of her mother and how she never could stand up against her father. Just seeing Sofia ...

... through life. Vito like many, have found a place for his faith. He believed that a true heaven would be back in his homeland, back in the garden that he cared for so dearly. This garden in fact acted like his own garden of Eden. For his character was like that of the tender plant, which when faced with the slightest touch or trouble from an outside source, would recoil its leaves and take a defense position close to the garden that it grew within. Vito would retreat to this garden to escape the troubles of the outside world when they became unbearable. He describes the garden to us as; “The garden that kept them little children even as adults;” Thi ...

... there is one thing that all early accounts revolve around, that is the idea of a divine being or, in other words, god. Early humans were extremely religious, holding the belief that their very lives were in the hands of their god. This holds true for both the people of biblical times as well as those of the epic era. However, even as both groups believed in a supreme being, they harbored different feelings and beliefs about the subject. In the epic, many gods are mentioned and worshiped, such as Ninsun and Shamash. These gods can give birth to mortals, and can communicate with these mortals, usually through dreams. In Genesis, there is me ...

... has been able to expand on an element that has always been present but could never dominate a primitive being's existence because of their need for survival and continuance. This element is the softer more caring side of humanity. Although many instincts have lost the importance they once held, they cannot be completely obliterated. As humanity is embracing its softer, more caring side, the aggressive instincts appear more impetuous because in most cases there is no need for them. Many people nowadays can afford to aid weaker nations such as Africa because, although their primary concern is still their own survival, they no longer have to consciously strive f ...

... a wife. Also, immediately before this declaration, is the scene of misunderstanding between he and his servant Grumio about knocking on the gate (I.ii.5-43). I see this exchange as demonstration of his enjoyment of verbal sport, a good example of Petruchio's sense of humor and his appreciation of things non-conventional. Though Petruchio may not agree with what society has determined to be proper and dignified, he is aware of the importance of appearing to conform. In what he says to Hortensio, I feel he is simply extending this sport and humor into the ironic. It is in Hortensio's description of Kate that I believe Petruchio's interest is captured. Hortensio des ...

... “to hinder the development of the child’s affection toward its mother, and to blunt and destroy the natural affection of the mother for the child.” (Page 2). Douglass only saw his mother a few times. She usually visited him at bedtime and left before he woke up. So removed was he from her life, that when she died he felt no more sadness than if he had been told a stranger had died. Unfortunately, we don’t have the benefit of his mother’s memories of her affections towards her son. We only have one child’s point of view. In Beloved, Sethe also remembers seeing her mother only a few times. The difference between Sethe and Frederic ...

... meets a strange man on the road and kills him, never knowing that he is actually his father. When he reaches the next kingdom, he learns that the king has mysteriously died, and Oedipus himself becomes king, marrying the former king's wife, who of course is his mother. When Oedipus finds out what he has done, he blinds himself and becomes a wandering beggar. Sigmund Freud took the legend of Oedipus as a metaphor for the wish of every small boy to get his father out of the way so he could have his mother all to himself. Most men resolve this dilemma by the time they reach adulthood; some do not, and are therefore unable to cope with the stresses of adult life. ...