Li-Young Lee's poem, "I Ask My Mother To Sing" 
.... An implication is that the poet is not asking his
mother to sing for the first time but this is a request that is repeated over time to bring the
past life in ....
(708
3
)
In My Mother's House: A Daughter's Story
.... In Chernin's case, the storytelling is formalized, in an almost religious sense, as if the stories of the
mother and her
past, and then of the daughter and her ....
(4412
18
)
Character of Dee in Everyday Use
.... clearly shows how much she disrespects the world she came from while glorifying a romantic
past she had no real connection with. Her
mother remembers her ....
(903
4
)
Alfred Hitchcock's Films
.... the Mitch-
mother relationship and to test the resolve of Melanie to show whether she is worthy or not. 2. Vertigo is obsessed with the influence of the
past on ....
(1105
4
)
Autobiographical Lyrical Poem
.... An implication is that the poet is not asking his
mother to sing for the first time but this is a request that is repeated over time to bring the
past life in ....
(708
3
)
Gendering the American Past
.... Referring to the American
past as feminine gives a distorted picture of .... of its reproductive facility, and people have always referred to "
Mother Nature," but ....
(2744
11
)
Tan & Kincaid (Lucy & Joy)
.... manage" (Kincaid 31). Lucy tries to find her own identity, an identity that will distance her from her
past and her
mother. We see her ....
(1290
5
)
Mother Daughter Relationship in Joy Luck Club
.... by the ambivalence of June toward her
mother and by the fact that June is awakening simultaneously to her
mother's life and the cultural
past of which June ....
(1648
7
)
Conrasting Past & Present in 3 Literary Works
.... O'Brien implies that Cross will not succeed in his attempt to forget the
past. .... know was his father and married the woman he later discovered to be his
mother. ....
(2247
9
)
Asian American Struggles for Identity: Asian American Dreams
.... 1993). When she is older June realizes these constraints stem from her
mother's past and older ways of life in China. Ultimately ....
(1387
6
)
Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club
.... understanding of her
mother and to the recognition of her
mother's courageous struggle long before she was born. Rose Hsu Jordan is bound by the
past, but only ....
(1670
7
)
Lone Star
.... separation. Pilar is separated from her
mother. Her
mother refuses to allow her to date Sam, and broke it off in the
past. Her
mother ....
(2416
10
)
Song of Solomon (Toni Morrison)
.... father and an obsessive
mother, Milkman lacks the capacity to empathize with others or to define his own identity. Milkman maintains "you can't do the
past over ....
(711
3
)
Jewish American Writers
.... Thinking her children needed to know the lessons of the
past, the
mother comes to a higher awareness of her children and herself by reflecting on them herself. ....
(1115
4
)
Two short stories of horrific childhoods
.... However, it is evident that Jenny's unwillingness to accept her
mother's help and to .... Simpson 461-2, 448-9) illuminates the negative effects of her
past on her ....
(1006
4
)
Beloved
.... her
mother but was spared from intervention, enlists the aid of the community to help keep Sethe from being irretrievably lost to the horrors of the
past and ....
(1047
4
)
Lasting Effects of Slavery Portrayed in "Beloved"
.... The
mother-child relationship carries echoes of abandonment and suicide because of the
past of these two women and because of the separation slavery often ....
(1643
7
)
Becoming an African-American
.... For the
mother and Maggie, the idea of denying their
past and all that it implies in terms of family enslavement is patently absurd. ....
(1428
6
)
Narrative Therapy: All Over But the Shoutin'
.... He is referring to his
mother who "believes that she failed," and Bragg .... he became a successful journalist, a Pulitzer Prize winner, without disowning his
past. ....
(1903
8
)
Effects of Smoking During Pregnancy
.... with disabilities is increasing (Medicine and Health, 2003, p.1). During
past decades, polio .... for the effects in the offspring, even if the
mother only inhales ....
(1366
5
)
Growing up During the Great Proletarian Revolution
.... Liang Fang, is becoming estranged from the father and taken with the Young Communist League which she is unable to join because of her
mother's past which also ....
(1623
6
)
Tennesse Williams' The Glass Menagerie
.... he often dreams of following his father's example and abandoning his
mother and sister .... This is because that Amanda's fantasy involves reliving her
past as a ....
(732
3
)
Social Development in Abeng Social Development in Abeng (Michelle ...
.... a malevolent world. Clare's
mother Kitty represents a link to this powerful world of black magic and
past prestige. Yet as an herbalist ....
(3198
13
)
Russell Baker's Growing Up
.... how humanity is like a river: We all come from the
past, and children .... draw this portrait, the author focuses on his relationship with his
mother, which forms ....
(1352
5
)
"I Am Ready to Tell All I Know"
.... how any
mother could tolerate the sorts of things that happened in the South in the
past given that such events harmed the children of some
mother somewhere. ....
(3762
15
)
Beloved & Toni Morrison
.... free of the demons of her
past and the ghosts residing at 124 Bluestone Road (ie in her heart and mind). Denver, too, was almost killed by her
mother's hand. ....
(2616
10
)
"Growing Up"
.... how humanity is like a river: We all come from the
past, and children .... draw this portrait, the author focuses on his relationship with his
mother, which forms ....
(1462
6
)
This Boy's Life
.... The author establishes a kinship between himself and his
mother and the women they .... own: Women looked up from their flower beds as we drove
past, or watched us ....
(1945
8
)
The Woman Warrior
.... She evokes the
past first in terms of stories her
mother has told her: Long ago in China, knot-makers tied string into buttons and frogs, and rope into bell ....
(1295
5
)
Athol Fugard's "Master Harold"
.... refers to the fact that he used to get into trouble with his
mother for hanging .... Sam do so in this play, each showing the ability to remember the
past and to ....
(1374
5
)
