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English 345 Midterm 2!
English 345 Midterm 2!
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Undergraduate 3
02/26/2012

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A Wife's Story
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Bharati Mukherjee
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The Awakening
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Kate Chopin
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Letter
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Judith Wright
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Prayer for My Children
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Kate Daniels
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The Witch's Husband
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Judith Cofer
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Housekeeping
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Directed by Bill Forsyth
Written by Marilnne Robinson
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The Descent
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Neil Marshall
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Maya Angelou
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Still I Rise
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Angela Carter
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Wolf Alice
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"Love is a commodity, hoarded like any other"
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A Wife's Story - Bharati Mukherjee
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"In the mirror that hangs on the bathroom door, I watch my naked body turn, the breasts, the thighs glow."
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A Wife's Story - Bharati Mukherjee
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"I am free, afloat, watching somebody else."
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A Wife's Story - Bharati Mukherjee
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"An indescribable oppresion, which seemed to generate in some unfamiliar part of her consciousness, filled her whole being with a vague anguish."
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The Awakening - Kate Chopin
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"He was naked. His attitude was one of hopeless resignation."
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The Awakening- Kate Chopin
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"You, the dark baby hung in a nurse's arms, seen through a mist - your eyes still vague, a stranger's eyes;"
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Letter - Judith Wright
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"these three heads shining beneath the Japanese Lamp"
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Prayer for My Children - Kate Daniels
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"All the unlived years, the unwritten poems, the wasted nights spent weeping and drinking"
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Prayer for My Children - Kate Daniels
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Characters: Sarah, Beth, Holly, Juno, Becca
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The Descent

By Neil Marshal
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characters: edna, Robert, Adelle, widow in black, Mademoiselle Riesz, Mr. Ponteiller...
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The Awakening

By Kate Chopin
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Witches ritual: Gets naked, Paints herself, then flys off
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The Witches Husband

by: Judith Cofer
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Vocab: Transformation ( from strong to weak )
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The Descent

Neil Marshal
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Characters: panna(had a son that died), Chanity(sexually open), Imre
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A Wife's Husband

By: Bharati Mukherjee
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Characters: Ruthie, Lucille, Aunt Sylvie, Helen(mom that died)
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House Keeping

Directed by Bill Forsyth
Written by Marilnne Robinson
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Vocab: Self-Reliance
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What is perceived as good, society wants people to conform, self-reliant have fond their own past. The opposite of self-reliant is to be feminin

House keeping

Directed by Bill Forsyth
Written by Marilnne Robinson
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Vocab: Domestic Sphere/ Domesticity
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The traditional womans place

Housekeeping

Directed by Bill Forsyth
Written by Marilnne Robinson
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Vocab: Mother-Woman
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hav the instincts of being a mother (example of Adele)

The Awakening

By: Kate Chopin
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The pigeon House
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Ednas house

The Awakening

By: Kate Chopin
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She would give her life to her children but not for herself
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Edna

The Awakening

By: Kate Chopin
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The creole culture is portrayed in this
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The Awakening

By: Kate Chopin
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Husband lets her go to New York for a year because she was unhappy at home.
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The Witches Husband

Judith Cofer
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Keyword: Myth
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Probably going to be on the crossword
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"The worst is already over"
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The Descent - Neil Marshall
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"What we might have been"
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Wolf Alice - Angela Carter
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"The white light scours the fields and scours them again"
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Wolf Alice - Angela Carter
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"She perceived an essential difference between herself and her surroundings that you might say she could not put a finger on"
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Wolf Alice - Angela Carter
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"'Cause I laugh like I've got gold mines diggin' in my own back yard"
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Still I rise - Maya Angelou
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:I walk like I've got oil wells pumping in my living room"
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Still I rise - Maya Angelou
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"I'm a black ocean, leaping and wide, welling and swelling I bear in the tide"
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Still I rise - Maya Angelou
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"I regret nothing. My cruelties, my betrayals of others I once thought I loved"
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Prayer for My Children - Kate Daniels
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"You, the dark baby hung in a nurse's arms, seen through a mist - your eyes still vague, a stranger's eyes"
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Letter - Judith Wright
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"With its own penetrating vision the spirit seeks someone mortal worthy to hold him company"
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The Awakening - Kate Chopin
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"She felt as if a mist had been lifted from her eyes, enabling her to look upon and comprehend the significance of life"
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The Awakening - Kate Chopin
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"In the back of the cab, without even trying, I feel light, almost free"
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A Wife's Story - Bharati Muckerjee
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