Susan Minot Summary

Florence is treated differently because she is girl. Education is not offered to her, but to her brother who hates to learn. “And he needed the education that Florence desired far more than he, and that she might have got if he had not been born.” She should take all the responsibilities and do all the works at home as a woman. “And she [mother] wanted Florence, also, to be content-helping with the washing, and fixing meals and keeping Gabriel quiet… Florence was a girl, and all the duties of a woman; and this being so, her life in the cabin was the best possible preparation for her future life.” Her mother has different attitudes toward her and her brother. “Gabriel was the apple of his mother’s eye. If he had never been born, Florence might have looked forward to a day when she would be released from her unrewarding round of labor, when she might think of her own

Susan Eloise Hinton, one of the world's most respected authors was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, on July 22, 1950. Also known as S.E Hinton, best known for her young adult novels, especially The Outsiders. Antoine Wilson’sbiography The Library of Author Biographies: S.E Hinton highlights some of the problems Hinton endured on her path to become one of the most influential authors in America.

In Jamaica Kincaid's "Girl", she presents a vivid picture of how gender is socially constructed within a specific culture, and the rigid rules imposed upon young women as well as the consequences of not conforming to those expectations. In this reading it compares to the gender construction in my own culture because everything thing that the girl does she is doing to be a women and be respectful which is something that you see in a lot of women in my society. Another reason why the society in “Girl” is similar to my society is because it talks about how to love a guy. It says “if that doesn’t work there are other ways” and it continues on to say “and if they don’t work don’t feel too bad about giving up.” This is like my society because there is not a set rules on how to love and every single relationship is very

“Girl” is a short story in which the author, Jamaica Kincaid, unofficially presents the stereotypes of girls in the mid 1900s. Kincaid includes two major characters in the story “Girl”, they are the mother and the girl. Although the daughter only asks two questions in this story, she is the major character. The mother feels like her daughter is going in the wrong direction and not making the best decisions in her life. The whole story is basically the mother telling her daughter what affects her decisions will have in the future. The mother believes that because her daughter isn’t sitting, talking, cleaning, walking or singing correctly it will lead her to a path of destruction. “Girl” is a reflection of female sexuality, the power of family, and how family can help overcome future dangers.

I started to believe that the narrator has the mind of a man; perhaps she yearns for the chase. She searches for boys who are more than willing to be a quickie and she uses them for a good time. When she gets what she wants it's to late and the emotional damage has already been done. Our narrator reverts back to her female role and relies on emotions rather than logic; it is apparent that in having these quick relationships she is only hurting herself.

“Girl” is quite a strange short story compare to all the other ones that were read in class. It is strange to hear the high expectations that parents communicate to their children because of the way they are presented and because of the language that is used. All that sounds pretty unusual and outdated. But in those days it was probably something normal. Also, Kincaid is trying to point out how the world is changing and how women have much more freedom to do what

In Alice Munro’s “Boys and Girls,” there is a time line in a young girl’s life when she leaves childhood and its freedoms behind to become a woman. The story depicts hardships in which the protagonist and her younger brother, Laird, experience in order to find their own rite of passage. The main character, who is nameless, faces difficulties and implications on her way to womanhood because of gender stereotyping. Initially, she tries to prevent her initiation into womanhood by resisting her parent’s efforts to make her more “lady-like”. The story ends with the girl socially positioned and accepted as a girl, which she accepts with some unease.

Susan Clark faced conflict in 1868 when she was refused admission to Washington School, an all white school in Muscatine, Iowa. Victory was achieved when the case was appealed to the Iowa Supreme Court who decided school segregation was unconstitutional. This landmark school desegregation case set the stage for the future of school integration in the United States.

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Sarah Crocker was sent away, and my brother to his room, as I received a stern talking to from my father, while my mother wept by his side. Needless to say, my attempt to impress a girl through the advice of my friends was not a successful one. Sarah continued to talk to me throughout the school year, treating me as a naïve younger brother, until she moved away at the beginning of grade ten, and I learned a valuable lesson – girls are not worth almost dying

puberty bring with it a complex tradition of restrictions and behavioral guidelines. Kincaid’s poem reveals the rigidity and complexity of the social confines the girl is expected to operate underl. A girl is an induction into the women community as well as an orientation into the act of womanhood (Walkerdine et. al.). The lectured instructions given to the silent girl child vary from the housekeeping, “this is how you sweep a whole house”, to dealing with intimate relationships, “this is how a man bullies you; …how to bully a man” to medicine, “this is how to make good medicine (to abort)” (Kincaid).The inane patriarchal society expects gender stereotypes to prevail. The mother is tasked to give her daughter instructions on how to be a good woman in the stereotyped society. The advice the mother gives to the daughter cements the gender stereotype and portrays limitations on a woman (Bailey and Carol 107).

In 1915 a fourteen-year–old girl received a letter from her nineteen-year-old brother. The girl’s name was Annabelle and her brother’s F. Scott Fitzgerald. In Fitzgerald’s eyes Annabel was a bit socially inept, and his opening words to her were merciless, “You are as you know, not a good conversationalist and you might very naturally ask, ‘What do boys like to talk about?’ Boys like to talk about themselves—much more than girls...” (Fitzgerald qtd in “F. Scott Fitzgerald” 289) Fitzgerald then continued on with possible opening lines: “How about giving me that sporty necktie when you’re through with it”; and topics to avoid, “Don’t talk about school”. He told her to focus on dress and poise “A good smile and one that could be assumed at, is an absolute necessity”. He counsels her to “Learn to be worldly. Remember in all society nine girls out of ten marry for money and nine men out of ten are fools”. And if ten pages of criticisms and unwelcome recommendations weren’t enough, he threatened to send more, “I’ll discuss dancing in a later letter”.

Susan McClary’s scholarly article, A Musical Dialect from the Enlightenment: Mozart’s Piano Concerto in G Major, K. 453, Mvt. 2, starts off with her recalling a time after watching a performance of the concerto with a colleague and the two of them confessing different opinions about the soloist’s performance. McClary, who liked the performance, notes that soloist articulates “unusual compositional strategies indicated in Mozart’s texts”. The argument ends with the two not only about the piece and Mozart, but also about the significance of the eighteenth-century. McClary’s article attempts to critique the perfection of Mozart’s works.

Despite these discouraging surroundings, the boy is determined to find some evidence of the loveliness his idealistic dreams tell him should exist within the Church. His first love becomes the focal point of this determination. In the person of Mangan's sister, obviously somewhat older than the boy and his companions, his longings find an object of worship. The boy's feelings for the girl are a confused mixture of sexual desire and of sacred adoration, as

In The Girls in Their Summer Dresses, it is necessary to explore the personal differences that cause problems in the relationship of the couple. The details of the story will lead to a conclusion that for Michael the relationship could just be a mere convenience or an affection solely generated by his physical wanting of Frances, so with the way she looks and appreciates the girls of New York.