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The war drives Sierra Leone to a state of poverty which causes Mariatu and her family to become very desperate for money. Which leads to the last cause, the obligation Mariatu has to provide for her Sierra Leonean family. Mariatu's personal experiences motivate her to make the cultural transition from a Sierra Leonean to a Canadian society. The most discussed issue in The Bite of the Mango is the civil war that is taking place in Sierra Leone. The war affects Mariatu in a number of ways, it separates her from her family, it causes her hands to be cut off, and in the end causes a poor means of life for her and her new family.
This work recounts the lives of the Mirabel sisters—Patria, Minerva, and Maria Terese (Mate)—who were assassinated after visiting their imprisoned husbands during the last days under the Trujillo government in the Dominican Republic. Each sister in turn relates her own part of the narrative, beginning with her childhood and gradually revealing how she came to be involved in the movement against the government. Their story is completed by that of the surviving sister, Dedé, who adds her own tale of suffering to the memory of her sisters. In the Time of Butterflies received a favorable reaction from reviewers, some of whom admired Alvarez's ability to express the wide range of feelings brought on by the revolution. The novel was a finalist for the National Book Critics Award in
“We were the they everyone talks about--the ungrateful poor,” asserts Dorothy Allison, referring to her childhood experiences in Greenville, South Carolina (“Question” 13). Her work, she writes, represents “the condensed and reinvented experience of a cross-eyed working-class lesbian. . .who has made the decision to live. .
Beginning before French colonization, Duong Van Mai Elliott traces trials and triumphs of her family up to her own generation. Born in 1941 during the Japanese occupation, she would move from North to South Vietnam all the way to America, influenced by the war shaking her country. Beautifully written, The Sacred Willow offers fresh views of a country and its people. Luck and serious studies raise great-grandfather Duong Lam from poverty to the top. Their new rank brings the Duong family into a working relationship with the French, who colonize Vietnam by 1888.
(Jessica, 2015) Jessica McClure Morales was born March 26, 1986, in the oil city of Midland, Texas. Her parents, Reba "Cissy" McClure and Lewis "Chip" McClure, were just 17 when they fell in love. After getting married, they had fallen on hard times; due to the Texas oil bust
Animal Dreams, a novel written by Barbara Kingsolver, entails two sisters Codi and Hallie Noline with an everlasting connection with each other. With this kind of bondage, they became indivisible and went through almost everything together, but yet they grew up to become the opposite of each other. “I am the sister who didn’t go to war. I can only tell you my side of the story. Hallie is the one who went south, with her pickup truck and her crop-disease books and her heart dead set on a new world” (Kingsolver 7).
Death is a Moth In the short story “The Moth’s” by Helena Maria Viramontes writes about a girl that is practically forced into taking care of her Grandmother Luna. Viramontes uses a great deal of imagery and symbolism that makes the reader search more in depth of the story. Further into details of what the narrator was really going through she suffered a lot and had to deal with reality that her life was not the same as her sisters that made her an outcast, cold hearted, and a caregiver to her grandmother Luna. Viramontes describes the character as to be different then her sisters, who made her feel like an outcast towards the rest of her family. “I always pricked my fingers or knotted my colored threads time and time again while
Gloria Steinem Gloria Steinem is heroine. When she was little, Gloria lived with her crazy mother. Gloria went to graduate from Smith College, and then she moved to India to study. While she was in India, she realizes just how much females were discriminated against. In India it was much worse than the USA… but still.
1. This is what the text says | 2. In my own words, it means…. | 3. This is why it matters: | Glenn was born on March 1, 1904 in Clarinda, Iowa and went missing or died on December 15, 1944 at age 40.1942 to 1944Miller decided to join the war effort.