By the time Edna was five years old her mother taught her how to write poetry. Edna published her first poem which was, “Forest Trees” which appeared in a magazine called St. Nicholas, an illustrated children's magazine, at the age of fourteen. Edna got a full scholarship to an all girl’s college called Vassar. While Edna was attending Vassar she was still writing dramatic poetry. Edna won an award for her book called The Harp-Weaver; the award was called Pulitzer Prize.
Feeling successful, Sara returns home to find her mother fatally ill. After her mother's death, her father remarries only to find his new wife, Mrs. Feinstein, is a gold-digger after his late wife's lodge money. Sara and her sisters, still angry over their father's treatment of them, become enraged at his quick marriage after their mother's death and refuse to help him when his new wife spends all his money and refuses to work. Sara goes back to New York and finds a teaching job. Mrs. Feinstein is not satisfied with Reb's money and wants more from his daughters. She is angry that Sara is avoiding her father, so she writes a nasty letter to the principal of the school where Sara is teaching, Hugo Seelig, in an effort to give her a bad reputation.
He owns an old car shop at the edge of the valley of ashes. Gorge Wilson loves his wife myrtle. When he found out her affair with tom Buchanan he is devastated. Later on in the book when myrtle was killed gorge is devastated when he hears the terrible news he is devastated. George Wilson is like Gatsby in the sense that they are both dreamers hoping for a better future.
Delia Jones is a washerwoman whose struggles against society and her own husband finally erupt into an act of passive aggression, totally changing the complexion of her life. Delia is a washerwoman who works long hours in a small Central Florida village. Her husband Sykes does not work, yet he resents that Delia cleans "white folks'" clothes in their home. The marriage is an abusive one, ever since Sykes began beating Delia two months after marrying. Observers in the town remark how the once-beautiful Delia has lost her shine because of her abusive husband.
She won two fellowships from the National Endowment for the arts, one was for fiction in 1982 and one was for poetry in 1987. During this time, she also met her literary agent, Susan Bergholz, who after seeing a small packet of short stories encouraged Cisneros to develop them into one what was to become Woman Hollering Creek. Cisneros won many awards for this including: the PEN Center West Award for Best Fiction of 1991, the Qualitiy Paperback Book Club New Voices Award, the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, the Lannan Foundation Literary Award, and was selected as a noteworthy book of the year by The New York Times and the American Library Journal. In 1995, Cisneros won the MacArthur Foundation Fellowship. She moved to San Antonio where she has she is now lecturing to students at a local arts center.
You Can’t Pray a Lie (pg 209) The King and Duke become desperate after fruitless attempts to earn a living so they sold Jim for forty dollars. The Duke then tells Huck that Jim is at a house “forty miles back here in the country, on the road to Lafayette,” but Huck knows well that Jim is at Silas Phelps’s estate. XXXII. I Have a New Name (Pg 218) Huck devises a plan to sneak into the Phelps’s estate, where he finds out that Phelps was Tom Sawyer’s uncle and is able to
And then the real stories come out. Garcin was a big-time adulterer who used to bring his mistresses home with him for his wife to host in the morning. His wife adored him, but he treated her badly. Estelle carried on an affair with a young man and got pregnant with his child. She fled to Switzerland so she could have the baby away from the sight of her husband, and then drowned the infant while her lover watched helplessly.
Natalie, in love with Chad, dresses up as a male in order to become Chad’s sidekick. She hopes that by spending more time with Chad, she’ll convince him to fall in love with Natalie. Therefore, Natalie becomes disguised as her new character, “Ed”. In Twelfth Night, Viola is swept onto the Illryan shore after a massive shipwreck in which she believes her brother is killed. Looking to find work, she disguises herself as a man, Cesario, and goes to work in the home of Lady Olivia.
After they momentarily lose their kids during a party they threw, they realize how much their kids depend on them, and gradually become responsible fathers. Lonnie falls in love with a woman from a Mommy and Me class named Brandy who he treats badly on date. Dominic's ex-girlfriend reveals she's a lesbian and feels he is too involved in his career to ever be a father. G's cousin No Good (Method Man) robs a store and his girlfriend feels he was in on it and takes their son away from him. After all three are given a talking to by Lonnie's Uncle Virgil, they realize how much they love their kids and what they have to do.
But Walter begins to see a new side to his great uncles when he stumbles on an old photograph of a beautiful woman hidden away in a trunk and asks Garth who she is. FFor 14-year old Walter, his great uncles’ farm in rural Texas is the last place on earth he wants to spend the summer. Dumped off by his mother, Mae, in the middle of nowhere with two crazy old men and the promise that she’ll come back for him, Walter doesn’t know what to believe in. Eccentric and gruff, Hub and Garth McCaan are rumored to have been bank robbers, mafia hit men and/or war criminals in their younger days. The truth is elusive, although they do seem to have an endless supply of cash.