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Childhood innocence
Friendship
Infidelity
Unfaithfulness and deceit
Maria, while only being a year old, is more mature than Dorian because she deals
with the nuisance of Ms. Robinson everyday as well as she seeks to emulate Emma.
Mom Luby
Speaker: Elijah, first person child narrator
Main character: Mom Luby
Setting: south states, possibly Louisiana or Tennessee, late 1900s. Mom Luby
utilizes part of her room/house as her business quarters. Her home is comical,
exuberant, joyful and welcoming. It is slightly disorganized and quite busy. It has
trapped food odours. The busyness of her home is intermingled with joyfulness and
love.
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Here we find the greatest theme as generosity and maternal love coming out. We
find that this story teaches a fundamental life lessons of acceptance of others and
admittance that life isnt your way all the way around. She looked kind of pretty,
but lost. This line gives a testament to the fact that perhaps our way, isnt the only
way. The writer also makes the statement that the system built to help others, is
actually making life difficult. As well as this, we find that this story teaches us that
perception is reality. The social worker is unable to come to terms with the reality
that there life beyond system. The line, you got more done in two hours than I do
in two years shows the clenching fact that she eventually comes to terms with this
is. The following line, youre not qualified shows that the social worker is still
holding to the ideology of the system, because it is all she knows.
Raymonds run
The story Raymond's Run is told from the first person perspective of Squeaky.
The setting is in Harlem, NY.
Mayday is the height of spring and so it was celebrated in the older European
cultures. It is the prime of spring, the middle. When spring is in all of its glory and
the flowers are blooming and that fun stuff. (Warmest day in spring when people
could go out and have fun.)
Raymond is a generally a happy child with a wild imagination, shown in when he has
"fits of fantasy" e.g. when he thinks he's a circus performer.
Ambition