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| What physical ailment does Hulga and Manly Pointer share? |
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| Which philosopher did Hulga misunderstand? |
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Malebranch "we are not our own light..."
she thought intelectually, not god. |
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| Whar are freemans daughters names? |
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| What is in pointers suitcase? |
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| Hollowed out bible filled with a flask of whiskey, deck of cards and a blue box (probably containing condoms) |
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| Who is the narrator in "everyday use" |
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| The mother, she is a first person narrator |
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| She is the daughter that lives with the mother who was once burned in a house fire that some think her older sister started |
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| The daughter that left home, and is more ambitious than the other sister. |
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| What is the central theme of every day use? |
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| It isnt what you have its what makes you happy. |
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| What is the importance of the yard in everyday use? |
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| it is similar to a living room, acts as the center of the housesold, it is clean. |
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| what is dee's name change? |
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| walker is critical of change, dee represents the familys name and was based on ... |
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| central theme of this story every day use? |
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| after mom describes the yard, what dream does she relate ? |
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| being a guest on johnny carson |
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| what does dee want the top of the butter chrun for? |
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| she wants to use it as decoration, it still has milk left on it from "everyday use" |
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| what is maggies fiances name? |
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| what does dee change her name to? |
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| what is the pattern on the 2 quilts dee wants? |
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| one was lone star patterns; the other was walk around the mountain |
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| What are themes in 9 stories? |
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| difficulty of finding and giving love, tendency to put balue on things rather than people, children are always innocent, phychological effects of WWII |
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| Why does the story start with Murial in Banana fish? |
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| salinger is emphasizing what is important to her which is the way she looks. she is superficial |
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| whats w the trees in bananafish? |
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| it suggests that he is self destructive and foreshadows his suicide |
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| what is the significance of seymour pushing the little girl toward the ocean horizon? |
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| horizon is symbolic of the cusp b/t life and death, also you think he is going to kill the little girl at first. |
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| what does seymour accuse the woman in the elevator of doing? |
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| why does the story start w converstion of sandra and mrs. shel? |
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| it's tension building, makes you emphathize |
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| during prior incident, what did the little boy say to lionell |
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| what is the food boo boo, lionels mom, wants to bring him? |
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| what is boo boos self titles rank? |
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| what is the sumbolism of lionell flippin ghte goggles overboard? |
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| its a rejection of sight, he doesnt want to see (or be like seymour who sees too much) |
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| what does lionel think sandra called someone |
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| what does the story of down at the dinghy imply? |
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| that the little boy could be successful, but there is still a possibility of destruction in the future. |
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| how is the laughing man like the chief? |
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| they are both unnattractive. laughing man has strange friends and chief is friends w little kids |
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| what is the buildingsroman in this story (loss of innocence) |
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| when the chief brings mary around |
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| name the laughing mans friends |
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timberwolf - blackwing
dwarf - omba
giant mongolian - hong
eurasian girl |
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| boy who bursts into tears |
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| what does esma want to be when she grows up? |
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| a jazz singer on the radio |
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| what color does charlie say his eyes are? |
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| what topic does esme want hiim to write about? |
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| what does seargent x write in the book? |
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| national magazine had corporal z holding what? |
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| what is corpral z's girlfriends name? |
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| loretta, she is a psych major |
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| why is it ironic that z tells x he is not sincere |
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| because he is too sincere |
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| what does esme put in the package for x? |
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