English 117 Exam 2

by Zora Neale HurstonIsis Watts - joyful child who has problems with her grandmother, the grandmother tells her to stop dreaming and to get to workProtagonist: IsisAntagonist: Grandmotherhttp://www.enotes.com/topics/drenched-light

by Zora Neale HurstonJoe and Missie May - Young, happy married coupleOtis D. Slemmons - new guy from Chicago would causes problems in the marriageJoe finds Missie in bed with Otis, Missie is pregnant.

..luckily Joe's kidhttp://www.shmoop.

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by Zora Neale HurstonProtagonist: Delia Jones is a washwomanHusband Sykes has disappeared with her horseSykes is a bad guy, no one likes him and he is sleeping with another woman named Bertha but Delia keeps him around. Sykes refuses to kill a rattlesnake in the house and Delia flees, the snake ends up biting Sykes and Delia stays and watches him slowly diehttp://www.shmoop.

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by Flannery O'ConnorBailey wants to take his family on a vacation, his mother (The grandmother) doesn't want to go to Florida and states her point by saying "The Misfit" criminal on the loose thereAfter traveling they get into an accident because of the grandmother's mistake...

The Misfit shows up and ends up shooting them all especially the grandmother because she tried to help The Misfit by bringing religion into the mixhttp://www.shmoop.com/good-man-hard-to-find/summary.html

by Flannery O'ConnorDaughter Hulga.

..real name Joy, has a wooden leg and is an atheist. Bible salesman tries to sell her mother a bible and didn't work..but managed to get a date with Hulga the following day.

This date is a first for Hulga and she's very vulnerable. The bible salesman, Manley, ends up practically raping her stealing her wooden leg and leaving her there in the barn. Luckily the mom and friend followed her there. http://www.shmoop.

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by Flannery O'ConnorJulian tries to teach his mom a lesson about her ugly hat...which leads to her mother finding a new friend on a bus and Julian gets so mad that her blood pressure rises and collapses on the groundhttp://www.shmoop.

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by John CheeverCash Bentley...

breaks his leg in a hurdling accident. Causes him to become very depressed. Believed to lead to his mid-life crisis where everything makes him depressed. Depressed because he can no longer prove to everyone his abilities.

Story shows how a mid-life crisis can severely affect someone's lifehttp://www.123helpme.com/o-youth-and-beauty-by-john-cheever-view.asp?id=162007

by John CheeverNeddy swims across pools to expect family, drinks and dry clothes. He swim across a many amount of pools. In the end he is at his own house and swims across his pool hoping to find his family only to find a dark house and no one home.

http://www.sparknotes.com/short-stories/the-swimmer/summary.html

by John CheeverCharlie is meeting up with his father who was recentl divorced during a layover. They were asked to leave multiple restaurants and eventually run out of time and Charlie has to leave. Charlie realizes that getting things you have waited for is sometimes disappointing.

http://www.bookrags.com/essay-2005/9/20/162542/275/#gsc.tab=0

by Raymond CarverA couple is having marital problems and the husband ends up leaving the wife. They fight over who ends up taking the child and they end up physically fighting over the child by pulling the child around. In the end the child is assumed to be injured but we are not sure.

http://www.markedbyteachers.com/as-and-a-level/english/little-things-by-raymond-carver-is-a-story-about-a-couple-facing-problems-in-their-marital-life.html

by Raymond CarverMel McGinnis and wife TerriNick and LauraSitting at a table talking while drinking gin, Terri tells a sad story about her ex husband that beat her and eventually killed himself. They finish the bottle and start another one and Mel says he's going to talk about what "True Love" ishttp://www.

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by Raymond CarverNarrator's unnamed wife used to work for a blind man named Robert whose wife has recently passed due to cancer. He is coming to spend the night and the narrator jokes around with the wife about him being blind...

the wife says if he doesn't make sure Robert is comfortable that he doesn't really love her. The narrator makes the best of it and watches a documentary with him about Cathedrals. Robert asks for the narrator to describe what a cathedral looks like and he describes it while Robert attempts to draw one out. http://www.shmoop.com/cathedral-carver/summary.

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by Sandra CisnerosMain character: Esperanza

by Gish JenDaughter Sophie is married to an Italian man, the mother is not happy about this because he is not Irish and therefore he is plain. The mother blames the Italian husband for Sophie's reckless and wild side.

by Gish JenNarrator, Art Woo, is speaking of his financial stability. He has booked the least expensive room for a business trip to find himself in a strange city which leads him to making drastic life decisionsArt suffers from fear of his wife and their unborn childhttp://www.enotes.com/topics/birthmates

by Gish Jen

the way a writer develops a character in a novel from childhood to adulthood through different life lessons

a narrative about the growth to maturity

the distortion and transgression of boundaries...in between real and fantastic...in between funny and frighteninghttp://www.shmoop.com/everything-that-rises-must-converge/summary.html

a writer that describes the most in the least amount of words possible

fiction that is extremely brief, typically only a few hundred words or fewer in its entirety --> The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros

the leading character or one of the major characters in the fictional text

a person who actively opposes or is hostile to the main character or protagonist