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The Ecstasy of Rita JoeA figure of speech can also be called a stylistic device or rhetorical device. A great many figures of speech can be found all throughout both Ann-Marie MacDonald's Goodnight Desdemona (Good...
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OthelloFigurative language is often divided into categories, including figures of thought (sometimes called tropes) and figures of speech based on either sonic or syntactic patterns. During the...
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Othello1. The racism in Othello and The Ecstasy of Rita Joe is the same in that racism drives the actions that lead to each protagonist's tragic death. The racism in each is different. The racism in...
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The Ecstasy of Rita JoeThe primary significance of this story is that it conveys his idea of human worth, more particularly, the human worth of his daughter, Rita Joe. This contrasts to Rita's experience in the city...
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The Ecstasy of Rita JoeIn one sense, her character changes from innocence and trustfulness to enlightenment and sorrow. She came to the city in full faith that she could assimilate and find a job in the city that the...
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The Ecstasy of Rita JoeThe reason Rita Joe follows the path she does is two-fold: She came looking for a job; she was trapped by the city. In other words, the dominant reason Rita is that path is that she was forced onto...
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George RygaRita Joe is naive and gullible. While in the shanty side (the slum side) of town and without any money to claim for her own, she accepts five dollars from two strange men, then is surprised to find...
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The Ecstasy of Rita JoeRyga's primary characterization of Rita is as "dependent and expendable" before a "dominant" culture that has historically and continually marginalized the dependent culture by ostracizing and...
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The Ecstasy of Rita JoeEcstasy suggests an intensification of emotion so powerful as to produce a trancelike dissociation from all but the single overpowering feeling: an ecstasy of rage, grief, love. (Random House...
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The Ecstasy of Rita JoeRita Joe represents the fundamental challenge that the disenfranchised Native American youth face in a White society. The lack of pure communication between Rita Joe and the magistrate in her...
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The Ecstasy of Rita JoeMiss Donahue is shown to be like most members of White society towards Native American society in the drama. At best, she is unable to understand the challenges and full dimensions of Native...
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The Ecstasy of Rita JoeI think the last line isvery important...|when rita joe came to the city she tld me the cement hurt her feet
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The Ecstasy of Rita JoeThe main theme that comes from the work is the theme of white society's inabilty to understand or appreciate Native Americans and their culture. Some critics have suggested that play is "about the...
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The Ecstasy of Rita Joeanyone got any ideas for a theme statement?
