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Answered a Question in The Swiss Family Robinson
Summary A Swiss family is left to fend for themselves after their ship wrecks against a coral reef and the crew escapes in the lifeboats without them. Fortunately, a portion of the ship’s cabin is... -
Answered a Question in Literature
The primary message of “The School Days of an Indian Girl” by Zitkala-Sa relates to the ways in which white missionaries and residential boarding schools created both internal and external cultural... -
Answered a Question in The Lion and the Jewel
Cultural conflict forms the heart of The Lion and the Jewel, paralleling the rapid industrialization of Africa during the mid-twentieth century. Soyinka did not write the play as a theoretical... -
Answered a Question in Borderlands / La Frontera
Anzaldúa defines the “New Mestiza consciousness” as an intersectional perspective that combines elements of traditional Chicano culture with anti-racist thinking, feminist philosophy, and queer... -
Answered a Question in Fall on Your Knees
Fall On Your Knees by Ann-Marie MacDonald is a nuanced and oftentimes deeply tragic rumination on family, and Lily exists as both a symbol of the Piper family's complex history as well as a... -
Answered a Question in Children of Blood and Bone
It is important to remember that different versions and editions of Tomi Adeyemi’s Children of Blood and Bone will have different page numbers. For more reliable navigational purposes, the quote... -
Answered a Question in Thank You, M'am
In spite of Roger’s attempt to rob her, Mrs. Jones shows the boy nothing but kindness, advancing the story’s themes surrounding empathy, compassion, dignity, and trust. One of the first questions... -
Answered a Question in The Other Wes Moore
One of the central themes of The Other Wes Moore is that the relationships a person cultivates throughout their life—especially those built during youth—can completely change the course of that...