Traditionally women who practice a certain art have struggled in their lives and experienced conflict between their hopes to become professional and between the traditional roles that would often hold them back. In literature some of these women's stories are like fairy tales, myths, or fantasi...

PEARL'S SECRET Neil Henry's Pearl's Secret is a fascinating autobiographical journey of an African American man's search for his racial identity. Henry is a light-skinned African American man who tries to piece together a few scraps passed down in his family and many years of...

Chapter 1 In chapter one the main character Maia Wojciechowska wakes up from a dream to the sound of a plane. She thinks it is her father's, but when she runs outside with her new puppy to see, Maia finds out that it is not her father's plane. The plane flies over parallel with her runn...

"Let me see, what stories should I choose to discuss in my response paper?" I asked myself. "Well, all stories we came across were very interesting and worth reading, maybe except one or two that were painfully long. So I really ought to pick the ones that caught my attention t...

Ann: Chapter 1: Anywhere: Pages 3-24 Ann and Adele left Wisconsin and headed for California in a stolen car. Adele had taken Ted's Mobil Credit Card, so they could pay for hotels rooms and food. Adele rear-ended someone at a red light. They stayed at The Luau Hotel, for about a w...