The ultimate test of what is really beneficial to workers or society is subsumed to the need to make a profit.
7.It occurred to Father one day that.... he was a Negro (p.134)
Despite the fact that identity might seem like something one is given at birth, the ways that society perceives one's color, ethnicity, and race are not always the same as one's personal sense of self.
8. It was the second of the frightened...provoked from her innocence (p.158)
The sense of a woman's innocence of sexuality is highlighted in this quotation, as the woman in question proceeds from a sense of early purity to awareness.
9. The theatre shook on its foundation and.... from the proscenium arch. (p. 171)
The proscenium arch is the gold, false arch that frames the stage and creates the illusion of theatrical space -- however, the false vision that is framed within the arch can still be profoundly...
She is just one symbol in the novel that represents how the American family would change during this time, and would never be the same. Impressionable young men like Younger Brother would take up radical causes, Father's would fail to move forward in their lives, and Mother's would begin to vocally fight against societal wrongs, including poverty and women's rights. America was in transition, the family was in transition,
individuals have struggle accepting change. It takes quite some time for one to adapt to this. For regions of a country or even whole nations, change may take decades or possibly centuries. Edgar Lawrence Doctorow can certainly relate to this Born in 1931, Doctorow (aptly named after EL Poe) has lived through tumultuous changes and grew to see America converging from one of exclusive races and racism into one that
However, the true journey Tateh makes in the book is one from poverty-stricken street artist to prosperous businessman. Both these journeys change Tateh, and that is the point of his journey throughout the novel. Doctorow writes, "But his new existence thrilled him. He whole personality had turned outward and he had become a voluble and energetic man full of the future" (Doctorow 217). Eventually, he marries "Mother" and they move
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