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Caucasia (1998) is the first novel written by American author Danzy Senna.It is the coming-of-age story of two multiracial girls, Birdie Lee and her sister Cole, who have a Caucasian mother and an African-American father.
The story begins [2] with a song which serves as prologue; and then prose takes up the narrative. It recounts the tale of Aucassin, son of Count Garin of Beaucaire, who so loved Nicolette, a Saracen maiden, who had been sold to the Viscount of Beaucaire, baptized and adopted by him, that he had forsaken knighthood and chivalry and even refused to defend his father's territories from enemies.
Edward Tulane is a china rabbit given to a ten-year-old girl named Abilene [1] by her grandmother in the 1930s. He enjoys a pleasant but vain life with his young mistress, who treats him with the utmost love and respect until an unfortunate incident finds him falling overboard while vacationing on the Queen Mary.
The story is based on a real incident in his life while he was serving in the Russian military. [1] It is about two soldiers kidnapped by their rivals for ransom who were in custody for some time. They tried to escape twice, were caught the first time, but succeeded the second. The novella was acclaimed for its view of humanity in the face of ...
In 2000, The Caucasian Chalk Circle in turn was rewritten as Full Circle, or The Berlin Circle, by Charles L. Mee, set in 1989 East Germany after the fall of Communism. [11] The famous Kyrgyz author and novelist Chinghiz Aitmatov was also indirectly inspired from the Chalk Circle, while writing his 1960 book, The Red Scarf. He used some ...
Homeless Children in 2010: 31,386 11 For the complete Report Card (including sources), please visit: www.HomelessChildrenAmerica.org STATE RANKS (1-50, 1 = best)
Fe: Fe is one of Sofia's and Domingo's daughters. She wants to lead a stereotypical life with a husband, kids and a nice home. She works at a bank and later at Acme International and is married to her cousin Casimiro. La Loca: La Loca is the youngest of Sofia's and Domingo's daughters and is pronounced dead at the age of three.
The section is told mostly from the perspectives of Saturn, Federico de la Fe, and Little Merced, but other EMF characters contribute, such as Froggy El Veterano, Federico de la Fe's right-hand man; Sandra, a subcomandante and a woman who was Froggy's lover until Froggy killed her abusive father; and Julieta, a woman whose town in Mexico had ...