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Literature Review
Stories | Author | Characters | Themes |
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Undress, A Portrait | Lora Rivera | Mrs. A, Tommy, Unnamed woman | Love, freedom, femininity, maturing, sexuality |
St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves | Karen Russell | Claudette, Jeanette, Mirabella, Sister Maria, Sister Rosita, Sister Josephine | Assimilation, loneliness, family pack (wolf mentality) vs. individuality (human mentality), companionship, immigration, colonialism, dependency |
The Red Convertible | Louise Edrich | Lyman, Henry Jr, Bonita | Nature vs. War. catastrophe of war, family, death |
Sonny's Blues | James Baldwin | Narrator, Sonny, Mother, Father, Grace | Death, |
Old Wounds | Edna O'Brien | Narrator, Edward, Grania, Oonagh | Reuniting with old friends, Family, Rebuilding relations |
Girl | Jamaica Kincaid | Mother, Daughter | Maturing, sex, femininity, social classes |