family

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Die Verwandlung

1995
A young man wakes up one morning to find himself transformed into a giant beetle-like insect. He becomes an object of disgrace to his family and an alienated man. Includes a commentary on the novella.

Flesh wounds

1997
When Hal Lamm, a Minneapolis salesman, is arrested for molesting his granddaughter, the entire family must come to terms with their denial, memories, hidden secrets, and unhealed wounds in the hopes of achieving reconciliation.

Patriarchy in Sandra Cisneros's The House on Mango Street

2010
Discusses a work of literature about patriarchy in Sandra Cisneros's the house on Mango street through the lens of the major social issue reflected, as well as a variety of perspectives on the literary work and the social issue being discussed.

Picture perfect

2009
Bring your camera because this summer is going to be "Picture perfect".

The glass menagerie

1999
Amanda, a faded southern belle, abandoned wife, and dominating mother, hopes to match her daughter Laura with an eligible "gentleman caller" while her son Tom supports the family. Laura, lame and painfully shy, evades her mother's schemes and reality by retreating to the make-believe world of her glass animal collection. Tom eventually leaves home to become a writer but is forever haunted by the memory of Laura.

A house not meant to stand

a gothic comedy
2008
A two-act play which Tennessee Williams called a "Southern gothic spook sonata," in which Cornelius McCorkle of Pascagoula, Mississippi, is searching for a large amount of moonshine money that his wife Bella has hidden, on the stormy Christmas night they returned from their eldest son's funeral.

Suckerpunch

2008
Shy, seventeen-year-old Marcus and his sixteen-year-old brother, Enrique, accompanied by two friends, drive from their home in southern California to Monterey to confront the abusive father who walked out a year earlier, and who now wants to return home.

The sound and the fury

the corrected text
1990
The members of a genteel southern family are portrayed as petty failures, drunkards, suicides, pathological perverts, and idiots.

Fever

2000
Research scientist Charles Martel comes into conflict with the medical-industrial system when he embarks on a frantic search for a cure for his twelve-year-old daughter's leukemia.

Delta wedding

a novel
1979
A portrait of a large Southern family living on their plantation in the Mississippi delta land in 1923.

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