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THE GOOD LIFE, Life And Debt, Social vs internal expectations, equal…

- - - - Madame Bovary
        
        Charles’ attitude towards romantic relationships/academic pursuits. Moved through relationships quickly, very apathetic about going to medical school/treating patients
        
        trying to find happiness and a purpose in his life
        
        Emma: Changed his world
        
        So he was happy, without a care in the world. A meal alone with her, a walk in the evening on the road, the gesture of her hand touching the bands of her hair, the sight of her straw hat hanging from the hasp of a window, and many other things that Charles had never suspected would be a source of pleasure nor formed the continuous flow of his happiness… (28)"/
        
        Emma:-”plans for happiness”,, she has all these ideas that will make her happy but they are all based on dreams and fantasies which leave her feeling unsatisfied in the end.
    - - A RAISIN IN THE SUN :
        
        Family of 5:
        
        Ruth: Want's unity among her family (a successful/unified family)
        
        Beartha: Desires freedom and to go to medical school
        
        Walter: Father figure of the house- desires to own liquor store
        
        Mama: Desires a big house and a garden
        
        Set in the 1950's Chicago, through an inherticance left by their father, an African American family tries to figure out ways to move from poverty, segregation, and racial prejudice
        
        "And we have decided to move into out house because our father-my father- has earned if for us brick by brick, (Hansberry, 147)".
        
        Family plays a crucial role
    - - Antigone
        
        Idea of family.
        
        Unbreakable bond=love
        
        cherish that love
        
        Creon, once becoming the king and leader, drew a big difference on what soldiers would essentially be honored in contrast to those who would be left to rot. Because Creon did not have a personal connection to Polynices, he did not feel the need nor the desire to give him a proper burial; the main reason being that in Creon's eyes, Polynices was a traitor.
        
        Antigone, Polynices sister, felt the need to bury her brother and give him a proper burial because she was very close and attached to her brother.
        
        I will lie with the one I love and loved by him (85)
        
        defies orders in order to honor the ones she loves
        
        I will raise a mound for him, for my dear brother. (95)
        
        mourning
      - what is love?
        
        Can love make you do crazy things?
- - - - Black families are inferior
    - - A Small Place and Life
        
        Kincaid's personal. experiences growing up and living in Antigua. Calling out the tourists, Antigua government, and the British.
        
        England “took things that were not yours… you opened your banks and you put our money in them. The accounts were in your name. The banks were in your name, (Kincaid, 35).
        
        “the ministers, the people who govern the island, who are also citizens, are legal residents of the United States, a place they visit frequently, (Kincaid, 68)”
        
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        Heavily calls out the injustices the upper class puts on thelower class
        
        “every native lives a life of overwhelming and crushing banality and boredom and desperation and depression, (Kincaid, 18)”
        
        Democracy
        
        Independence
        
        Just ruling class
- - - - The Reluctant Fundamentalist
        
        American Dream
        
        Ruined after 9/11
        
        Racism towards Middle East. individuals
        
        immigrants= looking for a better opportunity
        
        Changez attends Princeton, which is a very prestigious college, and is seen as the exotic foreigner
        
        in reality he had to work multiple jobs to finance herself. He hid from his classmates that he was struggling financially so while it appeared as though he was living the good life, in reality he was struggling.
        
        equal. opportunities no matter background
    - - The Dispossesed
        
        -Third person yet only revolves around one character’s perspective
        
        freedom and the corruption of capitalist societies.
        
        challenge modes of radical thinking
        
        Outside the locked room is the landscape of time, in which the spirit may, with luck and courage, construct the fragile, makeshift, improbable roads and cities of fidelity: a landscape inhabitable by human beings” (334-335)
        
        Creating a perfect world
    - - Parasite
        
        global capitalism
        
        “If you’re so concerned with boundaries, then you should do [the work] yourself,” he said—yet the moneyed would rather outsource this labor. “You can’t maintain your own castle. So you let in a tutor for the kids, a housemaid, a driver, and they cross the line.”
        
        “I want us to be able to live together. I hope for my son that we’ll one day have a mixed society, a coexistence between the rich and the poor.”