English final

Soledad in WHC

Cleofilas' neighbour, she is a kind old woman and calls herself a widow, nut it is not known where her husband was, whether he had died or escaped from her to another woman. But she still bears him in her heart and memory.

Felice in WHC

she is a woman who helps Cleofilas to escape. She is a strong and determined personality. She own a pichup, is independent and does what she thinks to be good for her. Cleofilas is fascinated by this woman's will and inner power.

Cleofilas in WHC

she is a young woman, the protagonist of the story. She has six brothers and a father, but she has no mother, so ahe has been brought up among men. When she gets merried she leaves her father's home in Mexico and goes to her husband's in the USA. There she lives in his house, takes care after him and after their son. she is not a very clever woman, she is not educated, but she is very good at sewing. She is sensible and romantic. What she really likes is watching telenovelas, and while watching she dreams of life like on these shows. After some time her husband began to hit her, and she finally decided to leave him and run away.

Death of a Salesman

(Arthur Miller, 1949). This play questions American values of success. Willy Loman is a failed salesman whose firm fires him after 34 years. Despite his own failures, he desperately wants his sons Biff and Happy to succeed. Told in a series of flashbacks, the story points to Biff's moment of hopelessness, when the former high school star catches his father Willy cheating on his mother, Linda. Eventually, Willy can no longer live with his perceived shortcomings, and commits suicide in an attempt to leave Biff with insurance money.

Brian redfield

A Black doctor and Irene's husband. he has darker skin than Irene and cannot pass as white. Frustrated with the racist reality of life in the United States, he wants to move to South America, where he believes there will be more freedom for their family.

clare

A childhood friend of Irene's, now passing for white and married to a rich, racist white man. she is beautiful and vivacious, but she is also dangerously unpredictable. Her selfishness is her main driving force, and she is loyal only to herself. she serves as Irene's foil.

John jack bellew

A rich white international banking agent and Clare's husband. he does not know Clare is Black and speaks openly of his hatred of Black people in front of her and Irene, whom he also believes to be white.

Lorraine Quarrles BR

A thirty-year-old blonde American woman. she is a figure from Charlie's debauched past. She too has lost her fortune but hasn't stopped trying to live the way she did when she had money. Now a sad, almost pathetic figure, she chases after Charlie, whose newfound sobriety both amuses her and makes her jealous.

irene

A wealthy, light-skinned Black woman and the novel's protagonist. She is intelligent, sophisticated, and socially prominent in the Black community of Harlem as the wife of a doctor and a member of the Negro Welfare League

howl

Allen Ginsberg, 1956

willy loman (doas)

An insecure, self-deluded traveling salesman. he believes wholeheartedly in the American Dream of easy success and wealth, but he never achieves it. Nor do his sons fulfill his hope that they will succeed where he has failed. When he illusions begin to fail under the pressing realities of his life, his mental health begins to unravel. The overwhelming tensions caused by this disparity, as well as those caused by the societal imperatives that drive he, form the essential conflict of Death of a Salesman.

Anja Spiegelman maus

Artie's mother and Vladek's wife. she is not alive during the present-day timeline, having died by suicide in the decades that followed World War II; what we learn of her comes almost entirely from Vladek's stories of the war and the Holocaust.

Charlie Wales is a character in which story?

Babylon Revisited. The handsome, thirty-five-year-old protagonist of the story. Once worth a small fortune, he spent all his money in Paris during the mid-1920s. An alcoholic, he collapsed along with the stock market in 1929. Since regaining his sobriety and financial footing as a businessman in Prague, he has become ashamed of his past recklessness. He adores his daughter, Honoria, and misses his wife, Helen, for whose death he may bear partial responsibility.

Honoria Wales BR

Charlie's daughter. She is a sunny, smart nine-year-old. She loves her father dearly and, although she is happy enough with Marion and Lincoln, wants to live with Charlie. A smart girl, she has a rich inner life and thinks about difficult subjects such as money and love. She claims that she misses her mother, but she doesn't seem to remember her well.

Helen BR

Charlie's deceased wife. she passed away many years before and appears in the story only as a figure in Charlie's dream. She and Charlie loved each other deeply, and it seems they destroyed their relationship for no real reason. Even though their marriage ended badly, they did love each other, which is why Helen appears encouraging and loving in Charlie's dream.

Marion Peters BR

Charlie's sister-in-law. she resents Charlie both because of his former recklessness and because she believes he mistreated her sister, Helen. she fixates on the night Charlie locked Helen out of the house during a snowstorm and believes he's responsible for her death. she understands why Charlie wants Honoria to live with him, but she worries that he will lapse back into his old ways.

Dolores in WHC

Cleofilas' neighbor, she also lives alone as she had lost her two sons at war and her husband, who could not bear the pain from the loss of their children. Gardening is her passion and she spends a lot of time taking care after flowers, her sunflowers are very famous in the city.

Babylon Revisited

F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1931

Vladek Spiegelman maus

Holocaust survivor, father of Artie, husband to Anja, and the protagonist. When the story begins, he is 72 years old and living in Rego Park, New York, with his second wife, Mala. He has had two heart attacks and is broken by the suicide of his first wife, Anja. The book is structured around his story of surviving the Holocaust, which he dictates to his son Artie.

Dear John Wayne

Louise Erdrich

Lincoln Peters BR

Marion's husband and Charlie's brother-in-law. He lacks Charlie's knack for business, but he is a solid, responsible father and husband. He is quieter than his wife and more sympathetic to Charlie's desire to live with Honoria. Still, his primary loyalty is to Marion, whom he truly loves. He takes Marion's side whenever he believes that Charlie's actions are hurting her.

Passing

Nella Larsen 1929

Kiowa httatws

O'Brien's closest friend and a model of quiet, rational morality amid the atrocities of war. he death, when the company mistakenly camps in a sewage field, is the focal point of three stories. Since it is a prime example of arbitrary, unforgiving cruelty in war, his death is given more prominence than his life.

Mitchell sanders httatws

One of the most likable soldiers in the war. Sanders strongly influences the narrator, O'Brien. He is kind and devoted, and he has a strong sense of justice. Because of these qualities, he is a type of father figure. Though his ideas of storytelling may or may not agree with O'Brien's in the end, his ability to tell stories and to discuss their nuances makes a profound impression on O'Brien.

Woman Hollering Creek

Sandra Cisneros 1991

Artie Spiegelman maus

Son of Vladek and Anja, comic-book artist, and author of Maus. he is about 30 years old when the book begins and is writing a book about how his parents survived the Holocaust. He records a series of interviews with Vladek, his father, and struggles with his own creative process.

speaker (facing it)

The first-person narrator of this poem informs the reader in the opening line that he is a Black man. We learn he is visiting the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington DC. Further details confirm that he is a surviving veteran of what was at the time America's longest-lasting and most controversial military engagement.

jimmy cross (httatws)

The lieutenant of the Alpha Company, who is responsible for the entire group of men. Cross is well intentioned but unsure of how to lead his men. He is wracked with guilt because he believes that his preoccupation with his unrequited love for a girl named Martha and his tendency to follow orders despite his better judgment caused the deaths of Ted Lavender and Kiowa, two members of Alpha Company.

Tim O'Brien - "How to Tell a True War Story"

The narrator and protagonist of the collection of stories. O'Brien is a pacifist who rationalizes his participation in Vietnam by concluding that his feelings of obligation toward his family and country are stronger influences than his own politics. When the war is over, he uses his ability to tell stories to deal with his guilt and confusion over the atrocities he witnessed in Vietnam, including the death of several of his fellow soldiers and of a Viet Cong soldier by his own hand.

mother and son (facing it)

The wall's brilliantly reflective surface appears for the final time in the poem's closing image, in which "A woman's trying to erase names:/ No, she's brushing a boy's hair." There are a number of possible interpretations for the woman trying to erase names. It could be a metaphor for wishing to bring dead soldiers back to life, or attempting to rewrite history. What punctures the illusion that she can rewrite the past is the reality of the present: her son, whose hair she's brushing. Ordinary tenderness in the present is the final image that grounds this poem.

How to Tell a True War Story

Tim O'Brien 1990

The Universe as a Primal Scream

Tracy K. Smith

Linda Loman (DOAS)

Willy's loyal, loving wife. she suffers through Willy's grandiose dreams and self-delusions. Occasionally, she seems to be taken in by Willy's self-deluded hopes for future glory and success, but at other times, she seems far more realistic and less fragile than her husband. She has nurtured the family through all of Willy's misguided attempts at success, and her emotional strength and perseverance support Willy until his collapse.

Charley (DOAS)

Willy's next-door neighbor. he owns a successful business and his son, Bernard, is a wealthy, important lawyer. Willy is jealous of his success. he gives Willy money to pay his bills, and Willy reveals at one point, choking back tears, that he is his only friend.

Biff Loman (DOAS)

Willy's thirty-four-year-old elder son. he led a charmed life in high school as a football star with scholarship prospects, good male friends, and fawning female admirers. He failed math, however, and did not have enough credits to graduate. Since then, his kleptomania has gotten him fired from every job that he has held. he represents Willy's vulnerable, poetic, tragic side. He cannot ignore his instincts, which tell him to abandon Willy's paralyzing dreams and move out West to work with his hands. He ultimately fails to reconcile his life with Willy's expectations of him.

Happy Loman (DOAS)

Willy's thirty-two-year-old younger son. he has lived in Biff's shadow all of his life, but he compensates by nurturing his relentless sex drive and professional ambition. he represents Willy's sense of self-importance, ambition, and blind servitude to societal expectations. Although he works as an assistant to an assistant buyer in a department store, he presents himself as supremely important. Additionally, he practices bad business ethics and sleeps with the girlfriends of his superiors.

Ben (DOAS)

Willy's wealthy older brother. he has recently died and appears only in Willy's "daydreams." Willy regards he as a symbol of the success that he so desperately craves for himself and his sons.

Facing It

Yusef Komunyakaa. a poem about what the narrator witnesses on visiting the Viet Nam War Memorial in Washington, DC. He feels like he is "disappearing" into the black granite of the monument to join the names carved there of the men who died in the war. The poem ends on a redemptive note as he sees a woman brushing her hand through a child's hair.

Maus

art spiegelman

Bernard (DOAS)

he is Charley's son and an important, successful lawyer. Although Willy used to mock him for studying hard, he always loved Willy's sons dearly and regarded Biff as a hero. his success is difficult for Willy to accept because his own sons' lives do not measure up.

Juan Pedro in WHC

he is Cleofilas' husband. At first he seems caring and loving, but later shows who he truly is. He is very rude with his wife and even starts rising hand on her. He is an ordinary person, unable to be romantic and sensible, unlike his wife. He is not tall, and has a prominent belly from beer drinking. There have been instances of his infidelity.

Andrew johnson (facing it)

he is the name of a young Black soldier with the same hometown as the author who died in 1967 in Vietnam. When the speaker recognizes his name etched into the memorial wall, he experiences a flashback to wartime violence. From biographical details, we know that the author enlisted two years after his death, but the poem's conflation of Johnson's death and the speaker's own memory of war collapses the separate experiences of the two soldiers into one traumatic memory. his name has another layer of resonance, too, as it may remind the reader of President Andrew Johnson, whose racist policies in the immediate aftermath of the Civil War deprived many Black Americans of their freedom.

the white vet (facing it)

is seen only as a reflection in the memorial's polished surface. The observation that his "pale eyes look through mine" can be literally explained as the white veteran's attention not being focused on the speaker's reflection: he is focused on scanning the names of the dead. Metaphorically, however, this may be understood to comment on the prejudiced treatment of Black soldiers by white soldiers, during and after the Vietnam War.