Throughout her novels and short stories, Jewett uses the weakness or malicious of the male characters to allow her female characters more power and therefore independence. Many scholars also believe that Jewett was also commenting on the decreased importance of the old New England male image of fisherman and provider of the household. As New England itself became industrialized, the role of the sole provider as the male failed

As a result, children and adolescents are at risk of delays and impairments in cognitive development" (Levy 2009). Such delays are far from inevitable, but they do underline the need to assure that Sarah 'keeps up' with her studies and that reasonable peer-appropriate learning goals may need to be met with the assistance of additional support in some instances. Although not directly applicable to Sarah, immunizations with live viruses, including

She doesn't need any interventions, and her newest occupation is being a freshman at a big university. I asked Sarah, "Do you feel harmonious with the world?" She answered, "Yes, I have never felt more in harmony with the planet then I do now. After living in Spain and making friends with young Spaniards, who thought it was amazing that a blind American girl would come over to Spain to

Sarah Moore Grimke Judith Neis' writes of Sarah Moore Grimke, "It is not accidental that it was a Southern woman, born in the heart of the Southern aristocratic ideal, who first traced the pattern of racial and sexual prejudice in America," (30). Grimke's remarkable life is recounted in Neis' brief biography. Grimke grew up in a wealthy slaveholding family in South Carolina. Her father, the chief justice of the Supreme Court

But when she gets back to her grandmother's house, and finds the young hunter and her grandmother waiting at the door, and questioning her, and when that "...splendid moment has come to speak of the dead hemlock tree" and the treasure it holds, she "...does not speak after all, though the old grandmother fretfully rebukes her." This man can make them "rich" with his ten-dollar reward, and they are

Exclusion Deutsch, Sarah. 1987. No separate refuge: culture, class, and gender on an Anglo-Hispanic frontier in the American Southwest, 1880-1940. New York: Oxford University Press. Race has excluded people of color and ethnic groups in the Southwest. Deutsch draws parallels with all forms of subjugation around the world. Hispanic identity in particular was viewed as a threat by white Americans. White Americans began to cling to nativism, which was a theory that