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    The document summarizes the short story "Seventeen Syllables" by Hisaye Yamamoto. It describes how the main character Rosie first learns that her mother writes haiku poetry and pretends to understand it. The theme of deception is explored through Rosie living with her mother and other women, with one woman's name symbolizing independence. The story examines the struggle of women who aspire to independence.

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    The document summarizes the short story "Seventeen Syllables" by Hisaye Yamamoto. It describes how the main character Rosie first learns that her mother writes haiku poetry and pretends to understand it. The theme of deception is explored through Rosie living with her mother and other women, with one woman's name symbolizing independence. The story examines the struggle of women who aspire to independence.

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    The document summarizes the short story "Seventeen Syllables" by Hisaye Yamamoto. It describes how the main character Rosie first learns that her mother writes haiku poetry and pretends to understand it. The theme of deception is explored through Rosie living with her mother and other women, with one woman's name symbolizing independence. The story examines the struggle of women who aspire to independence.

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    Seventeen Syllables

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    The document summarizes the short story "Seventeen Syllables" by Hisaye Yamamoto. It describes how the main character Rosie first learns that her mother writes haiku poetry and pretends to understand it. The theme of deception is explored through Rosie living with her mother and other women, with one woman's name symbolizing independence. The story examines the struggle of women who aspire to independence.

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    Seventeen syllables

    By Hisaye Yamamoto
    -discribes the first time Rosie
    realized her mother wrote haikus
    -haiku represents a kind of Oriental
    religious and poetic experience
    Her mother reads her haiku she has
    written and Rosie pretends to
    enjoy and understand it-this is the
    first hint of deception
    -the theme is one of deception,
    which can be seen at various points
    through the story ‘’Rosie and her
    father lived for a while with two
    women, her mother and Ume
    Hanazono’’
    Hanazono-means a ‘’flower
    garden’’
    Tome- a symbol -japanes husband
    Ume-which blosoms and bears fruit
    just in three months
    17-symbol of communist
    Conclusion
    -the story elaborates on the
    priceeding destruction of woman
    who aspires and initiates
    independently.

    I Know Why the Caged Bird


    Sings by Maya Angelou
    The action begins in Stamps,
    Arkansas, in a black ghetto where
    the Maya lives with her
    grandmother and paralyzed uncle.
    Later, the setting shifts to St. Louis,
    San Francisco, and Southern.
    The protagonist of the novel is
    Maya. As a young child, she is sent
    to live with her grandmother
    because her parents are getting a
    divorce.
    The main theme of the novel is the
    pain of learning about life, coming-
    of-age, and accepting oneself. It is
    the story of one girl’s fight for
    survival in a cruel world. The novel
    also deals with themes of racism,
    sexism. The mood of the text is
    both tense and nostalgic. As she
    looks at her past, the narrator is
    sometimes frightened, sometimes
    amused, and sometimes sad. She
    peppers her narration with adult
    commentary on the tragedy of
    being a confused child.

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