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A & P

The story A & P is about a young man who works at the local supermarket as a cashier. When three girls walk in wear nothing but bikinis the young man seems to watch there every move. Not only is noticing every each of them but her also is paying attention to what he believes is there character just by how they are carrying themselves.  This is where he talks about the leader whom he calls Queenie. When the girls come to his register to check out the store manager comes over and makes a scene about how the girls are dressed asking them to cover up the next time they come in the store. The leader blushes from being embarrassed by the manger and pays for her creamed herring and leaves the store. The young man trying to defend the girls tells the manager he was wrong for saying something to the girls and quits his job leaving the store to find the girls. Feeling as though he was there hero for defending them against the manager only to find himself in the parking lot all alone for ...

Everyday Use

In the story Everyday Use by Alice Walker she tells of a story of a hard working women who tired to get her daughters the things they needed in life.  A fire burns down the first house they lived in and the younger daughter is burned from it while the older daughter looks like she is rejoicing the house was burning down. the older daughter Dee who changes her name Wangero Leewanika Kemanjo doesn't want anything to do with her family she left for college and told her mother she would come back one day to visit. You can tell from the beginning the mother seems excited to be seeing the older daughter where the younger sister is afraid of her sister coming home. This could be cause they dont have the really nice things the sister always made know that she wanted. The mother who tires to accommodate the daughters finally takes a stand and tells the brat of an older daughter no at the end of the story. The older daughter storms off leaving them behind without a care in the world because ...