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Rebelliousness Recognition (See IDENTIFICATION.) Caulfield, Holden schoolboy at odds with a “phoney” society. [Am. Lit.: The Catcher in the Rye] youth rebels against Irish politics and religion. [Irish Lit.: Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man] unconventional and resourceful runaway boy. [Am. Lit.: Huckleberry Finn] peaceful coalminer forced into striking for justice. [Fr. Lit.: Germinal] the Devil; cast from heaven for rebelling against God. [O.T.: Isaiah 14:12; N.T.: Revelation 12:7–9; Br. Lit.: Paradise Lost] announcing her desire to be a teacher causes shock (1864). [Br. Lit.: The Old Wives’ Tale, Magill I, 684–686] How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Crafts's critics do her the most justice when they approach her rebelliousness on its own terms, noting that she condemns slave marriage because of the burdens it would place on children, and citing her audacity in giving her narrative a blissful ending, unprecedented in the slave narratives of her (presumed) contemporaries, but prevalent in white "women's fiction. We also examined how the relationship between substance use and abortion changes when six indicators of unconventional attitudes and behaviors--low religiosity, low academic achievement, dropping out of school, low parental bonds, rebelliousness and deviance--are taken into consideration. But his rebelliousness also included the way he painted - and this show provides abundant examples of that. |
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