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Death

Death has significant purposes on the story and narrator in No Name Woman, The Man Who Was Almost a Man, and Neighbor Rosicky. Each story had its own meaning for death. The narrator or main character in each story relayed this same meaning of death, or showed another significant outlook to death.
In No Name Woman, the death of the aunt was significant to the story to show the effects of shame in a culture. The aunt killed her baby and then herself after becoming pregnant in an affair because of the village. The village people found out about her pregnancy and on the night she was giving birth they terrorized her family and ruined the house (Kingston 2558). The death of the aunt was also significant to the narrator. The narrator was coming of age so her mother told her the story to warn her, "Now that you have started to menstruate, what happened to her could happen to you" (Kingston 2559).
In The Man Who Was Almost a Man, the death of Jenny was significant to the story and......


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