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Janies Quest In There Eyes Wer
Number of Words: 606 / Number of Pages: 3
... done spared me...a few days longer till Ah see you safe in life.”(p.14) Nanny instilled a sense of needing a man to be safe on Janie that she keeps with her all through her life. After
Nanny’s death, Janie continued to stay with Logan although she disliked him. She would have left if she didn’t need him to depend on.
Next is Joe Starks. He is a kind of salvation to Janie. He is a well-dressed black man who has worked for “white folks” all his life and has earned enough to travel to a place where black people run the town. Janie meet Joe while she was still married to Loga ...
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Joy Luck Club
Number of Words: 561 / Number of Pages: 3
... that will prepare them for the high paying jobs of a professional. The women in China are known for taking orders from their husbands. Another feature that is found to be different in China from America is the different roles women take in the home. The author explains that a Chinese woman is expected to be a good wife for her chosen husband. Girls are promised at an early age to a man. The story “The Red Candle” shows an arranged marriage where the author sacrificed her life to fulfill her parents’ promise of marriage when she was only two years old. At the marriage ceremony the candle is li ...
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A Rose For Emily: Emily’s Disbelief In The Truth
Number of Words: 816 / Number of Pages: 3
... the Colonel’s decision.
The present was expressed through the narrator, the new generation of townspeople, and Homer Barron. The narrator was representative of the pas mainly through their words and description of what was going on. Homer Barron along with the townspeople represented the “next generation, with its modern ideas” (p. 120) in the present.
Miss Emily was characterized as a “fallen monument” (p.119) one of great refinement, an ideal of past values but fallen because she had shown herself susceptible to death and decay, as seen when she lets her home become “an eyesore among eyesores” (p. ...
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The Catcher In The Rye
Number of Words: 4324 / Number of Pages: 16
... inevitable wrath. During this time, he experiences a nervous breakdown that was characterized by his sudden unexplained depressions. “What I really felt like, though, was committing suicide.” “I felt so lonesome, all of a sudden.” Before his eventual nervous collapse he experienced impulsive spending and generally odd, erratic behavior. “All I had was three singles and five quarters and a nickel left – boy, I spent a fortune since I left Pencey. Then what I did, I went down near the lagoon and I sort of skipped the quarters and the nickel across it, where it wasn ...
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Farewell To Arms Paper
Number of Words: 1337 / Number of Pages: 5
... Hemmingway’s character Nick will not sleep without a light. When a person sleeps they are resting and it seems that Fredrick does not want to rest without “knowing”. If Nick were to have the light he would be able to see what was going on. This would allow Nick to “know” what is happening. Thus it could be seen that the symbol of the unknown and how the male characters want to “know” what is happening. Another analysis of this could be that Fredrick is afraid of the malicious things around him. This is the superficiality of the male. Basically in this sense the male wants to live in his perfect little ...
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Hamlet Observations Of Madness
Number of Words: 2543 / Number of Pages: 10
... the cause for Hamlets madness is his lack of “advancement” or thwarted ambition. In a conversation with Hamlet in Act II scene II, Guildenstern and Rosencrantz come upon this idea:
Hamlet: Denmark's a prison.
Rosencrantz: Then is the world one.
Hamlet: A goodly one; in which there are many confines,
wards and dungeons, Denmark being one o' the worst.
Rosencrantz: We think not so, my lord.
Hamlet: Why, then, 'tis none to you; for there is nothing
either good or bad, but thinking makes it
so: to me it is a prison.
When the heir apparent calls his heritage a prison, something ...
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Universial Themes In "The Return Of The Native" And "Great Expectations"
Number of Words: 1239 / Number of Pages: 5
... with Eustacia. By
pure chance, Venn discovers the boy and quizzes him.
“Then I came down here, and I was afeard, and I went back; but I didn't
like to speak to her, because of the gentleman, and I came on here again”
[Johnny Nunsuch]
“ A gentleman--ah! What did she say to him, my man?” [Diggory Venn]
“Told him she supposed he had not married the other woman because he liked
his old sweetheart best; and things like that” [Johnny Nunsuch]
[Book First, chapter 8, pp. 82]
This chance exchange reveals that Wildeve is meeting with Eustacia. Venn
uses this to his advance by announcing himself t ...
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Like Water For Chocolate
Number of Words: 659 / Number of Pages: 3
... and he did just so he could be closer to Tita. He never felt any love for Rosaura. Meanwhile, Tita stayed at home everyday, cooking and feeling depressed, and Mama Elena did not make things any better. She always yelled at Tita, and made Tita do everything for her. Tita could hardly even talk to Pedro. Either, because Mama Elena was constantly watching, and would yell at them every time they talked. Later, Pedro moved away with Rosaura and her other sister, Gertrudis, had run away with some man on horseback, and later became a prostitute. Nacha died, leaving only Mama Elena, Tita, and Chencha, the ser ...
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Flowers For Algernon 2
Number of Words: 866 / Number of Pages: 4
... teacher and then a romantic interest and then a
teacher again. She liked the old Charlie, but when he starts becoming
smart she finds it harder and harder to keep up with him. Being with him
makes her feel strange, inadequate at times. She’s almost afraid of him.
She thinks she knows Charlie, but discovers she doesn’t.
The people at the bakery employed the retarded Charlie for years.
While working there, they stood up for him sometimes, and sometimes
played cruel jokes on him.
The doctors are overconfident and pretend to know what they are
doing when they do the oper ...
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Eliot's Views Of Sexuality As Revealed In The Behavior Of Prufrock And Sweeney
Number of Words: 1130 / Number of Pages: 5
... prepare a face to meet the faces that
you meet." He has always done what he was socially supposed to do, instead of
yielding to his own natural feelings. He wrestles with his desires to change
his world and with his fear of their rejection. He imagines how foolish he
would feel if he were to make his proposal only to discover that the woman had
never thought of him as a possible lover; he imagines her brisk, cruel response;
"That is not what I meant, at all."
He imagines that she will want his head on a platter and they did with
the prophet John the Baptist. He also fears the ridicule and snicker ...
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