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Albert Camus' "The Plague"
Number of Words: 498 / Number of Pages: 2
... often, he hurt so much from the vomiting that he seemed paralyzed. Mr.
Rieux tried to help the man the best that he could, but he ended up dying.
Michael was the first person to die of this illness. After his death, many
cases of this illness were reported widespread. Again more details of sickness
and death, this is the parallelism for this novel.
As the reports of sickness and death came to inform Dr. Rieux, he tried
to comfort and cure the plagued patients. About ninety percent of the people
infected had died. He wanted a stop to this plague. Quickly he linked the rats
with the peopl ...
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Huckleberry Finn And Holden Caulfied's Journey Into Self Discovery
Number of Words: 532 / Number of Pages: 2
... nature, where right and wrong don't exist and life's beauty
is what is truly important. He mentions that nature is peaceful and he need
not worry about either his morality or conscience but is allowed to ponder
these personal discrepancies.
Holden Caulfield, however, has a much more complex yet equally important
struggle. His struggle is of his own hypocrisy and misunderstanding. This
struggle can be overwhelming for some and it is for Holden who requires
help to come to terms with maturity. Even though he is constantly speaks as
if he is experienced in connection and bonding, they were always just fa ...
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Reivew Of Conrad's "Heart Of Darkness"
Number of Words: 976 / Number of Pages: 4
... the
completely pointless work which they are forced to perform.
Prior to 1807, the Europeans directly enslaved the Africans. After
1807, Britain, and eventually most European countries, banned the slave
trade. However, this did not stop the Eldorado Exploring Expedition, whose
members Marlow described as "reckless without hardihood, greedy without
audacity, and cruel without courage," from using natives as forced labor
for their benefit--the classic definition of slavery.
Europeans were also extremely distrustful of the natives. They
were often accused of crimes because of the color of their ski ...
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Bartleby: "I Prefer Not To,"
Number of Words: 589 / Number of Pages: 3
... behind another wall, thus
reinforcing his total isolation. The irony lies in the fact that the
narrator, while trying to isolate Bartleby, becomes affected by it, so much
so that he appears almost human. Instead of dismissing him on the spot for
refusing to copy, proofread or leave the premises, he tries to find other
employment for him, and even considers inviting him to live in his
residence as his guest. The narrator develops before our eyes into a caring
person, very different from the cold, unsympathetic person at the beginning
of the story. "To befriend Bartleby, to humor him in his strange
wil ...
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The Influence Of Reading On Anna Karenina And Madame Bovary
Number of Words: 1529 / Number of Pages: 6
... The lechery to which she falls victim is a product of the
debilitating adventures her mind takes. These adventures are feed by the novels
that she reads.
They were filled with love affairs, lovers, mistresses, persecuted
ladies fainting in lonely country houses, postriders killed at every relay,
horses ridden to death on every page, dark forests, palpitating hearts, vows,
sobs, tears and kisses, skiffs in the moonlight, nightingales in thickets, and
gentlemen brave as lions gentle as lambs, virtuous as none really is, and always
ready to shed floods of tears.(Flaubert 31.)Footnote1 ...
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Dune
Number of Words: 420 / Number of Pages: 2
... means traveling anywhere
in the universe without actually having to move. The House of Attreides gets
destroyed by the House of Harkonnens in the fight over the spice. But on the
planet of Arrakis, the local people of that world known as Fremen had had a
prophecy that one day a savior would come and make peace where there was war on
the planet of Arrakis. The duke's son of the House of Attreides escaped during
the fight for the planet and crashed landed on the dunes where the Fremen lived.
The duke's son, Paul, became their leader because of his great knowledge. He
learned to control the giant ...
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Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse 5: Fate
Number of Words: 534 / Number of Pages: 2
... same exact things are going to happen, an idea that is indeed biased.
Based on the fact that Tralfamadorians cannot understand the human concept
of time, they have the ability to pick and choose when they want to live
each moment of their lives ,unlike humans, especially Billy Pilgrim who
has no control of his unpredictable "time tripping[s]."
Furthermore, the Tralfamadorian's belief that life is predetermined
has caused them to concentrate on the good things in life and forget about
the bad, which has lead them to become very un-sentimental life forms. They
constantly use the phrase "so it goe ...
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A Second Look At A Man Called Horse
Number of Words: 979 / Number of Pages: 4
... men could still be his superiors even when they couldn't read like he did. These men still had the necessary skills to be good at what they needed to be good at in the circumstances they lived in. Then the young man supposed that he could buy with money the kind of men he wanted to associate with but that didn't work out either. "He found them not friendly. They were apart from him and he was still alone." He was still not satisfied. I think people often try to buy or impress the people they want for friends with money or the fancy things money can buy. People who are impressed by those thing ...
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Sanity For Independence
Number of Words: 1578 / Number of Pages: 6
... to her, he is treating her like a child who does not really know how she feels, thus making her doubt herself. When she tries to tell him what she needs, she is completely shut out and ignored. “I sometimes fancy that in my condition if I had less opposition and more society and stimulus—but John says the very worst thing I can do is to think about my condition, and I confess it always makes me feel bad.” This statement has a two-fold meaning, in the first part of the sentence he reveals part of his insecurity problem. He is not interested in getting her help because he does not w ...
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Thier Eyes Were Watching God
Number of Words: 487 / Number of Pages: 2
... He thought of Janie as being better then all of them. This led to the way she was treated in society. All of the women in the town thought Janie had everything, but Janie did not. She wanted to be excepted as part of them. When Joe died people in the town expected Janie to be mournful, so she put on an act for them. “She sent her face to Joe’s funeral, and herself went rollicking with the springtime across the world.” (88) After, Joe’s death Janie still ran the store. While working she meet Tea Cake, he showed her how to play checkers. “Somebody wanted her to play. Somebody thought it natural for her ...
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