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Atticus Finch
Number of Words: 1097 / Number of Pages: 4
... kept because many white people wanted to kill him. Worrying about their father, Jem and Scout sneak out of the house to find him. A self-appointed lynch mob has gathered on the jail to take justice into their own hands. Scout decides to talk to Walter Cunningham, one of the members of the mob. She talks about how her father Atticus thought that "entailments are bad "(154 ) " and that his boy Walter is a real nice boy and tell him I said hey"(154). Upon hearing this, the mob realized that Atticus cannot be all bad if he has such a nice daughter as Scout. Atticus, with some unexpected help from his c ...
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Cannery Row By John Steinbeck-
Number of Words: 414 / Number of Pages: 2
... and sea cucumbers.
When Doc had to leave for La Jolla on a collecting trip, Mack and the boys decided to give him a surprise party. They bought beer, plenty of Old Tennis Shoes (Old Tennessee, a blended whiskey). The whole town was going to be there, and in the minds of Mack and the boys, it was going to be a grand party. However, the party started before Doc even got there. The guests arrived at Western Biological (which doubled as Doc's house and laboratory) and soon became drunk. Windows, doors, expensive equipment, books, plates, and Doc's prized phonograph were all victims to the r ...
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Literary Questions On Lord Of
Number of Words: 1486 / Number of Pages: 6
... character since he is always in conflict with Jack Merridew, the novel’s antagonist. These many changes put Ralph into the category of a round character, one who is more human as opposed to a flat character who is one dimensional. Ralph’s contribution to The Lord of the Flies is his representation of law and order or an organized society.
Simon is an introverted boy who cannot speak in front of the assembly. Golding describes him as being "a small skinny boy" with "a pointed chin, bright eyes and a broad forehead." He is also described as being "darkish in color." All the boys thin ...
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To Kill A Mocking Bir
Number of Words: 322 / Number of Pages: 2
... Scout told Boo it was alright for him to pet Jem, it was better described in the book.
The third point is that the pageant the night that Jem and Scout were attacked was shown in the book but no in the movie. The movie only showed them walking up to the stairs, then the scene changed and they were walking back from the pageant. The book described how scout fell asleep during the pageant and came a long time after her cue.
Many differences can be seen between the book and the movie of To Kill a Mockingbird. Most of them are very obvious. How would it feel to be the person to be convicted for somet ...
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Catcher In The Rye: Holden Caulfield's Perception And Gradual Acceptance Of
Number of Words: 993 / Number of Pages: 4
... peace, charity or even genuine
merriment."3 Holden is surrounded by what he views as drunks, perverts,
morons and screwballs. These convictions which Holden holds waver very
momentarily during only one particular scene in the book. The scene is
that with Mr. Antolini. After Mr. Antolini patted Holden on the head while
he was sleeping, Holden jumped up and ran out thinking that Mr. Antolini
was a pervert as well. This is the only time during the novel where Holden
thinks twice about considering someone as a pervert. After reviewing Mr.
Antolini, Holden finally concludes that maybe he wasn't makin ...
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Stephen King: Telekinesis And It’s Effects On The Innocent
Number of Words: 1384 / Number of Pages: 6
... associated with the emergence
into womanhood- brings her only fear and loathing
( Magistrale 336 ).
One of Carrie White’s biggest and greatest downfalls in her misinformation to life is
her misunderstanding of the pre-adolescent menstrual cycle.
Carrie White experiences some sort of dysmenorrhea
which functions as a portent of her personal
destruction and the destruction of her community
( Burns and Kannee 369 ).
Carrie White’s mother never explained this important event in a young woman’s life to Carrie. Carrie’s mother believed the period was somewhat of a sinful omen sinful t ...
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The Sixth Extinction
Number of Words: 1156 / Number of Pages: 5
... and this figure will grow as population jumps in the next 50 years from 6 billion to approximately 10 billion.
Now, with the use of satellite imagery of much of the world's surface, doubts have been laid to rest about whether such alarming statistics are of real concern. The answer is beyond a reasonable doubt that at the current rate of destruction, tropical forests for example, will be reduced to 10 percent of their original cover in the next 50 years. The ultimate implication to all this, as Leakey attests is that the world is facing a sort of cataclysm, a crash with many consequences. Leakey ...
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Camus's The Stranger: The Sun
Number of Words: 422 / Number of Pages: 2
... was rising in the sky."(16) which is a strong support for the idea that Meursaults thoughts weren't on his mother and his actions weren't concerned with that, but with the sun and his constant obsession with it.
One more example of the uses of the sun throughout this novel comes after Meursault kills the Arab. "I shook off the sweat and sun." (59) When the main character Meursault is explaining this action. The reader gets a sense that the sun has covered him. An implication that the sun was the one who committed the crime, instead of himself. These examples prove that the way Camus uses the sun thro ...
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Candide
Number of Words: 1047 / Number of Pages: 4
... during army training, yet he continues to believe that there is a "cause and effect" for everything. is reunited with Cunegonde, and regains a life of prosperity, but soon all is taken away, including his beloved Cunegonde. He travels on, and years later he finds her again, but she is now fat and ugly. His wealth is all gone and so is his love for the Baron's daughter. Throughout , we see how accepting situations and not trying to change or overcome obstacles can be damaging. Life is full of struggles, but it would be nonproductive if people passively accepted whatever fate had in store for them, ...
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The Great Gatsby: Eastern Desires
Number of Words: 728 / Number of Pages: 3
... all westerners and and
perhaps we possessed some deficiency
in common which made us subtly
unadaptable to eastern life.
In other words, after finding out what the east was really like, Nick lost his
interest in being in the east and returned to the west.
Gatsby came east looking for another type of money - Daisy. Gatsby and
Daisy had last seen each other about five years before, when they were dating.
Then Gatsby had to go to war. While he was away in war, Daisy met Tom and then
married Tom. Daisy had always been rich and thought that in order to get Daisy
back, he need to hav ...
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