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A Separate Peace: Gene Forrester
Number of Words: 328 / Number of Pages: 2
... Gene stabilized and was able
to realize that although these feelings of guilt might stay with him
forever, he must learn how to live them.
Although, Gene lived a hard life, he still had to go on with it.
Throughout a persons life they undergo many challenges and obstacles, which
they have to overcome. Though there are many ways to do this, I feel that
Gene did it both the wrong and right way. By going to the Navy Gene only
buried his guilt temporarily, but did not fully overcome his fears, which
hurt him later on. However, eventually, in time Gene learned how to cope
with and deal with his feelings. O ...
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Alice Walker's "Beauty: When The Other Dancer Is The Self"
Number of Words: 836 / Number of Pages: 4
... when she was a little girl ready to give her speech that she memorized for Easter Sunday. Then her accident happened. Walker then emphasizes to the reader that the way she views herself now and the way she thinks people view her at the age of eight have changed for the worse. She then states at the age of fourteen her view of beauty changes. She says she can raise her head now that she has had her I fixed. Finally she says at the age of twenty-seven she loved her eye. She said it had taught her of shame, anger, and inner vision.
In her narrative, imagery also emphasizes Walker’s view of herself a ...
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Catcher In The Rye 5
Number of Words: 1418 / Number of Pages: 6
... the truths of society. As stated above, Holden wishes to accomplish an futile task, save children from growing up, and protect them from the corruption of adulthood. The following presents an example of Holden's inability to grasp the differences between reality and allusion. "Somebody written 'Fuck You' on the wall. It drove me damn dear crazy. I thought how Phoebe and all the other kids would see it, and then how they'd wonder what the hell it mean, and finally some dirty kid would tell them- all cockeyed, so I rubbed it out."(Salinger,201) Presented here, an another example on how Holden once ag ...
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Lord Of The Flies: Breakdown Of Social Order
Number of Words: 356 / Number of Pages: 2
... takes the two boys who were tending to the signal fire on a hunt,
meanwhile a ship passed by the island unaware of the group's presence
because the signal fire was dead. When Ralph confronts Jack about letting
the fire go out, Jack retorted by saying they needed meat and to hunt. When
Jack has a feast, he invites the other boys to follow him, saying that they
will hunt and have fun while they are on the island.
The situation that occurs in the novel, could have arisen had there
been only a group of boys in question, who were obedient to those older
than them. This is because the younger boys woul ...
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The Giver: The Setting
Number of Words: 410 / Number of Pages: 2
... isn't much difference in the appearance of one and other
The setting has increased my knowledge of the specific time and place. It takes sometime in the future because of the way people see things and how it is nothing like now. also the laws that the people have are stupid, like females under the age of nine are to have their hair ribbons tied neatly at all times, and you could not receive a bicycle until they turned nine.Another thing that happens is the food at night for dinner is brought to every home. In this society you have no choices to make.
If this story took place in a differe ...
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Moby Dick
Number of Words: 507 / Number of Pages: 2
... alive. Melville uses the month of November to indicate these feelings of death and suicide. The month of November is known for being lifeless, a period in which some just wait for death to set in.
In this quote Melville is strongly emphasizing Ishmael’s thoughts about death and suicide. "I find myself involuntarily pausing before coffin warehouses, and bringing up the rear of every funeral I meet," although Ishmael doesn’t mean to, he finds himself running into things related to death, "coffin warehouses" and funerals. The phrase "requires a strong moral principle to prevent me from deliberat ...
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Walking Across Egypt: A Young Elder
Number of Words: 944 / Number of Pages: 4
... typical, elderly forgetfulness as she washes the toilet seat with mouthwash rather than with alcohol. And again displays it as she falls through the bottomless rocking chair. Later she displays physical inability when she asks her son Robert about helping with some yard work, which she had always taken care of before.
“I’m too old to keep a dog,” (20) she says to the dogcatcher as he is leaving with a brown fice that showed up on her doorstep. “Besides, I’m slowing down,” she says to her son during lunch.
The stereotypes of the elderly are influencing Mattie’s life. She is telling herself not t ...
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Accounts Settled: A Review
Number of Words: 420 / Number of Pages: 2
... hours. Suddenly, the porcupine returns to look for more food and this
disrupts the cougar. The climax is when Gordon quickly reaches for his gun and
shoots the cougar. The resolution is when Gordon "cries the final tears of his
boyhood" and he is finally a man.
This writer used suspense in his story many times. For instance, "his
eyes held the boy unwinkingly as he waited in the fiendish way of cats for the
moment when the man must stir, or make an attempt to escape, the moment when his
ingrained fear of man would be swallowed up by the rising tide of his blood-
lust" and "moments p ...
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Galapagos: James Wait's Rebirth From An Iron Age In Galapagos
Number of Words: 771 / Number of Pages: 3
... Sin,
Realization of Sin, and Recovery from Sin.
James Wait acted cruelly to his wives. He just wanted money and
someone to converse with. Leon Trout tells us in the beginning of the book
about James' marriages: “Wait had so far courted and married seventeen such
persons-and then cleaned out their jewelry boxes and safe-deposit boxes and
bank accounts, and disappeared.”(Pg. 8) James Wait portrays his cruelness
and decisiveness towards women in the story. He shows his state of an “
Iron Age” and he cheats people into entering it so that he may attain power
to manipulate them and live off them like ...
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The Crucible 2
Number of Words: 644 / Number of Pages: 3
... rumors circulated about witchcraft going on in the woods, and that the sick girl has been bewitched. Once the girls talk to each other, they become more and more frightened as being accused as witches, so Abigail, the main character and the principle accuser, starts accusing others of practicing witchcraft. They lied not only to protect themselves but the reputation of their families. The accusations grow and grow until the jails overflow with accused witches. Once the scam started, it was too late to stop, and the snowballing effect of wild charges soon resulted in the hanging of many innocent ...
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