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Walking Across Egypt: Mattie Rigsbee
Number of Words: 335 / Number of Pages: 2
... some grandchildren
proves that she cares about their well-being very much. The love she
radiates is extended to more than her children, like at the end of the
novel when she finally decides to take Wesley on as a foster child so he
can have a nice home and so he can go to church every Sunday.
Through the whole book, Mattie has proven beyond a shadow-of-a-
doubt that she is one of the most wholesome, good, and lovable characters
in books today. Her overall uniqueness is a special thing that not too
many people can or will ever hope to have. As she and Wesley grow older,
she should realize what a spe ...
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Macbeth Vs Othello
Number of Words: 1055 / Number of Pages: 4
... So Iago plans on getting revenge by using Othello’s love for his wife against him. Iago plants the idea that Desdemona Othello’s wife is having an affair with Michael Cassio into Othello’s head. He wants to get revenge on Michael Cassio and Othello. In a way he is playing a game with Othello because he does not have any evidence that his wife is actually cheating on him.
In Macbeth the witches plan to ruin Macbeth. Although he takes the action that leads to his downfall, he perhaps would not have done this if the witches had not told him that he would be king in Act 1 Scene 3. The ...
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A Lesson Well Taught
Number of Words: 482 / Number of Pages: 2
... that the toys within the window looked good but were thy really worth what they cost? “…$480 it don’t make sense…” (458) The value of a dollar and how it is spent was one lesson the children understand and the phrase Money doesn’t grow on trees.
“..I kinda held back…I feel funny, shame”,(460) says Sylivia as she enters the F.A.O. Schwartz. Sylvia feels funny because of her surroundings she does feel shame because she has realized what Mrs. Moore has said all along is true, she has realized her status in life and feels it subconsciously. Sylvia knows that it is crazy white folks that by expensi ...
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How Would The Characters Of "The Scarlet Letter" See The White Whale Of Melville's "Moby Dick"
Number of Words: 1000 / Number of Pages: 4
... is going to be a comparison to Melville's characters. The first
comparison is between Hester Prynne and Ishmael. Hester Prynne is a brave
lady who faces her sin, as seen in her ability to face severe ridicule on
the scaffold. Ishmael is a brave young man who handles any conflict with a
strong will, as seen in his agreement to sign onto a whaling ship without
knowing the captain. It is also seen in his ability to share a bed with a
stranger, and share in his religious activities, and to eventually make a
life long committment to the stranger. Hester Prynne is a loving woman who
never reveals the id ...
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The Color Purple, The Bell Jar, Franny And Zooey, And Ethan Frome: Internal And External Forces On The Character's Lives
Number of Words: 810 / Number of Pages: 3
... created severe internal and moral conflict. Salinger’s Franny was faced with the expectation of others that she succeed to the level of her genius brothers as well as to fit in with society. She strove to feel normal and integrated in the abnormal world in which she was raised. All four characters were confronted with internal conflicts of the self and external pressures of the outside world.
Celie grew up in a poverty stricken environment where education was not available to her. She always had the desire to be educated, as were the white women of her community. Because of her race, however, ...
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The Deterioration Of Salem During The Witch Trials The Crucible
Number of Words: 823 / Number of Pages: 3
... of their families. They claimed that the devil took them over and influenced them to dance. The girls also said that they saw members of the town standing with the devil. A community living in a puritan society like Salem could easily go into a chaotic state and have a difficult time dealing with what they consider to be the largest form of evil. Salem's hysteria made the community lose faith in the spiritual beliefs that they were trying to strictly enforce. The church lost many of its parishioners because the interest of the town was now on Abigail because people wanted to know who w ...
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A Lesson Before Dying: Mr. Wiggins
Number of Words: 964 / Number of Pages: 4
... point he became a
man, not a hog. As far as the story tells, he never showed any sort of
emotion before the shooting or after up until that point. A hog can't
show emotions, but a man can. There is the epiphany of the story, where Mr.
Wiggins realizes that the purpose of life is to help make the world a
better place, and at that time he no longer minds visiting Jefferson and
begins becoming his friend.
Mr. Wiggins' relationship with his Aunt declined in this story,
although it was never very strong. His Aunt treated him like he should be a
hog and always obey, yet she wanted him to make a hog into a ...
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Comparison Of Tones Used By Ph
Number of Words: 452 / Number of Pages: 2
... and In her literature she criticizes slavery through rli Although, Phillis Wheatley was an abolishnist writer, she passive than a lot of her literature didn’t always reflect. At first glance it would For a man going against a legion of non-followers, Frederik Douglass held nothing back. Wheatley, Unlike unFor an abolishnist writer, one must
and Although they both took very diifrent approaches very, but also managed to get their works published. Wheatley would move the crowed inspire authors wrote poetry ab it was a forbidden for a Negros to learn how to read
black to learn how to read andbeing literat ...
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Who Has Seen The Wind: Meaning Of Life
Number of Words: 768 / Number of Pages: 3
... age,
about where living things come from. Being as young as he was, he always
thought that God delivered babies. After Brian witnessed his very first birth,
that of a rabbit, he became very confused and curious about what and how it
happened. Brian had a very uncomfortable conversation with his dad, Gerald
O'Connal, about where babies come from:
Remember I told you the pigeon grows inside the egg, the mother
lays the egg, and it hatches?...They don't with rabbits. Rabbits
are different. The father plants a seed in the mother and the
baby grows from it. When it's time, ...
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The Picture Of Dorian Gray: Corruption Through Aestheticism
Number of Words: 1416 / Number of Pages: 6
... dedication to his artistic creations. He
searches in the outside world for the perfect manifestation of his own soul,
when he finds this object, he can create masterpieces by painting it (Bloom
109). He refuses to display the portrait of Dorian Gray with the explanation
that, "I have put too much of myself into it" (Wilde 106). He further
demonstrates the extent to which he holds this philosophy by later stating that,
"only the artist is truly reveled" (109).
Lord Henry Wotton criticizes Basil Hallward that, "An artist should
create beautiful things but should put nothing of his own life into them" ...
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