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Symbols In The Lottery
Number of Words: 448 / Number of Pages: 2
... the people in charge do not care if the box is old and ripped up. When iteams are old and ragged people seem to look down on them. A second characteristic that the box had was its color. The color black always symbolizes darkness or evil happenings. Since the color of the boz is black, it indicates to the readers that the event that is going to take place is evil. If the color of the box were a briught color people might be cheerful and happy instead of worried or depressed. Another reason that the box was a symbol of darkness is because the narrator refers to the box in a high manner. Th ...
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Their Eyes Were Watching God 4
Number of Words: 993 / Number of Pages: 4
... she is black until, at age six, she saw a photograph of herself. Her Nanny who was enslaved most of her lifetime only told her that a woman can only be happy when she marries someone who can provide wealth, property, and security to his wife. Nanny knew nothing about love since she never experienced it. She regarded that matter as unnecessary for her as well as for Janie. And for that reason, when Janie was about to enter her womanhood in searching for that love, Nanny forced her to marry Mr. Logan Killicks, a much older man that can offer Janie the protection and security, plus a sixty-acre potato ...
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Walking The Tight Rope
Number of Words: 1150 / Number of Pages: 5
... thriving commercial entity it became by the late 1980sÑas gangsta
rap moved from the margins of hip-hop culture to the centerÑhas
already been transformed. Despite the various changes in the rap
industry over the last six years, there has been at least one constant:
rap artists who have enjoyed international fame and platinum sales due
to their ability to shock with Black pathological horror stories and
thereby entertain. Although some advance a musical art form whose
artistic, political and social implications have yet to be thoroughly
critiqued or completely understood, rap music's ...
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A Comparison Of Huckleberry Finn And On The Road
Number of Words: 1716 / Number of Pages: 7
... the things he does are funny (Bloom, p.32). Many times Huck's remarks are two sided- Huck is serious about what he is saying, and Twain is using Huck's character to show the underlying humor. Also, like Kerouac's Sal, Huck is a magnificent observer: Huck notices the details of what everyone around him is doing.
One of the first things that becomes apparent about Huck's character is that he values his personal freedom more than he values money. In The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Tom and Huck found $12,000 worth of buried treasure, which they split. After the money was invested, it began earning the ...
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The Good Earth: Summary
Number of Words: 1155 / Number of Pages: 5
... until they could afford servants (toward the end of the book).
I liked the way the Chinese respected and treated their elders. I think we
should try harder to do this here in our culture too.
Wang Lung's uncle was a lazy and greedy man. Wang Lung did not
like him that much and wished that the Chinese custom of paternal relatives
living with their families did not exist. The only thing his uncle was
good for was preventing a local group of marauding bandits from pillaging
the house of Wang because his uncle was an important official in the group.
Wang Lung gets his uncle addicted to Opium which la ...
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Animal Farm
Number of Words: 1009 / Number of Pages: 4
... was a metaphor.
The five topics I'll be covering are:
1. plot structure
2. conflict
3. point of view
4. symbolism and figuration language
5. theme and author's vision
I hope this essay shows the ideas of Eric Blair and the freedom we have
under government control.
Body-
1. plot structure
The story starts off in a form called "Manor Farm." An old white boar
called "Old Major" tells all the farm animals of a day when all the animals
would be free, and of a dream that took him back to when he was young. In his
dream he remembered ...
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The Crucible: Abigail Is Selfish And Evil
Number of Words: 949 / Number of Pages: 4
... bring a pointy reckoning that will shudder you... And you know I can do it... I can make you wish you had never seen the sun go down." She fell in love with John Proctor after their affair, her morals and her whole life began to fall apart. She started to be overcome with her feelings of love, and her passion for John was enormous. After she was denied these things she could no longer control herself, and her whole reason for living became to get back John. This shows that when a person is given something, which they enjoy, and even love, and they are denied it, they feel distraught and they wi ...
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Which Is Better, To Have Rules
Number of Words: 991 / Number of Pages: 4
... lived in a classless and tolerant society. There were rules which were to be obeyed by all. Nobody was exempt from them, they were agreed on by all. A fire was lit, to attract the attention of any passing ships or planes, huts were organised to be built. There were many plans for the boys but these weren't fulfilled due to the laziness and incompetence of the small children, the "littl'uns". Huts weren't built deadlines weren't kept. In theory, it was like anarchy. This is when the groups were starting to form, the people who enjoyed living like savages, for example Roger, and those who liked the idea ...
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The Yellow Wallpaper: Journey Into Insanity
Number of Words: 976 / Number of Pages: 4
... unable to admit
that there might be more to her condition than than just stress and a
slight nervous condition. Even when a summer in the country and weeks of
bed-rest don't help, her husband refuses to accept that she may have a real
problem.
Throughout the story there are examples of the dominant - submissive
relationship. She is virtually imprisoned in her bedroom, supposedly to
allow her to rest and recover her health. She is forbidden to work, "So I .
. . am absolutely forbidden to "work" until I am well again." (Gilman 193).
She is not even supposed to write: "There comes John, and ...
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